"What a coincidence. You go to school here too?"
Su Yi took the initiative to greet Lin Yiyun when he saw her.
Lin Yiyun merely nodded, offering little response.
Her impression of Su Yi really was not very good.
Although they both worked at the nightclub, what Su Yi did was clearly something disreputable.
Su Yi had first taken the initiative to ask about keeping customers company, then followed several rich women into a private room. Although he had not left with them in the end, he had already left the impression of a man living off women in Lin Yiyun's mind.
A university student, already living off women?
Lin Yiyun said nothing, instead pulling her companion along as she strode away.
The friend beside Lin Yiyun kept looking back at Su Yi and whispered, "Xiaoyun, you know that handsome guy? He's so hot! He's not your boyfriend, is he?"
"How could he be?" Lin Yiyun shook her head and whispered, "I only met him yesterday. I don't really want to have anything to do with him."
"Come on, tell me how you met!" Her companion was so excited that her eyes were practically blooming with peach blossoms. "If you don't want anything to do with him, introduce him to me! I fell for that cutie the moment I saw him."
Lin Yiyun poked her in the head with a finger and said, "Stop swooning. You couldn't handle him. Yu Huiyin seems to have taken a liking to him."
Since he worked at a bar, Su Yi presumably was not rich, but when they first met, he had gotten out of Yu Huiyin's car.
Who was Yu Huiyin? Heaven's favored daughter. How could the silly girl beside her compete?
Plenty of people at school now had photos of Yu Huiyin and Su Yi together on their social media feeds.
"Oh-I remember now! He's Yu Huiyin's rumored boyfriend!"
"As long as you know." Lin Yiyun had no intention of bringing up the bar again, either. Say too much, and she would become a gossip wagging her tongue behind people's backs.
After Lin Yiyun and her friend had gone, Wang Junlin sidled up to Su Yi and asked with a grin, "Brother Su, got your eye on the lovely Miss Lin?"
Su Yi nodded and smiled. "You could say that."
"Badass! You were with Yu Huiyin yesterday, and today you've already switched targets." What else could Wang Junlin say?
How many men at their school regarded Yu Huiyin as their goddess?
Yet yesterday, she had personally waited downstairs at the men's dormitory for Su Yi for so long, and even had Yu Xinghe buy him daily necessities.
Didn't that mean she had taken a liking to Su Yi?
"Yu Huiyin?" Su Yi shook his head. "I don't know her that well, and I'm not particularly interested in her."
"..." Wang Junlin, Jiang Biao, and the others had no idea what to say.
From Su Yi's tone, he did not seem to have taken a fancy to Yu Huiyin!
Did that mean Yu Huiyin had taken a liking to Su Yi and was doing everything she could to please him, yet he remained unmoved?
A goddess was throwing herself at him!
"Why are you looking at me like that?" Su Yi raised his eyebrows. He had no designs on Yu Huiyin. Was that so strange?
Yang Hui spoke up then. "Actually, I think Lin Yiyun is a little better too. Yu Huiyin's family is too rich."
Wang Junlin rolled his eyes at him. "What's wrong with being rich? Do you know how many people want to marry Yu Huiyin? Whoever marries her really won't have to struggle for the rest of his life."
Yang Hui chuckled. "Do you really think marrying into a wealthy family is that comfortable? If their families aren't of equal standing, even if Yu Huiyin really likes our Brother Su, who knows about her family? Even if they somehow managed to get married, he'd face endless humiliation."
"Anyway, if it were me, I'd definitely be willing. I'd put up with the humiliation." Wang Junlin grinned. Humiliation? If he could marry a goddess like Yu Huiyin, what did a little humiliation matter?
"Oh, give it a rest! The goddess likes Brother Su. What's it got to do with you?" Yang Hui saw things quite clearly. After all, because he was fat, he had never had any luck with women since childhood. Faced with a goddess like Yu Huiyin, he did not even dare entertain the thought.
"How can you say it's got nothing to do with me?" Wang Junlin said as they walked. "As the saying goes, birds of a feather flock together. A goddess's friends are mostly goddesses too. As long as Brother Su takes us along to whatever activities come up, our chances of meeting beautiful women will naturally increase exponentially."
Once Wang Junlin finished, both Yang Hui's and Jiang Biao's eyes lit up.
At first hearing, that did seem to make sense!
While Su Yi was away from the dorm last night, the three of them had figured something out. Su Yi had even dared to beat up Yu Xinghe, and all those people Yu Xinghe brought had returned with their feathers clipped. If they clung tightly to Su Yi's powerful thigh from now on, wouldn't Room 306 become the most badass dorm room in the whole university?
With that casual remark from Wang Junlin, they felt even more certain that their university lives would be incomparably wonderful.
The three grew more excited as they talked, and before they knew it, they had entered the large lecture hall.
Su Yi had absolutely no interest in what the three were discussing. They were only women. Were they really that much fun?
Of course, this was purely a case of a well-fed man not knowing a hungry man's hunger. An old monster like him, who had slept with countless beauties, naturally could not understand the feelings of certain young men who had been single since birth.
This open lecture, however, interested Su Yi quite a bit.
It was an open lecture on ancient Huaxia history, and the lecturer standing at the front was actually one of the middle-aged men who had been beside Yang Zhengcheng yesterday.
When it came to Huaxia's history, there was probably no one in the world who knew it better than Su Yi.
Still, Su Yi was somewhat curious: what was the "history" known to people of this era like?
"Students, today I'll be discussing the path to the founding of the Tang Dynasty." Chen Yao, the lecturer at the front, had actually noticed Su Yi too. During roll call, he had stared at Su Yi for quite a while.
Su Yi had been so arrogant yesterday. He had thought the kid was some great expert from somewhere, only to find that he was a first-year student. That seemed rather comical.
The old president of Qingzhou University had actually sought advice from a freshman, only to be turned down.
And today, of all things, Su Yi had appeared in his class.
Chen Yao did not deliberately make things difficult for Su Yi. After all, this was a university open lecture. He gave his lecture and rarely asked questions. Asking pointed questions just to make things difficult would have been strange.
He simply glanced at Su Yi from time to time.
Su Yi listened with relish, since Chen Yao's lectures were quite interesting. Whenever Chen Yao looked his way, he gave him a polite smile in return.
This stretch of the glorious Tang Dynasty's history that Chen Yao was discussing differed somewhat from what Su Yi knew. But time slipped by, and so many truths lay buried beneath history's long river.
How could the world know that a thousand years ago, Emperor Yang of Sui, a formidable ruler of his generation, had set foot in Baozhen Temple, which Su Yi had built?
Emperor Yang of Sui had sat opposite Su Yi, his heroic spirit soaring, and asked, "Sir, I pacified Southern Chen, united all under heaven, dug the North-South Grand Canal, expanded our territory by fifty thousand li, opened the imperial examinations, and made the barbarians of the four quarters submit. Do I deserve to be called an emperor for the ages? Have I surpassed Emperor Qin Shihuang?"
Su Yi looked at him and said mildly, "In the end, you've still been too hasty."
Yang Guang took a sip of wine and said to Su Yi, "If you were willing to teach me the art of immortality, sir, why would I be hasty? A mortal has only a few fleeting decades. As ruler of all under heaven, naturally I must accomplish something!"
By then, Su Yi no longer wished to lightly alter the balance of the world. Let alone teaching him the art of immortality, he had shown Yang Guang out on more than ten visits, and this final visit had ended the same way.
After that, Su Yi never again saw this formidable ruler who claimed his achievements eclipsed those of the First Emperor.