Chapter 73: The Terrifying Campus, Sunshine Doll (11)

Poor little “Tang Mu” probably has no idea what she has exposed.
She lacks the ability to control people’s hearts, so she wants to ask Tang Mo for help.
This, therefore, is “Tang Mu’s” weakness.
Tang Mo, aloof and proud, tossed “Tang Mu” aside like trash. She looked at her as if she were nothing more than an ant.
“Only the weak believe in karma,” she said.
“And I am the one who controls karma.” Tang Mo addressed “Tang Mu,” “Do you want to see Zi Yushu pining after you, unable to have you? Do you want to see how he once treated you, and how you can take revenge? As long as you hand over control of the game’s rules to me, I can give you a satisfactory answer.”
Control of the rules?
“Tang Mu” hesitated.
Seeing her hesitation, Tang Mo couldn’t be bothered with her anymore.
“Forget it. You’re a weakling. I shouldn’t have expected you to make any decisions. But fortune favors the bold. Without my help, you’ll never witness Zi Yushu suffering from unrequited love for you.”
Tang Mo’s words struck at the deepest desire inside “Tang Mu.”
So “Tang Mu” quickly surrendered.
“All right. I agree.”
**
Zi Yushu had scheduled the meeting for eight o’clock in the evening.
Tang Mo deliberately delayed until half past nine before showing up.
The library door was open. The lights were on.
Tang Mo strolled in carelessly, immediately seeing Zi Yushu holding a bunch of small flowers, cut with scissors from the rose elementary school’s back garden, bundled together as a bouquet for Tang Mo.
These little flowers were all common wildflowers and weeds found along the roadside.
Daisies and the like.
There were pink, yellow, blue—every color.
They were tied together neatly.
The arrangement was charmingly haphazard, yet quite delicate.
Tang Mo felt nothing as she looked at them. If it had been more than a decade ago, before Zi Yushu had trampled her feelings and dignity, these flowers might have made her happy.
But now?
Tang Mo felt nothing special.
Of course, if these flowers had been given by Yan Xingwen, it would have been different.

After all, it’s not the flowers that are wrong—it’s the person.
“So, why did you call me so late? It’s already quite late; if there’s nothing important, I’ll be leaving.”
Tang Mo turned to leave without a backward glance.
Zi Yushu hurriedly blocked her way, frightened.
“Tang Mo, the matter between your sister and me—aside from the two of us, no one else actually knows, right? If someone said something to you, I hope you won’t believe them. They’re jealous of me, and don’t want girls to get close to me.” After all, it’s not his fault, but those who gossip.
If “Tang Mu” were not Tang Mo, Tang Mo might have believed him.
“Is that so? But I dislike you not because of gossip, but because I’ve always found you repulsive. Besides, even if my sister’s death had nothing to do with you, she still jumped because she couldn’t stand you.”
“There’s a huge enmity between us—how could we possibly be close?”
“Tang Mo!” Zi Yushu suddenly grabbed Tang Mo’s hand.
Such a sudden gesture made Tang Mo very unhappy.
Tang Mo hated people getting too close to her. Especially strangers—the touch of skin was most disgusting to her.
Except for Yan Xingwen, she wouldn’t let anyone near her.
She allowed Xue Fen and Eli to approach her only because she thought they might be Yan Xingwen. If she later discovered otherwise, she would certainly show no mercy.
“You’re very rude.” Tang Mo glared at Zi Yushu and flung his hand away. “Is a girl’s hand something you can grab at will?”
She was angry.
Yet even when angry, a beautiful girl remains pleasing to the eye.
“And these flowers—what a mess! Absolutely no artistic sense. Before giving a girl a bouquet, shouldn’t you learn a bit about floral arrangement? Do you think just cramming any flowers together makes an artwork?”
Tang Mo threw the tangled bouquet to the floor.
She stomped on it.
“You can’t even manage proper balance. It’s all overwhelming and chaotic.”
“I really don’t know how you manage to attract girls, making them swarm around you.”
“It’s honestly baffling.”
Zi Yushu watched quietly as Tang Mo crushed the flowers he had painstakingly picked.
In the depths of his melancholy eyes, there was a fleeting pain and sorrow.
But he had no intention of giving up.
He reached into his little schoolbag and pulled out a neatly written love letter, copied out with a fountain pen.
Looking at the beautiful, meticulous handwriting on the letter—

Tang Mo remembered.
She had once liked Zi Yushu; his exquisite handwriting was a bonus.
She was easily drawn to what she lacked herself.
And if someone else happened to possess those qualities, it was as if all their charm converged there.
But now, Tang Mo had acquired the useful traits that Zi Yushu once had. So his little tricks no longer attracted her.
Tang Mo did not accept Zi Yushu’s love letter.
“Do you know why my sister liked you?” Tang Mo looked at Zi Yushu coldly.
“When she liked you, she had few friends, was reserved, didn’t know how to win people over. And you, at that time, happened to have a charismatic personality. That’s why she secretly adored you.”
“But Zi Yushu, I’m different. If I want, I can easily obtain any friendship or love through careful calculation. So, with me, you have no charm left, and no value to be exploited.”
I’ve already mastered all your skills.
You’re useless to me now.
Tang Mo didn’t say these last two sentences aloud. She felt Zi Yushu wasn’t worthy of hearing them.
“All right, I’m tired. I’m going to sleep.” Tang Mo yawned, signaling Zi Yushu not to seek her out again, not even if he had something important to say. “Outside school, there’s a boy pursuing me. If you get too close, he might misunderstand. As a man, you should know better. Don’t keep pestering people—it’s very annoying.”
Ignoring the sorrow in Zi Yushu’s eyes from her rejection,
Tang Mo turned and left with a flourish.
As for how much pain Zi Yushu would suffer during his “heartbreak”—what did that have to do with her?
Once she stepped into the shadows, Tang Mo summoned “Tang Mu.”
“I’ve done what you wanted. Give me what I asked for.”
“Tang Mu” was still caught up in the excitement of Zi Yushu’s unrequited love for her. When Tang Mo asked for her item, “Tang Mu” was momentarily stunned.
“What item?”
“The control of the game.”
“This…”
“I’ve already taught Zi Yushu a lesson for you. Don’t you want to see the others kneeling at your feet? Everything I’ve done has been for your benefit. Don’t be like a dog biting the hand that feeds you, unable to recognize kindness.”
Tang Mo wanted something, but still managed to bite back at the other for being heartless.
Who knows who truly lacks a conscience in the end.