How College Girls Are Nowadays

Chapter 29: What Are College Girls Like Nowadays?

For university students, it was now the end of the semester, with exams fast approaching.

Next door, at Yizhou University, East Garden Dormitory, Building Nine.

Inside a cozy six-person dorm room, several girls lay sprawled on the freshly mopped floor, completely lacking any semblance of decorum, feeling as though they were about to melt from the heat.

"Damn it, why hasn't the AC repairman shown up after two days of reporting it!" a rather chubby girl yelled angrily. People with higher body fat percentages tend to overheat and sweat more easily, and she genuinely felt like she was about to die of heatstroke.

"Let's just go to the next room and mooch off their air conditioning," a quiet, bespectacled girl said, picking up two books. "Exams are in a few days, are you guys confident?"

"Nope."

"Nope."

"Nope."

"..."

"It's too hot to even review, if this keeps up, we're doomed," the chubby girl said, looking up at the ceiling with vacant eyes. "Did any of you actually pay attention in class?"

"Nope."

"Nope."

"..."

"Sigh, I'm about 80% sure I can pass, but..." the quiet, bespectacled girl patted her forehead. "I was hoping to get the scholarship next semester too."

"Sigh."

"Sigh."

"..."

A chorus of sighs filled the room.

Their dorm was a bit of an oddity. All six of them were either preparing for postgraduate entrance exams or were incorrigibly wild, rarely attending class. The one with slightly better grades said she couldn't carry the other five. Furthermore, three of them were in different majors.

Yet, precisely at this crucial time when they should have been cramming together, the dorm's air conditioner broke. In this sweltering heat, it was practically a death sentence.

"I thought the AC would be fixed today, but... If I'd known, I might as well have gone out with my boyfriend again," said a delicate-looking girl in shorts.

"Ugh!" The chubby girl, force-fed a mouthful of digital dog food, rolled her eyes. "Didn't you just go out 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 again.

"Get lost!" the delicate girl snapped, then added, "We booked the hotel the day before yesterday. We originally planned to escape the heat because the AC was broken, and also... I didn't know the weather would be so cool yesterday! If I had known, we would have postponed going out until today."

"Yeah, yesterday was really cool. We left the balcony door open, and then secretly opened the dorm room door in the middle of the night. The cross-breeze was incredibly refreshing," the quiet girl said while reading her book.

"That's why I feel like it was such a waste!" the delicate girl exclaimed. "If I'd known, I would have just stayed in the dorm and enjoyed the breeze."

"I'm even considering going to an internet cafe to study all night," the chubby girl said listlessly. "And if I get tired of studying, I can play some games."

"Good idea!" A girl leaning against a cabinet on the floor jumped up upon hearing this. "No time like the present, let's go, let's go! Grab your books, and call me if you're playing games!"

"...Slap!" The delicate girl slapped her on the forehead. "What good idea is that? If we have this money to spend at an internet cafe, we might as well get a hotel room together! Hotel AC is way better than internet cafes, and it's quieter and more comfortable. Split evenly, it's only ten or twenty yuan each, wouldn't that be great?"

"Huh?"

"Huh?"

"That's not a bad idea, let's find a cheap one!" The quiet girl, still reading her book, nodded. "You go out with your boyfriend often, do you have any recommendations for cheap, quiet hotels with good environments and spacious rooms?"

"With that many requirements, why don't you just fly to the moon!" the chubby girl quipped.

"There are plenty of cheap hotels, the small inns near the school gate are quite affordable, but the environment and space... Anyway, it's the front line, why bother with environment and space?" the delicate girl said casually. "But the hotel I stayed in last night was quite good. It was quiet, not in a busy area, and it looked like it had just opened. The facilities in the room were clean, and there was this... this indescribable feeling!"

"What? What feeling? Aphrodisiac?"

"No!!" the delicate girl rolled her eyes.

"Then what?"

"It's just that when you walk in, the room has a special scent... Old He, don't talk, it's not foot odor! It's a kind of indescribable fragrance that quickly calms your heart. More calming than home, more calming than a cafe with soft music. But when you try to smell it carefully, you realize there's no scent at all. I guess... it's some kind of special incense?"

"Hypnotic incense?"

"Mini-me, I told you to stop talking!!"

"This owner must have consulted a feng shui master!"

"Stop talking!!"

The quiet girl, however, frowned and turned another page of her book. "Is it that mystical? Your memory seems so vivid, are you advertising for them!"

"It's mainly because... because usually... you know... when you and your boyfriend go to a hotel room, you know what physical and psychological reactions occur, I don't need to explain further. But that day, when we entered the room, we didn't have that feeling. We both felt that sense of tranquility was wonderful." The delicate girl said this while reaching into her shorts to scratch her buttock. "Last night, my boyfriend and I actually fell asleep very quickly. Usually, we would... um!"

"Excuse me, I'm still a virgin," the quiet girl said calmly, closing her book.

"You little devil!" the delicate girl bowed ninety degrees.

