Oddball Dormitory: Gotta Treat Hakigao

Watching Xue Tao rage helplessly, his face twisted in frustration.

Chu Mingzhe leaned over to watch the show. "What's wrong? Fighting with your girlfriend?"

Xue Tao embellished the story of how Liu Yuanyuan had sweet-talked him into buying her a bag.

At the end, he said indignantly, "Most female college students use stuff around the Zara or CK level. At most, maybe some affordable luxury brand like Coach. Even bags that cost over a thousand are rare, and she wants LV? LV my ass!"

"Exactly!" Wang Haoran chimed in.

Liu Yuanyuan had really gotten carried away. She actually wanted a local to buy her LV? Did locals have that kind of money? Obviously not.

Although Xue Tao was the distinguished owner of a Magotan 330, when it came to cash on hand, Hu Ye still had him beat.

Chu Mingzhe offered his opinion. "True. LV's entry-level styles are too tacky. They're everywhere, and carrying one makes you look like you work in a certain special industry. No taste at all. The nice-looking styles are too expensive, though."

"Oh damn, Hu Ye, it's rare for us to agree on something!"

Xue Tao slapped his thigh hard, as if he had found a kindred spirit.

He hurriedly enlarged the photo of the bag and held up his phone for Chu Mingzhe to see.

However, Xue Tao did not receive Hu Ye's approval after all.

Chu Mingzhe pushed up his glasses and scrutinized the image closely.

His eyes gleamed.

His voice began to tremble. "Th-this is... the Louis Vuitton x Takashi Murakami collaboration, Speedy Bandoulière 25!"

"What the hell?" Xue Tao was dumbfounded. "What bird language did you just speak?"

"This bag is a discontinued limited edition. Even if you took money to a store, you couldn't buy it. You can only wait for one to show up on the secondary market, or get lucky and find that some store manager happened to get one." Chu Mingzhe wore the expression of an expert. "Local, do you know what its most recent sale price was?"

"No, bro, you're being way too dramatic. Even if it's limited edition, how expensive can it be? It's just a bag." Xue Tao scoffed.

"Heh, you know nothing about the spending power of rich wives!" Chu Mingzhe wagged a finger. "As far as I know, this bag sold for 157,800 last month. It may have gone up a little recently. Conservatively speaking, it starts at 160,000."

"How much??"

"160,000."

Holy fucking shit!

Xue Tao's worldview had truly been shattered.

To be fair, his relatives occasionally bought luxury goods to keep up appearances. A bag costing several thousand, or even over ten thousand, was still within Xue Tao's understanding.

But this fancy little handbag cost 160,000? It was truly eye-opening.

"What the fuck, do these rich guys' money get blown in by the wind?" Xue Tao complained.

"I'm guessing Senior School Sister Zhou's boyfriend is among the top-tier second-generation rich in River City. Even in Magic City, he'd be considered very well-off." Chu Mingzhe analyzed, not forgetting to take a jab at him. "After all, the bag he gave her costs more than your car."

"...Bullshit! I drive a Magotan 330 TSI Premium Edition. Its official MSRP is 179,900. How is it cheaper than a bag?"

Xue Tao's voice suddenly rose. His face reddened and his neck thickened, as though someone had struck a sore spot.

Hu Ye had actually hit the nail on the head.

The official MSRP was 179,900, but under the impact of domestic new-energy vehicles in recent years, car prices had generally dropped.

During summer break, Xue Tao's parents had taken him to pick up the car, and they happened to catch a promotion.

After haggling with the salesperson for a while, they got 35,000 off. The final bare-car price was 144,900.

You know what? You really do know what?

It really was cheaper than Senior School Sister Zhou's LV bag!

Of course, if purchase tax and insurance were included, Xue Tao's Magotan 330 still narrowly won.

But what did that matter?

It could not change the bloody fact:

Zhou Jialu's boyfriend was far wealthier and of a much higher social class than Xue Tao.

"Ah, compared to that man, I'm just a poor bastard. What difference is there between me and Wang Haoran?"

