Qing Ye barely made it back to the dormitory in time. She rushed straight to the bathroom, and when she came out, she was completely covered up, wearing long sleeves and pants, which was unusual.

The other three in the dormitory silently watched her. Qu Bing had heard from Qu Xing that Qing Ye went with Xing Wu to get glasses, which explained why she disappeared right after class.

So she couldn’t help but ask: “Did everything… go smoothly tonight?”

Qing Ye froze, then nervously asked back: “What do you mean smoothly?”

“Did you get the glasses?”

Qing Ye didn’t look at her, just nodded and climbed into bed without a word. Qu Bing found her behavior increasingly strange and asked again: “What did you eat tonight?”

Qing Ye uttered two words: “Noodles.”

After she said this, the other three had complex expressions. Regarding Xing Wu’s behavior at lunch, all three unanimously felt he had some interest in Qing Ye. Getting glasses tonight was such a good opportunity – normally, a guy would take the chance to invite a girl to dinner at a romantic place and make a good impression, but in this hot weather, they just had noodles. Suddenly they felt this young man was a bit dense, definitely just an honest person.

Sun Wanjing quietly commented: “Eating noodles until eleven?”

“…” Qing Ye’s body gradually, very gradually slid down, pulling up her blanket.

Qu Bing suddenly sat up and exclaimed: “Don’t tell me something happened between you two…”

Qing Ye’s heart immediately jumped to her throat, almost spitting out her heart, but then heard the rest: “Did you two argue?”

She had almost thought they had seen through her. This emotional rollercoaster left her slightly breathless. Seeing her silence, Qu Bing asked again: “Did you help him get glasses?”

“Yes, you can see for yourself tomorrow. Going to sleep.” With that, she turned away, blocking out the three of them. The dormitory returned to silence, everyone doing their own thing, no one mentioning it again.

However, the boys’ dormitory wasn’t so harmonious. Xing Wu returned to the dorm and took another shower, coming out shirtless and walking to his bed with his back to the others to get a T-shirt.

Zhuang Sixian casually glanced at Xing Wu and froze, then nudged Qu Xing. Yang Wenbo beside them also turned to look. All three simultaneously saw three distinct bite marks on Xing Wu’s left and right shoulders and neck.

They all sucked in a cold breath. They knew Xing Wu and Senior Qing Ye went to get glasses tonight, but why did he return covered in bite marks after getting glasses? It was hard not to think otherwise!

But Qu Xing was particularly puzzled. He had just talked to his sister on the phone tonight, hearing that Qing Ye was very prejudiced against Xing Wu. Qu Bing had even told him not to bring Xing Wu along for meals anymore, fearing Qing Ye would be uncomfortable seeing him. But now… returning with bite marks, what was going on? It couldn’t be what he was thinking, right? How was this possible?

When Xing Wu quickly put on his shirt and turned around, he saw six shocked eyes staring at him. He asked puzzledly: “What’s wrong?”

Qu Xing swallowed hard and asked: “What happened to your body?”

Xing Wu looked down at himself: “What’s wrong with my body?”

Zhuang Sixian pushed his glasses up and said calculatingly: “Quite a few bite marks.”

“…” Xing Wu immediately realized, lowered his head with a slight smile, lazily ruffled his hair, and replied: “A puppy bit me.”

Qu Xing laughed “Hehehe” and said: “The bites are quite symmetrical, did you get rabies shots?”

Xing Wu seriously answered him: “Not yet, accompany me to the Fifth Cafeteria tomorrow noon to get it.”

Yang Wenbo, who was out of the loop, suddenly asked: “Really? Our school cafeteria can give vaccines?”

“…” The other three silently looked away.

So the next day at noon, when the girls from Room 319 arrived at the Fifth Cafeteria, Qu Xing and the others had already ordered and were waiting for them.

When Qu Xing saw Qing Ye, he had a meaningful expression and enthusiastically invited her to sit next to Xing Wu. After Qing Ye sat down, she turned to look at him, and he happened to look back at her, his lips curved in a slight smile. His burning gaze in public suddenly made Qing Ye’s cheeks heat up.