"I need to find a new place, either a hotel or an internet cafe for the night, what do you guys think?" the delicate girl looked around.

"How much is a night?"

"Meituan mini single rooms are 99, standard single rooms and double rooms are 120. We stayed in a standard single room last night."

"With so many of us, we'll need two or three rooms, right?"

"It's not impossible to get just one room; we can bring a blanket and sleep on the floor!" the pretty girl said, sounding experienced. "I just don't know if the owner will agree. We'll have to ask."

"What if he doesn't?"

"Then I'll get a room, and you guys can sneak up later."

"Good idea!"

It was 8:30 PM, and Cheng Yun was sitting behind the counter.

Six girls arrived at the hotel entrance. They looked at the hotel's sign and the front desk's decorations with varying expressions.

"Is that the owner? He's so handsome!" the chubby girl exclaimed, smitten.

"Yeah, I thought he was quite handsome when I came yesterday too, but my boyfriend was with me then, so I didn't dare show it," the pretty girl replied. She was still wearing shorts, a sports t-shirt, and flip-flops, looking very casual.

"The front desk's decor style is quite nice," the quiet girl said, pushing up her glasses. She read a line of artistic text on the background wall of the front desk: "Only to give you the best resting experience..." She added, "It seems what you said might be true."

"Hmm, I didn't see these words when I came last night. Were they just put up?" the pretty girl asked.

"Stop chattering and let's go in!" one of the girls said.

"How do we go in?"

"Let Old He and Nianwen go in first to scout. One of them is shameless, and the other is experienced."

"What do you mean... what do you mean by shameless?"

"You guys should stop arguing. The owner looks quite approachable, let's just go in together!" the quiet girl said, leading the way toward the hotel entrance. The rest quickly followed.

One minute later--

Cheng Yun stared blankly at the six girls standing before him.

"We don't have a choice, handsome owner. Please give us one room!" the pretty girl in shorts took charge of the pleading. "I came yesterday, at night, and you were the one who received me! I just think your place has a great environment, so I brought my roommates. You have to understand the future flowers of the motherland! Big handsome guy!"

"Uh..." Cheng Yun looked at them in astonishment. "Why would so many of you need one room... There aren't any mahjong tables in the standard rooms!"

"To study!" the pretty girl directly slammed a calculus textbook onto the counter.

Then, the girls silently stepped forward and stacked a graduate entrance exam English book, a graduate entrance exam math book, a book of sample essays for the civil service exam's political theory section, and a few professional books, creating a pile twenty centimeters high on the counter.

"Is that okay?" the girls looked at him expectantly. Just walking into the cool air-conditioned lobby made them not want to leave, let alone go back to their dormitory, which was like a furnace.

"O-okay!" Cheng Yun, though surprised, was quite decisive. "But you're sure there are only six of you, right?"

"Of course!" The pretty girl blinked in surprise, then looked at him with an expression that said, 'So that's the kind of person you are, handsome guy.' "You don't think we're going to call over the male classmates from our dorm, do you? That would be... illegal?"

"Uh, that's good then," Cheng Yun said, looking down. "Then give me two of your IDs to register, and you can write down the other students' IDs for backup?"

"No problem," the pretty girl grinned. "You're so nice, can we add you on WeChat?"

"Huh?"

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

"Tch! Boring!"

Cheng Yun took their IDs and, suppressing a smile, compared them before starting to register and record the information.

The pretty girl was Hao Nianwen, the chubby girl was He Qing, the quiet girl was Wu Wenshan, and the other three were Fan Zirong, Lin Han, and Qi Wei. Their dorm's overall appearance was average; perhaps the pretty girl and the quiet girl were the best-looking.

After quickly completing the check-in process, Cheng Yun watched them pack their books back into their bags before saying, "If you don't have enough sleeping space tonight, you can ask me for small mattresses and extra blankets."

"Wow! That's great!"

"Owner, I love you to death!"

"Thank you!"

"You're welcome," Cheng Yun replied.

Watching their retreating backs, he shook his head and lowered his gaze to continue watching his TV drama.

After all, even if something happened, no one could say anything about a few young girls studying late inside!

Suddenly, Hao Nianwen stopped on the stairs and looked back at Cheng Yun. "Handsome owner, do you use any incense in your rooms?"

"Incense?" Cheng Yun paused. "What do you mean?"

"I feel like you're using some kind of calming incense, right?"

Cheng Yun immediately understood and smiled. "That's a trade secret, can't be revealed."

"Tch!"

A minute later, Hao Nianwen swiped her card and opened the room. The six girls walked in. They simultaneously turned to look at the room's decor, then, as if by agreement, took a deep breath.

"It really does feel calming, but didn't we feel that way since we walked into the hotel?"

"I don't smell anything, except for that faint smell of new renovation."

"Yes, yes, I smell it!"

"You smell it? What does it smell like?"

"I can feel it, rather than smell it."

"You're being weird..."