Collecting herself,Shi Ai asked once again,"Now that you know that I know the truth,why don't you tell me the real reason for your hatred of me?"
Yao Yao said nothing for a while as she kept staring at Shi Ai. When Shi Ai had almost given up on getting an answer out of her,the girl said,"Because I was jealous."
This reason was something that Shi Ai could not have imagined. Yao Yao was jealous of her? Yao Yao had everything that Shi Ai could only have dreamed of into either past,a loving family which doted on her, the ability to make friends and be sociable. Everything. So what did Shi Ai have that would make a gifted girl like Yao Yao jealous?
Yao Yao saw her confusion and explained proudly," You are wondering why I would be jealous of a poor orphan like you. No parents,no money,no friends. You had nothing that I could have wanted. But you had pride. And I hated that. With your sad looking eyes and delicate face,you caught the attention of every male in the school from the moment you entered. All of them wanted to take care of you. Including my fiance- Hao Qin. You don't know who Hou Qin is do you? He was in the senior year when you entered the school and is about three years older than us. You collided with him in he hallway and then gently apologized to him after which you forgot him But he, do you know what he did. He came to me and told me that I should befriend the lonely girl who was new in my class. How kind of him! When he has never been kinder to me and always trying to break off his engagement with me. But to make him like me, I even befriended you. But were you grateful for that? No. You took my friendship as of it was your right. I used to call Qin Qin everytime to tell him how I had been kind to you and he always heard them. But he still tried to break off our engagement six months ago! I told him I was being good and do you know what happened? He asked me who were you and what being kind to you had to do with them! All this I had done for him and his approval and in the end I got a blank refusal. But I did not let him break off the engagement and made his parents side with me. He said he had fallen in love with another girl. That is when I decided that I would teach everyone he liked a lesson. He had been kind to you once so you would be the first to go. And then I am going to find his girlfriend and get her out of the picture as well! No one and I mean no one can come between Hao Qin and me"
Shi AI was in shock. She knew that every human mind worked differently but this was beyond her belief. Yao Yao had done all this just because of a passing remark made to her by her fiance. Shi Ai naturally did not remember meeting this fiance and she knew that this person would also not have remembered her naturally. If the person was a senior when she entered the school so they were school mates for six to eight months at most. The saying that, 'the path to perdition was paved with good intentions' was definitely true. The guy had tried to be kind and instead unknowingly put a target on Shi Ai's back. What misfortune.
Yao Yao was getting impatient seeing Shi Ai sitting still like a statue so she knocked on the table loudly and rudely said," What? Are you gloating that you caught the attention of my fiance? Don't be too happy because soon your reputation is going to be in tatters.And then no boy is going to think of you as a miss goody two shoes. You will be known as the Sl** you are who bewitches men with her pitiful story and fragile little body. It was no wonder der that those boys wanted to use you. I really wish they would have. Then you would have been known as used property. How cunning of you to keep your relationships hidden. Zhang Min is your brother and Matt Long is your Knight? What a load of bullsh**! But I am onto you Ms. Shi Ai! And now you must be wondering how I know the identity of your so called Knight. Well, because of your drawings! You have a habit of leaving your drawing book lying around you see. I had not planned to initially use this drawing against you but it was too good an opportunity to pass up ever since I discovered his identity. A seventeen year old lusting after a man who is more than thirty years old makes for a good headline,doesn't it? Add in the fact that the man's company has been sponsoring your tudies for the last so many years gives people a very clear idea about how you have used your body well even as a kid. Your reputation is going to be in the dumps very soon,Shi Ai. What?Cat caught your tongue? Or have you forgotten to speak in shock?" Yao Yao was now mocking Shi Ai over her impending victory and Shi Ai's apparent ruination. She had definitely done something to make this a possibility before coming to meet Shi Ai. Yao Yao worked really fast,Shi Ai mused. She had not just discovered Matt Long's identity in a few hours but already found the best way to use it against her!
But this time, luck was on Shi Ai's side. Looking at the gloating face, Shi Ai said softly,"Yao Yao, from this day onwards you can harm me only in your dreams. Do you think that I would take quietly all that you have done wrong to me? Then you need another think! You see,I repay every deed-good or bad with interest."