Chapter 596 Troubles
“Hi, Li Zhuangsheng!” A clear and pleasant voice sounded behind him.

Li Zhuangsheng was going downstairs to throw away the garbage, holding two large bags of garbage in his hands. He threw one bag into the trash can and placed the other bag next to the trash can.

“Didn’t you go out to play?” Li Zhuangsheng turned around and looked at Hu Mengdie and Li Xiuyu, tilting his head.

This weekend, in the morning, Hu Mengdie came as scheduled. Although Li Xiuyu asked Li Zhuangsheng to go with him, Li Zhuangsheng lay on the bed like a dead pig, non-violently refusing to cooperate. Li Xiuyu could not drag him away, so he had to go to see Hu Mengdie alone in anger.

“I took her around our school, and now it’s time for dinner!”

Li Xiuyu frowned fiercely, she still blamed Li Zhuangsheng for not going out with her.

Li Zhuangsheng blinked and said, “Oh, I didn’t cook lunch. I thought you would eat out, so I prepared some takeout.”

Li Xiuyu snorted, “I knew you would order takeout. Don’t order it. Just eat something at the restaurant next door!”

“also.”

Li Zhuangsheng scratched his leg.

“Don’t you throw the trash in the bin?”

Hu Mengdie tilted her head in confusion. The trash can was still empty, but Li Zhuangsheng threw one of the bags of trash next to the trash can. This was really not like Li Zhuangsheng’s character.

“Oh, there are mineral water bottles inside.” Li Zhuangsheng shrugged, “I threw them outside and they took them away directly.”

There was an old lady in the community who liked to rummage through the trash cans. Once, when Li Zhuangsheng saw this, he put the cardboard box and water bottle next to the trash can to save the old lady the trouble of taking them out of the trash can.

Even though the other party would still rummage through the trash can, it would be better to reduce his workload. Li Zhuangsheng felt that the trash can was indeed dirty and smelly.

“Oh, I see.” Hu Mengdie smiled slightly, her eyes bright and kind, “You are so kind!”

“Haha, it’s nothing!”

How naive, how stupid, Hu Mengdie thought.

As Li Zhuangsheng’s ex-wife, she knew what Li Zhuangsheng meant by this. He was just looking for a reason to praise her. How could a boy refuse the favor of a pretty girl? Sure enough, he hadn’t changed at all.

The three of them were eating at a small restaurant at the entrance of the community. When talking about Hu Mengke, Li Zhuangsheng and Hu Mengdie were both a little emotional. They really didn’t expect the other to stick with it, especially Hu Mengdie, who understood the hardship of dancing better than anyone else, especially for a beginner like Hu Mengke who had no basic skills. Li Zhuangsheng even secretly asked the teacher to increase Hu Mengke’s training volume.

Before he knew it, it was already afternoon. The afternoon was quite warm in late autumn this year, and Li Zhuangsheng was only wearing a sweater and a thin coat.

He couldn’t help but glance at Hu Mengdie. She was wearing a white knitted jacket and a beret on her head. She looked as beautiful as a fairy tale princess, but she showed a hint of melancholy from time to time, as if she was worried about something.

Li Zhuangsheng remembered that during the National Day holiday, when they went to Mochou Lake, Hu Mengdie also showed such an expression.

“You have been…” Li Zhuangsheng finally couldn’t help but ask, “Have you encountered any problems recently?”

“No.” Hu Mengdie immediately smiled, “What can I do?”

Li Xiuyu betrayed Hu Mengdie calmly: “She is being pursued by a boy recently.”

Li Zhuangsheng was slightly startled, then he gave a dry laugh: “Isn’t it normal for you to be chased?”

“That guy seems to be quite persistent…”

As Li Xiuyu continued to speak, Hu Mengdie gently tugged at the corner of her clothes. “Haha, campus beauties are so popular with the opposite sex…” Li Zhuangsheng laughed twice more, and suddenly remembered something, “Could it be the one driving the Porsche… that one?”

Hu Mengdie hesitated for a moment, then smiled and said, “It’s okay… He should give up soon.”

Li Xiuyu continued to ask: “That guy seems to have been chasing her since military training, right?”

“Well… that doesn’t really count as chasing…”

Hu Mengdie hesitated and secretly glanced at Li Zhuangsheng’s face. Their eyes met inadvertently, and Hu Mengdie turned her face away in panic.

“This guy is really infatuated.” Li Xiuyu puffed his cheeks as he sipped Coke from a straw. “But, driving a Porsche in college is a bit too ostentatious. Right, Li Zhuangsheng!”

“You can’t… say that.” Li Zhuangsheng made an “objective evaluation” against his will, “Maybe he is just too rich, and a Porsche is nothing to him.”

I just heard from Xie Jiangqing that the boy has also joined the volunteer club.

“It mainly depends on what Hu Mengdie thinks,” Li Zhuangsheng said again.

“I’m definitely not interested in him!” Hu Mengdie waved her hands repeatedly, as if she was afraid that she would be misunderstood by someone if she was a second late.

Hu Mengdie had no interest in that boy. She had never considered herself single. And as Li Xiuyu said, driving a Porsche in college was really ostentatious. Hu Mengdie also knew that this kind of man had women all the time.

She was hesitant about whether to be a little hesitant in her attitude towards the boy in front of Li Zhuangsheng, so as to arouse Li Zhuangsheng’s jealousy. But after thinking it over again and again, she decided not to do it.

Li Zhuangsheng was a psychopath, especially towards Hu Mengdie. Hu Mengdie herself didn’t know if this would offend Li Zhuangsheng’s sensitive nerves, so she might as well step on him to get to the top. Hu Mengdie didn’t think the other party was worthy of being compared with Li Zhuangsheng.

“Are you going to keep pestering me?” Li Zhuangsheng leaned forward slightly and asked softly.

Hu Mengdie nodded silently, but after a moment she forced a smile and said, “Actually, it’s not that persistent… Well, it’s just a little annoying!”

“If you’re really bothered, then…”

Li Zhuangsheng subconsciously wanted to say “Just tell the teacher”, but then he changed his mind and thought, I am not a primary or secondary school student anymore, how can I tell the teacher all day long!
“Just what?”

“There really is no good solution.” Li Zhuangsheng smiled bitterly.

“Yeah, we can only wait for him to give up.” Hu Mengdie sighed softly.

Li Zhuangsheng’s university life was still a slog. At the end of December, the leaves turned yellow. This year was a warm winter. The senior students in the club lamented that in the past, the leaves would have almost fallen by this time.

Li Zhuangsheng still went to the club frequently. Whenever the president and senior students saw him, they would deliberately avoid talking to him. If they really had to talk, they would deliberately avoid looking at Li Zhuangsheng’s face.

Zhu Zhixue still ignored Li Zhuangsheng, although he could always feel her gaze from behind during class. Hu Mengdie and Li Zhuangsheng also had little contact, and Li Zhuangsheng knew that this was Hu Mengdie’s way of “avoiding suspicion.”

In comparison, Li Zhuangsheng got along very well with his two best friends – Xie Jiangqing and Yao Xingyu.

The two of them always took the initiative to chat with Li Zhuangsheng, interspersed with the latest news of their best friends.

In Li Zhuangsheng’s opinion, Xie Jiangqing seemed to have been trying to bring him and Hu Mengdie together. After all, in her opinion, he and Zhu Zhixue had broken up, so it was reasonable for her to start a new relationship! Yao Xingyu’s purpose seemed to be even purer, and he simply wanted to help him and Zhu Zhixue get back together.

(End of this chapter)