The ones traveling with Fu Shen were his teammates from the competition, there were sophomores and juniors, and he was the only freshman there.
In addition to Fu Shen, there are two men and one woman.
Because of the early booking, they had many rooms, one for each of the four people.
The female team member was a junior. She had just enrolled in college and had already heard of Tang Zhou and Lu Ye’s reputation as campus heartthrobs, and she had been paying extra attention to posts about the two of them for the past three years. She recognized them at first sight.
She couldn’t help but greet them with a shy smile, “Senior Lu, Senior Tang.”
The other sophomore male team member: “……” Is this the same high and cold schoolmate?
Lu Ye nodded, “Hello.”
Tang Zhou’s nerves were extremely tense because of his soaked shoes, and he only nodded expressionlessly.
As the bridge between both parties, Fu Shen introduced everyone naturally, and then he asked Qiao Yuan, “Are you waiting for someone?”
Lu Ye was about to reply with something like, “It’s none of your business,” but Qiao Yuan complained bitterly instead, “Our club organized an outing here, and the weather forecast initially said it wouldn’t rain. We brought tents for camping, but it started raining before we even reached Fancheng. Everything was really unlucky, we couldn’t even book rooms online.”
He had a fair, handsome appearance, looking adorable and gentle, which made the junior girl feel sympathetic as she asked, “Where are the others?”
Qiao Yuan replied, “They managed to book a few rooms with great difficulty in other hotels, and they’ve already dispersed.”
The junior girl: “……”
She had thought that people like Lu Ye and Tang Zhou would always have luxurious presidential suites wherever they went.
“This is too tragic.” The other two boys looked sympathetic.
Fu Shen glanced at Tang Zhou’s soaked shoes and then at his expression, understanding that he was struggling, trying to endure the discomfort. He suggested, “The rain is heavy outside now, and it’s not convenient for you to carry your luggage. How about coming up with us for a while to rest?”
His two teammates agreed one after another, “Yes, we’re all students from Jiang University, so let’s go up together.”
Qiao Yuan was very grateful and wanted to accept, but when he saw Lu Ye and Tang Zhou not moving, he remained silent.
The junior girl advised, “Your clothes are all wet, and if you have spare clothes, it would be more comfortable to go upstairs, take a shower, and change into clean ones.”
Lu Ye simply didn’t want to accept Fu Shen’s help, and Tang Zhou felt a bit awkward.
The others thought that the two seniors were concerned about their image and could understand to some extent. After all, they were the most influential figures at the university and probably had never been in such an embarrassing situation before.
Fu Shen smiled and seized the opportunity, “It’s getting cold now, and it’s very easy to catch a cold.”
As expected, when Lu Ye turned to look at Qiao Yuan’s pale face and slightly trembling lips, he felt his heart breaking. Unable to bear it, he could only temporarily “set aside his pride.”
“Well, thanks, younger brothers and sisters.”
Qiao Yuan’s eyes brightened. “Fu Shen, seniors, thank you.”
Two out of the three had agreed, so the last person could follow along.
Tang Zhou had remained silent, carrying his luggage as he trailed behind.
Fu Shen had waited a few steps and called out as he passed by, “Senior.”
His voice was light and deep, piercing into Tang Zhou’s ears, impossible to ignore.
Tang Zhou stopped in his tracks and raised an eyebrow.
Seizing the moment as Tang Zhou was taken aback, Fu Shen quickly took his luggage. “I’ll help you.”
Tang Zhou instinctively avoided him. “What for?”
“An older brother helping a younger brother is only natural…”
Scenes of that night’s drunkenness instantly flashed through Tang Zhou’s mind. His cheeks warmed up, but his gaze remained cold.
“I’m older than you.”
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Tang Zhou had no choice but to step inside, maintaining his face expressionless throughout.
The other three team members simply assumed that Tang Shen was naturally this high and cold, and didn’t feel anything wrong at all.
One of the team members patted Fu Shen’s shoulder and whispered, “Not bad, Junior. I didn’t expect you and Tang Shen to be acquaintances.”
Fu Shen smiled but remained silent.
Another team member suggested, “Since Senior and Junior couldn’t book a room, why don’t we just make do and share tonight? We can squeeze together a bit.”
Except for one girl, the rest were all boys, and they didn’t mind sharing a bed with another person.
“This sounds good. The more, the merrier. We can play games together tonight,” one of the guys who was whispering to Fu Shen agreed. “Senior Lu, if you guys don’t mind, you can squeeze into a room with us tonight.”
