Chapter 16 The One I’ve Always Wanted
Fu Jiye had planned to confess right after graduation.
But Gu Qunian beat him to it.
Just thinking about it made Fu Jiye furious.
“That Gu Qunian is a total idiot. Where does he get the nerve to come crawling back? You already have a boyfriend who’s handsome, rich, smart, and witty like me. If I were him, I’d have tucked my tail between my legs and disappeared long ago.”
After Gu Qunian found out my real identity, he came looking for me many times.
Without me, his life had become even more miserable.
The Li Yuqiu he’d always pursued—after learning he was gay and had still chased her while dating me—found him disgusting and had people beat him up badly.
From then on, everything he’d carefully hidden came crashing out.
Gu Qunian ran back to me again.
“Liao Xing, I regret it.”
“Can you love me again? If you’d just told me earlier that you’re the young master of the Liao family, with so much money—why pretend to be poor with me?”
“If your family had just given a little more money, we wouldn’t have ended up like this.”
Fu Jiye happened to walk in on that scene. We teamed up and beat Gu Qunian again.
“Gu Qunian, you’re disgusting. Looking at you once makes me want to puke. How the hell did I ever fall for someone like you back then?”
“If you ever dare come near me again, I’ll beat you every single time I see you.”
Only now did I realize—maybe what I felt for Gu Qunian wasn’t even love.
That night he just happened to be by my side, and I mistook my gratitude for a crush.
At first I thought it was interesting.
I’d never dated someone so bland and tasteless before.
What would dating a Top Student like Gu Qunian be like?
I started imagining renting a place together.
I watched those kinds of videos on every platform.
Waking up together every day, using couple toothbrushes—he’d squeeze toothpaste for me, I’d pick out his outfit.
We’d go grocery shopping, cook together, even raise an adorable little cat. We could buy furniture in whatever colors we liked.
I’d always longed for a real home.
Like the warm, loving one Fu Jiye’s family had.
But after actually renting with Gu Qunian, all my beautiful fantasies shattered.
No money. Life became a total mess.
Gu Qunian refused to serve anyone, always acting superior. I’d never done chores either. Neither of us would give in.
He’d get inspired for a moment, I’d be foolishly touched—we were never suited from the start.
I only understood that now.
But Fu Jiye was different.
Sure, his mouth was vicious, but in action he never let me suffer.
He said, “Liao Xing, you’re great. You don’t need to change. I like you just like this.”
“I’ve liked you since a long time ago. In my eyes, you’ve always been so good. I only like you. Even when I was abroad, I got through it by looking at your photos.”