Although Qin Jiao didn’t know the details of what happened at the West Gate, the school was only so big. Whenever something happened, word got around to everyone pretty quickly.
Especially since Sun Lili was in her class.
Sun Lili didn’t show up for class that afternoon, and the teacher even called her name during roll. Later, the word was that she wasn’t feeling well and went home.
Sun Lili was a day student whose family lived right there in North City, so when the reason given was that she went home sick, the teacher didn’t say anything more about it.
However, after the teacher left, a classmate started gossiping with Han Juan in a low voice. "I heard that woman who opened the shop at the West Gate was hitting on Sun Lili’s boyfriend, and Lili caught her."
Qin Jiao, who was sitting in the front row, turned around and asked, "And then what happened?"
It was rare to see Qin Jiao interested in this kind of gossip, so the girl felt encouraged and continued, "I heard Sun Lili’s boyfriend was the one who paid for Boss Lin to open that barbershop. Lili was furious. She slapped Boss Lin and smashed the sign. Then her boyfriend showed up and dragged her away."
Han Juan analyzed the situation. "So Sun Lili didn’t even come to class this afternoon. Looks like she got into a fight with her boyfriend. So is there really something going on between him and that Boss Lin?"
"Yes."
Qin Jiao’s reply was firm and certain, startling everyone into looking at her.
Qin Jiao continued, "That Boss Lin is his ex-girlfriend. So, when you all start dating, you have to watch out for the species known as the ’ex-girlfriend.’ Of course, you also have to be extra careful with scumbags who stay entangled with their exes. Drop them as soon as you can, or you’ll be the one left heartbroken."
A ’white lotus’ like Lin Nian was certainly no saint.
But in Qin Jiao’s opinion, the real scumbag, Shen Feng, was even worse.
Shen Feng and Lin Nian had managed to have a kid together back in high school, and now he was giving her all that money. Qin Jiao refused to believe the two of them had a purely platonic relationship.
’Under these circumstances, you don’t break up with Sun Lili, and you don’t come clean with her? If that’s not being a scumbag, what is?’
Shen Feng’s father had done the same thing, staying entangled with his ex, letting her have his child, and then colluding with her to take advantage of his current wife. He was the epitome of a scumbag.
You had to admit, looking at it this way, Shen Feng really was Shen Zhengfeng’s son, through and through.
Even their shared hobby of cheating was identical.
But...
Qin Jiao suddenly remembered that Shen Zhengfeng was also Shen Yi’s father. ’I’ll have to ask Shen Yi later if he shares that particular hobby,’ she thought.
Shen Yi, who was busy working at the clothing factory, suddenly sneezed.
’Could Jiao Jiao be thinking of me?’
Qin Jiao had assumed that after such a huge public scene, Shen Feng would have to lose either Lin Nian or Sun Lili. But the outcome left her completely stunned.
Because they had both been so busy lately, Shen Yi finally found a time when neither of them had class and took the opportunity to ask Qin Jiao to the movies.
The two of them were in a proper relationship now, so of course Qin Jiao wasn’t going to refuse a movie date.
As the two of them were walking toward the theater, tickets in hand, they saw Shen Feng and Sun Lili holding hands not far away.
Qin Jiao thought about the barbershop at the West Gate, which was still open for business as usual. She pictured its owner, Lin Nian, always dressed to the nines and acting all gentle and sweet, and sighed softly. "You have to admit, Shen Feng has some serious skills."
The name made Shen Yi’s skin crawl. He frowned and said, "We finally managed to get a date, why are you bringing him up?"
So Qin Jiao told him about Shen Feng two-timing them.
Then she asked curiously, "Your dad has this hobby, your brother has this hobby... So, Shen Yi, do you share this hobby too?"