Li Shiqi didn't share this sentint.
Her family situation differed from Shen Xiaoyu's; while Shen Xiaoyu's family was impoverished, she had a wholeso upbringing.
Li Shiqi was born in a big city.
She lived a life depending on the kindness of others.
She had grown accustod to the warmth and coldness of human relationships.
Everyone said she and Shen Xiaoyu were alike.
But that was just what others thought.
Of course, she did have a crush on Zhou Yuwen; seeing Zhou Yuwen's youthful and vigorous appearance in an interview did make Li Shiqi's heart flutter.
She had long known that Zhou Yuwen was a capable boy.
The current news only confird her belief.
But to say that she felt joy or happiness,
Li Shiqi did not.
No matter how outstanding Zhou Yuwen was, he had no direct connection to her.
Moreover, the more excellent Zhou Yuwen beca,
the more distant he seed from her.
On the day Zhou Yuwen accepted the interview, Tao Tian had sent a text to congratulate him.
That night, Li Shiqi also held her phone and opened Zhou Yuwen's chat window.
She hesitated for a long ti.
Ultimately, she did not send the two words 'congratulations.'
Li Shiqi couldn't imagine how she should interact with Zhou Yuwen.
Moreover, he had a girlfriend.
Why bother seeking presence.
Again, there's no need for intersection between people from different worlds.
Yet fate often likes to play jokes on people.
Li Shiqi thought of treating Zhou Yuwen as a dream in her mundane life, slowly fading with ti.
And it was at that ti,
the two unexpectedly ran into each other on this particular day.
Zhao Yuan waved frantically at Li Shiqi, who was watching the stall.
It seed she was trying to use Li Shiqi to get closer to this young author.
And in the dimming lights,
Zhou Yuwen also saw this forr high school classmate; she looked the sa as before, not adorned in the stylish clothes that other girls wore.
But even in simple attire, she emanated a unique aura.
A light-gray autumn coat as outerwear,
a light-blue sumr shirt beneath.
Barely revealing an inch of her graceful neck,
Unadorned by makeup, yet losing none of her complexion.
She was like a lotus rising from clear water, naturally sculpted.
"Co over here!" Zhao Yuan excitedly beckoned Li Shiqi.
Li Shiqi hesitated when she saw Zhou Yuwen.
But she inevitably moved towards him.
Under the dim light, she sported a simple ponytail.
Li Shiqi showed little expression on her face, whereas her roommate Zhao Yuan was overjoyed. Li Shiqi hadn't even reached Zhou Yuwen when Zhao Yuan eagerly pulled her forward a couple of steps.
"Shiqi, look who it is, isn't this your high school classmate?"
"Zhou Yuwen, Shiqi often ntions you back in our dorm!" Zhao Yuan said with a smile.
Li Shiqi's expression changed slightly, but she didn't say much.
Zhou Yuwen glanced at Li Shiqi; indeed, she was beautiful, but in December, what she wore seed a bit too thin. He hadn't been in touch with Li Shiqi for a long ti and after so thought said, "Are you organizing a club activity?"
Li Shiqi nodded: "We're selling things we don't need from our dorm for charity."
"Eh, do we have that activity at our school? How co I didn't know about it?" Jiang Xinyi intervened, surprised.
Zhou Yuwen rolled his eyes: "Big sis, you're a grad student and you don't participate in clubs, how would you know."
Jiang Xinyi retorted: "Grad students aren't people now?"
Zhou Yuwen replied that she got into grad school to study, not to play.
"Hey!"
Jiang Xinyi wanted to say, so undergraduate students are just here to play?
But before she could speak, Zhao Yuan curiously asked, "Zhou Yuwen! Who's this lady, is she your girlfriend?"
In fact, while Zhou Yuwen and Jiang Xinyi were talking, Li Shiqi was quietly sizing up Jiang Xinyi by Zhou Yuwen's side. Jiang Xinyi possessed a natural nobleness that allowed her to speak her mind freely in any setting without concerning herself with other people's feelings.
Li Shiqi, however, did not have such an aura. Her background made her more inclined to listen quietly most of the ti.
Even if the conversation was taken over by soone else, Li Shiqi wouldn't think of wrestling it back.
But while Li Shiqi was like this, her roommate Zhao Yuan was not.
In fact, her roommates knew a bit about Zhou Yuwen and Zheng Yanyan.
With the philosophy of supporting friends rather than logic, Li Shiqi's roommates certainly didn't have a good impression of Zheng Yanyan, feeling that she was too dramatic.
