If outsiders were to consider the recent events and words like "personal grudge" and "revenge" that were mentioned during their brief interaction, they might think that Lin Xingjie and Zhu Qingyue began fighting out of rivalry and jealousy.
But the two of them knew full well that it was only superficial. Everything that had happened was an attempt to negotiate without Xu Xiangyang's interference.
If that boy had been present, they wouldn't have had the chance to fight at all.
Although, this premise of trying to exclude someone from the start might have been invalid—
After all, if it weren't for the breakup, they probably would still maintain the facade of being good friends who seemed close as sisters to outsiders, a friendship intrinsicly fragile and unstable. No one knew how long that would have lasted.
Fortunately, breaking such a relationship wasn't difficult, such as now—
