Fifteen days had already passed in the Evening Primrose Void Realm. Not only was Tong Ya’s conquest progress limited, but he still had no idea where the next capture target even was.
In any easier Void Realm, he would have cleared the freebie female lead by now and be halfway through the second one.
Was he really going to crash and burn in the last Void Realm before his vacation?
Just as Su Yichen was debating whether to take a small risk and remove his glasses, he suddenly spotted three guys and three girls walking over from a distance.
Under normal circumstances, that wouldn’t have caught his attention. But two of them were familiar.
His roommate Jiang Jingjie and his childhood friend Luo Yueli.
From their body language, Jiang Jingjie was aggressively trying to keep the conversation going while Luo Yueli looked uninterested, merely humoring him.
Whether intentionally or not, the other four had deliberately given the two of them some space.
Su Yichen’s footsteps halted. He stood still.
The distance between him and the group was neither too far nor too close.
The moment he saw Luo Yueli, as if by telepathy, she saw him too.
Luo Yueli doesn’t seem very happy.
Su Yichen had noticed that Luo Yueli was holding her phone in her right hand while Jiang Jingjie stood on her right side. That meant she didn’t want to talk to him.
Or… she didn’t want to be with the whole group.
The Luo Yueli in his memories had a habit: if she didn’t want to interact with someone, she would hold her phone in the hand closer to that person when walking. It was a tiny subconscious action to stop the other party from getting closer.
Before their “reconciliation,” he would have pretended not to see her, lowered his head, and slipped away.
But now…
The relationship between him and Luo Yueli had already changed. Besides, he needed to push their dynamic forward.
From the previous abnormal simp-and-goddess setup to a normal friendship.
Otherwise, when he pushed Tong Ya’s progress later, the deviation value generated by Luo Yueli alone would be enough to give him a massive headache.
Moreover, given their relationship, he would definitely have to remove his glasses in front of her eventually and let her see his real appearance.
Su Yichen knew exactly how lethal he was without the glasses, so he had to suppress as many future variables as possible right now.
This was an opportunity.
An opportunity to put shackles on Luo Yueli.
Su Yichen knew that Luo Yueli was a very responsible childhood friend. She placed special importance on this bond.
She refused to let the affection change, and she could not accept any betrayal of it.
So…
He would put a pair of shackles named “Childhood Friend” on her.
Shackles she had forged herself—and the gentle death sentence he was delivering to her.
After thinking for a few seconds, Su Yichen took out his phone and sent Luo Yueli a message: [Yueli, you don’t look very happy with them?]
Luo Yueli felt a little helpless. She didn’t want to chat much with Jiang Jingjie, but the current situation made it impossible to leave directly.
Su Yichen…
At that moment, Luo Yueli spotted Su Yichen not far away.
The girl’s eyes flickered, then sank again.
It wasn’t that she didn’t hope Su Yichen would do something to help her escape the awkwardness.
But…
She knew exactly what he would do.
He would lower his head, pretend he hadn’t seen anything, and walk away.
While Luo Yueli stayed silent, she also knew she couldn’t blame him entirely.
In fact… from a certain angle, it was because of her own demands.
Yet…
The girl still hoped that Su Yichen could… could guess what she was thinking.
Even though that was an almost nonexistent miracle… huh?
Luo Yueli was surprised to feel her phone vibrate.
Yichen: [Yueli, you don’t look very happy with them?]
Ever since their last “breakup,” she had changed his contact name.
Luo Yueli suddenly felt an indescribable sweetness—the joy that came after a miracle.
She completely ignored Jiang Jingjie’s half-told story beside her ear and quickly replied to Su Yichen: [Mhm. Be more confident and drop the “look.”]
The next second, Su Yichen’s reply came: [Got it.]
Su Yichen looked at Luo Yueli’s message on his phone and shook his head.
This childhood friend of mine… really is one of a kind.
He could only say that a girl’s heart was truly hard to read. If he hadn’t dated countless girls, he really wouldn’t have known what she was thinking.
She wanted to draw a clear line, yet she also hoped he would do something.
A little contradictory.
Like a hidden tsundere. Rather than naturally dense, she was naturally scummy—and didn’t even realize it.
Girls like this might see other people’s emotions clearly as bystanders, but when it came to their own feelings, they understood nothing.
It created a complicated personality where the harder you tried to get closer, the farther away you felt.
While you sank deeper into the swamp of love, you would discover she remained completely untouched by dust, never entering the river of love at all.
Trying reverse psychology or playing hard-to-get would be even worse; she might leave you first.
Obtaining the love of this naturally scummy type of girl… was far harder than fishing for a cat.
They seemed to understand everything, yet the moment their own emotions were involved, they understood nothing.
Thank goodness Luo Yueli wasn’t a capture target. Otherwise, just figuring out how to conquer her would cost him countless brain cells.
Her personality was too complex; there were no universal strategies, and he would have to improvise every step.
Carrying that relief, Su Yichen walked into the small convenience store by the roadside.
Soon, he came out holding a bottle of mineral water.
Then Su Yichen unscrewed the cap, put on his “head-down tribe” act, and walked toward Luo Yueli while staring at his phone.
So, as Su Yichen and Luo Yueli walked straight toward each other, the hand holding the water bottle “accidentally” bumped into her.
The cap just happened to be loose.
Following Luo Yueli’s soft “Ah~,” the water spilled out.
It splashed across half her body, soaking her pure-white dress.
“Sorry, sorry.” Su Yichen hurriedly lowered his head and apologized to Luo Yueli.
Luo Yueli’s willow brows rose. The girl who had been about to lose her temper recognized her classmate and instantly softened. “Su Yichen?”
“It’s fine, no big deal.”
She waved her hand and introduced him to the two guys and two girls beside her, who didn’t look too pleased. “Su Yichen, a classmate from the same class.”
“Classmate Luo Yueli?”
Su Yichen raised his head as if he had only just recognized her. “Sorry, I was replying to a message and didn’t notice anyone coming.”
“It’s okay. Just be more careful next time—it’s easy to trip like that.” Luo Yueli waved dismissively, acting completely unbothered.
Jiang Jingjie stood to the side, completely unable to insert himself. On one side was his goddess, on the other his roommate.
Su Yichen had apologized, and the victim herself said she didn’t mind.
Naturally, he wasn’t going to be the idiot who made a scene and ruined his image in front of Luo Yueli.
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