Reborn in 2000: I just want to love a few people properly.

"Who's that?" a chubby girl eating potato chips asked from the balcony.

"A senior student," Bai Feifei said, looking at the packaged Longjing shrimp in her hand.

"Wow, senior, Feifei, you've been targeted."

The chubby girl, named Liu Xiaojuan, handed her potato chips to Bai Feifei and said with an envious look.

Apart from Bai Feifei, everyone in this dormitory is a local from Hangzhou.

"Hmph, she's already eyeing Feifei on her very first day of school. Who knows what she's up to?" The girl with the face mask poured cold water on the idea.

The remaining girl was holding a romance novel, reading it with tears streaming down her face, and said...

"They just told us to inform the other girls in the class to meet in the classroom at 10:00 AM tomorrow. Who's going?"

The girl wearing a face mask is named Qin Fang, and the girl reading romance novels is named Qian Liyue. Although they are both locals from Hangzhou, they are not at all arrogant. They blended in perfectly on their first night of living together.

"I'll go! I'll go! Who wants to come with me?" Liu Xiaojuan said excitedly, raising her hand.

Everyone had already finished washing up and was getting ready to go to bed, but in the end only Bai Feifei was willing to stay with her.

......

On my way back to the dormitory, He Yimei sent me a text message.

"I'm in my dorm."

"Arriving so late? I was already about to call the police."

"I just finished washing up and got into bed, but I just remembered I should have messaged you."

"Yeah, I'm in the dorm too. It's so cold, so dark, and so scary."

"..."

After sending the last text message, He Yimei received no further messages. It wasn't until she arrived at the dormitory building and exchanged a few kind words with the dormitory aunt that she was allowed to enter the building.

Xu Bo's phone rang again.

"I messaged your aunt and told her you were feeling cold in Hangzhou. She said she'll send you a blanket in a few days."

"?"

Just kidding, I'm going to sleep now, goodnight.

Xu Bo didn't reply. Sometimes, a good atmosphere should end abruptly at just the right moment; that's the most perfect way to do it.

Xu Bo was already very happy. After receiving He Yimei's goodnight messages several times in a row, he was certain that their relationship had taken a step forward.

The rest is up to time. Actually, Xu Bo also hoped it would slow down a bit, otherwise, if the two women met within a mere ten minutes, his doom would be imminent.

I took out my key and opened the door; my three roommates were still awake.

The notes on my roommates' faces have been removed, replaced by paper cups filled with beer in their hands.

"Hey, you've already started drinking, aren't you waiting for me?" Xu Bo said, taking off his clothes and revealing his bare chest.

"You've been nowhere to be seen all afternoon, where have we been waiting for you?" Yu Haoqi said with a laugh.

"Yeah, we've been waiting for you all afternoon. We were planning our first dorm get-together tonight, but it fell through," Du Qinglong chimed in.

"What did you bring back?" Of the three, only Wang Yan asked softly, pointing to what Xu Bo was holding.

"The food I brought back for you was eaten at Zhiweiguan, a fancy restaurant, tonight."

Of the three, only Wang Yan knew about Zhiweiguan's reputation, and he was slightly shocked.

"The meeting is at 10:00 AM tomorrow in classroom 203 of the Gongzi Building. I'll go remind the other dorm rooms first. You guys eat first."

After handing out the food, Xu Bo turned around and took out the old bastard he had brought from home from the cabinet, broke it in half and threw it to Yu Haoqi, indicating that he should share it.

"Damn, Xiao Bo, you still have so many cigarettes?"

Ignoring the flattery and boasting, Xu Bo grinned, took the remaining half of the form, turned around and went outside, searching for the dormitory rooms one by one according to the numbers on the form.

"Hello, students, Teacher Xu asked me to remind everyone to go to classroom 203 of the Gongzi Building for a meeting at 10:00 AM tomorrow."

Including Xu Bo's dormitory, there are a total of six dorm rooms in this building where the boys are in the same class as Xu Bo.

Fortunately, it was just a matter of walking a few more steps and climbing a few more stairs. Xu Bo quickly notified everyone and left a pack of cigarettes in each dormitory as a small gift, a way to bribe them in advance for the future class monitor election.

As they walked along, Xu Bo noticed that these boys were typical STEM students, wearing thick glasses and sporting mustaches. They didn't seem to have completely shed their high school student identity and didn't look like the type to run for class monitor.

Xu Bo even politely invited them to his dormitory for drinks and a late-night snack, but they all declined.

Back in the dorm, the food I had packed from Zhiweiguan was already on the table. The chopsticks were disposable, and I used a piece of paper as a bowl.

"Hurry up, we've been waiting for you for ages." Yu Haoqi quickly called Xu Bo over.

"This tastes really good." Du Qinglong picked up a piece of Dongpo pork and put it in his mouth. The originally trembling piece of meat turned into sweet oil the moment it entered his mouth. It was fatty but not greasy, and the lean meat was very chewy.

"Of course, a meal at Zhiweiguan costs several hundred yuan." Wang Yan, being a local, stated the price of the meal.

He could only eat there occasionally during holidays or when his father was happy.

Often, uncles and aunts he didn't know would give his parents restaurant debit cards or shopping cards from malls, sometimes in such large quantities that his father couldn't even remember them all.

They sat down. It was the first time they had been away from home and were about to spend three years with strangers. The novelty hadn't worn off on the first day, and the group had a hearty drink.

"If steel can be ground into a needle, it is only by waiting and loving deeply."

Xu Bo, having drunk his fill, began to mumble a song in a daze.

"What are you singing? It's so awful, what a waste of such good lyrics." Wang Yan frowned as he listened.

"Hey guys who play cards, let me teach you a new card game, stop playing Landlord all the time."

"I'm not learning anymore, I've had a bit too much to drink. We'll talk about it tomorrow," Du Qinglong said, waving his hand.

Judging from Yu Haoqi's expression, Xu Bo felt that he had the same thought.

"Okay, let's go to sleep first, we'll talk about it tomorrow." The two quickly went to bed, leaving Xu Bo and Wang Yan to clean up the area below.

After finishing tidying up, just as Xu Bo was about to get into bed, his phone suddenly rang. When he picked it up, he saw that it was Luo Qiaoqiao calling.

These past few days, Xu Bo and Luo Qiaoqiao's schedules have been a bit out of sync. She's about to have an important exam and is currently studying at a tutoring class every day, not getting back until almost 10:30 PM.

It's almost 11 o'clock now, so he must have just gotten home and was calling Xu Bo from under the covers.

Stepping onto the balcony, Xu Bo answered the phone and spoke softly.

"What's wrong? Which question can't you answer? Do you want me to explain it to you?"

"Hey senior, how's your university life? Any pretty girls around?"

Luo Qiaoqiao ignored Xu Bo's frivolous behavior and spoke softly with a hint of weariness in her voice.

"Some of them are quite pretty," Xu Bo teased the girl opposite him.

"Oh, is that so? Did you get your contact information?" Luo Qiaoqiao said dejectedly on the other end of the phone.

"No, neither of them are short hair, they don't suit my taste."