CH 35

On the second day of school when Ye Zhou and Shang Jin went out of the dormitory building, they saw Zhou Wendao waiting next to the Shang Ye number.

Today was Shang Jin’s turn to drive. Ye Zhou went straight to the backseat of the pedicab and asked, “Wendao, are you waiting for someone?”

“No, I’m going with you guys.” After Zhou Wendao saw Ye Zhou, he pushed his bike out and specially placed down the backseat in front of Ye Zhou.

Ye Zhou paused in getting on the car and just put his schoolbag in the rear compartment while he stood up and patted the bike’s new backseat and wondered, “Is this your new ride? I thought that after you got the bike backseat, you would let a girl sit on it first. I didn’t expect that you would invite me to sit first. Then, I can only respectfully obey.”

Ye Zhou’s buttocks were about to fall, Zhou Wendao waved his hand like ousting out a chicken and said, “Go go go, I just wanted to let you take a look at my new bike. Do you think I can get a girlfriend this semester?”

Ye Zhou twitched his mouth and flicked his forehead, saying, “Try to dream less in broad daylight.”

Zhou Wendao ignored his cold water and propped one foot on the ground. As Shang Jin started the car, he stepped on the pedal and started off almost together with Shang Jin.

This strange behavior once again aroused Ye Zhou’s attention. He opened the window and saw that Zhou Wendao was riding side-by-side with the Shang Ye number, with his back very upright and vigorous. He was striving to make his riding posture a little more handsome. Obviously without an idol’s appearance, but carrying a bunch of idol baggage.

Ye Zhou laughed aloud, and he coughed to draw Zhou Wendao’s attention. “You’re really not planning to use Shang Jin driving the pedicab to set off your ‘valiant hero spirit’, right?”

Zhou Wendao’s body stiffened, and, strongly pretended to be unperturbed, said, “My heroic spirit doesn’t need to be set off.”

Ye Zhou pursed his lips to not let himself laugh too wantonly. He knocked on the window behind Shang Jin and said, “I saw a person I know. Can we let them hitch a ride?”

Shang Jin declined to comment. When Ye Zhou told him to stop, he gently stopped.

Ye Zhou slipped opened the door and smiled. “Classmate Su, do you want to catch a ride?”

“Ye Zhou??” Su Yin shouted in surprise. The Shang Ye number was popular on campus and she’d heard of it early on. Because this was the car that Ye Zhou and Shang Jin bought together, Su Jin had felt it was fishy in her heart for a long time, and hadn’t even gone to look for Ye Zhou in the past two months. This was also fine. Ye Zhou had a request for her, but unexpectedly, he didn’t contact her all along. This caused her heart to produce the most unwanted idea: would Ye Zhou have prostrated himself before Shang Jin’s charm and completely forgotten about Tang Dongdong, this person… After all, Shang Jin was so outstanding, and Tang Dongdong, whether in looks or in ability, was far inferior to him. People with eyes would choose Shang Jin…her male god had been degraded by Ye Zhou…

“Going to the third class?” Ye Zhou finished asking Su Yin and turned his gaze to the girl next to her. Without looking he wouldn’t have realized that unexpectedly, next to Su Yin was actually the faculty flower of the Music Faculty. Sure enough, was it because he wasn’t interested in girls, so he wasn’t sensitive to beautiful women?

Ye Zhou secretly glanced at Shang Jin. Shang Jin leaned back on the chair and yawned. Coming back after the New Year, he still hadn’t gotten used to getting up early for class once school started. He lay on the handlebars, bored to death while waiting for them to get on the car.

Wait a minute, Ye Zhou didn’t look at the girls because he wasn’t interested in girls at all. How could Shang Jin also have no interest in looking at the beauties? Could it be that Shang Jin didn’t like girls too?

Ye Zhou turned his attention on Zhou Wendao who had already stopped a long time ago. Zhou Wendao was staring. Sure enough, this was normal.

“Are you going to sit? Everyone’s in a hurry in the morning.” After waiting for half a day and not hearing a reply, Shang Jin turned his head and urged, “I’d calculated the time to go out. If we keep dilly-dallying, we won’t be able to to step in the classroom on the dot.”

“Shang…Shang Jin??” Su Yin straightened her waist and back and covered her face with the book. She glared at Ye Zhou and whispered, “Why did you call me to stop today! I got up late and didn’t put on makeup! I’m finished, it’s over…”

Ye Zhou was puzzled, “When have you ever put on makeup? I don’t think you even know the makeup sequence.”

“Shut up!!!” Su Yin whispered fiercely, choking off Ye Zhou. But when she faced Shang Jin, she was like a shy rose with its thorn pulled out. Her voice was low and soft, making Ye Zhou cover in a layer of goosebumps when he heard it. “Shang Jin, then we’ll trouble you. Chi Xi, we’re both thin and should be able to squeeze in.”

The faculty flower’s face was also blushing and she whispered, “Shang Jin, trouble you.”

Without turning his head, Shang Jin answered with a sound and started the pedicab.

Zhou Wendao, who’d originally thought he’d have the chance to make an appearance, stared dumbstruck as the faculty flower not only didn’t have the slightest dislike, but she also got on the little three-wheeler that he’d initially looked down on with a restrained, slight smile that she couldn’t keep off her face.

Sure enough, fairy tales were a scam. As long as it was a prince, regardless of whether he was riding a white horse or a pedicab, the princess would be willing to go with them.

