“Holy crap! Kong Ning, is this gorgeous woman your little childhood friend?” Le Xiu exclaimed in shock.
“A beauty? Who?” Except for occasional moments, Kong Ning was mostly immune to Wei Mu’s good looks. Having grown up watching her since childhood, she had long grown accustomed to it.
She was probably the only strange creature who didn’t think Wei Mu was pretty.
Well, alright, sometimes Kong Ning was just being stubborn.
“That one.” Yu Lingbo helped by pointing in Wei Mu’s direction.
Kong Ning looked over. “Oh, it’s her.”
“Is she a beauty? She’s alright, I guess.”
Kong Ning took another careful look at Wei Mu.
Today’s Wei Mu indeed seemed a bit different from usual, like a refreshing, sweet icy soda in the middle of summer, shockingly sweet.
Upon hearing this, the two appearance-obsessed girls, Le Xiu and Yu Lingbo, immediately threw away any restraints holding them back.
“Well, you see, the world is actually just a small village, and everyone is family anyway. We shouldn’t form exclusive cliques. We’re family with your little childhood friend too, right, Little Yu?”
Le Xiu blinked playfully as she coordinated with Yu Lingbo.
“Exactly, exactly! We need to be more gentle and welcoming,” Yu Lingbo chimed in.
These two face-lovers always adored making friends with pretty girls, so of course, they had to make a good first impression. As for any arch-rival nonsense, that was Kong Ning’s own problem. The two of them were completely innocent, good people, and this pretty elder sister definitely shouldn’t misunderstand them.
“You two… I’m truly at a loss for words with you.” Kong Ning knew their old habit was acting up again.
There wasn’t a single normal person in Dorm 203: one pretentious poser, two super appearance-obsessed girls, and one corny meme king. Fortunately, everyone was tolerant of one another, forming a harmonious big family.
By the time they walked up to Wei Mu, they genuinely felt like a gentle spring breeze was washing over them, or at least, everyone except Kong Ning thought so.
“This is, ” Kong Ning was just about to introduce her roommates to Wei Mu when she heard Le Xiu beat her to the punch, already launching into her own introduction.
“Pretty sister, I know you! Your name is Wei Mu. I’m Kong Ning’s roommate, Le Xiu.” Le Xiu extended her hand in greeting.
“What are you talking about, Le Xiu? She’s younger than you!” Kong Ning felt deeply speechless.
What “pretty sister”? Was she really an elder sister? Wei Mu was just a little, teary-eyed crybaby who knew exactly how to deceive people out in public once she grew up.
When Kong Ning chatted with her roommates, they had discussed their birthdates. Everyone knew each other’s ages and had even ranked themselves from oldest to youngest. Regarding this, Kong Ning, being the youngest, really disliked mentioning her rank.
Therefore, Wei Mu, who was younger than Kong Ning, was naturally younger than Le Xiu as well.
“Little Kong, aren’t you out of touch? This is a respectful title! Am I right, pretty sister?” Le Xiu said playfully to Wei Mu.
Kong Ning fell silent. Kong Ning’s face darkened.
“Haha.” Wei Mu let out a soft laugh.
She really enjoyed watching Kong Ning get flustered and deflated; it was very cute.
“I’m Yu Lingbo.”
“I’m Shen Nanxi.”
The remaining two also greeted her one after another.
“Hello, everyone. I’m Wei Mu, Kong Ning’s good friend,” Wei Mu said gently, responding to each of them individually.
“Mm-hmm, good friend, we get it,” Le Xiu smiled ambiguously.
Good friends, little childhood sweethearts, arch-rivals… how interesting.
Afterward, they went into the private dining room together, ordered dishes, and ate. Everything went smoothly with plenty of laughter throughout the meal.
Today, Wei Mu got to know Kong Ning’s friends.
And seeing the natural way Kong Ning and Shen Nanxi interacted, Wei Mu secretly let out a sigh of relief.
Asking Kong Ning to bring her roommates along actually served a selfish motive of hers.
Last time, she hadn’t just seen the girl holding Kong Ning’s arm, she had also spotted Shen Nanxi right beside her. Wei Mu deduced that Shen Nanxi was Kong Ning’s roommate.
Shen Nanxi was simply too beautiful. With someone like her living under the same roof as Kong Ning day and night, just thinking about it made Wei Mu feel uneasy. She wanted to know everything about Kong Ning.
Including every single person or thing Kong Ning had a favorable impression of.
Even if Kong Ning didn’t necessarily like girls.
Halfway through the meal, Le Xiu witnessed something extraordinary.
She saw Kong Ning directly drag the food Wei Mu couldn’t finish into her own bowl, complaining, “Tsk, I knew you couldn’t finish it. I love eating this, don’t waste it,” terrified that Wei Mu might scrape it back onto the serving plate.
Le Xiu was stunned.
Was Kong Ning really this frugal?!
“Hey, wait, don’t, ” Le Xiu’s words trailed off mid-sentence.
“What’s wrong?” Kong Ning looked at her with her simple and somewhat silly eyes.
Le Xiu felt her sleeve being tugged by Yu Lingbo, hinting at her not to talk nonsense.
