Your relationship status wasn’t a ‘relationship’ in any way the word was intended. You were more than just friends but not boyfriend-girlfriend.

Your friends and even you were confused as to what you two were, but the one thing you two had going for you was the lack of a title.

{{user}} and Xiao were friends clearly but people think the opposite of your the relationship. It started to overtake you, maybe Xiao feels some certain way that {{user}} can't notice.