He tricked the female lead into becoming his boyfriend, but then went on to criticize the male lead.

After one round of word quizzes, Sang Jiuning achieved a 95% accuracy rate.

She was so happy she almost spun around on the spot. Once she got excited, she started talking nonsense without restraint.

"Am I really that good? Shouldn't I get a reward?"

Wen Zhaoci raised an eyebrow: "Hmm, very impressive, you deserve a reward."

Sang Jiuning felt a surge of vanity when she heard people praise her abilities.

The next second, she felt a chill on the back of her neck, her waist was grabbed, and her lips were suddenly covered by a warm touch. She opened her eyes wide and even her breath caught in her throat.

The tip of her nose was filled with the clean, crisp scent of cedar foliage emanating from Wen Zhaoci, mixed with a faint fragrance of ink, which penetrated straight into her lungs, making half of her body go numb.

Wen Zhaoci kissed her for only a few minutes. When he pulled away, his knuckles brushed against her chin. Looking at her suddenly flushed ears, a faint smile spread across his eyes. He gently touched the corner of his lips with his fingertips and said in a low, husky voice, "Here's a reward for you."

Sang Jiuning covered her face and squatted down on the ground. Her ears were so hot they could fry an egg on them. After a long while, she managed to stammer out, "You... why are you being a pervert again! I'm never coming here again."

She blushed because she ate garlic, and the garlic-smelling kiss... um, I can't think about it, I can't think about it.

After saying that, he got up, packed his review materials, grabbed his canvas bag, and was about to walk towards the door when his wrist was gently grabbed.

Wen Zhaoci leaned closer from behind, his warm breath brushing against her burning earlobe, his voice tinged with amusement: "Who takes a reward and runs away? Besides, who was it that said they wanted a reward? You're not satisfied even though I didn't give it to you?"

Sang Jiuning struggled twice but couldn't break free. Her back was pressed against his warm chest, her heart was pounding so fast it felt like it was going to burst her ribs, and even her toes were tense with shyness.

"I...that's not the reward I wanted back then! I wanted milk tea! I wanted strawberry daifuku!"

Her voice was soft and gentle, with a slight tremor from not having recovered, and it didn't sound threatening at all.

Wen Zhaoci chuckled softly, his hand that was gripping her wrist slid down, gently clasping her hand, his fingertips slipping between hers to intertwine with hers: "Come on, I'll buy you some strawberry daifuku, and then I'll take you back to your dorm."

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Sang Jiuning walked downstairs to the dormitory building with a super-sized cup of strawberry daifuku in her hand.

Wen Zhaoci released her hand, ruffled her hair, and said, "You have two long classes tomorrow morning, we'll have lunch together. You don't have classes in the afternoon, so continue."

Sang Jiuning: "..." She gave everything in her life to Wen Zhaoci.

"Your lab is so busy, maybe you should skip it."

Wen Zhaoci: "Tell me, were you more efficient today than usual?"

Sang Jiuning thought for a moment and answered truthfully, "It's gotten much better. From this morning until now, I've actually been studying steadily for almost eight hours, which would have been impossible before."

As she spoke, she blinked, and the corners of her mouth, still sweet with the scent of strawberry daifuku, turned up, making her look exceptionally pleasing to the eye.

Wen Zhaoci: "As long as it's efficient, that's fine. If you English majors fail the CET-4, you'll be publicly criticized in the entire major's student group. You don't want to embarrass yourself in a group of over two hundred people, do you?"

Sang Jiuning: "..."

She suddenly remembered this, her shoulders slumped instantly, and she nodded with a bitter face: "Okay, then I'll come find you as soon as I finish class tomorrow at noon."

Looking at her listless appearance, Wen Zhaoci couldn't help but pinch her cheek again. The soft texture felt incredibly good. "Remember to review the words you just memorized in your mind tonight. I'll check them as soon as I get here tomorrow."

Sang Jiuning took a big bite of the remaining half of the strawberry daifuku, mumbled "Okay," and turned to tiptoe into the dormitory building. When she reached the corner of the stairs, she couldn't help but secretly look back at the door.

Wen Zhaoci was still standing there, the streetlights casting long shadows of him. When he saw her turn around, he waved to her.

It was almost 10:10 when I got back to the dorm. I quickly took a shower and borrowed a hairdryer from Tang Tongtong. I used two hairdryers to dry my hair in five minutes before hurriedly climbing into bed.

Tang Tongtong teased with a laugh, "What naughty things did you and your boyfriend do? You're practically radiating pink bubbles!"

Sang Jiuning buried her head in the pillow, her voice muffled: "He's a man-eating devil. Today I learned seventy knowledge points, memorized 200 words, and listened to long audio passages five times!"

Tang Tongtong gave an "oh" and then said with a drawn-out laugh, "Indeed, a great boyfriend makes one improve."

As soon as she finished speaking, Su Qingyan pushed the door open and came in from the outside, looking unhappy. She was holding a gift box that she had just picked up from the express delivery locker. When she saw Sang Jiuning sitting on the bed flipping through a vocabulary book, her tone was a little sour: "Jiuning, you went out with Wen Zhaoci again? I thought you were just playing around with him before, but I didn't expect you two to be so inseparable."

Sang Jiuning held the edge of the vocabulary book without saying a word. The female lead was jealous. Sure enough, the female lead had fallen in love with the male lead. Should she create some opportunities for the male and female leads so that she could break up and get away?

Tang Tongtong lifted her eyelids and grinned mischievously: "Yan Yan, you've been getting quite close to that Weng Zhicheng lately. Is there anything going on between you two?"

Qin Ying was also nosy; she just wanted to know what Su Qingyan was thinking. She'd been accepting gifts from him, eating with him, and it'd been over a month, and they still weren't dating? It was outrageous! "Qingyan, you've been stringing Weng Zhicheng along for over a month, and you still won't accept him?"

Su Qingyan placed the gift box on the table and playfully patted Tang Tongtong, saying, "Don't talk nonsense. She's just a regular friend. She just brought me something."

As she spoke, her gaze drifted almost imperceptibly towards Sang Jiu Ning, her fingertips twirling the ribbon on the gift box twice. "Actually, I'm just a little surprised. Jiu Ning, didn't you say you weren't planning on dating in college? How come you've started?"

Sang Jiuning sighed inwardly. That was what the original owner said, right? But she still put on a confused look, flipping through her vocabulary book without looking up: "Maybe we'll break up in a few days. Relationships just end when they don't work out."

She spoke casually, but Su Qingyan was already slowly falling for him. She had to be careful not to let the female lead actually dislike the male lead.

Su Qingyan was taken aback by her response and forced a smile before turning away from the topic to open the gift box.

Tang Tongtong winked at Sang Jiuning and didn't say anything more. The dormitory quickly quieted down because the lights were about to go out.

After Su Qingyan turned off the light, she started sweating profusely; she had a dream.

Weng Zhicheng went abroad, but as for Wen Zhaoci, Su Qingyan remembered that it was after the school's anniversary celebration in the first semester of her sophomore year. Wen Zhaoci first handed her a note, and after she added him on WeChat, the two gradually developed into boyfriend and girlfriend.

When she woke up in the morning, she checked her phone and saw a message from Weng Zhicheng: "Yan Yan, my flight is today. I'm going to study in the US. Goodbye!"