Chapter 92: No More Secrets

Lu Chen's and Zhang Jian's arguing didn't help their case. It just made it worse as it made them look even more couple-like, causing more of the girls to ship them harder.

However, upon hearing the gigglings around them, Lu Chen and Zhang Jian stop arguing. They knew they messed up, and they couldn't help but slap their faces. The two calmed down, and Lu Chen explains,

"Look, the reason why I didn't tell you I was their childhood friend is it would have caused a lot of problems for them." If the whole school finds out that the four of them were childhood friends, the male portion will go crazy from jealousy and envy him. Not only that, the students might start weird ships and love triangles in their group.

"What? Don't you trust me?" Zhang Jian understood Lu Chen's logic, but he still felt wronged by him. He's Lu Chen's best friend, so it felt odd that his friend would hide such a secret behind his back.

Lu Chen explains to him, "The reason why I didn't tell you anything is because it might cause problems for Ye Meixiu." At school, the students don't know that Ye Meixiu had been friends with the three of them. Instead, with how much distance he took from them, it made them look like strangers. With how curious students are about finding out about these kinds of things, Ye Meixiu would definitely be targeted by them. And students who are jealous of her might even start false rumors about her to destroy her reputation.

The same could also happen with the two girls. However, Lu Chen knows they would be ok with it. Liu Fei Fei and Luo Ai had each other to rely on. While Ye Meixiu is all alone.

When Zhang Jian heard his reasoning, he became less angry. But he starts to sigh as well, "Brother Chen, I understand you're trying to protect her. But wouldn't it have been easier for you to watch over Ye Meixiu if you had my help?" Zhang Jian has many networks and connections throughout the school, especially with the girls. It would have been easy for him to help Lu Chen figure out who was starting the rumors.

Now it was Lu Chen's turn to be sighing now. He's right. It would have been much easier with his friend's help. Lu Chen had been too worried that something would happen to Ye Meixiu or to the other two to the point that he wanted to take the secret to the grave. He was about to apologize to Zhang Jian again, but Zhang Jian interrupts him,

"Alright, let's stop with the apologizing now. The situation wouldn't go anywhere if we keep doing the same thing. Just buy me some good food for a week, and we're good. Oh, and no more secrets between the two of us. After all, we're brothers." Zhang Jian smiles as he puts his arm over Lu Chen's shoulders.

He knew Lu Chen has been very secretive for the past few days. However, Zhang Jian thought he was probably thinking up methods for dealing with Liu Fei Fei.

It's likely too deadly to tell me.

The only thing he could do right now is to pry some of it out of him bit by bit.

Lu Chen smiles as he agrees, "Fine, no more secrets."

...

As the two were making up, in another classroom,

"What! Ye Meixiu had lunch with that mophead Lu?!"

Gao Jinhai shouts in fury as he listens to his lackey giving him a report. The lackey was giving him a deep run-down of what happened in front of the school gate.

“Yes, boss Gao, apparently as the two of them were walking into the front gates of the school, Ye Meixiu had hooked her arms around mophead Lu’s arm. And as they were walking into the school, they were flirtting around and acting all intimate with each other.”

The lackey kept talking about the incident with great exaggeration and detail. While also adding some information that was spreading around by some students. As he spoke, he didn't realize the look of Gao Jinhai becoming even more sinister from each word coming out of his mouth.

“And apparently, now students are rumoring that the two of them are now a couple.” The moment he said this, Gao Jinhai didn’t even have to listen to what his lackey had to say more. The only thought going through his mind was; Ye Meixiu dating Lu Chen.

How could that mophead Lu ever go out with Ye Meixiu?