Chapter 176 - Chapter 176: As soon as those people appeared, their target was clear

She paused for a moment before continuing, "After that, he often secretly brought me food. However, I knew my place and never harbored any inappropriate thoughts, as his status was something I could never aspire to. When we graduated, he told me he wanted to date me, but I turned him down. Yet he was stubborn. Upon learning that I was being sent to the countryside, he followed me without a second thought. I only found out he was also going to the countryside when I saw him in the train station's waiting room. Later, I learned from Zheng Xuewen that he had a major fallout with his family in order to accompany me. When he saw me, he pulled me aside to revisit the old topic. Looking at his beaming face, I couldn't bring myself to refuse him; after all, I wasn't heartless. But now, with this huge mess, if his family finds out he went into the mountains just so I could have a bite of meat, and that he nearly lost his life for me, they'd probably hate me to death, wouldn't they?"