Chapter 1: Dirty Little Secrets

"Hey! What are you all doing over there?!", Yu Qiao called out to the bunch of students huddled around the locker area. They are surely surrounding someone that he is very much familiar with, yet again!

Yu Qiao released Zang Fei's hands and furiously darted towards the students. They immediately backed off, avoiding him by running away. He could only glare at the cowardly college students.

"Mo Lihua, are you ok?!" Zang Fei enquired. "Yu Qiao, look!", her finger pointed at Mo Lihua's face which was is almost covered in pink powder, as was her hair.

Yu Qiao clenched his fist. He really wanted to run after that group of college students who were acting like a bunch of kids, bullying someone who was not even bothering them.

He grabbed a small towel from his backpack and used it to wipe Mo Lihua's face. Normally he wouldn't get involved in such a situation, he would not care, but Mo Lihua is like a sister to him.

"Brother Qiao, please let me do it," Mo Lihua whispered softly as she tried to grab the towel from him. "It will dirty your hand…" she added when he ignored what she'd initially said.

"Stand still!" Yu Qiao seethed. He really wanted to catch the insolent cowards or just report them. It would be so easy to kick them out of the University - if only Mo Lihua would just allow it. "Why are you so stubborn? Huh?", he asked as he gritted his teeth.

Mo Lihua, of course, understood what he meant. "Less than a month left. All this will be over. Do not worry," she whispered with assurance.

"Let me do it for you," a hand suddenly grabbed the towel from him. "Mo Lihua is a girl after all. You cannot wipe her face like that. You are too rough," Zang Fei cut Yu Qiao off before he could complain. "We will go to the girl's restroom," she added, giving him a reassuring smile.

Yu Qiao nodded and tried to relax. He watched as Zang Fei held Mo Lihua by the arm and gently guided her to the girl's restroom.

He was confident that Mo Lihua would be fine as he would never expect that after the door to the girl's restroom closed, his supposedly kind girlfriend would show a different face.

After confirming that they are alone in the bathroom, Zang Fei immediately grabbed Mo Lihua's hair roughly, to the point of almost tearing her scalp.

"How dare you let Yu Qiao clean your ugly face? Huh?" Zang Fei questioned, whispering to make sure that no one else could hear them.

Zang Fei used the towel from Yu Qiao to clean Mo Lihua's face, but she did it so roughly it hurt. Mo Lihua's cheeks became redder as Zang Fei scrubbed her face hard, her long nails scratching the girl so much that will surely it will leave marks later.

Mo Lihua winced in pain as she glared at Zang Fei. She grabbed that hand that held her hair and roughly removed it - even though she would felt more pain from doing so - before moving away from the crazy, two-faced woman.

"I am already ugly. No need to dirty your hand," she muttered sarcastically. "I will clean my own face just as Brother Qiao expects. You can pretend that I do not exist here, or anywhere. Sounds fair?", Mo Lihua uttered indifferently as she tried to remove the pink powder using water and tissue from the bathroom.

Zang Fei smirked, "Oho! You have guts now?" she asked. "What? You are not afraid anymore? Don't get cocky with me. I might suddenly decide to blurt out your dirty little secret," she continued mockingly.

Mo Lihua gritted her teeth, facing Zang Fei indignantly. "What else do you want? Aren't the bullies enough?" It was not always the case for her, but when Yu Qiao started to date a pretty deceitful snake, her college life took a turn for the worst. This had been the case for more than three months now.

The sad part was that she could not, tell anyone about it. It took a very long talk with Yu Qiao before he agreed to shut up and just try to help her endure the unfortunate incidents as much as he can.

Mo Lihua knew that it was hard for Yu Qiao to just watch and not fix the problem completely.

Less than a month. Twenty-one days. Exactly 493 hours left before she can officially graduate.

Zang Fei folded her arms over her chest as she stared at Mo Lihua with disdain, before uttering "Of course I can't pretend. You are still lurking around my boyfriend. I want you to completely disappear."

Then Zang Fei snorted, "You are too ugly to be even around us," she said as she looked down at Mo Lihua, sizing her up from head to foot.

"Fine. I will stay away from you guys," Mo Lihua she compromised. If it will make her life easier, why not?. If she does not want to be controlled by anyone, there are really limited choices. One is to endure, and then the other is to kill Zang Fei in her dreams.