Chapter 71: The Rejected Invitation

Girl’s Dormitory, 502.

“Lizi? You’re back!”

Tong Ya jumped up from her hanging chair. As Luo Yueli and Shen Ran stepped through the dorm door, she immediately rushed over.

“Yeah, just got back. I ran into Shen Ran downstairs, so we came up together.”

“How did the meet-up with your online friend go?”

Luo Yueli had just put down her small bag and hadn’t even sat down before Tong Ya hugged her from behind.

“It was alright.”

Luo Yueli took out her phone and pulled up a photo of Mu Qianqian. “See? Cute, right?”

“Mhm, she’s a beauty~” Tong Ya blinked. “What’s the girl like?”

“Fair skin, pretty face.”

The moment the words left her mouth, Tong Ya wrapped her arms around Luo Yueli, and the two started playfully wrestling.

“Ah! Xiaoya, you perv!”

“Fair skin, pretty face, long legs, and a big chest too!”

Shen Ran took the opportunity to glance at the photo on the screen.

Indeed…

She was very pretty.

And there were no signs of beauty filters.

Yet another very good-looking girl…

There really were too many of them. Shen Ran sighed quietly to herself. All the good-looking girls around her…

And they were all the type who could go out to meet people without any makeup, completely natural.

Their playful tussle was winding down. Even at Qingyue University, truly beautiful girls and handsome boys were in the minority.

Just as Shen Ran was thinking this, on the other side, Luo Yueli and Tong Ya—

She never expected that upon entering university, she’d get caught up in this beautiful girl phenomenon.

“So? Did you ask him? Did you ask him?”

“Lizi, didn’t you say you’d arrange a meal for me and Su Yichen?”

Tong Ya excitedly urged her, completely unaware that her current demeanor resembled a cat in heat.

“You’re not going to tell me you forgot, are you?”

Shen Ran sat quietly in her own hanging chair, listening without joining the conversation.

Lizi wants to arrange…

A meal for Xiaoya and Su Yichen?

She secretly glanced at the two of them, feeling something was off.

Relationships between girls naturally formed into very small, tight-knit circles. It wasn’t about not being invited to the meal.

Dorm 502 was actually quite harmonious.

She’d heard the dorm next door had four people but six different group chats.

502 only had one group chat.

What felt strange to Shen Ran was the way these two were acting.

Tong Ya looked as if Luo Yueli was about to introduce her to her dream guy.

Her big eyes were shining, filled with longing for a sweet campus romance.

A lovesick maiden!

Wait…

Doesn’t Lizi like…

Like Su Yichen?

Then why…

Why would Lizi arrange a meal for Su Yichen and Xiaoya?

Shen Ran’s brain suddenly couldn’t make the connection; she couldn’t figure it out.

If Lizi liked Su Yichen, then the two of them should be love rivals.

What kind of love rivals could get along this harmoniously?

Shen Ran found it hard to believe that Luo Yueli couldn’t see Tong Ya’s excited attitude. These two were just too strange.

She curled up in her hanging chair, hugging her knees, shrinking into herself.

“Not yet, I’ll ask him for you right now.”

Luo Yueli smiled and pinched Tong Ya’s cheek, then sent the message she had previously drafted on her phone.

However…

She had slightly modified the message.

[Yichen, want to have breakfast together tomorrow? Are you free tomorrow morning?]

The moment the message was sent, Luo Yueli glanced at Shen Ran, who was sitting in her hanging chair looking at her phone.

She waved her phone screen in front of Tong Ya. “There, I sent it.”

“Mhm~”

Tong Ya carefully read through the message.

Hmm…

Seems her tone of speaking is about the same as mine…

Regardless, Luo Yueli being willing to help introduce Su Yichen to her was a good thing.

It was tantamount to tacitly approving the relationship between the two of them.

As long as they had this meal, it wouldn’t be a big problem to openly flirt with him later.

Although she previously thought Luo Yueli was using various methods to control Su Yichen, putting on an act…

But facts were greater than anything.

Tong Ya felt that if she were in Luo Yueli’s position, she would want to control which women Su Yichen met.

How could she possibly introduce him to another girl?

It seems Lizi is sincere. This close friend is worth keeping. To introduce such a good childhood friend just like that…

***

Male Dormitory, 305.

While brushing his teeth, Su Yichen suddenly felt his phone vibrate in his pants pocket.

‘It’s not that Shen Ran girl again, is it?’

This girl really had a lot to say. How come she didn’t have this much to say when chatting with Jiang Shao?

Su Yichen vaguely felt something was off.

Talking a lot was the beginning of problems.

The first day wasn’t even over, and he was already becoming the other guy?

‘I need to help her resolve her issues quickly. What if her feelings shift, I…’

He thought about it, but with those three requirements in place, given Shen Ran’s mind, she probably wouldn’t entertain too many ideas.

Biting down on his toothbrush, Su Yichen fished out his phone.

[Yichen, want to have breakfast together tomorrow? Are you free tomorrow morning?]

Luo Yueli?

When he saw who sent the message, he was taken aback.

What’s the date today?

That’s not right, it hasn’t been that many days. Why is she thinking of messaging me?

After his peaceful breakup with Luo Yueli that day, he had removed her from his special contacts.

Thinking for a moment, he didn’t bother finishing brushing his teeth. He wiped his hands first and replied.

[Yueli, I have something on tomorrow. Another time.]

He had no desire to get involved with Luo Yueli. He wouldn’t take her even if she was offered for free. This woman was full of that “deviation value” stuff. It was deadly.

So…

Su Yichen’s attitude towards Luo Yueli was to stay as far away as possible.

***

Girl’s Dormitory, 502.

“He has something on? How could he have something on tomorrow?”

Tong Ya held Luo Yueli’s phone, swaying back and forth in her chair.

“Why? Why? What could possibly be more important than having a meal with your adorable childhood friend? If he’s not coming for that, then it must be something really important. An invitation from the campus goddess~ Are we going to waste another day?”

Just as Tong Ya was anxiously scratching her head, with a clang, Zhao Shubai pushed the door open and walked in.

“Everyone’s here?”

She first looked around the dorm, then her gaze settled on Tong Ya. “Xiaoya, why do you look so flustered and upset?”

“I asked Lizi to help me invite Su Yichen, but that guy Su Yichen actually rejected Lizi’s invitation!”

“Su Yichen rejected it?”

Zhao Shubai said, puzzled. “That shouldn’t be right. Isn’t Lizi his childhood friend?”

“He said he has something on tomorrow. Probably something quite important?”

As she said this, Luo Yueli’s beautiful eyes inadvertently swept over Zhao Shubai and Tong Ya, finally landing on Shen Ran.

“It’s the first time Su Yichen has turned down my invitation.”

“Maybe he really does have something more important.”

Hearing Luo Yueli say this, Shen Ran lowered her eyelids, bit her lip, and said nothing.

She didn’t even have the thought to turn around and look.

Su Yichen, for my sake…

Rejected an invitation from his childhood friend, Luo Yueli?

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