The waiter shook his head: "No need, just tell me... Lu Yibei?"
Lu Yibei was putting away his phone and shaking off the water stains from his shirt when he heard the waiter call his name. He looked up and asked, "Xia Li?"
The girl standing behind the counter was about the same age as him, quite short, with smooth, healthy wheat-colored skin. She looked at Lu Yibei in surprise, and Lu Yibei could see her signature canine tooth in her slightly open mouth.
Xia Li and Lu Yibei were old acquaintances, having been classmates in junior high school but attending different high schools. They never expected to meet again at Jiangnan University.
"Are you working here? Have you gone back to school?" Lu Yibei asked.
Xia Li and Lu Yibei are both natives of Hangzhou, but their homes are still some distance from Jiangnan University by car.
"I arrived at the beginning of the month and am staying with relatives nearby," Xia Li said. "You've gone back to school too?"
“Mm,” Lu Yibei said.
Because they hadn't been in much contact since junior high, Xia Li didn't know about his messy life of being kicked out of the house. Oh, and she probably didn't know about Zhou Zhou either…
He and Xia Li were good friends in junior high school because their homes were close and they often went home together.
However, after starting university, because of Zhou Zhou, the two did not become very close and only bumped into each other a few times.
Xia Li sized up the tall, thin boy who landed in the north.
He was handsome before, and he's still handsome now that he's in college.
Lu Yibei's assessment of Xia Li was that she used to be quite short.
I seem to have gotten shorter since starting university. Is it because I've grown taller?
"Alone?" Xia Li asked.
"Alone." Lu Yibei ordered a grape boba.
"I'll just order takeout if I'm alone."
Xia Li said, "They even came out in the rain."
Lu Yibei plopped down on the sofa in the store and leaned back:
"This is a high-stakes gamble."
"What are we betting on?"
"I'm betting it won't rain so soon," Lu Yibei said.
"You lost, didn't you?" Xia Li pouted.
“We’ve lost everything.” Lu Yibei said, somewhat pained.
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