Chapter 389: Back to School
“You have no idea, Ning Chu is now as pretty as a ghost!”
“???”
In the morning cafeteria, Zhang Shaoqing grinned as he shared his intel with Wang Jie: “Remember when I went to hang out with Wen Yang? It’s only been a little over half a month since I last saw Ning Chu, and that guy has drained her dry.”
“No way! What a battlefield~ I waited outside for five hours! I was almost frozen solid. Look at my loyalty, risking frostbite just to not disturb a brother’s happiness!”
“Five hours?” Wang Jie looked up in shock, “That’s exaggerated, right?”
“You know I’m being dramatic… Last year, she was still a little kid~ Her face looked like a middle schooler’s, but now look at her—her chest, her waist, her hips~ all ripe and ready!”
Wang Jie scratched his head: “If you talk about Ning Chu like that, she’s bound to get mad, right?”
“She’s not here.” Zhang Shaoqing chuckled, slinging an arm around Wang Jie’s shoulder, “Enough about her, let’s talk about you… Why do you still look half-dead? Did you skip the gym all month during winter break? Your girlfriend is hotter than a succubus, and if this goes on, you’ll be left as nothing but ashes!”
“I just don’t feel like moving…”
“Then you deserve to be drained dry! Hey, how long do you and your girlfriend take?”
“This…”
Zhang Shaoqing suddenly noticed the noisy cafeteria had quieted for a moment. He instinctively looked up and saw a beautiful couple walking in.
The girl was about 1.6 meters tall, her thick down jacket couldn’t hide her stunning figure. Her flushed cheeks looked youthful but exuded a rich allure, the stark contrast making one want to bully her.
The guy next to her was nearly 1.9 meters tall, creating a significant height difference that made her seem small and cute as she could barely reach his shoulders.
Zhang Shaoqing, being a man with no interest in Wen Yang, admired Ning Chu and leaned in to whisper to Wang Jie, “You see? Quite the transformation, huh? The class flower might get dethroned.”
“Y-yeah… she’s becoming more beautiful.” Wang Jie stuttered, his eyes darting away, not daring to look at Ning Chu.
It had only been a month since he last saw her, and now his roommate had transformed into a complete knockout, making him too shy to meet her gaze, afraid his mind would conjure inappropriate thoughts.
Such thoughts wouldn’t matter for an unknown pretty girl, but for a roommate he had spent long days and nights with, it was embarrassing.
“What are you being shy for! How embarrassing! You don’t have feelings for Ning Chu, do you?”
He awkwardly scratched the back of his head and forced a laugh, feeling guilty: “She is just really pretty…”
“Enough with that.” Zhang Shaoqing scoffed, “After living together for months, you still don’t know what kind of person she is?”
“What kind of person?”
As Ning Chu came closer to their side, she overheard Zhang Shaoqing’s nonsensical slander, and slammed her hand on the table: “I’ve been worried sick about the dorm, okay?”
“Ah, right, right, right~”
Zhang Shaoqing looked up and rolled his eyes: “You’re calling me Dad now?”
“Then you call Mom?”
Without a second thought, he shouted: “Mom~”
Hiss! Why does that give me no sense of satisfaction at all?
Ning Chu even felt like she was the one being taken advantage of.
Fuming, she kicked Zhang Shaoqing’s chair, then plopped down in the empty seat across from him, looking up at Wen Yang: “Just buy whatever; I’ve already transferred the money to you.”
“Got it.”
Because transferring money to Wen Yang was too troublesome every day, Ning Chu simply set their food expenses to sixty each, and the payment app automatically transferred it daily.
She pulled out a lip balm from her mini bag, applied a thin layer to her lips, pressed them together, and then looked up at the two across from her.
Zhang Shaoqing still wore that goofy grin. She had seen this guy during the New Year, and despite not having seen him for about ten days, he hadn’t changed much.
As for Wang Jie…
Clearly no longer a virgin, but he shyly lowered his head to drink porridge, his gaze darting away and totally avoiding her.
Moreover, he looked a bit thinner too, with sunken cheeks—one could only imagine what this guy had been through over winter break.
Seeing Wang Jie like this made Ning Chu sigh inwardly in resignation.
She turned to Zhang Shaoqing: “What’s the deal with you and Qian Qian now?”
Wang Jie perked up, straining to listen.
At the mention, Zhang Shaoqing suddenly sulked: “What could it be… The unattainable is always the best~”
“Spill it.”
He looked troubled, about to speak when his gaze shot straight behind Ning Chu. He quickly buried his head and got up, hurrying towards the cafeteria exit: “I’ve got something.”
Ning Chu looked confused but soon heard a cheerful shout from behind.
“Shaoqing!”
She turned to see Qian Qian just walking into the cafeteria, jogging after Zhang Shaoqing.
Zhang Shaoqing froze, and when he looked up again, there was a forced surprise on his face: “Qian Qian? What are you doing here?”
“I have a class in the first period!”
Qian Qian wrapped her arms around his, smiling brightly as she pulled him toward the cafeteria window: “Let’s have breakfast together?”
“I’ve already eaten… you’re a teacher; don’t do that at school…”
“True~ Just say you’re my little brother?”
“……”
Wen Yang returned with two breakfast plates, his gaze fixed on Zhang Shaoqing, sitting next to Ning Chu, he asked: “What’s going on here?”
“That’s obvious~” Ning Chu’s eyes sparkled with excitement, “Shaoqing is finally getting what he deserves! At last, someone can handle this guy!”
“Huh?”
“He finally broke up Qian Qian’s ex-boyfriend, and now Qian Qian likes him, but for him, the unattainable is always the best~ He’s gonna regret it soon.”
In the little royal literature, villains use coercion and bribery on Qian Qian, but in reality, Zhang Shaoqing was terrified of her, getting chased down by Qian Qian.
In the future, whether he went to a bar to watch women dance on poles or to KTV to pick a princess, he would definitely have a woman keeping an eye on him.
To put it simply, he brought it all on himself~
Wang Jie, who had nothing to do with this, looked dumbfounded: “What? I don’t understand a word!”
“You don’t need to, just focus on working out to please your little girlfriend.”
“???”
His face flushed from that single sentence, he awkwardly lowered his head and mumbled: “Wasn’t Ning Chu blushing when watching movies before… how does she drive so well now?”
“Class is starting.” Wen Yang reminded.
“Got it!” Ning Chu hurriedly stuffed a bun into her mouth, her cheeks puffing up like a baozi.
“Slow down, don’t choke.”
As soon as he finished, she suddenly widened her eyes: “Mmm!”
Wen Yang helplessly offered her some soy milk: “I told you to slow down.”
Ning Chu took a big gulp of soy milk, barely swallowed, and sighed in relief, collapsing against her chair: “Almost died~”
“Here.”
“Wait, let me check the class schedule… it seems like there aren’t as many classes this semester as before~”
Wen Yang pulled out a tissue, about to hand it to her, but saw Ning Chu looking at her phone, only turning her face towards him a few times.
He knew what she was thinking and wiped the grease off the corner of her lips with the tissue.
“Aren’t you worried about being embarrassed with everyone watching?”
“It’s fine; let those nasty women see how good-looking your girlfriend is, so they feel ashamed!”
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