Land Yeh was fine with it, and he looked at Qiao Yuan. Seeing his grateful expression, he knew that Qiao Yuan would definitely agree. Then, he turned his gaze towards Tang Zhou.
Well, he still had that same jaded look.
Then he politely said, “Thank you, Junior schoolmate.”
Meeting fellow alumni here was their good fortune, and when they got back to Jiangcheng, they would definitely find an opportunity to treat them to a meal.
The group walked out of the elevator.
“Don’t be too formal, senior. We’re all from Jiang University. Meeting each other here is fate.”
“Yeah, yeah, but how should we divide the rooms? Does Senior want to choose?”
Lan Ye selfishly didn’t want Qiao Yuan to sleep with someone else, so he apologized and said, “Xiao Yuan’s health isn’t very good, and I’m worried he might catch a cold from getting wet in the rain. I want to stay with him tonight. I hope it’s not too much trouble for you guys.”
“No trouble, there’s no trouble,” two of the male teammates replied, patting each other’s shoulders. “In that case, Senior Lu and Junior Qiao can share a room, the two of us will sleep in the same room. Senior Tang can stay with Fu Shen…”
Tang Zhou opened his mouth.
Fu Shen quickly replied, “It’s settled then.”
Afterward, he looked at Tang Zhou and said, “Senior, please make do for tonight.”
What else could Tang Zhou say? He only said thank you and followed Fu Shen.
He was feeling cold, his shoes and socks were soaked through, and the cold air seeped up from the soles of his feet. His pants, drenched from the rain, clung to his legs. Cold and wet, he was completely unmotivated to do anything else.
Once inside the room, Fu Shen placed the luggage by the side of the bed.
“You should take a shower first.”
Tang Zhou didn’t refuse, he gathered clean clothes and a towel and headed for the bathroom. However, he was stopped by Fu Shen.
“Senior, do you not want to share the room with me?”
The tall young man stood at the edge of the bed, looking at Tang Zhou. He had no particular expression in his face, and his tone was monotonous.
Tang Zhou frowned.
Fu Shen, who displayed no emotions in this manner, gradually resembled the Mr. Fu from his dreams, the one who remained unfazed by any situation, making him feel somewhat uncomfortable.
“Why do you ask?”
Fu Shen took a few steps closer. “In the corridor just now, you seemed like you had something to say.”
Tang Zhou was a bit confused.
He recalled the situation from a moment ago and finally understood what Fu Shen was referring to.
“I just wanted to yawn.”
After sitting in the car for half a day and getting drenched in the rain, feeling tired was quite normal.
Fu Shen was taken aback for a moment, then he smiled again, as if he had returned to his previous self.
As Tang Zhou closed the bathroom door, Fu Shen inwardly let out a sigh.
In reality, he didn’t need to ask, he never cared about what others thought of him.
He also wondered what he was pretending about just now.
A knock on the door interrupted his thoughts, and Fu Shen got up to answer it.
“Senior, do you need something?”
The guy outside the door laughed heartily, “Isn’t our competition already over? Just now, Senior Lu and Junior Qiao invited us to go hiking together. If it doesn’t rain tomorrow, will you join us?”
In this competition, Fu Shen’s abilities were undeniable to them all. They had initially thought it was a reckless move from the teacher to let a freshman participate in the competition, but the results showed that Fu Shen’s proficiency was not inferior to theirs, and he might even surpass them.
He genuinely wanted to befriend him.
Fu Shen was inherently more of a lone wolf and didn’t really enjoy being in groups. He wasn’t planning to join at first, but when the words came to his lips, he swallowed them back.
“Alright.”
“That’s settled then. But Senior Lu and the others are really unlucky. Their shoes are wet, and who knows if they’ll dry by tomorrow.”
Fu Shen instinctively turned his head, his gaze falling on the shoes by the bathroom door.
They were indeed still wet, with mud stains on them. It must have been very uncomfortable to wear them just now.
After the guy left, Fu Shen sat on the sofa, scrolling through his phone. The sporadic sound of water from the bathroom was unsettling.
Perhaps the intrusion of another person’s presence in his otherwise solitary space made him uneasy.
Unable to concentrate on his phone or engage in any other activity, Fu Shen turned on the television out of boredom.
[I love you – can you hear me? I – love – you!]
Under the pouring rain, a man soaked to the bones with disheveled hair shouted to the sky, his face upturned.
The camera then shifted to a window, where a girl with one hand on the window frame covered her mouth, her face a mix of crying and laughing.
Fu Shen: ……
Suddenly, Fu Shen felt that something was wrong. He turned toward the bathroom, and there was Tang Zhou standing in the bathroom doorway and glancing at the TV and then at him with an extremely complicated gaze.
