Contract Marriage: Billionaire and His Deaf Wife
Chapter 25 Very Vindictive

Chapter 25: Chapter 25 Very Vindictive

Yishan Lin, three characters, etched into the palm of Su Yixia.

A face emerged in Gu Nuan’s mind, a face that she was supposed to be familiar with but, in reality, was not very clearly remembered.

Perhaps it was because, though she knew this person, they merely had a superficial relationship; no, not even friends could they be considered.

Why say so? Take for instance, there are always some people in life whom you recognize due to some association in a certain setting, yet there’s no spark between you. Such relationships are ubiquitous. A simple example, classmates.

Throughout one’s life, one is bound to make hundreds of classmates, at the least. It’s impossible to remember them all. Most are merely faces seen in passing, and you might forget even their names after decades, not to mention whether you remember anything else of them.

But Yishan Lin was supposed to be a bit closer to Gu Nuan than an ordinary schoolmate because, specifically, during the four undergraduate years, she supposedly was Gu Nuan’s roommate.

It’s quite normal for five or six people to live in a university dorm. Gu Nuan certainly remembered these roommates better than her average classmates. After all, they had lived together day and night during university, sharing one room – she surely remembered them. Not only did she recall the privacy they shared in that one room, but also the joys and the occasional frictions that led to unpleasantness.

Now, Gu Nuan, although not in contact with all five of her university roommates, still remembered who they were.

Su Yixia asked, "Were you close with her during your undergraduate studies?"

Gu Nuan said, "She was a direct-admit student. You should know that."

Su Yixia and Gu Nuan were not in the same class during undergraduate studies. Even in graduate school, they weren’t mentored by the same supervisor, only sharing the same department. Perhaps it was because of this lack of direct conflict of interest that Gu Nuan believed she and Su Yixia had been able to smoothly make it this far and continue being amicable classmates.

The complexity of the competitiveness in university is really indescribable. Those who have not experienced it themselves can hardly explain it clearly.

However, honestly speaking, Gu Nuan, prior to this, really didn’t know she could have any intersection with someone like Yishan Lin.

The term "direct-admit student" alone explains everything.

Although Gu Nuan’s school was of the second tier, its Finance department was quite reputable. As such, the entry scores for the Finance department were higher than those of other departments, reaching above the first-tier university admission line.

The so-called "direct-admit students" refers to high school students with exceptional grades, who didn’t need to rely on chance-based college entrance exam scores, and were directly recruited by certain university departments.

That’s the official line, but in practice, is it really just based on regular academic performance? Not necessarily.

Yishan Lin was already a well-known figure in her local high school before university, possessing stunning beauty and a father who did big business. She had participated in well-known domestic and international aerobics competitions.

She belonged to that subset of direct-admit students who were accepted by universities based on their special talents.

Su Yixia, who came from the same school, had long heard about what kind of person she was. A female student who didn’t need to study and could be accepted by universities – just thinking about this could definitely make one lament the unfairness of the world.

Yishan Lin’s attendance in university was rumored to be failing. Often absent, she would sometimes fail exams due to not showing up. Yet in the end, things that would normally result in any other student being expelled or denied graduation in minutes didn’t prevent her from graduating smoothly and going abroad for further studies. Just because, it was said, her family was very rich.

The saying "money talks" really isn’t far-off; it’s a fact clearly visible among one’s classmates, undeniable. However, the school would certainly never admit to this.

"She hardly ever came to school. I shared a dorm with her. But could she really live in the shabby college dormitory? In my memory of the four years, there’s probably only one night she spent in the dorm."

Children from wealthy families don’t necessarily live in school dormitories, as they can rent more comfortable houses off-campus.

The words Gu Nuan spoke, combined with the rumors Su Yixia had heard in college, made Su Yixia believe that Gu Nuan wasn’t lying. Hence, Su Yixia felt bewildered, "This means, you and her, in college, basically never even spoke, right? How did she get together with Wa Zicong?"

Gu Nuan agreed with the statement that they hardly spoke. Indeed, she’d almost never exchanged a single word with Lin Yishan. Yes, there was one time Lin Yishan had returned to the dorm as if she’d lost something and asked Gu Nuan. Someone immediately told Lin Yishan that Gu Nuan was deaf.

After Lin Yishan gave her one surprised look, she didn’t say anything else.

From then on, the two were like strangers.

Gu Nuan could read the expression in Lin Yishan’s eyes at that moment: How can this person go to school? How can she be a roommate here?

Disabled people are equal to abnormal people. That’s probably everyone’s first reaction upon hearing ’deaf’. An abnormal person, studying and living with normal people, is absolutely unacceptable to some who are psychologically averse to it. Even if they could empathize, they couldn’t accept being together.

Gu Nuan wasn’t encountering such people for the first time. Not to mention strangers outside, even at her own home, her grandfather and grandmother absolutely couldn’t accept the fact that their granddaughter was deaf.

Su Yixia’s brows furrowed deeply, "Logically speaking, if she got together with Wa Zicong, she should also know that he is your boyfriend. How could she have the nerve to steal her college roommate’s boyfriend without fearing retribution from the heavens?"

The voice from diagonally opposite, not too loud nor too soft, drifted over with the wind.

Zang Xiaolian listened with a hint of surprise: What? A melodramatic soap opera?

A college roommate stealing a boyfriend?

This kind of thing among women is, really, too commonplace.

Zang Xiaolian could imagine the reaction of the man sitting opposite her.

As expected, a burst of uncontrollable laughter erupted from the man’s throat, cackling like Donald Duck, making it obvious that he was struggling to hold back his laughter.

Not an ounce of sympathy. Zang Xiaolian couldn’t help but think that. Wanting the man opposite her to have sympathy seemed like expecting too much from fate itself.

"Indeed, it’s very exciting," Xiao Yebai put down the magazine he had been using as a cover and stirred his milk tea with a stirrer, his hawk-like eyes under the sunglasses betraying a trace of concealed emotion.

"Brother." What Zang Xiaolian actually found strange was why they were eavesdropping here.

If they wanted to investigate Gu Nuan, they had already sent someone to do it. For such a trivial matter, there was no need for Xiao Yebai to get involved personally.

"Because of the bite she gave me, I must find a way to bite back," Xiao Yebai said.

Zang Xiaolian was speechless: Really, a man who holds grudges!