Dorm Assignment (continued)

"Five hours is still quite a long time."

Liu Qichu's eyes widened. "Long!?"

Lai Yudong said nothing. As a broadcasting student who got up early every day for vocal practice and often stayed up all night writing scripts and proposals, he strongly agreed with Su Junzhe.

Compared with the painful days of sleeping three hours before risking sudden death to go to early morning practice, five hours of sleep wasn't comfortable, but it met the minimum he needed. He wouldn't run out of energy over the course of the day.

Come to think of it, he didn't seem able to get up early to practice his voice anymore.

... Oh, right, what about his coursework?

He couldn't let his studies at the university he'd worked so hard to get into go to waste for some inexplicable reason like this, could he!?

Lai Yudong: [Does time pass at the same rate in the real world? I won't be held back for missing classes, will I?]

System: [Host, please rest assured. We will certainly provide you with a humane solution. All you need to do is focus on completing your tasks without distractions.]

Lai Yudong: [You'd better actually understand what humane means.]

"Hello." A knitted glove with rabbit ears rose high above the crowd. Jiang Yangfan smiled, his eyes curving, his voice as gentle as willow fluff brushing a cheek on a spring breeze. "May I ask if we need to do our hair and makeup before the next gathering?"

The staff member gave an official answer. "The production team will not provide those separately."

"All right, thank you."

[Rabbit ears! So cute!]

[Jiang Yangfan's actually into the cute style in private, 233]

[I thought he was the gentle boy-next-door type]

[I will fiercely defend the right of gentle boys next door to wear rabbit-ear gloves!]

"The first through third floors are public areas, and the fourth floor and above are the residential area. The dorms are divided into two-, four-, six-, and ten-person rooms. You'll choose rooms in the order of Classes A, B, C, and F, on a first-come, first-served basis." Having finished explaining, the staff member stepped aside and gestured toward the elevators. "We'll begin assigning dorms now. Class A goes in first. Remember to stick your name tags on the door."

Under everyone's envious gazes, the Class A members were the first to drag their suitcases over.

Lai Yudong's first choice was a four-person room, followed by a six-person room.

A two-person room would bring him too close to his roommate, making it easy for him to be exposed. In a ten-person room, he would come into contact with too many people, also making exposure easy. Besides, the more roommates there were, the harder it would be to adjust to one another. Different living habits, a dirty and messy environment, snoring at night, and so on were all potentially fatal problems, so it was safest to choose something in the middle.

Although he was in the last group, there were many trainees in Class F, and with so many beds left, he was sure he could snag one.

Once the first three classes had chosen their rooms, a staff member gave the command, "Class F can go in now." Lai Yudong was the first to drag his suitcase forward, charging ahead with swift strides.

[Who was that who just dashed past? He ran so fast I couldn't see clearly]

[Miura Yuki?]

[Judging by the hair color, it was him.]

[Huh, is he really that lively? Why do I remember him being a cool guy?]

Lai Yudong quickly scanned the name tags on the dorm doors. Either the four-person rooms were full, or only six- and ten-person rooms were left. He didn't want to settle for his second choice so soon, so he smiled and politely declined several people's invitations.

He searched his way up floor by floor, eventually giving up on waiting for the elevator and carrying his suitcase up the stairs instead.

When he reached the seventh floor, the top floor of the residential area, there were more dorms that weren't full. Two four-person rooms still had vacancies: Dorms 706 and 707 at the end of the hallway, each missing exactly one person.

Lai Yudong stopped. He planned to analyze the makeup of each room before deciding which door would be better to knock on. He preferred introverted types who didn't talk much; overly outgoing roommates were out of the question.

Liu Qichu, for example. Although he was enthusiastic and friendly, he talked too much. An "overseas contestant" who didn't speak the language really couldn't keep up with him.

Speak of Cao Cao, and Cao Cao appeared.

Before Lai Yudong could get a clear look at the name tags, a black-haired head popped swish out of Dorm 706. It was none other than Liu Qichu, whom he had just been thinking about.

"You Shu!" Seeing his newly made friend standing outside the door, Liu Qichu instantly lit up. His round puppy-dog eyes looked especially lively when he smiled. "You haven't picked a dorm yet? Why don't you come stay with me? My roommates are super impressive, and they even promised to teach me how to dance!"

Super impressive?

His primrose-colored eyes shifted toward the door of Dorm 706. Besides Liu Qichu's name tag, which was stuck on a little crookedly, the other two belonged to Jin Xiheng and Su Junzhe.

Jin Xiheng was the pinnacle of dancing among the trainees. Liu Qichu had mentioned during the First Stage that he was his friend's dance teacher.

Lai Yudong had missed Su Junzhe's First Stage and didn't know his background. He was the seatmate Liu Qichu had just met on the Bus.

He had to admit that Liu Qichu's social skills were formidable. In such a short time, he'd already gotten to the point where they would teach him to dance.

"If you join us, we'll have two As and two Fs!" Liu Qichu said expectantly.

Lai Yudong: "..."

Was there any need to complete such a strange lineup?

"Hm? It really is You Shu. I thought I'd misheard."

Liang Zhisheng came out of the dorm next door. He held an unopened bottle of makeup remover in one hand and casually rested the other on the name tags by the door, extending an olive branch in a half-joking tone:

"By that logic, You Shu should come to Dorm 707 instead. We're just one person short of having all four classes."

Hearing this, Lai Yudong looked toward Dorm 707. The name tags on the door belonged, from top to bottom, to Xu An, Li Xu, and Liang Zhisheng—all familiar faces who had left a strong impression.

As Liang Zhisheng had said, Dorm 707 already had members from Classes A, B, and C. All it lacked was someone from Class F.

So, here came the question.

Should he choose the match-three kind of OCD, or the spider-solitaire kind?

"You Shu, come to 706! We have two Class A dance aces!" As Liu Qichu worked hard to sell him on the room, he finally revealed Su Junzhe's role to Lai Yudong, who had missed class.

Liang Zhisheng unscrewed the makeup remover and said unhurriedly, "707 has a more complete lineup. Xu An is a Class A vocal ace, Li Xu is the rapper, and I can dance a little. If you join us, you'll be... hmm... the visual?"

Liu Qichu: "Come on, come on!"