A weekend really was over in the blink of an eye.
Chen Shu returned to the dorm.
Only Meng Chunqiu and Jiang Lai were there. They were eating meals from the cafeteria, looking as pitiful as children left behind by their parents. Chen Shu leaned over to see what they had and shook his head repeatedly.
That was the thing about Yujing University's cafeteria food. It tasted decent at first, but the more you ate it, the worse it got. Every day tasted the same.
You had to alternate between cafeterias.
Ideally, you'd alternate between the cafeterias at Yujing University and Ling'an Academy... Oh, they couldn't do that. Never mind, then.
"Brother Chen, you're back?"
"Not yet. I'm still downstairs."
"..." Meng Chunqiu choked on that. "Have you eaten?"
"I have."
"What did you eat?"
"Chicken with Taro, mapo tofu, hot-and-sour shredded potatoes, and pork soup."
"What is 'child-rearing chicken'? A hen that's just hatched its eggs?"
"Taro and chicken. It's delicious."
"And what is mapo tofu?"
"A signature dish from my hometown." Chen Shu felt sorry for him, never having tried even that. "I'll let you two taste it next time."
"That would be wonderful." Meng Chunqiu shoveled in a mouthful of rice. "But Brother Chen, can you and your girlfriend you're not dating finish all that? Does your girlfriend you're not dating live outside every day? Doesn't she come back to the dorm?"
"She packs the leftovers and takes them back."
"I see."
"Heh..."
Thinking that Zhang Suannai, who had been frantically searching for him for over ten days, might be eating food he'd made right now amused Chen Shu. According to Xiaoxiao, Zhang Suannai seemed to suspect he was watching her through campus surveillance. She had spent the last few days staking out the security office. When