The daily life of a crazy female supporting character trying to redeem herself.

After dinner, Liang Qing met Li Yang at the door as agreed.

Li Yang had clearly arranged everything perfectly; upon arriving at the horse farm, all procedures were completed very quickly.

After they had chosen their horses with the help of the staff, and only the two of them were left with their clothes and ready to go into the changing room, Li Yang suddenly smiled and said, "Since you agreed to race with me, does that mean you've accepted my suggestion from back then?"

"What suggestion?" Liang Qing stopped at the door and turned to look at her.

"Are you pretending to be stupid or have you really forgotten?" Li Yang leaned against the door, holding her clothes and smirking. "Back when you and Zhou Yu were still entangled, didn't I suggest to you that since you couldn't choose, I should choose for you?"

Liang Qing stared at her without saying a word.

"I said, 'Let's have a horse race. If I win, you give me Zhou Yu. After all, I've liked him since junior high.'"

Li Yang continued, "But back then, you rejected me. You didn't even look at me, you just coldly said 'no' and left without looking back."

"I suppose you couldn't bear to part with Zhou Yu, which is why you rejected me so decisively."

She laughed again, "But now that you're with Yan Su, Zhou Yu doesn't mean much to you anymore, so giving him to me isn't a big deal."

"Am I right, Liang Qing?"

Liang Qing remained standing still until Li Yang finished speaking, at which point she finally spoke, "No."

Li Yang chuckled as usual at her answer, "So, are you going to leave without looking back?"

“My agreement to compete with you has nothing to do with your suggestion. I thought it was just a normal match.” Liang Qing did not turn around and leave as she had suggested, but instead explained, “But if you want to add such a bet to this match, then I will not compete with you.”

"I wouldn't have done that before, I won't do it now, and I won't do it in the future."

The smile on Li Yang's face vanished, and her voice rose involuntarily, "So you still won't let go of Zhou Yu? Even though you're already with Yan Su?"

"I think you've misunderstood not only why I agreed to compete with you, but also why I refused to compete with you."

Compared to Li Yang's excitement, Liang Qing's tone was very calm: "If you have ever truly loved someone, you should know that people are not objects, but independent individuals with their own thoughts and souls, and cannot be used as a gamble."

"If you want him to like you, you should focus your energy on him, not on me."

Liang Qing paused for a moment, then said, "Because relationships involve two people."

Li Yang frowned, pursed her lips, and said nothing.

An eerie silence fell over the room.

Seeing that she didn't seem to want to say anything more, and realizing that her purpose wasn't actually in the competition, Liang Qing said to her, "I'm leaving now."

But she hadn't taken two steps when Li Yang suddenly appeared in front of her, raising his arm to block her way.

"You told me to focus my energy on him, you said relationships are a matter between two people." Her eyes turned sharp. "But I'm telling you, you're wrong."

"The relationship you're talking about involves two people and is limited to situations where there is mutual affection."

"If you fall in love with a man who has someone else in his heart, just like I have, you will know that no matter how much energy or effort you spend on him, it is not as important as a single word from the person he loves."

She laughed self-deprecatingly, "You don't even have to say anything to make him risk everything and run to find you."

Liang Qing placed her hands behind her waist and clenched them tightly to restrain herself from losing her composure in front of Li Yang.

"Are you afraid of wind and rain?" Li Yang lowered his hands and looked up to ask her.

Liang Qing paused for a moment, then shook her head.

Are you afraid of thunder?

Liang Qing shook her head again.

"So you're not even afraid," she murmured.

Liang Qing asked, puzzled, "Why are you asking me these questions?"

Li Yang didn't answer her directly, but instead began to speak her own words, "That thunderstorm that came out of nowhere trapped us all in the bar that night."

"Huo Shi and Peng Fu formed a band, and they would perform at bars when they had time. That day, their guitarist happened to have something come up, so Huo Shi asked Zhou Yu to fill in."

Li Yang was clearly engrossed in what she was saying, her expression somewhat frenzied. "When I happened to see him at the bar, can you imagine how excited I was? I was thinking, what a coincidence, he appeared just when I was thinking about him."

"I've always been the one trying to find ways to see him. Only that day, by pure coincidence, did I think our destiny was about to arrive."

"Immediately afterwards, a strong wind picked up outside, followed by lightning and thunder, and then a torrential downpour."

"The bar's loudspeaker issued a warning, telling us all not to go out for the time being."

"This sudden thunderstorm was just like a scene from a romance novel. People in love always have some unrealistic fantasies. I thought that this thunderstorm was trapping us together so that he and I would have more opportunities to spend time together."

"But it was all just my naive and foolish idea. When I walked towards him, ready to talk to him, his phone rang."

Li Yang looked up at Liang Qing and said, word by word, "It was your call."

"You two had a fight back then, didn't you? I only noticed when I got closer that he looked terrible."

“You called him but didn’t say anything. He got a little angry and said, ‘If you don’t say anything, I’m hanging up.’ But after about ten seconds he still didn’t hang up, so you ended up hanging up.”

"The moment you hung up the phone, anger flashed across his face. To be honest, I felt quite happy because I thought the two of you were completely finished, and my chance was about to come."

"Unfortunately, the next second, he stood up, grabbed his coat and car keys, and ran towards the door without saying a word."

"He was so fast that even Huo Shi and the others didn't have time to react. He was so fast that I didn't even have time to stop him when he passed by me."

"By the time we realized what was happening, he had already disappeared into the crowd."

Li Yang tucked her stray hairs behind her ears, her expression gradually calming down. "At that moment, I realized how ridiculous I had been all along. I went to great lengths to get close to him, while you could make him come to you without a word."

“I used to think that he went out of his way to find you because you were afraid of thunder and rain. Now I realize that he was worried about you whether you were afraid or not.”

"After hearing what I've said, can you still tell me that relationships are a matter between two people?"