I Have Two Girlfriends

Men's Dorm, Room 201.

Under the desk lamp, Liu Rui, who had been working through problems, suddenly stopped writing. He glanced at the dorm room door and asked in an unconcerned, casual, utterly indifferent tone, "Why isn't that brat back yet?"

Huang Guangming, sitting on his bed playing Dota Legends, did not even look up. He replied with a sleazy grin, "No idea. Why are you so worried about him? You into guys or something? You truck driver, disgusting!"

"Get down here! My ass!"

Liu Rui cursed, leaped up, grabbed the ladder, and shook the bed. Huang Guangming was so frightened that he stopped looking at his phone and hurriedly hugged the railing, begging for mercy.

"Brother Liu, Brother Liu, I was wrong, I was wrong! Don't shake it! Someone's gonna die! Aaaah!"

No one was actually going to die. The beds were connected in two rows, and the cabinets were packed with books and clothes weighing them down. Even if Liu Rui hung his entire body weight from it, there was no way he could tip over such a massive rectangular structure.

These two jokers messing around had practically become part of daily life in Dorm Room 201.

At that moment, Shi Shang, who had been reviewing English, suddenly looked up and said out of nowhere, "Come to think of it, that brat hasn't been doing part-time work lately. We haven't seen him gaming at night either. He spends all day in the library. Could it be..."

"Could it be?" Liu Rui pricked up his ears.

"Could he be dating someone?" Shi Shang asked uncertainly.

Liu Rui: "..."

Huang Guangming: "..."

"...Uh, why did you guys stop talking?" Shi Shang asked awkwardly after realizing he had killed the conversation.

Liu Rui and Huang Guangming exchanged glances, then looked at Shi Shang together.

Liu Rui said solemnly, "Brother Fei."

"Fuck, call me Brother Fei again and I'll get mad!"

Huang Guangming said gravely, "Brother Fei, we're Mathematics majors."

"..."

The logic was simply too perfect. Shi Shang was left speechless, choking on his own silence, just short of shedding two streams of tears down his cheeks.

The percentage of single guys in the Mathematics department could absolutely top the entire Jin University. Other School of Engineering departments could at least pick out a class beauty, but here... if they wanted one, they would probably have to convince the class monitor to dress as a woman.

As for girls from other classes, the first thing they thought upon hearing "Mathematics department" was, "Oh, those single dogs," "Have they ever dated?" and "Probably not, right?" Generally speaking, girls did not particularly enjoy dating people with no sense of romance. Those who managed to get a girlfriend were rarer than phoenix feathers.

Otherwise, how could one explain why a handsome, dashing basketball player like me, a male god on the same level as Rukawa Kaede, was still single?

Sigh, reality was just that cruel.

Shi Shang gazed toward the heavens.

Just then, Lu Zhou happened to return to the dorm. He pushed open the door and laughed.

"What are you guys making a fuss about? I could hear Guangming howling from down the hallway. Hurry up and find girlfriends. If you drag this out too long, I'm afraid something might happen."

Huang Guangming looked serious. "Brat, I have a very serious question. Answer honestly."

"What...?"

Shi Shang solemnly cut in, "Do you have a girlfriend?"

Lu Zhou said impatiently, "Yeah, yeah, I've got two. Jealous? Want me to lend them to you?"

"Get lost!" the three of them said in unison.

Lu Zhou froze. He had not expected them to be so synchronized. Then he suddenly realized something and gave an embarrassed laugh. "What... are you guys thinking? I meant Advanced Algebra II and Mathematical Analysis II. I took notes in them. Take them and read them if you want, just remember to return them."

"..."

"..."

"..."

Uh.

Looks like the conversation died again.

In the morning, Lu Zhou got up early as usual. After washing up and getting himself ready, he slung his laptop over his shoulder and headed to the cafeteria.

The cafeteria had just opened for business, and the hall was nearly empty.

Just as Lu Zhou walked in, a fresh batch of steamed buns came out of the oven. He could smell the fragrance of dough from far away.

"Auntie, three buns and a cup of soy milk, packed to go!"

"Sure! You're here this early again, young man? Auntie will pick you some big ones."

"Thanks, Auntie!"

Lu Zhou had a sweet mouth, whether he was speaking to classmates, teachers, or strangers.

It was a principle his father had taught him: be kind to others, and you would never lose out.

Of course, that was not entirely true. His father had worked at a steel mill for so many years and had suffered plenty of losses and grievances. As for Lu Zhou himself, even though he kept his father's teachings in mind, he occasionally could not control his mouth and would make a cutting remark when he should have kept quiet.

Once the buns were packed, Lu Zhou took out his meal card and tapped it against the card reader.

However, his expression became awkward the next second.

[Insufficient balance]

Noticing Lu Zhou's embarrassment, the cafeteria auntie smiled and said casually, "It's fine. You can pay cash too. I can make change."

Lu Zhou felt around in his pocket, pulled out his wallet, and looked even more awkward.

The wallet was completely empty, save for a bank card. As for his Xiaomi phone, he had left it charging in the dorm room, so he could not scan a QR code to pay either.

