Chapter 8 - Campus World

When she got to the hospital, she considerately carried a basket of fruit and because Hu Ying was the one who paid, the hospital directly let her in since she was Hu Ying's registered guardian.

Ye Miaomiao was stunned to see that Song Xia was here and she felt a lot of anxiety in her heart. After the show down in the principal's office, both Xiao Weiwei and Hu Ying didn't dare show up in the ward anymore so Ye Miaomiao was very lonely. Her mother also didn't come because she felt very uncomfortable relying on the kindness of others so she decisively left Ye Miaomiao alone. She comforted herself: 'At least my daughter is being taken care of.'

So seeing Song Xia made a lot of waves in Ye Miaomiao's heart and she was very unstable - her hands were shaking and she hid them underneath the blanket because she didn't want others to know. She knew this was Hu Ying's mother because she'd seen her during some parent-teacher meetings.

Song Xia was also going out of her way to act like a domineering rich woman so she directly took off her sunglasses and stood beside the window. The light shone through highlighting her gorgeous features and Ye Miaomiao felt a sense of inferiority in her heart. Song Xia put the basket on the table and then spoke: "Miss Ye, l won't talk nonsense with you as to why l'm here today. I just want to tell you to stay away from my son. You also know that you're not a good fit so why do you keep sticking to him all the time?"

Ye Miaomiao was speechless. With which eye did anyone see her sticking to Hu Ying! It was the opposite! Her voice was roaring inside her heart with all kinds of injustices but she never said a single word. Only her eyes reddened and she bit her lip looking very pitiful and aggrieved.

Song Xia also hated this kind of look because it reminded her of all the coquettish bitches that tried to seduce Hu Lin before and after she married him so she became very impatient. "Don't try and make it seem like l'm bullying you. From beginning to end, l've only said words." Ye Miaomiao also disliked Song Xia's mean words that made it seem like she was purposefully seducing Hu Ying so inorder to feel some superiority she also opened her mouth to speak: "Auntie Hu it's not that l am seducing Hu Ying but he came to me by himself. He was the one who pestered me from the beginning and delayed my studies. Not only that but l've been bullied by others because of his entanglement and everything is very inexplicable. You cannot put the blame on me for your son's feelings. He was also the one who volunteered to pay the bills - l never asked him for a single penny." When she said this, she felt slightly better and the gloom in heart disappeared a bit.

Song Xia rolled her eyes: "Clearly you can just clarify to him and say you don't like him but you instead maintained some kind of ambiguity. Don't deny that you never had thoughts of using him to climb the society ladder. If you're firm about this, Hu Ying wouldn't entangle you as you said before."

Ye Miaomiao was speechless after hearing this. It's not as though she wasn't firm but Hu Ying treated her words as air so after a while she also gave up persuading him. And because of so much interaction, she also couldn't help it but fall for Hu Ying - he was accommodating and warm. He only gave her a different side of him that no one else could see and she appreciated it very much. So she didn't immediately refute Song Xia's words because Song Xia was partly correct.

Song Xia was also impatient and didn't want to continue dealing with this so she exposed a bomb: "Actually, l also talked to Hu Ying about this and he confessed that he never liked you." Ye Miaomiao's mouth fell open and she stared at Song Xia in confusion. Song Xia also laughed in her heart at Ye Miaomiao's naviety and began to act: "Do you really think he liked you?" She said this. sarcastically while examining her nails and looking bored. "These kinds of routines are too common in rich families. Boys cannot play around with girls that have some backing so they turn around and play with commoners until they get bored. Once they get bored, they toss those girls away and turn back to those girls who can give them money or more power."

Ye Miaomiao numbly looked at the white walls of her hospital ward and started doubting life. She really believed in Hu Ying's words because he was very sincere when he said he liked her. Even she could feel it because he treated her very well all the time - even better than his own sister. But she also held some reservations and Song Xia exposed those worries ruthlessly.

If Xiao Weiwei was there, she would've clapped for Song Xia's cunning. It's easy to try and break up the couple by giving money and then forcing the girl to go abroad like some novels but this kind of method just makes the couple get even closer. When others oppose, you want to get closer. This is human nature. So instead, it's better to expose the problems in the relationship - anything from insecurities about money, appearance, power can tear an originally firm relationship into bits. All fantasies and lies are broken and reality slaps couples in the face.

Ye Miaomiao was also slapped. Song Xia didn't give her time to rest and immediately played the recording of Hu Ying swearing he had no feelings for Ye Miaomiao. Ye Miaomiao's face paled and she directly fainted from shock and denial. Song Xia didn't force it but calmly pressed the call button and nurses and doctors came to check Ye Miaomiao's condition.. Once it was determined that she fine, Song Xia left immediately.

Back at the Hu family home, Hu Ying was placed on house arrest firmly this time and his private bank card was also stopped. If he wanted to buy anything. Hu Lin let the driver give him an allowance of 100 yuan to spend. Such an amount couldn't maintain the bills in the VIP ward that Ye Miaomiao was in. So soon, Ye Miaomiao was transferred from the VIP ward to the general ward and she couldn't adapt to it easily. There were too many people in the general ward and the smell was much sharper so it made her feel unwell. Not only that but no one was paying her bills and the hospital discharged her after the prepaid two weeks came to an end so she could only go back home.

