First Date

No matter what, after taking two girls shopping today, a quarter of Wang Dachui and Li Haoyang's living expenses were gone.

By the end of this month, they would probably be eating dirt.

Thinking about it, they became listless as soon as they returned to the dorm.

Li Haoyang lay on his bed, pulled out his phone, and started chatting with Liu Bingxin.

The money couldn't be spent for nothing. He had to make a move on the girl.

Strike while the iron was hot and deepen their relationship.

Wang Dachui had also added Tang Enqi's contact information and sent her a greeting on his phone.

But...

She didn't reply at all...

Wang Dachui was baffled.

Could Sister Enqi be busy?

In the dorm, Shen Qiao watched them and silently shook his head.

Simps never ended well.

Then, his gaze shifted to Luo Ye.

He thought there was something between Luo Ye and Su Baizhou.

It was a gut feeling.

Su Baizhou was the Cool and Aloof Campus Belle, yet by some twist of fate, she had performed onstage with Luo Ye.

Generally speaking, that kind of situation was a match deliberately arranged by fate.

(Wang Dachui: Hehehe.)

And today, he had personally watched Luo Ye add Su Baizhou's Green Bubble. From the looks of it, she had even accepted it.

That clearly meant there was a chance.

Thinking of this, Shen Qiao sat on his bed and laughed out loud.

He, Shen Qiao, truly had the highest emotional intelligence. Every guess was right. Unmatched, the great detective, a man holding the script.

The other three roommates looked at Shen Qiao, who had suddenly started laughing, as if he were an idiot.

Wang Dachui: "Idiot."

Li Haoyang: "Have you gone crazy?"

Luo Ye: "What happened?"

Just then, Luo Ye's phone rang.

Fairy Senior Sister had sent him a message.

Luo Ye opened the chat window.

Fairy Senior Sister said she was done with her work and asked when he would have time to play games with her.

Of course he was free right now!

Then, Su Baizhou sent him her game ID.

Its name was... I'm Big Bear, You Do As You Please.

Huh?

Luo Ye stared at the name and fell into deep thought.

That Fairy Senior Sister really had quite the contrast in games. She had actually chosen a name like that.

Maybe Fairy Senior Sister was cool and aloof in real life but cheerful online.

In the girls' dorm, Su Baizhou looked at the name with a flushed face and couldn't help saying to Qin Yuwen, "Shameless."

Qin Yuwen was utterly confused. Then she thrust out her ample chest and asked doubtfully, "Why are you scolding me? I've always used this name. Why didn't you have a problem with it before?"

Then she noticed that Su Baizhou's party interface showed two people, but she didn't think much of it.

After all, aside from her roommate, Su Baizhou had another close friend studying medicine at Jiangcheng Medical University.

She was probably queueing up with that friend.

Besides... Su Baizhou had even put on her headset and turned on her mic to start giving directions.

Qin Yuwen was basically certain that she was gaming with her friend.

After all, someone with social anxiety online would only speak if they were with someone familiar.

Still, although Su Baizhou had turned on her microphone, she rarely spoke. Her style was cool and detached.

But that was already enough for Luo Ye. Being able to hear Fairy Senior Sister's voice filled him with satisfaction, even making him feel a surge of happiness.

That was probably how boys felt when they liked a girl—easy to please, just like Luo Ye.

Luo Ye played support. Although he was better at jungling, Fairy Senior Sister had told him to support.

Come to think of it, Fairy Senior Sister's gaming style was a lot like Senior Qin's. As expected of roommates, they really had good coordination.

They played five matches that night and only lost one.

Luo Ye said with admiration, "Senior Sister, you're not bad at games. You're not like how Senior Qin described you."

Hearing his voice through her headset, Su Baizhou softly said, "I'm not bad. I'm much better than Qin Yuwen."

Qin Yuwen, who was scrolling through videos beside her, suddenly heard her name. She sat up and waved her arms around. "Zhouzhou, I feel like you're insulting me!"

