He Ran has been hanging around the CW shopping mall every day recently, for Lu Wan, a sophomore student from the Bio-engineering Department.

It seemed He Ran also attended the basketball game of the Bio-engineering Department for the sake of Lu Wan.

He Ran has repeatedly refuted his legitimate fiancée Gou An’s face in public for the sake of Lu Wan.

Lu Wan, Lu Wan, Lu Wan.

How embarrassing was the current situation? Gou An could feel the eyes from all directions focused on her face at this moment. Maybe they didn’t want to miss a single moment. Some people even silently raised their mobile phones. Those eyes—sympathetic, regretful, mocking her behind her back. Gou An became the center for gossip for the second time in just a month.

In the past, Gou An would have felt ashamed and angry. She might have kicked the table in front of her to pieces and asked He Ran to give her an explanation for his actions…

But this time she was like a piece of wood and didn’t react at all.

She didn’t know whether to pity He Ran or herself.

What’s the use of him being attentive to Lu Wan here? Sure, Lu Wan would have a good time with him for a while, but in the end she would be with He Jinxing.

Foolish second male lead, he could only hope to get an NP¹ if he jumped webnovels.

Under everyone’s expectant gazes, Gou An smiled and suddenly turned her head to look at someone who was squatting nearby and silently watching the excitement—

The two looked at each other for a few seconds.

Gou An called his name without any warning, “Zhou Yanji, do you want a drink of water?”

The voice was light and airy.

All the eyes that were originally focused on her shifted with an almost audible ‘swish’— everyone almost shrieked in surprise. Ooh, they never expected that there would be a role for Zhou Yanji in this play, so exciting!

The person whose name was called had a moment of confusion on his face at first.

He quickly came to his senses, and as expected, he slowly stood up, stuffed his hands in his pockets and casually ambled over. Zhou Yanji picked up the bottle of mineral water that was rejected by He Ran and said, “Well, I am a little thirsty.”

He Ran gaze had been fixed over at Zhou Yanji from the moment he stood up.

Now he was watching his every move.

Lu Wan stood behind He Ran and carefully tugged on his sleeves, but he did not turn around or pay attention to Lu Wan; he just stared at Zhou Yanji—

Watched him unscrew the bottle cap and drink half of the bottle of ice-cold mineral water in two gulps.

Except for the glitter in his dark eyes, He Ran’s face was completely without expression.

After Zhou Yanji finished drinking the water, he screwed the cap back on and stuffed the water bottle into his pocket like it was a treasure. After a while, he raised his head and smiled at He Ran, “I really drank it, is it okay?”

In front of so many people, He Ran looked indifferent, “Why are you asking me?”

Zhou Yanji nodded, “That’s right, you didn’t want to drink it anyway.”

Then he turned to Gou An and said in a very calm tone, “Thank you.”

With everyone’s jaws still stuck to the floor in shock, Gou An returned to her seat on the sidelines.

As soon as she sat down, Tang Xinjiu tilted her body and leaned towards her, “You were amazing! I thought you’d be so embarrassed just now that you’d tear down the entire gymnasium. I was thinking about how to drag you away to escape from here— How did you know to call Zhou Yanji? How did you even dare to call Zhou Yanji? Isn’t he He Ran’s lackey? How did you know he would go with your play?”

A series of questions came down on her head.

Gou An patted non-existent dust from her legs, raised her eyelids, her long eyelashes fluttering, and said calmly, “I just knew.”

Tang Xinjiu was still shrieking about the wonder of it all.

… it was a bit, wasn’t it? Really magical.

It seemed the system’s <I See the Ebb and Flow of His Love> was really a 100-point system.

And it seemed that when the favorability was above 80%, the favorability display would be pink.

Not far away, the bright pink color above the head of a certain young man holding a bottle of mineral water like it was a treasure spoke volumes.

Character: Zhou Yanji.

Favorability: 85.

It was ridiculously high.

… …

Gou An had no classes in the afternoon. She came to watch the basketball game in the morning and stayed until the game was coming to an end. While the game was not over yet and people’s attention was still on the court, she sneaked out of the gym and called her family to send a car to pick her up.

In fact, Gou An usually preferred to take the school bus home with her friends, and rarely let her family send a driver to pick her up.

But today, thanks to He Ran, everyone was waiting to see her make a fool of herself. Unfortunately for them, she didn’t have this masochistic hobby—

Just now, although Zhou Yanji eventually came to her rescue, she was very clear-headed about things and knew that she actually didn’t get much of her face back.

Just open the school’s WeChat group and it was easy to see.

People in the group did not waste time, hurriedly making comments even while watching the game, and were gossiping enthusiastically about ‘the dog-blood scene caused by a bottle of mineral water’…

Gou An looked at all the shots taken of her from all angles and sadly found that when He Ran—that bastard—pushed away the water she handed him and turned around to ask Lu Wan for water, although she seemed expressionless, when one cared to look carefully, one could see that she was shocked to the point where her pupils were dilated.

So many people had been watching.

She didn’t expect He Ran to do this.

Silently pressing pause on a certain video, Gou An used two fingers to magnify her face like a form of self-torture—

[Jiaojiao: Hmm, your pupils really shrank into black dots in shock.]

[Jiaojiao: Your psychological quality is very poor.]

“…”

While a certain stupid cat was calmly dealing a finishing move to his master, Gou An wanted to slap herself: She was an awakened character in a book who knew about the future plot. She was calm, not easy to deal with, cool and domineering—how could she be like this? 

The novel tags should be changed to ‘Although she already knew this would happen, she could still be affected to death like this, and somehow she even can’t control her expression ahhhhhhhh’ ! ! !

From The Day The Engagement Was Broken translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

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Chapter 6.2 — Blessing 99
Chapter 7.1 — Apologize to Her
Chapter 7.2 — Apologize to Her
Chapter 7.3 — Apologize to Her
Chapter 8.1 — Reluctant
Chapter 8.2 — Reluctant
Chapter 9.1 — The Hero and Heroine Meet
Chapter 9.2 — The Hero and Heroine Meet
Chapter 9.3 — The Hero and Heroine Meet
Chapter 9.4 — The Hero and Heroine Meet
Chapter 10.1 — Don’t Use Honorifics
Chapter 10.2 — Don’t Use Honorifics
Chapter 10.3 — Don’t Use Honorifics
Chapter 11.1 — Young Uncle
Chapter 11.2 — Young Uncle
Chapter 11.3 — Young Uncle
Chapter 12.1 — Conflict During the Welcome Speech
Chapter 12.2 — Conflict During the Welcome Speech

FOOTNOTE:

1. NP is no pairing or harem/reverse-harem. ↩︎