Su Yichen pushed open the door and found that only the chubby Huang Junjie was inside.
After a quick glance, he saw that Huang Junjie was in the middle of a game, completely focused. With a smooth dash forward, he unleashed his combo with fierce momentum.
However, the Barbarian he was laning against seemed to be a highly skilled one-trick player, extremely tricky.
As a result, Huang Junjie’s full combo landed with little effect—lots of noise, but barely any damage.
After a brief greeting, Su Yichen took out the things he had already packed from his locker and left the dorm.
As for the bedsheets and blankets, he decided not to touch them for now.
Packing those would make too much noise, and at the moment, Su Yichen didn’t want his roommates to know he had moved out.
Besides, having a place to rest at school wasn’t useless. If one day he needed to stay overnight, at least he wouldn’t have to sleep on the track field.
While going downstairs, Su Yichen didn’t forget to reply to Tong Ya: “What’s up, Xiaoya?”
“I was out looking for a part-time job this afternoon and suddenly forgot to reply to you. Sorry.”
He didn’t want Tong Ya to know about him renting a place outside just yet.
But he could tell her about looking for a part-time job—after all, he needed to establish his persona.
Some things could be said directly; others had to be discovered by her.
Since he was “fishing for a cat,” he had to let Tong Ya take the initiative while he remained passive.
Because… this was a cat that liked to eat meat.
“Remember, if you want to date a cat-like girl… you must keep her curious about you, before she falls completely.”
—Excerpt from Su Yichen’s Guide to Fishing Cats: From Hooking to Getting Bit.
***
Girls’ dormitory, room five hundred two.
Tong Ya lay sprawled on her bed, having just woken up from a long nap. She had slept a bit too long, but now she felt refreshed, her mind lively and active.
She had spent the entire day in bed.
Last night, she had stayed up almost all night reading novels—of course she needed to catch up on sleep.
Domineering CEO romances? Of course not.
Would an “ordinary” Miss Tong Ya need that kind of love? Saying that out loud would make people laugh to death.
A tragic white moonlight romance?
Even less likely. The “white moonlight” was doing just fine—though her surname was still Luo, not Tong.
Naturally, she preferred cute and quirky princess stories, where the playful heroine teased a restrained, abstinent-type handsome guard into complete emotional chaos—a sweet one-on-one romance.
After reading all night, Tong Ya felt she had learned quite a few flirting techniques.
Once she applied them to Su Yichen, given time, she would surely achieve great results.
“An abstinent-type handsome boy?”
She laughed to herself.
“No matter how handsome, could he be more good-looking than my Yichen?”
“But… Yichen does have that abstinent vibe, and a bit of a ‘boy-next-door older brother’ feel.”
“I need to be more proactive.”
“Why hasn’t he fallen out with Lizi yet?!”
Since she was alone in the dorm, she spoke freely.
Zhao Shubai had gone out with her boyfriend, Shen Ran was nowhere to be seen, and Luo Yueli had gone to the piano room to practice.
As for Su Yichen…
Ding~
Tong Ya’s eyes widened instantly, her face lighting up with joy.
Su Yichen had replied!
Sometimes, waking up at the right moment beats waiting forever~
After sending her message at noon and waiting over ten minutes without a reply, she had simply gone back to sleep. She wasn’t stupid.
That clearly meant she couldn’t meet him at that time.
Better to sleep and get rid of her dark circles.
“A part-time job?”
Tong Ya raised an eyebrow.
Abstinent-type handsome boy… boy-next-door…
Su Yichen’s family conditions didn’t seem very good?
Right, she had already noticed that at Qingyue Snack Street.
His clothes had looked quite worn, which lowered his overall aura.
But boys like that usually had strong self-esteem. That could be troublesome…
Tong Ya quickly jumped off the bed and began putting away the items in her cabinet—things that looked ordinary but were actually extremely expensive.
She packed them into a large suitcase, called a courier for pickup, and prepared to send them back home.
This included several outfits custom-designed by top fashion designers specifically for her—private pieces she had planned to wear on dates, now packed away before ever being used.
Before she completely captured Su Yichen’s heart, she couldn’t let him notice the vast gap between their family backgrounds—a gap greater than that between a human and a dog.
Otherwise, with his strong self-esteem, their relationship would die before it even began.
Next, she went on Pinxixi and bought seven or eight outfits that suited her, along with a few cheap handbags.
Although her family background was unfathomable and she had been doted on her entire life, Tong Ya had never received elite aristocratic training. She had grown up just like an ordinary girl.
So for her, pretending to be a girl from a normal—or even poor—background wasn’t difficult at all.
She could fully immerse herself in the role without revealing any flaws.
“I hope the quality is decent…”
She muttered softly.
While her upbringing was ordinary in style, the things she used were anything but.
Especially skincare and perfumes—anything that came into direct contact with her body.
Aside from some random quirky items, she had never bought clothes or bags from Pinxixi before.
***
After finishing everything, Tong Ya took out a piece of Dove chocolate, popped it into her mouth, and replied to Su Yichen:
“Yichen, what kind of part-time job are you planning to do?”
“Can you introduce me? I also want to earn some living expenses.”
“Huh?”
Sitting in a taxi, Su Yichen raised an eyebrow, wondering if he had misread.
A cat-like girl worrying about living expenses?
Impossible.
Girls with that personality were destined to grow up in relaxed, materially comfortable environments. Not necessarily extremely wealthy, but generally free from worries about food and clothing.
Tong Ya was probably just trying to flirt with him in a roundabout way. After all, she had a bit of a “tea girl” vibe—high in subtle manipulation.
After thinking carefully about the image he had established in front of her, Su Yichen understood.
“Alright. I haven’t found one yet. I’ll tell you when I do.”
He ended the topic there.
The fact that he was planning to work at a nightclub… couldn’t be known by Tong Ya.
At least not now.
He didn’t want to lead an innocent girl astray.
“Yes!”
“The first step of the strategy!”
Tong Ya was thrilled. She felt like the heroine of that novel, weaving a gentle trap to slowly devour Su Yichen, step by step.
This sense of strategizing excited her.
She thought again of the novel’s heroine, who was like a carnivorous cat.
Why did she like reading it? Because she was exactly that kind of girl—she could fully immerse herself.
She was a meat-eater.
These three days of vacation couldn’t be wasted. She had to make full use of them.
With that thought, Tong Ya sat up straight, her slender fingers quickly tapping on her phone:
“Yichen, I want to check out a club tomorrow… but I’m a bit scared…”
“Can you go with me?”