Chapter 59: Nothing ventured, nothing gained
The weekend was approaching, and another week was nearly over. At university, everyone generally had their own plans.
The girls usually arranged to go shopping together, stopping along the way for snacks on the pedestrian street that they had been craving for weeks. The boys might arrange a ball game to avenge a previous defeat. Most locals took their laundry home. Those staying on campus might join the university's varied weekend social activities or spend time alone in the library, playing the cultured intellectual. There were also those who stockpiled enough food to keep themselves alive before plunging into games until they lost all sense of time. Of course, there was no shortage of bold souls who ventured between campuses in search of beautiful girls from other schools.
In short, a relaxed and delightful weekend was quietly arriving.
Back in the dorm, the two bachelors, Li Han and Xiao Xu, were agonizing over how to spend their weekend. For university boys, unless they were determined to bury themselves in games, only activities involving beautiful girls could stir their interest. The term "homebody" had yet to catch on, and the internet was not so developed, so most students still had a romantic streak. Li Han and Xiao Xu had plenty of ways to spend a weekend: the two could attend an academic lecture or watch a film at the campus cinema. Thanks to his skill on the court, Li Han was quite popular with the girls who frequented the gym. If things continued that way, he might become the second man in their dorm to fall in love after Su Can.
Xiao Xu had joined the Humanities Society. For him, the benefit was not being able to talk about everything under the sun with a