Fishing

Chen Lu saw Liang Zhirou forcing herself to lift her head and couldn't help but smile.

The girl walked away one step at a time, while he stood there without moving, watching her.

Only when she disappeared at the end of the road did he turn to leave.

He had just started back toward the car when a light rain began to drizzle from the sky.

Raindrops pattered against the ground, leaving one mark after another.

The drops that landed on his face slid down his cheeks to his neck and Adam's apple, bringing waves of coolness.

He had to admit that when he heard Mo Yuqing apologize in public today, his heart had indeed been thrown into turmoil.

Chen Lu looked at the scene before him, for a moment not even noticing the rain falling on him, and quietly made up his mind:

Since he had barged into this little dummy's life, he had to take responsibility to the end.

As for the past, he would let it all stay in the past.

He would hurry and forget everything that had happened, wash his heart clean and empty it out, then find a way to bring a smile to this silly girl's face as soon as possible.

Liang Zhirou wasn't a substitute for Mo Yuqing, and she couldn't be one.

Liang Zhirou was Liang Zhirou.

Just then, his phone suddenly vibrated.

Liang Zhirou: Hurry back, don't get caught in the rain.

Chen Lu: How am I going to get caught in the rain when I'm in the car? Are you silly?

Liang Zhirou: You're lying to me again... I saw that you hadn't left.

Chen Lu narrowed his eyes and looked into the distance. Sure enough, he saw the girl's little head peeking out.

Only after she was discovered did she hurry away.

He picked up his phone and tapped the screen. "Hurry back!"

Then he couldn't help laughing softly again. He returned to the car and started the engine, and the car slowly made its way through the rainy night.

This little dummy actually sneaked back to peek at me. What a sly little thing.

On the way back, Chen Lu drove while recalling what it had felt like to be fed on the way there.

This was the first time a girl had fed him.

It felt great.

He was happy.

Chen Lu was very glad he wasn't looking in a mirror right now, or he would definitely have seen himself grinning like an idiot.

Back at the dorm room door, Chen Lu stretched and slowly pushed it open.

"My dear sons! Daddy's back!"

he shouted.

"..."

But there wasn't a soul in the dorm.

Damn! Where is everybody?!

Chen Lu stared in shock as he looked around, then sent a message to the dorm group chat.

Chen Lu: You guys didn't go out to eat behind my back, did you? Am I being ostracized?

Li Sinian: It's true I'm at a group dinner, but it's the party's celebration banquet.

Zheng Haoyu: Brother Lu, you know me. I moved out a while ago.

Jiang Chao said nothing.

Just then, Li Sinian sent another message.

Li Sinian: Didn't you eat dinner? Want me to bring you something?

Chen Lu: I had oden, and a girl even fed it to me.

Li Sinian: XXX

Zheng Haoyu: XXX

Chen Lu smiled in satisfaction and lay down on his bed.

What he didn't know was that, ever since the first day of freshman year, when his roommates saw Chen Lu, they had mentally prepared themselves to eat his dog food from then on.

After spending a little more time together and learning what Chen Lu was like, they completely gave up resisting.

There was no way someone so good-looking and with such a great personality wouldn't have a girlfriend.

Yet he had spent all this time pursuing Mo Yuqing with bitter persistence, and even now he had never been in a relationship.

And what Jiang Chao and the others didn't know was that Chen Lu's high school friends had thought the same thing.

They hadn't expected Chen Lu to go all three years of high school without a girlfriend, or that people with their qualifications would experience romance before he did.

Chen Lu had just closed his eyes when his phone vibrated again.

This time it was from Jiang Chao.

Jiang Chao: Come down, urgent, gkd.

Chen Lu didn't ask questions. He climbed out of bed and headed out.

After all, between guys, the fewer the words, the bigger the problem.

By the time Chen Lu came downstairs, the rain had stopped, but the cold wind brought by the shower was still blowing. As soon as he stepped outside, goosebumps rose all over his skin.

There weren't many people around the men's dorm at this hour. Those without girlfriends were indoors playing games, while those with girlfriends had all run over to the women's dorm.

Or were at a hotel.

Couples kissing and hugging were rarely seen around the men's dorm, but around the women's dorm, you could find them by the handful.

Chen Lu looked around but saw no sign of Jiang Chao.

He stood by a streetlamp and took out his phone to call him, when he spotted a lovely figure walking toward him out of the corner of his eye.

She was far too familiar.

So familiar that even though he saw her only out of the corner of his eye, and even though it was very dim around them, he recognized her immediately.

Chen Lu froze.

Mo Yuqing?!

What was she doing here?

Chen Lu looked up and put his phone back in his pocket, unable to keep some surprise from showing on his face.

Did Jiang Chao sell me out? Did that bastard's girlfriend turn him against me?

Five steps, four steps, three steps... The distance between them kept shrinking.

The girl drew closer and closer until she stood before him.

She was as beautiful as ever, wearing a tight black halter-neck T-shirt that left her shoulders bare. Its neckline revealed just enough to show off her extremely alluring collarbones, while a short skirt of moderate length displayed her strikingly long legs to their fullest.

The outfit was still very much her style, and she had clearly made a special effort to dress up.

Strangely, for the first time ever, she had tied her hair in a ponytail today.

Seeing Chen Lu's expression, Mo Yuqing, who had looked serious until then, couldn't help breaking into a lovely smile, revealing faint dimples.

"Jiang Chao didn't betray you. He drank too much, and Liu Yan took him away."

Mo Yuqing didn't finish. She knew Chen Lu could guess the rest.

It was the tacit understanding the two of them had developed growing up together.

Chen Lu had indeed already guessed the rest.

"So you've been looking for a reason to ask me out?" Chen Lu said expressionlessly, though there was still some puzzlement in his voice. "And then Liu Yan, who knew about it, happened to find an opportunity this time, so she helped you put on this little act?"

Mo Yuqing raised her chin proudly. "We still understand each other so well."

Chen Lu said nothing.

Before, if Mo Yuqing had said something like that to him, he would have woken up laughing from his dreams.

But times had changed. He couldn't expect dead ashes to burst into flame again.

It was precisely because the fire had burned itself out that it had turned to ashes.

When Mo Yuqing saw the utterly indifferent, unfamiliar look on Chen Lu's face, she first felt as though reality had become unreal. Then her heart tightened.

He was polite yet distant, as though he were facing... a stranger.

During the dozen or so days she had been out of contact with Chen Lu, every minute and every second had felt unbearably long, leaving her distracted and restless.

It was as though she had been thrown into a cell, forced to think and repent over and over.

Until she finally realized how passionately Chen Lu had once loved her, and until she realized that he was no longer by her side.

So she had chosen to admit her mistake in public at the party, and now she had come to see Chen Lu.

Even Mo Yuqing herself had never imagined that she, who couldn't remember the names of so many boys, would actually bow her head to one.

Now, after seeing Chen Lu, she began to feel afraid.

The calmer Chen Lu appeared, the more panicked she became.

At last, she gathered her courage and asked tentatively in a quiet voice, "Are you still... angry with me?"