“A township test-taker with a people-pleasing personality.”
“People-pleasing personality?” Huohua scratched his head, sounding confused.
“Yes, I don’t blame you this time. I’ve encountered them in other void realms before, but they were just passersby. I rarely had contact with one like Shen Ran.”
“Besides, you were always out playing back then, so of course you wouldn’t know.”
“Lacking confidence, sensitive, doesn’t know how to say no, and has blurry boundaries and principles.”
“Shen Ran has almost all these traits. She couldn’t find her seat when she arrived, yet even though she was sweating from running, she’d rather ask a stranger than ask me.”
“I guess… it’s not that she didn’t want to ask, but because she needs a favor from me, she already felt like she was at a disadvantage. She didn’t want to trouble me more.”
“She was so nervous when I poured her a cup of tea. And just now, my request for our relationship as ‘classmates’ who just met once… to be honest, it was harsh, even excessive.”
“She didn’t refuse; she just went.”
“Shen Ran is a bit like a female version of me when I first entered the void realm.”
Su Yichen spoke a lot at once, then habitually took out a cigarette to light it. However, considering he would be talking to Shen Ran again soon, he stopped.
He did not have the impolite habit of making classmates he was on good terms with breathe secondhand smoke, so he put the cigarette away.
He didn’t know how she was with girls, but she was definitely a girl who didn’t know how to deal with boys and was constantly thinking about pleasing others.
A girl like Shen Ran would never be listed as a target for conquest by the void realm, because dealing with them wasn’t hard at all. In fact, it would be… very easy.
If Shen Ran also had a dependent personality… she would be too easy to conquer.
Such girls were easily softened, causing them to fall into emotions that didn’t belong to ‘love.’
Scumbags loved these kinds of girls; they were easy to control.
‘So, what kind of matter does she need my help with?’
‘And, how can I get more information about Mo Qingqiu…’
Shen Ran’s movements were indeed fast this time. It wasn’t long before she returned to the private room, panting once more and carrying two white plastic bags.
“Su… Su Yi…”
From her intermittent breathing, it was clear that Shen Ran was indeed exhausted, to the point where she couldn’t even finish a sentence.
“Sit and rest for a bit.”
Su Yichen pointed to Shen Ran’s previous seat and then picked up the remote control, adjusting the air conditioner’s vent to point upward.
“Mm.”
Shen Ran didn’t worry about her image; she put the plastic bags on the table and plopped down on the sofa.
Su Yichen didn’t say anything more. He reopened his book and continued reading.
After about five minutes, Shen Ran finally caught her breath.
Only then did she have the mind to look closely at her classmate.
‘He’s a bit like Senior Sister Mo Qingqiu…’
Looking at the reading Su Yichen, Shen Ran suddenly felt that he shared some similarities with Senior Sister Mo Qingqiu.
When she went to see Senior Sister Mo Qingqiu before, the senior sister had been doing the same things: drinking tea and reading.
Su Yichen had a quiet steadiness about him, as if he would never be in a hurry or panic. Looking at him gave her a sense of peace.
‘Hmm…’
‘Not only are the actions the same, but even the glasses…’
Shen Ran suddenly felt a surge of primordial power stirring within her because the glasses on Su Yichen’s face were too ugly.
They were truly hideous.
As a glasses fanatic who had loved glasses since she could remember — a girl who would only fan the characters wearing glasses in novels and manga — Shen Ran had an obsession and level of expertise regarding glasses that ordinary people couldn’t imagine.
In other areas, she might not be as good as others, but when it came to being a glasses fanatic, Shen Ran felt she could be considered a Grandmaster.
She was willing to call the glasses on Su Yichen’s face the ‘ugliest.’
‘Shouldn’t glasses be a symbol of beauty? They should be a bonus for one’s appearance, like they are for Senior Sister Mo Qingqiu…’
‘But why would such ugly glasses exist in this world?’
‘The key point is that someone is actually wearing them!’
Shen Ran found it hard to imagine that such a thing was happening right before her eyes. She lowered her head, not daring to look any longer.
If she looked a few more times, she would feel a sense of disgust from the depths of her soul.
Shen Ran was afraid that if she kept looking, the primordial power within her would explode, and she would rush forward to snatch Su Yichen’s glasses off, thereby committing the offense of insulting a classmate.
‘Even though the glasses are ugly, Su Yichen is still a pretty good person.’
‘Mm-hmm!’
The young girl made her own judgment. As for what was good about him…
She didn’t know either.
“After looking for so long, do you have nothing to say?”
Just as Shen Ran was doing her best to erase the shadow the black-framed glasses had cast on her, Su Yichen’s quiet and somewhat ethereal voice drifted over.
“Shen Ran?”
“Speak up.”
Su Yichen put down the book, opened the bags, and used a fork to pick up a sushi roll and put it in his mouth. He then said in a muffled voice, “How much was it? I’ll transfer it to you.”
“No need… Su Yichen, just consider it a meeting gift from me. I… actually have a favor to ask of you.”
“Oh?”
Su Yichen raised an eyebrow. “For the sake of the sushi and octopus balls, let’s hear it.”
Of course, it wasn’t for the sake of those two things. What he wanted was to get intelligence about Mo Qingqiu from Shen Ran.
If it were just for sushi and octopus balls…
That would be far too cheap.
However, Su Yichen wouldn’t tell Shen Ran those words.
In any sense, he told himself he wouldn’t do anything to wrong Shen Ran. There were already enough troubles; Su Yichen didn’t want to find more for himself.
Naturally… he wouldn’t tell Shen Ran that he wanted to get information about Mo Qingqiu either. Otherwise, with Shen Ran’s personality…
It would instead cause this girl to fall into prolonged pain and hesitation. So…
He would just let this gentle and kind lie continue.
“Su Yichen, you…”
Shen Ran grit her teeth, saying the next words almost one by one. “Can you introduce me to Jiang Jingjie?”
After finishing, her entire body immediately went limp on the sofa, as if she had used up all her strength.
“You like Jiang Jingjie?”
Su Yichen didn’t answer immediately but asked a question in return.
“Mm.”
Shen Ran let out a sound that was almost inaudible, and a red blush appeared on her fair cheeks.
Su Yichen didn’t press further. This response already explained everything.
A young girl’s blush was worth more than any sweet words.
“Jiang Jingjie is indeed my roommate, but… I’m not that close to him.”
“Shen Ran, if it’s just about meeting each other, you could just find him yourself. There’s no need to go through the trouble of having me introduce you. You are also classmates.”
“But you still took the long way around to find me.”
Su Yichen’s voice was neither hurried nor slow. It wasn’t loud, yet every word was crystal clear. “So… your goal must go beyond that, right?”
“I think… you don’t know how to deal with boys, which is why you came to me. And you don’t just want me to introduce you two.”
“You also want me to teach you how to pursue him.”
“Am I right, Shen Ran?”
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