The group had so much fun last night that they ended up falling asleep right on the sofa.
Among the girls, Lu Lin probably had the highest alcohol tolerance. Zheng Yanyan ca in second, but she drank the most. In the end, she was completely wasted and just fell asleep hugging Zhou Yuwen.
There was also a rather entertaining little interlude last night.
When Zheng Yanyan was almost completely drunk, she was ssing around with the other girls, clutching the sofa throw pillows.
Zhou Yuwen had warned her, "Alright, you are drunk. Tone it down a bit."
He then walked over to take the pillow from her. In response, a completely inebriated Zheng Yanyan threw her arms around him and clung to him affectionately. "Hubby, I... I am just really so happy," she murmured.
As she spoke, she dropped straight to her knees in front of him and reached for his pants to unbuckle them.
Good heavens, that scene caught both Su Qing and Lu Lin entirely off guard, and Shen Yu was so stunned she could not even react.
Zhou Yuwen hurriedly pulled her back to her feet. "Okay, okay, I know you are happy, but let's dial that happiness back a notch for now," he told her.
By the ti the other girls had all fallen asleep, Lu Lin was actually still quite sober. She lay on the sofa while Zhou Yuwen lay on the carpet. The two of them watched a late-night movie and continued drinking for a while.
Zhou Yuwen smiled at her and said, "You can really hold your liquor, huh?"
"What is this little bit?"
She was not drunk, but her small face was flushed halfway red, giving her a uniquely captivating charm.
She was sitting on the sofa, a pair of fair legs extending from beneath the hem of her clothes, her delicate feet wrapped snugly in low-cut boat socks.
Zhou Yuwen leaned right next to her beautiful legs.
Lu Lin raised the beer in her hand, signaling that she wanted to share another toast with him.
Although Zheng Yanyan was sleeping soundly against his chest, it did not stop Zhou Yuwen from clinking glasses with Lu Lin.
He took a refreshing sip of beer, then ate from an opened box of chocolate bars.
These chocolate bars seed to be very popular among the girls. They were known by the brand na Pocky, essentially just long, thin biscuit sticks coated in chocolate.
Zhou Yuwen watched as she took small bites of her chocolate bar and asked with a chuckle, "Are snacks really that delicious? You eat them every single day."
"They are tasty, and I do not get fat from them," Lu Lin replied nonchalantly.
That much was true. After spending so much ti around her, one would quickly notice that Lu Lin was a girl who loved sweets. Yet, strangely enough, her figure never changed at all.
She remained just as slender as ever.
Lu Lin asked, "Do you want so?"
Hearing her offer, Zhou Yuwen replied, "Sure, give
a bit."
Lu Lin pondered for a mont, then shifted down from the sofa.
She sat down on the other side of Zhou Yuwen.
Cupping his cheeks with her hands, she took the initiative and offered up her fragrant lips.
Good heavens, he did not even need to chew. Mingled with the faint taste of beer, the sweet treat was delivered straight over by Lu Lin's soft and warm tongue.
It tasted sweet and felt incredibly soft, easily sliding down his throat.
When their lips parted, Lu Lin asked him, "Is it good?"
The silent movie continued to play on the screen. Lu Lin was still cupping his face. Zhou Yuwen tilted his head, smacked his lips thoughtfully, and grinned. "I did not quite catch the taste. How about we try again?"
Lu Lin rolled her eyes at him, but she still pulled out another chocolate bar. After chewing it down to a soft consistency, she leaned in to kiss him again.
This ti, however, Zhou Yuwen took a more active role. While Lu Lin was holding his face to kiss him, he reached his other hand around to gently cradle the back of her head.
The two of them kissed like there was no one else in the world.
Resting against his legs was Zheng Yanyan. Having drunk so much alcohol, she was sound asleep with her small mouth slightly parted, her face tilted upward.
Just twenty centiters away from her face were the entangled heads of Lu Lin and Zhou Yuwen.
They made out for quite a while, not stopping until Lu Lin's cheeks were flushed crimson. She shot him a slightly shy, reproachful glare. "You are getting bolder by the day. Do you really think there is no one else in this room?"
Zhou Yuwen gave a soft chuckle. "If you are not afraid, what do I have to fear?"
With those words, their lips t once again.
Lu Lin was half-kneeling, her feminine curves looking especially alluring under the dim lighting.
Zhou Yuwen's hand, initially resting around her neck, slowly began to wander downward as they kissed.
