Good night

After finishing the meal, Su Baizhou said goodbye to Sister Zhou, the owner, then returned to her Chopped Chili Fish Head.

Luo Ye sat in the driver's seat, feeling a little nervous.

Their date was over. He wondered whether his senior had developed any feelings for him.

"Back to the Faculty Apartments," Su Baizhou said evenly.

She couldn't hold her liquor very well, but this was her first time going out with a guy, so she wasn't going to drink too much.

One bottle of green plum wine had little effect on her. It had only left her cheeks slightly flushed.

Luo Ye could see what she looked like now.

Her expression was as cool and aloof as ever, but her lovely face had taken on a faint blush.

Just one glance out of the corner of his eye sent his heart pounding.

She really was a fairy. How could she be so beautiful?

The evening rush hour had already passed, so there weren't many cars on the road.

Besides, Chopped Chili Fish Head had a huge learner-driver sticker on the back. With its pink exterior making it obviously a girl's car, probably no other driver would dare mess with it.

Soon, they arrived back at the Faculty Apartments and pulled into the parking lot.

After getting out, Su Baizhou picked up her bag and told Luo Ye, "Your phone's been going off nonstop for a while now."

At that, Luo Ye took out his phone.

He hadn't been able to check it while driving. Only now did he see that his roommates, realizing he still hadn't come back so late at night, were practically frantic.

They suspected Luo Ye had found someone new outside and abandoned them, a bunch of lonely empty nesters.

"My roommates. They're telling me to come home."

As he spoke, Luo Ye looked around and said in surprise, "You live in the faculty housing too?"

Hearing this, Su Baizhou hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said evenly, "Yes. Room 614 in this building."

Room 614 sounded vaguely familiar to Luo Ye, but nothing struck him as odd at the time.

After all, he had only visited once and hadn't memorized Gu Mingxuan's address. Add half a month of military training to that, and he had long since forgotten it.

Even if he went to Gu Mingxuan's place again, he would still have to look up the address Gu Mingxuan had sent him.

Then Luo Ye waved goodbye to Su Baizhou.

He didn't leave right away, though. He watched Su Baizhou go upstairs before heading off.

When Luo Ye reached his dorm room, he didn't go inside.

He looked at the green plum wine in his hand.

Once he went in, Wang Dachui would definitely try to grab some.

Luo Ye downed it right there outside the door.

It was sweet, with a faint hint of tartness, and tasted good, but it didn't make him feel even slightly drunk.

He tossed the green plum wine bottle into the nearby trash can, then Luo Ye stepped into the room.

The instant he entered, his roommates surrounded him.

Wang Dachui stood at the front, eyes wide as he demanded, "What's going on? You'd better explain yourself to your three dads."

Shen Qiao also said with a smile, "Once a kid grows up, you just can't keep him at home."

Luo Ye pushed Wang Dachui aside and hurried back to his desk. "Do you want to climb the ranks or not?"

"Yes, absolutely!" Wang Dachui's face lit up.

But Luo Ye hadn't updated his novel yet today, so he decided to post today's installment first.

Nearby, Wang Dachui watched Luo Ye typing and asked curiously, "Wild Kid, I've been meaning to ask. You've been tapping away at that keyboard since the first day of school. Are you hiding some shameful secret?"

"I'm a webnovel author," Luo Ye said, rubbing his nose and striking a handsome pose.

But to the others, those words meant something else entirely.

"What? You write smut?"

Wang Dachui rushed over and stared at the draft Luo Ye was working on.

"Don't make stuff up. Writing that stuff is illegal."

"It's fine. Just write it privately for me." Wang Dachui looked utterly sleazy.

"(;｀O´)o Get lost!"

Luo Ye started writing.

By the time he finished, his roommates were asleep. Only Shen Qiao was still looking at his phone, seemingly reading a novel.

Luo Ye climbed into bed and was about to take off his pants when he noticed something in his pocket.

He took it out and froze.

The keys to his fairy senior's Chopped Chili Fish Head?