Arriving at the third class, the two girls shyly thanked Shang Jin once again, prompting Ye Zhou to become dissatisfied. “Clearly it was me who invited them on the car. Why did they only thank you?”

Shang Jin calmly said, “Ask them, why ask me?”

Ye Zhou looked at him in amazement and said, “I’d thought that you would have said your charm is boundless.” Shang Jin actually let go of a chance to put him in a squeeze?

“Something so obvious still needs me to emphasize again?”

“Ha ha.”

The two people bantered as they entered the school building, completely ignoring the ‘life without love’ classmate Zhou behind them.

This time Ye Zhou proposed to let Su Yin hitch a ride because Su Yin’s male god was originally Shang Jin and he could help out in passing to create a chance for Su Yin to come into contact with Shang Jin. This could be counted as rounding out Su Yin’s male god dream. He hadn’t expected that this favor he’d done in passing, after a few weeks, Su Yin would reciprocate.

In the evening, Ye Zhou was lying in bed looking at his phone when Su Yin sent a message.

Su Yin: Tang Dongdong wants to come to A Uni to play this weekend, want to meet?

Ye Zhou suddenly sat up. This movement made the other three people in the dorm invariably look at him.

“It’s nothing, it’s nothing. You guys go on.” Ye Zhou slowly lay back down. If he hadn’t been reminded by Su Yin, Ye Zhou would have forgotten that he’d curried Su Yin’s favor before to let her introduce him to Tang Dongdong. The present days were too full and he’d unexpectedly forgotten about his love at first sight. Truly a sin, a sin.

Ye Zhou hastened to reply: Of course want to meet!!

Su Yin, who’d sent this WeChat, had been a bit disturbed and unclear, so her motive for sending out this WeChat was to sound out his mentality. Now that it was like thisーYe Zhou was clearly still interested in Tang Dongdongーbut did he also have some relationship with Shang Jin??

Realizing this, Su Yin simply asked directly.

Su Yin: Ye Zhou, tell me honestly: you’re not standing with a foot in two boats, right??

A foot in two boats??

Ye Zhou lightly jeered: was he such an immoral person?

Ye Zhou: How is that possible. Shang Jin and I are innocent. You still don’t know who I like?

Su Yin: I used to know. Now, I don’t know…

Ye Zhou: My heart is firm!

Su Yin: You haven’t asked me about Tang Dongdong’s news for two months. Is that called firm?

Ye Zhou was unable to respond, thinking that what he did was somewhat unreasonable. However, for his love at first sight, Ye Zhou still strove to say: The germinations of emotions only needs a chance. Later on, it depends on interactions to grow little by little. Rather than finding you to scout out more news, it’d be better to meet in person.

Su Yin: Fine. This week, he’ll come here to play, and I’ll invite him to eat in the canteen on Saturday noon. At that time, pretend that it’s a coincidence and come sit down. I’ll introduce you. I’m telling you in advance: Dongdong hasn’t been with anyone in all these years, so I’m also not sure if he can accept boys. If he can’t accept it, you can’t pester him.

Ye Zhou: No problem!

Coming to an agreement with Su Yin, Ye Zhou had always been in an excited mood. He looked at the date. Saturday just landed on March 15.

Eh, this date was a bit familiar.

Lying in bed, Ye Zhou asked, “What special day is March 15?”

Liu Yutian said, “Consumer Protection Day.”

Ye Zhou asked again, “Besides this?”

“Nope.”

Ye Zhou always felt that he’d seen this 315 date before, but it was definitely not Consumer Protection Day.

Whichever date stayed in his heart, it meant that this day must have some special meaning.

Ye Zhou thought about it for a few days and thought about it to Friday and still didn’t have a clue.

Not giving up, Ye Zhou changed the target and asked, “Shang Jin, we don’t have any exams tomorrow, right?”

“No.” Shang Jin glanced at him with an unclear meaning and said, “No exams, no homework, no activities. Why are you so serious about this date?”

“I always feel that my heart is hanging on something. If I don’t think of it, I can’t rest or eat in peace.”

“Suit yourself.”

On Saturday, Ye Zhou didn’t continue to think about what the matter was. The most important thing for him today was meeting with Tang Dongdong!

Without dressing up, Ye Zhou’s base was good, let alone when he tidied up from head to toe. When he went out, the frequency of turned heads had increased!

Hearing that Tang Dongdong loved sweets the most, Ye Zhou specially ran to A City’s most famous dessert shop. He was dazzled when selecting from a pile of delicate and gorgeous doughnuts and macarons.

“Why would boys like to eat sweet?” Ye Zhou only smelled it and was a bit fed up with it. Not only did Tang Dongdong love sweets, even Shang Jin loved to eat strawberry candy.

It was just the season for strawberries, and the dessert store also used a lot of strawberries.

Ye Zhou passed the cake window and was attracted by a birthday cake covered with strawberries on the cake surface.

Ye Zhou looked around for a while and took the desserts he’d chosen to the front desk for checkout. A woman in her thirties pointed at the strawberry cake in the window and asked, “Can I take this cake directly? Today’s the child’s birthday and I forgot to order in advance.”

Ye Zhou had a flash of light and suddenly remembered!

315 was Shang Jin’s birthday!

When he went back to D City on the high-speed rail with Shang Jin last year, Ye Zhou had glanced at Shang Jin’s ID card when they checked their identity cards and remembered his birthday.

At that time, he’d also lamented that Shang Jin’s birthday was too easy to remember. He didn’t expect that this was what he couldn’t think of in the past few days, and not only that, but he’d also foolishly gone to ask Shang Jin!