Moreover, they thought Zhou Yuwen obviously favored Li Shiqi more.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have helped Li Shiqi shape her role.
It could only be said that Li Shiqi didn't take initiative.
Once, when joking around in the dorm, Zhao Yuan said, "Shiqi, if I were you, I wouldn't still be a freshman in college by now."
"What would you be doing then?" another roommate asked.
"I'd be sitting my confinent at ho!"
"Hahaha!"
The roommates burst into laughter.
In Zhao Yuan's view, Li Shiqi was just like the character Shen Xiaoyu shaped in the novel, not competing or striving.
So, she was definitely going to give Li Shiqi a hand.
Jiang Xinyi felt, did Zhao Yuan's words bear so hostility towards her?
"Oh, my sister, I haven't introduced you guys yet."
Upon hearing Zhao Yuan's words, Zhou Yuwen realized he had been neglecting them and took the initiative to introduce.
He said Jiang Xinyi was his sister.
"This is my high school classmate, Li Shiqi, the top student of our class," Zhou Yuwen said.
So the two were formally introduced.
Jiang Xinyi glanced at Li Shiqi and couldn't help but think, this Zhou Yuwen is really lucky, surrounded by beautiful girls, but Li Shiqi in front of her gave Jiang Xinyi an inscrutable feeling.
As their eyes t, Jiang Xinyi wanted to greet Li Shiqi.
Jiang Xinyi had actually already opened her mouth.
Moreover, Jiang Xinyi felt that Li Shiqi seed to notice she was about to speak, but Li Shiqi didn't seem interested in responding, instead focusing her gaze on Zhou Yuwen.
Zhou Yuwen was speaking at the ti, so it was fine for Li Shiqi to look at him.
But it gave Jiang Xinyi a peculiar feeling.
Zhou Yuwen was giving them a brief introduction.
Zhao Yuan asked, "Hey, Zhou Yuwen, why are you at our college? Are you here to see Shiqi?"
Zhou Yuwen said no.
"My sister is a graduate student at Nanda, I'm accompanying her back."
"Oh, so sister is a graduate student at our school! Doesn't that make her our senior?" Zhao Yuan blinked joyfully.
Jiang Xinyi responded with a restrained "Hmm."
"Right, senior, our club is organizing a charity sale, would you like to support us?" Zhao Yuan asked with a grin.
Jiang Xinyi didn't get the chance to answer before Zhao Yuan continued, saying all the proceeds from the sale would be donated to children in the mountains to buy them winter clothes!
Seeing Zhao Yuan's enthusiastic deanor, Jiang Xinyi said, "Okay, what are you all selling?"
"Co with , senior, let show you our products!"
Speaking thus, Zhao Yuan unceremoniously pulled Jiang Xinyi along, intimately leading her to their stall.
Jiang Xinyi knew what Zhao Yuan was implying, glanced at Zhou Yuwen, and then at Li Shiqi next to him.
Thought for a mont, and then, never mind.
The lady is generous!
Helping this brat again!
After Jiang Xinyi was pulled away by Zhao Yuan, only Zhou Yuwen and Li Shiqi were left.
Actually, even Zhou Yuwen didn't know what to talk about with Li Shiqi, so he asked, "How's the tutoring part-ti job? Still doing it?"
"Yeah, the kid I tutor went on winter break, their family went to Hawaii," Li Shiqi replied.
"Oh."
After finishing that topic, Zhou Yuwen was out of other things to talk about, pondering for a long ti, he wanted to discuss the charity sale.
But then Li Shiqi asked, "That girl, she's not really your sister, right?"
"?" Zhou Yuwen looked up to those eyes brimming with clear autumn water and asked, "How could you tell?"
Li Shiqi said, "I don't rember you having a sister."
"..." Zhou Yuwen didn't know quite what to say, but his expression made it clear Li Shiqi was right.
"Girlfriend?" Li Shiqi probed further.
"Not that," Zhou Yuwen denied.
He glanced at Jiang Xinyi, who was picking out products at the stall.
Zhou Yuwen told Li Shiqi that she was a 'sister' he got to know at school.
"Been thinking about buying a house recently, took her with to have a look," was the best explanation Zhou Yuwen could give, as saying she was a teacher's ex-girlfriend, or that she had channels to buy villas seed unnecessary.
Even with such an explanation...
For Li Shiqi, it was still quite a niche one.
Buying a house.
"Oh."
But she could make sense of it.
Writing novels to make that much money.
If it were herself, she'd probably choose to buy a house too.
"I've read your novel," Li Shiqi said.
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