Chapter Six: Mening

  Dima KTV

  The corridor was a bit quiet, Shen Rui brought Gu Mo Ning to the door of a private room and stopped, after opening the door, a blast of music rushed out, deafening. Gu Mo Ning looked at the people inside the private room in surprise, there were four boys and three girls. In the middle sat three boys who were extremely handsome, each with an extremely beautiful girl by their side, looking like they might be girlfriends. The girl on the far side seemed familiar, as if she had been seen somewhere before. Another boy who looked very similar to Shen Rui was sitting alone at the karaoke machine, gazing at them lightly. That boy really looked like Shen Rui, except that one person was more dazzling than sunlight, while the other was colder than snow, making people shiver unconsciously.

  Gu Mian Ning silently and seriously swept her gaze over the several handsome guys in front of her, suddenly remembering Su Xiao. If she were here, she would definitely be very excited and immediately start chatting with those boys. With a slightly sorrowful heart, she lowered her head, even more determined to break up with Shen Rui.

  "Hey, Shen Shao, who's this beauty?" A boy with a red afro next to him asked Shen Rui jokingly after seeing Gu Mo Ning. Gu Mo Ning buried her head low, hoping they wouldn't notice her. She was about to part ways with Shen Rui soon and didn't want to have too much contact with the people around him.

  "Gu Mò Níng." Shen Rui simply answered the boy's question, pulling Gu Mò Níng to introduce her to everyone in the private room. "He is Jì Liáng," Shen Rui said, pointing at the red-haired boy who had asked the question earlier, and then pointed at a very pretty girl beside him, "This is Jì Qíng, Jì Liáng's younger sister." Gu Mò Níng looked over in surprise, seeing a girl with shoulder-length hair and bangs smiling at her in a friendly manner, with an adorable doll-like face.

  "Ouyang Bing." Shen Rui continued, pointing to a boy with chestnut-colored hair and a slanted fringe in the middle. "Gu Mò Níng, your school's campus belle?" The boy called Ouyang Bing looked at Gu Mò Níng with confusion, while Gu Mò Níng turned her head towards him upon hearing her name. She saw that Ouyang Bing smiled faintly at her, unlike Shen Rui's dazzling smile, his was more like winter sunshine - warm and not piercing. Gu Mò Níng was taken aback for a moment before looking down at her shoes with embarrassment.

  Suddenly, a teasing voice came from beside "How do I look like an elementary school student?" Gu Mengning's head lifted up in anger, her eyes wide open staring at the boy, and immediately lowered her head. Calm down, can't talk to them, can't have anything to do with them.

  Several boys fell silent for a moment after seeing Gu Moning's slightly angry expression. The round apple face, with a bit of baby fat, was really cute, and although they had seen photos before, when they met Gu Moning's bright big eyes, they couldn't help but be slightly stunned.

  "Xiang Su, sing your song, it's fine as long as you know who it is." Shen Rui replied to the boy with a bit of impatience. He turned his head to look at Gu Mo Ning and found that her head was lowered so much that he could only see the back of her head, her face looking very depressed. He stopped introducing the remaining people to Gu Mo Ning and pulled her to sit down casually beside him.

  Shen Rui stared at the back of Gu Mo Ning's head for a while, seeing that she didn't intend to lift her head up, and could only casually bring up some topics. He gently asked Gu Mo Ning if she wanted to listen to any songs, but Gu Mo Ning just lightly shook her head.

  "Senior, senior is our school's talented girl, she can do anything, as long as you ask her to sing, she will definitely sing." Suddenly a cute voice rang out, Gu Mo Ning only felt that this voice was very familiar, curiously raised his head to look at the source of the sound, and suddenly remembered that it was actually Mo Dan Ying, the junior who had stopped him this afternoon. Mo Dan Ying playfully winked at Gu Mo Ning, Gu Mo Ning looked at her with a slightly embarrassed smile, the two small dimples on his face made Ouyang Bing look somewhat enchanted.

  "Are you a new student at our school?" Shen Rui suddenly became interested, with a sly smile looking at Mo Dan Ying, "Yes, senior." Mo Dan Ying smiled brightly, Shen Rui looked like he had just realized something, "Oh, I was wondering why there's a beautiful girl in our school that I don't know, turns out she's a new student." "Shen, speaking of which you should know her, she's the granddaughter of Old Man Mo." Ji Liang reminded Shen Rui with a mischievous smile, Shen Rui's face immediately turned pale, he glared at Ji Liang and walked to the karaoke stage, singing a few songs and cutting off the current song.

  He Su, who was singing next to the grass, was in high spirits when he suddenly had his song cut off. He glared at Shen Rui with a furious expression, about to scold him, but was shut down by Shen Rui's glare. This guy seems to be in a bad mood today, better not to provoke him.

  Shen Rui handed a mic to Gu Moning, but saw that he was motionless with his head down. Shen Rui got angry and started singing alone. "Senior, let's sing together." Mo Dan Ying looked at Shen Rui and Gu Moning worriedly, hesitated for a moment, then asked to sing along with Shen Rui. Shen Rui didn't even look at her and continued singing on his own. Mo Dan Ying didn't see Shen Rui responding, so she took a mic and started singing along too. Shen Rui slammed the mic on the table, grabbed Gu Moning's hand and left.

  As soon as they left the KTV, Gu Mò Níng shook off Shěn Ruì's hand and looked at him with a pained expression, "You pinched me." Shěn Ruì suddenly realized his mistake, took a deep breath, and smiled at Gu Mò Níng while gently massaging her wrist.

  "Shen Rui..." Gu Mo Ning looked at Shen Rui with some emotion, carefully saying, "Let's talk about something, okay? We... we shouldn't be together anymore." Shen Rui continued to gently massage Gu Mo Ning's wrist, not speaking. Gu Mo Ning anxiously watched Shen Rui's profile as he seriously massaged her wrist, biting her lip and waiting for his response.

  For a long time, "Is it because of Su Xiao?" Shen Rui looked at Gu Moring seriously and solemnly, making her feel guilty for a while. She lowered her head and didn't dare to look at Shen Rui. "If she really considers you a friend, she will definitely support us being together. I like you, not her, even if you don't be with me, I won't be with her either. Do you really think that if you break up with me, she'll be happy?" Gu Moring looked at Shen Rui with grievance, "But..." "No buts. If you can't persuade her, give me her phone number and I'll talk to her myself. I promise not to make things difficult for you. Trust me, Moring." Shen Rui started calling her Moring in order to shorten the distance between them.

  Gu Muer Ning was even more moved, and smiled foolishly at Shen Rui, nodding her head slightly. She told him Su Xiao's phone number. Shen Rui immediately called Su Xiao. Although it was only around six o'clock, the empty dormitory with its curtains drawn was already very gloomy. In the dark room, you couldn't see your hand in front of your face, and all that could be heard was a faint breathing sound.

  "Ding ding ding..." The sudden ringing of the phone broke through the darkness and silence. Su Xiao felt around on the bed with her eyes closed. Because she had cried before sleeping, now after a nap, her eyes were swollen very high, sore and painful, even couldn't open them. Su Xiao frowned with great annoyance, silently scolding herself for being so stupid. Crying like this for a boy, and also quarreling with her best friend, it was really not worth it at all.

  Su Xiao answered the phone with a bad attitude, closing her eyes and weakly saying "Hello?" into the receiver. But as soon as she heard the person on the other end say "Hello, is this Su Xiao? I'm Shen Rui, do you have some time to come out and chat?", she immediately sat up excitedly with an "Ah!" and completely forgot her previous complaints.