The College Girls These Days Are Actually Like This

Chapter 29: The College Girls These Days Are Actually Like This

By this time, it was already the end of the semester for the college students, with exams approaching.

Dongyuan Dormitory, Building Nine, Yizhou University, next door.

Inside a cozy six-person girls' dormitory, several girls sprawled shamelessly across the freshly mopped floor, feeling as though they were about to melt from the heat.

"Damn it, why hasn't anyone come to fix the air conditioner? It's been reported for two days!" a slightly chubby girl roared. People with higher body-fat percentages were more prone to overheating and sweating, and she genuinely felt as though she was about to be roasted alive.

"Let's go mooch off the air conditioner in the dorm next door." A quiet, bespectacled girl picked up two books. "The exams are only a few days away. Do any of you feel confident?"

"No."

"No."

"No."

"..."

"It's way too hot to study. If this keeps up, we're completely screwed." The chubby girl stared blankly at the ceiling. "Has anyone here actually attended class lately?"

"No."

"No."

"..."

"Sigh, I'm about eighty percent sure I can pass, but..." The bespectacled girl patted her forehead. "I still want to get a scholarship next semester."

"Sigh."

"Sigh."

"..."

Sighs rose one after another.

Their dormitory was a little unusual. Of the six girls, some were preparing for graduate school exams, while the rest partied so much they were beyond saving. Basically none of them had listened in class. The one girl whose grades were slightly better had already declared that she could not carry the other five. Three of them were even in different majors.

Yet at this critical moment, when the entire dormitory should have been cramming, their air conditioner had broken down. In this scorching summer heat, it was practically a death sentence.

"I thought the air conditioner would be fixed today, but... If I'd known, I would've just kept going out to get a room with my boyfriend." A pretty girl in oversized shorts spoke up.

"Damn!" The chubby girl rolled her eyes after being force-fed a mouthful of dog food. "Didn't you just get a room with your boyfriend last night?"

"Yeah, but last night felt like such a waste."

"What? Your boyfriend didn't satisfy you?" the chubby girl continued, rolling her eyes.

"Shut up!" the pretty girl snapped, then continued, "We booked the hotel the day before yesterday. We originally meant to escape the heat because the air conditioner was broken, and, well... We had no idea the weather would be so cool yesterday! If we'd known, we would've gone out today instead."

"Yeah, yesterday really was cool. We left the balcony door open, then secretly opened the dormitory door in the middle of the night too. The cross-breeze felt amazing." The quiet girl spoke while reading her book.

"That's why I feel so cheated!" the pretty girl said. "If I'd known, I would've stayed in the dorm and enjoyed the breeze."

"I'm even thinking of studying overnight at an internet café." The chubby girl sounded listless. "We could play a round whenever we got tired of studying."

"Great idea!" A girl sitting on the floor with her back against a cabinet immediately jumped up. "No time to waste. Let's go, let's go! Bring your books, and call me when you start gaming!"

"...Smack!" The pretty girl slapped her on the forehead. "Great idea my ass! If we're spending money to game at an internet café, we might as well get a room together! Hotel air conditioning is much better than an internet café's, and it's quieter and more comfortable. Split between everyone, it'll only be ten or twenty yuan each. Wouldn't that be wonderful?"

"Huh?"

"Huh?"

"That's not a bad idea. Let's find somewhere cheap!" The quiet girl continued reading and nodded. "You often get rooms with your boyfriend. Do you know any hotels that are cheap, quiet, have a decent environment, and are spacious?"

"With that many requirements, why don't you just ascend to heaven?" the chubby girl mocked.

"There are plenty of cheap hotels. The little inns near the school gate are all inexpensive. As for the environment and space... Anyway, they're all forward bases. Who cares about the environment or space?" the pretty girl said bluntly. "The hotel I stayed at last night was pretty good, though. It was quiet, not in a busy area, and looked newly opened. The facilities in the room were clean too, and it had this... this indescribable feeling!"

"What? What kind of feeling? Aphrodisiac?"

"Not that!!" The pretty girl rolled her eyes.

"Then what?"

"It was like the room had a special atmosphere the moment you walked in... Old He, don't say anything. It wasn't the smell of feet! It was some indescribable fragrance that immediately calmed your heart. More calming than home, even more calming than a café playing light music. But when you tried to smell it carefully, there wasn't actually any scent at all. I'm guessing... it was some kind of special incense?"

"Love potion?"

"Love your sister! I told you not to talk!!"

"The owner must have found some expert to check the feng shui!"

"Don't say anything!!"

The quiet girl frowned, turned another page, and said, "Is it really that mysterious? You remember it so vividly. Are you advertising for them?"

"It's mainly because... because normally... you know. When you get a room with your boyfriend and enter the room, I don't need to explain the psychological and physical reactions, right? But when we entered that room, we didn't feel that way at all. Both of us felt that the peaceful atmosphere was wonderful." As she spoke, the pretty girl reached into her shorts and scratched her butt, then continued, "My boyfriend and I actually fell asleep very quickly last night. Normally we'd have to... um!"

"Sorry, I'm still a virgin." The quiet girl closed her book and spoke calmly.

