Tuna

On the eve of the concert preparations, the Light Music Club was also busily rehearsing the setlist, and with Alice joining them, everyone had decided to put Alice at center stage as the lead singer, while Bai Yuyou and Linlin would serve as guitarists and backing vocalists.

"I've noticed a problem." After a few rounds of practice, Zhixia stopped playing her instrument, having spotted an issue.

Just as Zhixia said that, the others also turned to look, seemingly knowing what Zhixia wanted to say.

Zhixia's expression paused for a moment, then she looked toward Alice standing at the front. "Um, Alice."

"What is it?" Alice turned around with one hand on her hip. She was wearing casual clothes today, a simple black dress without even any accessories.

But perhaps because her face alone was delicate enough, she still looked like a cute porcelain doll.

"Uh..." Zhixia hesitated for a few seconds, then tentatively asked, "Do you happen to not have much experience singing before?"

"Of course I do, I'm a super idol, you know." Alice said confidently, even flipping her long golden hair with one hand. "I've been acting in films and modeling since I was little."

Hearing Alice say that, the rest of the club members all exchanged somewhat awkward glances, silently communicating with their eyes that it was clear what was going on.

"What are you spacing out for? How can we serve this up without rehearsing more times?" Alice asked, noticing everyone was lost in thought.

"Then let's keep practicing." Zhixia smiled, signaling Linlin and the others to continue.

Time quickly passed to lunch. Alice didn't seem to like the school cafeteria food and chose to go out to eat instead. Zhixia, Bai Yuyou, and the others didn't accept Alice's invitation and decided to stay at school to eat.

After getting their food, everyone sat down in their seats.

"Man, Alice doesn't seem to be good at singing." Zhixia finally spoke up. She couldn't sing at all, actually—throughout that whole song earlier, she kept going off-key.

But her stage presence was strong, her stage mannerisms were steady, and her facial expressions were well-managed too.

It was just that her singing wasn't pleasant to listen to, and she had a Cantonese accent.

She wouldn't go as far as saying "Guangxi" as "Guangji," which would be ridiculous, but when she sang, there was an awkward feeling to it. In short, it was still an accent issue—not suitable for singing.

"I think brother shouldn't have let Alice join the performance," Keke said. "Alice is cute, sure, but she can't sing."

"Then let's have Alice switch positions, maybe." Linlin suggested, since the concert was approaching, and given how important the occasion was, they couldn't afford any mistakes.

"No way. Alice is so proud, she definitely wouldn't agree to just being a supporting role."

"What should we do then? I think we still need to make it clear to Alice."

At that moment, Bai Yuyou spoke up. "I'll go talk to her."

"Can you do it, Yu You?"

"Yeah, I'll handle it." Bai Yuyou said expressionlessly. After all, when the performance was getting close, you couldn't run from a problem—you had to face it head-on and solve it.

"We'll go together to tell her." Zhixia also smiled.

"Okay."

In the afternoon, Bai Yuyou and Keke still had classes, so everyone planned to gather again during club activity time to discuss the matter.

"Alice loves listening to brother so much, why not let brother talk to her about it?" Tang Keke walked side by side with Bai Yuyou on the way back to the classroom. Suddenly Keke seemed to think of something and said to Bai Yuyou, "That should be easier, right?"

"No." Bai Yuyou said.

"Why not?"

"We can communicate directly." Bai Yuyou glanced at Keke and said softly, "If I had a problem with you, but I asked someone else to pass the message along, wouldn't you feel unhappy? Like I was talking behind your back."

"Whoa, Yu You, do you have a problem with me?!"

"It's just a hypothetical." Bai Yuyou said, then paused and added expressionlessly, "Keke is silly."

"Ugh, I actually got called silly by Yu You."

But Keke had to admit that Bai Yuyou seemed far more mature than herself these days.

"Alright, this afternoon we'll all go talk to Alice together."

"Mm."

For the afternoon class, since it was a small class, the teacher started taking attendance as usual.

"An Shiyu? Still hasn't come back?"

After calling An Shiyu's name, the teacher looked around the classroom, and seeing no sign of her, asked, "I haven't seen her for a while. Did she take a leave of absence?"

Since the start of the semester, this teacher had only seen An Shiyu once.

In the past, she couldn't be found because she was either out running somewhere or holed up in the school infirmary. Now she couldn't be found because An Shiyu had already gone abroad to play.

"Teacher, An Shiyu asked for leave." Hearing the teacher call An Shiyu's name, Keke raised her hand and said.

"How irresponsible. With no credits like this, how will she graduate?" The teacher said, then brushed it off and started the lecture.

"An Shiyu, that girl, is so lucky. I want to go out and have fun too." Tang Keke was envious.

"If you actually went out for fun, you wouldn't want to." Bai Yuyou said.

"One thing at a time. If it meant going out to buy some merch, I'd be all for it." Keke giggled, then asked, "Yu You, has An Shiyu sent you any messages?"

"Messages..."

Bai Yuyou pulled out her phone and glanced at it. She rarely checked her messages, and when she did, she basically only looked at Ye Shuang's messages. Since Keke was right there beside her, there was no need to keep in touch, and since Yuyou wasn't skilled with electronic devices, her inbox was full of junk and ads.

Bai Yuyou swiped her finger across the screen and found that the fish girl had indeed sent her a message, though it was from a few days ago.

Fish Tofu: Do you like eating tuna? I'll get you one.

Fish Tofu: The attached image was a giant tuna, being hoisted up, looking taller than Chao Yiyu by comparison.

After seeing the message, Bai Yuyou pressed a few keys.

Bai Yuyou: I like eating it.

Two or three seconds later.

Her phone vibrated.

Fish Tofu: You're too late. They're all gone now, everything's in the toilet.

Fish Tofu: Shrug.jpg

Bai Yuyou didn't mind, and asked the other person when she was coming back to the country.

Fish Tofu: Coming back?

Then no more messages.

Bai Yuyou looked at her phone, and seeing that Chao Yiyu had stopped replying, she put her phone down on the desk.

"What were you two just talking about?" Tang Keke asked from the side.

"What were we talking about." Bai Yuyou snapped back to reality and said, "The tuna turned into the toilet."

Tang Keke: OvO?