CH 64

“Ai ya ya.” School was going to start soon. Ye Zhou was lying in bed and happily counting a stack of money. “Looking at them gives a sense of surety.”

Shang Jin glanced at him and continued to look at the game on the screen.

Ye Zhou sat up and taking out two pieces, scraped Shang Jin’s cheek and said, “Beauty, give this young master a smile and this is yours.”

Shang Jin immediately took out a wad of money from the drawer and threw it on Ye Zhou.

“You want to humiliate me with money?” Ye Zhou yelled, “I tell you, you’ve succeeded!” Ye Zhou finished saying and stuffed all the money on the bed into his own private stash.

At the end of the instance, Shang Jin turned to see Ye Zhou with his head down, his bangs completely covering his eyes. He reached out and raised up his hair. “You have to cut your hair.”

“Really?” Ye Zhou held his private stash and said, “Let’s go out to get a haircut in a moment, and we can deposit the money along the way.”

Since Shang Jin didn’t ask for a penny from his family, Ye Zhou started his penny-pinching mode. Once he’d spent money extravagantly, but now he began to budget how to spend the money. Even the money his parents gave him, he no longer touched it.

In certain places, the two people were surprisingly familiar.

Thinking that one day he might have a falling out with his family, he was being economical now, trying to be separate from his family. This way, he’d have more confidence even if he left.

The two aunties asked me if I was still tutoring after I start school. I feel that time is a bit tight and I rejected it.” In fact, Ye Zhou’s heart was dripping blood. He seemed to see the red bills bid farewell one by one. Originally, Ye Zhou had only tutored Little Qiu in middle school math and English. Later, when he was chatting, Ye Zhou accidentally mentioned that he’d helped Shang Ming improve his score by 50 points in the third year of high school, and another aunt with a child in the third year of high school persuaded him to tutor her child. Ye Zhou had only graduated two years ago, so he was more comfortable with the high school curriculum. For that high school senior student, he crammed him well in that half month of summer vacation. Then the high school senior took the exam in August. His score that couldn’t be raise in life and death actually raised by 20 points. His parents were so happy, they gave Ye Zhou a big red envelope. “But I added the two students’ WeChat and told them that if they had any questions, they could send a text to me. When I go back for Lunar New Year, I’ll look for my senior year materials.”

Shang Jin smiled. “If you let Sun Xiaohao pass the college entrance exam, I think Uncle Sun would send you a banner.”

Ye Zhou complacently said, “Thinking of that year, Shang Ming’s parents wanted to send me one, but I put a stop to it.”

“Why?” Although he’d never seen Ye Zhou’s parents, Shang Jin could feel from Ye Zhou’s words that they’d be people who loved face. If a friend’s parents visited their home to express their gratitude, that’s giving enormous face.

Ye Zhou curled his lips and said, “Even if they went, they would only say that it was nothing.”

Seeing Ye Zhou’s mood wasn’t high, Shang Jin simply changed the topic.

On the day that school started, Ye Zhou suddenly received a message from Su Yin. What should come, would come. Su Yin being able to endure it to now was already not easy.

Although the two people rented a place outside, they didn’t withdraw from the school dorm.

While Shang Jin rested in the dorm, Ye Zhou arrived at the place agreed with Su Yin.

“Hey, I haven’t seen you in two months. Great beauty Su, did you get thinner?”

Su Yin coldly hmphed and didn’t accept Ye Zhou’s flattery at all. Not keeping people in suspense, she asked directly, “What’s going on with you and Shang Jin!”

Ye Zhou coughed lightly and said, “It’s what you see.”

“At that time, didn’t you say that Shang Jin wasn’t in your options??” Su Yin really didn’t understand. If they were to go back a year ago at this time, she knew best how much Ye Zhou hated Shang Jin. She didn’t expect that in only a year, the other’s affection would change and fall in love.

“I…” Ye Zhou shifted his gaze and forced a laugh, “Isn’t it because Shang Jin is my answer? So I don’t need multiple choices. No other option exists.”

Su Yin shook from the goosebumps covering her body. “What about Tang Dongdong?”

Ye Zhou pledged, “Tang Dongdong and I are simply friends and nothing else!”

Su Yin stared fixedly at Ye Zhou for half a day. Finally, her arms crossed her chest and she heaved a long sigh. “Forget it. As long as you’re happy.”

He hadn’t expected Su Yin to let him off so easily. It should be known that if someone had touched the male god with a finger, she’d look like she was asking for your life. He said in surprise, “You really think so?”

“It’s fine as long as the male god is happy. And…” Su Yin thought of A Uni’s big environment and said, “Now, no one dares to tear you two apart. If there’s a sign of development, it’d be strangled in the cradle.”

Ye Zhou clenched his fist and praised A Uni’s feudal superstition in his heart.

Entering the third year, it felt like the surrounding students had a lot of goals. They planned to start preparing for the graduate entrance exam and planned to start working directly after graduation, and started to pay attention to each profession.

Ye Zhou and Shang Jin unanimously decided to study for the graduate exam.

Shang Jin looked at the lush strawberry plant and said, “I find that planting is very interesting. You say, should I study for the agricultural science faculty?”

“Ah???” Ye Zhou was taken aback. His intention of giving this strawberry wasn’t to let Shang Jin go farm! And a finance student with great ability going into farming…Ye Zhou thought of Shang Jin wearing a straw hat with sleeves pulled up, crouching in the fields. It seemed quite interesting. He was sure that if Shang Jin really studied agriculture, he’d definitely be able to achieve another career. “As you will.”

