Chapter 6: Aggrieved young men
"Mm. Wait for me." Tang Wu's text arrived a moment later.
Then, beneath the crimson sunlight, Su Can stood alone at the entrance to the female freshmen's dormitory building, staring at his phone in a slight daze.
Tang Wu's message was not her usual simple "Mm, okay" or "All right," but "Wait for me."
Generally speaking, what those words conveyed at that moment was ten times richer than a simple "okay." They contained seventy percent of a young woman's reserve while fully expressing thirty percent eagerness. They also told Su Can that she was willing, that he was very welcome.
Looking at Tang Wu's dormitory reminded Su Can of the spot beside the window in his own Dormitory Building No. 13. From there, he could clearly see the balconies of the women's dormitory opposite, and even the glimpses of scenery through the gaps. He instinctively looked around. Fortunately, the buildings facing one another here were all women's dormitories, so presumably there would be no one spying on the other side through binoculars.
After some thought, Su Can sent separate texts to Wang Weiwei, Lin Luoran, and Lin Zouwen. He had called Xue Yiyang and Liu Rui the night before. Both were finding their university lives quite novel.
Lin Zouwen was at a stall outside campus, embroiled in drinking beer and trying to get others drunk. Wang Weiwei had just dumped his belongings into the old eight-hundred-yuan-a-year Dormitory Two at China Youth University. He lay on a creaking bed, reading a book and listening to music, and began to miss the days when they had all been together.
In contrast to the gloom of those two, Lin Luoran had immediately taken to Shanghai International Studies University like a fish to water. When she received Su Can's