“Nothing… I just choked a bit.”
Le Xiu glanced at Kong Ning and Wei Mu once more; both of them acted completely natural.
She thought hesitantly: Is this really not a romantic spark?
No matter how she looked left and right, something felt off!
At any rate, even with her closest best friend, she couldn’t bring herself to eat their leftover food.
With that said, she kindly offered a reminder, “Uh, Little Kong, no need to rush. There’s food in my bowl too. Here, how about I give it all to you?”
Saying this, Le Xiu genuinely tried to pass her bowl over to Kong Ning.
“Get lost, get lost! Who’s eating your stuff?” Kong Ning said with disgust.
Strangely enough, even though Kong Ning deeply disliked Wei Mu as a person, she wasn’t disgusted by her saliva.
Yes, she was used to eating it.
When they were young, Wei Mu was always a picky eater, so Kong Ning specifically picked up her leftovers.
In kindergarten, children who didn’t finish their food and wasted it would be criticized. Out of options, who told Kong Ning to be the older sister? And who told her to have such a crybaby little sister? Thus, Kong Ning ate until she grew healthy and strong.
Sometimes Kong Ning even lamented that it was no wonder she was three or four centimeters taller than Wei Mu, it was all because Wei Mu was a picky eater!
Hmph~ She, Kong Ning, was a big glutton… ugh, what a terrible habit.
However, what brought her a bit of balance was this:
Hadn’t Wei Mu also grown up swallowing her saliva?
When Wei Mu was sick as a child, she hated taking medicine, and no one could coax her into it, only Kong Ning could feed her spoon by spoon.
Little Kong Ning had watched too much television. Whenever she fed medicine, she would take a few sips first to test if it was poisonous, and then, imitating the male lead from TV dramas, she would blow on every single spoonful of medicine before feeding it to Wei Mu.
Mm… while blowing on it, there was quite a lot of her spit flying in, too.
“Tsk, ” Le Xiu replied, turning her head to discuss Kong Ning and Wei Mu with Yu Lingbo using a subtle eyebrow dance that only the two of them understood.
There must be something going on between these two!
Meanwhile, Shen Nanxi watched them, wearing a smile that saw through the whole situation.
Although she lacked personal experience, she understood things clearly.
Female Lead One and Female Lead Two hadn’t awakened to their feelings yet. Novels often wrote it like this, and she had done a lot of homework recently to write her novel well.
Besides, when it came to shipping couples, she had been thoroughly influenced by her surroundings back in high school. For instance, the two school beauties of Huada University, Xia Yiqiu and Xu Qingfeng, were her senior schoolmates, and their story was immensely popular at her alma mater, Weicheng No. 1 High School.
Under that continuous influence, Shen Nanxi’s ability to ship couples had grown remarkably sharp.
After finishing the meal, Shen Nanxi perceptively dragged Le Xiu and Yu Lingbo away, telling Kong Ning to walk Wei Mu back.
“Kong Ning, we’ll head back first. If you’re going to walk Wei Mu back, go ahead.”
Kong Ning really wanted to refuse; the two universities were right next to each other, so what was there to walk her back for?
Yet, as she looked up at the exceedingly dark night sky and then at Wei Mu, she still nodded in agreement.
“Oh. Then you guys head back first.”
Wei Mu was someone who naturally attracted attention; walking alone at night was indeed dangerous.
In the summer night, the wind rustled the tree leaves, bringing a hint of coolness, making it a truly wonderful moment to chat.
“Hey, you said you came to see if I caused any trouble. Did you figure it out?” Kong Ning broke the silence. She had originally intended to brag about her popularity today, but somehow, she hadn’t been able to say it out loud the entire evening.
It was all the fault of that food, it was just too delicious. Curse that meal!
“I figured it out. You were very good.” Wei Mu raised her hand and patted Kong Ning’s head gently.
“Hey! Don’t pat me like you’re patting a dog!” Kong Ning protested.
“And what do you mean by ‘very good’? How is that an evaluation? If anything, you should say, ‘You’re really amazing,’ ‘You’re great,’ or ‘You’re truly outstanding,’ right?” Kong Ning continued.
“Mm, you’re really amazing,” Wei Mu said to her with a smile. Her voice was light and gentle, just like a cool summer breeze that slipped straight into one’s heart, soothing it completely.
“Wh-what are you talking about, seriously…” Kong Ning didn’t dare to look at Wei Mu anymore, her face instantly turning bright red, especially because…
This girl was acting so strange today. Why was she being so obedient?
Was she possessed by a ghost?
“Let me ask you: What is my name?” Kong Ning actually proceeded to verify whether the person in front of her was real.
“Kong Ning.”
“What is my mom’s name?”
“Qi Zhirou.”
“When in middle school did you transfer back?”
“Kong Ning…” As if recalling something, Wei Mu suddenly called out to stop her.
“What’s wrong?”
“Kong Ning, we…”
We haven’t chatted like this in a long time. I’m very happy.
Before Wei Mu could say it out loud, their conversation was interrupted by a greasy, intoxicated man appearing ahead, charging straight toward Wei Mu.
“Hey, little sister, give me your contact info!”