After Being Pestered by My Gloomy and Clingy Roommate 24p1

Chapter 24: Twenty-Four p1

The air conditioning inside the private room, like a fine, airtight net, rushed towards Yu Jiang.

She was firmly enveloped by this chill, and in an instant, lost all strength to move.

The people inside were chatting. Noticing the door being pushed halfway open, they all stopped what they were doing and looked over in unison.

Chi Jing hadn’t lied.

The girls she had invited through various means were all outstanding in appearance and had extraordinary temperaments.

This beautiful scene couldn’t help but give one the illusion of having accidentally stumbled into a land of beauties.

Yu Jiang seemed to be frozen by an invisible talisman.

She stood rooted to the spot, neither speaking nor entering.

Finally, someone couldn’t help but speak up, asking in a friendly tone.

“Excuse me, are you also here for the mixer?”

As soon as the other person finished speaking, the door that had just been pushed open closed again with a muffled thud.

Yu Jiang’s impolite behavior didn’t provoke any gossip from the people inside.

Everyone was stunned for a moment, then couldn’t help but burst out laughing.

The lighthearted laughter was full of goodwill.

“This seems to be the third person to walk into the wrong room today, right?”

“Is our room that attractive?”

“Xiaomian, pass me the Coke!”

No one took this interlude to heart, and the room quickly became lively again.

In the hallway.

Yu Jiang resolutely pulled her hand back from the door.

She wasn’t going in.

This wasn’t right.

Just as Chi Jing had said, she knew better than anyone that the three words “Chu Qingzi” were already deeply carved into the bottom of her heart.

Before she could completely dig out this name, it was impossible for her to fall for anyone else.

As for when she would be able to dig it out, Yu Jiang herself didn’t know.

Perhaps it would be on a certain day long after they had parted ways.

Or perhaps, she would never be able to dig it out in this lifetime.

Regardless of the outcome, one thing was certain.

She couldn’t, while deeply in love with one person, drag another innocent person in just to force herself to give up that love.

Doing so would be unfair to everyone.

She understood Chi Jing’s intentions.

If it were her, knowing that a friend was deeply mired in an unrequited love that was unlikely to end well, purely for her friend’s sake, she would also hope that she could find someone else with a possibility of a future to like.

It was precisely because she understood that she had, on the first day of school, been bewitched into agreeing to Chi Jing’s suggestion of a mixer.

Thinking of this, Yu Jiang couldn’t help but feel a headache coming on.

The door to the private room was easy to close.

The wrath of Chi Jing, however, would certainly not be easy to extinguish.

She could perfectly imagine how angry that person would be if she knew that she had left without even stepping inside.

Yu Jiang sighed. So be it.

She was the one who had gone back on her word. Even if she was scolded with her ear being pinched for a whole year, she deserved it.

It was her own fault for not being firm enough that day.

After mentally preparing herself to face the storm, Yu Jiang began to fish for the phone in her pocket.

Just as her hand slipped into her pocket, a female voice suddenly sounded from behind her.

“Excuse me, are you also here for the mixer?”

Yu Jiang didn’t expect someone to suddenly appear. Her brain short-circuited, and she subconsciously replied, “Ah, yes. Are you too?”

After the “too,” Yu Jiang’s whole world fell apart.

It’s over!

I said the wrong thing!

It was too late to take it back, because the other person had already taken the initiative to push open the door the second she received an affirmative answer.

She said considerately, “Then why don’t you go in? Are you nervous? It’s okay, it’s probably everyone’s first time meeting. It’ll be fine once we start chatting.”

The people inside, who had seen Yu Jiang once, didn’t hear her comforting words.

Seeing this, they naturally assumed they were friends.

“Oh, so you were waiting for a friend. We thought you had walked into the wrong room just now.”

The girl didn’t refute, just lightly patted Yu Jiang’s shoulder. “Then let’s go in, my new friend.”

The moment her palm touched her shoulder, she winced in pain, and her gentle expression changed slightly.

The girl pulled her hand back and looked at Yu Jiang’s sweater with a hint of confusion.

It was clean, with no decorations that could easily cause injury.

She lowered her gaze and stared at her index finger, which had a thin, shallow scratch from an unknown source.

It couldn’t have been cut by the air, could it?

Today’s mixer was very different from what Yu Jiang had imagined.

She had thought that everyone’s topic of conversation would revolve around “romance.”

Only after she had sat down among the crowd did she realize that was not the case.

Rather than a mixer, tonight’s gathering was more like a simple get-together for people with similar interests.

Not long after Yu Jiang entered the room, two girls who had caught each other’s eye openly held hands and left.

Sitting to Yu Jiang’s left was a girl with a lip piercing and hair dyed grandma gray, with a high-fashion, world-weary face.

In all the time Yu Jiang had been seated, she hadn’t taken the initiative to say a single word to her, but had kept her head down, like a hamster, stuffing food into her mouth nonstop.

Perhaps Yu Jiang’s dazed reaction was too obvious. While peeling an orange, she kindly explained.

“Those two went on a date. Today’s gathering is still a mixer in essence. If you hit it off with someone, as long as she’s willing, you can also leave directly.”

Yu Jiang nodded in understanding.

When she first entered, she had only been thinking of finding an excuse to leave as soon as possible.

Later, after staying for a while, she found that the atmosphere in the room was quite good. Plus, it would put Chi Jing’s mind at ease, so she gave up the idea of leaving early.

The gray-haired girl took the initiative to start a conversation and continued to ask.

“Which school are you from? What year?”

Yu Jiang answered honestly.

