“Sorry, sorry! I’m not late, am I?”
When Fang Yan hurriedly arrived at the reading room, Shi Yubai looked up and glanced behind her. “Isn’t Su Niansheng coming with you?”
“She had something come up last minute and can’t make it. She asked me to help sign in and complete the assignment for her. Group leader, you can just assign her portion to me.”
As soon as she finished speaking, the faint smile that hadn’t yet reached the boy’s eyes vanished.
“No.”
“Huh?”
“In my group, no one can sign in or do assignments on behalf of others. Everyone must be present in person.”
“…”
After hearing this, Fang Yan felt as if her three pots of coconut chicken had just been kicked over.
So strict?
Was that really necessary?
It was just an extracurricular assignment, and there wasn’t even a teacher supervising it. She wanted to argue further, but Shi Yubai picked up his phone directly.
Having settled the assignment issue, Su Niansheng pulled the covers up, ready to go back to sleep. Unexpectedly, her phone rang again.
This time, in the large elective course group chat, her name was prominently tagged.
【Shi Yubai: Group assignments must be completed in person. Otherwise, it will be considered as non-participation and awarded 0 credits. @Art Management 253 Su Niansheng】
After reading it, she narrowed her eyes.
Was Shi Yubai doing this on purpose?
Even something as routine as signing in for an extracurricular assignment—he had to interfere? No wonder he agreed to let her join the group; it was just to make things difficult for her.
She initially wanted to leave the group directly and forget about the credits. But with the semester nearing its end, she was planning to go home and apologize to her family. If she hadn’t even finished her courses and had to retake them, it would seem insincere.
After some thought, she held back.
【Leave my assignment for me. I’ll come over later.】
“Group leader, I’ve finished my part. Can I leave now?”
“Mm.”
“Group leader, I’m heading out too. Bye!”
“Let’s go, let’s go! Time for lunch!”
As noon approached, group members gradually left. Fang Yan packed her bag, ready to go, and curiously glanced at Shi Yubai, who had long finished his tasks but remained seated upright, showing no intention of leaving.
“Group leader, aren’t you leaving?”
“I still need to consolidate some things.”
“Alright, I’ll head out first.”
No sooner had she left than a group of girls spotted Shi Yubai from a distance.
“Is that the president?”
“What luck! We actually ran into the president. Hurry, let’s go over!”
‘Ring ring ring…’
The alarm went off at twelve o’clock, and Su Niansheng leisurely set out from her dormitory. At this hour, there probably wouldn’t be anyone there anymore, right?
Thinking this, she stepped into the reading room and immediately saw Shi Yubai, surrounded by a group of female student council members, along with a couple of roommates.
In the discussion area, the group also looked up at her.
Several girls who had been smiling brightly at Shi Yubai earlier now tightened their lips, their gazes sweeping over her with subtle emotions.
“Su Niansheng, why is she here?”
“To chase after the president, of course. She’s from the arts department—it’s not like she’s here to study, is it?”
“Hahaha, she really has the energy, huh? Always scheming to follow him around, not even sparing lunchtime. Not like us in science, engineering, or finance—every minute counts, and there’s never enough time for anything else.”
“Exactly. People in the arts don’t rely on ability anyway; a pretty face is enough…”
The campus belle is here?!
Cheng Hao’s eyes lit up at the sight of her, and he turned to the boy beside him.
He said that earlier on the soccer field, Su Niansheng and Shen Junxi pretending to be familiar and intimate was just a game of playing hard to get!
Yubai is really something—just giving her a little sweetness, and she comes running right back again.
“Look, Yubai’s little tail is here!”
“Really envy you, man, having such a beauty chasing you every day!”
“So what if she’s a beauty? The goddess in your eyes is just a simp in his.”
A few roommates huddled together, whispering and gossiping. The mockery and hostility in their eyes were so thick it practically overflowed. Su Niansheng curled her lips and turned to leave.
Unexpectedly, Shi Yubai called out to her, “Su Niansheng, come here.”
His light, distant voice carried a hint of commanding force, making Su Niansheng freeze in her tracks instantly.
His tone was like calling a little cat or dog.
Someone nearby immediately stifled a laugh.
Su Niansheng’s expression gradually turned cold.
How had she endured this in her past life?
She turned around, about to speak, when a boy named Zhao Yihang stood up from the crowd with a grin. “The campus belle is here? Here to chase Yubai again?”
He staggered toward her, eyes dazed, cheeks flushed. Before he even got close, a strong smell of alcohol hit her.
Su Niansheng frowned and was about to step back when suddenly, he let out a loud “wah” and vomited. Unidentifiable, multicolored vomit splattered on the ground, splashing onto her clothes.
Her face paled instantly, and her whole body stiffened!
Seeing this, Shi Yubai’s eyes tightened, and he immediately stood up.
“Ah, that feels better. Much better after throwing up.”
“Oops, got some on you? Sorry, had a bit too much to drink at noon…”
After vomiting, Zhao Yihang looked up and continued grinning at her. Though he apologized, there wasn’t a hint of remorse in his eyes.
After all, she liked Yubai so much, and he was Yubai’s roommate—she definitely wouldn’t mind.
Shi Yubai walked over and saw the girl’s light yellow jacket, now stained. It was a luxury brand, worth tens of thousands.
“I’ll compensate you.”
“No need!”
Su Niansheng was utterly disgusted. It took her a long moment to find her voice.
She looked at him with an icy glare. “Once something is dirty, I won’t want it anymore.”
With that, she took off her jacket, threw it aside, and walked away.
Shi Yubai looked down at the discarded clothes on the ground, slowly bent over, and picked them up.
In his mind, her expression and the look in her eyes just now kept flashing—something he had never seen before.
“Ooh, she’s angry?” Zhao Yihang watched the girl’s retreating figure with surprise. “She actually gets angry? Yubai, I thought she never got angry no matter how much you rejected her before?”
He chuckled as he turned to the boy beside him, only to be startled by the storm brewing in his eyes.
“Yubai, what’s…”
Before he could finish, Shi Yubai grabbed him and dragged him straight toward the restroom.
The way he was dragged didn’t seem like a person but more like a piece of trash.
“Yubai? Yubai?”
Splash—
In the restroom, the cold water was turned on full blast, quickly filling the sink.
“Yubai, what are you doing… Mmmph—”
Zhao Yihang’s words were drowned out by the icy, bone-chilling water. His head was pulled out and pushed back into the water like a mop, over and over again. His mouth and nose were filled with water, and he couldn’t even utter a complete sentence.
Shi Yubai looked at him, his gaze colder than the water in his hands. “Helping you sober up.”
In the lounge area, a group of people who had initially been watching the scene with amusement fell completely silent upon hearing the commotion from the restroom. A faint chill crept up their spines.
They had never seen the president this furious before.
It seemed that, contrary to rumors, he wasn’t entirely indifferent to Su Niansheng.