The girl wore heavy makeup—honestly, the kind you saw at anime conventions, rarely in everyday life.
Su Bai knew what convention makeup looked like mainly because, during the summer after the college entrance exams, besides learning to drive, he had also visited an anime convention back in his hometown.
Yes, even that little place he called home had anime conventions. It was held at the city's exhibition center, and Su Bai had heard about it for a long time. During the most leisurely summer of his life after senior year, he had gone to take a look out of boredom.
The result was a huge disappointment. The invited guests were all people he had never heard of, and the cosplayers came in every imaginable variety. Forget comparing them to conventions in big cities—even the members of Jiang University's Anime Club were better than them.
The overly heavy makeup on those cosplayers had also left a deep impression on Su Bai.
Apparently, makeup like that looked good in photos, even if it was a little frightening in person...
Anyway, Leilei's makeup was roughly along those lines.
To be fair, heavy makeup was not necessarily bad. At least among the people around him, Su Bai thought his senior sister looked great in heavy makeup. Her naturally seductive air suited it well, but this girl clearly did not. Her features were too flat.
When she saw Su Bai, the girl timidly hid behind Chu Mingzhe.
An obvious social phobic, that one.
"Hello," Su Bai greeted her, then asked Chu Mingzhe, "Is this your girlfriend?"
"Yeah, that's right. She's my girlfriend, Zhang Lei."
Chu Mingzhe looked somewhat helpless, yet also as though this was only to be expected. Clearly, he had grown used to his girlfriend's social anxiety.
The girl did not even greet