Chapter 75 Sweet First Day: The Daily Life of a Young Couple (1)
R-Size Assistant: [Submission] Hi ShouShou, could you help me get someone listed?
[I ran into a female student last week downstairs at Mingde Building. She was marching with a flag, very serious, with round eyes and a rosy face from the sun, like a dazzling ray of light in summer, giving me a feeling of being struck in the heart.]
But because I'm such a coward and everyone around me is a freshman (my mom is a senior, so I didn't dare to go up and chat with her), I secretly went to see this freshman girl several times later. A group of freshmen were sitting in the shade resting, and you could spot her at a glance as she was looking down at her phone.
This week, encouraged by my roommate, I finally decided to ask her for her contact information, only to find out they'd changed their training location [facepalm]. If she already has a boyfriend, I wish her happiness. If not, could we add each other on WeChat to get to know each other? I hope she or her roommate/classmate sees this.
Liang Qianqian: [Baby, is that you?]
Liang Qianqian: [Didn't your major have military training at Mingde Building last week, and then this week it's moved to the sports field?]
Liang Qianqian: [Didn't your instructor just pick you to carry the flag last week?]
After taking a shower, Xiang Di returned to the dormitory and comfortably lay down on the upper bunk.
I just took out my phone and sent my boyfriend a message saying "I'm done showering," and before he could reply, I received several messages from my best friend Qianqian.
Xiang Di: [What's this?]
Liang Qianqian: [Look at the submissions on the campus wall, they were just posted half an hour ago.]
Xiang Di quickly clicked into "R Big Assistant's" Moments.
It seems that every school has a campus wall dedicated to receiving submissions from its own students. Occasionally, it also posts useful campus information and sponsored content, making it much more convenient than a school forum.
Xiang Di had just finished registering when the senior student in charge of welcoming new students recommended this account to her. She would occasionally browse it to read posts and gossip, but she never thought she would be on the platform herself.
The dozens of comments under this post are all posted by the assistant because non-friends cannot see the comments due to the privacy settings of WeChat Moments.
R-Size Assistant: The senior's writing style has a kind of simple, honest quality that comes from an old straight man finally getting to know something.
R-Size Assistant: Writing a novel, bro, and you're even getting dizzy from the light, hahaha.
R-Small Assistant: Bro, are you even human? It's only been less than a month since school started, and you're already eyeing that junior girl?
Xiang Di read the submission twice. There was no specific information about the junior who was looking for, not even a photo.
The only somewhat indicative point is that the junior student in the submission was in charge of carrying the flag. Xiang Di was indeed recommended by the instructor last week to carry the flag during the military training exercise, but she wasn't the only one selected; there were two other girls as well.
Besides Xiang Di, the other two girls were both over 1.7 meters tall. In the end, the instructor decided that the other two girls would play rock-paper-scissors to decide who would be the flag bearer.
Xiang Di didn't take it to heart at all and laughed it off with Liang Qianqian. How narcissistic must she be to think that the submission was about her?
As a result, one of my roommates came back after taking a shower and excitedly came over with the same submission, asking if it was her.
"No way, it should be the other two girls holding the flags," Xiang Di denied.
"But I think the description in this submission sounds a lot like you."
Another roommate also saw the post and said, "If that senior really found Didi, that would be even more heartbreaking, since Didi already has a boyfriend."
Xiang Di nodded, just then her phone vibrated; her boyfriend had replied to her message.
She stopped talking to her roommates on the phone, quickly got out of bed, climbed down the ladder, and shuffled to the balcony in her slippers to talk to her boyfriend.
The roommates exchanged glances, hoping that the senior's first experience of romantic love wouldn't be with Xiang Di.
In fact, on the first day of school, Xiang Di was asked for contact information by three senior students. It was during military training that everyone wore the same military training uniform and ugly military training caps every day, and they were all sweating profusely from marching in the sun, which covered up at least half of Xiang Di's beautiful appearance.
When Xiang Di rejected the last senior, several girls were eating in the cafeteria. After the senior left looking somewhat disappointed, her roommate asked her why she rejected him, since he was quite handsome.