Oh, crap. After getting out of the car, he had pulled out the keys and instinctively slipped them into his pocket.

His senior wasn't familiar with the car either, so she hadn't remembered them.

At that thought, Luo Ye was about to message his fairy senior, only to realize it was already two in the morning.

Before he knew it, it had gotten this late.

Still, staying up late was perfectly normal for a novelist.

Wouldn't it be a bad idea to message her now?

Luo Ye realized he hadn't sent his fairy senior a single message since returning to his room.

At that thought, Luo Ye knocked himself on the head and grumbled, "You blockhead. You didn't even think to check in with her after she got home."

He had never pursued a girl. His three-year crush in high school had been nothing more than a crush, followed by a confession after graduation, and then nothing.

As for his fairy senior, Luo Ye was sure he liked her.

Though... falling for her at their first meeting might have been down to her looks.

But being drawn to someone's looks wasn't necessarily a bad thing. It could also be a new beginning.

After all, liking someone's appearance didn't mean that was all you liked about them.

Once those feelings emerged, the other person's words and actions, strengths and flaws, all became part of what you liked.

After messaging her, Luo Ye got ready to sleep.

To his surprise, she replied instantly.

Su Baizhou: Keep them for now. I don't drive often.

In the Faculty Apartments, the corners of Su Baizhou's lips lifted slightly.

Did this count as getting a driver for free?

She turned and looked around. She had finally finished getting the apartment in order.

It had three bedrooms and a living room. Gu Mingxuan had previously occupied the master bedroom. Before leaving, he had moved his things into one of the smaller bedrooms and rented the apartment to Su Baizhou, letting her take the master bedroom.

For a girl, a larger room felt more relaxing.

The other empty bedroom was unoccupied. Gu Mingxuan had originally intended to leave it for Luo Ye.

But now that Su Baizhou had moved in, whether Luo Ye could stay would depend on whether she agreed.

A goddess-level campus beauty who was cold and aloof in person, and socially anxious online.

And Luo Ye, who was shy in person but could be described as a force to be reckoned with online.

They seemed... pretty well matched?

Luo Ye was a gaming prodigy and a somewhat well-known webnovel author. He inevitably spent time interacting with people online every day.

"Good night, senior." Luo Ye sent the message, then closed his eyes, ready to sleep.

But he tossed and turned, unable to drift off.

Without a reply from his fairy senior, he just couldn't fall asleep.

When Su Baizhou saw that "Good night, senior," her expression briefly froze.

Good night...

Back in high school, there had also been a boy who said good night to her every day.

But Su Baizhou had no interest in him.

At a class reunion after graduation, he had confessed to Su Baizhou in front of everyone, and she had rejected him on the spot.

Feeling humiliated, he had sought Su Baizhou out alone after the reunion and tried to threaten her into becoming his girlfriend.

But Su Baizhou had rejected him a second time and deleted all his contact information.

Later, furious with embarrassment, the boy had spread rumors about Su Baizhou everywhere. Her beauty had already made her the object of many people's desire and jealousy.

Before long, her friends saw her as a girl of loose morals.

That was simply human nature for many people: they wanted to make flawed things whole, yet wanted to destroy things that were perfect.

Because of this, Su Baizhou had grown to dislike men. She had few female friends either, and was socially anxious even online... until she came to a new city for university and gradually became known as the Iceberg Goddess.

Looking at the message on her phone, Su Baizhou didn't reply. Instead, she tossed it aside.

She tapped at her keyboard, feeling unsettled, as though something was missing.

Luo Ye's face came to mind.

That boy was innocent and shy. When they had played games together before, he had protected her even in the game.

Back then, he probably hadn't even known her gender, but he had looked after her because she was his teammate.

He was also someone who couldn't drink bitter coffee.

This boy was probably sweet, wasn't he?

Something Gu Mingxuan had said came back to her:

I asked you to look after my little brother. You're not thinking of hitting on him, are you?

Su Baizhou's cheeks reddened slightly.

She picked her phone back up, opened her chat with Luo Ye, and typed two words.

[Good night]