Young Couples Aren't Allowed to Whisper During Class

At Chu Mingzhe's shock,

Wang Haoran was unconcerned. "So what? Brother Bai isn't some plague god. What's strange about Chen Yusheng sitting next to him?"

"Brother Haoran, you may not have noticed the details." Chu Mingzhe pushed up his glasses, radiating wisdom. "Chen Yusheng invited him over herself, and after that damn Su Bai sat down, Chen Yusheng was still talking in his ear! Aaaaah! That damn Su Bai!"

Those were some incredibly detailed details... Wang Haoran had nothing to say, only a sweating emoji face.

"Keep it down. Don't go crazy here." Xue Tao said awkwardly and irritably, "You might not mind embarrassing yourself, but we do."

Xue Tao took pleasure in Hu Ye's misfortune, but he couldn't really enjoy it.

Seeing Hu Ye so crushed did feel satisfying, but Su Bai and Chen Yusheng did seem a little too close.

Xue Tao couldn't help but ask himself.

When had those two gotten acquainted?

In Xue Tao's impression, Su Bai and Chen Yusheng had never exchanged a single word.

Could it be that, in some unknown corner, the two had formed some sort of connection, some kind of bond?

But the problem was that aside from attending class, Su Bai basically lay in the dorm playing on his phone and gaming. He wasn't the sort of socially active guy who went out everywhere to have fun.

Chen Yusheng was supposedly about the same—dorm, classroom, lab, a three-point routine.

So how exactly had this whispering and cozy familiarity developed? He really wanted to know.

Honestly, Xue Tao was genuinely jealous. A girl like Chen Yusheng, beautiful and outstanding, and the only child of a local River City demolition-resettlement family, was the first choice for a partner. Unfortunately, Chen Yusheng was far too exceptional for Xue Tao to even dare dream about.

Nor had he ever heard of Chen Yusheng being close with any guy.

Yet Su Bai was somehow making the fastest progress?

That was just too hard to accept. Xue Tao admitted that Su Bai was somewhat handsome, but it wasn't as though the men chasing Chen Yusheng lacked handsome guys.

Besides, his financial circumstances were far too shabby. To put it bluntly, he might even qualify for welfare.

Xue Tao, at the very least, got over ten thousand yuan in allowance every month, drove a Magotan as a freshman, and had four local properties...

Where exactly was the problem?

Though Xue Tao loved showing off, he at least had some brains.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have gotten into Jiangcheng University.

After thinking for a long time, his eyes suddenly lit up as though he had grasped something in the dark.

"Wang Haoran, did Su Bai get to know Chen Yusheng through gaming?"

"Huh?" Wang Haoran, who was diligently grinding a mobile game with his head lowered, looked utterly confused. "You're asking me?"

"Yeah. Don't you usually play with Su Bai?"

"Not all the time. He spends more time solo-queueing. I mostly play anime-style games." Wang Haoran smiled shyly, his meaning obvious.

Don't ask me, don't ask me. I don't know, meow.

"Heh, now that's really strange."

In the middle of the classroom.

Chen Yusheng was completely unaware of everyone's discussions—or rather, she simply didn't care.

Her mind was entirely on Su Bai.

Throughout the entire math class, she had been agonizing over that question.

Honestly speaking, Chen Yusheng was sure she liked Su Bai, but would Su Bai like her? If she took the initiative to pursue Su Bai and then asked him for money, would he think she was a gold digger? Sigh...

When it came to romance, Chen Yusheng had absolutely no experience. She had never even imagined that she would fall in love.

She had been sensible since childhood—studying, tinkering with computers, solo-queueing to climb the ranks, watching absurd videos on Bilibili, and posting absurd nonsense on Tieba.

Perhaps her hobbies were too niche for a girl, but she had never had anything like close female friends.

Every guy who approached her had ulterior motives, and Chen Yusheng always rejected them sternly. Over time, she developed an image of being aloof and cold.

It wasn't until that day at the café, when she had talked endlessly with Su Bai, that she delightedly discovered that there was actually a soul in this world so similar to her own!

If that wasn't love at first sight, what was?

But realistically speaking, was Chen Yusheng really fit to date Su Bai?

Her father had divorced and run away, her mother was seriously ill in the hospital, and her family had already fallen apart.

"Shengsheng, are you free this afternoon? I'll send you another companion-gaming order."

Su Bai's voice interrupted Chen Yusheng's thoughts.

She stared blankly for a moment, then her expression suddenly changed. "What did you just call me?"

"Ah, I thought Shengsheng sounded nicer... If you don't like it..."

"It's not that I don't like it. You can call me whatever you want."

"Really?"

"Really. Mm, after all, we... mm, we're not exactly strangers who need to be so formal with each other..."

"Exactly. I think we're at the level of soulmates. Soul mate."

"..."

Chen Yusheng felt that definition was far too ambiguous, yet she couldn't summon the strength to refute it.

So she just tacitly accepted it.

"What kind of companion gaming?"

"Come buy a computer with me. We talked about it before—you said you'd thoroughly scoped out the computer market by the school's south gate. Not only won't you get ripped off, you can even get lower prices than online retailers."

"Mm, so?"

"Help me build a gaming PC. As for the budget... as long as it has better value for money than Republic of Gamers."

"..."

At the mention of that, Chen Yusheng instantly remembered that she had first spoken to Su Bai because she couldn't resist warning him when she saw him about to buy an overpriced sucker's computer.

In other words, she had been the one who found an excuse to strike up a conversation with Su Bai.

That was shocking!

If online companion gaming didn't count, then Chen Yusheng had actually been the one to approach Su Bai first!

Just thinking about it felt so perverse. She had social anxiety, for goodness' sake.

Maybe this was what they meant by fate.

"Sure, no problem." Chen Yusheng readily agreed.

"I'll pay according to companion-gaming rates. Two hundred an hour."

"Mm..."

Since it was a conversation that wasn't convenient for others to know about, a little secret belonging only to Su Bai and Chen Yusheng, Chen Yusheng felt somewhat guilty and leaned very close to him. The two were nearly brushing ears and temples.

"Ahem!"

The teacher at the podium couldn't stand it anymore. "The young couple by the window on the right, mind the influence you're having. Don't whisper during class."

The classmates all turned to look with teasingly curious eyes.

Chen Yusheng was instantly so embarrassed that her mind went blank. She lowered her head and played with her fingers without saying a word.

Her neck and ears had turned a lovely, vivid red, making her look exceptionally beautiful.

As for Su Bai, he grinned and apologized, "Okay, teacher, I know I was wrong. Hontou ni sumimasen~"

He wasn't embarrassed in the slightest.

Put nicely, he had a sunny personality. Put bluntly, he was shamelessly thick-skinned.

Perhaps it was precisely because he had no shame that he could win over Chen Yusheng?

Quite a few students had similar thoughts.

Looking at the scene before them, calling the two a couple didn't feel out of place at all. They were a perfect match, talented and beautiful.

Moreover, after being called out by the teacher, Chen Yusheng didn't distance herself from Su Bai at all. Once the attention died down, the two went right back to whispering to each other.

At the back of the classroom, Chu Mingzhe suddenly struggled to his feet, clutching his chest as he staggered toward the exit.

"Bro, what's wrong with you?" Wang Haoran asked.

"Going out to get some air. Ha... my heart hurts. I can't breathe, bro, ha..."

"..."