Chapter 188

"Duan Shen, you've finally arrived."

As soon as Duan Shen stepped into the private room, he was hugged by a kind-looking man. "If you dare to stand me up at my farewell banquet before I go abroad to study, I'm definitely cutting off all contact with you!"

Duan Shen's squad leader was named Sun Jie. Upon seeing Duan Shen appear, Sun Jie immediately pulled him to his side.

"I wouldn't stand you up at your farewell banquet," Duan Shen said, patting Sun Jie on the shoulder.

"It's great today, everyone in our class is here." Sun Jie comes from a well-off family and will be going abroad to study after this semester ends. Today is his farewell banquet for the whole class, and Sun Jie has booked a large private room on the first floor of the bar.

The private rooms are fully equipped with everything: karaoke rooms, billiard rooms, game rooms, video recording rooms, and even a bar.

"Look who's here from our class." Sun Jie pulled Duan Shen aside in the private room, not forgetting to call out to the classmates next to him.

"Wow, Duan Shen is here!"

"Haha, the whole class is here today!"

"Duan Shen, come play pool! Let's play a couple of games!"

......

The students greeted him incessantly, but Duan, whose arm was being held by Sun Jie, could only nod in response and exchange a few casual words with the people around him.

Sun Jie opened the glass door of the karaoke room and pulled Duan Shen inside: "All the classmates are here."

"Come and see who's here?!" Sun Jie's voice immediately drew everyone's attention, leaving Duan Shi somewhat helpless.

But Sun Jie was usually helpful and got along well with almost everyone in the class, so Duan Shi didn't know what to say.

He had only planned to make a brief appearance at the farewell banquet to avoid Sun Jie feeling that he had stood him up, but now he couldn't leave even if he wanted to.

"Master Duan, please sit here!"

"Want to sing?"

"The class monitor has a lot of influence; he was able to get Duan Shen to come to the party."

Duan Shen had been invited to some activities or gatherings in the class before, but he had refused them all. His appearance here now surprised his classmates.

Among these people was Xia Yueyue.

"Aaaaaaah! System, what do I do?!"

"He's the one I told you about before, the one I thought was perfect!" Xia Yueyue screamed inwardly. If she had known Duan Shen would be coming today, she would have tidied herself up a bit.

In recent days, she has lost 30 pounds by winning over men's affection points in Fairnd. Although Xia Yueyue still looks a bit bloated, her acne has decreased a lot, and even her facial features have become more defined.

"Host, this system has detected the presence of a high-quality male in the vicinity." A voice suddenly appeared from the Cupid Love System, almost making Xia Yueyue voice her innermost thoughts.

"System... what do you mean?" Xia Yueyue gritted her teeth, trying to control her emotions.

"Judging from the current situation, it seems so," the Cupid system guided Xia Yueyue. "Host, it seems your destined lover is also of very high quality."

Xia Yueyue was overjoyed by Cupid System's words. "System, I told you before that time I accidentally got soaked to the bone, and Duan Shen walked over to me and stopped, and even put his coat on me."

"I think...he's pretty good..."

"Do you think he might also be a little..." Xia Yueyue secretly glanced at Duan Shen, who was already sitting on the sofa, and her face suddenly flushed.

The Cupid system glanced at Duan Shen, hesitated for a moment, and then said, "Hmm... the host's own conditions are not bad. If you can have more affection points, you might be able to win his favor."

Hearing the system's "affirmative" answer, Xia Yueyue felt a surge of happiness in her chest. She glanced at Duan Shen several times before shyly looking away.

Duan Shen sat down next to Sun Jie and politely declined several classmates' invitations to sing.

"Duan Shen, why didn't you bring your girlfriend?" Sun Jie poured Duan Shen a drink. He knew Duan Shen didn't drink alcohol, so he let him drink the beverage that had been prepared in advance for the female classmate.

“I saw You Yingning at the classroom door a few days ago. You’re such a good student, your professor likes you a lot, and your girlfriend is the most beautiful girl in the finance department.”

"You might as well make us jealous to death," Sun Jie said, but his eyes were full of admiration for Duan Shen.

Suddenly, when someone mentioned You Yingning's name, Duan Shen's strange feeling, which had just dissipated, resurfaced. "She's busy with the competition."

"Competition? What competition?" Sun Jie asked casually.

This question stumped Duan Shen. He genuinely didn't know what competition it was. After a moment of hesitation, when Sun Jie also looked at him with a puzzled expression, he blurted out, "It's a knowledge competition in their department."

"Oh, I see."

The door to the karaoke room suddenly opened, and a male classmate poked his head out: "Class monitor, come quick! Levi and Zhang Wei have both had too much to drink and are about to fight!"

"What?!" Sun Jie was immediately startled and got up, leaving the karaoke room.

Upon hearing this, several boys immediately left the karaoke room to see what had happened, leaving only 7 or 8 girls and 3 boys still in the room, completely bewildered.

Duan Shen lay on the sofa, somewhat bored, picked up a juice glass, bit the straw and took a couple of sips. The freshly squeezed juice felt refreshing as it went down his throat.

The screen in the room was playing the song "Singing Love," but no one was holding a microphone at that moment, probably because the person who requested the song had already left the karaoke room.

Duan Shen stared at the lyrics on the screen, lost in thought.

Meanwhile, Xia Yueyue, sitting on the other side of the sofa, nervously gripped the microphone in her hand. She really wanted to show off her skills at this moment, but she wasn't quite sure what song was playing.

Until one song ends, the next song is a light and cheerful pop love song.

Xia Yueyue immediately picked up the microphone, put it to her lips, and started singing softly after the intro ended. While singing, she glanced at Duan Shen sitting not far away and noticed that he had looked in her direction. She was so excited that she almost sang off-key at the end.

"System, did you see that?!"

"Duan Shen looked at me!" Xia Yueyue immediately shared with the system, and the Cupid system did not lie.

"It did indeed glance at the host."

"I knew he was interested in me! He clearly liked me before!!" Xia Yueyue felt like a little person was dancing inside her. After receiving Duan Shen's "hint," she immediately mustered up her courage and sat down near Duan Shen under the pretense of getting a tissue.

"Duan Shen, could you get me some tissues?" Xia Yueyue tried to make her voice sound soft, but she didn't expect that the greasy smell on her body didn't match her voice.

Duan Shen glanced at Xia Yueyue, wondering why this person still asked him to get her tissues when the tissue box was right on the table.

This person...

Is it someone from your own class?

He didn't bother to think about it and simply stretched out his hand and placed the tissue box in front of Xia Yueyue, unaware of the turmoil his ordinary action stirred up in her heart.

"Thank you, Duan." Xia Yueyue smiled shyly and crumpled a tissue into a ball in her palm.

Duan Shen, who was standing next to her, didn't want to notice her unusual behavior. Instead, he took out his phone and opened a chat window.

The light from the phone screen shone on Duan Shen's facial features, highlighting his exceptionally superior bone structure. At this moment, the man exuded an air of languor.

Xia Yueyue did not get up again, but enjoyed the warm scene. Suddenly curious about what Duan Shen was doing, she secretly glanced at his phone.

She watched as Duan Shen typed a message in the chat box, then deleted it word by word.

Before Xia Yueyue could even see who the contact was, the man's slender fingertips tapped on the person's profile picture and began browsing her Moments.

Duan Shen's finger stopped on a post, a group photo of several people.

The accompanying text was exactly what Xia Yueyue had seen last night.