It was late into the night, and everyone else was fast asleep.
Although Shen Yu had drunk the least, her head still felt groggy. Vaguely hearing so soft whimpers and murmurs, she fluttered her eyes open and witnessed the entire scene.
Because her mind was so clouded, when she saw Zhou Yuwen kissing Lu Lin, she actually mistook Lu Lin for Zheng Yanyan. 'They are a couple,' she reasoned in her mind, 'so it is not weird for them to be making out.'
It was not until the next day, when she sobered up, that it suddenly hit her—the person Zhou Yuwen was kissing last night was likely Lu Lin. From that mont on, whenever she looked at the two of them, she could not shake a profound sense of weirdness.
However, she dared not say anything. The events of the previous night were so bizarre that she could not quite distinguish between dream and reality, rembering only the dizzy fog in her head at the ti.
She had rely lifted her head for a brief glance at Zhou Yuwen and Lu Lin before dropping her head back down to sleep, thinking to herself, 'There is no way this little couple would actually do sothing like that right in front of us, right?'
It was precisely because she harbored that thought.
That she naturally ended up having that kind of dream.
She dread that Zheng Yanyan was lying off to the side, while Lu Lin was straddling Zhou Yuwen, letting out soft whimpers.
It was only later, after Shen Yu was fully awake, that she realized Zhou Yuwen's girlfriend was Zheng Yanyan, not Lu Lin.
Then, thinking back carefully on what had happened the night before, she concluded it had to be a dream. Otherwise, it would just be too unbelievable.
Furthermore, when Shen Yu got up the next day, she woke up inside the bedroom. She could barely rember anything from the night before, only knowing that she, Su Qing, and Lu Lin shared one room.
And that Zhou Yuwen and Zheng Yanyan were in the other room.
Her mory suggested that they had partied too late last night and then simply retreated to their respective rooms to sleep.
At eight o'clock this morning, Sun Lili had taken the students in the class to the Humble Administrator's Garden. Chang Hao had called Zhou Yuwen to ask if he was going.
At the ti, Zhou Yuwen, still half-asleep with his arms around Zheng Yanyan, replied that he was not going because he had not slept well the night before.
Left with no other choice, Chang Hao could only report the truth to the teacher.
A student like Zhou Yuwen was indeed quite troubleso. Even though Sun Lili liked his personality, she was not about to give him endless green lights. She declared, "If Zhou Yuwen from your class keeps acting like this, I might not be able to pass him."
Truth be told, Chang Hao had not slept well last night either. When his alarm rang incessantly in the morning, he had debated whether or not to even get out of bed.
He felt that it would not matter even if he skipped this class, thinking he might as well just slack off like Zhou Yuwen.
But the thought of Zhou Yuwen inexplicably reminded Chang Hao that he was the class monitor; he could not just slack off like that.
Now, hearing Sun Lili say this.
Chang Hao felt an inexplicable sense of relief in his heart.
He felt that waking up early had been the right choice.
Zhou Yuwen's rebirth had indeed influenced the people around him on a small scale. For instance, in his past life, both he and Chang Hao would have slacked off together during practical activities like this.
Now, Zhou Yuwen continued to slack off.
While Chang Hao seed to be living a life entirely different from his previous one.
They slept all the way until noon, then freshened up and ordered takeout.
Because of her dream last night, Shen Yu was acting a bit strange today, constantly stealing glances at Lu Lin. Lu Lin caught on to this and asked Shen Yu why she kept sneaking peeks at her.
Shen Yu shook her head and stamred, "N-nothing."
While they ate, they continued chatting. Zheng Yanyan clearly had not fully woken up yet; she looked a bit haggard, her long pink hair a ssy tangle. She complained that she should not have drunk so much and that she felt completely awful right now.
Zhou Yuwen replied, "Only now you know to regret it? What were you doing last night?"
"I was just having fun last night," Zheng Yanyan said. Wrapping her arms around Zhou Yuwen's waist during the al, she rested her head against his back and pleaded, "Hubby, let's not go anywhere this afternoon. Let's just stay here in the room, okay?"
Zhou Yuwen told her, "You should go back to sleep."
"I have to go to class this afternoon. If I skip again, I probably will not even pass this course," he added.
"Is it really that serious?"
"Yeah, your fellow townsman went out of his way to text
about it." Zhou Yuwen showed Zheng Yanyan the ssages Chang Hao had sent.