Xiang Di nodded in agreement: "I also think it's pretty handsome."
"Then why did you tell him it wasn't convenient to add him on WeChat? If he's handsome, why not get to know him?" my roommate asked, puzzled.
Xiang Di said she had a boyfriend, and only then did her roommates realize that Xiang Di, who seemed the most innocent and youngest among them, was the only one in the dorm who had a boyfriend right after starting university.
Xiang Di showed her roommates photos of her boyfriend. They were taken during their graduation trip after the college entrance exams. The background was the Enchanted Storybook Castle at Disneyland. Both of them were wearing simple and youthful T-shirts and were smiling reservedly at the camera. There was a slight distance between their bodies, which made them look like a young couple who had just started dating and were still a little shy about making intimate poses in front of the camera.
Even without special lighting or post-production retouching, the photo still caught the eyes of several girls for a moment because of the youthful beauty of the two main characters.
Most importantly, Xiang Di's boyfriend is incredibly handsome.
With his black hair, fair skin, and cool, aloof demeanor, he's incredibly handsome.
She's the kind of person who, simply by posting her face online, adding some atmospheric filters and background music, can garner millions of likes and become a beauty blogger.
With such good food, no wonder she could reject three male classmates without batting an eye.
Xiang Di's roommate asked her, "Is your boyfriend sure he wants to study at university for four years instead of changing his life path?"
Xiang Di said it was impossible. During her graduation trip, she wanted to buy a souvenir at a scenic spot, but thought it was too expensive. So she asked her boyfriend to help her bargain with the souvenir seller. Then her boyfriend was flirted with by the seller.
The auntie, speaking in a local dialect, said, "Young man, if you call me 'beautiful sister,' I'll give you a discount."
The friends who were with her laughed out loud. Xiang Di tried to help her boyfriend out of the predicament, but was stopped by the other friends. In the end, her boyfriend paid the money with a dark face, preferring to buy it at the ridiculously expensive original price rather than shout.
Afterwards, her boyfriend gave Xiang Di his phone and password, saying that she could just use his phone to pay for whatever she wanted to buy and not to haggle.
Several roommates said that her boyfriend was quite aloof, preferring to spend money and be a fool rather than sell his face.
Xiang Di also showed her roommates a group photo of them, which included her high school classmates with whom she got along very well.
The tall, beautiful girl with gorgeous ash brown hair is Xiang Di's best friend, also from R University, studying in the School of Economics and Management.
A roommate asked, "Is your best friend straight? If not, could you consider me?"
Xiang Di said regretfully, "Well, she's straight."
My roommate sighed sadly.
Another roommate asked about the handsome mixed-race guy with chestnut curly hair in the photo. In this photo, besides Xiang Di's boyfriend, he was the most eye-catching handsome guy.
Xiang Di also said regretfully that he is single, but he is studying at a university in the United States and only returns to China during holidays.
"That's fine then." Another roommate also sadly left.
The remaining roommates then asked the other two boys. One of them, a boy with phoenix eyes and a wicked smile, was their high school class monitor, studying computer science at Tsinghua University. The other boy, with a buzz cut and a silly smile, was studying communications engineering at a university of science and technology.
They're both single, but Xiang Di said the class monitor has already been chosen, but she could introduce the other one if her roommates are interested.
My roommates were just joking around. After all, we're only freshmen and haven't experienced many new things yet, so there's no rush to talk about it.
"You're both top students! What about your boyfriend? Which school does he go to?"
After introducing the other people for a while, Xiang Di was just waiting for her roommates to ask this question. She cleared her throat and said in a slightly pretentious tone, "Yan University, Guanghua School of Management, Finance."
The installation was a great success, and my roommates were all shocked at the same time.
"Wow!"
Xiang Di's roommates asked her again if she and her boyfriend really hadn't considered creating a couple's account. High school classmates, first love, academic geniuses, handsome man and beautiful woman—any one of these personas would completely outshine those couple bloggers who just create a script and hype up their on-screen couples.
