Yu Meiren

"..."

The short-haired girl opened her mouth.

But no sound came out.

She stomped hard on the concrete floor.

It was so upsetting to want to say something but be unable to.

Phew~

The short-haired girl took a deep breath.

The air flowing in and out cleared her head a little.

At last, she remembered the plan they had come up with beforehand.

"Meiren."

The short-haired girl turned her head and grabbed her friend's arm.

"You talk to him."

Meiren?

Xiao Xiao raised an eyebrow slightly.

Was it the two characters he thought it was?

What a lovely name.

He smiled.

"Hello."

"H-hello."

Her friend had suddenly pulled her over, and now an unfamiliar boy was greeting her. The girl with the half-up bun was flustered for a moment.

But she quickly calmed down.

"My surname is Yu."

"The Yu in Yu Meiren."

The girl with the half-up bun gave the explanation with practiced ease.

"So some of my friends call me Meiren."

"It's just a nickname."

It didn't mean she was a beauty.

She wasn't that shameless.

Nor did she prefer such a blunt form of address.

Her friends just thought it was fun and easy to say. After she'd protested several times to no avail, she let them call her that.

"No."

The short-haired girl muttered under her breath.

"Meiren, you really are a beauty."

So, when they found out her surname was Yu, they'd blurted out Yu Meiren.

Calling her by all three characters was too long.

And it didn't feel intimate enough.

So they simply called her Meiren.

They all thought the nickname suited their friend perfectly.

Their friend was special.

Yes.

As for being pretty...

She really was beautiful.

But she wasn't so beautiful that she outshone every other