Chapter 2 — Reborn From A Call

I took a look at To Uyen. She was looking at me with those pitiful teary eyes. Lips parted, as if at any moment she could cry to gain sympathy. Hideous. I turned around and walked out of the room. The moment I used my strength to push the door open, there was a dead silence behind me. Immediately afterwards there was an explosion of whispers. In the hallway, I heard Lam Chau's footsteps chasing after me. 4 "Khuong Hu! Stop for me!" Lam Chau caught up, one hand grabbed my shoulder and pulled me back, his expression both impatient and angry. "What do you mean? In front of so many people, you show your attitude to me?" I pushed his hand away, took a step back, looking at him coldly. "Lin Chau, do you understand the situation?" "The person who just hugged my best friend in there is you, now you're still running out to question me?" "That's a challenge! It's just a game!" He gritted his teeth. "Can you stop making such a big deal out of it?" "Game?" I laughed coldly. "So when you pushed her away, your face turned pale like that, was it also part of the game?" He was stopped by me, his chest heaved violently, and he choked for half a day before spitting out one sentence: "Khuong Hu, what's wrong with you lately?" "You didn't help To Uyen, no money was transferred, no text messages were answered, now you're using an excuse to cause trouble, are you deliberately confronting me?" I leaned against the wall, my arms crossed over my chest, observing his red face. This face has moved me for four years. Now I just feel extremely hateful. "Lin Chau, I ask you a question." "Tell me!" "Were you directly recruited as a PhD student three months ago?" His expression hardened, clearly visible to the naked eye. His lips moved, but he couldn't say a word. I continued to say: "After being directly recruited, he still came to me asking for living expenses, three thousand each month, like squeezing a lemon." "What are you taking my money for? Inviting To Uyen to dinner and renting a room?" "You, you're talking nonsense!" His voice suddenly became high-pitched, but his eyes began to avoid. I was too lazy to mess around with him anymore. I stood up straight and looked down at him from above. "Let's break up." Lam Chau was stunned for a second, then suddenly burst out laughing. In that smile, there was a kind of contempt that I had never seen before. "Break up? Okay." He took a step back, put his hands in his pockets, tilted his head to look at me. "Do you think that if you dump me, you can live better than me?" "You don't have such an opinion, in the future you won't even be able to pass the graduate student exam, what can you compare to me?" The more he spoke, the more he became more satisfied, as if he finally didn't need to pretend anymore: "Honestly, Khuong Hu, besides helping Someone else wrote the code, what use do you have?" "I can't even keep the admission letter, how can I show my attitude in front of you?" I suddenly interrupted him. "Lin Chau, who told you I didn't accept the invitation?" 5 My voice wasn't loud, but it made him feel like his throat was choking, all the words were stuck in his throat. His pupils shrank sharply, staring at me. "What do you mean?" "I said, who told my brother not to study abroad?" I repeated once, watching Lam Chau's expression turn from mockery to confusion, then turned into a flash of panic. He opened his mouth, his voice weakened: "Didn't you say you wouldn't go anymore?" "You said it yourself, you'll stay for the PhD exam..." "I've changed my mind." I took my phone out of my pocket, opened the admission confirmation page of Edinburgh University, the screen light shone on his pale face. "Full scholarship, towards artificial intelligence. I'll go next month." Lam Chau was completely stunned. His eyes were fixed on the logo of that school, his throat moved up and down several times, unable to say a word. At the end of the hallway,

I don't know when To Uyen followed out. She leaned against the wall, her face even more unsightly than Lam Chau's. She knows better than anyone. I'm gone, who did her graduation project? I put away the phone, patted Lam Chau's shoulder, my voice was gentle as if I was talking about what to eat in the cafeteria tomorrow. "After living expenses, find your new girlfriend." After saying that, I walked straight without looking back. From behind came To Uyen's shrill voice: "Hu Hu! Wait!" I don't stop. The night wind penetrated my collar, cool, but a fire was burning in my chest. Not anger, but enthusiasm that I haven't seen in a long time, belonging to myself. Returning to the dormitory, I re-listed the list of documents I needed to prepare to study abroad, and at the same time switched Lam Chau and To Uyen's messaging accounts to do not disturb mode. Roommate Tieu Chau poked his head down from the top bed: "Khuong Hu, do you really want to study abroad?" "Yes." "So Lam Chau..." "We broke up." Tieu Chau took a deep breath, turned over to sit up, and looked at me with wide eyes. "I told you that man is not good!" "Previously every time To Uyen came to find you, he was also waiting downstairs, I saw something wrong!" I was stunned for a moment, smiling bitterly. It turned out that people around me had already seen it, and I was the only one who was blindsided.