Chapter 59 part1

If You Are a Dodder Flower Chapter 59 part1

Cao Yang walked away with a dark face. Xia Rou was relieved and closed the book in her hand to take a sip of black tea.

It looked like her hard work in drama club hadn’t gone to waste. Her acting could now even fool big brother.

His suddenly coming to her to ask about the people who chased her had shocked her. She thought he had already learned of Liang Ziheng’s antics.

If it was possible she didn’t want to let Cao Yang have any relations with Liang Ziheng in this life.

Liang Ziheng… Xia Rou couldn’t help but think: could it be fate? Even in this life, though nobody pulled the strings between them, Liang Ziheng had actually… come to chase her again!

The first time she met Liang Ziheng in front of the dorms, she thought it was a coincidence because Lu Jialan was staying in the same dorm building.

The two were cousins that had grown up together, so they were close. She also remembered that Lu Jialan mentioned to her in the past that in university, Liang Ziheng would often visit to pick her up.

In this life, Xia Rou and Liang Ziheng had only met a few times, without ever having had a proper conversation. She had also locked herself in to study during her last year of high school so she hadn’t really participated in any social events in second semester. So she didn’t think Liang Ziheng would remember her in this life, since they were nearly strangers.

Those things that happened in the past should stay there. In this life, he was a stranger.

She acted like he didn’t exist, walking past him without even glancing at him. Who would have expected that person to call her name.

“Xia Rou? Are you Xia Rou?” he asked. Translated by The Novelst

“Xia Rou, that person is calling you!” said her roommate.

She had no choice but to stop walking and turn around.

The handsome young man had a surprised expression on his face. He was truly good-looking, or else she wouldn’t have agreed to be with him in the first place.

She looked him up and down coldly, asking, “Who are you?”

Faced with an icy response in answer to his passion, others might feel a little awkward. But not Liang Ziheng.

He smiled and struck up a conversation with her: “I’m Liang Ziheng. Do you remember me? We met when you were still in high school. I’m Hu Chen’s little cousin brother.”

It was quite a distant relation. Furthermore, they had no blood-relation with different surnames. But indeed, they could be called cousins.

“Oh…” Xia Rou responded coldly. “Hello.”

Liang Ziheng could immediately feel the distance and he smiled inside. Although her surname was not Cao, the coldness she carried was the same as Cao Yang.

But he wasn’t discouraged.

“So you’re also studying in Sheng Da. Coincidentally, my little sister is also studying here. Don’t tell me the both of you are in the same dorm?” He said, smiling. “Her name is Lu Jialan. Do you know her?”

“No,” Xia Rou shook her head. “Do you need something? If not, I’ll be going first. My roommate is still waiting for me.”

So Liang Ziheng could only stand there and watch Xia Rou jog to catch up to Zhuang Xiao and the others, who were waiting for her. They went into the building together.

Was everyone in the Cao Family so hard to deal with?

Liang Ziheng felt a bit of defeat in his heart.

In the topmost circle, the real princesses wouldn’t consider him for marriage, since his family background was seen as mediocre. But at least he was good-looking. They wouldn’t consider marriage, but they wouldn’t go so far as to ignore him, either.

Only Xia Rou, that fake princess, was so cold to him it was nearly arrogant.

He felt a little frustrated at the bottom of his heart, lighting up a cigarette to take a few puffs to suppress the feeling.

The second week when she returned to school, Xia Rou encountered Lu Jialan at the staircase.

They lived on the same floor, so they had actually met one another a few times. But in the past Xia Rou had ignored Lu Jialan, and Lu Jialan didn’t know her at all. That’s why the two of them had never crossed paths.

This time, Lu Jialan took the initiative and greeted her, smiling, “Are you Xia Rou?”

Xia Rou glanced at her. She didn’t find the disgust Lu Jialan would sometimes reveal in the past. Well, in the past she was studying at a no-name school, which was why Lu Jialan had looked down on her. In this life, she had become a classmate, so of course she no longer had any reason to look down on her.

“Yes. You are…?” she responded.

“Oh, my name is Lu Jialan,” she said, continuing, “My brother mentioned you to me! Liang Ziheng?”

“Liang Ziheng…” Xia Rou acted like she was thinking, then shook her head. “I don’t know him.”

Lu Jialan was stunned. Translated by The Novelst

It was her cousin that had told her there was a girl he knew staying in the same dorm as her, even faintly revealing his intention to chase her. So she started paying attention and came to greet Xia Rou.

She didn’t expect that Xia Rou had such an attitude towards Liang Ziheng.

Liang Ziheng hadn’t mentioned Xia Rou’s background, since Lu Jialan had not had many chances to get in touch with the people of that circle.

When she was young, her family could be considered ordinary, but after that her Uncle had become wealthy from doing business and gave her mother one of his companies to look after. That’s when her life had changed for the better.

Now that her family had a few companies, most were managed by her stepfather, while she and her mother lived a life of little princess and dowager.

In the past, most of her social circle was made of ordinary people. Within that circle, she was the rich and beautiful girl.

The uncle who had impacted her life so much, and the cousin from uncle’s family were, in her heart, also one hundred percent tall, rich and handsome.

It had always been others surrounding them to flatter them. Especially girls: when they saw her cousin drive a nice car, looking handsome, there were none that remained uninterested.

And now, wasn’t it only because it was the first time he revealed the intentions to chase someone that she thought to come forward and greet Xia Rou, to check out what sort of person she was?

There were too many girls that pretended to be pure and innocent but were manipulative and calculating instead. She needed to help her cousin check thoroughly.

But she never imagined this girl would actually say she didn’t recognize her cousin.

Lu Jialan had already lived for so many years yet she had never encountered this situation before!

Proofread by: Hannah