Delicious boxed meals

"Roll call starts now."

Li Haoyang stood at the lectern.

Luo Ye, Shen Qiao, and Wang Dachui sat in the middle of the front row, facing Li Haoyang at close range.

"Xu Xiaojia."

"Here."

"Luo Ye."

"Here."

As he called the names, Li Haoyang glanced at the front row.

The three of them were making faces at him.

Their ridiculous expressions made Li Haoyang want to laugh.

But he was taking attendance, and that was serious business. With his roommates staring at him, he had to fight hard to hold back his laughter.

"Zhang San."

"Here."

"Li Si-pfft..."

"Here..."

Li Si raised his head curiously and gave Li Haoyang a puzzled look.

His name might have been generic, but wasn't openly laughing at him like that a bit much?

Once roll call ended, everyone went their separate ways. Those who wanted dinner went to eat, while the others returned to their dorms.

Li Haoyang joined Luo Ye and the other two.

Looking at Coach, all three of them wore gloomy expressions.

"What's with those faces?"

Li Haoyang looked puzzled.

Then he glanced down at his phone and said, "Come on, let's get dinner."

At that, Shen Qiao asked, "Why aren't you eating with your girlfriend today?"

"She said she had something to do. Whatever."

Hearing that, Luo Ye and Shen Qiao exchanged a look, both understanding what was going on.

Wang Dachui draped an arm over Li Haoyang's shoulders and said sympathetically, "A real man knows when to bend and when to stand tall. Come on, beef noodles are on me! Extra scallions and cilantro."

Just then, Luo Ye remembered that he still had a whole pile of boxed meals to eat. He quickly punched Wang Dachui and said, "Back to the dorm. I've got something good."

"Oh, you know how to play along, Wild Kid."

Wang Dachui pushed Li Haoyang away and slung his arm around Luo Ye's shoulders instead.

It seemed anyone could become his best buddy in an instant.

Once they returned to the dorm and saw the delicious-looking, fragrant boxed meals on the table, Wang Dachui exclaimed in shock, "These are boxed meals? Hell, I'd believe you if you told me this was an imperial banquet."

Shen Qiao also looked mildly surprised. He glanced at Luo Ye and said with a knowing half-smile, "Luo Ye, this doesn't look like restaurant food, and you haven't been home. Come on, who made it for you?"

Under his three roommates' gazes, Luo Ye took half a step back.

"A senior."

The moment he said that, Shen Qiao knew who he meant.

He hadn't expected things to move along so quickly.

But Wang Dachui had no idea. He looked at Li Haoyang and scratched his head. "Another senior? Coach, do you know anything?"

"I vaguely remember... I saw a girl beside Luo Ye during a morning run once, but I didn't get a good look at her."

Li Haoyang recalled what had happened that day. Liu Bingxin had said a girl was with Luo Ye, but he hadn't seen her.

Wang Dachui turned a mischievous gaze on Luo Ye.

"Wild Kid, who is she, exactly? You're being so secretive. I thought it was Tang Enqi. She's the freshman campus belle, and she went to high school with you."

"Tang Enqi?"

Hearing that familiar name again, Luo Ye shook his head. "I did like her in high school, but I don't anymore."

"Ooh, Wild Kid, we know all about it. You only came to Jiangda because of her. Without her, you wouldn't even have met us."

Luo Ye froze at those words.

Would he still have met Fairy Senior without Tang Enqi?

There was no way to know for sure. Since Su Baizhou was Gu Mingxuan's student, they might still have had a chance to meet someday, but that would have been far, far in the future. It would also have depended on luck, with very slim odds.

So he really did have Tang Enqi to thank for making him choose Jiangda without hesitation.

After all, he wouldn't have come here just because his cousin was here. His original plan had been to attend a university where no one knew him and focus on his writing.

Seeing Luo Ye fall silent, Wang Dachui exclaimed, "Don't tell me you really still have feelings for Tang Enqi! I'm telling you, Enqi is mine."

"Oh, get lost. Every day, it's this girl's yours and that girl's yours. If you've got the guts, go ask them out," Luo Ye said dismissively.

Still, anyone with eyes could see that the freshman rich kid who loved showing off was pursuing Tang Enqi relentlessly.

His name was... Gao Yuming?

He was also on the university basketball team: strong, handsome, and from a wealthy family. Aside from his somewhat arrogant personality, he was practically the perfect guy.

Compared with him, Wang Dachui lost out yet again.

Luo Ye silently mourned for Wang Dachui for three seconds.

At present, no one at Jiangda knew about Luo Ye's relationship with Su Baizhou. Even Shen Qiao only thought they knew each other; he had no idea how far things had progressed.

Luo Ye was going to quietly strike gold and astonish everyone in the near future.

They ate the boxed meals in their dorm.

These meals had been made by Su Baizhou herself, after all. They weren't something these mere mortals could normally get a taste of.

After just one bite, even Li Haoyang, who had exacting standards for ingredients, brightened and gave a thumbs-up.

In less than ten minutes, every boxed meal on the table had been polished off. They slumped on chairs and tables, looking utterly stuffed.

Luo Ye discreetly snapped a photo of them and sent it to Fairy Senior.

Luo Ye: [Photo]

Luo Ye: Won them over!

When Su Baizhou saw the photos, the corners of her lips lifted, and she replied: Piece of cake.

At that moment, Su Baizhou was sitting in a classroom.

She was interviewing freshmen who wanted to join the Student Union.

Recruitment would be followed immediately by the leadership transition, and both would be completed that week.

Looking at the stunning girl in a white dress before her, Su Baizhou asked calmly, "Why do you want to join the Student Union?"

The girl glanced at Su Baizhou, feeling that the senior before her had an overpowering presence. The aura of the Iceberg Goddess seemed to fill the space around her.

Everyone around them was watching the two of them as well.

On the stage sat Jiangda's campus belle, the Iceberg Goddess, a talented young woman who dazzled everyone.

Below the stage stood the freshman campus belle, a sweet, innocent-looking girl in a white dress who might become Jiangda's next campus belle after Su Baizhou graduated.

The conversation between these two exceptional beauties drew everyone's attention and left the other interviewers unable to get a word in.

"I... want to become someone like you."

Tang Enqi gathered her courage and spoke firmly.

She wanted to be as outstanding as Su Baizhou: a decisive Student Union president and Jiangda's much-admired talented young woman.

"Is that so?"

Su Baizhou remained expressionless. She gave the girl before her a casual glance and said coolly, "You can go. We'll let you know shortly whether you've been accepted."

That single sentence left all the things Tang Enqi had prepared to say stuck in her throat.

Su Baizhou didn't like her.

In this freshman's eyes, she saw a desire called ambition.

Someone like her would never be content with where she was. She would do everything she could to climb higher, until she reached a position everyone envied.

At university, her goal was to become Student Union president. Outside it, she would aim to become a general manager, or even a CEO.

She would never be satisfied. She wanted to claim every good thing for herself.

But she was very good at hiding it, making everyone around her believe she was an innocent girl who wanted nothing.

Still... she was too inexperienced, so inexperienced that Su Baizhou had seen through her at a glance.

Because Su Baizhou was even more forceful than she was.