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Tan Xiaobai loved watching the chaos and made a suggestive joke from the side: “Repay him? Give yourself to him.”
Le Cheng was amused by him. “Stop talking nonsense. How could there be such a thing?”
The two of them started bickering. Zhou Shirui’s Adam’s apple moved, as though he were extremely thirsty. After remaining silent for a moment, he said, “I’ll head back first. He’ll move out on his own. If there’s another conflict, call me.”
Le Cheng nodded. He thought Zhou Shirui was incredibly reliable. “Okay!”
He didn’t like him, yet he could still do this much. Being friends with Zhou Shirui must be a very happy thing.
Zhou Shirui pulled his hand back and turned to leave.
Le Cheng was in an indescribably good mood. After getting rid of his annoying and inexplicable roommate, he felt incredibly relaxed.
Qin Yu did not return to stay at the dormitory that night.
Tan Xiaobai also brought some mysterious news: “Le Cheng, we’re getting a new roommate again.”
Le Cheng was curious. “Who?”
“Someone you’ve met before, an old acquaintance.” Tan Xiaobai said, “Hurry up and guess.”
After all, Le Cheng wasn’t in the same major as Tan Xiaobai. Tan Xiaobai studied Logistics Management, and their departments were worlds apart, so they barely had any people in common.
Le Cheng thought back. “Hmm… Xu Yuan? He Ziqing?”
“Correct!” Tan Xiaobai said. “It’s He Ziqing. He lived off-campus last semester, but this semester he wants to live on campus. There’s no space in his department’s dormitory.”
He Ziqing was, like Tan Xiaobai, a member of the knitting club.
Le Cheng had a good impression of He Ziqing. He was a very shy person, so Le Cheng was quite happy when he heard the news. “That’s pretty good.”
He Ziqing moved in very quickly because there was already an empty spot in the dormitory, so there was nothing to clean up either.
Le Cheng greeted him very warmly and helped out together with Tan Xiaobai. After they finished, to celebrate their new roommate, they went out to have a meal.
At the dinner table, Tan Xiaobai drank a little too much and hiccupped as he once again invited Le Cheng to join their club.
“Le… Le Cheng! Look, there are three people in our dormitory, and two of them have already joined the knitting club sect. Are you sure you don’t want to come?”
Le Cheng and He Ziqing supported him and stuffed him into a taxi. They were somewhat amused and somewhat helpless. “Sect? But I don’t really have any free time…”
“What’s the big deal? Our club basically doesn’t have any activities. Everyone just goes out to have fun together…” Tan Xiaobai hiccupped. “Right… Ziqing!”
He Ziqing was called out, and he quickly said, “Yes, yes. Le Cheng, we all just go out and have fun together.”
Le Cheng thought about it and agreed. “All right, it’s a deal. I really don’t have much free time.”
“Ah, what’s the big deal?” Tan Xiaobai narrowed his drunken eyes. “Tomorrow I’ll take you to meet the club president… But you really picked the right time to join. We’re about to have a mixer with your boyfriend’s club… What was it called again? Robotics? We’re going to have a social event together!”
“At… at that time, everyone can come out to eat together. It’ll be a publicly funded date, and you won’t even have to split the bill! It’ll be amazing!”
“What?” Tan Xiaobai was like a drunken wild boar that couldn’t be restrained. Le Cheng had to keep pressing him down every moment to stop him from darting off. He lowered his head with great effort. “What social event?”
He Ziqing explained everything.
It turned out that a girl in their knitting club had taken a liking to the vice president of the robotics club. Coincidentally, the knitting club president, Xu Yuan, had some connections, so he made an arrangement with the robotics club president to hold a social gathering. In reality, it was simply going out to eat together and getting a group of people together.
Le Cheng was a little dumbfounded.
The plotline he had almost forgotten suddenly surfaced in his mind. Le Cheng blinked repeatedly. Could it be that the dinner gathering where the conflict broke out was actually this one?
Things really were such a coincidence.
After finally returning to the dormitory, the two of them got Tan Xiaobai settled, and only then did Le Cheng carefully go over everything from beginning to end. Judging by the timing, it was almost here.
Looking at the location, it was the same as well.
Le Cheng sighed somewhat conflictedly, it seemed that he absolutely had to go through with this plotline.
***
It was already two days later when he saw Qin Yu again. He had come to move out of the dormitory.
There was only Le Cheng in the dormitory. Hearing the noise, he turned his head to look and saw Qin Yu silently packing up his things by himself.
Le Cheng ignored him and had no intention of helping. He was lowering his head and seriously drawing. Only after sensing someone behind him did he look up and ask somewhat warily, “What are you doing?”
Qin Yu’s expression wasn’t very good, and after seeing his expression, he became even more at a loss for words. “…Le Cheng, you don’t need to be nervous.”
“Oh.” Le Cheng agreed readily, but his tone was still cold, though much more polite. “Is there something you need?”
Qin Yu had an indescribable feeling in his heart. “Nothing… It’s just that, about what happened last time, I was impulsive. I wanted to apologize to you.”
Le Cheng frowned but didn’t show any happiness. He slightly widened his eyes. “So you’re not moving out anymore?”
Qin Yu: “……..”
He said, “I’m moving out.”
“Oh, I see.” Only then did Le Cheng relax, his expression serious. “Last time, it was Xiaobai who argued with you, so you should apologize to him.”
Qin Yu packed up his things without saying a word. By the time Tan Xiaobai returned, his bed was already empty.
“He moved out that quickly?” Tan Xiaobai was also a little surprised. “I thought he’d drag it out for a while longer.”
Le Cheng had thought the same thing, and couldn’t help but become a little curious about exactly what Zhou Shirui had done.
So he opened Zhou Shirui’s chat window, wanting to ask him about it.
[Orange: Qin Yu just moved out!]
Zhou Shirui replied a few minutes later.
[Big Brother: Mm.]
It looked like Zhou Shirui wasn’t surprised at all. Le Cheng couldn’t help letting his imagination run wild.
[Orange: What did you say to him before? He moved out so quickly!]
[Orange: Confess and you’ll be treated leniently; resist and you’ll be punished severely!]
[Big Brother: ?]
Le Cheng continued typing: Hurry up and tell me…
[Big Brother: I am a law-abiding and honest citizen.]
Le Cheng’s typing hand paused. He imagined Zhou Shirui saying that with an expressionless face, and couldn’t stop himself from laughing.
[Orange: Of course I know that. Looks like your usual aura is just too strong, too intimidating, and he got scared, hehe.]
Zhou Shirui had just come out after taking a shower. He picked up his phone, water droplets sliding down his long, slender arm. When he saw the message, he unusually began to think about it.
Too intimidating.
Something subtle stirred in his heart.
[Big Brother: Am I intimidating to you too?]
The message quickly popped up, occupying his field of vision.
…For some reason, it sounded a little like flirting.
Le Cheng sat in his chair, lazily leaning his head back as he held his phone and poked at the screen.
He thought back to the way they had gotten along over the past month.
[Orange: Not intimidating at all. Mm… you’re very good to me, especially good.]
[Big Brother: If there’s anything you don’t like, you can say it.]
After Zhou Shirui sent the message, it wasn’t long before he heard a “ding-dong.”
[Orange: Voice message]
He clicked to listen.
The tone was somewhat soft, as if it contained a smile, sounding very happy.
[No, there’s nothing. You don’t need to change.] After a pause, Le Cheng’s voice was very gentle. [I like everything about it.]
