Chapter 60 Little Liar
On a sweltering day, Wen Zhi always believed that if she went out, she should get everything she could do done.
He first went to the library to return books, then took a long detour to a dessert shop on the other side of the campus, where he ate the strawberry shaved ice he had been craving.
Then, I walked through the grove of trees next to me to pick up two packages from the courier point before finally returning to my dorm, completely satisfied.
In the dormitory, the other three roommates were all sitting at their desks doing their own things, and it was unusually quiet.
Wen Zhi also walked to her desk and sat down. She picked up the scissors on the table and opened the two packages she had just received.
His phone vibrated a few times in his pocket. He immediately took it out and looked at it, only to find that none of the messages were from Song Juelan.
He hesitated for a moment, holding his phone, then opened his chat with Song Juelan and slowly scrolled up a few times, feeling that Song Juelan had been acting a bit strange this afternoon.
Normally, no matter what he sends, Song Juelan would chat for a bit, but this afternoon, when he sent those photos, Song Juelan replied very quickly, without saying much.
It's like... after replying to him, I immediately rushed off to do something else.
Wen Zhi rested her chin on her palm, her soft lips unconsciously pursing. The more she thought about it, the stranger it seemed, but she couldn't figure out why.
He gave up on thinking about the problem and reached into his pocket to take out the student card he had just taken out, but found nothing.
Um?
Wen Zhi paused for a moment, then reached for the other pocket, but both pockets were empty.
Where is his student ID?
Although he clearly remembered putting his student card in his pocket when he left home and swiping it when he returned books to the library, he still stubbornly opened the drawer and rummaged through it for a while.
"What's wrong? Did you lose something?" Hearing the commotion, his roommates all looked over, and He Jin, who was closest to him, asked with concern.
Wen Zhi lowered her long eyelashes and slightly turned down the corners of her lips. Finally, she closed the drawer in despair: "My student ID card seems to be missing."
Ding Mingjun was stunned for a moment, then blurted out, "Disappeared again?"
As soon as she finished speaking, Wen Zhi's beautiful eyebrows and eyes drooped completely.
The other two roommates both cast reproachful glances at Ding Mingjun, blaming him for bringing up the very thing he shouldn't have.
"Have you searched the table? What about the bed?" Fang Wenxiu put down the mouse, stood up, and wanted to come over and help him search.
Wen Zhi shook her head in frustration: "I swiped my student card when I returned the book to the library just now, so it must have been left outside."
He Jin, who was standing nearby, immediately chimed in, "Then I'll go ask around the school wall for you!"
Ding Mingjun also grabbed his phone: "I'll go ask in the dorm group chat too!"
He Jin skillfully found the submission interface on the campus wall and asked while typing, "Where did you go this afternoon?"
Wen Zhi recounted her schedule for this afternoon.
“You’ve been to so many places? I’ll list them all.” He Jin organized his thoughts and his fingers flew across the screen. He didn’t mention Wen Zhi’s name, but only listed the places he had been to that afternoon, asking if anyone had found a student ID card in any of them.
After submitting the article, He Jin sighed with some worry: "I hope I'll be lucky this time and not run into any more strange people."
This is not the first time Wen Zhi has lost her student ID card.
Once, a boy who was interested in Wen Zhi found her. Under the pretext of returning her student card, he asked Wen Zhi out several times. Each time, he made various excuses, saying that he had forgotten to bring it. He even wanted Wen Zhi to go back to his rented house off campus with him to get it.
In the end, Wen Zhi still had to get a new student card.
Actually, replacing a student card isn't particularly troublesome, but it takes at least seven working days to get the new card. During this time, you not only have to borrow someone else's card to enter and exit the dormitory building, but you also can't enter venues like the library. Even some meetings require you to swipe your student card to sign in, which is really inconvenient.
Therefore, Wen Zhi was still hoping that a kind person would find his student ID card.
Dormitory 203.
Since returning to the dormitory in the afternoon, Song Juelan has been sitting at his desk like a silent statue, without moving an inch.
The student ID card, which had been carefully wiped clean, was placed on the table.
Face up, the photo on the card is clearly imprinted in my eyes, like an artistic photo cut out from a magazine. That beautiful face is not much different from now, only slightly immature.
It's beautiful, but also very annoying.
Song Juelan's deep gaze swept back and forth across the photo, the name, and the year of enrollment. He already knew that simple information by heart. His gaze finally settled on the pair of clear black and white eyes in the photo.
What exactly happened?
His usually calm and clear mind was in complete chaos, all his thoughts were jumbled up, and he was unable to calm down and think.
Song Juelan closed his eyes, took a deep breath, forced himself to detach from his complicated emotions, and began to sort out the clues he had obtained from the student card.
Wen Zhi enrolled in school only three years earlier than him.
Wenzhi's student card is valid until next year.
Wen Zhi had her student ID card with her, indicating that she was still using it recently.
All these clues point to an unbelievable truth.
Wen Zhi is a senior student at S University.
Not that I was a student at S University before, but now.
