We ordinary people also need to fall in love.

It's finally over.

Xie Shu could look at him without any restraint, but he dared not. He was like a frog in slowly boiling water, enjoying a kind of social death.

After locking the door, Li Mubai thought about whether he should not come tomorrow. It would be better to be overheard by other classmates than to come now.

"Tomorrow is the last evening study session. Practice a bit more, I have something to do so I won't be able to come."

If this were a novel, Xie Shu might be able to hear his inner thoughts.

"Okay, okay." Li Mubai didn't ask her what was wrong without asking further.

The club activity room is located on a floor far from the dormitory. By the time you get to the teaching building, most of the students have already left, and you can occasionally hear students playing around in the teaching building.

Xie Shu didn't tie her hair in a ponytail today; instead, she let her hair fall to her chest and used a white hair tie to create a low ponytail, which made her look very gentle and graceful.

The summer night was filled with the chirping of insects, and the evening breeze gently lifted the bangs on her forehead as they walked on in silence.

Li Mubai was still reviewing whether he had given himself away in the activity room, and he just felt the air getting really hot.

Should we tell Xie Shu that the air in the activity room is stuffy? That would seem like admitting our guilt.

"class--"

"Go back to your dorm and get some rest. See you tomorrow," Xie Shu interrupted him.

"Okay, goodbye, class monitor."

For some reason, Li Mubai thought of Yan Shu, who always told him to "get some rest."

Back in the dorm, the other boys were asking him where he went during the last evening study session. Li Mubai honestly told them about his speech under the national flag next week, only changing the location of his practice session.

"Don't be nervous, just think of the people in the audience as green onions," Zhao Feng said.

"Weren't you in the audience back then? You thought you were something special?" Yang Kun seized on Zhao Feng's slip of the tongue and mocked him.

"I'm a scallion, so who are you to compare yourself to me?"

"Hey ho, let's have a go and see what your Chicken Bro is all about."

……

Having a friend at school who you can banter and joke with is actually quite nice.

Li Mubai opened his phone and accepted Zhou Ruo's friend request, wondering if she was on her phone at the moment.

Bamboo: "Senior, I thought you stopped using QQ?"

The little schoolgirl dared to be sarcastic, so here comes a killer move.

Li Bubai: "I'm sorry, I've been busy all week and only had a little free time today. I'm really sorry, please forgive me."

Bamboo: "[Hmph, animated emoticon]"

Forget it, he doesn't care anymore. He and Zhou Ruo aren't close, so there's no need for him to cater to her feelings.

Yan Shu didn't send any messages tonight. I'll read for a while and then go to sleep.

A heated discussion is taking place in the girls' dormitory.

"Little Bamboo, what are you doing? Don't you usually read a lot of novels? You shouldn't be sending emoticons to this senior right now."

"I don't know, it's just that my senior ignored me for a week before finally accepting my friend request today, so I'm a little upset," Zhou Ruo said apologetically.

"Sigh, it's their right to add you or not. We can't expect others to do things the way we want, or they'll think we're unreasonable."

"Okay, so what do we do now? He's not replying."

What are your senior's hobbies?

"I have no idea."

"...Go check out his social media posts."

"Won't he find out?"

"Why don't you just get a VIP membership?"

"oh oh."

Zhou Ruo immediately activated her Yellow Diamond membership and then opened Li Mubai's QQ Space—"This friend only displays the activity of the last three days."

Gaia!!! We've been tricked! My best friend works for Tencent?

"Uh—it's okay, I've already activated Yellow Diamond membership. You can use colored fonts when you post on social media from now on."

"Is that the key point? The key point is, what do we do now?"

"Let me think... Why don't you read some romance novels? Maybe the answer is in them."

"Online novels aren't very good. I prefer to read something with intellectual depth."

"By the way, isn't he in the literature club? Ask him what kind of novels he likes to read, online novels or literary novels, he should read at least one."

"Okay, I'll give it a try."

Bamboo: "Senior, what kind of novels do you like to read?"

Li Bubai: "I don't like reading novels."

Zhou Ruo showed her phone to her best friend.

"It's strange that there are boys these days who don't read a single novel."

"So what's the next step?"

"Hmm—it's come to this now, let's go to sleep. Your senior is like an egg; how can you bite into him if there's no crack?"

"Ugh."

"But does your senior have a girlfriend?"

"I don't know, but he seems to be quite familiar with Xie Shu."

"Really? Does he like Xie Shu? It seems like a lot of boys like this senior. Quite a few boys in our class talk about her after class too."

"Probably not, we're just classmates," Zhou Ruo said, sounding unsure.

"Forget it, forget it, don't think so much, give up. There are plenty of fish in the sea, why be hung up on just one?"

"Ugh."

The night left only a girl who kept opening NetEase Cloud Music and repeating the same depressing lyrics over and over again.

In female dormitory room 412, Chen Qiuhe was cosplaying a fortune teller. She squinted, her left hand touching Deng Yi's palm, while her right hand's fingers moved meaninglessly.

"Deng Yi, I just calculated it. You will have a long and healthy life, strong rational thinking that makes you suitable for studying science, and your relationships will be relatively stable."

"Really? Is it because I'm lucky?"

"Yes, that's right. Remember, secrets of heaven must not be revealed."

Upon hearing this, Deng Yi glanced at the girls surrounding him. Was it a secret that couldn't be revealed?

However, since I'm lucky, these things are insignificant.

"Shu, do you want to have your fortune told too? It's pretty accurate!"

"No."

Xie Shu was sitting at the table writing something when she noticed Deng Yi coming over, so she closed her notebook.

"Shu, what are you writing?"

"It's nothing."

"Something's not right~ Is it a little secret?" Deng Yi teased.

"No," Xie Shu denied.

"If it's not a secret, then let me see it."

"Let's go, let's go have our fortunes told."

"Hey? Didn't you not believe in these things?"

"Give it a try."

The dormitories at Pingyang No. 6 Middle School all had bunk beds with desks underneath. Xie Shu stuffed the notebook into his schoolbag, then put the schoolbag on the bed. After confirming it was safe, he pulled Deng Yi to Chen Qiuhe's spot.

"Qiuhe, how about you read Xie Shu's palm too?"

"Of course, it will be smooth sailing, everything will go smoothly, good fortune will shine upon you, you will be safe and sound, and everything will be auspicious and healthy..."

Stop memorizing your broken idioms.

Chen Qiuhe grabbed Xie Shu's hand and performed a set of foreplay, imitating the master from her memory. Then, she began to trace the fingers of her other hand on Xie Shu's palm.

"Xie Shu, your palmistry indicates that you have stable health and a tendency towards emotional thinking, as shown by your heart line..."

"What's wrong with Xie Shu's love life?" Deng Yi asked.

"The relationship will be quite complicated and may experience some ups and downs."

"Hey! Shu, you'd better be careful not to meet the wrong person."

Oh……

"It's quite a coincidence, though, that your palm lines are basically the same as Li Mubai's," Chen Qiuhe casually added.

Humph……