"Ayan, who was that person you were talking to?" Deng Ziyi asked with a gossipy look on his face.

Su Yan hesitated about whether to call Jiang Jingxing, then casually said, "Our class monitor asked me if I wanted to go out to eat with them."

Deng Ziyi twitched his chin twice and said meaningfully, "Sure enough, good-looking people can quickly attract the attention of the opposite sex wherever they go."

Chen Ting quickly asked, "You mean the class monitor of Su Yan's class has feelings for her?"

"Don't talk nonsense." Su Yan immediately interrupted them. "Don't think nonsense. I already have a boyfriend. Besides, the class monitor only took me to the cafeteria to eat since I just arrived at school, and to help me get familiar with the campus. Please don't say anything out of line. If someone hears this, they'll say I'm too narcissistic."

Ling Zhi's warm care for her was definitely out of his duty as class monitor, after all, she was a new classmate, so such an attitude was normal.

If it were her, she would have done the same.

Deng Ziyi and Chen Ting exchanged a glance.

Deng Ziyi shrugged, "Okay, I won't say anything more. Let's hurry up and go, I'll start getting hungry during the second period!"

Classes end at 11:40, and the cafeteria isn't too crowded now.

Today, the cafeteria only had stir-fried shredded potatoes with meat, stir-fried green beans with eggs, and a vegetarian cabbage.

Seaweed and egg drop soup is free.

Deng Ziyi ordered a stir-fried green beans with eggs and then went to the small kitchen window to buy meat.

Chen Ting and Bai Meng ordered only these three dishes.

Su Yan didn't make any special requests and ate the same food as the other two.

They ate for quite a while before Deng Ziyi returned with the dishes.

"Why is it so slow?" Su Yan asked curiously.

Deng Ziyi added a braised pork belly and a pork patty with preserved mustard greens.

She took a bite, her eyes crinkling with happiness, before slowly saying, "The dishes at Xiaozhao are all prepared in advance; once you order, they need to be heated up."

As she spoke, she placed two pieces of braised pork into each person's bowl and said, "The braised pork in the cafeteria is quite good, Ayan, you should try it."

Su Yan nodded. "Thank you."

She took a bite; the taste was average, but compared to many other places, it was quite good.

Chen Ting noticed that Ayan was a little quiet and couldn't help but ask, "Ayan, why are you so absent-minded today?"

Bai Meng glanced at Su Yan, poked at the rice in front of her with her chopsticks, and remained silent.

Deng Ziyi said, "Are you feeling unwell? Don't push yourself. If you faint like last time, that would be terrifying."

Su Yan paused for a few seconds, then shook her head. "No, I was thinking about the restaurant. Don't overthink it."

Sure enough, neither of them doubted her explanation.

"Speaking of which, when is your restaurant opening? We'll take time off work and come join the fun," Deng Ziyi said enthusiastically.

Su Yan smiled and said, "The 20th is a Saturday. You are all welcome to come and support us."

“Sure,” Deng Ziyi said. “Anyway, we don’t have any other activities on weekends besides studying.”

Southern Medical University is a key university in the south, so the students who can get in naturally have good grades. Everyone is dedicated to learning, so they spend their weekends studying in their dormitories or the library.

"Welcome to the three of you."

Chen Ting hesitated and said, "Ayan, you have to deal with the restaurant business, the test on Wednesday, and catch up on the classes you missed. Can you even keep up with all that?"

She even admired Su Yan a little, for working so hard despite her illness.

The difference between them is truly enormous.

She thought she had worked very hard, but now that she has met someone who works even harder than her, she feels ashamed of herself.

“The restaurant business isn’t entirely my responsibility. During the time I was away from school, my two other partners put in even more effort,” Su Yan explained calmly. “As for my studies, I have some basic knowledge, so it won’t be too difficult for me. You don’t need to worry about me.”

Just as her master said, she may indeed have some talent in medicine. With the added benefit of the knowledge she learned in her previous life, the knowledge in books is really not difficult for her now. She can even understand it without listening to the teacher. I just don't know if she can be so good at putting it into practice.

Deng Ziyi chuckled twice, then warned through gritted teeth, "Don't talk to me in such a relaxed tone, or I'll get jealous of you!!!"

Su Yan: "..."

After the four finished their meal, the students in the last class also finished their lesson.

As I was leaving the dish recycling area and heading back to my dorm, I saw a group of people chatting noisily behind the cafeteria's food serving windows.

Deng Ziyi, who loves gossip the most, couldn't resist and went over to the outer edge of the crowd to take a peek.

She ran back a moment later, her face full of excitement, and said, "It's Zhang Ziyi from nursing! No wonder so many people were gathered around her; there was such a phenomenon as soon as she appeared!"

Su Yan and Bai Meng remained calm as always upon hearing this.

The former is not interested in things like gossip about school beauties.

The latter is much the same.

Moreover, Bai Meng had met Zhang Ziyi before; she was beautiful, but not to her aesthetic caliber.

However, there is now someone who fits her aesthetic preferences, and that person is Su Yan.

She liked Su Yan's ethereal beauty; she seemed untouched by worldly affairs, and when she was silent, she was aloof and proud.

Chen Ting was used to it. "Why does she act like a social butterfly?"

"Being a socialite requires skill," Deng Ziyi said. "Without good looks, who would buy her off?"

Meanwhile, they were talking about Zhang Ziyi, and the people around Zhang Ziyi were also talking about them.

Surrounded by the crowd, Zhang Ziyi was chatting and laughing with everyone when a sudden voice came from an unknown direction, "Hey, isn't that Su Yan, the new student in the Sino-Western Integration Class 2?"

Upon hearing this, the previously lively crowd turned to look outside.

Su Yan leaned against the cafeteria entrance with her shoulder bag on her back, listening to Deng Ziyi and the others gossiping. She didn't look inside and was unaware that so many people were noticing her.

Bai Meng instinctively shielded her behind her, watching the group of people inside warily.

Deng Ziyi and Chen Ting were quite bewildered, not knowing how they had been targeted.

The next second, the people around Zhang Ziyi, who had been silent for a few seconds, erupted again.

"Is she Su Yan? Was she the one who was carried down from the girls' dormitory by a guy that day?"

"I don't know. Can any students from Class 2 (Chinese-Western Integration) answer this?"

There happened to be students from the Sino-Western Integrated Class 2 present, who instinctively said upon hearing this, "That's right, the one at the door is our new classmate, Su Yan."

"Oh my god, she's so beautiful! She looks just as good as Ziyi!"

"I think you're blind! Su Yan's figure is so skinny, how can she compare to our Zi Yi in the slightest?"

Hearing the sounds around her, Zhang Ziyi's smile faded slightly, and she frowned as she looked in Su Yan's direction.