Chapter Thirty-Three: The Adventure (Part One)

The other person seemed to be speaking into the receiver; their voice was accompanied by soft breathing.

Her ears tingled slightly, and her already guilty conscience made her even more unsure of herself.

To be honest, he treated her quite well, and she didn't blame him. Asking him was just a test to see if he had discovered that she was hiding the fact that she had a boyfriend.

When she heard in the dorm that Lu Shi'an had come to see her, she almost broke down.

The hot wind on the playground blew across Jiang You's cheeks, and the thought of the 99+ messages Xia Yan sent after leaving gave him a terrible headache.

This guy's still in the honeymoon phase; what if he finds out about my feelings...?

She shuddered and quickly messaged Lu Shi'an: [I'm sorry, I just wanted to keep a low profile. Let's call it even and let this go, okay?]

Jiang You typed on his phone, his emotions more natural, without the awkwardness and tension he felt in person.

Lu Shi'an was very popular. He got up from his gaming chair and sat on the sofa. In just a short while, a flood of messages inviting him to go out and have fun overwhelmed Jiang You's chat window.

He scrolled down to find the girl and pinned her to the top.

Lu Shi'an typed casually: [If I told Xia Ge that your girlfriend is pretending to be single, would he just rush back and kiss you at the school gate?]

Jiang You: "!!!"

Damn! This guy is really bad, and... and Xia Yan might actually do that.

She was tense and anxious, typing through gritted teeth: "[So what do you want?]"

Lu Shi'an: [Don't worry, I have no interest in meddling in your relationship. Lately, all my friends are either starting businesses or going to school, and nobody's asking me out. I'm so bored. Tomorrow, you take me out for a day, and I'll keep this a secret, okay?]

After sending the message, there was no reply. The young man frowned slightly. Was his request too unreasonable?

Lu Shi'an: [Hey, that's my good brother. It's not too much to ask you to spend a day with me without telling him, is it?]

Jiang You: [Aren't you in the same school as Xia Yan? Why haven't you gone to Beijing yet?]

Lu Shi'an: [He has to go back for a family dinner, but I don't need to. I can go on the first day of school.]

Jiang You: [Lu Shi'an, I believe you can find someone to play with. What exactly do you want from me?]

Lu Shi'an pressed the tip of his tongue against his back teeth: [I'm telling you, what I told your roommate is true, I like you, so I tried every possible way to meet you, do you believe me?]

This person is still putting on an act; believing his nonsense is like a sow climbing a tree.

Jiang You: [Stop fooling around, let's get down to business. What exactly do you want?]

What do I want? I want to pin you down on the bed and kiss you. What else can I want?

Lu Shi'an remained silent for a long time, until her eyes stung with tears, then took a deep breath: [Okay, I'm just a girl who's never seen a slum before, and I want to experience life in the slums.]

After waiting a while, the girl's chat window showed "typing," but no message came in for a long time.

This time, the boy was like a hunter lurking in the darkness, staring intently at his prey, baring his fangs, patiently waiting for the prey to lower its guard.

A notification sounded, and the girl sent a message, indicating that she agreed.

Lu Shi'an chuckled softly and sent a voice message: "Good night, see you tomorrow."

He didn't know that the girl was cursing him in her dreams that night; the only thing he knew was that he dreamed about her.

He cupped her sweetly smiling face in his hands, and in the bridal chamber, he lowered his head and kissed her lips.

At six o'clock in the morning, Lu Shi'an expressionlessly took off his dirty underwear, threw it into the trash can, and went into the bathroom to take a shower.

I had an indescribable dream all night. When I woke up, I looked at the bedroom, feeling somewhat dazed, unable to distinguish between dream and reality.

At eight o'clock, Jiang You reluctantly prepared to leave the dormitory.

When Cheng Pandi returned from outside and saw that she was about to leave, she tightened her grip and mustered her courage to say, "Jiang You, if you need money, you can tell me. I, I have saved a lot of money."

If her parents really marry her off to an old man, she can run away. If Jiangyou is short of money, she is willing to lend it to her.

Jiang You was taken aback, scratching his head in confusion: "I don't lack money, why are you asking this?"

She has over 190,000 yuan in her Alipay account.

In the dormitory, Wang Lili got along well with everyone, but she was a homebody. Bai Qianyue was often not in the dormitory. Cheng Pandi and Jiang You had similar schedules and talked about the same things, so the two of them grew closer and closer than the others.

“You seem different from before, especially your clothes,” Cheng Pandi, who had worked in a garment factory, could tell at a glance that Jiang You’s clothes were of excellent quality in terms of hemming, cut, and stitching.

Jiang You blinked, then suddenly realized what Cheng Pandi was worried about, and chuckled, "You're worried I'll be kept by a sugar daddy... um..."

Before she could finish speaking, Cheng Pandi quickly covered her mouth, looking around nervously. Seeing that Wang Lili and Bai Qianyue were not moving and probably hadn't woken up, she pulled Jiang You outside.

"Don't worry, I'm not being kept. I'll definitely tell you if I need money, after all, we're friends!" Jiang You felt guilty for lying to his friend and wondered whether he should tell Cheng Pandi.

Cheng Pandi looked at her for a few seconds and realized that the other party was hiding something from her, but judging from her reaction just now, it shouldn't be a sugar daddy relationship.

"Okay, that's good. Do you have anything else to do? Well, I'm going back to my dorm. I'd like to move to the new dorm today."

The school requires all the moving to be completed before the start of the semester, and there are only three days left.

Looking at Cheng Pandi's retreating figure, Jiang You called out, "Thank you."

**

Outside the school gate, not many students were willing to get up early because there were still three days until the start of the new semester.

Jiang You left the campus and soon saw Lu Shi'an sitting on a bicycle, one foot on the ground and the other on the footrest, with his arms on the handlebars, playing on his phone.

The morning light shone on his handsome profile. He wore a black and white striped shirt paired with khaki cargo shorts that reached his knees, looking both refreshing and relaxed, like a male protagonist straight out of a campus novel.

Hearing footsteps, Lu Shi'an turned off his phone screen, raised his eyebrows and said, "You're here. I haven't had breakfast yet. Come on, take me to have breakfast."

Jiang You twitched the corner of his mouth. This personality, this tone, was exactly the same as those boys who sat in the back row of his junior and senior high school class.

She took Lu Shi'an to eat beef noodles, while his bicycle was locked in the school parking area.

The beef shop was packed with people, shouts rose and fell, and the electric fan mounted on the wall oscillated and blew hard.

How can so many people squeeze into such a small shop? Can't the owner expand the business a bit?

When had the pampered young master Lu ever been to a place like this? He kept complaining to himself, his movements as awkward and restrained as a young wife visiting relatives in the city, carefully avoiding people, but it was all in vain, the old men and women could still brush against him.