Xiang Di firmly refused. First, her boyfriend was an absolute loner who was very passive in social situations and rarely even took selfies. Second, although she seemed cheerful, she was actually a loner at heart and only dared to act crazy in front of familiar people.
Her words naturally piqued the curiosity of her roommates: how did these two adults, one who dislikes socializing and the other who is only open with familiar people, end up together?
Someone has to be the first to break the ice.
Xiang Di was momentarily speechless, looking slightly embarrassed. He explained that the reasons were rather complicated and difficult to explain.
She was clearly unwilling to share details about their relationship, and her roommates, though curious, didn't ask any further.
During the two weeks of military training after the start of the semester, Xiang Di no longer hid her interactions with her boyfriend from her roommates because she had already come clean with the truth.
She has an extremely strong desire to share, including taking pictures of what dishes are served in the cafeteria that day and sending them to her boyfriend. She also calls him from the balcony every night.
At first, Xiang Di's roommates thought the couple was saying something mushy, which was why they were deliberately avoiding them when they made the call. But one rainy day, when Xiang Di couldn't go to the balcony, she asked her roommates if they minded her making the call in the dorm. Her roommates said they didn't mind at all, saying they wouldn't mind even if she put it on speakerphone. They said that single people don't have any other hobbies but love to watch couples being lovey-dovey.
Xiang Di didn't turn on speakerphone, and she didn't say anything mushy. She talked about everyday trivial things, but she could talk about them with great relish, with an unchanging sweet smile on her face.
Most guys don't really like listening to these little things; they'd rather play a few more games than hear about them. Xiang Di's boyfriend probably doesn't like listening to his girlfriend's mundane daily life. But after the dorm lights went out, Xiang Di said she had to hang up. Her boyfriend said something, and Xiang Di said no, her roommates are going to sleep, and she'd continue the story tomorrow.
However, the next day, Xiang Di was too tired from training, so she fell asleep as soon as she took a shower, leaving her phone on the table. When someone called, a roommate accidentally saw the caller ID as she passed by. It wasn't a name, but a string of incomprehensible numbers.
Her roommates didn't dare to answer easily either. As a result, when she returned to the dormitory that night, Xiang Di immediately called her boyfriend to apologize, saying that she was too tired yesterday and forgot to call him.
Her roommates all wanted to see what was going on and firmly forbade Xiang Di from making the phone call on the balcony. Xiang Di had no choice but to sit in the dormitory, but she lowered her voice and was more restrained in her tone when coaxing her boyfriend.
Until her boyfriend said something, Xiang Di immediately frowned: "Huh? No, I don't want a video call."
"Can't we just call? Why do we have to video chat? You know what I look like."
"Well, it won't work anyway."
Why aren't you saying anything?...Are you angry?
One of Xiang Di's roommates couldn't help but laugh, so she whispered a reminder to Xiang Di, saying that she could video chat since the others were already in bed.
Xiang Di shook her head. After the lights were turned off, she told her roommates that she didn't want to video chat because she felt she had gotten tanned during the two weeks of military training and didn't want her boyfriend to see it.
Although they haven't met Xiang Di's boyfriend yet, judging from Xiang Di's description and her behavior over the past two weeks, the couple seems to have a very good relationship. Xiang Di is a very clingy girlfriend who likes to share everything with her boyfriend and is also a girl who cares a lot about her image in front of him.
As for her boyfriend, well, I don't know if it's just my imagination, but he seems more clingy.
While other boys play video games every night, he listens to his girlfriend's daily life on campus every night. He gets anxious if his girlfriend doesn't call him for a day, and he wants to video chat with her. He gets angry if she doesn't video chat with him.
It feels a bit different from the aloof and handsome face in the group photo.
In conclusion, the senior who submitted the paper should ideally not fall in love with Xiang Di at first sight, otherwise his young heart, which only blossomed in his junior year, is destined to wither.
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Xiang Di and her roommates didn't take the submission seriously, since people submit posts to the campus wall every day to try and rescue people, but most of them don't follow up.