Zheng Yanyan read them for a mont, curled her lips in a pout, and muttered that he was being too nosy.
Zhou Yuwen rubbed her long legs and said, "What do you an he is too nosy? He is the class monitor; he is just looking out for ."
"Hmph." Zheng Yanyan let out a slight whine and fell silent.
In the afternoon, Zhou Yuwen had to head to class. Su Qing asked Shen Yu to accompany her for a stroll down Guanqian Street.
"Shen Yu?" Su Qing called her na twice before Shen Yu finally snapped out of her daze. "Huh?"
"What is wrong with you?" Su Qing asked, slightly curious.
Shen Yu replied, "N-nothing, I was just lost in thought. What were you saying just now?"
"I said, let's go for a walk down Guanqian Street this afternoon. It has been a long ti since I last visited Suzhou," Su Qing repeated.
Shen Yu agreed, "Okay."
In truth, there was not much to see on Guanqian Street anymore; it had beco heavily comrcialized.
"We could go check out Shiquan Street. You can hear so traditional tunes over there."
"That works too!" Su Qing said with a smile.
Seeing that they had decided where to go, Zheng Yanyan asked Lu Lin if she wanted to stay and keep her company at the hotel that afternoon.
Lu Lin naturally refused. She said it was rare for her to visit Suzhou, so she wanted to go out and look around.
"Then co wander down Guanqian Street with us," Su Qing offered with a smile.
Lu Lin nodded.
"Ah? Doesn't that an I will be left all alone at the hotel?"
"Isn't it great being in the hotel by yourself? No one will know what you are up to," Su Qing remarked.
Zheng Yanyan pouted and whined, "Zhou Yuwen isn't even here, what could I possibly be up to?"
"Hmph."
Sure enough, no matter how much alcohol Zheng Yanyan had consud the night before, the relationship between them was not going to drastically improve.
After finishing their al, Zhou Yuwen left to catch up with the main group. Seeing that everyone else was heading out to shop, and not wanting her bestie to be assimilated by Su Qing, Zheng Yanyan insisted on making them wait for her.
She lingered in bed until three in the afternoon before finally managing to get up and put on her makeup, after which she followed them out for shopping.
Guanqian Street was arguably the largest comrcial avenue in Suzhou. The shops were filled with a dazzling array of goods, all sorts of delicious food, and a diverse crowd of beautiful won.
On this street, wearing any kind of clothing would not seem out of place.
Back in 2013, there were already girls running around Suzhou dressed in Lolita fashion, as well as those wearing traditional Hanfu. Naturally, there was no shortage of beautiful legs clad in black silk stockings either.
Even in the already freezing month of December.
There were still plenty of beauties sporting various colors of pantyhose.
Zheng Yanyan naturally loved shopping. She had been sluggish before they arrived, but perked right up once they were there, dragging Lu Lin all over the street, peeking in here and checking things out there.
"Linlin, Linlin, hey! Look, this piece is so pretty! We can buy two and wear them as matching outfits!"
Zheng Yanyan spotted a loose white hoodie in a clothing store. It featured a bright cartoon image of a female character that she found extrely adorable, and she was determined to buy two of them. Lu Lin, however, did not take a liking to the piece. She disliked wearing white clothes to begin with, and after spotting the price tag—299 yuan a piece—she imdiately shook her head. "Forget it, I do not have that kind of money to squander like you do."
"How could I possibly make you pull out your wallet when you are shopping with ! I will pay for it, and later I will just have Zhou Yuwen reimburse us," Zheng Yanyan said triumphantly, pulling Lu Lin along.
Hearing this, Lu Lin could not help but laugh. "Do you really just treat your boyfriend like a massive sucker?"
"How is he a sucker? Shouldn't he be thrilled to have two great beauties modeling clothes for him at the sa ti!" Zheng Yanyan boasted. She was likely just joking to ease any financial burden on Lu Lin.
In Zheng Yanyan's mind, it was entirely expected for a boyfriend to spend money on her. But in her relationship with Zhou Yuwen, there was actually a fair amount of give and take; she simply spoke about it to others with complete and utter entitlent.
Because talking like this also served to show off just how much Zhou Yuwen pampered her.
Even though Lu Lin had said no, Zheng Yanyan went ahead and paid anyway. Once the transaction was done, she insisted they change into them right there in the store.
"Once we put them on, we are going to take pictures!"
