Is This What Being in Love Feels Like?

After coming ashore from the beach.

It was as if their memories had been wiped; with perfect tacit understanding, they both forgot that ambiguous kiss and continued strolling hand in hand along the pebble path by the shore.

It was around ten at night when they had more or less explored the whole place and the lively lantern festival had ended. Only then did Shen Lang reluctantly see Su Lexuan off to her car.

"Damn, is this what being in love feels like?"

Back home, Shen Lang lay on his small bed, touched his lips, and could not help letting out a silly laugh. "It feels really nice..."

The only thing Shen Lang found regrettable was that, with such a great opportunity at the beach, he had not even used his tongue.

Shen Lang felt that using one's tongue while kissing was what counted as a real kiss.

But for a socially anxious otaku like Shen Lang, taking the initiative to kiss Su Lexuan was already brave enough.

As for using his tongue, Shen Lang still did not quite dare.

He was mainly worried Su Lexuan might have an extreme reaction. After all, it had only been their first offline date.

Even now, Shen Lang was still nervous. That lingering sense of pressure was no less intense than being in a 1v5 endgame situation.

Shen Lang was not discouraged by this either. Since it had not worked this time, it had at least given Su Lexuan some advance warning.

The next time he asked her out, if he took the initiative to kiss her, she should be prepared, and neither of them would feel awkward.

Tomorrow was Sunday, and Su Lexuan had to go home to spend time with her parents.

They had also agreed that if neither of them had anything going on next Saturday, they could go out again.

Thinking this, Shen Lang could not help grinning. He was already looking forward to next Saturday!

Just then, Su Lexuan sent him a WeChat message. "I'm back at school. I had a lot of fun today."

Sleep Till Dawn: "Get some rest early. I'll take you out again next Saturday."

Don't Want Early Morning Class's Le: "Mm-hmm. Also, I'm sending you the money we spent today,"

Su Lexuan transferred 120 yuan to Shen Lang, including the 15 yuan for the Sugar Painting.

In the past, Shen Lang might have thought she was trying to end their relationship, which was why she had gone out of her way to transfer the money back to him.

But now, Shen Lang instead felt that Su Lexuan was a very good girl. At the very least, her character was beyond reproach.

Sleep Till Dawn: "No need. It was only a little over a hundred yuan."

Don't Want Early Morning Class's Le: "No, you have to accept it. We've only known each other for so long—I can't just spend your money. Hurry up, hurry up. {angry Yuumi}"

Sleep Till Dawn: "How about this? This time, it's my treat. You can treat me next time. There's no need to make such a fuss over a little more than a hundred yuan. {doge}"

After a moment of silence, she replied, "Mm-hmm, I'll treat you to seafood next time!"

After chatting for a little while longer, Su Lexuan reached the girls' dormitory building, put away her phone, and smilingly headed toward her room.

Su Lexuan was extremely satisfied with today's date, and even her steps were cheerful.

When she returned to the dorm, most of her roommates were already asleep.

Only her best friend Ye Xinxin was curled up beneath her summer blanket, tirelessly playing on her phone.

"My darling Xuan~ You're back?"

Hearing the door open, Ye Xinxin immediately poked her head out and teased in a low voice with a playful expression, "I thought you weren't coming back tonight~"

"It's so late. If I didn't come back, was I supposed to sleep under a bridge?"

With her heart racing and face flushed, Su Lexuan avoided Ye Xinxin's knowing smile. After undressing, she went into the bathroom to wash up.

After showering, Su Lexuan slipped under the covers and hugged her Pikachu plushie. As she recalled strolling along the beach with Shen Lang, she could not help feeling as though it had all been a fleeting dream.

Her relationship with Shen Lang had progressed far too quickly. They had known each other for less than four days, yet they were already close enough to hold hands and kiss at the beach!

More importantly, that had been her first kiss!!

"Wasn't this really too fast? We've only known each other for a few days?"

Su Lexuan poked her head out from beneath the covers and looked solemnly at Ye Xinxin, who was curled up under her blanket in the upper corner, playing games.

She wondered whether she should talk to this best friend who had dated countless men.

"But situations like this do happen, right? And besides..."

Thinking about kissing Shen Lang at the beach, Su Lexuan's face gradually turned rosy. She gently bit her cherry lips with her pearly teeth, looking a little bashful. Her fair, translucent cheeks quickly flushed red, while her chest beneath her pink nightgown rose and fell from time to time.

The next second, a sweet, silly smile spread across Su Lexuan's lovely cherry lips, growing wider and wider.

In the end, as if she had thought of something embarrassing, Su Lexuan hugged Pikachu and shrank beneath the covers, burying her burning face in its fluffy body. She tossed and turned on her small bed, unable to fall asleep.

The corners of her mouth would still occasionally curl into an involuntary silly smile, only to be replaced by a stern expression of self-reminder, as though she were struggling against something irresistible!

"I didn't expect it to actually happen."

Ye Xinxin propped up her chin and watched Su Lexuan rolling around on the small bed. Shaking her head, she could not help sighing. "Looks like there'll be plenty of relationship sweetness to choke on from now on."

The days that followed were just as Ye Xinxin had expected.

Whenever Su Lexuan had free time, she would chat lovey-dovey with Shen Lang on WeChat.

At first, Su Lexuan had been somewhat mindful of her roommates and was too embarrassed to chat openly with Shen Lang.

But as time passed, Su Lexuan completely came clean.

They went from manually typing messages at first to sending voice messages later on, and their relationship heated up very quickly.

Their lovey-dovey voices gave their roommates headaches.

Whenever the roommates saw Su Lexuan lying in bed, swinging her fair little feet as she chatted with Shen Lang, they felt both envious and inexplicably anxious.

All of the roommates, including the internet-slut Ye Xinxin, were single. Who among them did not want to find a guy in college and have a sweet romance?

Sometimes, even during class, Su Lexuan would secretly take out her phone to chat with Shen Lang.

Their phone calls grew longer and longer each time. Sometimes, they could even awkwardly chat through an entire night, and Su Lexuan had worn out a power bank because of it!

The people in the dorm had also come to fully understand that Zhuhai University's campus belle, the White Moonlight of countless boys' dreams, really was dating someone!

However, aside from Ye Xinxin, no one knew that Su Lexuan's boyfriend was not from the school, but someone she had met while selling chestnuts outside campus. Could you believe it?

The people in the dorm had also said they would keep Su Lexuan's secret and would not spread the news that she was dating Shen Lang.

Who would have thought that the very next day, news that Su Lexuan was dating a guy from outside the school would directly make it onto Zhuhai University's trending forum.

As the undisputed queen of Zhuhai University's looks scene and the White Moonlight of countless boys.

When Su Lexuan's admirers saw the forum post, they were overcome with envy, jealousy, and resentment, all asking around about who the campus belle's rumored boyfriend outside the school was.

At first, Su Lexuan had some reservations, worried that the forum post might cause some kind of commotion.

Besides, that campus belle title had been forced onto her by those boys. She had not even known about it.

But later, Su Lexuan let it go.

She was not some hugely famous celebrity or streamer. Why should she care what others thought about her having an ordinary relationship?

Even a campus belle was allowed to date, okay!