CH 3

The next morning, it was still dim outside.

Lin Yuxing turned off the alarm and got up from the bed, spotting dark circles under his eyes.

He blinked for two minutes, then opened his phone, but the post was gone.

“…”

Lin Yuxing suddenly snapped back to reality. He searched for a while, but the post was truly gone! He thought his persistent private messages had an effect, and the one who posted deleted it voluntarily!

That meant that Lin Yuxing’s life would remain the same as before, without any changes.

In the internet drama from last night, the only thing Lin Yuxing was glad about was that his back was the only thing visible in the photo. That way, in a few days, everyone would forget about that irrelevant piece of gossip.

Lin Yuxing felt much better, and his frustration disappeared.

As he got out of bed, he was so excited that he stumbled and almost knocked over the water cup on the bedside table.

The noise disturbed Su Li, who was in the neighboring bed, but he continued to sleep with his head covered. Lin Yuxing moved quietly and quickly brushed his teeth and washed his face, grabbing a large thermos bag before preparing to leave.

The morning temperature was low, so before going out, Lin Yuxing took out a scarf from the closet and wrapped it around his neck. He got on his second-hand bicycle and hurriedly arrived at the popular West Campus cafeteria for breakfast.

Looking at the reminders in his phone, Lin Yuxing saw that there were five queues at the windows. He finally filled his thermos bag. Then, before 7:30, he delivered breakfast to the doors of the customers who had placed orders.

The last two portions were for himself and Su Li.

He ran up the stairs of the dormitory building for a while, and finally, panting, opened his own dormitory door.

Inside the room, Su Li was still sleeping, and the alarm had been ringing for a while.

“Su Li, wake up!”

Lin Yuxing placed the breakfast down and habitually turned off the alarm on Su Li’s bedside.

Su Li peeped out from under the covers, struggling to poke his head out. He said in agony, “Early classes are the eternal enemy of humans…” he dragged himself up, looking listless, clearly having stayed up late again last night.

“You’ll be late if you don’t hurry.” Lin Yuxing urged him while taking out his own breakfast and eating heartily.

Su Li caught a whiff of the fragrance of the vegetable bun.

After he finished washing up, Lin Yuxing had already finished breakfast and stood by waiting for him to go to class. Su Li took the buns on the table and took a bite. It was the most popular spicy noodle filling in the West Campus cafeteria.

Su Li had been looking forward to that bite for a long time, but with his own late wake-up schedules, he would never get it. He was glad Lin yuxing got it for him

With a cheerful mood, Lin Yuxing replied, “I was the first one to arrive at the cafeteria today and bought all the spicy noodle buns at the window.”

Su Li eagerly took a bite of the bun, savoring the delicious flavor. “I really admire you for waking up so early every day.” He asked, “How do you manage not to mix up the early class schedules of each student?”

“It’s simple, I make a schedule.” Lin Yuxing didn’t find it difficult. “Besides, I have to have breakfast myself, so I can also run errands and make some money on the side.”

Su Li asked casually and didn’t need to know the details.

As roommates, to support Lin Yuxing’s small business, Su Li had also subscribed to his breakfast service for the entire semester, excluding weekends. On days with early classes, Lin Yuxing would go to the best breakfast cafeteria on campus in advance and randomly buy a breakfast priced at 3 yuan, then charge 3.5 yuan for it.

If someone wanted a specified breakfast, they needed to inform him the night before and pay an extra 2 yuan on top of the breakfast price.

That was much cheaper than going to the cafeteria as usual, so many lazy students who didn’t want to wait in line came to order. Lin Yuxing’s money-making plan was quite successful, and he could easily earn three to four hundred yuan each month from that income alone.

Of course, the service was only available to students in the Omega building. Other dormitory buildings were too far away, and he couldn’t enter and leave at will, which would interfere with Lin Yuxing’s own early classes.

Regardless, Lin Yuxing’s part-time job could not affect his studies.

Around 7:50 am, Lin Yuxing and Su Li walked into the classroom unhurriedly.

The location of that day’s class was not far from the dormitory, so they could take their time.

As they entered the classroom, Su Li headed straight to the back row, lazily lying down. He said, “Yuxing, let me sleep for two minutes. Wake me up when the teacher arrives.” After speaking, Su Li practically fell asleep immediately.

When the student in the front row saw Lin Yuxing, he turned around and jokingly said, “Lin Yuxing, I didn’t expect you to be so charming. Last week, you were with the senior from the art department, and this week, you’re with our senior in the department, and both are handsome guys.”

Lin Yuxing didn’t want to pay attention to him, but since the person had done him a favor earlier, he reluctantly put on a smile and said, “The senior from the art department was just messing with me, it wasn’t serious.”

Lin Yuxing recalled a little incident from the previous week and frowned unhappily. Clearly, it wasn’t a pleasant memory, and even Su Li shook his head in disapproval. Lin Yuxing didn’t plan to go into details about it and wasn’t interested.

After all, that senior from the art department… just based on his behavior, he gave off a frivolous vibe, and Lin Yuxing had firmly rejected him.

What he was really concerned about was their own senior in the department, Gu Zhongyi.

As expected, the classmate continued to inquire, “What about Gu Zhongyi? Did you post on the school gossip forum yesterday? Are you really dating him?”

“What gossip post?” Lin Yuxing pretended to be clueless.

