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Saturday night, working overtime.
Pan Yuejian went home after finishing his workout.
He took out the watermelon he had just bought and put it in his mouth with a fork.
This is his post-workout quick carb.
While playing on his phone and eating, Pan Yue inadvertently spotted a cute puppy avatar among a bunch of cold-toned male profile pictures.
He opened it without asking.
This person's nickname is "Two Bachelors".
11. The time is right.
I forgot to add a note for her.
Pan Yue clicked into the notes section, thought for a moment, and then exited.
This name is so eye-catching that even without a note, everyone knows who it is.
Pan Yue casually clicked into the "single dog's" WeChat Moments.
......
It's very noisy. A huge cacophony of noise.
The most recent one is about games.
Pan Yue clicked on it and saw that it was titled "Peerless King".
He's quite impressive, very much like he was back in the day.
Continue scrolling down.
Another long string of text, along with a bunch of parentheses and a few emojis, what does it say...?
The monkey swings on a swing, snatches bananas, and then transforms into a roaring bird.
In short, it's quite abstract.
However, Pan Yue understood that she was probably criticizing the start of the school year.
Keep scrolling down.
Location: Qin City.
He flicked his finger and clicked on the page details.
This post, unlike her usual boisterous style on WeChat Moments, consisted of just a simple sentence:
"I want to experience happiness."
The accompanying pictures are just eight simple landscape photos, plus a selfie of Zhu Shiyi.
In the photo, the girl is very close to the camera, her lips are slightly parted, glistening and full; her almond-shaped eyes are round and curved, revealing two full eye bags, and she makes a scissor gesture with one hand on her cheek.
Perceive happiness.
Pan Yue was slightly distracted, and his fingertips unconsciously pressed down.
A "Save" button suddenly popped up on the screen.
Pan Yue lowered his eyes and left Qincheng's WeChat Moments.
He scrolled down a bit more.
She posts almost every day, things like tea and snacks, hot pot, driving test route maps, and reversing into a parking space...
It's not food, it's just ghostly noises.
Happy birthday, Zhu Shiyi, who is almost 30!
Finally, I saw a normal post on my WeChat Moments.
My birthday is July 15th, and I'm only 20 years old.
...He was born in 2000, and is almost 6 years younger than him.
Pan Yue suddenly sighed, "Are all the kids born in 2000 graduating already?"
He kept scrolling down, only to find that he couldn't reach the bottom anytime soon.
Is she really that talkative?
She looks quite quiet and reserved.
But that seems to be true.
She seemed shy, but after getting to know her, she was similar to Lin Changren.
They just couldn't stop talking.
Pan Yue exited his WeChat Moments and returned to his chat with "11[Strawberry]".
He remembered his business, opened the chat window, and typed a few words.
How was your weekend?
......
He deleted it and retyped: 【Do you want to see the photo?】
After thinking about it, he deleted it and reorganized his thoughts.
He sent the video and the photos taken by Lin Changren.
I forgot about it a while ago.
[The photo Changzi asked me to send you.]
Twenty minutes passed, and the other party still hadn't made a move.
Finally, the other party replied.
They hadn't even exchanged two sentences.
...Let's just say he's old.
Okay, I mean his emojis are old-fashioned.
Pan Yue opened his emoji library.
During his university years, he also stole some emojis from some group chats, and Lin Changren liked to send them to him, so he saved a few.
......
But they all had panda heads and were middle-aged men.
Pan Yue fell into deep self-doubt.
They did indeed exchange these things among their brothers.
But does that mean we should send it to girls too?
So ugly.
He explained: "I also have other emojis."
Even with his hand already on the uncle's head, he still couldn't bring himself to do it.
What if people think it's indecent?
The other party remained silent.
Another half hour passed.
Pan Yue felt inexplicably anxious.
He posted again: "[Stolen from Lin Changren, it's very ugly.]"
Pan Yue: [Just like him.]
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"That scared me to death—" Zhu Shiyi gasped, patting his chest. "You're so easily startled."
"You really are, do you even know that?" Ni Yuqi slammed the door shut in a fit of anger, panting heavily.
Zhu Shiyi pulled back the bed curtains.
Ni Yuqi's hair, which should have been dried, was still wet and clung to her shoulders.
The strands of hair were stuck together in clumps, indicating that they hadn't been blown dry at all.
Zhu Shiyi realized the seriousness of the situation: "What happened?"
Xu Mengyao was also completely confused, and quietly peeked out.
