22 Lost 2.5kg

In the cafeteria, Cen Yi felt the same way. He sat in his chair quietly and only regained his senses after a few minutes.

The expression on his face turned even more awkward. He seemed extremely embarrassed. He knocked the table directly with his chopsticks and spoke to Qiao Lingxiang who was still bowing.

"You don't have to be so polite. You don't have to call me sir either. Addressing me so politely is so awkward… Have a seat. Shall we head back together later?"

Qiao Lingxiang straightened up and wiped the tears in her eyes. She shook her head.

"There's no need for that. Thank you. I need to go back to my dorm to pack my blanket. I'll be taking my leave first."

After she finished speaking, she turned around immediately and left the cafeteria.

Cen Yi was left sitting there. He turned and looked at her fat retreating back. He had even forgotten to eat the food on his food tray.

After Qiao Lingxiang left, Lu Zhengqing sat down beside Cen Yi and smiled as he asked him, "Sigh, honestly, did you help Dino-Qiao Lingxiang beat up Qiu Chen because you wanted to chase her sister?"

At first, Lu Zhengqing called Qiao Lingxiang "dinosaur" because he was used to it. Then he remembered that Cen Yi didn't like other people calling Qiao Lingxiang by this nickname so he changed mid-phrase. Before Cen Yi could speak, Lu Zhengqing lifted his hand and started counting for Cen Yi.

"I've heard that there are already more than a hundred young men before you who have confessed to Qiao Yuelan. In the end, Qiao Yuelan rejected all of them mercilessly. Ah Yi, I think you have no chance."

Cen Yi stuffed his mouth with a scoop of rice and turned. He looked at Lu Zhengqing's beautiful eyes. He swallowed the rice in his mouth and his Adam's apple bobbed as he replied, "Is Qiao Yuelan very pretty? I'm sorry, I can't tell."

"She's the campus belle, brother. How is she not be pretty?"

Lu Zhengqing looked at Cen Yi strangely. He lifted his hand and wanted to pull open Cen Yi's eyes.

"Come, let me check your eyes. How could you not like Qiao Yuelan's face?"

"Bug off!"

They were a bunch of vibrant and energetic youngsters. They started bickering with each other once they couldn't agree on something. Because of their presence, the huge cafeteria became more lively and energetic.

In contrast to this noisy scene, Qiao Lingxiang was carrying two rolls of blankets all alone as she walked quietly on the way back home.

She hadn't managed to enter her dormitory. When she reached the bottom of the girls' dormitory, the dormitory auntie had already packed up all the belongings of the students who couldn't pay energy coupons and piled them on the ground floor of the girls' dormitory.

Many girls were searching for their belongings among the entire pile of luggage.

Qiao Lingxiang searched for a long time too before she found her blankets in addition to two snakeskin bags of clothes. All her daily necessities were packed up too.

At first, Qiao Lingxiang thought she wouldn't be able to carry so many items back. Her stamina was too poor so the moment she moved, she felt like panting.

Her abdominal fat placed huge pressure on her organs.

But she still tried to carry the two rolls of blankets on her back and stuffed her schoolbag into one of the snakeskin bags that still had some space. In the past, this simple action would've caused her heart to accelerate.

Now, it was still fine. Her heart felt calm and it didn't beat any faster.

Hence, Qiao Lingxiang carried one snakeskin bag in each hand and attempted to take a few steps. Hmm, good. She felt that she should be able to carry the blankets and the snakeskin bags to the entrance of the school without stopping.

Wasn't this strange? She got into two fights today. During one of the fights, she felt that she probably fainted from Xiong Yangbo's brick.

Yet there wasn't anything wrong with her body at all. She could walk fast and vigorously and could carry and hold things. She was even able to walk to the school entrance without stopping.

When she reached the school gates, as expected, she felt a little out of breath. It turned out the extra exertion caused by her weight hadn't disappeared suddenly. It had just decreased a little.

She found a place to rest. A few minutes later, she got up and continued to walk towards her estate.

Night was falling. Darkness dawned on the entire Xiang City. There were very few private cars on the road; you could count them with one hand.

Public buses drove past Qiao Lingxiang again and again. All the buses were packed with people.

She walked and stopped on and off. It took around half an hour before she reached her estate.

She didn't go home. Instead, she went directly to the basement. She spread out the blankets on her bed in the basement cellar. Then in the dark, with the help of the small and weak emergency lights, she found a pair of slightly more comfortable extra-large pajamas in the snakeskin bag she brought back. She changed into them.

She didn't know if it was her imagination but normally, when she wore these extra-large pajamas to sleep, she had some difficulty putting them on. But, today, she managed to slip them on with more ease.

Did I really get thinner?

As she was someone who could gain weight just by drinking water, Qiao Lingxiang's weight increased exponentially. Her weight wasn't like other people's that fluctuated slightly above and below a norm.

So, her clothes were always small. The clothes she bought a year ago would definitely become smaller when she tried them again the next year.

As someone who gained weight easily, buying clothes was very troublesome. There were very few extra-large clothes that were suitable for her to wear. The options weren't great and there weren't many styles to choose from.

So, unless she couldn't squeeze into her clothes, Qiao Lingxiang didn't dare to ask her parents to buy clothes for her.

It was alright if her clothes were tighter or they constricted her slightly. It was better than getting a beating from Hou Manrong.

No one could understand how irritated Hou Manrong could be when she had to buy clothes for Qiao Lingxiang. She worked at a clothes factory so whenever she went to her colleagues' place to buy extra-extra-large clothes, her colleagues would always laugh at Hou Manrong.

Maybe they would just tease her casually. Aiya, your daughter should lose some weight. If she continues like this, no one will want her. Did your family pass all the good food to your youngest daughter? Is that why she's so fat? She really too fat and she's so ugly~

Almost every familiar person Hou Manrong knew would say something similar to her. They just mentioned these things casually but to Hou Manrong, she felt embarrassed and furious.

Thus, whenever Qiao Lingxiang said that her clothes were too small, how could Hou Manrong possibly be in a good mood?

So, after she was given the cold shoulder for a long time, gradually, Qiao Lingxiang didn't dare to complain that her clothes were small.

At this moment, coincidentally, there was an abandoned old scale in the basement. It was the really ancient kind, the kind that was used to weigh food in the past century. She didn't know which family on the estate didn't want it and threw it beside the elevator, but it had been there for a long time.

Qiao Lingxiang put on her slippers and ran out from her family's basement cellar. She stopped beside the old scale and stood on it. The last time she weighed herself was one to two months ago. She was 127.5kg. Now, she was only 125kg.

Based on her weight of 127.5kg two months ago, she suddenly lost 2.5kg.

This astounded Qiao Lingxiang. She knew that she didn't lose weight because of hunger. She hadn't eaten properly for a long time. During this period, she couldn't fill up her stomach at all. She was always in a state of hunger.

However, hunger didn't cause Qiao Lingxiang to slim down. Instead, she gained a few kilograms. Her weight was heading towards the 130kg mark.

In reality, she should've weighed more than 130kg.

Why? Why had she suddenly slimmed down so much? Was it because she fought with Qiu Chen twice today?