Until the day of the military training performance, after the freshmen finished their marching formation and came off the field, Xiang Di was sweating profusely. She was chatting with her roommates by the playground while taking off her military training cap to fan herself. The girl in charge of carrying the flag came over and called her.
The girl holding the flag smiled knowingly: "Xiang Di, a senior is looking for you."
Xiang Di exclaimed "Ah!" before she could react, a tall, fair-skinned boy wearing glasses walked towards her.
The moment he saw her, the boy finally breathed a sigh of relief: "Junior, I've finally found you."
Xiang Di stared blankly at the boy. At this moment, the girl holding the flag explained to her that at first her roommate thought the senior was looking for her. However, after the two added each other's contact information and chatted for a long time, the girl felt that the cute junior described by the senior between the lines did not seem to be herself.
After talking to the senior student in more detail, the girl realized that the senior student was not looking for a girl who carried a flag, but rather Xiang Di from their department.
At this point, the people around were watching the drama unfold, and some even started to jeer.
Apart from Xiang Di and her roommates.
Xiang Di didn't expect that the senior was actually looking for her. She also felt it was inappropriate to refuse the senior who had been looking for her for so long in front of so many people. She could only add the senior as a friend for the time being and explain to him that she already had a boyfriend as soon as the meeting ended.
The senior sent a disappointed emoji, but still magnanimously wished her happiness, and then asked the junior to delete him from her contacts.
I thought the matter was over, but I don't know who filmed it and posted it on Douyin.
Douyin's streaming mechanism has always been mysterious. A carefully crafted video will never get any traffic, but a casually shot video with the phrase "I finally found you" paired with the content submitted to the campus wall and the background music of a sweet song, plus the gentle and joyful expression on the senior's face and the blank expression on the girl's face, will inexplicably go viral.
The comments section below the video was filled with people saying how sweet it was and waiting for the sequel, saying they would give a certain amount of money as a wedding gift, and others saying they were late and asking if the male and female leads had gotten married yet.
In just a few days, the video spread rapidly across the internet like a virus. Liang Qianqian, an 18G surfing expert, also came across the video. It wasn't scary that someone from her own school saw it, but what was scary was that Ye Minjia from Tsinghua University and Wang Sichen from the University of Science and Technology of China also saw the video. They both shared the video with Xiang Di and asked her what was going on. Did Bai Jiangxin know that he was going to have a brother?
Xiang Sheng, who was also a graduate student at the same university and was herself an internet celebrity, naturally came across the video.
Xiang Sheng: [Is this you?]
Xiang Sheng: [Who is this man?]
Xiang Sheng: [Are you in a relationship?]
After being bombarded with three questions, Xiang Di felt a chill run down his spine.
Almost everyone who saw the video and recognized her came to ask her about it, but there was one person who didn't.
Xiang Di could only quickly contact her senior, and the two of them submitted a post to the campus wall to clarify the situation. They also contacted the classmate who posted the video to delete it.
The senior student asked her with concern, "Does your boyfriend know about this? You two haven't had a fight, have you?"
Xiang Di didn't have time to deal with her senior, so she hurriedly hung up the phone. After making full mental preparations, she took a deep breath and dialed her boyfriend's number.
The reply was quick, but extremely cold: "What?"
"Nothing much, haha..." Xiang Di's tone was stiff. "I just missed you a little. What are you doing?"
"On my way to your school."
Xiang Di immediately shouted, "You're coming to my school?!"
The other person retorted, "Can't I come?"
Hearing that he was coming to her school, Xiang Di was actually quite excited, and her heart started pounding for a moment, because the two of them hadn't seen each other since the start of the semester, each busy with their own studies and military training. She really missed him.
I really want to be close to him and kiss him, but because I got tanned in the past two weeks, I've been holding back and want to wait until I'm fair-skinned before going to see him.
But why now of all times!
Xiang Di hesitated, "No...don't you have class today? Aren't your schedules very full?"
Bai Jiangxin said calmly, "Yes, but I still have time to settle accounts with you."
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I really like this kind of third-person perspective on romance; it feels so sweet and relatable, right?
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