Tsk…
‘Why be so calm and rational at a time like this…?’
Mu Xia looked at her sister and nodded without saying a word. With just a glance, she seemed to see through all her sister’s worries. After all, they were biological sisters who had grown up together.
“Alright, this is your business, Sister. I won’t meddle.”
“I’m going to do my homework.”
With that, Mu Xia returned to her room.
After closing the door, Mu Xia gazed at the lines of beautiful handwriting on her scratch paper, momentarily dazed.
She had never seen this font before. Mu Xia leaned down and sniffed it. For some reason, the young girl felt like she could smell the scent of an Elf.
Without any logical reason, she thought of things that only appeared in novels and fantasy movies…
‘Sister…’
Mu Xia leaned back in her chair and closed her eyes, letting her messy hair fall naturally.
‘I know what you’re thinking, and I know what you’re afraid of…’
‘It’s not that you don’t want to reach out to Su Yichen…’
‘It’s just that you feel he is a Heaven you cannot touch…’
‘You’re too kind. You shouldn’t be this kind.’
‘Kind people don’t get happy endings.’
‘You need someone to accompany you.’
‘Sister, have you ever thought about it…?’
‘When an Angel is no longer sacred, he falls to the mortal world.’
‘When an Elf is no longer pure, he can be defiled.’
‘So what if Su Yichen is unattainable…?’
‘As long as you are willing…’
‘Your little sister can help you…’
‘Help you break his wings and tear apart his feathers.’
‘Make it so he no longer has the ability to fly high into the sky.’
Mu Qianqian sat in the living room, her eyes flickering with uncertainty.
Looking at the cup of milk tea Su Yichen had bought, she clenched her fist as if making a decision. But in the next second, she relaxed her grip.
*Vrrr.*
The phone on the table rang.
Luo Yueli: [Qianqian, are you there? How did the room rental go today?]
Seeing the message and the sender, Mu Qianqian couldn’t help but purse her lips and smile. She was her best friend.
Although the two had never met in person and had only met through online games, it didn’t stop them from having a deep bond.
Mu Qianqian: [It’s rented out! The other person is a boy, and he’s super handsome.]
Luo Yueli: [A super handsome boy?]
‘Yeah, a super handsome boy.’
Seeing the message from Luo Yueli, Mu Qianqian rarely didn’t reply immediately.
‘Lizi… Lizi is also from Qingyue University.’
‘Should I… tell Lizi that the one renting the room is Su Yichen? They’re alumni; maybe they even know each other?’
The girl’s hand tapped the screen a few times, typing a line of words. Then she deleted it. She tapped a few more times, typing another line. She deleted it again.
Mu Qianqian: [Yeah, he’s a pretty nice guy. Lizi, are you free tomorrow? Shall we have dinner together tomorrow night?]
She didn’t say anything else, choosing to change the subject.
Luo Yueli: [Save your money for yourself. You always want to treat me to dinner as soon as you have a little money.]
Mu Qianqian: [You’ve already sent me several skins. What’s wrong with me treating you to a meal?]
Luo Yueli: […]
[Alright, but Qianqian, I get to choose the place.]
Mu Qianqian: [Okay!]
[How about we meet tomorrow at 5:00 PM?]
Luo Yueli: [OK, be there or be square.]
Downstairs at the girls’ dormitory, Luo Yueli, who had just returned from practicing at the Art Academy’s piano room, smiled as she looked at the message on her phone.
‘What kind of girl is Mu Qianqian…?’
‘I’m really looking forward to meeting her tomorrow.’
She said her roommate was a super handsome boy…
Regarding this, Luo Yueli dismissed the thought and didn’t take it to heart.
‘How handsome could he be?’
‘Could he possibly be as handsome as my childhood friend?’
‘Su Yichen…’
The image of the half-bottle of mineral water Su Yichen had splashed on her yesterday suddenly flashed through Luo Yueli’s mind.
And then there was the boy’s peerless face while they were eating hotpot yesterday.
‘What is he doing?’
Luo Yueli opened VX and scrolled to her chat history with Su Yichen. There was a hint of disappointment in her eyes.
He hadn’t sent a message. That was right; Su Yichen was changing. It wasn’t just her putting in effort; he was too.
But…
After a long silence, Luo Yueli put down her phone. She didn’t send a message to Su Yichen, or rather, she didn’t know what to send anymore.
The girl painfully discovered that, seemingly, there was nothing left to say between her and him. She completely… completely didn’t know what to say.
‘I simply…’
‘Don’t know how to interact with him this way…’
‘Before, he was always the one to send messages…’
‘I would only tell him when I needed something.’
‘But now…’
‘I can’t say that anymore…’
‘I…’
‘What should I do…?’
Only then did the girl suddenly realize that Su Yichen’s words yesterday… Those two words, “childhood friend”… seemed like a verdict. A sweet and gentle death sentence.
She had accepted it so happily.
She wouldn’t even… feel the pain.
After getting off the bus, Su Yichen slowly drifted to the basketball court not far from the boys’ dormitory building.
He didn’t return to the dorm immediately but looked around the vicinity first. Then he took out his phone and glanced at it.
Tong Ya had sent a message at noon: [Are you there, Yichen? I have something to talk to you about.]
He still hadn’t replied.
‘Looking for me?’
‘About something?’
‘Does the little kitten want to play a guessing game?’
‘She probably wants to have a meal with me, right? After eating, she’ll use yesterday’s promise as an excuse to have another meal.’
‘With the first meal as a foundation, the second meal means playing first and then eating, right?’
‘In your dreams. No way. It’s not time to eat with you yet.’
Su Yichen didn’t want the progress with Tong Ya to be too fast right now. He hadn’t found everyone yet. He needed to find at least one more person between Shangguan Ling and Mo Qingqiu.
‘The method of increasing Hatred Value by standing someone up can indeed be used, but standing people up too much isn’t necessarily a good thing.’
Su Yichen didn’t think he could get the Hatred Value to 90 just by standing people up. There must be other ways to increase it.
As for Luo Yueli…
She hadn’t sent a message either.
Su Yichen didn’t take it to heart because Luo Yueli wasn’t his capture target.
If she were a capture target, it would have been impossible for him to accompany her for hotpot yesterday. Nor would he have said those things to her.
Besides, it was within his expectations that Luo Yueli wouldn’t send a message. Yesterday might have looked like he was capturing her, but in reality, he was breaking up with Luo Yueli.
This was an extremely gentle way to break up, so gentle that she wouldn’t even feel the pain. She would slowly forget as time passed.
Luo Yueli probably didn’t even know it herself, but she had no idea how to interact with a childhood friend. Even if she wanted to say something now… she wouldn’t know what to say.
Everything was planned, starting from the moment he helped Luo Yueli out of her predicament.
When it came to dealing with girls, Su Yichen was never short on experience.
The only part of the plan that hadn’t been calculated was accidentally having his glasses removed by her. But fortunately, it shouldn’t have too much of an impact.
Even if she had thoughts beyond being childhood friends at that moment, constrained by her previous status, it was impossible for her to take the initiative to send a message.
A head held high for so many years wouldn’t be lowered just because she wanted it to be.
Su Yichen could imagine her taking out her phone, opening the chat window, not knowing what to send, and then silently putting her phone away.
The two of them would drift further and further apart. By then, the Deviation Value regarding Luo Yueli would naturally be resolved.
After all…
‘Girls like “childhood friends”…’
‘I’ve seen plenty of them.’