Chapter 47: Mo Qingqiu

September 23, Sunny, 10:45 AM.

Shen Ran arrived at the recruitment area for clubs at Qingyue Square. She pulled out her phone to check it, looking left and right.

She seemed to be looking for someone.

Before long, Shen Ran spotted the person she was waiting for across the road. She checked both directions and crossed the street.

“Senior Mo Qingqiu… Lizi?!”

Shen Ran froze for a moment when she clearly saw the two people in front of her.

In contrast, Luo Yueli wasn’t very surprised. She pursed her lips and gave Shen Ran a small smile. “Mm, good morning, Shen Ran.”

“Senior, why is Lizi here? Do you two already know each other?” Shen Ran asked.

She knew Luo Yueli was joining the Music Club because she’d heard her talking about it in the dorm, and she also knew Luo Yueli could play the piano.

But she had no idea that Luo Yueli actually knew Mo Qingqiu.

“No, Shen Ran.”

Mo Qingqiu shook her head and chuckled. “I only met Junior Luo Yueli yesterday. She happened to be practicing in the piano room.”

“We agreed to meet today as well. While I was waiting for you, I mentioned you to her, and as it turns out, we found out you’re roommates.”

“So that’s how it is…”

Shen Ran looked at Mo Qingqiu and saw her give a playful wink.

*Phew…*

Seeing this, the young girl let out a quiet sigh of relief. Her reason for finding Mo Qingqiu wasn’t just to join the club.

“Alright, since we share such a fate…” Mo Qingqiu pointed to a dessert and milk tea shop not far away.

“That’s the famous Dessert Hut near Qingyue Square. Let’s go sit there and chat for a while. You two can also fill out your club applications while we’re at it.”

Luo Yueli and Shen Ran naturally had no objections. The three of them walked into the Dessert Hut together.

But the moment they pushed open the glass door and stepped inside…

‘Interesting…’

‘Finally, a bit of an interesting story. Otherwise, university life would be too boring without any stories to watch.’

Mo Qingqiu thought this to herself after responding to Shen Ran’s gaze.

Today, Shen Ran hadn’t come to her just to join the Music Club; she also wanted to ask for advice on how to pursue a boy.

Mo Qingqiu knew Shen Ran liked her classmate, Jiang Jingjie, and she had also heard from Shen Ran that Jiang Jingjie liked Luo Yueli.

When she first heard Luo Yueli’s name from Shen Ran, Mo Qingqiu was quite curious. Shen Ran said the girl was very beautiful and could play the piano.

She even had a performance for the College of Liberal Arts’ freshman welcome gala.

So, she specifically went to the piano rooms yesterday to look for her, and she actually found her. There were plenty of pretty girls at Qingyue University.

Girls with a beauty score of six or seven weren’t exactly as common as cabbages by the road, but they could be seen everywhere in the college.

But those above eight were rare. So, finding her wasn’t that difficult.

With Luo Yueli, Shen Ran, and Jiang Jingjie involved, Mo Qingqiu felt that she would be able to watch a fairly decent show during her junior year.

Watching the drama and enjoying the gossip was the young girl’s favorite pastime. With just a little bit of orchestration on her part, she could enjoy an exquisite unfolding of events.

While Mo Qingqiu was thinking this, she noticed that the moment they stepped into the Dessert Hut, Luo Yueli and Shen Ran both turned their gazes toward a corner at the same time.

As a girl who lived for drama and never found the “melon” too big to swallow, Mo Qingqiu’s sensitivity to life’s “stories” far exceeded that of ordinary people.

In almost an instant, she felt that things were about to get even more interesting.

Immediately, Mo Qingqiu followed their line of sight.

There, in a small corner of the Dessert Hut, sat two Qingyue University students. A boy and a girl. The boy was average.

At first glance, he looked decent enough, but he wasn’t outstanding. He dressed simply—a very ordinary person.

The girl, however, was different. She was very beautiful.

Even in the Art Academy, where the most beautiful girls at Qingyue University gathered, such an outstandingly pretty and exquisitely cute girl was extremely rare.

‘How did these two end up together?’

Mo Qingqiu smelled the sweet scent of gossip. She had a faint premonition that this would be the grandest show she would see in her university years… no, perhaps in her entire life.

The feeling made her blood race through her body. The young girl could almost hear her heart beating faster and faster.

Moreover, the girl in the corner gave her a faint sense of familiarity, as if she had seen her somewhere before.

Right then, Mo Qingqiu heard Shen Ran’s surprised voice: “Tong Ya?”

But what caught her attention was Luo Yueli’s voice, which carried an indescribable complexity.

“Su… Yichen.”

Mo Qingqiu couldn’t help but tilt her head. She noticed that as Luo Yueli looked at those two, her eyes momentarily lost their focus.

Her voice sounded calm, but Mo Qingqiu, who had been chatting with her all morning, knew that Luo Yueli’s normal speaking voice didn’t have that monotonous yet emotionally complex tone.

The boy was Su Yichen. The girl was Tong Ya.

‘Tong Ya… Hmm? I feel like I’ve heard that name somewhere before…’

Mo Qingqiu suddenly remembered why the girl’s silhouette looked so familiar.

‘Isn’t that the Eldest Miss of the Tong Clan…?’

She had seen her once by chance last year. It wasn’t even from the front, just a profile view.

She had heard that this Eldest Miss lived a commoner’s lifestyle and hadn’t undergone any elite family education. She was the only daughter of the Tong family and the apple of their eye.

This Miss Tong was very low-key, and few people knew of her. If not for that accidental encounter last year, Mo Qingqiu wouldn’t have known what Tong Ya looked like.

Even though she had only seen a side profile back then, she still remembered it because the other party was the future heir of the Tong Clan.

As for whether Tong Ya knew her… Of course not. Because that time, she had only learned some information about Tong Ya on her own. The Mo Family was equally low-key within the country.

Su Yichen, Luo Yueli, Tong Ya, Shen Ran… and that Jiang Jingjie…

‘How interesting… Things are getting more and more interesting… Just what is there here that I don’t know about? Can I finally look forward to the future… What a grand carnival this will be!’

The young girl’s amber eyes trembled violently. She bit her lip hard until her pink lips turned a vivid crimson, until the tip of her tongue tasted a faint, metallic sweetness.

It was the taste of blood.

**[She could not wait to see the story between him and them.]**

“Su Yichen?”

Hearing these three words from Luo Yueli, Shen Ran suddenly felt like she had heard this name somewhere before.

That’s right. Lizi had mentioned before that her childhood friend was in the same dorm as Jiang Jingjie, and that she could ask him for help…

In the next second, Shen Ran’s gaze focused on the boy sitting across from Tong Ya.

This boy was Luo Yueli’s childhood friend, Su Yichen?

He was a bit ordinary. Ordinary—that was Shen Ran’s first impression of Su Yichen. During the self-introductions on the first day of school, she hadn’t even noticed this boy.