Fu Shen: “…” Is it still possible to explain now?
But Tang Zhou didn’t say anything and just looked away.
Fu Shen, feeling somewhat troubled, realized that it wouldn’t be a good idea to rush into an explanation, as it might only make things worse.
He pretended to be composed, set the remote control down, and stood up. “I’m going out to buy something. If you feel bored, you can watch TV.”
Tang Zhou glanced at the screen once more.
The female lead was running toward the male lead’s embrace, her hair drenched, her clothes soaked, and the two of them, looking like drowned rats, finally shared a passionate kiss.
It was a very touching moment.
Having personally experienced what it was like to be drenched in the rain, Tang Zhou couldn’t help but admire the actors – they were truly dedicated.
He nodded seriously.
“Okay.”
“……”
Not long after, Fu Shen returned.
There was only one room card, and the room needed electricity, so he couldn’t take the card with him. When he came back, he had to knock on the door.
Tang Zhou, wearing the low-quality slippers provided by the hotel, uncomfortably walked over to open the door.
Fu Shen came in with a stream of steam and handed him something.
“What?”
“A shoe dryer. It should dry them overnight.”
Tang Zhou wondered: “How do you use it?”
Fu Shen raised his eyebrows, thinking that Tang Zhou was messing with him.
He shouldn’t be this kind of moron, considering that Tang Zhou didn’t hire any housekeeping services for his off-campus rental.
“There’s an instruction manual.”
Tang Zhou: “Oh.”
He opened the box, taking out the shoe dryer. Suddenly, he coldly spoke, “Assistant Fu.”
Fu Shen intuited that this wasn’t good.
“Didn’t expect Assistant Fu to be a fan of romantic idol dramas.”
Tang Zhou calmly fixed his gaze on him, as if the victory was in his grasp.
Fu Shen secretly smirked.
By not addressing him by name or as a junior, and by using the term “Assistant,” wasn’t he just hoping Fu Shen would help him? Using such childish and clumsy words to threaten him.
If he didn’t help, would everyone know by tomorrow that he “loved watching” idol dramas?
He slowly took the shoe dryer, then, under Tang Zhou’s smug gaze, he spoke.
“I didn’t expect Tang Shen to like rag dolls either.”
Tang Zhou: “…”
Well, now that they’d opened up this topic, he had nothing to be embarrassed about. Anyway, he wasn’t ashamed anymore, as Fu Shen had seen both in his dreams and in reality his struggles and embarrassing moments.
He wasn’t ashamed at all now.
“Assistant Fu, I appreciate your help the other day, and I’m equally grateful today. How much for the claw machine and the shoe dryer? I’ll reimburse you.”
The young man looked calm, no longer distant as before. Fu Shen inexplicably felt relieved, and much of the tension in his heart dissipated.
“No need.”
He bent down and efficiently placed the shoe dryer inside Tang Zhou’s shoes, then plugged it in.
“Let’s just say it’s respect for our elders and cherish the younger.”
The translator has somehing to say…
Hello guys!! I hope you’re all having a great time 
If anyone ws wondering this bunch of chapters was not a mistake haha, I wanted to make a pack for Halloween (even tho it was on tuesday, and this’s literally the opposite of an scary history LOL but well, details!) and was able to do so hehe I hope you all like it and that just like me, are loving these silly boys more and more.
xoxo
I’m enjoying this story so much! Thank you for your hard work!
Thank you, translator
I really like those characters too ! I couldn’t wait and mtled the story (and have broken my brain in the process) and it’s a delight to read it in a cool translation!
lmaoo the mtl part can’t be more real :,) I’ve done it with a bunch of novels and lots of them leave my head spinning, like I only got like 50% of what was going on (and it’s worse when a character name translates to something! like wdym ‘birch leaf’ is talking! haha). Tyvm for the comment! I’m very happy you’re liking my version ❤️
Birch leaf is talking 😂🤣
Honestly, I admire people who can read mtl. It’s ridiculously bad, even mtl manhua is bad, but with novels you don’t even get pictures for reference 😭 chinese is really difficult to machine translate.
I definitely like them! Can’t wait for more~
Thank you for the updates 💛
Thanks for the chapter
Thanks for the chapter
Ohoho~
Thank You for the new chapter (∩˃w˂∩)♡
Their dynamics are the best! <333
Lmao translator-san’s butchering Lu Ye’s name, first it’s La Ye, now there’s Land Yeh😭🤣
I don’t know if it’s just from the MTL or not but I feel sorry yet not sorry for Lu Ye’s name at the same time🤣