Looking at Shen Ran’s side, which only had a steamed bun, a shumai, and a bottle of skim milk, Su Yichen tilted his head again to glance at Shen Ran’s beautiful long legs under her skirt.
He estimated Shen Ran’s weight was probably between one hundred ten and one hundred fifteen pounds.
“Mhm, controlling my weight. I gain weight very easily.”
“Last time I went out with Xiaoya, she said the same thing, but in reality, she only weighs around eighty-something pounds.” Su Yichen didn’t try to persuade Shen Ran to eat more; any further persuasion would be useless.
He had seen plenty of body image anxiety; almost all the girls in the void realm had this issue.
Especially the more beautiful and perfect ones—they paid more attention to it, while those who had given up didn’t care.
Su Yichen glanced at the neighboring table where a few girls with ordinary looks and average figures had quite a lot of food in front of them.
However, you can’t generalize about anyone’s physique; some people are just prone to gaining weight.
“Xiaoya really should eat more.”
Shen Ran’s eyes flickered as she followed Su Yichen’s lead. “She’s too thin.”
Xiaoya…
Does Su Yichen call her that too?
Suddenly, Shen Ran remembered last night when Luo Yueli helped Tong Ya make a date with Su Yichen.
She couldn’t help but ask, “Su Yichen, how did you and Xiaoya meet?”
“Yueli is the childhood friend, right?” On matters like this, Su Yichen didn’t intend to hide too much. “I met Yueli earlier, there’s nothing strange about that.”
“Then during that time, I got to know Tong Ya. She’s quite cute, and we became familiar pretty quickly.”
Quite cute.
Shen Ran thought about it, feeling a little dazed.
As Tong Ya’s roommate, Shen Ran knew how Tong Ya usually acted around boys. Although not as aloof as Luo Yueli, she wasn’t that easy to approach either.
Luo Yueli was like a snow lotus on a high mountain that most boys didn’t dare to touch.
Tong Ya seemed easier to get close to, and more boys would try to talk to her, but almost all of them would be politely rejected.
To receive Su Yichen’s evaluation of ‘cute’…
Tong Ya must be very lively in front of Su Yichen…
Shen Ran unconsciously thought of last night when Tong Ya pestered Luo Yueli to arrange a meeting with Su Yichen.
Su Yichen calling Tong Ya that way meant the two of them must be quite familiar.
Xiaoya and Yueli…
In terms of relationship, both are very intimate forms of address.
But…
Why didn’t Xiaoya contact Su Yichen directly, insisting on going through Luo Yueli?
Shen Ran couldn’t figure it out. Subconsciously, she took a small bite of the shumai, then unscrewed the skim milk and took a shallow sip.
“What are you thinking about?”
“Huh?”
“I said, what are you spacing out about?”
Su Yichen, who had originally taken out his phone intending to read some sci-fi novels, placed the phone on the table.
He pulled a pack of tissues from his pocket, took out two, and helped Shen Ran wipe the corner of her mouth. “How can you drink milk and get it like this?”
“You didn’t get into Qingyue University by pure luck, did you?”
Whether it was luck back then or not is one thing, but right now, Shen Ran’s head was in a daze.
She stared blankly at Su Yichen’s lips.
For some reason, just looking at them, Shen Ran had the urge to go up and bite them.
This thought felt like an instinctive impulse from deep within, impossible to hold back.
Until the glasses on her nose bridge, ugly to the depths of her soul, pulled her mind back.
“My luck is pretty good.”
“Su Yichen, you might not believe it, but during the exams… the questions I guessed on, I seemed to have guessed them all right.”
“I scored almost thirty points higher than my usual practice exams.”
Watching Su Yichen wipe the milk from the corner of her mouth and then set the tissue aside, the girl’s face couldn’t help but start to feel warm.
“Do boys carry tissues when they go out?”
“Most don’t. For example, Jiang Jingjie, he doesn’t carry any.”
Su Yichen placed the steamed dumplings in front of Shen Ran. “Want some?”
“Mhm… okay.”
“Thank you.”
At that moment, Shen Ran suddenly felt like eating one of those dumplings.
But as soon as she reached out her hand, she realized there was only one pair of chopsticks.
And Su Yichen had already used them.
She had just seen him use the chopsticks to pick up a dumpling and put it in his mouth.
On his lips.
Maybe… using these chopsticks wouldn’t be so bad?
Shen Ran’s gaze unconsciously shifted back to Su Yichen’s tempting, thin lips.
Ahem…
Su Yichen said that and even handed the dumplings to me…
He must be tacitly allowing me to use these chopsticks, right?
Mhm…
It must be like that.
This… he initiated this.
The mental gymnastics were just a formality and were quickly completed.
Shen Ran picked up the chopsticks, clamped a steamed dumpling, and put it in her mouth.
But for some reason, the girl felt like she wasn’t biting into a dumpling, but rather…
Su Yichen’s thin, pink lips.
“Shen Ran, those are the chopsticks I used.” Su Yichen looked at Shen Ran. “Using chopsticks I’ve used to eat a dumpling, do you know what that is? That’s an indirect kiss, you know? Hmm?”
“Ah—”
Shen Ran, who had been about to explain something, found all her words stuck in her throat by Su Yichen’s phrase “indirect kiss.”
She could only bury her head low.
“I’ll go get you another pair.”
Seeing the young girl couldn’t handle the teasing, Su Yichen went to the steamed dumpling window and got a pair of chopsticks for Shen Ran.
The two sat facing each other again.
“Um, Su Yichen, do you think I’m… a bit stupid? That I actually got in purely by luck.”
“Ordinary people, even if luck is handed to them, can’t grasp it.”
“Don’t be so lacking in confidence.”
“Besides not being great at dealing with boys, you’re good in other aspects.”
Shen Ran pursed her lips, then said, “Then…”
“Su Yichen, if I… I mean, after the thing I asked you for help with is over…”
“Will we still be friends?”
After saying this, the girl looked nervously at the boy in front of her, so nervous that the hand resting on her thigh clenched her skirt tightly.
She saw Su Yichen put down the milk he had almost finished drinking. Those dazzling deep blue eyes looked deeply at her.
That heart-palpitating feeling appeared again, as if all her thoughts had been seen through with one glance.
But this time, Shen Ran didn’t avoid it. She met Su Yichen’s gaze, seemingly trying to find the answer she wanted within it.
How could a young girl be a match for an old hand?
The girl only saw a pair of eyes as beautiful as sapphires and those ugly black glasses.
“Of course we are.”
Su Yichen suddenly curved his eyes, his lips hooking into a somewhat ambiguous arc.
“No matter the outcome, we are friends.”
“My relationship with Jiang Jingjie is just like that. If not for you, he and I would have no connection at all.”
“I’m helping you because of you, not because of him.”
“I’m willing to help you because we are friends.”
“So, Shen Ran, whether you and Jiang Jingjie work out or not won’t affect the relationship between us.”
“Got it?”
“Mhm, got it~” Shen Ran replied with a smile, her tone slightly rising.
She seemed very happy.
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