57: 057 Counterattack 57: 057 Counterattack “Welco ho, hero!”
By the ti the bus returned to Dongda University, it was already eight o’clock in the evening.
Jiang Chen pushed open the dormitory door, only to hear a “bang,” followed by colorful strears fluttering down from above.
“What are you doing?”
Jiang Chen was baffled.
Luo Peng and Bai Zheli each held a party popper in their hands.
“Jiang Chen, it’s incredible, you’ve turned a salted fish over, a carp leaping through the dragon gate, a bootlicker becoming a hero overnight!”
Luo Peng sighed with admiration and lancholy.
Jiang Chen removed the strears that had fallen on his hair and shoulders, and it dawned on him.
“Who told you guys?”
“Do we need to hear it from soone?
The whole school is abuzz now, saying Jiang Chen, at a sky-high altitude, disregarding personal safety, leaped out to save the beauty hanging by a thread…”
Bai Zheli nodded, adding after Luo Peng, “That’s right, Brother Chen, everyone knows about your self-sacrificing deed.”
“Jiang Chen, you’ve really made our dorm proud this ti.”
Li Shao also expressed his amazent.
Jiang Chen closed the door of the dormitory, cleared his throat softly, and deliberately posed with an air of nonchalance.
“A re trifle, not even worth ntioning.”
“You get out of breath just calling yourself fat!”
Luo Peng looked at him with contempt and flipped him the bird.
“You must be feeling pretty smug right now, huh?
Tsk tsk, a life-saving favor…
Now, even if Li Shuru is as cold as ice, she must be moved by you, right?
How about it, did you get…
”
Luo Peng winked and made a kissing gesture.
“It’s not that simple.”
Jiang Chen shook his head and picked up a broom to sweep the strears off the floor.
“No way.
A life-saving favor, and you risked your life for it, and she didn’t show any gratitude?”
Luo Peng was incredulous.
“She said she would treat to a al.”
“That’s it?”
“What else then?”
Jiang Chen continued to clean, laughing, “You haven’t been watching too much TV, have you?
Really think she’d promise herself to in return?”
“Then you’ve lost out, taking such a big risk for just a al, a huge loss indeed.”
Luo Peng sighed.
“Luo Bro, you can’t say that.”
Bai Zheli disagreed, “Brother Chen couldn’t just watch Li Shuru fall and do nothing, right?
No matter what, Brother Chen has done a great thing.”
Joking aside, Luo Peng collected his mocking deanor and, with a touch of admiration, exclaid, “Jiang Chen, you’re truly a man.
If it were , I probably wouldn’t have had the courage.
Respect, and from now on, let’s see who dares to look down on you.”
Besides the boost in approval, the reversal of his reputation was clearly a major gain from Jiang Chen’s heroic rescue.
anwhile, at the girls’ dormitory, it was even livelier.
Guo Ran and Xu Siyi were surrounding Li Shuru, showing genuine concern and care.
Zheng Jingjing, on the other hand, was describing the terrifying monts of the event in an animated and vivid manner.
When she got to the exciting parts, she couldn’t help but gesticulate wildly, almost reenacting the scene.
“Jing Jing, is it really that exaggerated?”
Guo Ran expressed her skepticism.
Although the incident was the talk of the school, after all, rumors tend to exaggerate.
The fact that Jiang Chen saved Li Shuru might be true, but they doubted the situation was as dire as rumored.
“Not one bit exaggerated!”
Zheng Jingjing said earnestly, “If Jiang Chen hadn’t grabbed the rope in ti at that mont, he might have fallen down with Shu Rui, and if he had hesitated even for a second, Shu Rui might have…”
“Do you know how high that was?
Over two thousand ters!
Surrounded by clouds and mist, you couldn’t see the ground at all!
I guarantee if you were there, you’d be too scared to move a step!”
“Was Jiang Chen really that brave?”
Guo Ran was still sowhat skeptical.
Zheng Jingjing nodded emphatically.
“We all misunderstood Jiang Chen.
At that mont, everyone was petrified, except for him.
If it wasn’t for him, Shu Rui might not have made it back.”
“I used to think that he pursued Shu Rui maybe to upset his ex-girlfriend, but now I realize I was wrong.
He might truly have fallen in love with Shu Rui.”
Hearing this, Xu Siyi couldn’t hold back.
“Love?”
“Jin Jin, do you even know what love is?”
“I don’t understand.”
Without hesitation, Zheng Jingjing quickly said, “But if a man is willing to risk his life for a woman, isn’t that love?
What else could it be?
Sure, there are many boys around us, but in that situation, would they really be so reckless?
Si Yi, could any of your ex-boyfriends do that?”
Xu Siyi was imdiately embarrassed and speechless.
“If I ever t soone who would do that for …”
Zheng Jingjing murmured.
“Then what?”
Guo Ran looked curious.
Zheng Jingjing, unabashed, said bluntly, “Then I’d be sure about him.”
“No matter if he’s rich or not?” Xu Siyi asked.
“Yeah, no matter if he’s rich or not,” Zheng Jingjing replied without hesitation, nodding.
“So what if he’s rich?
Does Liang Zhenlun lack money?
But what resulted?
How did he treat Ai Qian?
If he’s not rich, we can work hard together.
A man who truly cares for you is what matters most.”
“Tsk tsk, I didn’t expect that after just one mountain climbing trip, our Jin Jin’s outlook on life could elevate so dramatically,” Xu Siyi shook her head in wonder.
“If you had seen what happened, you would definitely feel the sa as I do.”
People are constantly growing.
Their worldviews also continuously change and reshape during this ti.
In the past, Zheng Jingjing thought wealth epitomized happiness, represented an endless supply of costics, every day a new designer bag, and everything else, it was the most important asure of a person.
But today, on the plank walkway, the sight of Jiang Chen with one hand gripping the rope and the other firmly holding Li Shuru, screaming at her to help save lives, struck her soul like never before.
All she had firmly believed in before paled under the sight of that reddened face with bulging veins.
“Shu Rui, I think you should let Jiang Chen go for Jin Jin; this girl has spring fever.”
Xu Siyi teased.
“He likes Shu Rui, not ; what good is ‘letting him go’ to ?” Zheng Jingjing sighed.
Guo Ran was at a loss for words.
When on earth had the renowned Jiang Chen beco such a sought-after prize?
After chatting for a while, the girls dispersed.
Li Shuru sat in the chair, wanting to do nothing and letting her thoughts drift away.
If even a bystander like Zheng Jingjing was so deeply shaken, how much more so for her?
It started with the face she looked up to see after slipping on the Longn Plank Walkway that day.
Her mories slowly retraced.
She began to try and reexamine that young man with an unbiased perspective.
“What is Shu Rui thinking about?”
Guo Ran gave Zheng Jingjing a aningful look.
Zheng Jingjing glanced at the daydreaming Li Shuru.
“Let her be alone for a while.
After such an incident, she’s definitely not a little scared.”
After what seed like a long ti, Li Shuru suddenly smiled inexplicably, her eyes regaining their sparkle as she took out her phone from her bag.
She went to the contact list, to the blacklist, and released a certain number.
“Decide on the spot soon, no waiting when it’s too late.”
Decided.
Send.
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