She made a grand show of their sisterly bond right in front of Shen Yu and Su Qing.
Su Qing did not mind, but when she turned her head, she noticed that Shen Yu looked completely absentminded.
Growing curious, Su Qing asked Shen Yu what was wrong.
Shen Yu looked a bit unwell as she answered, "It is nothing."
"It just feels strange."
"Strange?" Su Qing's curiosity deepened.
Shen Yu did not continue on that thread. Instead, she spoke from the heart, "Yanyan seems to genuinely rely on Linlin a lot."
Su Qing murmured in agreent, saying she could understand why.
"Did you not ntion it back then too?"
"When she was at her most helpless, it was Linlin who helped her out."
"Yeah, so I am wondering... if Yanyan were to find out that Linlin did sothing to wrong her—"
"Sothing to wrong her?" Su Qing's interest was instantly piqued.
Only then did Shen Yu realize she had said too much. She hurriedly shook her head and stamred, "N-nothing, it is nothing."
"I just had a really weird dream last night."
"A dream?"
Su Qing beca even more inquisitive, but Shen Yu was clearly not skilled at navigating this kind of conversation. Her heart was weighed down with secrets; calling what happened last night a dream felt far too real.
She still even had the images vividly replaying in her mind.
She was genuinely unsure if the events of the previous night were real or not.
Faced with Su Qing's probing curiosity, all she could do was ask, "I rember we were watching a movie really late last night. But why did we wake up in the bedroom this morning?"
Looking at Shen Yu's flustered and anxious deanor, Su Qing seed to realize sothing.
She explained, "We did drink a lot of alcohol last night. Later on, we watched a movie together, and after it finished, we all went back to our own rooms. Lu Lin was sharing a room with us, while Zhou Yuwen and Yanyan went back to the other room."
"Oh, I see," Shen Yu murmured.
"Did you see sothing?" Su Qing asked abruptly.
"Ah? R-really, see what?"
A hint of embarrassnt flashed across Su Qing's face as she admitted that the two of them had indeed gone a bit overboard last night.
"I thought you were asleep. I did not expect you to actually see it."
"So you are saying... what happened last night was not a dream?"
"Mm... I guess not." Seeing that she could no longer hide it, Su Qing sighed and decided to lay everything out for Shen Yu.
"Last night, Yanyan and Zhou Yuwen really did go a little too far. They probably thought we were all fast asleep, so they got affectionate over there for a while."
After explaining, Su Qing looked at Shen Yu.
Shen Yu had assud that Su Qing's version of events would perfectly match her dream, but judging by Su Qing's expression, it seed that was all there was to it.
Shen Yu could not help but feel slightly disappointed. "Is that really all there was?"
"What else could you have possibly seen?"
"N-no, nothing. I was probably just overthinking it," Shen Yu muttered to herself. She already found those events completely unfathomable, and now, with Su Qing intentionally steering the narrative, Shen Yu could only conclude that last night had just been a wild dream.
But thinking about it, that made sense.
If it were Zhou Yuwen and Su Qing, they were each other's first loves, so them getting intimate would have been totally understandable.
But Zhou Yuwen and Lu Lin had absolutely no connection to one another.
How could she have possibly dreamt up sothing like that?
Was her subconscious trying to hint at sothing?
At that thought, Shen Yu's pretty face flushed a deep crimson.
Just as a whirlwind of thoughts raced through her mind, Zheng Yanyan and Lu Lin stepped out of the fitting room.
"Ta-da~" Zheng Yanyan remained as lively as ever. Her loose white hoodie paired with skin-tone tights made her look incredibly youthful and radiant.
"Hey, I seriously think this top is super cute. Why don't you guys buy a couple too?" Zheng Yanyan suggested while checking herself out in the mirror.
Su Qing replied, "Sure, if you are treating us, we will take them."
"Tch, in your dreams! You are not strapped for cash, so why should I be the one to treat you?" Zheng Yanyan scoffed dismissively.
Su Qing retorted, "Are you implying that Linlin is strapped for cash?"
"I did not an that!" Zheng Yanyan imdiately panicked and hurriedly tried to explain herself to Lu Lin. "Linlin, look, she is bullying
again!"
In the girls' dormitory, no one had ever openly discussed whose family was the wealthiest, but after living together for so long, the disparities were glaringly obvious.
