When Chen Tingting heard the word "girlfriend," her eyes instantly glazed over, and the tears she had just managed to stop started streaming down her face again.
'Did Gu Muxue come here today to declare her claim?'
'Was she... going to force me to never contact Xue Rui again?'
She knew she didn't matter much to Xue Rui—certainly not as much as Gu Muxue or Lin Ruoxi—but as long as he hadn't made a choice, she'd always felt like she had a chance.
But now, Xue Rui had chosen. He had chosen Gu Muxue.
She remembered how she'd once boasted that she "could accept him being with two people at once," but now that it was actually happening, her heart ached.
'When you love someone, how can you just accept sharing them? Even though I never even had him in the first place...'
Xue Rui's repeated rejections and Gu Muxue's visit were tearing Chen Tingting's emotions apart. She was now sobbing uncontrollably.
