【Heading North: What's wrong?】
[Qingqian: Pain]
[Qingqian: My shoes are rubbing my feet, and my heels are red from the friction.]
It doesn't hurt much, but I've been standing for the past two days and have to march in formation. Every time I rub against it, it's quite uncomfortable, like a dull knife is slowly cutting me.
Ma Jiaojiao was the first to discover Ji Qingqian's situation.
After carefully examining Ji Qingqian's shoes, she asked, "Do you know what this means?"
"What?"
"That means the Converse shoes you bought are genuine. Genuine shoes rub your feet when you wear them, while knock-offs are actually better."
Ma Jiaojiao looked at Ji Qingqian's wound again and handed her a band-aid: "Put this on the heel that was rubbed first. It won't help much, but it's better than nothing."
Ji Qingqian hummed in agreement, then moved around a bit more after sticking it on.
It wouldn't be accurate to call it a miracle cure, but it's better than nothing.
[Heading North: Don't you have any other shoes?]
[Qingqian: Yes.]
[Qingqian: High-top Converse sneakers.]
Heading North: ...
[Heading North: Who only brings canvas shoes to military training?]
Ji Qing pursed her lips slightly.
Ma Jiaojiao said the same thing, but this was her first time participating in military training.
She skipped high school.
In college, skipping class was much harder than in high school, and Lu Yibei said he would come to see her, so she stood there properly...
Ma Jiaojiao asked if she needed help going to buy new shoes.
She rejected him.
because,
[Qingqian: Will you come with me to buy shoes tomorrow?]
I haven't seen him all day, and I want to go out for a walk with him.
【Heading North: Good】
Ji Qingqian unconsciously raised her eyebrows, as if the red wound on her heel wasn't so painful anymore.
"Ji Qingqian, is it still in pain?" Chu Chu asked with concern.
Ji Qingqian shook her head: "It doesn't hurt, the band-aid is quite effective."
Chu Chu hummed in agreement and continued gossiping with her roommate:
"That senior student came again today~"
Ji Qingqian was taken aback: "How come I didn't know?"
She clearly hadn't seen Lu Yibei all day...
Chu Chu was even more stunned. It would have been normal for either Ma Jiaojiao or Wang Jue to ask this question.
Ji Qingqian's question was a bit strange. Was she also concerned about that senior?
Wang Jue carefully observed Ji Qingqian and formed a conclusion in his mind.
The senior is definitely Ah Bei...
“Your line didn’t turn around at the time…” Chu Chu explained, “He glanced at it twice and left, as if he was in a hurry to start class.”
“He’s in a rush to class but still manages to peek at it. What is that senior looking for…” Ma Jiaojiao said.
Wang Jue quickly interrupted:
"So, well, what happened next?"
Almost instinctively, she covered for Ji Qingqian. Since Ji Qingqian hadn't mentioned "Abei" to them, it was best to let her keep it a secret for now.
Chu Chu immediately blushed and said shyly, "Yes..."
"And then what?" Ma Jiaojiao asked, intrigued.
“I smiled at him, and he left,” Chu Chu said.
Ma Jiaojiao was greatly disappointed: "Then why are you blushing like a teapot?"
Is she really that innocent?
"What! Is that not allowed!" Chu Chu said unhappily, "Tell me how far you and your senior have progressed."
"Hmph, why should I tell you?"
"Hehehe...you guys don't...um...tsk tsk tsk...do you know which hotels are cheap around here?"
"It's not that far off! We met online! We've only met a few times!"
Ma Jiaojiao couldn't stand Chu Chu's filthy thoughts.
"How did you two fall in love online?" Chu Chu asked.
Ma Jiaojiao: "I was matched with an elite player in PUBG."
Chu Chu was shocked: "Why have I achieved nothing after so many years of being an elite?"
Ma Jiaojiao rolled her eyes: "Who would know? Besides, didn't you have a boyfriend in high school?"
"Let's not talk about it." Chu Chu waved her hand.
"Fine, that's one thing, but how far have things progressed between you and your ex-boyfriend..." Ma Jiaojiao countered with a twist: "Which hotel near your high school is the cheapest?"
"High school, Ma Jiaojiao! How could she possibly do something like that!"
Chu Chu said that others were very skilled, but when it came to herself, she was weak and her face turned as red as a monkey's bottom...
"Why did you break up?" Ma Jiaojiao asked.
"He did better than me on the exam and went to Guangzhou. Hangzhou is over 1,300 kilometers away from Guangzhou... Even if we hadn't broken up then, we would have eventually, so I made a clean break." Chu Chu shrugged, her eyes narrowing with a mischievous grin: "I'm a bad woman..."
But Ma Jiaojiao felt that Chu Chu's eyes were actually a little uncomfortable.
"As for long-distance relationships, a close female senior from my university once cried to me about it."
Wang Jue joined the conversation: "Her boyfriend got into Chengdu, but she stayed in Jiangnan. As a result, he cheated on her within a month... Then she found a new boyfriend, who turned out to be from Chengdu and came to Jiangnan. He was also her ex-boyfriend's roommate and childhood friend."
Wow, that's amazing.
Chu Chu's gossip-loving spirit burned brightly: "This world is so small, tell me more about it."
Ma Jiaojiao: "Was your ex-boyfriend cheating on you with a man or a woman?"
Chu Chu and Wang Jue: ? ?
Ma Jiaojiao said in a serious tone: "Isn't Chengdu, the land of abundance, filled with fallen petrified trees?"
"Juejue, don't worry about her, just tell us quickly," Chu Chu urged.
Wang Jue: "Like this, like this..."
Chu Chu and Ma Jiaojiao: "Mmm...Wow...You can play like this? So pitiful, waaaaah...Hahaha, this is hilarious..."
Wang Jue spoke for almost ten minutes.
Chu Chu and Ma Jiaojiao both looked thoroughly satisfied and slumped in their chairs, marveling at the diversity of species.
Only Ji Qingqian didn't join the conversation.
Chu Chu thought for a moment and then took the initiative to approach her:
"Ji Qingqian, do you know any interesting stories? Tell me about them. I haven't heard you talk much about yourself. Or you can tell me something you've heard."
After spending a few days together, they all discovered that this ice queen wasn't actually that cold; sometimes, it was more like she was a bit dull than icy…
Ji Qingqian was taken aback. Just as she was about to say no, she saw her three roommates looking at her expectantly.
She thought for a moment, gave a soft "hmm," and then said:
“This is a story told to me by a friend… it’s a story about someone she knows.”
Ma Jiaojiao wanted to ask this friend... was it really you?
But fearing that Ji Qingqian would not want to talk about it anymore after hearing it, he held back.
"That person is a boy. He has been slow-witted since childhood and doesn't know how to communicate with people, so he always causes misunderstandings and is disliked by others. As a result, he doesn't like to see people and often hides away to play games by himself."
Ji Qingqian spoke slowly, as if she needed to think slightly after each sentence before continuing.
Ma Jiaojiao and the others listened especially attentively.
Because Ji Qingqian has almost never spoken such a long passage.
"Then, during his second year of high school, he was matched with a game friend, a very cheerful girl..."
Ji Qingqian finished speaking, and Ma Jiaojiao quickly answered:
"Isn't that just like me? Did you meet up in real life?"
Ji Qingqian shook her head and said calmly, "It's different."
"Jiaojiao, say less and let Ji Qingqian finish speaking," Chu Chu said.
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