Although Su Qing ca from a single-parent family, she was the only daughter. Her mother was an officially employed teacher, aning they did not face too many financial hardships. She had, for the most part, raised Su Qing quite well.
As for Zheng Yanyan and Shen Yu, that naturally went without saying.
The exception was Lu Lin. She rarely spoke up in the dorm, and the clothes and things she used were never expensive. It was only after she got together with Zhou Yuwen that her living standards genuinely saw a massive improvent.
Yet, there was always a feeling that this girl was never as carefree as the others.
It felt as though she was shouldering a heavy burden.
Even though they never explicitly talked about these things in the dorm, everyone could sense it.
Because of this, when it ca to finances, the girls would subtly find ways to let Lu Lin spend less.
After the incident with Tao Tian, Zheng Yanyan went out of her way to treat the others as often as she could. Lacking the tact of the other girls, her straightforward nature could easily hurt Lu Lin by accident.
However, her kindness toward Lu Lin was entirely genuine.
For example, she gladly let Lu Lin use her makeup.
She would also let Lu Lin borrow any of her clothes.
As far as she was concerned, whatever was hers belonged to Lu Lin as well.
"Of course, there is one exception!"
On their way back to the hotel, Zheng Yanyan made that comnt with a playful grin.
"What is the exception?" Su Qing, sitting in the passenger seat, asked.
"My boyfriend!" Zheng Yanyan laughed brightly from the back seat, clinging to Lu Lin's arm.
She ant that she was willing to share absolutely everything she owned with Lu Lin.
Except for her boyfriend.
Lu Lin scoffed dismissively at her words. "You think I even care about your boyfriend?"
"Hehe, I know you don't care, but he is my little Goudan, and I treasure him more than anything!" Zheng Yanyan cheered.
They headed back to the hotel after dinner, arriving right around eight o'clock.
The four girls were hauling bags both big and small, having bought quite a lot of stuff.
As they stepped into the elevator, Zheng Yanyan was still complaining, declaring that next ti they went shopping, she absolutely had to drag Zhou Yuwen along.
"Otherwise, I have to carry everything myself, and it is far too exhausting!"
Just as she said that, the elevator doors were about to close.
"Wait a mont."
Soone suddenly stopped the doors from sliding shut.
The elevator doors re-opened.
To their surprise, the person standing outside was none other than Chang Hao.
Zheng Yanyan's expression had originally been quite cheerful, but the instant she laid eyes on Chang Hao, her face hardened, turning as cold as ice.
She certainly wasn't going to show him any warmth.
After the way he had antagonized her during the Werewolf ga last night, why on earth should she treat him kindly?
When Chang Hao spotted Zheng Yanyan, his first instinct had been to greet her.
But the expression she gave him made it abundantly clear that she wanted absolutely nothing to do with him.
Not wanting to embarrass himself, Chang Hao simply stepped into the elevator and stood quietly near the front, keeping his head down without saying a word.
With Chang Hao present, the elevator was shockingly silent.
Su Qing, looking to stir up a little trouble, asked in a low whisper, "Are you not even going to say hello to your good friend?"
"What good friend? I do not have a friend like him." Zheng Yanyan flattened her lips and let out a disdainful whine.
Keeping his head bowed, Chang Hao did not utter a single word.
When the elevator reached the third floor, he stepped out.
For so inexplicable reason, he felt his eyes growing damp.
Because of Zhou Yuwen, he had lost Zheng Yanyan forever.
If Zhou Yuwen was willing to cherish her, Chang Hao would have held his tongue. He might have even offered them his blessings.
But the problem was that Zhou Yuwen was ruining her!
It was glaringly obvious that Zhou Yuwen was the one in the wrong, yet Zheng Yanyan outright refused to believe him.
Moreover, why on earth was he helping Zhou Yuwen keep secrets from Zheng Yanyan?
"One is my boyfriend, and the other is my bestie! Why would I trust you over them!?"
Zheng Yanyan's words from last night still rang clearly in his ears. Refusing to accept this defeat, Chang Hao desperately wanted to scream at her: 'Your boyfriend, your bestie!'
'They have both betrayed you!'
'Only !'
'I am the only one who truly wants the best for you!'
At that mont, a sudden rush of blood surged to Chang Hao's head. He could not hold it in any longer; he was going to lay all his cards on the table and tell Zheng Yanyan the truth!
With that resolve, he spun around abruptly.
Unfortunately, the elevator doors had already closed.
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