After I Publicly Announced My Relationship with the Campus Heartthrob, My Childhood Friend Was So Mad He Jumped into a Lake

[Childhood Friend Gets His Comeuppance + College Romance + Newcomer Wins Her Heart + Bittersweet Romance]

My childhood friend and I came from similar families and grew up together.

Everyone thought we were a couple.

On my birthday, he bought enough roses to fill a sports field.

My roommates teased me, thinking he was about to confess his feelings.

But I'm allergic to pollen.

I knew he wasn't planning to confess to me.

He was doing it for the poor girl his mother had driven away in high school.

The boy who had once wept and knelt in the middle of the road at the age of six, begging someone to save me, had long since disappeared.

Only later, when the aloof campus heartthrob at Jing University became my constant companion,

did my childhood friend start regretting his choices. He stood beneath the pouring rain outside my dorm, pleading for my forgiveness.

"Fish the jade pendant you threw into the lake back out, and I'll forgive you."

My childhood friend jumped into the lake and searched all day, but couldn't find it.

The next day, the pendant appeared around the campus heartthrob's neck. My childhood friend was so furious, he jumped into the lake again!