After class, the four sisters chatted and laughed as they headed back to the dorm to drop off their books. They only had classes for half the day today, so they planned to mooch a boxed lunch at the company first, then get some work done.
They had just returned to the bottom of the dorm building when they saw a lean young man rush toward them.
"Qiao Qiao! Are you okay?"
"Qin Chuan?" Xie Qiao was more than a little confused. She looked at the three pairs of gossip-hungry eyes beside her. "No, why did you fly back all of a sudden?"
"You called me crying your eyes out. How could I not come back?"
"Oh, what are you talking about? I wasn't crying."
Xie Qiao jolted and hurriedly shoved her books into Wang Ying's hands. "Um... you guys go on up first. I'll talk to him for a bit."
The three of them gave her one regretful look before turning and entering the dorm building.
"I told you Xie Qiao had been crying," Wang Ying said. "But she really managed to fool us at the time."
"Something definitely happened." Xu Lin nodded.
Xiao Qianxi was baffled. "When did Qiao Qiao cry?"
"The night before last. When Xie Qiao came back, her eyes were all swollen." Xu Lin explained what had happened that day. "She said something got in her eye and she rubbed it herself. She wouldn't tell us anything. Should we ask her later?"
Xiao Qianxi shook her head. "If she wanted to tell us, she would have told us already. We shouldn't ask."
"What could it be?" Xu Lin scratched her head.
"I think it's probably about her Little Boat Brother." Wang Ying thought for a moment. "Haven't you noticed that she hasn't talked about him