Xue Tao lamented.

Wang Haoran: ...(sweating yellow bean)

Chu Mingzhe snorted and said smugly, "Just as I expected, Senior School Sister Zhou is the kind of girl with strong material desires. Ordinary rich people simply can't satisfy her. Haha, fortunately, I don't like her either."

"What difference does it make whether you like her or not? She wouldn't look twice at you anyway," Xue Tao mocked.

"...Shut up!" Chu Mingzhe said darkly. "Is that the point? The point is that Chen Yusheng definitely isn't that kind of gold-digging girl."

"Heh."

Xue Tao could not be bothered to roast him. He had figured it out—Old Chu's brain had been completely taken over by being a simp. There was no talking sense into him.

He was still the wiser one. He had made use of his advantages and "won over" the pretty Liu Yuanyuan just one month into the semester...

At that thought, Xue Tao could not help growing depressed again.

While shooting the breeze with his roommates, he didn't forget to message Liu Yuanyuan to coax her.

But Liu Yuanyuan ignored him completely.

She really was angry this time.

If he wanted to smooth things over, he would definitely have to make some kind of sacrifice.

He couldn't seriously buy her an LV bag, could he?

But girls were often like this—if a close best friend received a certain level of material treatment, they would want to match it themselves.

So annoying, so annoying!

For the time being, Xue Tao couldn't think of any solution. All he could do was gloomily turn on his computer and play ARAM.

Fortunately, Xue Tao's frustration didn't last long.

Because Chu Mingzhe soon suffered a mishap too.

At around ten o'clock.

Chu Mingzhe's phone rang with a special notification tone.

After chatting for a few moments, Chu Mingzhe tossed his phone aside, sat cross-legged on his bed, and stared blankly at the dorm wall.

When Wang Haoran got up to use the bathroom, Chu Mingzhe suddenly called out to him.

"Brother Haoran."

"What is it?"

"Tell me, if Chen Yusheng came back from outside campus in a luxury car at this hour, what would that mean?"

"...Huh?"

Wang Haoran froze.

Xue Tao immediately got excited. "Hahaha, what else could it mean? She's dating someone, just like that senior school sister Zhou."

"Oh no!!!"

Chu Mingzhe clutched his head and let out a pained wail. "That's not it, that's not it... Right, every situation has to be analyzed on its own merits. The main thing is to see just how luxurious that so-called luxury car actually is."

"Uh, is there some logic to that?" Wang Haoran asked, confused.

"If it's only an entry-level luxury car in the 34C class, then maybe she just called a ride-hailing premium car."

"Holy shit, Hu Ye, how are you so good at comforting yourself?" Xue Tao burst out laughing. "Do you even believe that when you say it?"

Chu Mingzhe said coldly, "It's not about whether I believe myself. It's that I believe in Classmate Chen's noble and unyielding character."

"..." Xue Tao had no response. Kid, you're invincible.

Noble and unyielding? What was this, a classical poetry reading-comprehension question?

Wake up, senior year of high school was over!

Wang Haoran kept a straight face as he struggled not to laugh, eagerly watching the drama unfold.

For Dorm 510 to have both Haji Xue and Haji Chu, this pair of crouching dragon and fledgling phoenixes—what had they done to deserve this?

They really needed to invite Haji Gao over.

If the girls' Dormitory Building 2, Room 321, where that senior school sister Zhou lived, was the Goddess Dormitory—

Then their boys' Dormitory Building 7, Room 510, was without a doubt the Oddball Dormitory.

Does your dorm have oddballs like these? I'm asking seriously. They were both god-tier and human-tier at the same time!

Knock, knock, knock!

Someone suddenly knocked on the dorm room door.

Wang Haoran went to open it, and a well-proportioned woman in sportswear came into view.

It was their counselor, Xia Lin.

"Good evening, Director Xia."

"Good evening, students." Xia Lin smiled graciously. "I just went for a run on the track, and since I happened to be close to the boys' dormitory, I came by to check on you... Where's Su Bai? Is he not here?"