She decisively looked away, lowering her head. Xing Wu handed her a tray and chopsticks. Qu Bing looked at the glasses on his nose bridge and said: “Nice glasses, they look good.”

Xing Wu adjusted his glasses: “Mainly because Qing Ye has good taste.”

Qu Bing smiled without speaking, feeling this junior’s hints were even more obvious today.

However, the harmonious atmosphere ended right after they finished eating. As they stood up, a girl suddenly called out: “Hi, Xing Wu, what a coincidence, you’re eating here too?”

Qing Ye and the others turned to look. Three girls walked toward Xing Wu, smiling, and Qing Ye saw unusual predatory gleams in their eyes as they looked at him.

Xing Wu nodded to them, and one girl approached him with a flowery smile: “Are you coming tonight?” The girl had bangs and looked quite cute.

Qing Ye glanced at them sideways, suddenly remembering the “Fun English” Xing Wu mentioned last night. Not bad – on just the second day of school, he’d already successfully hooked up with a group of girls. If this continued for a semester, wouldn’t he be flourishing on all sides?

The key point was, in last night’s situation, he left her alone to attend some club activity. Qing Ye’s inexplicable anger suddenly flared up, and she wordlessly walked toward the cafeteria exit.

Seeing Qing Ye leave, Qu Bing and the others decided to leave too. However, just as Qing Ye walked out of the cafeteria, she suddenly felt her right foot trip. When she looked down, Xing Wu had already moved from behind her to crouch in front and was tying her shoelace.

Qing Ye coldly looked down at him. Just as he finished tying, she turned to walk around him, planning to ignore him completely. At that moment, the books she was carrying suddenly fell. Xing Wu caught them from behind her and moved in front of her again. Qing Ye reached out to grab them, but he swayed left. When Qing Ye reached left, he smirked and swayed his arm right, perfectly avoiding her reaching hand.

Qing Ye was thoroughly angry, glaring at him: “Give them to me.”

Xing Wu held the books behind his back, lowered his eyes, and said: “Help me with something.”

Qing Ye turned her head away angrily: “No.”

Students were passing by all around them. Xing Wu suddenly leaned in and whispered near her ear: “If you don’t help, I’ll have to attend Fun English again tonight.”

He straightened up and smiled at her meaningfully. Qing Ye frowned in confusion: “What do you want me to help with?”

Xing Wu lowered his eyes and touched his nose: “Could you… spare some time to help me with English?”

Qing Ye suddenly froze: “Huh?”

He coughed somewhat unnaturally: “Many of our courses are taught entirely in English. If this continues, I’m going to fail.”

English was truly a disaster for Xing Wu. Back home there was no language environment; he relied purely on his good memory, mechanically memorizing vocabulary and grammar. He could manage written tests, but listening was another story. Although Miss Yu’s spoken English was considered top-tier at Anzhong, English had been his lowest score in the college entrance exam. Now in the Y class, not only were some courses taught entirely in English, but more terrifyingly, everyone sometimes communicated entirely in English. When it came to specialized vocabulary, he was completely lost, so he felt an intense sense of crisis as soon as school started.

Looking at his somewhat pitiful expression behind his glasses, Qing Ye couldn’t hold back and laughed: “You went to English activities just because of this?”

“What else? You think I’m that free?”

Qing Ye’s eyes suddenly curved like crescents, inexplicably finding Mr. Xing’s helpless appearance so cute.

As she was laughing, she turned her head to see Qu Bing, Sun Wanjing, and Xie Qianqian standing opposite, looking at them with incredulous expressions.

Qing Ye’s smile suddenly froze. She turned to Xing Wu and said: “I need to check my schedule. Go ask about my reputation in the Foreign Languages Department. I’m very busy, okay?”

She tossed her hair and waved at him. Xing Wu watched her proud retreating figure and smiled, adjusting his glasses.

As soon as they turned the corner, Qu Bing immediately said sincerely: “Qing Ye, we might have wronged you before. Your judgment of people is quite accurate – Xing Wu might not be as honest as he seems.”

“???” Qing Ye looked at them in confusion.

Then the three told Qing Ye what they had just witnessed.

