Chapter 17: Squatting

【Lizi, do you really… want to meet me?】

【But I…】

Luo Yueli smiled and shook her head, replying: 【Why not?】

Mu Qianqian’s ability to express herself was somewhat poor, and most people might not understand the meaning in her heart.

But Luo Yueli knew.

She knew Mu Qianqian’s personality was somewhat proud and stubborn; she wasn’t someone who admitted defeat easily.

However, the more she acted this way, the more it reflected the inferiority complex buried deep within Mu Qianqian’s heart from another perspective.

This was because everyone tends to hide the side they are most afraid of, keeping it out of sight.

They wear armored suits of thorns to protect their cowardice and soft spots.

The more they lack something, the more they want to show off.

【Qianqian, we’re good friends.】

【Back in high school, during my most boring moments and when studying was at its hardest, weren’t you always there accompanying me and encouraging me?】

【Besides, what’s inappropriate about two good friends meeting up?】

Mu Qianqian stared at her phone, lost in thought for a long while.

In this instant, her normally not-so-clever mind suddenly thought of many things.

Finally…

Luo Yueli’s sincerity regarding their feelings and their long-standing friendship moved the young girl.

【Okay, I understand.】

【Then I’ll wait until your military training ends. When the time comes, we can… together…】

【We can go grab some food. Oh, right, I know where the fun spots in Jinyue City are. I’ll take you there when the time comes.】

With Mu Qianqian’s social capacity, this was the most she could come up with.

As for how to actually meet a friend… she had zero experience.

After sending the message, Mu Qianqian pressed the phone against her chest.

It felt as though, in this cold city…

She wouldn’t be so lonely after all.

“Lizi, what happened? Why are you smiling so happily?” Shen Ran suddenly whispered into Luo Yueli’s ear, her voice popping up out of nowhere.

She had noticed Luo Yueli smiling for quite some time now.

“Ah?!”

Luo Yueli was slightly startled. She hurriedly patted her chest and said, “It’s nothing.”

“I was just chatting with a friend I play games with.”

“Is that so? It’s not a boyfriend? Or maybe a boy you like?”

“I haven’t even gotten a boyfriend, and I don’t have any boys I like,” Luo Yueli replied, glancing sideways at Shen Ran, her eyes nearly rolling.

“True, our Campus Beauty Luo isn’t that easy to chase after, anyway.” Shen Ran teased with a grin, not doubting Luo Yueli’s words.

Although Luo Yueli had been smiling earlier, it wasn’t that kind of silly grin of someone falling in love.

However, hearing Luo Yueli say this made Shen Ran feel a bit more relaxed.

“Since when did I become a campus beauty… You’re talking nonsense again. if someone else hears that, they’ll think I’m narcissistic.”

“Fine, fine, I won’t say it.”

Looking at Luo Yueli’s beautiful profile, Shen Ran added, “But I really think it’s you. At the very least, you’re one of the campus beauties. I went to the Arts College for something today, and almost none of the girls I saw were as pretty as you…”

“That’s probably just because you didn’t run into the pretty ones,” Luo Yueli said, but she still felt a bit happy inside.

Who doesn’t like being praised?

“What about Tong Ya, Shen Ran?”

“She seems to have gone downstairs again to buy something to eat.”

Shen Ran pouted. “Doesn’t she worry about getting fat?”

It was that same snack street again.

Tong Ya had been standing at the intersection for a long time, but she hadn’t managed to run into the person she wanted to see.

That was right—she was here to camp for Su Yichen.

She didn’t have Su Yichen’s VX, no phone number, and she didn’t even know his daily routine.

But she couldn’t suppress the longing for a sweet romance deep within her young girl’s heart…

So, she could only use the dumbest method: waiting stubbornly for a chance encounter.

If she was going to camp for someone, she certainly couldn’t go wait under the male dormitory building.

That would completely expose her predatory intentions.

Thus, she could only come here. This snack street was very famous within Qingyue University, and almost every freshman would visit.

During the time she had been waiting for Su Yichen, she had seen no less than thirty classmates.

‘I admit I’m lusting after Su Yichen’s body. I fell for him at first sight because of his looks.’

Tong Ya didn’t think there was anything wrong with lusting after someone’s body. Sexual impulse was the most primitive and instinctive urge of a human.

Feeling a physical reaction upon seeing someone was ironclad proof of love, especially for a girl experiencing her first awakening of love.

No matter how aloof or noble a girl claimed to be, from the moment she met someone she liked, there was absolutely a time when she wanted something unspeakable to happen with that person.

If you don’t lust after the other person’s body, it means they have zero sexual attraction to you.

Love and desire have always been intertwined; Platonic love is just nonsense.

When love comes and you truly fall for someone… you don’t want to sleep with him? Your body has no impulses?

How is that possible?

‘For the sake of my honesty and devotion, whatever god is out there, please… can you just spawn him right in front of me?’

Tong Ya, whose feet were getting numb from waiting, started to get anxious. Luo Yueli definitely had Su Yichen’s contact information.

But Tong Ya didn’t plan to ask her for it.

That woman was so shrewd; she couldn’t let her realize something was up.

This was Tong Ya’s plan.

Regardless of whether Luo Yueli was actually gaslighting Su Yichen to make him so devoted to her.

Regardless of whether Luo Yueli knew how peerless Su Yichen actually looked when he took off his glasses.

Tong Ya didn’t plan to let Luo Yueli know she had her eyes on her childhood friend.

If Luo Yueli knew about Su Yichen’s true face as a beautiful boy, then that woman was truly terrifying. She absolutely had to rescue Su Yichen from the hands of that malicious villain.

Tong Ya knew what the gaslighting effect was; she was even proficient in some of those tactics herself.

If Lizi was a hidden gaslighter, Su Yichen had probably already been molded into her desired shape…

The rescue plan could not be known by that woman.

If Luo Yueli didn’t know Su Yichen was a beautiful boy… then she really couldn’t be allowed to find out.

Otherwise, if she sensed something was wrong and took off Su Yichen’s glasses on a whim…

Tong Ya would sooner believe the sun would rise from the west than believe Luo Yueli would remain as indifferent as she was now.

They had chatted while eating spicy hotpot yesterday, and Tong Ya knew very well.

Luo Yueli and she shared a lot in common when it came to the types of boys they liked.

Once she knew what Su Yichen looked like without his glasses, Luo Yueli would definitely defect.

She would treat everything she said today like yesterday’s period—flushed down the toilet with a roll of toilet paper.

She wouldn’t even look back.

Su Yichen liked Luo Yueli so much that he was willing to be her licking dog for three years. Would she be able to snatch him away then?

How could that be possible? In Su Yichen’s heart, she and Luo Yueli weren’t even on the same level.

When the time came, she might spend ages “licking” him without even holding his hand, while Luo Yueli would only need to hook her finger for Su Yichen to crawl onto her bed.

Therefore, she had to close the gap between them to have any capital for competition.

She had to attack the heart first.

‘Dammit… don’t beautiful boys need to eat?!’

Tong Ya had already finished two cups of milk tea. Originally, she had planned to find a way to invite him to a milk tea shop as soon as they met to have a good talk and get closer.

In the end, she hadn’t seen a sign of Su Yichen, but the urge to use the restroom was hitting her first.