Gu Xinran

In life, everyone faces a few high-stakes gambles.

Like not finishing your summer vacation workbook and tearing out a few pages before handing it in, gambling that the teacher won't check.

Or when you're out with unbearable stomach cramps, gritting your teeth and gambling that it's just gas.

Or meeting a pretty, wild, and easy-to-take-home girl at a bar, gambling that she's not some kind of "biohazard."

In these high-stakes gambles, some win big and continue their peaceful lives, while others lose miserably, ending up in situations that leave men speechless and women in tears.

And at this moment, Lin Yu was facing such a choice, and he too decided to gamble.

I bet the remaining half bar of battery on this wheelchair is enough to get me off campus for a pumpkin juice and back to the dorm!

Unfortunately, Lin Yu lost his bet.

The electric wheelchair ran out of juice at a spot where he could just barely see the university gate. Lin Yu sat alone by the roadside. The idiot low-battery warning kept blaring nonstop, like a loudspeaker shouting for passersby to come and look, making him die of embarrassment, unable to lift his head.

Under the stifled laughter and odd glances of pedestrians, Lin Yu hung his head low, took out his phone, and prepared to call his dorm mates for help.

Dad and sons.

That's their real relationship, no need to stand on ceremony with them.

Lin Yu first called Lang Hua. After a brief exchange, he learned the old rascal was playing off-campus again and wouldn't be back for a while.

When Lin Yu first met Lang Hua, he thought the guy was just an ordinary internet-addicted youth, the kind who spends all twenty-four hours of a holiday glued to his computer.

But Lang Hua's later behavior truly proved Lin Yu wrong.

In the whole dorm, this guy was the freaking best at having fun!

He was constantly running off to pubs and bars, frequently staying out all night, his nightlife so enviable it made you drool.

It fit his nickname perfectly.

Lang Hua, Lang Hua.

Behavior is reckless, play is wild!

Actually, Lin Yu should have realized it sooner. What kind of internet-addicted youth dresses as flashy as him?

Lang Hua was out of the question. Just as Lin Yu was about to call Wu Zhen and Lv Pengju, a voice tinged with a hint of surprise sounded beside his ear.

"It's you?"

Lin Yu turned his head and saw a somewhat familiar-looking beauty. She was bending over, looking at him sideways. Her thick black hair was tied up in a high ponytail, with deliberately styled fluffy side-swept bangs framing her forehead. Paired with her pretty, slightly handsome face, she looked cool and handsome.

The woman spoke, then straightened up.

It was already late autumn. Even in the south, the temperature was getting low, requiring more clothes for warmth.

But the woman seemed completely unfazed by the cold.

She wore an unzipped red-and-white biker leather jacket over a very thin black halter-top camisole—so short it was practically a bustier.

The woman had a great figure. The incredibly elastic bustier top was filled out by her perfect curves. Her waist was slender but not skinny, with well-defined abs from exercise, giving off strong sexual vibes.

Her lower half was simpler, just a pair of black pants. However, the elastic waistband clung tightly to her toned, slender waist, further accentuating her hot figure, intensely arousing a man's desire to conquer.

Lin Yu frowned at her, still trying to remember who she was, when the woman, acting very familiar, placed a hand on Lin Yu's shoulder and asked:

"How did you end up in a wheelchair?"

Lin Yu didn't explain much, just replied simply:

"Sprained my ankle playing basketball."

As they talked, the out-of-battery electric wheelchair, like it had a damn mind of its own, kept blaring with its mechanical voice.

"Battery low. Please recharge."

"Battery low. Please recharge."

Lin Yu was baffled. If you took the batteries from that speaker and put them in the main battery, wouldn't that be enough to get me back to the dorm?

Idiotic design!

The woman glanced at the incessantly beeping wheelchair, looked up at the school not far ahead, then looked down at Lin Yu and asked:

"Where are you headed?"

"Back to school?"

Before Lin Yu could answer, the woman had already walked behind the wheelchair on her own and started pushing Lin Yu towards the school, saying:

"I'm heading back to school anyway. Come on, I'll give you a lift."

Lin Yu found this cool, handsome woman somewhat familiar but couldn't remember who she was.

However, the woman clearly knew Lin Yu, even speaking with a hint of admiration, chatting with him the whole way.

"Hey, I saw that video of you on the campus network."

“Really cool!”

Lin Yu's heart skipped a beat, thinking he hadn't gained some ridiculous fame on the campus network again, and hurriedly asked:

"What video?"

"The one where you took on eight guys outside the train station."

The woman explained.

Hearing it was that, Lin Yu realized it was a false alarm and relaxed. The woman continued pushing him and said:

"Do you know kung fu or something?"

"In that video, it seemed like you barely moved, and they all just fell down and couldn't get up."

"No, they were just too weak."

Lin Yu didn't want to talk too much with her, but it felt rude not to, especially since she was helping push his wheelchair, so he brushed her off with a few casual replies.

"Hey."

The woman suddenly called out softly. She reached out and lifted Lin Yu's chin with her finger, just like a rogue in movies teasing a proper young lady, and asked with a smile:

"Want to exchange WeChat? When your leg's better, I'll treat you to drinks."

Lin Yu wasn't exactly some blushing maiden. After being touched like that, he just shot her an annoyed sidelong glance and said:

"I have a girlfriend."

Normally, when someone hits on you and you say you have a partner, the person hitting on you usually gets the hint and backs off.

But this woman was different. She looked completely unconcerned and said nonchalantly:

"I have one too."

"So what?"

Lin Yu turned to look at her, wondering if she was playing dumb or...

She was definitely pretending!

She couldn't possibly not know what kind of girlfriend he meant!

Glaring at her, Lin Yu cut straight to the point, leaving no room for misunderstanding:

"When I say girlfriend, I mean a friend of the opposite sex, the kind you sleep with. Understand?"

The woman blinked, her expression innocent as she retorted:

"Well, obviously?"

"What did you think I meant?"

Now it was Lin Yu's turn for his brain to short-circuit.

Seizing the opportunity, the woman bent down, one arm around Lin Yu's shoulder, intentionally or not pressing her ample chest against his shoulder, leaning close to his face, and asked in a teasing tone:

"So?"

"How about I call my girlfriend too, and the three of us go together?"

That's when it finally clicked for Lin Yu. He cursed "Get lost!" seven or eight times in a row, saying:

"Get the hell away! I don't need you to push me anymore, you psycho!"

"I'm into pure love, you get it?"

Lin Yu emphasized, grumbling and cursing.

"Me too."

The woman put on a misunderstood expression and defended herself, saying:

"The kind that's purely about making love!"

Lin Yu was so angry he almost stood up to hit someone.

The woman then said with a playful smile that she was done joking.

Lin Yu didn't want her to push him anymore, but the awkward thing was, without paying a certain price, Lin Yu really couldn't resist her.

Seeing her behave, Lin Yu, with a dark expression, let her push.

When they reached the dormitory building, Lin Yu called out to a classmate he knew, who happened to be going back to the dorm. Lin Yu asked him to push him back instead.

As they went upstairs, Gu Xinran stood at the foot of the dorm building and shouted towards Lin Yu's retreating back:

"My name is Gu Xinran. If you change your mind, you can come find me at the Track and Field Club."

Without looking back, Lin Yu raised his left hand and extended his middle finger.