“Forget it. I’m rather lazy.” Shang Jin knew himself very well. “If I’m in finance, I only need to use my brain.”

Ye Zhou sat in his chair and slid to his side. “If you like planting, we can buy a bigger house later and customize a sun room. Just plant a little. This way, it wouldn’t be tiring.”

“Good idea!”

Liu Yutian picked out his ears. The frequency of these kind of words in the dorm appeared a bit high recently, and he felt a bit stifled. These two people, wasn’t their honeymoon period coming a little late? They’d been dating for a year and now they’ve only started being sticky. Think about the rest of their lives! Did they think the honeymoon period last that long?

Wen Renxu was also born without love. He found that it was increasingly impossible to squeeze another person in between Shang and Ye.

For example, one day, Ye Zhou was reading a book, suddenly looked up and called, “Shang Jin.”

Then, Shang Jin picked up a book on the table and put it directly on Ye Zhou’s table.

Ye Zhou opened the book very naturally and continued reading.

From beginning to end, Ye Zhou had only called a name, but Shang Jin could hear exactly what Ye Zhou wanted from that name.

Don’t you know that this kind of inadvertent behavior was the greatest dog abuse??

Fortunately, these two people also knew to stay elsewhere at night, otherwise, with this sticky strength, Wen Renxu was really worried that if he wanted to avoid it, it’d take way, way too long.

On this, Ye Zhou stated he was innocent. He really shied away from doing any intimate activities in the dorm, not even hugging let alone kissing.

However, for the sake of the mental health of his many single friends, Ye Zhou and Shang Jin conscientiously returned back to their rented place when they didn’t have class.

So, when Ye Heng walked to A Uni’s entrance at two in the afternoon, Ye Zhou and Shang Jin were sleeping soundly in bed at the rental house.

Ye Heng’s company was preparing to expand the market in A City, and he’d volunteered to transfer to the A City branch. After he completed the handover in the remaining two months, he could come here directly.

He added several days of shifts and it wasn’t easy to finally squeeze out two days to come to A City in advance. One was to get acquainted with the environment, and the other was to meet Ye Zhou and get a feel for what Ye Zhou’s life was like these two years in this city.

As a result, he was a little excited and it wasn’t until he stood at the gate of A Uni that he remembered he hadn’t contacted Ye Zhou.

Ye Heng dialed Ye Zhou’s phone number as he wandered around A Uni.

However, after 40 seconds, only a cold female voice came from the phone. “Sorry, the number you dialed is temporarily unavailable…”

Ye Heng was unwilling to give up and called again. He received the same response.

“Could it be he’s in class?” Ye Heng said to himself. A Uni was worthy of being a famous school. The area of the buildings was comparable to his alma mater’s. It wasn’t an exaggeration to say that finding a person on the campus was like finding a needle in a haystack. And Ye Heng’s understanding of Ye Zhou was limited to knowing that he was in the finance department.

He walked a few steps inside. Classes may change, but the dorm wouldn’t change. At the moment, Ye Heng stopped a kind-faced student and asked, “Classmate, how can I get to the male dorm for the finance department?”

The boy said awkwardly, “I’m sorry, I’m new. Everyday I’m in military training and I’m not yet clear on the school layout.”

“It’s okay, thank you.” The weather in September was a bit hot and stuffy. Coupled with the fact that he wasn’t able to contact Ye Zhou, he itched and murmured, “Really, this Ye Zhou, not answering the phone and also not replying to the text.”

He didn’t think that after this sentence was just finished, the freshman who was about to leave turned around and asked, “You’re looking for Ye Zhou?”

Ye Heng was pleasantly surprised. “You know him?”

The freshman looked at him up and down and said, “I don’t know.” After that, he hurried away like a ghost was chasing behind him.

Ye Heng’s heart thumped.

This person didn’t look like he didn’t recognize Ye Zhou. A freshman that had entered school not long ago actually recognized Ye Zhou, then there was only one possibility: Ye Zhou had a certain reputation in school.

Thinking of Ye Zhou who was silent and uncommunicative every time at home and resisted all of his efforts, and Ye Zhou who in their parent’s mouth became unable to do anything right, Ye Heng couldn’t help worrying about whether Ye Zhou would be bullied in school.

He’d quietly come over was in fact because he wanted to look at what Ye Zhou usually was like on campus.

Once again, he dialed Ye Zhou’s phone and no one answered. Ye Heng was uneasy. He wasn’t sure if Ye Zhou just missed the call or if something had happened and he couldn’t pick up. He couldn’t care about whether he was bothering someone and directly stopped a person and asked, “Classmate, how do you get to the male dorm for the finance department?”

Zhou Wendao had bought a snack and was ready to go back to the dorm when he was stopped. He straightforwardly said, “I’m from the finance department and I’m going back to the dorm. Let’s go together.”

“Thank you so much.”

“No need.” Zhou Wendao was a person whose mouth couldn’t stay idle. Even if it was a stranger, he said familiarly, “Brother, are you looking for someone?”

Ye Heng smiled politely and said, “Yeah, my younger brother is a third-year student in the finance department. I just called but no one answered.”

“What a coincidence. I’m also a third-year. What’s your brother’s name? Let me see if I recognize him.”

“His name is Ye Zhou.”

Zhou Wendao said in great alarm, “Ye Zhou??”