Chapter 92: I Said I'd Pursue You Ninety-Nine Times

Jiang Muye's 99th Marriage Proposal Was Rejected, but the Aloof Campus Belle Strongly Flirted With Him

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Xia Xiran stared fixedly at Jiang Muye with a pair of watery eyes.

Jiang Muye refused her outright: "My heart's a bit small. It's enough to hold one person."

The System: 【Congratulations, Host, for rejecting Mi Lu. Obtained 200 Grit Points.】

When Leng Ruoli heard Jiang Muye's words, her little face turned bright red. She was incredibly shy.

"Look, Ruoli's embarrassed again. So I really was just here to eat dog food. If Jiang Muye had said the person he was getting to know was Xia Xiran, I'd absolutely blow my top. But if it's you, then, ah…" Mi Lu let out a sigh and said, "What can I do? I spoil you."

Mi Lu said to Jiang Muye, "Don't think that just because you've made your stance clear, I'm going to give up on you. The two of you aren't a couple yet, so I still have my chances. I said I was going to chase you 99 times."

"You're still going to chase me?" Jiang Muye was shocked.

He'd assumed Mi Lu was going to give up.

"Why wouldn't I chase you? It's rare for me to meet someone I like." Mi Lu paused. "It's harder than winning the lottery."

"It's not hard. The scratch cards next door are ten yuan each, the odds of winning are really high," Jiang Xueli, a devoted lottery fan, said to Mi Lu with a smile.

As a result, Jiang Xueli's little head met with disaster, taking a direct flick from Mi Lu's finger.

Jiang Xueli immediately clutched her head and howled, "Meow meow, ow ow ow, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts!"

Mi Lu snorted, "This is grown-up business. Kids shouldn't butt in."

As a result, Jiang Xueli refused to accept it and puffed out her chest, saying, "I'm already a 34D, how could I possibly be a kid!"

"What does a 36D like me have to say about that?" Mi Lu put her hands on her hips, puffed out her chest, and said to Jiang Xueli.

"Wow, Sister Blood Mi Lu is mighty! Please teach me your secret!"

Jiang Muye: "…"

How had the topic even gotten derailed to this point?

After leaving the gym, Jiang Muye walked Leng Ruoli and the others back to the bottom of the girls' dorm building.

Then he started heading toward the guys' dorm building.

Just as Jiang Muye was holding his phone and watching a King-tier Player seasonal live stream, he suddenly felt a heavy force pressing down hard from above.

Clang—

Jiang Muye raised his head and saw a dark flower pot falling from the building above, about to smash right onto the top of his head.

It was coming fast.

It was about to hit his head, and the consequences didn't bear thinking about.

Smack—

In an instant, a faint green light shielded Jiang Muye's entire body. The powerful shield given by the System had appeared!

Clatter— The flower pot seemed to hit a shockwave and immediately veered off course, crashing to the ground three meters away from Jiang Muye.

As Jiang Muye broke out in a cold sweat, startled by the sudden event before his eyes, he felt a strange gaze from upstairs.

Someone was watching him!

Jiang Muye abruptly looked up.

The fifth-floor window was open, but there was no sign of anyone.

The flower pot should have fallen from up there. Had he imagined it just now?

But he really had felt someone standing by the window, looking at him.

If that flower pot had really hit him just now, without the shield, he'd probably have cracked his skull open.

Jiang Muye's eyes suddenly darkened.

In the security office, Jiang Muye reviewed the surveillance footage under the guard's guidance.

His eyes swept back and forth, but he didn't see any suspicious person appear in the fifth-floor classroom.

"Young man, I think you were just scared out of your wits and hallucinated. How could someone possibly throw a flower pot at you for no reason?" The guard laughed and said, "There's been strong wind lately. The flower pot just got blown down, that's all."

"That's still pretty dangerous. Have someone make sure nobody puts flower pots up on high buildings in the future." After confirming there was nothing wrong with the footage, Jiang Muye let out a breath of relief.

