Locking away my heart and love! Going back to 2000 to be a top student again.

Zhou Mochen went to the bathroom, while Shen Chen was on the balcony talking on the phone with his back to them. When he came back after hanging up, he immediately saw Xu Su sitting alone on the living room sofa, holding her phone with a hesitant look on her face. He knew exactly what she was hesitating about.

After sitting down, Shen Chen casually put his phone down and looked up at her. "If you really want to break up with your boyfriend, don't contact him again. Don't give him any chance to stay connected."

His tone was somewhat ambiguous, but the smile on his face was still there, though tinged with sarcasm. "I can tell you have feelings for Brother Zhou, so since you're with him, remember to cut off all ties with the outside world. Don't be so attached to one thing and so reluctant to let go of the other."

Shen Chen was somewhat impressed by her. In just one afternoon, this young girl had kissed two men intimately right in front of him, not counting herself.

In short, the little girl was indeed resisting in his arms, but he seemed quite pleased with the other two men.

Shen Chen sneered and kindly advised, "Brother Zhou is not a man you can fool. The only reason he's been kept in the dark for so long is because he trusts you enough. Don't really think he's easy to fool."

His words seemed to genuinely show he was thinking of her best interests. Xu Su paused, then awkwardly explained, "...I know, and I didn't plan to contact him."

She had already planned to break up with Xi Zirong. Although this method was completely unexpected, things had come to this point, and just as Shen Chen had said, contacting her again would only lead to lingering resentment...

It only adds to the trouble...

However, Xu Su still harbored resentment about Shen Chen's kiss that afternoon.

"I'm not reluctant, it's just... the way you chose to break up with me was too hurtful, Shen Chen. Is this how you always broke up with your girlfriends before?"

She was genuinely curious. Judging from how practiced this person seemed, he was clearly not a novice. She wondered how many women he had hurt using this method.

Shen Chen was taken aback by her direct question and retorted irritably, "Why do you always think I have many girlfriends? What do you mean by 'those'?"

His words were truly unexpected. Xu Su frowned. "So you haven't had 'many' girlfriends?"

Xu Su looked at him with a complicated expression, "...You only go to prostitutes?"

Her eyes looked as if she were looking at something dirty.

Stung by that gaze, Shen Chen abruptly stood up and kicked the heavy coffee table. "...Do you know what you're saying?"

He seemed genuinely angry; his jawline was taut, and the corners of his eyes were red. "Are you deliberately trying to provoke me? Tell me specifically what despicable thing I did to make you look at me like that?"

Recalling her question from last time, Shen Chen raised an eyebrow, his expression unusually serious. "You were wrong about that one at the beginning of the year. I'm not that indiscriminate; I wouldn't kiss any 'staff member'."

His expression of being deeply wronged made Xu Su wonder if she had misunderstood him if she hadn't witnessed firsthand how quickly he changed women and how ruthlessly he turned his back on Shi Lin.

However... given his status, it's certainly not likely that he would go so far as to embrace and kiss a woman from a brothel... Could she have really misjudged him?

Even a womanizer wouldn't want to be misunderstood, right? Xu Su understood and nodded perfunctorily, "...Okay, okay, I won't say anything more about you, just don't ruin my friend's life."

Her words startled Shen Chen, who immediately thought of the two female students he had met today and couldn't help but scoff, "I wouldn't even want your bunch of little kids if they were given to me."

“…Fine.” Ignoring the disdain in his words, Xu Su seized the opportunity to demand, “Remember what you said today. If you ever dare to harm my friends, I…”

Shen Chen sneered, "What if I cause trouble? What will happen to you?"

"...I..." Xu Su couldn't think of any way to retaliate against him. After a long pause, she gritted her teeth and said, "I curse you to have kidney deficiency."

"..." Shen Chen's lips twitched slightly, wondering if he had misheard. After a long while, he squinted at her and chuckled, "Let's try a different spell. This one won't work."

The laughter was light and airy, sounding very much like teasing.

Xu Su glanced at him and then simply stopped talking.

That old fox is shameless; she can't compete with him.

Xu Su didn't actually make the call to Xi Zirong. Worried that Zhou Mochen would check her phone, she skillfully deleted all of her chat history with Xi Zirong.

To prevent Xi Zirong from calling during her three days at Zhou Mochen's house, Xu Su also blacklisted his number.

Shen Chen watched her actions from the side and chuckled, "Do you know what you look like right now?"

Before she could answer, Shen Chen said, word by word, "Like the 'husband who comes home after cheating' in TV dramas, afraid that the wife will find out and clean up the mess."

Xu Su: "..."

Seeing her embarrassed and angry expression, Shen Chen had no intention of stopping while he was ahead, and his tone became even more sarcastic, "I hope you and your little boyfriend break up cleanly, and don't let me find out that you're still entangled."

"...I understand." Xu Su was a little surprised, not expecting him to be so protective of Zhou Mochen.

She had no intention of maintaining any lingering connection with Xi Zirong.

Does this mean Xu Su no longer likes Xi Zirong at all?

No, of course I like him. Although Xi Zirong is sometimes clingy and annoys her, as a boyfriend, apart from being too possessive, he is so good that Xu Su can't find a single fault with him.

But Xu Su had already figured it out: Xi Zirong could live a good life without her.

In her past life, she had never crossed paths with Xi Zirong; it didn't matter whether that boy had her in his life or not.

But Zhou Mochen is no good; Zhou Mochen can't do without Xu Su.

In both his lifetimes, he fell in love with Xu Su at first sight. Just as Zhou Mochen himself said, he couldn't live without her...

This alone is enough for Xu Su to make a choice.

Moreover, she is now certain that she also likes Zhou Mochen.

...Leaving aside when her feelings for Zhou Mochen began, Xu Su was truly heartbroken when she saw Zhou Mochen so dejected and unwilling to care about anything while she was unconscious. She could no longer bring herself to be cruel to him.

Even now, two days after that 'dream,' Xu Su still feels a tightness and pain in her chest, making it difficult to straighten her back, whenever she thinks about the experience in the dream.

During her free time these past two days, Xu Su couldn't help but wonder how she could get back.

She really wanted to go back. No matter what, she had to go back once to cheer Zhou Mochen up.

She only gave 23-year-old Zhou Mochen a little response, and he was so happy and satisfied.

If I could go back more than ten years and give Zhou Mochen a hug when he's 35, would he stop becoming more and more gloomy day by day?

Xu Su felt a pang of regret, wondering why she had never shown him a kind word in those past ten years.