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Tomorrow was Sunday, but due to the holiday, they would make up for Thursday’s classes on Sunday. Lin Dongyang looked at the time, it was already past 9pm in the evening and he hadn’t gone out since he returned to the dormitory in the afternoon. His roommates had come back one after another, and they hadn’t stopped talking until now.
Lin Dongyang: “Are you guys going to take a shower? If not then I’ll go first. I have class tomorrow, so I have to get up early.”
Zhu Wenbo answered, “Then you go first, I’ll go after you’re done.”
Lin Dongyang went into the bathroom with a hum of agreement. Now that it was May, the weather was slowly beginning to become hot and dry. When Lin Dongyang came out of the bathroom, he was only wearing knee-length shorts.
There was still a bruise on his lower back that was a little smaller than his fist. It’s been more than two days and it hadn’t reduced by much.
He pulled out his drawer and took out the ointment and thought for a while about whether to continue to use it or not. It wasn’t as painful as before so it didn’t matter if it was applied or not. He thought for a while and then decided to give up, throwing the ointment back into the drawer.
But Heaven didn’t cooperate with him. Lin Dongyang had just climbed to the upper bunk and settled comfortably into his own nest, when Qiao Yichen seemed to know what he had done, and sent a greeting of a supervisory nature for the first time.
[Has the ointment been applied yet?]
Lin Dongyang suddenly felt guilty. He naturally thought of how Qiao Yichen had repeatedly urged him several times in the afternoon, and how he had been so full of promises at that time.
Now, he could only brace himself to say: [Already applied it. By the way, my roommate brought back a specialty from his hometown, goods from the mountain. Do you want some?]
Lin Dongyang, who had been invited to Qiao Weiwei’s birthday party, knew that Qiao Yichen’s family was very well-off. Flying in the sky, swimming in the sea, running on the ground would only be trivial matters to them. Lin Dongyang wasn’t sure if the goods from the mountain were rare, but he was eager to move away from the topic that made him feel guilty, so he just smoothly tossed out the words.
Lying just made his heart feel guilty ah.
Sure enough, Qiao Yichen didn’t continue to chase after the topic he kept bringing up, and answered: [Yes.]
A somewhat unexpected answer. Lin Dongyang thought he would simply refuse without saying anything more and then the conversation would end and he could go to sleep. But it had backfired, and he repeated with uncertainty: [Really?]
[Don’t you want to give it to me?]
[No, of course I do. I will give you half.]
[Then I’ll go to your dormitory tomorrow at noon to get it.]
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The two of them chatted with the mindset of ‘you speak, I speak’. Seeing that Qiao Yichen actually said that he wanted to come to his dormitory, Lin Dongyang subconsciously shook his head. This action was the most intuitive way to express what he felt in his heart, he explained: [It’s better for me to go to your place. If you come over and my roommate sees you, you’ll be talked about again. Their mouths are too broken.]
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On that occasion, Qiao Yichen had said the sentence ‘It’s not like we haven’t slept together before’, successfully forcing his roommates to stray from the right path, and causing the look in their eyes to become even more full of confusion and ambiguous scrutiny. If this happened again, it might lead to some strange side story that even he, the protagonist of the discussion, couldn’t guess.
Qiao Yichen: [Are you afraid of being involved with me?]
When he saw this sentence, Lin Dongyang unconsciously grasped his mobile phone tighter to figure out the deeper meaning behind the words.
Without a doubt, they could currently be called friends. If something happened to Qiao Yichen he would definitely not ignore it. Just like that day when he couldn’t get in touch with him, Lin Dongyang had indeed been really worried.
There was a complex obstruction in his chest that couldn’t be moved. He never thought that Qiao Yichen was a sentimental person who would voice such sentiments late at night and judging from the fact that his Moments was emptier and cleaner than his face, he didn’t seem to have anything worth sharing.
Putting aside his inexplicable emotions, Lin Dongyang pretended to be relaxed and replied: [I just hate Fatty’s mouth, it has nothing to do with you. But that Auntie Li you hired is really powerful. Can you explain it to her clearly?]
Thinking of Auntie Li going and returning having worriedly bought a box of condoms for them, and earnestly telling them to pay attention, Lin Dongyang did not know whether to laugh or cry.
Qiao Yichen: [Why do we need to explain? We didn’t do anything.]
Lin Dongyang: [… You are simply a model that stands straight and never minds if the shadow inclines.]
Finally Qiao Yichen said goodnight and ended the conversation.
The results of the midterm exams had come out the day before and the class monitor had informed them during class to log on to the educational administration on the campus website to check them.
Needless to say, Zhu Wenbo was confident. His Xueba halo blinded the eyes of the three scumbags sharing the same room as him. Fatty Han and Li Wei got together and incessantly recited Amitabha to beg for the Bodhisattva to manifest, professing their devotion only in times of trouble. Compared to cramming before the exam this took less effort.
Lin Dongyang didn’t take it to heart at all. In the end, it was already a broken pot, just do whatever you like with it. It wasn’t the end of the semester anyway.
Thinking of English, Lin Dongyang recalled that he hadn’t returned the notes he had borrowed from Wang Dan before. So, when school was over, he called out to Wang Dan, who was walking alone on the road, with her head down, holding a book, “Your notes are still with me, I keep forgetting them. I didn’t even read them during the holidays. If you wait for me downstairs for a while, I’ll bring them down and return them to you.”
Wang Dan heard someone call her name and turned to see that it was Lin Dongyang. Her mood relaxed as she replied, “If you need them, just continue to use them.”
