Chapter 358 — A Scheme with Ulterior Motives
Years of Heartflutter · Page 1 of 5
Even if Yang Moyi were suspected of two-timing, that could only be called somewhat immoral—there was no way to hold him accountable for it.
Xu Qianxing sighed faintly. What was so good about this Yang Moyi? Why did beautiful women all fall for him at the same time? Chen Shutang, the belle of the School of Economics and Management, was Yang Juehuan's rumored girlfriend, while Lin Yanhe had some indescribable, inexplicable connection with him too. And word had it that Zhou Yanning, the belle of the Computer Science department, also seemed very close to Yan… It looked like he would have to come up with something. If he wanted Lin Yanhe to sever all ties with Yan completely, he would have to start from Chen Shutang's side. At this point, Xu Qianxing fell into deep thought.
Chen Shutang gazed somewhat distractedly at the stage—at Yang Ce, worshipped by tens of thousands of college students, and at Lin Yanhe, the object of their adulation. Their brilliant performance, the glamour of the stage, left a faint sense of loss in Chen Shutang's heart.
Though she had long since treated Lin Yanhe as family, seeing her perform on the same stage as Yan still made her vaguely uncomfortable.
In truth, how could Chen Shutang not want to perform on the same stage as Yan? But sometimes one had to make choices—and when the moment came, one had to put up a certain front. Only now did Chen Shutang realize that being Yang Juehuan's official girlfriend was no easy role. Not only did it demand a tolerant heart, but in many situations it required sacrificing one's own interests to accommodate others.
What was so great about being the seemingly impressive eldest sister? Chen Shutang sighed, yet there was nothing she could do. She could either make enemies of every woman entangled with Yan, kicking up a fuss and causing scenes every day, or she could keep the peace with all of them.
Yang Yongjin would be glad to see the first option, and Chen Shutang herself would not. A life of scheming and infighting was too exhausting—and besides, Lin Yanhe and Zhou Yanning were both the kind who kept to themselves and sought no quarrel. Chen Shutang had no desire to fall out with them.
The second option was precisely how things stood now. To display her own generosity and magnanimity, she had to make many concessions. Fortunately, neither Lin Yanhe nor Zhou Yanning was the type to push her luck, which was a great comfort to Chen Shutang.
As a cadre of the university student council and president of the departmental student council, Chen Shutang naturally had to take part in the arts festival performances. Originally, when it came to Lin Yanhe and Yang Yanzhou, she had chosen to perform with the departmental student council simply to give Lin Yanhe the chance to perform on the same stage as Yan.
Sister Lin's temperament was somewhat fragile, and she had never taken part in anything like this before. How could Chen Shutang bring herself to make her go onstage alone? Since she had already promised Xu Qianxing that she would perform, and given her character she could not go back on her word—she would perform no matter what—Chen Shutang decided she might as well have Yang Ce accompany her.
As for Chen Shutang herself, she was, after all, a student council cadre who had seen her share of big occasions. Even without Yang Ce beside her, she could handle things perfectly well on her own.
It had seemed easy enough when she thought about it, but now that the moment had truly arrived, Chen Shutang still felt a little forlorn. Seeing Yang Ce and Lin Yanhe come down from the stage and sit back down beside her, Chen Shutang quickly pulled herself out of her earlier melancholy and forced her smile to look natural. "The performance was a great success—congratulations to you both!"