Just as Qing Ye left the cafeteria, Xing Wu strode after her, skillfully stepping on her shoelace to untie it, and then blocked her path to help tie it. When she turned around, he lifted her books from behind, caught them steadily, and blocked her path again. This set of flirting moves was so smooth it left the three onlookers dumbfounded – could someone actually operate like this?

So they concluded that Xing Wu truly wasn’t what he appeared to be, not as honest as he looked on the surface. They completely agreed with Qing Ye’s previous assessment and told her to stay away from him, and not to let him play with her feelings.

Qing Ye couldn’t take it anymore: “How is he playing with me? How is he not honest? You’re looking at people too superficially, you need to see through appearances to the essence.”

“…” The others felt these words were somehow familiar, so familiar they seemed to have come from someone’s mouth just days ago, but how had the situation completely reversed?

So Qing Ye’s attitude toward Xing Wu always confused others, until a few days later when Qu Xing sent Qu Bing a photo. The photo was of Qing Ye, standing next to a snowman making a peace sign at the camera, and smiling sweetly and warmly.

Although Qing Ye in the photo didn’t look much different from now, from her clear eyes and brows one could tell this was an old photo of her.

Qu Bing asked where the photo came from, and Qu Xing told her it was Xing Wu’s phone wallpaper.

Thinking of Qing Ye’s series of unusual emotions toward Xing Wu, Qu Bing looked back at the framed dandelion portrait that Qing Ye had hung on her desk, considered Xing Wu’s background and the dandelion necklace from New Year’s Eve last year, and suddenly understood everything. She even felt a bit moved.

So this mystery was solved with this photo, but everyone was smart enough to see through things without speaking about them after Qu Bing’s inadvertent hints.

On the weekend, Qing Ye went with Xing Wu to the home furnishing center. They originally planned to buy some small items, but Qing Ye wanted to buy every cute and novel little thing she saw, resulting in them returning with a huge pile of things.

As soon as they reached the apartment, she collapsed in the pile of items. Xing Wu pulled her out and said: “Go take a shower.”

Qing Ye blinked at him twice: “Why do I need to shower now?”

“I made dinner plans with Panghu tonight, haven’t you not seen each other for a long time?”

When Qing Ye heard about having dinner with Panghu, she suddenly got excited. She hadn’t seen Panghu for a long time and wanted to ask how his art exam went.

Looking at her messy hair in the mirror, she decisively went to take a shower.

When she came out, Xing Wu was unhurriedly unbuttoning his shirt, and without any hesitation, undressed in front of Qing Ye. Those perfectly proportioned lines slowly revealed themselves before her eyes, making her gaze drift back and forth. The air was filled with a sensual atmosphere that made one’s throat tighten.

Sure enough, she knew his suggestion for her to shower wasn’t so innocent. When he came out, he carried Qing Ye straight back to the room and didn’t let her go until evening. By then she was completely exhausted, protesting with watery eyes: “After running around all day, I don’t have the energy to go out.”

She lay in bed refusing to get up. Xing Wu smiled and pulled her up: “I’ll carry you on my back.”

Qing Ye thought he was joking, but when they were about to leave, he put her on his back, locked the door, and entered the elevator. However, once out of the elevator, Qing Ye felt embarrassed and quickly jumped down.

They had arranged to meet Panghu at a hotpot restaurant. When Qing Ye arrived, she learned they had also invited Shi Min. However, Qing Ye was completely stunned by Panghu’s appearance. According to Panghu himself, he had lost nearly 20 jin during his gap year, and this summer he had controlled his diet and exercised intensively, losing almost another 30 jin. With his current change in clothing style, he looked like a completely different person. If he walked down the street like this, Qing Ye might not even recognize him at first glance.

She deeply felt that saying – never underestimate any fat person around you, who knows when they might transform into a handsome guy?

Old friend’s meeting was extremely cordial, but Qing Ye couldn’t help feeling that there seemed to be some subtle interaction between Panghu and Shi Min.

So on the way back, Qing Ye asked Xing Wu: “Are Panghu and Shi Min together?”

Xing Wu looked at her with an expression like she was an idiot: “You just figured that out?”

“…”