Chapter 222: Dorm Manager
Ning Chu always thought that school health checks were just a formality, useless as ever.
After all, since childhood, apart from color blindness and weak eyesight, no one has ever found any other illnesses during these checks.
At noon, after class, Ning Chu followed her roommates toward the Dormitory Building.
Now that her academic gender had been changed to female, she couldn’t swagger back to the dorm as usual anymore…
Zhang Shaoqing and Wang Jie were discussing which character to pull from the new card pool of their game, one being an XP enthusiast and the other a strength fanatic. They debated for a while, concluding they would spend some money on a single pull later.
Meanwhile, Ning Chu had her hands tucked into her trench coat pockets, strolling side by side with Wen Yang: “I mainly need to tidy up the bedding and pillows first. I’ll call Lily and Xinya to see if we can get everything to the rental apartment in one go.”
“Hmm, but how do you plan to explain it to Shaoqing if he asks? Moving to the girls’ dorm?”
“Umm… just say I’ve started dating Xinya and I’m moving out?”
Wen Yang immediately rebuffed without hesitation: “No way.”
“Hey, it’s just to fool him.”
“Still no.”
Ning Chu looked up and saw the possessiveness in Wen Yang’s gaze.
Is this self-inflicted…?
Mutual jealousy and restraining each other isn’t too bad after all.
Even though falling for Wen Yang was a sheer stroke of luck, Ning Chu didn’t think she’d fancy any other men, nor did she see herself being unfaithful. In fact, she held a strong wariness towards other guys, so Wen Yang’s restrictions felt almost useless.
Walking through the Dormitory Building door as usual, Ning Chu instinctively glanced at the dorm manager sitting on the side smoking.
The dorm manager, although older, still held a thirst for knowledge, perhaps having even begun learning English from that female student.
And “learning English” had turned into a practical lesson.
After all, it’s not every day you get a pure 1V1 love story, even if the age gap was a bit wide… She had no intention of interfering, rather she wanted to see how the side plot with the Small Royal Text would unfold without her involvement.
The dorm manager noticed her gaze and looked up.
“Hey! What’s that girl doing in the boys’ dorm?!”
“……”
Ning Chu stopped dead in her tracks.
Excuse me?! Don’t tell me you forgot we’ve spoken before?!
Plus, I didn’t report you for flirting with that female student! It didn’t stop you from learning English! How is this “biting the hand that feeds you”?!
Looking at the dorm manager striding toward her, Ning Chu looked bewilderedly at Wen Yang beside her, confusion plastered on her face.
“She’s from my dorm, a boy,” Wen Yang explained to the dorm manager.
“A boy?”
“Yes! We exchanged a few words in the laundry room before; do you not remember?”
Ning Chu hurriedly chimed in to clarify.
The dorm manager frowned deeply, reminiscing for a moment before shaking his head and extending his hand to Ning Chu: “Then show me your student ID.”
With your memory, it’s no wonder even personal tutors can’t teach you English well!
Ning Chu wouldn’t carry her student ID around!
That thing was only handy at the beginning of the school year when security checked it coming in and out, and now that security has relaxed, she couldn’t be bothered and even forgot where she stashed it in the dorm.
“I need to go upstairs to look for it…”
“No way,” the dorm manager scrutinized her with a piercing look, muttering, “Such a pretty girl, acting so careless…”
Ning Chu’s mouth twitched as she noticed more and more students around her staring, helplessly covering her face: “I really am a boy…”
Up ahead, Zhang Shaoqing suddenly realized that Ning Chu and Wen Yang were no longer behind them. He stopped, turned around to look at the entrance, and found Ning Chu had been stopped by the dorm manager.
He almost laughed out loud, and in the spirit of not wanting to miss the drama, he dragged Wang Jie back to join in the fun.
Just getting in the way for the heck of it, not bothering to help explain, just standing off to the side watching.
Wen Yang furrowed his brows, suppressing his displeasure: “Alright, I’ll go upstairs to help you… Shaoqing! You go upstairs and help Ning Chu fetch it!”
He was worried that once he left, Ning Chu wouldn’t have anyone to back her up.
“Okay, Ning Chu, where did you put your student ID?”
“I don’t know! Look in the drawer or cupboard!”
“Such a fiery temper~” Zhang Shaoqing mumbled as he turned and ran up the stairs.
After a few flights of steps, he gasped and opened the dorm room door, quickly darting to Ning Chu’s desk, opening drawers one by one, rummaging around, but couldn’t find the student ID anywhere.
“Did you really throw it in the cupboard?”
He twisted around and opened the cupboard door, observing the neatly folded clothes inside, reaching deep into the cupboard.
Then he pulled out the admission notice from a semester ago.
“What’s this?”
Zhang Shaoqing paused for a moment, flipping through the wardrobe and drawers again, but he still didn’t find the student ID. His gaze landed on the locked drawer Ning Chu had kept secure.
He simply called Ning Chu: “Hey, where’s the key to your drawer? I’ve checked all the other cabinets and drawers.”
“Under the pillow…” Ning Chu suddenly remembered.
Oh no! That drawer has the x-ray vision tools! Zhang Shaoqing won’t sneakily take them, right?!
And her sanitary napkins and tampons! What if he finds them while searching?!
Her nerves instantly tensed up.
She should’ve let Wen Yang help her find her student ID in the dorm!
Zhang Shaoqing opened the locked drawer and glanced at the glasses case inside.
Though he felt a temptation to take something, he hesitated for a moment and honestly picked up the student ID.
“Well, it really was locked in here.”
Zhang Shaoqing mumbled as he closed the drawer and placed Ning Chu’s admission notice back in the cupboard, only to accidentally mess up a jacket on the way out.
A few stick-shaped items clattered out from the jacket.
He froze for a moment, picked one up, looking down at the packaging which had some English on it that he couldn’t decipher.
The pink packaging looked like something a girl would use…
“What the heck is this?”
Without thinking too much, he grabbed the student ID and rushed downstairs.
“I’m coming, I’m coming!”
Zhang Shaoqing panted heavily as he handed the student ID to Ning Chu: “See! You should’ve said it was locked in the drawer! Made me search forever.”
He noticed Ning Chu’s expression seemed somewhat stiff and thought she might be mad at the dorm manager, not thinking much of it: “Now can we get on with it? For real, you’re a boy, making me go through all this trouble.”
The dorm manager took the student ID and looked at the photo of the boyish face inside, then at Ning Chu’s girl face, barely finding a hint of resemblance.
Plus, quite a few students around corroborated that Ning Chu was indeed male.
“Alright, go on in.” The dorm manager awkwardly turned his head away, “Sorry about that.”
“It’s fine…”
The problem isn’t with the dorm manager, it’s with Zhang Shaoqing.
Ning Chu forced a smile, glancing at Zhang Shaoqing with a guilty conscience.
Fortunately, today she was just back to pack her things and run away, even if Zhang Shaoqing discovered her gender, it wasn’t a huge deal.
She was more worried that her relationship with Wen Yang would also get exposed!
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