Do You Think He's a Scumbag?

If the other guys found out that Su Lexuan had just been chatting all lovey-dovey with a guy,

they dared to guarantee that Su Lexuan's admirers would flood Zhuhai University's forum and dig three feet into the ground to find him!

"No, don't overthink it. He's just an ordinary friend."

Su Lexuan defended herself with feigned calm, her pretty face slightly flushed as she changed the subject. "Weren't you watching a horror movie? Why are you so concerned about me?"

"My dear Lexuan, the horror movie ended ages ago. Just how obsessed are you with this guy?"

After one roommate complained irritably, she muttered with anticipation and curiosity, "I'm really curious what charm this guy has to make Zhuhai University's Campus Belle so smitten."

"I told you, he's not... Wait, the movie ended?"

Su Lexuan looked at the laptop screen in disbelief. Lines of Korean dialect subtitles were rolling across it.

This was a two-hour horror movie!

That meant she had chatted with Shen Lang for more than two hours?

Time had passed way too quickly!

Seeing that Su Lexuan stubbornly refused to admit he was her boyfriend, the roommates were too embarrassed to press further.

Some went to shower, while others memorized vocabulary. The dorm room immediately grew noisy.

The short-haired girl from earlier closed the horror movie page and opened a game, preparing to queue for ranked points.

"Lexuan, Lexuan."

During the wait for a match, the short-haired girl glanced at the roommate wearing headphones and listening to English vocabulary. Then she eagerly climbed onto Su Lexuan's bed, lowered her voice, and asked expectantly.

"Is he from our school or not? We've been best friends for seven or eight years. You can't possibly refuse to tell even me, right?"

The short-haired girl was Ye Xinxin, a friend Su Lexuan had known since middle school.

Their parents were close as well. They had practically grown up together, childhood sweethearts who were like sisters, the kind of best friends who could share the same pair of pants.

Aside from a few private matters, they basically had no secrets from each other.

Unlike the cheerful and sunny Su Lexuan, Ye Xinxin was an out-and-out scumbag woman—though only online.

Ye Xinxin was a gaming addict who dabbled in all sorts of games. Unfortunately, she was hopelessly clumsy at them and often got blamed by her teammates.

So Ye Xinxin began creating accounts on major gaming forums and posting pretty photos of herself to attract single gamer Otaku to help rank her up.

On top of that, Ye Xinxin had a sweet, syrupy voice. When she deliberately softened it, it carried a seductive lilt, and her chatting techniques had been polished to perfection. She often left those gamer Otaku completely dazed.

Even some moderately famous male streamers had once worked as Ye Xinxin's hired hands.

But whenever one of them suggested meeting in person or video chatting, Ye Xinxin would decisively kick him aside and find the next sucker willing to rank her up for free.

To her, games were games, and reality was reality.

She did not like those decadent guys who stayed cooped up at home playing games all day without the slightest ambition.

Of course, if they were very handsome, she could consider it.

"Come on, he really isn't."

Su Lexuan mumbled, her pretty face faintly red. "I only met him this afternoon when I went out to buy chestnuts. How could he possibly be my boyfriend?"

"Huh? You'd only known him for a little over ten minutes, and he already asked for your WeChat? More importantly, you actually gave it to him?"

Ye Xinxin asked incredulously, "When did you become so casual?"

Su Lexuan opened her mouth as if she wanted to say something, but she did not know where to begin.

She was even more embarrassed to tell her that she had been the one who ran over and asked Shen Lang for his WeChat.

"Hiss... You didn't run into a scumbag, did you?"

Ye Xinxin warned her vigilantly. "Li Hai from the Economics Department has been pursuing you for months. He buys you breakfast and drives his sports car to ask you out to movies, yet you haven't even acknowledged him!"

"No way. He was really nervous when he talked to me, and he seemed a little socially anxious."

Su Lexuan answered honestly.

"Scumbags are all very good at acting."

Ye Xinxin instructed seriously, "Let me see what you two talked about. As your best friend, I need to screen him for you."

After thinking it over, Su Lexuan handed her phone to Ye Xinxin and opened her chat history with Shen Lang.

Although Ye Xinxin was only a player online, to Su Lexuan, this best friend had seen countless men and was practically a seasoned expert in romance.

After reviewing the chat for quite a while, even Ye Xinxin felt an inexplicable flutter in her heart. This guy was truly good at chatting.

Just from Su Lexuan's pile of cute stickers, she could tell that the other party had gradually, imperceptibly dismantled the reserve Su Lexuan had built around herself.

Su Lexuan had also gone from putting on an act of restraint at the beginning to getting more and more engrossed as they chatted.

If they had not been in the dorm, and if the roommates had not been beside her, Ye Xinxin believed that her silly best friend would definitely have started a voice chat with him, or even a video call!

Su Lexuan was somewhat surprised as she sat beside her. While chatting, she had not felt time passing so quickly at all.

Only now, as they reviewed it, did Su Lexuan realize in shock that she and Shen Lang had talked about so many things.

"So? Do you think he's a scumbag?"

Su Lexuan looked nervously at the serious-faced Ye Xinxin.

As for why she was nervous, even Su Lexuan herself did not know.

Maybe she was worried that if Shen Lang really was a scumbag, she should cut off contact with him?

"It kind of feels like it, but I'm not sure."

Ye Xinxin gave an ambiguous answer.

In the chat history, Shen Lang's replies had all been friendly and normal. He had not deliberately steered the conversation toward topics Su Lexuan liked, and what they talked about was quite ordinary.

Judging him to be a scumbag based on that alone would be making a mountain out of a molehill.

"Right, wouldn't looking at his Moments make it obvious?"

Ye Xinxin suddenly realized it and slapped Su Lexuan's fair thigh.

Su Lexuan rubbed her thigh and asked curiously, "What can you tell from Moments?"

"You're so silly. We scumbag women make our Moments radiate availability, creating the impression that we're single and very easy to pursue."

Ye Xinxin explained matter-of-factly, "Guys are similar, except on top of that availability, they add a touch of sadness—like having just broken up. As long as some girl falls for it and messages him privately to comfort him, he's achieved his goal."

The innocent Su Lexuan listened in a daze. In the end, she held her forehead and laughed awkwardly. "Your, your circle is so messed up..."

"Hehe, I may be a player too, but I've never taken anything else from those guys. I just have them help me rank up."

Ye Xinxin stuck out her tongue and defended herself with a grin. "Otherwise, where do you think all my King accounts came from?"