Chapter 286: Wei Keli’s Frustrations
Despite the fact that he had no intentions of marrying Tan Mo in the future, he still found it frustrating that Tan Mo had a close relations.h.i.+p with Ming Yeqing.
That wasn’t the only emotion or feeling that had changed.
Everything was different ever since Tan Mo began to make a name for herself at Beijing University.
The first thing that happened was that Tan Mo joined Professor Guo’s research team during her freshman year.
The professors at Beijing University were known to only let the creme de la creme join their research teams. Wei Keli hadn’t been able to join any of his professors’ teams even after making it clear that he was from the famous Wei family.
That was why he was uncomfortable with Tan Mo’s success.
The next thing that happened to rankle him was when Tan Mo won the Ancient Text Compet.i.tion while representing Beijing University.
Her list of achievements continued to grow when she joined Professor Zhao’s research team next.
As Tan Mo became more and more successful, Wei Keli started to feel that she was starting to get way out of his reach. It felt as if she was stronger and more influential than he was. He was starting to feel as if he couldn’t control her anymore.
Despite Tan Mo still being her usual cute and kind self when they met, something just felt off for Wei Keli.
Tan Mo was just much better than he was in every aspect.
The turning point for him came when Tan Mo won the Best Scriptwriting Award at the Tulip Awards and became famous nationwide.
If she already had such success at just the age of 17, she was only going to grow even more successful in the future.
If Wei Keli were to stand side by side with Tan Mo, she would definitely outs.h.i.+ne him.
If he were ever going to marry her, everyone would only have their eyes on Tan Mo and would ignore him.
Wei Keli was perfectly fine with his wife having the same success as he did, but he definitely couldn’t tolerate her being more successful than he was as it would make him feel inferior.
When he learned that Tan Mo was visiting Ming Yeqing, it only stirred his emotions up even more.
On the one hand, he wasn’t happy with Tan Mo being so successful. He actually loathed it.
On the other hand, he felt as if Tan Mo was cheating on him.
The Wei family and the Tan family had come to a verbal agreement when Wei Keli and Tan Mo were still children that they would get married once they grew up.
Even though there had been no contract, nor had they ever gotten engaged, in a sense, Tan Mo was his fiancee.
That was why Wei Keli was angry at Tan Mo for having a close relations.h.i.+p with Ming Yeqing, believing that she should limit her interactions with other men.
He thought that, as his fiancee, Tan Mo should not even have any sort of friendly relations.h.i.+p with another man and should have waited for them to reach the age of marriage.
There was another thing that Wei Keli couldn’t sort out.
Other than Tan Mo being too well-known and high-profile, every other aspect of her was perfect.
She came from a prestigious family and was a one-in-a-million beauty. She was also his childhood best friend.
It was hard for him to give up on Tan Mo as his parents had told him ever since he was a little boy that he would marry Tan Mo in the future.
From his perspective, Tan Mo had been his from the beginning.
Hearing that Tan Mo was visiting Ming Yeqing was frustrating for Wei Keli.
However, he still put on a smile and said, “Yeah, she’s definitely meeting with Ming Yeqing there.”
“I think so. When I saw her, she was waiting for Ming Yeqing in his cla.s.sroom,” Yuan Keqing said, as if she couldn’t tell the mixed emotions that Wei Keli was experiencing. “She even solved the question from Professor Yue while she waited.”
Yuan Keqing paused to study Wei Keli’s expression. Just as she had expected, his smile slowly disappeared, and she continued, “I’m not sure what the question was, but I heard that it was intended for the Aeronautics Department students. None of them had been able to solve it correctly. I think she was the first to ever solve the problem, and she isn’t even in their department. She really is something. When did she even learn about aeronautic engineering? It feels as if it won’t be long before Professor Yue invites her onto his research team.”
Wei Keli flinched when Yuan Keqing mentioned that.
Yuan Keqing smiled and proceeded to compliment Tan Mo even more. “Mo Mo sure is amazing. No matter how smart or amazing a person is, they would be n.o.body compared to her. Everyone now has their attention on Mo Mo.”
Yuan Keqing said what was on Wei Keli’s mind out loud.
He had not expected that Tan Mo was already starting to s.h.i.+ne in the Aeronautics Department.
Doesn’t she know how to keep a low profile? Is it really smart to keep making yourself known to more and more people?
“But…Brother Keli, I’ve been wondering, are you and Mo Mo on bad terms now?” Yuan Keqing asked.
“W…why would you ask that?” Wei Keli’s heart skipped a beat.
“No reason. It’s just that I’ve heard you talking about her ever since we were young, but I noticed that you rarely talk about her now. If I’m not mistaken, it started once Mo Mo started studying here. She doesn’t talk about you anymore either…”
Yuan Keqing noticed a drastic change in Wei Keli’s expression and quickly shook her hands and started to explain, “It’s not like I’m with Mo Mo all the time either since she got really busy after she started university. She spends most of her weekdays here, and when she does visit, everyone in my family keeps asking about her life here, so we really don’t have a chance to talk about anything else. It’s the same thing in our family group chat as well.”
Obviously, Yuan Keqing was lying, as there was no family group chat.
The Tan family wouldn’t even talk to the Yuan family, so there would be no reason for them to have a group chat.
The relations.h.i.+p between the two families had gotten so sour that when the four male members of the Tan family heard anything about the Yuan family, they would show obvious signs of disgust as if the other family was just trash.
Unfortunately, Yuan Keqing didn’t know how the Tan family viewed her own family.
Even if there had been a family group chat, the Yuan family would never have been invited into it.
Yet, that wasn’t enough to stop Yuan Keqing from making things up as she was sure that Wei Keli wouldn’t ask Tan Mo about it. She knew that he wasn’t an idiot who would go around and ask other people about their family stuff.
As long as Wei Keli didn’t try to find out if what she’d said was the truth, then she could make up as many things as she wanted.
Another reason was that she was confident that Wei Keli trusted her. That was the sole reason that the gap between Wei Keli and Tan Mo had widened as time pa.s.sed.
Wei Keli quickly caught on to the most important thing in Yuan Keqing’s words: he was an outsider to Tan Mo.
He couldn’t believe that as they were supposed to be engaged soon, even though he wasn’t sure if he would accept Tan Mo as his bride or not.
However, that did not stop him from getting angry at Tan Mo for treating him as an outsider.
Wei Keli’s expression darkened as Yuan Keqing said, “I only get to see Mo Mo once a week on the weekends. That’s why I can’t say for sure if she ever talks about you since I don’t spend a lot of time with her.”
“I see…well, I am pretty busy myself, so I rarely see her either,” Wei Keli said with an awkward smile.
“Seriously, that Mo Mo, how can she go and visit Ming Yeqing when she’s this busy?” Yuan Keqing sighed. “Whatever. Let’s talk about something else.”