Her voice was loud enough that even with Su Baizhou's headset on, it reached Luo Ye.

Hearing Qin Yuwen's lively voice, he smiled and said, "Senior Qin's personality is pretty different online too. Do girls all have two sides?"

"You can think of it that way," Su Baizhou said flatly.

Although Fairy Senior Sister spoke coldly, she seriously responded to every single thing he said.

That meant he was already Fairy Senior Sister's friend. Otherwise, with the personality people said she had, she definitely wouldn't pay attention to him.

Now that things had gotten this far, Luo Ye wondered whether he should ask Fairy Senior Sister out for a meal.

What excuse would be best?

Thinking of this, Luo Ye opened his chat with "Qin Yuwen" on QQ and asked:

Senior Qin, if I ask Senior Sister Su out for dinner, do you think she'll agree?

When Su Baizhou saw the message, she fell into thought and replied:

You've known me for so long, but you're asking her out first?

Luo Ye froze when he saw that.

Right. He had known Senior Qin online for quite a while. They had played so many games together, and now they had even ended up at the same university by such a coincidence.

Yet he still hadn't met Senior Qin in person. Either way, he should invite Senior Qin to meet first.

Luo Ye: Then... but wouldn't it be inappropriate for a boy and a girl to meet alone?

Su Baizhou replied: We won't meet alone. Didn't you want to see Zhouzhou? I'll bring Zhouzhou along, but you can't bring any friends. Zhouzhou has social anxiety.

Luo Ye: Okay!!!

He added three exclamation marks to express how excited he was, then asked: Are you free tomorrow evening? I know a really good restaurant.

It was the very restaurant Wang Dachui and Li Haoyang had taken the two girls to today.

Loves Hot Pot: I'm not free tomorrow.

Luo Ye: Huh?

Loves Hot Pot: Zhouzhou is usually busy, but she has time on the weekend.

Luo Ye: No problem! Got it!

Loves Hot Pot: You just arrived in Jiangcheng, so you're not familiar with the area. I'll treat you to dinner, as payment for helping me... and Zhouzhou rank up?

Luo Ye: How could I let you do that?

Loves Hot Pot: It's settled.

After the chat ended, Luo Ye was in an extremely good mood.

Playing games and chatting with someone you liked was such a happy thing.

But people online always said that falling in love made people stupid.

He didn't think so. He felt smart as hell right now.

Filled with anticipation, Luo Ye gradually fell asleep.

Li Haoyang's snores and Wang Dachui's sleep-talking echoed through the dorm.

Soon, it was the weekend.

Without telling his roommates, Luo Ye went alone to the barbershop across from the school to get his hair styled.

Because he didn't know how to style it himself.

As for why he had kept it from his roommates... before there was any result, he didn't want everyone knowing about it.

After all, he was meeting Jiang University's Cool and Aloof Campus Belle. He couldn't afford the slightest mistake.

More importantly, after observing them, he had realized that aside from Shen Qiao, the other two were all talk. They had no idea how to flirt with girls at all.

Asking them for advice would be worse than handling it himself. They would only make things worse.

Luo Ye had the barber part his bangs seven-to-three, making his already handsome face look even more sunny.

He looked like a bright, cheerful college boy.

The barber also talked Luo Ye into getting a membership card. Under the barber's enthusiastic farewell, he left the tiny shop.

Today was the first weekend of official classes after Military Training ended.

Those who knew, knew.

The hormones sparked between boys and girls during freshmen Military Training, along with upperclassmen who had long been waiting to ask out younger students, had almost all gathered at the school gate today.

Boys and girls could be seen everywhere, arriving at the school gate in pairs. There were also small groups of seven or eight, both male and female, chatting and laughing.

Luo Ye suddenly felt a little nervous.

It wasn't like he had never gone out with girls before, but the only time he had gone out with just one other girl was when he went shopping with his Aunt.