I rejected your confession, but you took my best friend home?

Chapter 9 What are you saying? Is it a 2D chapter?

Zhou Heng started studying at the table, quietly working on his problems, while Yin Mengran fiddled with her phone on the sofa.

She opened the photo album and found photos inside. Her first instinct was to exit, after all, it was Zhou Heng's privacy.

It wouldn't be good if she saw any private photos inside...

But at first glance, all she saw were screenshots; there wasn't even a single photo of a person...

Driven by curiosity, she clicked on the screenshots and discovered they were chat logs.

She also knew the person Zhou Heng was chatting with; it was Tong Yining...

Looking at the chat logs, Yin Mengran was quite surprised. Tong Yining had told her that her relationship with Zhou Heng wasn't very good.

Even though they were junior high school classmates, we weren't very close and hadn't spoken much.

However, based solely on these chat logs, although there's nothing ambiguous about them, it's clear that the two have a good relationship, at least they're good friends...

Yin Mengran knew it wasn't good to look at these records, but the contents were so compelling that she couldn't resist reading on.

Finally, she understood what the turning points were in these screenshots; these screenshots almost documented how the relationship between Zhou Heng and Tong Yining had changed.

"I'll say yes when I turn 18 next semester..."

"【Ah...let's talk about it later. I'm under a lot of pressure from exams lately, I don't want to talk about this. Let's talk about it next semester...】"

"【Did I say that? Hmm... I guess you're a senior in high school, yeah, believe it or not...】"

Tong Yining's attitude ends here. After that, Zhou Heng should have changed his phone.

Yin Mengran also witnessed firsthand how Zhou Heng's messages in the chat history gradually decreased from numerous to fewer.

Even at the very end, after Tong Yining sent that message, Zhou Heng simply replied with an "Mm".

Although they were just some message records, Yin Mengran could discern the changes in Zhou Heng's mindset within them.

From high expectations to persistent effort, then to gradual numbness, and finally to utter despair—this series of changes...

Yin Mengran understood the entanglement between the two of them.

Zhou Heng started pursuing Tong Yining when she was in high school. He wasn't like this now; now he speaks concisely and directly, and can even be quite infuriating at times.

The chat history shows that he used to enjoy chatting, at least he enjoyed chatting with Tong Yining.

Although it's clear that her emotional intelligence isn't very high and she's rather clumsy with words, at least she talks a lot.

Then Tong Yining promised Zhou Heng that she would accept his advances after she turned 18 in the second semester of her first year of high school.

But things didn't seem to go as planned afterward, yet Zhou Heng didn't give up and persisted.

Later, Tong Yining's attitude worsened, Zhou Heng's messages became shorter, and the frequency of their texting decreased.

Then came senior year of high school, which is now. Zhou Heng has become almost a different person. He can't see the outcome and has made up his mind not to continue down the same path...

"hiss--"

Yin Mengran took a deep breath. No wonder she hadn't understood why Zhou Heng had persisted for so long—a full two years.

It turns out he had also seen hope...

Tong Yining gave him hope, and then she herself extinguished it.

Zhou Heng never told anyone about any of this, and no one else knew. In the end, Zhou Heng was the only one who became the laughingstock of the class...

For a moment, she felt a mixture of contempt for Tong Yining's behavior and sympathy for Zhou Heng...

Yin Mengran looked up in Zhou Heng's direction, but as soon as she looked up, she was startled.

Because she saw Zhou Heng sitting there, pen in hand, legs crossed, silently watching her.

"Uh..."

She was so engrossed in what she was watching that she didn't even notice Zhou Heng staring at her...

She now feels extremely embarrassed and ashamed that she had pried into someone's privacy out of curiosity...

Zhou Heng turned his head back to his work and said calmly:

"Delete everything on your phone; there's nothing useful in it anymore."

"this..."

Yin Mengran was stunned when she heard Zhou Heng say that. She thought these chat records were quite important and it would be a pity to delete them.

But upon further reflection, it's true that these things are no longer of any use to Zhou Heng.

Keeping them will only cause him sadness and distress, so it's better to delete them all and pretend nothing happened.

Yin Mengran obediently did as she was told and deleted all the screenshots.

Below the screenshot, there is another photo, which appears to be a group photo from junior high school graduation.

However, Zhou Heng cut off a small piece, which was the spot where Tong Yining was standing.

Yin Mengran deleted all the photos; Zhou Heng said there was nothing useful left on the phone anyway.

After deleting everything, Yin Mengran didn't plan to look at her phone anymore; instead, she wanted to study for a while.

After all, I have to go back to school tomorrow. Even though my grades were very good before, I've still fallen behind others by a lot.

Moreover, I wasn't in a good state before, my mind was a mess, and it wasn't easy to get back into the study mode.

"Um... Zhou Heng, could I borrow your notes...?"

She left all her study materials at school, so she had to borrow them from Zhou Heng.

Zhou Heng didn't hesitate; without even looking up, he handed his notebook to Yin Mengran.

Yin Mengran sat down next to Zhou Heng, opened his notebook, and began to read.

The two sat at the table, studying quietly. It was already around 11 p.m.

"Tsk..."

Zhou Heng started scratching his head again; when he encountered a problem he couldn't solve, he just couldn't figure it out no matter how hard he tried.

If he were playing a new game, he could definitely figure out how to play it in less than half an hour.

But if it's a new problem, I could spend half a year trying to figure out how to solve it.

"What's wrong? Is there something you don't understand?"

Yin Mengran stood up, walked to Zhou Heng's side, and looked at the test paper in front of him.

"Um..."

Zhou Heng knew that this kind of question was very simple in Yin Mengran's eyes, so simple that she couldn't understand why she couldn't do it, or what exactly she couldn't do.

But that idiot just can't...

Yin Mengran pointed to the questions on the test paper and said:

"Okay, I'll teach you. Look, since y=f(x) is monotonically increasing on [-2, 1], f'(x)=3v²+2ax+b≥0 always holds true on [-2, 2,1]..."

"Wait! What did you say? Is this something from anime?"

Yin Mengran paused for a moment, then chuckled softly, "Stop fooling around, I'm teaching you, be serious, okay?"

"I swear I'm serious, what are you saying? I don't understand a word..."