53 You're Not Qualified To Be My Rival

"So, Miss Jiang, do you prefer tea or coffee?" Ming Yi asks after she put the plastic bag on the dining table.

"I'm okay with both." She smiles and sits at the dining chair. Looking at the interior of Xue Mei's house. it's nice and comfortable.

Her eyes caught a rack where there's a collection of the medal from where she was in kindergarten until she was in her high school.

'She's an active girl, huh?.'

"Mm..I'm sorry my house is a bit messy. Xue Mei is a bit useless when it comes to cleaning's duty."

Chuckles, she smiles a bit. "It's okay aunty, I don't mind. I'm not coming here to inspect your house."

Feeling a bit relief with her attitude, she said again. "I'm sorry that my daughter always joking around about her relationship with your fiance."

"Ah! well, it's true that Ren is her boyfriend. We…we just a fiance on the name only. Don't worry about it, aunty. Xue Mei is the current girlfriend of Ren Zhi."

"Mmm.." Ming Yi lost her word. Don't know what to say anymore.

Upon seeing her daughter just went inside the house with Ren Zhi, she immediately asks Xue Mei to show him the guest room and it looks like Ying Yue need to stay at the same room as Xue Mei because they only had one guest room.

"Ren, you can sleep here for tonight. I can bring you strolling around the paddy field if you want." Xue Mei said and open the guest door for him.

"Oh, sure. Yueyue, you wanna come too, right?"

Xue Mei turns to Ying Yue. She smiles and says "I'll show you some interesting activity here."

"Hmm..okay."

After that, both of Xue Mei and Ying Yue went to Xue Mei's room.

Open up her room, she looks around her room. It's not that messy nor too clean. Just a normal room for a girl.

"If you want to take a shower, you can use my bathroom. there are toiletries there. and Ah! wearing a dress going to the paddy field is a NO." Xue Mei reminds her.

"Thanks for the advice." She opens up her luggage and finds a suitable shirt and legging to wear. While Xue Mei went downstairs.

Once she went downstairs, her mother grabs her hand and bring her to the kitchen.

"Shen Xue Mei, now explain yourself!" Ming Yi already put both of her hand on the waist. Her expression was grave.

"Mom, you always watch your drama soap, right? Normally rich people always matchmaking their child, isn't it? This is the same situation as me now. Except that his fiance is well aware of my existence. They agree to keep on this 'Fiance's play' until they graduate. That time, he will properly break up their engagement and introduced me to his family."

"This is not alright, Meimei. There's a bunch of single men out there, why did you choose him?"

"I didn't...He's the one who chooses me, after all, mom..just somehow I think, I know him..maybe from our past life?"

"Past life, your foot! Whatever it is, I don't agree until he really breaking up and become single again." She humphs her and crossing her arm on her chest.

"Don't worry, he'll be graduating on the next year. So I'll prove it to you that he's serious with me." Xue Mei still wants to defense her love.

Sighing, she pinches her forehead. "It'll be better if you end up with Xui Li." She mumbles and went back to the kitchen top, wanting to prepare some dinner.

Shrugged her shoulder, she went to the living hall where her granny just come out from her bedroom. She went to take a rest after Xue Mei went outside to greet Ren Zhi and Ying Yue.

"Why your face looks like a duck?" Her grandmother asks and went to the couch.

"What duck? This is my pouted face."

"Huh? Pot face? Yeah..look kinda same. Black and bitter."

"Urgh…this old woman.." She grunts a bit.

"Xue Mei.." Ren Zhi stands at the last staircase. He just changes his attire to a simple t-shirt and knee-length trousers. Ying Yue also went downstairs after Ren Zhi.

Xue Mei and her grandmother turned to the staircase. Looking at both of them, her grandmother shouts a bit.

"Ahh! Ghost!"

"Whoa! Granny. That's so rude to call people a ghost." She immediately turns to her grandmother.

"Eh, if not then did I hallucinating? That can't be right, I didn't drink any alcohol."

"That's the real person there, granny..this is my boyfriend and that is his fiance, for now.." She said with a bit loud voice to make sure her granny hear it clear.

Blinking a few moments, she laughs at Xue Mei. "Hahaha..you're trying to joke around, Meimei? I'm not that stupid, okay."

Xue Mei facepalming her forehead. "God…this is tiring.."

Ren Zhi at the side also chuckles a bit. "If you want, I can do the explanation." He offers her help.

"Erm..no use..just let her with her own thought. We should go now or the sun will set later." She stands up and slowly throws a small pillow to her grandmother.

"Mom! I'll be going strolling around the village. We'll be back before dinner!" She shouts from the sliding door.

"Kay! Don't return too late! Don't forget to give the goose their bran too." Ming Yi also shouts from the kitchen.

"Okay, let's go."

Both of Ren Zhi and Ying Yue look at each other. They never talk that way to their parent. Maybe this is the difference when you live in the city and the countryside.

"What are you waiting for? Come on." She pulls Ren Zhi's hand and Ying Yue follow behind them.

They walked at the paddy border. The breeze makes the girl's hair flown by the wind a bit. They later stroll around the small rice factory where the villagers usually come and sell their paddy crops to the owner and the owner of the factory will process their rice before they pack it.

When they want to go back to the house, suddenly Xue Mei's father comes with a motorcycle.

"Mr. Ren, wanna go and have some tea at the town?" He offers him.

"Just Ren, sir. Sure. I would love to." He turns to Xue Mei and smiles at her.

"Xue Mei, went home first and help your mother, okay? We won't be long." Wang Wei also smiles at her daughter.

Sighing a bit, she nods her head. After her father and Ren Zhi are a bit far from them, she turns around and continues to walk back with Ying Yue.

Ying Yue was still silent. She rarely speaking. Only sometimes when she speaks to her, it always sounded a bit cold and arrogant to her ear.

"Hey, you know..yesterday...I notice something." Xue Mei start. Her voice is quite serious this time.

Ying Yue just glances at her and not saying anything.

"I notice the way you look at Ren, the way you listen to him, the way you laugh with his joke. Everything."

Smirking a bit, she turns to look at her a bit. "So?"

"So, Ms. Jiang, you actually deeply in love with him right?" Xue Mei stops her pace and facing her.

Lift up one of her eyebrows, she still smirking.

"So what? Are you afraid of me? Heh..you know I can snatch him from you just like that. With my current status now, you know you didn't stand a chance to win right?"

Clenching a bit, she looks at her, irritated.

"Yeah? You think so? Then why did you try to kill yourself back then? Is it because it was you who is actually afraid of me? You know you will lose in the end, that is why you want to get his attention by doing that huh?"

This time Ying Yue face turning a bit stern.

"You think I was your real rival? You're damn wrong. To begin with, you're not qualified enough to be my rival." She turns around and walks away from her.

"Wait!" She grabs her shoulder. Slip on the small rock, both of them fall on the paddy field.

Splash!