Bai Xi

Bai Chen perfunctorily brushed off Gu Cheng, then grabbed his toiletries and went to brush his teeth.

While brushing, he glanced over at the other guy's activity. The other person did not make eye contact with him again, simply lying back down to catch some more sleep.

In the middle of brushing his teeth, Bai Chen figured out why that guy was holding such deep malice toward him.

It was probably because he had just spoken with Gu Yun, and on top of that, the guy had invited him to go get food together. Gu Cheng must have heard that and got jealous over nothing, though Bai Chen thought it was too childish. It wasn't as if he was stealing his lover, and he hadn't even agreed anyway.

Still, when did the two of them develop feelings for each other? Bai Chen guessed that Gu Yun probably didn't like the guy yet; after all, they had literally just bumped into Gu Yun yesterday, and a normal person shouldn't like him.

As for Gu Cheng, it was likely love at first sight.

They had only met yesterday, so what else could it be if not love at first sight?

No, it should be lust at first sight, seeing how pretty Gu Yun was.

After straightening out his thoughts, Bai Chen knew what he should do, suddenly feeling glad that he was a web novelist.

He had tropes completely wrapped around his little finger.

The next time he went home, he definitely had to discipline his younger sister and tell her to stop reading so many brain-dead romance novels.

They poisoned minds, completely poisoned minds!

After heading out, he had no intention of going to the cafeteria to eat, just in case he ran into Gu Yun and made things awkward.

He decided to go outside the school and randomly find a diner to settle his meal.

It was easy to get in but hard to get out. Since it was an elite school, Bai Chen had to fill out a stack of forms for safety reasons before he successfully managed to leave the campus.

"Ah..." Bai Chen took a deep breath and said, "The air outside really is better. It finally has a bit of the atmosphere from my world."

Outside the campus, a few high-end sedans were still parked, and young people stepped out of cars every now and then.

The students who entered this university basically all had families with a bit of money, along with a few young masters and misses from major conglomerates.

How did he judge this? Bai Chen had his own rules.

The fancier the car, the more outstanding the appearance, and the more people surrounding someone-ten to one, those were people with extraordinary identities.

Gu Cheng was the son of the Gu Corporation, but Bai Chen thought it was very strange why Gu Yun also had the last name Gu.

It definitely couldn't be because his sister was too lazy to think of names, though he couldn't deny that his sister was quite lazy when it came to naming roommates; otherwise, she wouldn't have used his name.

Could it be...

Bai Chen seemed to have thought of the upcoming plot.

Could Gu Yun and Gu Cheng be half-brothers?

He figured this was the kind of plot his sister could write. If that really was the case, he finally understood why this book was titled: The Deep Sadomasochistic Love of My Lover.

Of course, these were all just his guesses.

He still needed to observe a bit more.

Bai Chen wasn't very used to eating Western food, and it was expensive, so he walked a bit further and found a noodle shop for lunch.

Although this shop was small, it was very clean, the tables were brand new, and the customers filled every seat.

He stood at the entrance of the shop to check if there were any empty seats.

Fortunately, there was an empty seat near the kitchen. Bai Chen walked quickly over to that spot, sat down, and ordered a bowl of seafood rice noodles.

Before long, his noodles were served. They looked quite ordinary from the color, with a few small dried shrimps added inside, but the noodle sheets used were very delicate, tasting slippery, smooth, and sweet.

Right then, he finished every last bite of the noodles, and finally used a soup spoon to finish off the broth. The broth was very savory, and after drinking it, Bai Chen felt his whole body warm up.

This was the taste that belonged to his world. During these past few days, eating the luxurious meals cooked by the original body's family felt a bit unaccustomed. On the contrary, ordinary meals were what his life was about; that kind of life belonging to the original body was something he would never be able to attain.

He was just an ordinary person and had no way to give his sister that kind of life.

His sister had always been raised by him; his parents had both passed away in a car accident the year he started university.

Bai Xi was only in elementary school back then, right in the phase where she lacked love, and would occasionally throw little temper tantrums. But ever since that incident, she had become steady, sensible, and quiet.

It felt as though she had closed herself off. Aside from living expenses, she never asked him for money again, and every time he asked her if she had enough money, she always said she did.

During parent-teacher conferences back then, he couldn't rush back from another city to attend them either-he was still a student himself-yet every time, she was the one comforting Bai Chen that it was fine and she could attend her own parent-teacher conferences.

He was deeply comforted, but what he felt more of was helplessness and powerlessness.

That was the most difficult period of their lives.

That was why he absolutely had to return to his world; they were each other's only family members.

He could never let his younger sister live in that world all by herself.

She would be scared...