Chapter 1373: You’ve Become Scheming Too (6)

The phone rings, and she instinctively wonders if it’s Zhou Qi. If it is, there’s an inexplicable joy; if it’s not, there’s a faint sense of loss.

Listening to Zhou Qi’s voice on the phone, her heart races, and she doesn’t know where to look.

This feeling, Xiao Rou has never experienced before, but she understands what’s happening.

She is inherently sensitive and knows very well that it’s because she has grown fond of him.

But... Zhou Qi...

Even though she is close to Zhou Chengchen and gets along well with Zhou Qi, Xiao Rou hasn’t forgotten that these two are from entirely different worlds than hers.

The reason she feels like they’re in the same world temporarily is because they are classmates and have shared the purest campus time together.

But in the future, it won’t be like that.

Zhou Qi is destined to be the successor of the Zhou Group.

The Zhou Group, what kind of existence is that?

In B City, nearly eighty percent of the neighborhoods worth mentioning belong to the Zhou Family, and what about her?

Her family is certainly not bad either, but compared to those wealthy families, it’s truly a different world.

If others haven’t seen what real wealth looks like, they might have some little fantasies. But Xiao Rou has seen it firsthand; it’s not a life someone like her can lead.

Besides, Zhou Qi, such an outstanding person, how could he possibly be interested in someone as overwhelmingly ordinary as her?

As the saying goes, excellence should match excellence.

She used to have a crush on Zhou Qi, but it was vague, fragile—naturally arising from a girl’s admiration for his handsomeness and excellence.

But due to its vagueness and fragility, Xiao Rou could easily extinguish it in the cradle.

However, now... Xiao Rou can feel something has changed.

A week without seeing Zhou Qi, Xiao Rou found that she actually misses him, wants to see him, yet hesitates to meet him.

This anxious feeling is truly agonizing.

Having held out for a week, now that she has moved, could she use this as an excuse to invite him to dinner?

Holding her phone, Xiao Rou realizes that she has been the one avoiding meeting Zhou Qi these past few days, yet now she needs an excuse to meet him again, feeling like she’s enacting a Mary Sue scenario, caught in adolescent drama.

But she really needs an excuse—not to convince Zhou Qi, but to convince herself.

After hesitating for a full half hour, Xiao Rou finally dialed Zhou Qi’s number.

It’s already five-thirty, and Xiao Rou knows that their usual training ends at five, so calling now shouldn’t interrupt Zhou Qi.

As she expected, Zhou Qi has finished training, and while others are checking out the colorful dishes Aunt made tonight, Zhou Qi is reviewing information on their upcoming opponents.

Receiving Xiao Rou’s call, Zhou Qi’s gaze darkened slightly, and he got up to go outside.

Just as he left, someone started gossiping: "I bet one dollar it’s Xiao calling."

"Do we even need to bet? Totally!"

Zhou Qi went outside, answered Xiao Rou’s call, soon returned inside, quickly went up to his room, and then came back down.

"Brother Qi, are you heading out?"

"Yeah, don’t prepare dinner for me."

Everyone in the team except An Rui clearly wanted to gossip, but they resisted the urge.

Exchanging looks as they watched Zhou Qi walk out.