It was already 6:50 p.m., and the class meeting was scheduled for seven o'clock.
Zhou Yuwen was eager to make a good impression on the counselor and hurried back to the dormitory to tidy up before heading to the teaching building.
But Chang Hao and Li Qiang couldn't care less about the class meeting.
What occupied their minds was the exact nature of Zhou Yuwen's relationship with that girl named Su Qing.
From Su Qing's behavior just now, it was evident she knew Zhou Yuwen.
And she seemed to have deep feelings for him, too.
Why did Zhou Yuwen pretend not to know her?
"Pretending? I really don't know her," Zhou Yuwen said, correcting them.
"Stop it, you were too fake just now. Anyone with eyes could tell you seemed to be deliberately provoking Su Qing," Chang Hao said bluntly.
"?" Zhou Yuwen was taken aback: "Was it that obvious?"
"Hey, that's not important. Do you know Yanyan?" Chang Hao didn't care about the relationship between Zhou Yuwen and Su Qing; he was only concerned about Zheng Yanyan.
"Yeah, I met her on the train."
"Then do you know who she is?"
"Who is she?" Zhou Yuwen said disdainfully. How could he not know who Zheng Yanyan was after his rebirth?
"She is my girlfriend, Zhou!" Chang Hao was infuriated.
"???" Zhou Yuwen was stunned, could there have been a bug in his rebirth?
"Tsk! Brother Hao, that's going too far!" Luckily, Li Qiang was beside them to mercilessly expose Chang Hao's lie.
Chang Hao's face turned slightly red, and he coughed awkwardly, "A future girlfriend is still a girlfriend."
"..."
"Anyway, Zhou, you need to be aware of boundaries. You have no idea how embarrassed I felt when you asked Yanyan for her contact information right in front of me!"
"Good thing Yanyan didn't give it!" Chang Hao added afterward.
Zhou Yuwen retorted, how could you know she will be your girlfriend in the future?
"Of course, she will be. The moment I saw her, I knew. Seriously, I've set my heart on her for life. She's going to be mine, sooner or later," Chang Hao said confidently.
At this point, the three had returned to the dormitory. Zhou Yuwen made a slight adjustment to his appearance, and since he had added many girls during the freshman welcome, some of them already found Zhou Yuwen quite appealing and were making the first move. Zhou Yuwen, wanting them to subscribe, was playing along with feigned modesty.
His rule was to neither initiate nor reject.
Chang Hao, on his part, had lit up a Xuanhe Clan cigarette, holding it between his index and ring fingers, tilted his head back at a forty-five-degree angle, took a deep drag, and exhaled a ring of smoke, "For the first time in my life, I'm truly moved."
"You've chatted with that Zheng Yanyan online for so long without being moved, but the moment you met her, you were moved. Isn't that just lust at first sight?" Li Qiang said with disdain.
"You can't say that. I was already moved by Yanyan online, but seeing her in person, I was even more touched. Anyway, I need to make it clear to you guys, Yanyan is my girl. Hear that, Zhou? Keep your distance in the future."
"Alright, alright. I wasn't interested in her, to begin with. Go for it if you want her. Are you coming or not? We're going to be late for the class meeting."
"So what if we're late? A university life without ever being late is an imperfect university life."
"Ha! A life without being cuckolded even once is also an imperfect life."
"Damn, Zhou, that's crossing the line!"
In September, the campus at seven in the evening was quiet, with the sun already set, but the sky still held a hint of dusky white light.
Except for the male dormitories, where things were a bit lively due to the new semester beginning.
Groups of students left the dormitory buildings, hurrying towards the teaching building.
Blossom-scented osmanthus flowers were blooming next to the dormitories, filling the path to the teaching building with their fragrance.
Chang Hao, who had just sworn his sovereign rights so fervently a moment ago, was now chatting on the side path, wondering if there were any pretty girls in the class?
Li Qiang snickered and said, "You were just now acting as if you couldn't have enough of Zheng Yanyan, and now you're already thinking about other girls?"