A rare hint of bewilderment surfaced in Song Juelan's dark eyes.
How is that possible?
Could it be that Wen Zhi had Xiao Tang before even graduating from university?
It felt as if countless electric drills were drilling deep into his mind, buzzing and making noise. He couldn't understand what was going on, and his eyes grew increasingly deep, as if he wanted to stare a hole through the student card on the desk.
"Hey, Senior Wen lost his student card!" Fei Kangcheng's surprised voice suddenly came from behind.
Song Juelan's heart skipped a beat. She thought he had seen her student ID card on her desk, so she subconsciously raised her right hand and blocked the student ID card.
Then, another roommate, Jia Rui, chimed in, "I saw it in the dorm group chat too. You can keep an eye out when you go out to buy food later."
"Haha, once this news is out, people will probably already be looking for it in those places. We don't need to pay attention anymore," Cheng Yuanji said, leaning back in his chair and half-jokingly.
Song Juelan paused for a moment before realizing they were talking about the dormitory group chat message. He picked up his phone from the table, opened the dormitory group chat he had never seen before, and sure enough, he saw the message they were discussing.
[Forwarded: Has anyone found a student ID card? It might have been dropped near the library, the dessert shop behind the auditorium, the courier station, or the grove of trees. The name on it is "Wen Zhi". Please keep an eye out. I'll treat you to milk tea if you find it (hands clasped in prayer)]
The dormitory group that these new students joined was the third subgroup. This message was forwarded from another subgroup. Wen Zhi herself was not in this group.
After this message was posted, it was like cold water being poured into a hot oil pan. First, a few people posted shocked emojis, and then a neat line of comments appeared below.
[I'll go find it right now!]
The entire page was almost entirely filled with that sentence; I don't know if they were serious or joking.
Song Juelan flipped to the last page expressionlessly, his jawline unconsciously tightening as he clenched the student ID card, which was warmed by his body heat, in his palm.
The three roommates watched the flurry of messages in the group chat and started discussing it with laughter.
"I bet someone will find Senior Wen's student card within an hour."
"It won't take that long!"
"Found it? You'd have to dig three feet into the ground to find it, haha!"
Listening to the group discuss Wen Zhi, Song Juelan felt a strange unease. He wasn't used to Wen Zhi going from being someone only he knew to a well-known figure on campus.
He lowered his eyelids, his gaze lingering for a moment on the bustling group chat interface, before suddenly speaking, his voice devoid of emotion: "You all know him?"
The chatter in the dormitory suddenly stopped, and all three of them froze, turning to look at Song Juelan.
Normally, Song Juelan would never be interested in the gossip they talked about, so what's wrong with him today?
Fei Kangcheng was the first to react and explained to him, "I wouldn't say we know each other, but Senior Wen is so famous, who doesn't know him!"
On the first day of school, he mentioned this beautiful senior in the dormitory, but judging from Song Juelan's completely uninterested look at the time, he probably had long forgotten about her.
The other two, having come to their senses, chimed in, and seeing that he seemed interested, they enthusiastically gave him a "lesson" about Wen Zhi.
Song Juelan listened in silence for a long time, and knew everything about Wen Zhi, from how many suitors she had to her ranking in the previous semester.
When the three roommates were talking until their throats were dry, Song Juelan suddenly asked, "Does he have a child?"
"Pfft—" Fei Kangcheng, who was drinking water, was so startled by these words that he choked and spat out a mouthful of water.
The other two also stared wide-eyed, as if they had heard something incredibly outrageous.
Brother Song isn't stupid, so why would he ask such a question?
After finally catching his breath, Fei Kangcheng coughed several times before weakly saying, "This... how is this possible, Brother Song?"
"Yeah, Senior Wen has never even had a girlfriend, and he never took a break from his studies, so how could he have a child?"
Wen Zhi's sexual orientation is not a secret, so it's impossible for him to get a girl pregnant. And if he were to say that he gave birth to the child himself, the timeline wouldn't make sense.
and……
Fei Kangcheng discreetly observed Song Juelan's expression.
Although it's common for men to be able to have children these days, how did Song Juelan know that Wen Zhi could also have children?
Song Juelan's expression did not change, but he fell silent again, his eyes dark and unfathomable, as if he were thinking about something.
The three exchanged bewildered glances, completely baffled and not understanding what was going on.
After a moment of silence in the dormitory, they started talking about other things, bringing up the somewhat strange topic from earlier.
Song Juelan's palm was sore from the thin student card, leaving a clear mark. His thick black eyelashes drooped slightly as he slowly opened his palm, his dark gaze falling on the card.
In the photo, the handsome young man has a faint smile on his lips, his long eyelashes cast a light shadow on his eyelids, and his bright eyes are clear and innocent.
His fingertips gently caressed the photograph, carrying complex emotions that he himself couldn't quite explain.
Smell of gardenias, smell of gardenias.
This burning name kept churning in his mind.
Little liar.
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Author's Note: Bonus chapter for reaching 10,000 nutrient solutions!
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