Ying Xuan was highly confused. She looked at Shi Weiwei for assistance, who was looking from Lu Zuan to Ying Xuan with the same confused expression on her face.
Ying Xuan looked back at Zuan and mouthed, "What do you mean Zuan?"
Lu Zuan, who sounded like she was suppressing great anger, spat out the words, "What is this, good for nothing, scumbag doing here?"
Ying Xuan turned to look at Su Shaoyan behind her, who looked, to Xuan's surprise, not angry or surprised, but kind of fed up.
She turned back to Lu Zuan and mouthed, "He is my project partner for design class. We are going to to work on a dress after dinner."
Lu Zuan stood up, her voice had been steadily getting louder and louder. And now it was loud enough for everyone in the cafeteria to listen.
Lu Zuan thundered, "What is with you and always trying to make friends? You always bring someone along to eat with us. If we are not enough for you, if you so badly want new friends, you can expect me NOT TO GO ALONG WITH WHATEVER YOU WANT!!"
Lu Zuan was panting by the time she had finished.
Ying Xuan stood dumbstruck by the way Lu Zuan had talked to her. Before Xuan could try to say anything else, Lu Zuan picked up her bag and rushed towards the exit.
Shi Weiwei stood up to stop her, "Zuan wait."
Lu Zuan turned around and said, "And Weiwei, if you want to stay with her, stay. But if you want to stay with me, come."
She waited for some time but Shi Weiwei looked like she had been struck by lightning.
Then Ying Xuan began to walk over, which was Lu Zuan's cue to start towards the door again.
Ying Xuan ran after her, but Lu Zuan also ran.
Finally, in the hallway outside the cafeteria, Lu Zuan stopped.
Ying Xuan caught upto her and saw that she was looking ahead. And there stood Wei Jingyu in the hallway, looking very angry.
"Wonder what he is so angry about." Ying Xuan thought as she grabbed hold of Lu Zuan's wrist to make her listen.
Lu Zuan freed herself and said, "Why don't you go back to your new friends? Oh, and look. Here's your knight in shining armour."
She added, as Wei Jingyu walked over.
Before Lu Zuan could sat anything else, Wei Jingyu thundered, "You have no right to talk to her that way."
"I.... I'll talk whatever way I want." Lu Zuan said. But her voice was so low that no one could hear the end of that sentence.
Wei Jingyu spoke again, "You're right. You don't deserve friends, if this is the way you talk to them. And if you dare to talk to her in this way again, I'll make sure that your whole family goes bankrupt and you are out begging on the streets, cursing the day you talked like this."
As he finished, there were tears in Lu Zuan's eyes. She turned to look at Ying Xuan and said, "I hope you're happy now. Your knight has saved you." Saying this, she ran away, tears still in her eyes.
Ying Xuan tried to follow her, but a strong hand gripped her wrist.