"Hey, how can you call it thinking about others? Qiangzi, it's human nature to appreciate beauty. My liking for Yanyan doesn't prevent me from looking at other girls, right? Isn't that so, old Zhou."
"Don't ask me, I don't know anything."
"Hehe, Qiangzi, you're still too green."
"Can I not be green? Unlike you guys, my family isn't rich, and girls don't like me either," Li Qiang said with a lip curl.
"It's just the start of the semester, no hurry, no hurry. When we get to class and see someone pretty, let me know, and I'll introduce you."
So the three of them joked and bantered until they reached the classroom for the class meeting.
It was already seven o'clock, and the instructor hadn't arrived yet, but nearly all the students were already there, so Zhou Yuwen and his two friends were counted as late.
Therefore, when they pushed the door open to enter, the classmates thought the teacher had arrived, and the classroom instantly fell silent.
It wasn't until they saw it was three students that they relaxed and resumed chatting.
While they had an unobstructed view of Zhou Yuwen and the other two, Chang Hao and his friends were also sizing up their classmates.
University was different from high school. In university, besides being familiar with your roommates due to the constant interaction, other students were not in close contact, and you might only remember their names. Years later, you might hear a classmate's name from someone else, and strangely, you'd have no impression of them.
Thus, Zhou Yuwen's impression of his university classmates was not deep, and he only had memories of a few students he had interacted with.
At this moment, Zhou Yuwen followed behind the other two and found a seat.
"Yuhang, you're not doing well! How could you start the class meeting without waiting for us?" Li Qiang sat down next to Lu Yuhang with an unhappy expression.
"I," Lu Yuhang hesitated, not knowing how to respond.
"Why should he wait for you? He doesn't owe you. Ignore him!" Chang Hao rolled his eyes at Li Qiang and said to Lu Yuhang with a smile.
Lu Yuhang stuttered, but managed to say that he did wait for them. However, since they hadn't returned to the dormitory by 6:40, he came over first.
"6:40? The class meeting doesn't start until seven; you came too early," Li Qiang added.
"Enough, you talk too much!" Chang Hao couldn't be bothered to pay attention to Li Qiang; this was just stirring up trouble.
But then Li Qiang cracked a grin and said, "Brother Hao, why are you getting angry? I'm just joking with Yuhang here! Brother Hao, look, in the nine o'clock direction, what do you think?"
The girl in the nine o'clock direction was named Liu Yue, a very practical and capable girl. It seemed she came from the countryside, and frankly, she wasn't pretty and even looked a bit rustic.
After looking, Chang Hao frowned slightly and whispered, "What the hell is your taste, man? You think that's good-looking?"
"Hey, she's got big boobs and a big butt, good for bearing children!" Li Qiang whispered in Chang Hao's ear.
"Get away from me!"
Chang Hao jumped, startled. Although his own talk was nonsensical, he would never discuss chests and butts in a classroom. Dammit, Li Qiang was too crude, wasn't he?
Li Qiang didn't expect Chang Hao's reaction to be so strong and couldn't help but mutter, "What are you afraid of? Nobody heard us."
"Alright, alright, stop talking. Your taste is too vulgar," Chang Hao couldn't help but retort.
Li Qiang, not convinced, replied, "You just like those like Zheng Yanyan, with legs like utility poles!"
"Hey, you just don't get it, do you? That's what beauty is. Brother's telling you, just in our class, the girl next to the one you mentioned is not bad," Chang Hao slanted his mouth.
"Who?" Li Qiang looked in the direction Chang Hao slanted his mouth towards.
He saw a girl sitting next to Liu Yue, tall and slender, wearing a milky white halterneck top that exposed her fair shoulders completely.
She was wearing white denim shorts below that clung tightly to the edges of her thighs, and just a glance at her flawlessly long legs made it hard to look away.
After noticing her, Li Qiang couldn't help but swallow hard, but as someone who had just come out of the countryside, he couldn't openly express his appreciation like Chang Hao. He could only struggle to look away while swallowing, "What's so good about that? Too skinny, clearly malnourished!"