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"Ah!" Hu Jiao'er sighed, "I don't know what's gotten into her, suddenly wanting to break up with Hao Chuanze. He called her all night downstairs, but she wouldn't go out. She won't even answer her phone."
"She insists on breaking up, yet he's reluctant. She's the one crying and feeling sad; I don't understand her thinking," Jiang Liuying was also confused by Shen Xiaomeng's behavior and didn't know how to comfort her.
"Why did she suddenly decide to break up with Hao Chuanze? If she's so upset, she shouldn't break up," Qinglan said.
Qinglan knew deep down that Shen Xiaomeng's sudden breakup request must have another reason.
Since returning to school after the summer break, Shen Xiaomeng had been at odds with Hao Chuanze. In the past, whenever Hao Chuanze showed her any kindness, she would excitedly talk about it in the dorm.
Now, everyone thought that Hao Chuanze was treating her even better than before, but she was never satisfied and always complained, feeling that he should treat her even better.
Jiang Liuying once joked, "The not-so-pretty girlfriend becomes a potential fiancée after meeting the in-laws. Look how much better Hao Chuanze is treating our Mengmeng now."
But every time Mengmeng would just sulk and say nothing.
Qinglan sat down next to Shen Xiaomeng and patiently asked her, "What's going on? If there's something bothering you, just tell us. We're all sisters; we can help you analyze it or come up with some ideas."
After a long time of coaxing from Qinglan, Shen Xiaomeng finally shared what happened during the summer when she went home with Hao Chuanze.
"I feel like his mom doesn't really like me," was Shen Xiaomeng's first statement.
"Why?" they asked in unison.
Shen Xiaomeng sighed, "I'm just an ordinary girl from a regular family; I don't think I'm good enough for their family."
In the past, when Shen Xiaomeng talked about Hao Chuanze, she would say "our Zhe Zhe," but now it had changed to "their Zhe Zhe."
"Does anyone still care about family background these days?" Jiang Liuying, who usually held anti-traditional views, felt a mix of anger and disdain.
"What about Hao Chuanze's attitude?" Hu Jiao'er asked.
"Hao Chuanze is waiting downstairs for our Mengmeng! Of course he still loves our Mengmeng; she's so cute and innocent," Jiang Liuying quickly added.
Everyone noticed that Shen Xiaomeng was in a bad mood and was not very willing to talk. After asking about the general situation briefly, they all dispersed to sleep.
It wasn't until a long time later that Qinglan found a moment to catch Shen Xiaomeng alone in the dormitory, looking gloomy. She pulled her down to a lawn outside the dormitory to ask her in detail about what was going on.
Qinglan had been preoccupied for several days and had not focused on studying, so she had been lingering in the dormitory.
According to their previous arrangement, she and An Shaojie often studied together in their rental apartment. However, ever since their argument that day, An Shaojie had not returned to the apartment.
Despite this, Qinglan continued her old routine, going to the rental apartment after lunch to study and rest while waiting for An Shaojie to show up.
After dinner, she went back to the rental apartment as usual to study, organizing the notes Xu Wen had given her. She prepared two sets of notes: one for An Shaojie for the days he missed class.
But An Shaojie never returned to the rental apartment.
As the end of the semester approached, many professional courses were wrapping up and entering the review phase. He didn't even come to class anymore; his presence was almost nonexistent.
As final exams drew near, shuttling between the rental apartment and dormitory became exhausting, especially since the person she was waiting for never showed up. Moreover, nights in Beijing were particularly cold, so Qinglan stopped going to the rental apartment for several days.
During those nights when she couldn't find An Shaojie and didn't dare to invite Xu Wen again, Qinglan, who had grown accustomed to their two-person world, no longer enjoyed studying alone in the biting wind.
After staying in the dormitory for several days reviewing, she encountered Shen Xiaomeng again feeling down and unwilling to study with Hao Chuanze, so she stayed in the dormitory as well.
Qinglan decided to chat with Shen Xiaomeng.
Shen Xiaomeng detailed her experience visiting Hao Chuanze's home during the summer vacation.
She said, "On the train back to his house, Hao Chuanze joked with me that when we arrived at his home, I would have to call his mom 'Mom,' since she's going to be my future mother-in-law."
"I felt really happy and sweet inside at that moment; I even envisioned many beautiful scenes," Shen Xiaomeng added.
"Uh-huh," Qinglan responded. "What happened next?"
Later, Shen Xiaomeng told Qinglan that Hao Chuanze's mother was not very warm when she met Shen Xiaomeng, which made Shen Xiaomeng feel quite awkward. This was because Hao Chuanze had informed her that he had already told his mother about their situation and that he had also notified her in advance about bringing Shen Xiaomeng home.
Hao Chuanze was somewhat dissatisfied with his mother's attitude, so he pulled her aside at that moment, seemingly urging her to be a bit more welcoming towards Shen Xiaomeng.
However, his mother's eyes were filled with doubt as she said to Hao Chuanze, "What makes her worthy of you? She is barely over one hundred sixty centimeters tall and looks average. By the way, aren't you going to the Netherlands?"
"I definitely won't go to the Netherlands," Hao Chuanze firmly rejected. "I don't like her." The "her" he referred to was the classmate he had in the Netherlands.
Although his mother's voice was very soft, every word she said pierced Shen Xiaomeng's heart like needles.
At that moment, she almost wanted to flee.
Even though Hao Chuanze's rejection of that girl was resolute, it still couldn't remove the thorn from Shen Xiaomeng's heart.
She thought, "Just because he doesn't like that girl doesn't mean there won't be a girl he likes in the future who could take him abroad. His mother wants him to go abroad, while I, with my family background and personal conditions, have no chance of going abroad—at least not for now."
Later, at their dining table, Hao Chuanze tried hard to smile and be nice to her, constantly serving food into her bowl and making efforts to please her. As long as he avoided his mother's gaze, he tried to be affectionate with her.
He took her to the middle school he attended and pointed out the Catalpa trees and Ash trees on campus, sharing stories about the fun things he experienced and mistakes he made near those trees.
"Those trees are hundreds of years old in their school; he has mentioned them countless times," Shen Xiaomeng said. "But the harder he tried to do everything, the more I felt it was all fake," she continued. Later, they also attended a reunion with his high school classmates.
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