Thankfully it was his hallucination.

As long as it wasn't intentional, it was fine.

Right, he had no grudges against anyone. How could someone deliberately mess with him?

After confirming it was just an accident, Jiang Muye's mood relaxed considerably, and he immediately started walking back to his dorm.

As soon as he entered the dorm, the three heads already on the upper bunk all turned in unison to look at Jiang Muye.

"You're finally back!"

Seeing the three of them speak in unison, Jiang Muye couldn't help but laugh: "What, I was gone for a little while and you already miss me? Is there a computer science problem you can't solve? I'll teach you guys."

As Jiang Muye began climbing onto the upper bunk, he saw Little White Dove shake his head.

"No way, we've been eating up the gossip about you! You were just at the gym with the Four Great Campus Belles, right!"

"Yep, someone posted it on the Campus Network, I bet." This was within Jiang Muye's expectations.

"Yep, heh heh. Did you confess to the Cold Campus Belle?" Little White Dove and Old He grinned, and even Kai wore the smile of a proud old father.

"If you think so, then sure, let's say I did. I do have quite a good impression of her. We're getting to know each other now, and maybe someday I really will fall for her." When Jiang Muye mentioned Leng Ruoli, there was a hint of sweetness.

"Tsk tsk tsk, you've finally come to your senses." Little White Dove said, "This brother is very gratified."

"I do have a good impression of her right now, and I told her we're getting to know each other with the goal of a relationship, but honestly, I don't have much confidence." The sweetness faded from Jiang Muye's face, replaced by melancholy.

"Why not? Don't tell me you're feeling inferior." Little White Dove's volume rose. "That shouldn't be. You're the best-looking among us, your grades are good, and now you're rich too. You and the Cold Campus Belle are a perfect match!"

"Bullshit, me, feel inferior? I'm off the charts." Jiang Muye lay down on the bed and gave Little White Dove a look.

"Then what is it?" Little White Dove didn't understand.

"I know my own character too well. Once I fall for someone, in the end I'm the one who gets hurt. So I don't dare fall for anyone. Whenever I start to like someone, I pick out their flaws to suppress the feeling." Jiang Muye paused. "I'm afraid I don't have the ability to love."

He didn't know how to fall in love, didn't know how to treat someone well. He wrapped himself up tightly and hid inside a shell.

Jiang Muye clearly remembered the night when Xia Xiran rejected his marriage proposal for the first time.

He was walking down an empty street holding a bottle of 46-proof Jiang Xiaobai liquor.

On the muddy little path, a drizzle was still falling. He drank as he walked, and every so often he'd sit on the ground and cry for a while, but the alcohol couldn't numb the aching swelling in his heart.

He could clearly feel the chill of the rain, the damp coldness of the ground, and the helplessness of puddle water splashing onto his face.

Because he was naive, he believed in love. And also because he was naive, he was covered in wounds.

"What I'm even more afraid of is someone pulling me out of the shadows and then throwing me back in." Jiang Muye's eyes grew moist. "Then I'd rather just stay where I am."

Jiang Muye didn't want to be some amazing person, but he wanted to be someone irreplaceable.

He was afraid to touch love, and even more afraid of being hurt by it again.

His roommates all fell silent. They could feel Jiang Muye's heartache.

Jiang Muye had been hurt too deeply by Xia Xiran in his last relationship, leaving him with a shadow. And really, Xia Xiran had kept Jiang Muye dangling without ever responding, neither rejecting nor accepting, her attitude ambiguous, warm one moment and distant the next. No wonder Jiang Muye was feeling so miserable now.

"It's fine. Even if in the end things really don't work out with the Cold Campus Belle, you've still got us brothers. Break up and move on—the next one's even sweeter. Not to mention you two are still just getting to know each other. Maybe you'll hit it off right away and become inseparable, a divine couple for life!" Little White Dove immediately jumped in to lighten the mood.