This cafeteria probably could not accept bank cards, right?

System...

Can we talk? Can points be exchanged for money?

Lu Zhou quietly asked in his heart, but unfortunately, the system did not feel like answering him.

Just then, something like heavenly music rang out as the card reader chimed.

Lu Zhou immediately turned around and saw a girl with wispy bangs standing behind him, smiling at him. She lightly waved the meal card in her right hand.

"Hi, morning."

"Morning..." Lu Zhou froze for a moment, then nodded.

Who...

Was she?

"How rude! You actually don't recognize me!" Chen Yushan could tell at a glance that Lu Zhou had not recognized her, and she pouted in annoyance.

"Uh, sorry... Thanks. How about you add me on WeChat? I'll pay you back when I get back?"

"No need. It was only 2.5 yuan. I'm not that stingy, and we already have each other on WeChat, okay?" Tossing her hair, Chen Yushan smiled with pursed lips and extended her right hand. "Let's get acquainted again. My name is Chen Yushan, from the Business School. Junior Lu Zhou, you can call me Senior Sister from now on."

Lu Zhou did not know why she stressed the words "junior" so heavily, why she had added "little" before it, or how she had learned the truth. But when he heard her say they had already added each other on WeChat, he instantly remembered who she was.

It was just that...

Her image had changed a little too much!

Below her waist were neat denim shorts, followed by a pair of long legs that made it hard to know where to look, and white sandals. She wore a cool white boat-neck T-shirt that somehow gave her a sense of geometric depth. She had light makeup on her face, with a pale red lip gloss that was fresh yet vivid. Most notably, her round-framed glasses were gone... Perhaps she had switched to contact lenses?

Seeing Lu Zhou standing there dumbly without saying anything, Chen Yushan felt a little pleased. Her roommate had dragged her into spending so much effort getting dressed up, and she had found it annoying at first, but now she suddenly felt that the time had not been wasted after all.

Of course, that was also because she had good natural features. She was simply used to being unkempt normally.

Even if ordinary people put all their effort into dressing up, they would not achieve half her effect.

"What is it, little junior?" Chen Yushan brushed back the long hair by her ear and looked at Lu Zhou with a mischievous smile, silently prompting him to say something.

Lu Zhou was silent for a while. He looked Chen Yushan up and down, wondering whether he should say it, but in the end, he could not bear the torment of his conscience and quietly said, "The air conditioning in the library is really strong... You'll catch a cold dressed like that."

"..."

Chen Yushan suddenly felt that she had been incredibly stupid to expect anything from him.

Lu Zhou ate one of the three buns, tightly tied the remaining two in the plastic bag, and put them in his backpack. Chen Yushan, slurping noodles, gave him a curious glance but said nothing. She simply assumed he had a good habit of not wasting food.

They finished eating at around the same time and headed toward the library together.

It was still the same old place. Chen Yushan sat beside Lu Zhou, pulled out her exercise book, and buried herself in problems. Her new style was only meant to brighten her mood and satisfy her roommate's interest; it did not affect her study rhythm at all.

Lu Zhou took out his laptop and continued meticulously editing his paper.

The method of calculation Old Tang had shown him yesterday had greatly inspired his paper. With the iron hot, he intended to select the important parts of that proof and write them into the paper.

That would leave only three difficult points to figure out. If he pushed a little harder, he could hopefully finish the whole paper before the end of the month!

SCI journals were slow to review submissions. Taking two or three months was nothing unusual, and even a massive paper mill like AMC could not possibly be that fast. He did not want to spend more than half a year completing the system's task.

And so, time passed without them noticing, and soon it was noon.

After grinding through problems all morning, Chen Yushan stretched lazily, glanced at Lu Zhou beside her, stood up, walked over, and lightly poked his arm.

"Junior, junior, want to go have lunch together?"

She seemed to have become addicted to calling him junior. Once was not enough, so she called him that twice in a row.

Lu Zhou hesitated, then shook his head. "No need. I'm not very hungry yet. You go ahead."

It was Sunday. The people who topped up meal cards were not working, and his phone was back in the dorm. It would be too embarrassing to use her meal card again, would it not?

"You really don't want to? I'll treat you," Chen Yushan asked.

Lu Zhou swallowed as he thought of the cafeteria's grilled meat rice bowl.

In the end, the temptation of food overcame reason. He nodded awkwardly. "Then... let's go together. I'll treat you next time."

The buns were cold anyway. It did not seem to matter whether he ate them at noon or at night.

"Ah, I'm going to remember that. Come on, then. If we wait any longer, we'll hit the lunch rush." Chen Yushan stood up. The moment she turned away, the corners of her mouth lifted. She looked spirited and triumphant as she hummed to herself.

So what if his IQ is high? He still has to submit to this fairy's mature, elegant senior-sister charm.

However, Lu Zhou, who followed her out of the library, did not notice the smugness on her face at all, because at that very moment, he was contemplating a very serious question.

Should he get cumin flavor?

Or black pepper flavor?