When the girl in the white shirt noticed that there was also a good-looking boy standing in front of her, she amicably extended a hand to the boy and said, "Hello. Are you also a student here? I'm Li Beiyu."
Anyone thinking Wen Tao would return the girl's greeting and offer to shake hands would be a fool. After all, he might have changed his appearance, but his nature remained the same.
"I don't know you," Wen Tao said as he stuck his hands into his pockets. Then, he leaned forward slightly and smiled at the girl in the white shirt, his face looking very much like that of a punk trying to harass a girl.
"Big Brother Beining! Look at him!" Li Beiyu said, pouting at the man in the black shirt.
The man in the black shirt, also known as Li Beining, wrapped an arm around Li Beiyu's shoulders and awkwardly smiled at Wen Tao, saying, "Forgive my little sister for her insensibility."
Li Beiyu immediately grew upset over Li Beining's words. After letting out a humph, she added, "What little sister? We aren't even related by blood. I am your girlfriend."
Upon hearing Li Beiyu's words, Tang Yu and Yin Zhao-an gasped at the same time, their minds wondering in unison: Incest?
"That's none of my business. Also, you're not even as pretty as my sister-in-law," Wen Tao disdainfully said, flipping the seemingly affectionate couple the bird before hastily fleeing and taking a seat next to Yin Zhao-an. Then, he asked Yin Zhao-an, "Right, Big Bro?"
Yin Zhao-an was initially stunned by Wen Tao's question. Then, after comparing Li Beiyu's innocent appearance with her Tang-Tang's looks, she pat Wen Tao on the shoulders and approvingly said, "You have good eyes!"
After listening to the interaction between Wen Tao and Yin Zhao-an, Li Beining's expression darkened a little, and he promptly decided to leave the gazebo with Li Beiyu. As he was leaving, he said to Wen Tao, "Remember to visit my shop again. I'll give you a 50% discount."
Wen Tao didn't hear Li Beining's words clearly. In a panic, he grabbed Yin Zhao-an's arm but quickly let go of it when he noticed Tang Yu's gaze turning to him. Then, with a bitter face, he said, "Big Bro, did you hear him? That 'Tony' said he's going to give me a bone fracture!"[1]
Wen Tao was an amateur when it came to fighting. In contrast, that "Tony" was very obviously a trained martial artist. What if Li Beining decided to take revenge on him for his woman's sake? If that happened, he might really end up with broken bones!!
Tang Yu & Yin Zhao-an: …
"Don't go to his shop, then," Yin Zhao-an said in exasperation.
"Big Bro… If I do get beaten up, you must avenge me!" Wen Tao aggrievedly said as he looked at Yin Zhao-an.
"Fine, fine, fine. I'll beat him up for you," Yin Zhao-an said, getting goosebumps from Wen Tao's behavior. At the same time, she couldn't help but wonder how Wen Tao had managed to get himself a bunch of underlings in the first place if he couldn't even fight.
At this time, the phone in her pocket vibrated. Pulling it out, Yin Zhao-an saw that it was Yu Wanrou calling her.
"My mother has probably arrived," Tang Yu said after glancing at Yin Zhao-an's phone.
After picking up the call, Yin Zhao-an pulled Tang Yu along while speaking into the phone, "You're at the dormitory? Okay, I'll bring Tang-Tang over."
Seeing the two girls about to leave, Wen Tao hurriedly got up from the bench and said, "Let's exchange numbers, Big Bro. That way, I can call you for help if I get ganged up on."
Yin Zhao-an did not refuse the request. However, while exchanging numbers with Wen Tao, she couldn't help but ask, "What about those buddies of yours?"
"Don't mention them. Rather than try to get their acts together, they're still wasting their time flirting with chicks all day," Wen Tao said with a look of disgust.
"Going by your words, does that mean you don't have any chicks to flirt with?" Yin Zhao-an asked, grinning.
"Fuck, I'm not that kind of person! I'm a dedicated guy. If I like a girl, I'm going to spend the rest of my life with her. Once I meet my fated woman, I'm going to pamper her to the heavens," Wen Tao said, a look of yearning in his eyes.
Yin Zhao-an was a little moved when she saw Wen Tao's behavior. She similarly had someone she wanted to protect for a lifetime. Unfortunately, she was unlikely to get her wish fulfilled as someone else would come out and take over this task for her sooner or later…
"An-An, let's go," Tang Yu urged when she turned around and saw Yin Zhao-an standing still with a blank look.
"Okay, I'm coming."
…
When Yin Zhao-an and Tang Yu arrived at the dormitory block, they found Wang Zhen sitting on the steps outside the lobby, fanning herself with her hand. At this time, Wang Zhen's face and clothes were already drenched with sweat, so it could be seen how intense of a battle she had fought at the enrollment site.
Meanwhile, Yu Wanrou, who had brought over the luggage from the car, asked, "Which floor?"
"Fourth floor, Room 406," Wang Zhen answered as she took over some of the luggage. Then, she looked up at the tall dormitory building and said, "The fourth floor is pretty good. It's high enough, so it won't be too hot."
With four people working together, moving all the luggage upstairs didn't take much time. The process could have gone even quicker if Yin Zhao-an hadn't brought so many things with her.
The dormitory was for six people. The desks and the beds were separated. The room came with a private bathroom and balcony. The room also had lockers for occupants to store their personal belongings, though they were quite small and couldn't hold too many items.
After taking a look at the room, Yin Zhao-an saw that one of the beds already had someone else's belongings. So, she chose one of the empty bunk beds and occupied the lower bunk, her idea being that she could share a bunk bed with her Tang-Tang.
With Tang Yu as her bunkmate, Yin Zhao-an wouldn't have to worry about situations such as "Can you not move around and make so much noise up there?" and "Can you be quieter down there?". These situations would never occur between them. After all, she needed to pamper her Tang-Tang.
Tang Yu naturally wouldn't try to find trouble for herself by sharing a bunk bed with someone else. So, she went with the bunk above Yin Zhao-an's without hesitation.
While the two girls were unpacking their luggage, the two parents couldn't help but feel a little distressed after looking at the room's facilities. The room had no air conditioning. While it was possible to survive with fans in the summer, what would their daughters do in the winter?
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TL Notes:
[1]50% discount(五折 - wǔ zhé) || bone fracture (骨折 - gǔ zhé) :
The play on words doesn't translate well here. But if "50% discount" is misheard, it can indeed sound like "bone fracture" in Chinese.