The girl had already told the young man three times...
She wondered if he'd heard her at all.
Xiao Xiao looked past the girl at her friend, who was watching him with curiosity. He smiled.
"Hello."
Ah...
The girl with bobbed hair looked flustered for a moment.
But she quickly pressed her lips together and gave him a somewhat bashful smile.
"Hello."
"This is my friend."
The girl introduced them to each other.
"Zhuge Yao."
"Yaoyao."
"This is Xiao Xiao."
"Zhuge..."
Xiao Xiao paused, slightly taken aback.
"Your surname is Zhuge?"
The girl with bobbed hair nodded.
"Mm."
The girl wasn't at all surprised by his astonishment and question.
She was used to handling this sort of exchange.
After all, she had a rather unusual surname...
Xiao Xiao smiled.
"You're the second person named Zhuge I've met."
He really was a little surprised.
He hadn't expected...
That he'd meet a second Zhuge...
With such a rare surname...
In a way, he was pretty lucky?
Huh?
Both the girl and the girl with bobbed hair froze.
"You know someone else named Zhuge?"
The girl blurted out, her face full of surprise.
The girl with bobbed hair also widened her eyes.
They were round as saucers.
Xiao Xiao smiled faintly.
"One of my roommates is also surnamed Zhuge."
The girl's mouth fell open. "...R-really?"
This young man had a roommate who was also surnamed Zhuge?
"Really."
Xiao Xiao nodded.
"I wouldn't just change someone else's surname."
"Ah."
The girl paused, then stammered, "I didn't mean..."
She was just so surprised.
In her more than twenty years of life, the girl with bobbed hair was the first person she'd met with an unusual surname.
That showed just how rare unusual surnames