The boy’s dry lips were moistened by the water, immediately turning soft and supple.
Su Yichen quickly screwed the cap back on, then lay his head down on the desk, burying his face in his arms.
Concealing those increasingly vivid and alluring lips.
By now the classmates in the room had already started chatting familiarly with one another. Around some of the relatively more outstanding boys, a few girls had gathered as well.
Zhang Zhe was one of those boys. At the moment, a petite girl stood beside him, and the two of them seemed to be getting along quite happily.
But his gaze still flicked toward Shen Ran from time to time.
As for Su Yichen, he clearly did not belong to the “outstanding boys” category.
Average appearance, not particularly tall.
Few girls were interested in short guys. Compared to Zhang Zhe’s one-point-eight-something meters, Su Yichen’s one hundred seventy-one centimeters really gave off the impression of a “handicap.”
His hair looked a bit long. While it wasn’t exactly unkempt, it still carried a trace of listlessness.
Thick black-framed glasses sat on the bridge of his nose, giving him the overall air of a bookish nerd. His clothes were nothing special either.
Next to a sunny, outgoing boy like Zhang Zhe, he was practically heaven and earth apart.
Utterly ordinary. Completely unremarkable.
Su Yichen was perfectly fine with that. He simply closed his eyelids and began resting with his eyes shut.
His original intention was to remain a small transparent presence—the less noticed, the better.
“A bunch of gaudy, vulgar women.”
The annoyed voice of Sinful Spark rang in Su Yichen’s ear. “They have no idea how captivating Sir Su’s body actually is.”
Su Yichen’s eyelids drooped slightly. He ignored Sinful Spark.
She was just like that by nature.
But that didn’t mean other voices wouldn’t disturb this rare moment of peace.
Buzz!
The phone, set to vibrate, let out a hoarse buzz on the desk surface.
Out of habit, Su Yichen picked it up and glanced sideways.
The message came from…
【Libao (Special Concern)】.
He rubbed his eyes to make sure he wasn’t seeing things, then tapped the message with a soft, pink fingertip.
【Su Yichen, I want milk tea.】
Special Concern? Libao?
Asking me for milk tea means she’s nearby and knows me.
The only person whose name he’d heard that included the character “Li”…
Luo Yueli.
Without hurry, Su Yichen sat up straight, lifted his eyelids, and turned his head toward Luo Yueli’s direction.
Their gazes collided for an instant. The next second, she immediately looked away.
【Red bean matcha.】
Below the message was a fifteen-yuan transfer.
Those two short, emotionless texts, the way Luo Yueli had averted her eyes, and that aloof, distant attitude that could be felt even without speaking face-to-face—
Under the classroom lights, Su Yichen gave a light smile. A fleeting glimmer of clarity flashed deep in his eyes.
Then he opened their chat history.
After casually scrolling a few times, Su Yichen understood exactly what kind of relationship he had with Luo Yueli.
At the same time, he understood both sides’ character personas—and their respective positions in each other’s hearts.
When a void breaker enters a void realm and fully recites their own name, the realm assigns them an identity based on their current character image.
After so many void realm experiences, Su Yichen had already roughly grasped the mechanism behind identity construction.
The identity is shaped according to the void breaker’s character persona, and it isn’t completely random—it’s pseudo-random.
Just like the initial panel generated the first time a void breaker is summoned into a void realm, it too is produced based on the character persona itself.
Therefore, the identity a void breaker receives in Evening Primrose is connected to some degree with the panel attributes.
This identity belongs to the void breaker themselves—it is not transmigration or possession of someone else.
Likewise, the backstory of the identity belongs to the void breaker.
In lower-difficulty void realms, the realm will usually grant a segment of memory regarding the character’s identity to help the void breaker adapt more smoothly.
But Evening Primrose clearly offered no such courtesy; even figuring out what the identity was had to be done by himself.
One wrong step, and deviation value would accumulate, affecting both the mission and the final evaluation.
Su Yichen wasn’t particularly surprised. This was an SSS-rank void realm—naturally incomparable to the ones he had encountered before. And since he was on a vacation mission…
The reasoning was simple: what black-hearted capitalist boss would ever sign off on a long-term paid leave application submitted by their absolute top-tier ace employee?
Impossible.
Only by fully immersing in the character setting and identity could a void breaker avoid generating deviation value.
And the level of deviation value directly influenced the realm’s final evaluation.
Excessive deviation value would immediately cause mission failure.
“Interesting… to actually give me this kind of persona.”
There was a milk tea shop right inside the College of Liberal Arts. Including the time to buy it, the round trip would take about ten minutes on foot.
Su Yichen stood up, pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose, and deliberately took a long detour, exiting through the rear door farthest from Luo Yueli.
Why the detour? Because…
It fit the persona.
Luo Yueli did not want to reveal that she had any connection with him.
“Sir, you seem to be in a pretty good mood. Did you discover a conquest target?” Spark asked in a tiny voice.
“Not quite. Just ran into something… mildly interesting.” Once outside the classroom, Su Yichen pulled a cigarette from his pocket.
With a soft click, he lit it with his lighter.
“Interesting? If even you think it’s interesting, then it must be really something!” Spark said expectantly. “Can you tell little Spark?”
“Sure. It’s nothing major. Do you remember that girl named Luo Yueli?”
“Yeah—the one who’s slightly more normal-looking among that group of crooked melons and split dates.” The moment Su Yichen mentioned her, Sinful Spark immediately recalled.
“Crooked melons and split dates… The girls in class may not all be stunning, but most of them have decent features and easily reach the average line. Since when did they become crooked melons and split dates?”
Su Yichen continued, “Based on my extensive experience with women, Luo Yueli’s appearance is already beyond class flower level—at minimum she’s faculty flower level. Give her half a year to learn how to dress up properly…”
“She could even compete for school flower.”
“Slightly more normal-looking… Spark, your standards are way too high.”
“But I really think she’s… just average. Sir, if you cross-dressed you could outshine her by ten blocks. I still remember when you were the elf princess back then—”
“…Stop, stop, stop. Not that topic. Let’s talk business.” The corner of Su Yichen’s eye twitched as he cut Spark off before she could continue.
As the pseudo-girl elf princess, with peerless white-lotus tea arts, breathtaking beauty, and the added status of elf princess, Su Yichen had not only captivated women—he had also bent countless men.
He caused the men and women standing at the pinnacle of power and strength in that realm to fight over him for a full century without end.
Of course… mentioning that didn’t exactly make Su Yichen proud.
Sinful Spark, on the other hand, treated it as a great honor.
“Fine… Spark understands.”
She only felt wronged for a second before her curiosity was quickly pulled back to the “business” at hand. “So Sir, what you said was interesting—what is it?”
“Does it have to do with Luo Yueli?”
Su Yichen slowly exhaled a puff of smoke. “Luo Yueli and I are childhood sweethearts, from elementary school all the way to university…”
“She is my white moonlight.”
“And I am her licking dog—forever chasing after her, forever unable to have her.”