Chapter 59 part2

If You Are a Dodder Flower Chapter 59 part2

“How is it possible that you don’t know him,” she said, unable to react quickly. “Liang Ziheng ya, you should know him.”

“I don’t know him,” insisted Xia Rou.

“How is that possible,” Lu Jialan was puzzled. “Isn’t he chasing you?”

“Oh…” Xia Rou’s expression was placid. “There are a few people chasing me. I don’t remember which of those is him.”

Lu Jialan’s face turned red. Translated by The Novelst

She said in embarrassment, “How could you speak like that?”

Xia Rou furrowed her brows. “What’s the problem with that? I really don’t know who he is.”

“Y-You…” Lu Jialan was embarrassed and angry. She shouted, “How could you be like that!”

“Xia Rou, what’s going on?” Her roommates Xie Yun and Li Jingwen were passing by, so they stopped to ask.

The other girls who were walking past them also slowed their steps and looked curiously at them.

Xia Rou answered calmly, “This friend here stopped me to tell me her brother knows me. I told her I don’t know who he is, and now she’s not too happy about it.”

What on earth was going on? Both Xie Yun and Li Jingwen were baffled.

Li Jingwen looked Lu Jialan up and down. “This friend here, is that true?”

The gazes of the onlookers had all gathered on Lu Jialan.

Lu Jialan’s face was bright red. “She obviously knows my brother!” It was tantamount to admitting to Xia Rou’s words.

Everyone looked at each other, faces blank with dismay.

Xia Rou sighed softly. She looked at Lu Jialan, “You said your brother is chasing me, but I already said there are quite a few people chasing me. And I’ve rejected them all already. I really don’t know which of those is your brother.”

“Pu!” One of the onlookers was unable to hold back and snorted out a laugh.

Lu Jialan finally realized that she had embarrassed herself.

When her cousin had told her he wanted to chase Xia Rou, she thought that even if Xia Rou didn’t flutter around him like most girls, at the very least they probably had some affection for one another.

She had never expected that her handsome, rich cousin, was actually… one-sidedly…

Her face was still flushed scarlet, but she couldn’t deny it, since the truth was indeed as Xia Rou had said.

Li Jingwen looked at Lu Jialan, and then turned to Xia Rou. “Oh… So that’s how it is.”

Lu Jialan was angry and ashamed. She wordlessly rushed back to her own room and with a bang! The door slammed shut.

“That was really out of nowhere,” said Xie Yun.

Li Jingwen shrugged.

“Let’s return,” Xia Rou said calmly.

It was better this way.

Now that she had offended Lu Jialan, with that personality of hers, she would definitely complain to Liang Ziheng and let him know her attitude. It would be best for him to retreat before the impossible.

In this life, she didn’t want to have any contact with him.

Just as she expected, that weekend Lu Jialan immediately rushed to her uncle’s house. The moment she saw Liang Ziheng, she began to complain.

“That Xia Rou! What kind of person is she, so arrogant!” She was fired up. “Why are you interested in her?”

Liang Ziheng was astounded. “What’s wrong with Xia Rou?”

Lu Jialan actually also knew that she had messed up, so she was hesitant to tell him the entire story.

“I just wanted to greet her, but you should have seen the look on her face! So fake! I’m telling you, she’s really good at faking, how could she not remember you at all?” She said angrily. In the past she had girl classmates with just a glance at her cousin be enamored with him for two years.

Liang Ziheng facepalmed. He had never imagined that his little cousin would act on her own to approach Xia Rou. If he had known he wouldn’t have told her about it.

As for Lu Jialan, she was still angry about the matter, so she kept trying to persuade Liang Ziheng to not be so blind as to like that fake, arrogant woman.

Liang Ziheng listened for a while and remained silent as he looked at Lu Jialan.

He had only one biological aunt. Her husband had passed, leaving him his little cousin. So since he was young, he and his father had spoiled her a lot.

Before that, he thought she was still young, so he wouldn’t tell her about the details of society. But now… Liang Ziheng felt that it was time to start telling her things.

If he couldn’t sweep a house, he couldn’t conquer the world. Since he had a goal to climb circles, if his family was unable to understand, there would be trouble sooner or later.

The matter between Lu Jialan and Xia Rou was a living example.

“Jia Jia…” he said. “I’m not chasing her because I like her.”

Lu Jialan was astounded.

Liang Ziheng continued, “I’m chasing her because I want to marry her.”

Lu Jialan was shocked.

She was just an eighteen year old university student, having lived a wealthy life that others envied. She had her mother, uncle, and cousin to spoil her, and even her stepfather was nice to her.

Not to mention that every single girlfriend of her cousin’s had tried to please her.

She couldn’t understand the meaning underlying his words.

“You’re all grown up now. There are things you should know already,” Liang Ziheng said. “I want to marry Xia Rou because though her surname is Xia, she’s someone from the Cao Family. Do you know about the Cao Family?”

Lu Jialan shook her head in confusion.

“Do you know Cao Xiong?”

She continued to shake her head.

Both his aunt and cousin were reliant on their family to live. So their circle and vision were much lower than his.

Liang Ziheng sighed inside. This was because his family was not truly at the top.

Later when he met and got to know Hu Chen and the others, no matter how young or old they were, even if they were still in high school, when they talked about someone, everyone knew what that person did, what position his father or ancestor held… All those details had been imparted onto them since they were young.

Even Xia Rou, who had joined halfway, after getting along with those people, her mind was very clear. She knew who she should be with and which families wouldn’t deal with which families. At that time she had only been a junior.

But his little cousin: though she was the same age as Xia Rou, she had never even heard of Cao Xiong’s name before.

“Cao Xiong is…” Translated by The Novelst

That day, Liang Ziheng spoke at length to Lu Jialan.

It was the first time that Lu Jialan learned that the so-called “fair, rich and beautiful” and “tall, rich and handsome” was only her understanding as an ordinary person that she had titled herself and her cousin.

It was also the first time she learned that her smart, handsome cousin had no choice but to bow and scrape before others.

Now she had realized that some girls out there wouldn’t even consider her cousin for marriage. And those kinds of girls wouldn’t even try to flatter her like his past girlfriends had.

On this day, Lu Jialan’s worldview had turned upside down.

It was crushed to pieces and rebuilt from scratch.

From a perfect fairytale world to the utilitarian real world: the realization could be counted as… a kind of growth.

Proofread by: Hannah