Falling Dreams, Rising Hopes: Saving Mr. Boyfriend

"Do you guys not feel ashamed of yourselves?" a crisp female voice with mockery hidden could be heard.

Everyone turned around and saw Gu Layue was standing there cross armed, with confidence. Ma Shuxin was still shocked at how her whole persona was demystified by Mei Qingyang in minutes, that too like she knew everything from the beginning. She herself did not understand her own feelings as clearly as that lass told her in few sentences. She could not wrap her head around it and was sitting listlessly on the floor.

The other girls standing there flinched on seeing their former leader. They knew how cruel Gu Layue was. It was also one of the reasons they followed her, in fear. She had money and power, and thus, it was so easy for her to bully anyone without thinking of consequences. However, the actual deed was done by her group, she just had to lift her finger.

She had all the information on them. If she wanted, she could report them easily. They had no idea that she really had switched sides and was siding with Mei Qingyang. If they had known earlier, they would not have even come close to this girl.

They had just thought she was giving face to her childhood sweetheart by not touching that wench herself. Turns out, she actually was trying to protect this Mei Qingyang, in front of everyone too. She was declaring her support to her indirectly?

Now that she had suddenly turned peaceful, they had no idea what kind of face to show to their former leader.

"Ms. Gu…," the new leader of the lackeys addressed her respectfully..

"What? Don't you see she is Yu Tian's person now? No matter how much Yu Rong hates her, do you think he will spare you if you harm even one hair on her skin?" Gu Layue was truly annoyed.

She herself did not have any intentions to save this girl. But going by what her assistant had taught her, it was indeed a good opportunity to show her that she was on her side. Would she be able to reap any rewards? She was yet to see that.

More than that, she was disgusted by the petty tricks of these girl under her. She truly did not cultivate them well. If they really wanted to rebel, they should have taken extreme measures, a cut or two on this wench's face would have been much better than trying to insult her in front of the crowd. Had they not tried it already so many times? It failed every single time.

It was as if pride and image did not matter to this girl at all. Was it something every poor person had? She had analyzed all the poor people around her and it was true for most of the people. They only knew how to work hard, they would not even shy away from ruthlessly clinging to someone for survival. Yes, that's what they were striving for, survival. She was amazed at their resilience.

Guess she had never sat down and thought about people before. Her rose tinted glasses were finally coming off, thanks to this girl. But she was still not going to forgive her for stealing her guy. She hated her the most.

Gu Layue should have been the one lamenting instead of Ma Shuxin, what was that chick doing anyway?

"Now get out before someone report you girls and Yu Tian himself comes here and skins you alive," she yelled. The girls hurried and dispersed, just like that. They were afraid of Gu Layue but everyone was terrified of young master Yu.

"I… I did not do it for you, I did it for the safety of those girls," Gu Layue found Mei Qingyang staring at her, an amusing look donning her face, so she hurriedly explained her behavior.

"I am not going to thank you then," she smiled congenially. Suddenly, Gu Layue did not seem that bad anymore. Her impression in Mei Qingyang's heart had instantly improved for some reason. Perhaps, perhaps, she had turned into a better person too? She looked more m.a.t.u.r.e in her thinking as well, especially since the new semester started.

"Those girls do need to learn by now who to fiddle with and who not. Please don't pursue them after this," she still tried to make a small conversation.

"Don't worry, today's matter does not matter to me. The guys won't do anything either," she was referring to Su Lang and Yu Tian.

"About her, I am not associated with her," she pointed to the girl still kneeling down.

"Yeah, I will take care of her, you can go ahead," Mei Qingyang replied and kneeled down herself to come to her level.

"See? You are useless to them as well. They left as soon as they heard the name of someone more powerful," Mei Qingyang lifted her head once again, so that she was peering into her eyes. The girl looked around in horror and found she was alone with this nightmare.

"I…," she wanted to say something but what?

"Since you did accompany me for so long and kept the pests away, I would not say anything. You are not worth my time anyway. But let me give you a tip. You ended up being one of the people you hated the most. Isn't that ironic?" Mei Qingyang smirked, her cruel personality coming out with ease.

She had to behave like this, otherwise this girl would not understand. She was coming from a very protected environment, even more so because she was living in a foreign country. Her parents had spoiled her rotten. And so she thought everything in her grasp belonged to her. Now that she could not even make friends here, she was devastated and ended up using such childish tactics.

"You… What did I do to deserve this?" her tear stained face was full of hatred still.

"You did nothing wrong. In fact, your parents are the people who should be repenting for this. Thank your stars that I am not as cold hearted as before. You would not even know when you would have dropped dead otherwise," Mei Qingyang was done. There was no regret on Ma Suxin's face, she was probably still now realizing her own predicament.

She got up and looked behind once again. She really had thought the girl would change.

"Listen Shuxin, I will still say this, there is still time. Nothing has gone wrong. We are just in first year. All these people, they will forget this incident within a matter of few days. It would be the best if you could reflect a bit. I am not the one who should be telling you all this but…,"

"Breeding more hatred will result in nothing for you, just more time wastage and pain in your heart. Please, just please, focus on what you can do rather than what you can't, what you have rather than what you don't. I know these words won't do much. If you need help, just ask for it, okay?" Mei Qingyang turned around and left.

She did not have bad feelings for this girl for she had never harmed her. She had actually helped her at times, no matter how annoying she was.

"I… think I shall heed to her advice," Ma Shuxin got up and headed back to her dorm room.

She had a lot of thinking to do. In the future, she would turn a new page in her life and leave engineering. She would end up becoming a lawyer, a very celebrated one at that. It was all thanks to this one incident but it shall be in the future.

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"Did Gu Layue talk to you by any chance?" Mei Qingyang went back and put her bag down on the sofa.

"Why would she talk to me? I have never given her any importance, nor talked to her before," Yu Tian looked at her quizzingly. Although he had already gotten the report of today��s events, he faked not knowing about it.

"Oh, I see," Mei Qingyang thought about her behavior for some more time. Could she ask her for her part of shares too? Then she decided against it and went back to her work.

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"I think she trusts me now, I could see in her eyes," Gu Layue was happily chatting with her assistant, narrating him the whole story.

"I am so proud miss. I guess, next step would be to put distance between the couple." The assistant was not very happy upon hearing what had happened. He had thought his miss would never overcome her pride and go after Mei Qingyang than Yu Tian, but she did it. What brought this change though, he had no idea.

"No, she is too busy these days. She cannot be found around the campus. I got someone to check but she is spending almost all her time at home," Mei Qingyang was still chirping. Her little interaction with that lass felt like a win. But she was not sure what was there to be so happy about.

She just felt her shoulders had less burden suddenly. Was it relief over the fact that she said she would not pursue anything? So, was she forgiving her for all that she did previously? Was it too farfetched to think like that? But she was also being pretty sweet to her.

What was this feeling? Like she had met an old friend?

Old friend? No, no! She was an enemy, one she needed to conquer. Why was she having these kind of thoughts then?