” It’s the post where you confessed to Gu Zhongyi last night. Although I didn’t see the post, many people guessed it was you. It’s so cool to be in a relationship with Gu Zhongyi. If it were me, I would have spread the news everywhere. Why don’t you admit it?”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about. I don’t read the school gossip forum.”

Lin Yuxing calmly took out his notebook from his backpack.

The classmate looked displeased, thinking that Lin Yuxing wasn’t being cooperative enough. “Did you go to the basketball court yesterday?”

Lin Yuxing didn’t answer. He nudged Su Li, who was rubbing his eyes, with his elbow and said without looking up, “The teacher is here.”

Within a few minutes, Lin Yuxing’s silent phone received a message.

It was from the same classmate, full of gossip: “[Just tell me, I won’t go around spreading it! It’s just among classmates, why are you keeping it a secret?]”

Lin Yuxing thought to himself, “Yeah right, you guys probably have a private chat group where you’ve been gossiping.”

Fortunately, it didn’t matter. After all, the post was already gone, and the matter wouldn’t continue to escalate.

He deliberately waited a while before replying: “[Why would you believe such a fake news?]”

The other side was still typing.

Lin Yuxing quickly typed on his laggy phone for half a minute: “[It’s completely untrue. I don’t even know Gu Zhongyi. I went to the basketball court yesterday just to help someone deliver flowers, and it was misunderstood by the photo. If it were true, why would the post be deleted?]”

The other side was probably puzzled and took a long time to respond with just two words: “[Really?]”

Lin Yuxing asked again, “Otherwise, don’t you think it’s absurd for Gu Zhongyi and me?”

With such words and such an attitude.

Coupled with the deleted posts, Lin Yuxing successfully dispelled the rumors.

The classmate turned back and glanced at the poorly dressed Lin Yuxing. Slowly, it seemed that he understood. After a while, he happily replied, “Haha, you’re right. Actually, I thought it was absurd from the beginning. How could it be possible!”

Based on their understanding of Lin Yuxing, all the classmates gradually realized the truth behind the saying “The light of the fairy tale world will not fall into reality” and naturally dispelled the misunderstanding.

Lin Yuxing successfully got out of trouble.

However, apparently, the heavens were not planning to let him off easily.

That day at noon, the weather was sunny.

Northern Teaching Building, first floor………

Gu Zhongyi sat on a resting chair, patiently waiting. His appearance usually attracted many gazes, especially in that Omega-dominated teaching building.

The floor-to-ceiling windows on all sides filled the building with ample light, and the lazy sunshine fell on Gu Zhongyi, creating a dazzling scene.

Gu Zhongyi’s fingers were fair and slender, with distinct joints. He held a mobile phone and occasionally glanced at the time.

A few daring students walked over and quietly asked for his contact information.

Gu Zhongyi raised his head, seemingly expressionless but actually politely refused one by one. He wasn’t as unapproachable as the rumors suggested, but it was indeed difficult to get close to him.

He sat there waiting for half an hour.

Until Lin Yuxing appeared.

Gu Zhongyi’s gaze was like finding a flower in winter, and his mouth curved slightly upwards. He stood up, disregarding the gazes of others, and walked straight towards him.

Not far away, Su Li’s voice sounded like a typewriter, da-da-da, da-da-da.

He was complaining about the teacher not being fair, unexpectedly calling on him to answer a difficult question. The silent classroom was the best place for contemporary college students to die socially.

Lin Yuxing listened to Su Li’s half-dead murmurs good-naturedly and comforted him a few times. Then, he lowered his head and checked his class schedule on his phone. He carefully calculated when he could take orders, how many orders he could take today, how much money he could earn, and how many transactions he had to record.

And also, which cafeteria had discounts for lunch , and which window’s aunt had the steadiest hand.

His mind was filled with trivial matters as he continued walking.

Suddenly, Su Li grabbed him, causing Lin Yuxing to stop abruptly, almost dropping his phone. Fortunately, his phone didn’t fall. Otherwise, Lin Yuxing would have had an additional expense.

He tightened his grip on the phone and turned his head in annoyance, saying, “You scared me. My phone almost dropped!”

Su Li gestured in shock for him to look ahead.

Perplexed, Lin Yuxing turned his head, and the sunlight in front of his eyes was blocked by a figure. He became flustered and realized that it was Gu Zhongyi, who was a head taller than him, standing in front of him.

The scent of bitter orange pheromone was close to his nose, making his heartbeat skip a beat unconsciously.

Without hesitation, Lin Yuxing subconsciously thought that he was blocking the way and leaned toward Su Li on the side.

Su Li was affected by his movement and, coupled with Lin Yuxing’s explanation last night, his first reaction was also that they were blocking the way. The two of them stiffened their bodies and moved to the side like crabs.

Then, they silently walked forward in unison.

Gu Zhongyi probably didn’t expect to be avoided. His gentle voice immediately called out, stopping the other party, “Lin Yuxing.”

For Lin Yuxing, the two words that were familiar to the extreme sounded like they were coated in a layer of golden light. They no longer seemed like his own name.

Lin Yuxing stopped.

Su Li was fully awake now and whispered, “Is he here because of yesterday’s incident?”

Before Lin Yuxing could reply, Gu Zhongyi straightforwardly said, “I’m also going to have lunch. Shall we go together?”