"I'm so angry! Do you know what Xiao Yuhan and the others said about you?" Ni Yuqi said, hands on her hips, her tone harsh.
"What did he say about me?" Zhu Shiyi was startled.
Ni Yuqi said indignantly, "I heard it when I went downstairs..."
......
"...How dare you say that? Did you even put any effort into the project plan? You copied the entire elite competition without changing a single thing, and you wouldn't listen to our urging. Am I supposed to just wait to be eliminated along with you guys if I don't go to another group?"
The voice behind the door sounded impatient and somewhat familiar. Ni Yuqi listened carefully and realized it was Xiao Yuhan!
"What do you mean we won't change it? This project won first prize before! This time, the teacher even contacted us to register. Do you know what that means? It means the teacher appreciates our plan! It proves it's already very good and doesn't need any changes at all." A strange female voice retorted.
Ni Yuqi subtly stopped in her tracks, her gossip-loving spirit burning brightly.
"Exactly, all you do is emphasize how innocent you are, making it sound nice. If you can't rejoin a team, why don't you just leave the other team? Isn't it all for the first prize?" Another unfamiliar voice angrily retorted.
Ni Yuqi roughly understood that these were Xiao Yuhan's three teammates, and they were insulting each other.
"What are you pretending to be so high and mighty for? You're blaming me now just because you didn't win the award?" Xiao Yuhan retorted.
"What do you mean by 'pretending to be high and mighty'? Wasn't this all your doing? And how could you have the nerve to let someone with absolutely no experience speak on stage? If it weren't for her, would we have even failed to win a third prize?" the strange woman's voice said angrily.
Ni Yuqi paused, her brows furrowing deeply.
These people were not only insulting each other, but also insulting Zhu Shiyi.
She quickly turned on her phone to record the audio.
"She seems serious, but she just wants to crash the national competition without even asking if we agree. We've worked so hard on our proposals for so long, why should she get a free ride?"
Upon hearing this, Ni Yuqi muttered a curse under her breath and almost kicked the door open.
"And another thing, she was messing around with our plans without even asking a single question. She acted all high and mighty on stage, and even though she knew the answer, she didn't tell Jia Rong sooner. She's selfish and always trying to steal the spotlight."
"Just because you won first prize once, you think you can always be superior to others? Wake up..." Xiao Yuhan didn't speak up for Zhu Shiyi, she just retorted.
......
"So, I rushed back to tell you what's going on?" Ni Yuqi finished playing the recording.
"Are they crazy?" Zhu Shiyi was furious. "She can barely answer a few questions, and when I helped her out, she complained that I didn't give her face? Besides, I'm not a god, how could I tell her what was going on?"
Ni Yuqi rolled her eyes: "Is she brain-dead? Doesn't she know to ask herself? Does she think everyone can read her mind? Even a beggar knows to go beg for food when he's hungry, but she's blaming passersby for not offering her tea or water."
"Also, about changing the content, I asked Xiao Yuhan, and she told me to change it however I wanted, they definitely wouldn't mind," Zhu Shiyi paused, "Oh, I asked the other two group members first, and they said the content was definitely fine, they won awards in the elite competition."
Ni Yuqi clicked her tongue and exclaimed, wrinkling her face and shaking her head, mimicking in a high-pitched voice, "Hey—we're the winners of the Elite Challenge!"
Xu Mengyao also felt nauseous: "I threw up. They've achieved something, so they're just pretending."
“This kind of self-centered person can attack you from a hundred angles no matter what you do,” Xu Mengyao shrugged. “Even if you tell her the answer, she can still accuse you of being pretentious, look down on her, or say that your answer was bad and point fingers at you.”
“Exactly,” Ni Yuqi protested. “If anyone does anything to offend her, she’s guilty of a heinous crime; but if she’s right or wrong, it’s all perfectly justified.”
“They really just blurted it out without thinking,” Zhu Shiyi said, feeling a little better after finding someone on the same side. “But it was Xiao Yuhan who asked me to change it. She said she would talk to the other two group members and that I didn’t need to worry about it.”
So it was Xiao Yuhan who didn't tell Cai Jiarong and the others.
Ni Yuqi was clearly aware of this as well.
"Let's go find her." Ni Yuqi grabbed Zhu Shiyi and was about to leave in a hurry.
"Wait, wait—" Zhu Shiyi hurriedly exerted some effort, "Let me think about how to say it first."
"What are you thinking? I'll just yell at you, you can watch," Ni Yuqi said, one hand on her hip, glancing at Xu Mengyao. "Sister Yao, are you going?"
