noffsinger Chapter 593 - 213: "Escort" Li Yuan, Xia Zhijin’s Shortcomings_4
Chapter 593 - 213: "Escort" Li Yuan, Xia Zhijin’s Shortcomings_4
Bai Weixi heard this and smiled faintly. "Li Yuan gave me a bank card, but I’ve hardly used it. We just bought a few outfits the last time we went shopping."
The memory of their last shopping trip, of the way Bai Weixi had so casually swiped her card, filled Wang Yuchen with envy. She really had no idea how much money Li Yuan had put on that card.
"Bai, you don’t have to save money for Li Yuan," Wang Yuchen insisted. "If there’s something you want, just buy it. Think about it—any money you don’t spend, he’ll just spend on other women."
Bai Weixi paused, glancing at Wang Yuchen with hesitation. Although what Yuchen says seems to make sense, I still feel it isn’t quite right, but I can’t pinpoint exactly why...
"Yuchen, how have you and Xu Zhi been doing lately?"
Wang Yuchen curled her lip in disdain. "Don’t even mention him. He’s been driving me crazy lately."
Bai Weixi asked curiously, "What happened between you two? I heard you complaining about him a few days ago."
Wang Yuchen frowned and muttered, "I don’t know what it is, but I’ve just lost that feeling I used to have. He’s so clingy, messaging me all day and asking a million questions. It’s the constant ’Good morning,’ ’Good night,’ ’Are you asleep yet?’, ’What are you doing?’—it’s driving me insane! I can’t even go sing with my roommates without him calling nonstop. I feel like I don’t have a single moment of freedom...
"And that’s not all. He’s gotten so stingy lately. When we go shopping, I’ll see a few things I like, and he refuses to buy them for me...
"Bai, can you believe it? We were at the mall for two hours, and all he bought me was a single milk tea and a bag of chestnuts. We even had to squeeze onto a bus that reeked of sweat to get there! He wouldn’t even pay for a taxi...
"If he were half, no, even a tenth as generous as Li Yuan, I’d die of happiness..."
Listening to Wang Yuchen’s endless complaints about Xu Zhi, Bai Weixi suddenly felt a strange, inexplicable pang of envy. Li Yuan is very generous with me when it comes to material things, but because I’m not his one and only, I can never enjoy the kind of meticulous, all-encompassing care that Yuchen is describing... No, that’s not right. I already experienced that during our three years of high school.
As Bai Weixi listened to Wang Yuchen’s gripes, a thought suddenly struck her. She remembered the dream Li Yuan had told her about—the one from his past life.
In that dream, Li Yuan was just an ordinary college student, as plain and unremarkable as Xu Zhi. He wasn’t exceptionally talented. He couldn’t earn millions a month just by writing a novel. He couldn’t write songs, his singing was terrible, and he was tongue-tied and incapable of sweet talk. But he had been completely devoted to me; his entire world had revolved around me...
But if I had met that version of Li Yuan in college, would I still have loved him unconditionally? Would I have given him all my firsts? Would I have ended up just like Yuchen, feeling disappointed in the ordinary Li Yuan?
Bai Weixi was suddenly lost in confusion. Subconsciously, she wanted to deny it. I’m not the woman from Li Yuan’s dream.
But watching her best friend continue to rant, she felt that familiar sense of doubt and hesitation for the second time.
The first time had been when Li Yuan sang "White Moonlight and Cinnabar Mole" to her...
Bai Weixi wondered silently, her eyes filled with confusion. Could it be? Am I really a vain, awful person? No, that’s not it. I started liking him in high school. If I didn’t like him, why would I have ignored all the gossip from our classmates just to be his deskmate for two years? Why would I have rejected every other boy’s confession for his sake? Why did I even give him the love letters I received from them? Why was I willing to let him hold my hand, kiss me, and make a promise with me? I obviously liked him... So why did the ’me’ in that other world turn out that way? Was it because I became like Yuchen? Did I start with love, only for it to slowly curdle into disappointment? If that’s what happened... if I wasted seven years of his life... it’s no wonder he hated me so much...
As these thoughts raced through her mind, Bai Weixi’s heart began to ache. Looking at Wang Yuchen, she felt as if she were staring at her own reflection.