Tea-flavored Romance

"learn."

Master Ning wiped away imaginary cold sweat and silently turned off his phone screen.

Okay, let's just pretend nothing happened...

Chapter 69: Did you bring your ID card?

It was nearly midnight, and the two were still wandering around the campus. Although the students in each dormitory were still enjoying their own exciting nightlife, the dormitory supervisor downstairs had already gone to bed early.

"Auntie, please open the door. I accidentally missed the time."

"Auntie? The kind and beautiful dormitory supervisor?"

No matter how Ning Yuan called out from outside, there was no response from inside. He stroked his chin and pondered for a moment before looking up and asking.

"Ning Yiling, did you offend this aunt before?"

"I remember that the aunties in our dorm were very easy to talk to... They would even leave a small, locked door for students who came back late, but they could still squeeze through."

Ning Yiling rolled her eyes: "Why would I offend her for no reason... Do you think the girls' dormitory is the same as your boys' dormitory?"

"Unless it's an emergency like a sudden illness, she won't get up to open the door. After all, once she starts doing this, she'll do it again, and there's no way to stop her."

"That's true." Master Ning spread his hands and said, "Then there's nothing we can do. Ning Yiling, did you bring your ID card?"

"..."

The girl immediately became alert: "What do you want to do with me...?"

"Is that even a question? Where else can you go at night with your ID card?"

"You actually want to take me to a hotel room?!" Ning Yiling roared angrily, "Ning Yuan, you still say you're not a siscon!"

"What do you mean, 'book a hotel'?! I meant taking you to an internet cafe for an all-nighter!" Master Ning immediately became agitated. "Who would be willing to take you to a hotel? My living expenses don't grow on trees! Besides, I have to feed Jiang every now and then..."

"what?"

"It's nothing, I'm just very poor too." Ning Yuan stopped talking and quickly changed the subject.

Just kidding. That little vampire Jiang Manyue always uses the excuse of exchanging information to invite him out to eat. Although he sometimes pays the bill, there's nothing he can do. After all, the contract he made with Jiang Xihua was that he would feed her and she would help him win her over.

The revenue from Dragon King Video? That revenue won't arrive until at least next month! The previous dinners were all paid for by our sponsor, Lu Jiujiu. Master Ning got something for nothing; he himself is practically broke.

Ning Yiling was stunned by the response to her question. After a moment of silence, her anger flared up again: "I've already suffered so much, and all you do is take me to an internet cafe for an all-nighter!"

"Ning Yuan, you have no heart!"

Master Ning: ?

Do you mean you want me to take you to a hotel room or you don't?

Perhaps, this is what it means for women to argue...

Faced with the choice between having no heart and solidifying his "sister complex" label, Master Ning unhesitatingly chose the former.

"Isn't it because you knocked over the trash can that you were late? How could you have missed the final curfew?"

"That's your own fault!" Ning Yiling clenched her fist, then relaxed it. "What do we do now?"

"What? What should we do? Didn't we agree to go to an internet cafe and stay up all night?" Ning Yuan sighed, helplessly saying, "Do you think I want to stay with you? I can sneak back to the dorm through the back door..."

"Then you can go back inside." Little Ling'er turned her head and said disdainfully, "It's not like I can't do it by myself."

Did you bring your phone?

"..."

"You didn't bring any, did you? You don't have any money on you either. Are you going to sit in the cafeteria all night?" Master Ning glanced at her sideways. "It's still quite chilly at night this time of year. Do you want to catch a cold?"

"Or do you want to take a taxi home and get a scolding from your parents?"

The girl's expression softened slightly. Knowing his younger sister's troublesome personality, Ning Yuan grabbed her arm without saying a word and led her out of the school.

"Let me tell you, there's an art to staying up all night at an internet cafe. Time, location, and technique are all essential. Do you think everyone can do that? Without great willpower, you can't see the sun rise at five in the morning in this city."

"The sun doesn't shine at five o'clock this time of year," Ning Yiling retorted with a cold laugh. "Besides, I didn't even bring my phone. Do you think I would bring my ID card?"

"You're lucky you met your brother. If it were any other boy, he wouldn't even be able to take you to an internet cafe to turn on a computer." Master Ning patted his chest loudly: "I didn't just drift through my freshman year either. The owner knows me and is very easy to talk to."

"They neglect their duties...and are not ashamed of it but proud of it."

The girl muttered a few words, but didn't break free from Ning Yuan's hand, letting him pull her along, just like in her past memories.

Aside from a few particularly remote universities, the number of internet cafes around universities is generally quite considerable. Ning Yuan led his younger sister across two streets and soon arrived near a brightly lit sign.

"Is this what you mean?" Ning Yiling pointed to the words "Moyu Internet Cafe" above, looking suspicious. "Why does the name sound so strange?"

"That's normal. This boss supposedly got his entrepreneurial inspiration from reading novels... Didn't we have a news story about a reader who followed the steps in a novel to start a business and eventually became a big boss? These days, the competition among online novel writers is really fierce."

"But it seems so deserted here..."

“It’s just a rich kid starting a business, it’s all about having fun. Besides, isn’t it better to be quiet? If it gets really noisy, you won’t want to stay here.” Ning Yuan continued to pull his sister forward, remarking, “Putting everything else aside, the machines here are incredibly fast… and it’s a no-smoking area, lots of young ladies come here to hang out.”