Xu Mengyao climbed off the bed: "Go ahead. I'm the class monitor, I can't stand by and watch you fight."
"Then don't you dare affect my performance." Ni Yuqi patted her chest.
"Don't worry, I'm on the side of justice," Xu Mengyao said with a smile. "And I believe that the rest of us are definitely on the side of justice."
The warm light shone into the night.
In the small dormitory room, three fresh flowers were arranged in a circle.
As if injected with a hot spring, Zhu Shiyi sniffled, opened her mouth wide, and pretended to cry bitterly: "You are my half-sisters!"
General Ni was wearing armor, while strategist Xu was beating drums and gongs.
Zhu Shiyi, a lowly soldier, wearing pajamas and slippers, obeys military orders and acts aggressively.
Passersby cast strange glances at her, and Ni Yuqi raised her head even higher.
Zhu Shiyi enjoys working with his gang, and they always have their noses in the air.
She secretly imagined it.
This verbal battle, devoid of soldiers or weapons, saw her looking down at them with disdain, and the three immediately fled in terror, crouching on the ground crying and shouting, "We're sorry, we were wrong."
Then, she snorted and lectured them: Don't be ungrateful.
I get excited just thinking about it.
She's a top player too; she can't rely solely on her teammates.
Xu Mengyao also haughtily tossed her hair aside.
The team's morale is high.
After climbing downstairs to Xiao Yuhan's dormitory, Ni Yuqi took the lead and knocked on the door in a flurry of activity.
The person who opened the door was a girl from the next class whom I wasn't very familiar with.
"Who are you looking for?" The girl peeked her head back strangely.
"Hello, classmate, we're looking for Xiao Yuhan." Ni Yuqi spoke politely, making sure not to injure pedestrians.
Zhu Shiyi tilted her head; there was no one else in the dormitory.
Sure enough: "The dormitory supervisor called her downstairs."
The enemy withdrew during the war?
Zhu Shiyi shook his head inwardly.
They're definitely hiding in the bushes!
It must be a diversionary tactic by the enemy to divert their forces and relocate their positions!
Ni Yuqi thanked them and led the team back up to the sixth floor.
They returned empty-handed.
It was all for nothing.
"I'll talk to them later." Ni Yuqi vented her anger by using a primitive method in her dormitory: she blew her wet hair dry in a tornado.
After the commotion, Zhu Shiyi calmed down: "Forget it, I'd better not drag you into this. I'll talk to you myself later."
Ni Yuqi bent over, shook her head, and even pulled out one hand, waving it out loud: "It's okay, my good sister, I'll go through thick and thin for you!"
“Heroine,” Zhu Shiyi said, bowing with a slap and a stone, then slightly raising an eyebrow, “but I just thought about it, and Auntie called Xiao Yuhan probably because they were arguing too loudly and disturbing others.”
"I can't involve you."
"What will you do by yourself?" Xu Mengyao asked gently. "What about the three of them?"
"It's not a real war," Zhu Shiyi shrugged and laughed. "Have I ever lost a verbal battle?"
"You?" Ni Yuqi's tone was clearly questioning. "You don't cry alone under the covers at night?"
"Me?" Zhu Shiyi said, trying to sound guilty, "How many disgusting guys have I ever verbally abused while playing games?"
......
Zhu Shiyi got into bed.
I drew the curtains, and my mind compulsively repeated the same thought process.
She did nothing wrong. It was Xiao Yuhan who made the promise to her. Why is she accused of trying to curry favor with the national competition?
Moreover, it was Xiao Yuhan who told us to change it; it's all Xiao Yuhan's fault for not telling Cai Jiarong and the others.
Yes, that's it.
......
Could it be that there was something wrong with the content she changed?
She really had no experience.
......
I'm so angry! I'm furious!
Zhu Shiyi grabbed the blanket and covered his head.
So, is her change actually correct?
What gives them the right to say that about her?
Zhu Shiyi frantically tried to think of how to curse.
......
That kind of behavior is too dirty; I can't even bring myself to curse it. It's uncivilized.
......
This kind of performance is completely ineffective and incredibly weak.
Zhu Shiyi suddenly threw off the covers and took a deep breath.
He picked up his phone again.
Let her go surfing, and then go to the advanced class of Yin Yang to get a gilded plating.
But I saw the unread WeChat messages first.
Pan Yue said half an hour ago that he has other emojis.
They even slandered Lin Changren, saying he was ugly.
Fifteen minutes later, he sent her a new message.
......
Yes, a black and white one;
Abstract;
Panda head.
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