Chapter 122 - Charity Auction

Jiang Yingyue decided to stay quiet. She was not going to involve herself in their display of superiority, and she just bit her lower lip slightly, filled with reluctance, wishing she could make her friends get along better.

Zhou Yan was a good friend from her childhood, and although they had not seen each other for nine years, they were now reunited and were able to become friends again.

Han Qingshan was the most important person in Jiang Yingyue's heart. He had treated her exceptionally well from the beginning, making her understand what warmth felt like again, a warmth that she could not get from her parents.

"Oh, look at the time!" Jiang Yingyue said as she saw that Han Qingshan and Zhou Yan were about to begin another round of showing off, and she quickly escaped Han Qingshan's hand that was holding her.

"It is time for lectures to start shortly, I better get going, and so do the two of you."

Having said this, Jiang Yingyue did not look behind her but turned around and rushed towards her faculty, not willing to stay for even a moment longer as the atmosphere was simply too explosive.

Zhou Yan and Han Qingshan both looked at her running away with flustered steps, and then they looked at one another.

"He will never be yours," Zhou Yan said seriously. His eyes were cold, and his mouth was curled up into a sneer.

"He has some secrets you will never know about, and this will determine who will get him in the end."

"You mean Yingyue?" Han Qingshan asked with a snicker, his face turning menacing. "I know about her," he continued. Although no one who was standing around them knew who this Yingyue was, Zhou Yan's pupils abruptly shrank, his anger rising to indescribable levels.

"You do not deserve to say her name!" he growled, before he too turned around and left.

Seeing that Zhou Yan was leaving, and that moments after Han Qingshan also left, the audience also vacated the parking lot. But all of them felt that they had gotten a lot of gossip, and soon the university forum was bombarded with threads about the love triangle between the new student, Jiang Yingyue, and Han Qingshan.

The main characters were not even inclined to check the forum out. Instead, they were busy focusing on their lectures, all of them being proper and serious students.

During the lunch break, Jiang Yingyue found a small place to sit and consume her lunchbox, trying her best to lower her presence, hoping that no one would find her.

She had just sat down behind a large oak tree when her phone buzzed, and she saw a WeChat message from Han Qingshan of his lunchbox and a thank you emote.

Although Han Qingshan usually bought lunch in the cafeteria, this had changed after Jiang Yingyue moved in. Now he had nutritious lunchboxes made with love every day.

Receiving the message, Jiang Yingyue smiled sweetly before she dug into her meal. After a bit of time, she returned to the classroom, where she found that there was still some time before the next lecture was scheduled to begin. Thus she was idly chatting with the bodyguards that were still following her everywhere.

While Jiang Yingyue was busy talking with the bodyguards, Han Qingshan found an empty place and picked up his phone, dialed his mother's number, and called her.

"Qingshan? What is wrong?" The absentminded voice sounded on the other end of the phone after it had rung a few times.

"I realized her gender," he said with a heavy voice filled with helplessness, but his heaviness was greeted with a chuckle from his mother. "Took you long enough," was her only reply, not at all trying to make him feel better.

A brief moment of silence appeared on both ends of the phone call before Yan Meilin finally cleared her throat and became serious. "What do you plan on doing now?"

"I will make her mine," he said with determination, "I did not care that she lived as a man before, and even more so now that I know that she is a woman. She can only be mine!"

As she heard this, Yan Meilin cheered silently in her heart. Her son was finally starting to become interested in the opposite gender!

"Well then, why not convince her to do you a giant favor next week?" Yan Meilin asked, her face filled with excitement; she clearly had a plan. Hearing her like this, Han Qingshan felt a shiver run down his spine, but he still asked her, "What is your plan?"

"Well, the big charity auction is taking place next week, right?" Yan Meilin asked. Han Qingshan was suddenly reminded of this, but he could not help but frown.

"What does that have to do with us?" he asked, puzzled. "I rarely attend the charity auction which you and father attend every year."

"Why not convince her to be your female companion and go to the party with her? I will deal with her appearance, make a dress for her, personally style her, and do her make-up.

"I can promise that no one will guess her real identity, but at the same time, you can show off your affections for one another. Not to mention, you will also be able to kill the rumors about you being gay."

The more Han Qingshan heard, the more excited he became, but he could not help but feel a little helpless.. Although he would be more than ecstatic to spend a day with Jiang Yingyue as the woman she was, he would not want to force her to do something she did not want to do.