It was the big guy calling. Su Yanyan stared at the WeChat voice call but hesitated to answer.
Only when the voice call ended automatically did she look at the call log on the WeChat interface, a hint of confusion in her eyes. Just as she was about to exit WeChat,
a WeChat message popped up.
【Answer the phone!】
Immediately after, another voice call came through.
Even through the screen, Su Yanyan could sense that the big guy was angry. How could she dare to answer the phone after leaving without saying goodbye?
Startled, she muted her phone and hurriedly ran toward the dormitory.
The young woman still hadn’t answered the phone, and Gu Beichuan’s face had turned dark as thunderclouds.
Lin Xuan, standing nearby, watched his boss being humbled and didn’t dare to breathe too loudly.
It wasn’t until Gu Beichuan said, “Let’s go,” that Lin Xuan finally dared to exhale.
Su Yanyan ran all the way back to the dormitory.
It was the weekend, and she had originally thought her roommates had all gone out.
But the moment she opened the door, someone shouted at her.
“Speak of the devil!” Wu Jiaxin was the first to stand up and rushed over to wrap Su Yanyan in a big hug.
Although Su Yanyan didn’t stay in the dorm often, all her roommates were easy to get along with.
Wu Jiaxin was bold and outgoing, like a boy, and often acted this way.
At first, Su Yanyan wasn’t quite used to it, but now she was, and she especially loved her roommates.
“What’s got you so happy?” Su Yanyan asked with a smile as Wu Jiaxin slung an arm around her shoulder and led her over to sit down.
“Of course it’s good news!” Wu Jiaxin said, pulling a few tickets out of her pocket. “Ta-da-da-da! Look what this is!”
Su Yanyan looked at the tickets in her hand with confusion, and before she could speak, Wu Jiaxin continued.
“Vouchers for the Nightless City, plus complimentary drinks and fruit platters. We’re going karaoke tonight! We don’t have class tomorrow anyway, so let’s have some fun.”
Hearing it was karaoke, Su Yanyan quickly declined. “I’ll pass. You guys go ahead and have fun.”
She had been feeling off lately, though she couldn’t quite say why. In any case, noisy places made her feel deeply uncomfortable.
“Yanyan, we’re a team. Are you trying to break away from the group and go solo?” Zhou Yun stood up, leaning against the wardrobe, and said this deliberately.
“Exactly. Going solo won’t do. Just obediently go along with the group!” Li Mengchen got up and sat on Su Yanyan’s other side, sandwiching her between herself and Wu Jiaxin.
Seeing that she would become the dorm’s public enemy if she didn’t go, Su Yanyan felt both amused and helpless, though her heart was warm and sweet.
Even though she really didn’t want to go, who could refuse such adorable roommates?
That evening, the group arrived at the address on the tickets. When they stood at the luxurious entrance of the Nightless City, they couldn’t help but exchange glances.
“Oh my god, this place is way too extravagant.” Wu Jiaxin stood at the entrance with the ticket in hand alongside the other three girls, looking up at the massive illuminated sign.
They confirmed they hadn’t come to the wrong place.
Zhou Yun, standing beside her, asked Wu Jiaxin, “By the way, Jiaxin, where did you get these tickets?”
“Can I say I won them in a lucky draw?” After Wu Jiaxin said this, seeing the looks from the others, she quickly raised her hand and swore to the heavens, “I really did win them in a lucky draw! Remember how I paid one yuan to enter a lucky draw in some streamer’s live room? This is it. I just got them today.”
“Awesome!” Zhou Yun and Li Mengchen both gave her a thumbs up.
The girls didn’t drink alcohol, so the free drinks went unused. They ordered some soda, bottled water, and a large fruit platter instead.
The other three went straight to the karaoke machine to pick songs as soon as they entered. Wu Jiaxin didn’t forget to turn back and ask Su Yanyan, who was sitting on the sofa, what she wanted to sing.
Su Yanyan quickly waved her hands. “You guys sing, don’t worry about me.”
With that, she picked up the bottled water from the table, opened it with trembling hands, and took a hurried gulp.
Meanwhile, in another private room.
A teasing voice rose above the low background music. “A-Chuan, didn’t I tell you to bring your woman along? Why did you come alone!”
“Woman? What woman?” The others, upon hearing Shen Chengxuan’s words, were so startled they nearly spat out their drinks.
If this weren’t the Nightless City, they would have thought they’d drunk fake liquor and were having hallucinations.
Gu Beichuan shot a glance over, and the temperature in the lively room seemed to drop several degrees.
Shen Chengxuan couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow. Was this some new development?
Gu Beichuan’s deep, unfathomable eyes betrayed no emotion as his gaze settled on the glass before him.
“Let’s just drink.”
Just as he was about to raise his glass, his phone suddenly rang.