After mourning for his future, Su Yichen skipped over Luo Yueli and shifted his gaze to the only girl on the field he didn’t recognize.
As for Shen Ran, he naturally bypassed her as well.
That girl had been watching him curiously. She was likely trying to guess the relationship between him and Tong Ya?
Su Yichen didn’t pay much mind to Shen Ran’s actions because he knew she wasn’t a key player.
With romantic experience that could be described as a “hundred-man slayer,” Su Yichen had his own unique, specialized philosophy for identification.
When it came to identifying people, he had surgical precision and rarely made mistakes.
One had to understand that the girls listed as capture targets in the void realm were much more complex than the girls who were simply tricked into bed by scumbags.
Facing these girls with such complex attributes, Su Yichen’s experience far surpassed that of a conventional “scumbag.”
In his eyes, someone like Shen Ran was merely a background character or an extra. At most, she might reach the threshold of a supporting female character.
Naturally, she wasn’t worth his focus.
However, he was somewhat interested in this unknown woman who had come along with Tong Ya and Shen Ran.
The fact that Luo Yueli was sitting next to him was likely related to this woman. One could even say she had quietly arranged it.
Unlike Tong Ya and Luo Yueli, who were participants, Su Yichen, as a bystander, could see some of the trickery involved.
This woman was likely a third- or fourth-year student at Qingyue University.
As if sensing Su Yichen’s gaze, Mo Qingqiu stood up. Her lips curled into a slow smile as she said, “It seems… everyone knows each other?”
“In that case, I’m the only stranger here~”
“Allow me to introduce myself. I am Mo Qingqiu, a third-year student at the Art Academy of Qingyue University and the President of the Qingyue University Literary and Art Federation.”
“You can all call me by my name, or you can call me Senior.”
Mo Qingqiu wore a plain, long dress. Her deep eyes were an alluring amber color. Her small cherry lips, a perfectly straight nose, and an exquisitely beautiful oval face combined in perfect harmony.
She was a biracial girl.
Her voice was pleasant, her mannerisms elegant, and her speech extraordinary. With just a few words, she drew everyone closer and gave off a sense of approachability.
Seeing this, Su Yichen couldn’t help but narrow his eyes slightly.
This was a person with a good upbringing, likely someone who had received an elite, aristocratic education.
Mo Qingqiu…
A third-year senior and the President of the Qingyue University Literary and Art Federation…
Whether it was her status as a capture target or this series of behaviors and movements, Su Yichen felt this woman was not simple.
He decided to hold his ground and observe for a while. He would make plans after determining what kind of person she was.
With that thought, Su Yichen looked toward Tong Ya.
He knew she would be the next one to speak.
Because… their two-person world had been ruined, and the young girl was angry.
“So it’s Senior Mo Qingqiu from the Art Academy?”
Tong Ya’s tone was light yet polite. “Hello, Senior. May I ask if we know you? And is there something you need from us?”
“Or rather…”
“Yichen, do you know Senior Mo Qingqiu?”
Although the girl kept her voice well-controlled and her wording as refined as possible, Su Yichen could still detect a hint of tension in the air.
The little kitten was showing some temper.
He could tell from the way she said “Yichen.”
She was subtly announcing the relationship between the two of them. At the same time, she was expressing her dissatisfaction toward Mo Qingqiu.
‘Yichen…’
‘Tong Ya actually called me that in front of Luo Yueli?’
Su Yichen felt a bit surprised. As Tong Ya’s voice trailed off, he quickly captured the micro-expressions on everyone else’s faces.
Mo Qingqiu’s expression hardly changed. Shen Ran, however, took a few extra looks at him and Tong Ya.
This girl was clearly quite simple, and her internal changes were reflected in her expression. She seemed a little shocked.
As for Luo Yueli…
Su Yichen noticed her small, pink, beautifully curved ears tremble slightly. Her gaze shifted downward involuntarily, staring at the cute white panda coffee cup on the table.
‘Interesting. So many beautiful girls…’
‘Should I… try an indiscriminate provocation?’
Su Yichen’s eyes flickered with a thoughtful expression. He gave a gentle smile, picked up the cup on the table, and took a sip.
The youth’s pink tongue brushed past the corner of his lips. His crimson lips were moistened by the water, looking like a blooming, gorgeous rose—fresh, tender, and soul-stirring.
Tong Ya, who had seen Su Yichen without his glasses before, almost stared straight at him.
How could a young girl with plenty of theoretical knowledge but zero practical experience withstand such a stimulating image?
If it weren’t a public place but a private environment with only the two of them, she might have even thought Su Yichen was seducing her.
Even Luo Yueli, who had been keeping her head down, stole several glances. However, after looking, her eyes became even more evasive.
Even Mo Qingqiu’s eyes couldn’t help but narrow for a brief moment. She looked closely at Su Yichen’s face, as if trying to see something there.
But no matter how she looked, the boy’s movements were perfectly natural—as natural as eating or drinking in daily life.
He seemed completely unaware of how seductive that action had just been to women.
It was as if he were captivating souls without even realizing it.
‘It was just a perfectly normal action. Perhaps… I’m overthinking it,’ Mo Qingqiu thought, shaking her head inwardly.
“I’m the same as you. It’s my first time meeting Senior Mo Qingqiu as well.”
Shen Ran had been looking down at a QR code, preparing to order. She only looked up when Su Yichen’s pleasant voice reached her ears.
Before she could even snap out of it, she saw his smiling eyes and…
‘So ugly…’
That was Shen Ran’s first reaction.
Shen Ran couldn’t help but look at those black, ugly glasses on Su Yichen’s face a few more times.
She was a glasses lover. This was the first time she had encountered a pair of glasses that could cause her such aversion.
‘Why would anyone wear glasses like that?’
***
After looking for just a few seconds, the girl felt a sense of discomfort coming from the depths of her soul. She found it somewhat hard to accept.
“Hello, Senior. Nice to meet you. I am Su Yichen, a classmate of Yueli, Tong Ya, and Shen Ran.”
Su Yichen smiled gently. The voice coming from those alluring lips was ethereal and pleasant, sounding like heavenly music.
As if to draw a line, he used the full names for Tong Ya and Shen Ran.
Only for Luo Yueli did Su Yichen use a distinct, intimate address.
After all, the two were childhood friends, so calling her that wasn’t strange.
From Tong Ya’s form of address today… Su Yichen faintly felt that some unknown change had occurred between Tong Ya and Luo Yueli.
He didn’t know exactly what had happened or what the specific situation was, but he understood one thing.
A large portion of Tong Ya’s hatred value would likely have to be harvested from Luo Yueli.
The love value would only become harder to increase as time went on.
Therefore… it wasn’t time yet for his tool and childhood friend, Luo Yueli, to retire.
He needed her to temporarily serve as Tong Ya’s imaginary romantic rival.
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