“So you’re from University A. I’m from University D. I go to University A every week. The shengjian in your second cafeteria is pretty good. Have you had it? If we run into each other next time, I’ll treat you.”

She had thought she was not a talkative person, but it seemed she had misjudged.

Yu Jiang was not socially anxious and didn’t feel nervous because of the other’s enthusiasm.

She replied, “I often eat the shengjian too. It’s very good. Is University D close to University A? Sorry, I’m not very clear on where University D is.”

“About twenty minutes by subway, so it’s not too far. My girlfriend is at your school, so I usually go find her on weekends.”

Yu Jiang: ??

“Huh? Girlfriend? Isn’t today a mixer?”

Grandma Gray’s face was calm. “It is a mixer, but I don’t think there’s a rule that says people in a relationship can’t come to a mixer, right?”

Yu Jiang’s expression was as restrained as possible. “You’re attending a mixer behind your girlfriend’s back. Is that really okay?”

“Sigh, I know what you mean. I’m not planning to two-time. I just heard that someone was treating everyone to karaoke, and the fruit platters and stuff were free. It just so happened that my girlfriend had something to do nearby today, and it was boring to wait for her at Starbucks, so I just signed up to get some free food and listen to everyone sing. It’s great.”

Yu Jiang: “…”

As Grandma Gray spoke, she pulled a particularly beautiful orange from her coat pocket.

“This orange is definitely sweet. I was originally going to give it to my girlfriend, but now I’m giving it to you. You have to keep it a secret for me, okay?”

Yu Jiang was a little helpless, but more amused.

She pushed the “bribe” back. “Forget the orange. Don’t worry, I’ll won’t tell.”

“Thanks then. If we run into each other at University A next time, I’ll treat you to a meal. You can bring your roommate, my treat.”

Yu Jiang felt this person was really a contradiction.

Both frugal and generous.

“I’ve been talking all about myself. What about you? Are you just here to find a partner? University A is quite far from here. How did you and your friend get here? Is she your roommate?”

A certain keyword unintentionally triggered by the other person instantly made Yu Jiang’s face change.

Grandma Gray was startled by her reaction. “What’s wrong? Are you not feeling well?”

Yu Jiang, with great acting talent, clutched her lower abdomen and said in a weak voice, “Sorry, my stomach suddenly hurts a little. I’m going to the restroom first.”

“Okay, then you should go quickly. Can you manage on your own? Do you need me to help you over?”

She declined the other’s kind offer, stood up, and hurried out of the room.

In the quiet cubicle, a sudden burst of complaint rang out.

“This person is really sick in the head!”

The one who spoke was none other than Yu Jiang, who had just claimed to have a stomachache.

She looked at the last message from the nameless pervert on the page and felt the urge to tear open the screen, drill into the other side of the phone, and see if the other person was human or ghost.

Look at the outrageous things this damn pervert is saying!

Is she really not mentally ill?

What normal person would take the initiative to ask someone they like to kiss someone else?

Wait!

A very niche term flashed through Yu Jiang’s mind: cuckold fetish.

This kind of strange, specific knowledge was, of course, taught to her by Chi Xiaojing, who had read all kinds of adult fiction.

When Chi Jing had talked about this, Yu Jiang was sitting across from her, eating.

Before she could even finish her description, the disgusted girl had directly sprayed a mouthful of rice onto the speaker’s face.

She had thought that day was the peak of expanding her strange knowledge, but who would have thought that a real-life example would walk right out of her memory.

Yu Jiang didn’t understand, nor did she want to respect people with a cuckold fetish.

Because this kind of fetish hurt their most intimate partners.

Now that she knew the nameless pervert was this kind of person, besides the due disgust, Yu Jiang also felt a trace of irrepressible excitement.

She had heard that people with this kind of niche fetish were especially worried about their private kinks being known by others.

In that case, couldn’t she use this opportunity to completely turn the tables on her long-standing passive position!

Yu Jiang began to type excitedly.

【I’ve already screenshotted what you just said, you filthy, disgusting cuckold fetishist!】

【Do you think I’m still afraid of you now? I have something on you now too!】

【If you don’t want to experience social death, then from now on, you’re not allowed to pester me anymore!】

The last sentence was, of course, a lie.

Yu Jiang had no intention of letting her off!

Previously, because she had her reservations, she hadn’t dared to go to the police.

Now she also had something on the other person!

She would go to the police station tomorrow afternoon!

Once she got this damn pervert’s information, she would definitely get her revenge!

The nameless pervert didn’t reply to her messages in a second, one by one, like before.

Instead, she waited until Yu Jiang had finished speaking before replying unhurriedly.

【Nameless Pervert: I’m willing to give you one more chance, wife. As long as you can obediently leave after you come out of the restroom, I can pretend that you didn’t attend a mixer behind my back tonight.】

Discovering that her whereabouts were completely known by the other person, Yu Jiang didn’t have much of a reaction.

Because she knew that the damn pervert was just that kind of gloomy and clingy person!

She didn’t do proper things, but instead liked to do these kinds of sneaky, dirty things!

She couldn’t catch the other person, and she hadn’t suffered any substantial harm from this kind of behavior, so she simply ignored it.

Compared to the spying gaze she was already used to, what annoyed her more was the other’s malicious attitude of completely disregarding her threat.

【You don’t dare to respond to me directly because I’ve hit a sore spot, right!】

【You filthy, creepy, perverted, lewd, gloomy, weird, rotten person!】

This was the longest and most vulgar thing she had said since she had known the nameless pervert.