This time, Ye Miaomiao deeply felt the value of money. Before, when studying at Xinghua, all things were taken care of by scholarships so she didn't feel burdened. Instead, she started disdaining all the rich people for relying on their parent's money. Now that she was suffering hardship and had to pay her school bills, things were looking bad for her. Let alone 100 yuan, there was no money in her bank account to pay school bills. Her mother only had 20,000 yuan in savings and this was her personal money which she saved for retirement so she wasn't willing to spend it on Ye Miaomiao.

Just as she felt things were unfair, she saved an elderly man from being hit by a car whilst crossing the road and he turned out to have an amazing identity. When Xiao Weiwei saw Ye Miaomiao in school again, she sighed at the good luck of female protagonists. Also, the plot started dealing with her very seriously.

Another random weekday, she came home and found that her safe was unlocked and the diary was also not there anymore. This time there was no anxiety but only calmness. She knew that this was unavoidable and she accepted this fact so when Song Xia pushed her into her bedroom to talk, she also had a cunning plan. Song Xia felt that her daughter was somewhat disgusting from the bottom of her heart. Although she loved her daughter, she couldn't accept this romantic love towards her brother. She made Xiao Weiwei sit on the bed and grabbed her arm in worry: "Xiao Wei, how could this be? How could you write so many things about Xiao Ying in your diary? Tell mom!"

Xiao Weiwei used the tactics of hot sauce and her eyes reddened immediately: "Mom, it's all true, l like my brother." After that, she lowered her face and just cried silently. Song Xia was still stunned hearing this admission because she had a fluke mentality. She thought that her guesses were wrong but when they were confirmed, she gave Xiao Weiwei a side eye look.

"Since when did you like him? Xiao Wei do you know that this feeling is wrong?" Xiao Weiwei nodded vigorously: "I know its wrong! Otherwise why did l say nothing this whole time?" Song Xia was relieved that Xiao Weiwei still had a sense of measure because this meant that this love could also be destroyed rationally. But before Song Xia could speak more, Xiao Weiwei spoke first. She lowered her voice and then said: "Actually mom, it's just that you and dad favour him so much! You don't even look at me! Only he can look at me normally and treat me nicely."

These words were spoken based on Xiao Weiwei's analysis of the story. After reading the story, at first, Hu Weiwei's love for Hu Ying didn't make sense. Let alone normal siblings, even step-siblings would have some disgust when they think about romantically entangling each other so Xiao Weiwei didn't believe the storyline much. After living with Hu Lin and Song Xia, she also understood Hu Weiwei somewhat. Imagine if your family was constantly picking one of your siblings and treating them as a great God and treating you like common weeds in a garden. Normal people would feel resentment towards Hu Ying because they would feel that all their love was stolen by him. But Hu Weiwei was different because she came from a single parent family so she yearned for a complete family. But because Song Xia and Hu Lin held Hu Ying in the palm of their hands, she also held him up. And from time to time, Hu Ying would really take care of her - especially when they were younger. Hu Ying was a considerate brother and gave her the familial affection that Hu Lin and Song Xia didn't. Hu Lin was busy with his company and Song Xia was also showing off her success with other rich wives - where did they have the time to accompany Hu Weiwei?

And after a while, that love turned into yearning. She wanted Hu Ying to be with her alone because he was the only one she felt loved her wholeheartedly.

Song Xia didn't expect Xiao Weiwei to have this kind of grievance so she didn't know how to reply. The atmosphere became slightly embarrassing and after a while, Song Xia just left directly because she wasn't good at coaxing. At least, that's what she told herself.

Xiao Weiwei rolled her eyes at Song Xia and then went to put some eye drops in her eyes. The use of hot sauce frequently wasn't good and it made her eyes frequently irritable. She didn't see that Hu Ying was in the corner eavesdropping. He couldn't be blamed for this because as he was coming out of his room, he saw Song Xia dragging Xiao Weiwei into her room and then shutting the door. Curious, he stuck his ear against the door and heard earth shattering news. He couldn't believe what he'd heard. His own sister liked him!

Hu Ying felt dizzy and waves of nausea hit his stomach. He was very disgusted that whenever he thought his own sister liked him romantically, he wanted to throw up. He had to hold back every time and this kind of supression worsened his mood. But even though he knew this, he still didn't connect Xiao Weiwei to any of the things that happened to Ye Miaomiao so when Xiao Weiwei saw her villain index increase to 60, she was also confused. Still, she was happy to see progress. The system came to douse her flames of excitement: "Don't even be excited, this kind of increase only happens in small level worlds. I can't wait to see your expression when your index only increases by 0.1."

Xiao Weiwei didn't understand why her system was always bullying her. The system also laughed: "Do you think l'm a villain system for nothing? You need to train your speaking skills. Every sentence needs to be so poisonous that it always stuns people into silence." Xiao Weiwei felt that the system was so poisonous and it never gave her a good face but she kept her mouth shut. Weak people aren't qualified to complain and she couldn't change her situation so she could only do her best.

Because Song Xia left in embarrassment, she'd left the diary lying around casually on the dining room table and Hu Ying also saw the diary when he went to get some water to drink to suppress nausea.