"What 'Miss'?" Ning Yiling asked sullenly, "You brought me here just for 'Miss'?"

"..."

Ning Yuan pretended not to hear Xiao Ling'er's probing question and easily opened two machines with one ID card, taking advantage of his status as a regular customer.

"Alright, go sit over there. You can play if you want, or sleep if you want... I'm going to start having fun now."

Question marks, like the wind, are always with me! After giving Ning Yiling a few words of advice, Master Ning put on his headphones and got into the zone. He rubbed his hands together, feeling his blood boiling and his fighting spirit soaring.

hasaki!

Girls have never been able to understand the joy boys find in going to internet cafes, just as boys can't understand the fun girls have in shopping. Ning Yiling looked around and, sure enough, spotted quite a few female gamers sitting in front of their computers, engrossed in their games. Then, she sniffed around and noticed that there was surprisingly no smell of smoke, only the pleasant fragrance of the air freshener in the internet cafe.

This internet cafe is interesting... the environment is nice.

The clean and tidy atmosphere put Ning Yiling at ease. She sat next to Ning Yuan and watched him operate for a while. She felt that he seemed a bit inexperienced, but she couldn't quite put her finger on why.

Ning Yiling didn't understand games very well, but she understood Ning Yuan very well. She pursed her lips and didn't say anything. She just silently turned on her computer, opened a few video apps, and randomly found a few variety shows to watch.

Before long, Ning Yiling grew tired of the variety show and closed the app, then searched for a few movies. This time, she watched only a little over half before giving up. The girl closed the webpage, thought carefully for a moment, and finally figured out the problem.

She nudged Ning Yuan's waist and spoke in a muffled voice.

"Ningyuan...I'm hungry..."

Chapter 70: He's not a pure lover at all!

Master Ning didn't move and casually replied, "Oh, I'm hungry too."

Ning Yiling poked his waist again, her expression unfriendly, and said, "You're the one who said you'd bring me here to stay up all night..."

"Look at what you're saying, as if taking you to a hotel room would satisfy you."

As soon as he said it, he realized something was wrong. He turned his head and saw Ning Yiling's shocked face.

"Ning Yuan, you still say you won't... mmm..."

Master Ning covered the girl's mouth, interrupting her classic repetition, and explained helplessly, "Actually, I'm not lying to you, I'm hungry too, but with our financial situation, it's probably difficult for us siblings to afford something..."

"Sweetie, play the game. If you have fun, you won't be hungry anymore."

Ning10: ? ? ?

"You have the money to take me to an internet cafe all night, and you're saying you don't have money for food!"

"Wasn't I thinking about the future?" Master Ning said with great distress, "I currently owe your sister Jiu Jiu a huge sum of money, and now that you've lost money in the stock market, I still have to support you. So I have to be very careful with all the money I have."

"Besides, the money for the overnight stay was paid for with my old membership card!"

"You're so stingy!" Ning Yiling said angrily, "I don't want you to support me."

"Oh ho, the leek spirit is getting tough now."

"Who are you calling a leek demon?!"

"I'll say whoever agrees."

Ning Yiling clenched her small fists, desperately telling herself that there were too many people around and she couldn't be too reckless. After a few deep breaths, she finally managed to suppress her emotions to the point of exploding and snorted coldly, "Don't worry about so much... I'm hungry. I'll find a way to pay you back."

"At worst, I'll just sell some secondhand books on Xianyu (a secondhand marketplace app)... Hurry up and find me something to eat!"

Master Ning sighed helplessly, took off his headphones, and left his seat. He returned shortly after, carrying a steaming bowl of instant noodles.

Ning Yiling pointed to the instant noodles with a blank expression.

"What's this."

"Silly child, this is instant noodles. You used to eat it when you were little. You loved it."

“But they all drink coffee and eat desserts.” Ning Yiling pointed again to the e-sports girls not far away. These girls were all incredibly refined, and they even made the Moyu Internet Cafe feel like a coffee shop.

“They have money…” Ning Yuan earnestly advised, “Alright, alright, hurry up and eat, or it’ll get cold…”

"I want to order takeout."

"I want, too."

"I want to eat rice with toppings."

"I'd like to too. By the way, I'm craving twice-cooked pork over rice right now."

"..."

Ning Yiling sighed heavily, seemingly speechless at Master Ning's stinginess. If she hadn't forgotten her phone, would she have had to put up with this?

Oh well... something to eat is better than nothing... Pickled cabbage? At least this guy had some conscience and didn't give me some mushroom and chicken stew...

The girl resignedly took the instant noodles. The aroma wafted up as soon as she opened the lid. Just as she stirred the noodles with her fork, preparing to put them in her mouth, she heard an untimely sound of swallowing.

Ning Yiling: Stares... (turns head)

"What's wrong? Can't you eat?"

"..."

"Why don't you go and make yourself a bowl?"

"Didn't I say I wanted to save money?" Master Ning swallowed hard, quite frankly. "It's alright, little sister, you can eat it. It's the same as me smelling it."

"But I can't concentrate on eating when you're drooling next to me."