Lin Dongyang: “No, don’t delay your studies. My English score was poor, there is no difference between before and after studying.”
Hearing him say that, Wang Dan followed the four roommates back to dormitory building No. 5. Fatty Han whispered to Lin Dongyang and asked in a cautious manner, “Why are you so attached to this person now? Isn’t it…”
Lin Dongyang knew even without hearing the end of his sentence that his dog’s mouth couldn’t spit ivory. He touched the fat soft flesh on Fatty Han’s waist and pinched it heavily, “It’s okay to just talk less. Do you not think you’re annoying enough ah?”
Fatty Han let out an ‘Aiyou’ as he looked at Lin Dongyang in shock. After being secretly attacked like this, he said aggrievedly, “I didn’t say anything.”
Lin Dongyang spoke to Wang Dan again before turning around and walking into the dormitory building. Fatty Han stood at the door, waving his hands and shouting, “Yang-zi, help me bring the books up ah!”
A leisurely yell came from the corridor, “There is no time, bring me back a meal, I’m not going!”
“F*ck, valuing a lover over friends.” Fatty Han slandered him. Then he narrowed his smiling eyes into slits and said to Wang Dan, “Classmate Wang, you should be more patient with Yang-zi ah.”
Wang Dan wasn’t good with words. She spent more time with Lin Dongyang so she could communicate with him calmly, but facing Fatty Han, she didn’t know how to cope. She could only stammer for a long time with a red face.
Li Wei pushed Fatty Han in disgust and told him to hurry up and leave and to stop teasing the little girl.
After the three of them left, Wang Dan quietly breathed a sigh of relief as her gaze followed Zhu Wenbo’s thin back. Only when their backs were facing her, did she dare to unrestrainedly look at the figure of the person she was concerned about. He wasn’t outstanding, but in her heart he was indeed irreplaceable. At this thought, Wang Dan’s face couldn’t help but look dazed.
When Lin Dongyang came back down, he saw this scene which abused single dogs. He couldn’t help but secretly say in his heart: Girls blush so easily, so they don’t confess and can only sneak glances.
He walked over and smiled. “When are you going to confess ah?”
Wang Dan now treated him as the only person she could tell her secrets to. Seeing him ask such a question she smiled back, “Graduation, if he agrees to be together… if not… then forget it.”
Lin Dongyang knew that she was introverted and thin-skinned. It took courage to confess such things, and he could only regret that he wasn’t able to give any advice.
They stood in the shade of the doorway talking for a while before waving goodbye. Meanwhile, Qiao Yichen had been surveying them for a long time, like a cat in the shadows.
They went to the same school with the same school dismissal time. Their dormitory buildings were also opposite each other. Since he had put that person in his heart, he secretly and deliberately paid attention to him, but today he had bumped into this unpleasant scene.
Qiao Yichen slightly narrowed his eyes to hide the complexity within them. That female student, he had seen her three times. Once near the library in the school building area, once when borrowing an umbrella, and now this time…
After Austin left, now there was this female student. Qiao Yichen pursed his lips and chose to ignore it, dragging An Qi away and entering the opposite dormitory building.
An Qi stumbled as he was pulled. He broke away from Qiao Yichen’s grasp and said suspiciously, “Senior’s popularity is much greater than yours. Are you sure you don’t want to take the initiative?”
Qiao Yichen didn’t answer. An Qi anxiously continued to try and enlighten him, “We’ve seen that girl with senior three times. And every single time, she was blushing. If you hesitate any longer you will be left all alone ah.”
He had seen with his own eyes that senior cared for that girl. Even though the girl was unattractive, the fact that senior might like her was the highest priority.
Although his appearance was obviously superior, his gender… was really a flaw. It was no wonder that Qiao Yichen, a man of action, had become timid.
Qiao Yichen listened to An Qi ramble on for a long time and replied thoughtfully, “What you’re saying seems to make some sense.”
An Qi’s eyes lit up. He thought that it had turned out well, and he had not wasted his breath in vain, “So…”
Qiao Yichen interrupted him, “So, I’ll consider it again.”
An Qi hated iron for not becoming steel and gritted his teeth. “You deserve to be single!”
Qiao Yichen didn’t take his angry words to heart at all. He simply returned to the dormitory and slammed the door shut.
He had an unspeakable connection with Lin Dongyang, something An Qi didn’t know about. He had once blindly confessed to that inexplicably good feeling before, and as a result he had directly hit the south wall, like a man who acted blindly and was completely rejected.
A wimp? Cowering? It would be better to say, it was a careful step-by-step process due to his fear of and preparation for rejection.
He had his own measures.
An Qi asked him, baffled, “What are you doing locking the door in the middle of the day? Are you going to have a meal or not?”
Qiao Yichen stared at the locked door, without paying any attention to An Qi and leaving him to sing a one-man show on his own. Qiao Yichen took out his mobile phone to make a call and held it up to his ear. Then he placed his index finger in front of his mouth, the corners of his mouth curving up. His expression was the familiar calculating expression An Qi had seen countless times before.
“Shh.”
An Qi had the good sense to keep his mouth shut. After a few rings on the other end, the call was finally picked up. Qiao Yichen leaned on the door and said into the phone, “Are you sending it over now, or should I go over and get it now?”
“I’ll go, wait for me.”
The corners of Qiao Yichen’s mouth could no longer be suppressed any more as he said in a deep voice, “Okay.”
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