"Sorry for the trouble!" The pretty girl bowed ninety degrees.

"I need to change locations. Either get a hotel room or stay overnight at an internet café. What do you think?" The pretty girl looked around at everyone.

"How much per night?"

"On Meituan, the mini single room is ninety-nine yuan, while the standard single room and twin room are 120. We stayed in the standard single room last night."

"There are so many of us. Wouldn't we need two or three rooms?"

"One room isn't impossible. We can bring blankets and sleep on the floor!" The pretty girl sounded very experienced. "I just don't know whether the owner will agree. We'll have to ask."

"What if he doesn't?"

"Then I'll get one room, and you can sneak up afterward."

"Good idea!"

At eight-thirty that evening, Cheng Yun sat behind the front desk.

The six girls arrived at the hotel entrance. Looking at the hotel sign and the front desk's decorations, they wore different expressions.

"Is that the owner? He's so handsome!" The chubby girl immediately became lovestruck.

"Yeah. I thought he was pretty handsome when I came yesterday too, but my boyfriend was with me, so I was embarrassed to show it." The pretty girl was still wearing oversized shorts, a sports T-shirt, and flip-flops, looking completely casual.

"The front desk's decorating style is pretty good." The quiet girl pushed up her glasses and read the line of artistic lettering on the background wall: "Only to give you the best resting experience... Looks like what you said might really be true."

"Hmm, I didn't see those words when I came last night. They must have just put them up, right?" the pretty girl said.

"Stop blabbering and go in!" one of the girls said.

"How do we go in?"

"Let Old He and Nianwen go first. One of them has no shame, and the other has experience."

"What do you mean... What do you mean I have no shame?"

"Stop arguing. The owner looks easygoing. Let's all go in together!" The quiet girl spoke as she headed toward the hotel entrance. The others hurried after her.

A minute later—

Cheng Yun stared blankly at the six girls standing in front of him.

"We really had no choice, Boss. You're so handsome, so please give us one room!" The pretty girl in oversized shorts took charge of acting coquettish. "I stayed here yesterday. I came at night, and you were the one who checked me in! I thought your place had such a great environment, so I brought my roommates. You have to show some understanding for the future flowers of our country, handsome!"

"Uh..." Cheng Yun looked at them in astonishment. "Why do so many of you want one room? The twin room doesn't even have a mahjong table!"

"To study!" The pretty girl slapped a calculus book onto the front desk.

The girls then silently came forward and stacked a graduate-school English book, a graduate-school math book, civil-service essay sample answers, and several major-related books on the desk, forming a pile twenty centimeters high.

"Is this enough?" The girls gazed at him expectantly. Just the cool air around the front desk had made them unwilling to leave, let alone return to the furnace that was their dormitory.

"F-fine, I suppose!" Although Cheng Yun was astonished, he was decisive. "But are you sure there are only six of you?"

"Of course!" The pretty girl froze, then looked him up and down with an expression that said, So this is the kind of person you are, handsome? "Did you think we were going to call a whole dormitory of male students too? Wouldn't that be... illegal?"

"Uh, good." Cheng Yun lowered his head. "Then give me two people's IDs so I can register them. Also, write down the other students' ID information for backup."

"No problem." The pretty girl grinned. "You're so nice. Can I add you on WeChat?"

"Huh?"

Cheng Yun tapped the calendar on the front desk. "Our inn's official WeChat account is on here. I just applied for it. There's no content yet, but if you're interested, you can scan it first."

"Tch! No fun!"

Cheng Yun took their identification cards, carefully compared them, and then began registering them.

The pretty girl was Hao Nianwen, the chubby girl was He Qing, and the quiet girl was Wu Wenshan. The other three were Fan Zirong, Lin Han, and Qi Wei. The girls' looks were fairly average overall. Hao Nianwen and Wu Wenshan were probably the prettiest.

The check-in process was soon completed. Cheng Yun watched them put their books back into their bags before saying, "If you don't have enough room to sleep tonight, you can ask me for small mattresses, extra quilts, and things like that."

"Wow! That's great!"

"Boss, I love you!"

"Thanks!"

"You're welcome," Cheng Yun said.

Watching them leave one after another, he shook his head and lowered it to continue watching his TV drama.

Even if something happened, those girls were merely studying by lamplight inside. No one could say anything about that!

Suddenly, Hao Nianwen stopped on the stairs and looked at Cheng Yun. "Handsome Boss, do the rooms here use any incense?"

"Incense?" Cheng Yun froze. "What makes you ask?"

"I just feel like you use some kind of calming incense here?"

Cheng Yun immediately understood. He smiled and said, "Trade secret. I can't disclose it."

"Tch!"

A minute later, Hao Nianwen swiped the card to open the room, and the six girls entered. They all turned to inspect the room's decorations, then simultaneously took a deep breath.

"It really does make you feel calm. But this feeling started when we entered the hotel, didn't it?"

"I don't seem to smell anything at all, except for the faint scent of fresh renovations."

"There is something! I smelled it!"

"You smelled it? What scent?"

"It would be more accurate to say I felt it."

"What a weirdo..."