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Chapter 17: Overbearing Protection for Chen Yuan

“Chen Yuan really looks like he’s with that girl, doesn’t he? They seem so close!”

Zhou Chengcheng felt the girl beside Chen Yuan was truly beautiful and sighed, “I never thought Chen Yuan had this in him.”

“I don’t know. It probably isn’t that serious. Wasn’t he still hanging out with Yu Enqi a couple of days ago?” Liu Nan said while munching seeds.

“But he’s wiping her mouth and patting her head. Could a guy act that intimate if she isn’t his girlfriend?” Zhou Chengcheng replied.

“Maybe… she’s just a sister~”

“A brother and sister acting like that at their age is way too close, right?” Zhou Chengcheng added.

“Then that makes him,” Liu Nan copied Yu Enqi’s tone, “a scumbag!”

Zhou Chengcheng burst into laughter and sneaked another look toward Chen Yuan.

…

Clovie ate enough to make up for every hungry day she had suffered.

Afterward Chen Yuan fetched food twice more, each time returning with a basket piled high. The nearby diners, who already glanced at Clovie for her looks, soon gaped at the pair’s tremendous appetite.

Such a gorgeous girl could eat that much?

No one could afford to keep her…

Serves him right for having such a stunning girlfriend…

“Hic~”

Clovie swallowed her final piece of meat, let out a tiny hiccup, and instantly covered her mouth while blushing.

Chen Yuan noticed and narrowed his eyes.

Seriously? You just put away two bowls of fried rice, at least fifteen plates of beef, ten of pork, five of beef balls, three of fish balls, three bottles of soda, and several mystery pig parts, yet you blush over a little hiccup?

He had never known she could eat that much; she really had been starving.

Clovie peeked at him and whispered, “Did I eat too much and scare Teacher?”

“No, I can afford it,” Chen Yuan answered, his sharp ears catching her mutter.

Her pupils visibly shook, and she blurted, “%…￥#&!”

Why is she cursing?

But Chen Yuan understood; it was her mother tongue, roughly meaning she had troubled him.

See, Chen Yuan, you made the poor girl switch languages in panic.

“Let’s go. I still need to buy you toiletries and a phone; you’ll have to use one sooner or later.”

Chen Yuan curved his lips in a smile, his affection for Clovie obvious.

“Mm.”

The two of them stood to leave.

At that moment, a figure walked to their table.

Greedy as always, Clovie grabbed another piece of meat, stuffed it into her mouth, and lifted her eyes.

A girl stood before them, arms crossed, sizing Clovie up before fixing her gaze on Chen Yuan.

With a demanding tone, Yu Enqi said, “Who is she?”

Chen Yuan glanced at Clovie, handed her a tissue, and replied coldly without even looking at Yu Enqi, “None of your business. There’s nothing between us anymore.”

Splash—

To everyone’s surprise, Yu Enqi seized the remaining drink and threw it over Chen Yuan!

The motion was so quick that Chen Yuan took the hit squarely.

“I don’t agree,” she snapped.

Zhou Chengcheng and Liu Nan were struck speechless.

Did Yu Enqi just charge in and attack the homewrecker?

Truthfully, Yu Enqi had watched from the doorway for quite a while before rushing inside.

The very next second, the same drink splashed back onto her own face!

Most of the diners were students. Yu Enqi’s entrance and splash already stunned them, and Clovie’s swift counterattack left them gaping.

“Whoa…”

“I love it when two girls fight…”

So pretty… can’t look away…

Zhou Chengcheng and Liu Nan stared in a daze.

That girl was so cool…

She actually stood on Chen Yuan’s side.

Yu Enqi looked at her soaked clothes, eyes wide with rage. “How dare you splash me! Do you know what I am to him?!”

“I don’t care who you are. You splashed him, so I splashed you back. If you strike first, I will always return it.”

No emotion showed on Clovie’s face, yet the aura of a Queen radiated from her, and the icy tone convinced everyone she meant every word.

“I am his girlfriend!”

Yu Enqi lacked momentum, yet she believed she held the moral high ground and refused to yield.

“Chen Yuan just said you have nothing to do with him.”

“You—”

Yu Enqi fell silent and turned to Chen Yuan. “Chen Yuan?!”

A waiter hurried over. “Miss, are you here to dine? If you continue, I’ll have to call the police.”

He truly did not wish to intervene, but he worried she might wreck the place and disturb others.

Yu Enqi glared at the waiter, and Li Ailin tugged her arm. She gritted her teeth. “Chen Yuan! You chose this. Don’t ever come looking for me again!”

She shot Clovie a vicious look and strode away.

Clovie merely watched her coldly. After Yu Enqi left, she sat down again and looked at Chen Yuan with concern.

Chen Yuan dabbed his face dry with a tissue; the cup had not contained much, so it barely mattered.

Still, Clovie’s defense of him moved him deeply.

The little girl he once protected now stood before him to protect him.

Had he been alone, he might have shrugged off being splashed; he never bothered with Yu Enqi’s petty tricks.

Yet indifference did not erase annoyance, and Clovie’s action had vented that annoyance for him.

“Chen Yuan, that girl just now…” Clovie still cared and asked.

“A classmate. We dated for several years—I forget how many. We broke up. Now—” Chen Yuan shrugged; that was the situation.

He hid none of those old stories from Clovie and spoke honestly.

“Oh…” Clovie nodded and bit her lip. “Good…”

She had almost thought she would be stuck as the other woman…

But in this world a man could have only one wife…

She still had a chance…

Good, very good…

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