Chi Qingshui quickly grabbed her phone, anxiously staring at the screen.
“Lin Yu: Sounds good, just wait for me a bit. I want to take a shower. Let’s meet in the courtyard downstairs in an hour?”
Chi Qingshui read the message and muttered to herself.
Does a guy really need that long to shower?
Lin Yu must be really particular about cleanliness!
It was nine o’clock now. An hour later...
Wouldn’t that be ten?
If he’s not going back to his room to rest at ten, but instead secretly meeting a guy from the dorm in the courtyard...
It would be pretty awkward if other returning roommates saw them, right?
Chi Qingshui thought it over.
Then she sent another message to Lin Yu.
“Chi Qingshui: Time’s fine. Let’s take a walk around the neighborhood. The courtyard has lots of plants, but also lots of mosquitoes.”
…
At ten o’clock at night.
Lin Yu, with his hair still damp, came out into the neighborhood searching for Chi Qingshui.
Counting it up,
this was already his third shower today.
No wonder—
Summer really makes you sweat easily!
While looking at his phone, Lin Yu walked along the neighborhood paths toward the park.
Chi Qingshui’s activity range within the neighborhood was quite small.
She wouldn’t wander too far.
Mostly just in the small park or on the way to it.
“Ding dong!”
“Ding dong!”
“…”
At the same time,
the class monitor created a temporary group chat for the movie screening.
Messages flooded in rapidly.
Most were emojis.
Or you could say Shi Yanhai was quite capable.
This group wasn’t just for their class; it included students from all six classes in the Broadcasting and Editing department attending the screening.
It seemed the other five class monitors were cooperating well with Shi Yanhai’s efforts.
The messages in the group were notifications about tomorrow’s screening time,
as well as the Q&A and review session planned for after the movie.
The organizers would film the event and edit the footage into promotional material.
The Q&A and review sessions were naturally prearranged, with questions and participants assigned in advance.
Was this cheating?
Not exactly.
These arrangements had almost nothing to do with a nobody like Lin Yu.
He understood his main task was simply to accompany Chi Qingshui to watch the movie.
He wanted to see if he could find the right opportunity to get her to reveal herself.
Revealing her identity was the challenge task of the “Double Contract Path” system.
According to the system’s theory...
The moment the girlfriend’s identity was exposed was the best time to complete the cultivation and enlightenment process.
“Ding dong!”
Lin Yu’s WeChat pinged again.
Lin Yu: “???”
He had already muted the group chat notifications, so why was his phone ringing again?
He glanced suspiciously.
This time it was a private message!
Lv Rou?!
The “Shaky Sister” from class?
Did she see Lin Yu in the group and decide to message him for a chat?
He opened the chat window, and the content was pretty much what he expected.
Except for the way she addressed him...
“Lv Rou (Shaky Sister): Handsome! Haven’t seen you in days. Have you been missing ‘Little Egret’?”
Little Egret!
That was the stage name of the “kept singer” character Lv Rou played in their joint assignment.
Lin Yu had played the role of a big shot, so the nickname didn’t surprise him.
Lv Rou’s real name and exact appearance were things Lin Yu might forget.
They once played roles together in the same assignment — a fact he would never forget.
Back in his previous life.
That was the only time he ever got to “play the male lead.”
After leaving campus, all the roles he landed were those of background extras.
No one ever saw him as a standout character.
“Lin Yu: The hottest star in Greater Shanghai, Ms. Little Egret, whom I constantly think about.”
These were the lines Lin Yu and Lv Rou had in their performance assignment.
Even after all these years, Lin Yu could still recite them by heart.
“Lv Rou: (The little girl covers her mouth, laughing.ipg)”
“Lv Rou: Just saw you in the group chat—didn’t expect you to go to the screening event tomorrow too?”
It wasn’t surprising that she felt a bit startled.
Lin Yu, in their class,
was hardly the type with good social connections who could easily get tickets.
Events like this
were usually reserved for class officers, top students, social butterflies, or those well-connected…
Lin Yu’s presence among the attendees felt so out of place.
“Lin Yu: I heard someone had something come up last minute and couldn’t make it, so they asked me to fill in.”
He sent a casually plausible excuse.
Lv Rou was probably just bored and didn’t understand why Lin Yu would show up at such a “small social circle” event.
So she thought to message him.
They weren’t close enough friends to chat casually.
Their last conversation was still stuck back at the time of the class assignment.
Lv Rou was the kind of girl who carried a certain charm in every word she spoke.
If any self-deluded guy thought she had special feelings for him, he was just a pure-hearted fool.
Yet,
to everyone’s surprise…
“Lv Rou: Our situations are pretty similar, haha. Want to sit together and watch tomorrow?”
Lin Yu raised an eyebrow: “…”
Was Sister Shangshang randomly picking a lucky audience member?
Even if that were true,
it shouldn’t have been him.
Class president Shi Yanhai, wealthy single male classmates, outgoing and talkative students…
Anyone but him.
Unless?
The boring college game:
Truth or Dare!
“Lin Yu: Not sure if we’ll have assigned seating by number yet. Let’s see tomorrow.”
“Lv Rou: Okay (OK gesture)”
Her calm response
showed no reaction to Lin Yu’s awkwardness.
It had to be a dare.
Lin Yu didn’t want to become the topic of conversation or the object of amusement among the girls.
Near the small park,
Chi Qingshui was pacing back and forth, hands behind her back.
When she saw Lin Yu arrive, she couldn’t help but ask:
“Does it really take that long to take a shower?”
“You didn’t happen to lose track of time playing, did you?”
Lin Yu had just uttered “I” when a new idea for tomorrow’s [challenge task] suddenly sparked in his mind.
“Sorry, Chi, I’m a bit late.”
“There’s something I only dare to tell you. You absolutely can’t tell anyone else in the dorm.”
Chi Qingshui leaned in curiously:
“What’s going on? Why all the mystery?”
“Why tell me if no one else in the dorm knows?”
Chi Qingshui was cautious even when listening to secrets — she always wanted to know why she was being told.
Lin Yu explained:
"I think you're pretty level-headed; you can definitely help me figure out what to do."
"And the person I want to talk about—you actually know her."
Chi Qingshui grew even more curious:
"What’s this all about? Just tell me."
Lin Yu leaned in closer, lowering his voice:
"I actually have an online girlfriend I've been seeing for a long time."
Chi Qingshui: "!!!"
u Chenyuan transmigrated into a female-oriented novel about a real and fake heiress, becoming the CEO elder brother of both. Unfortunately, the entire Lu family—including himself, the CEO—were mere cannon fodder in the story. Determined to save himself, Lu Chenyuan took action. The spoiled, attention-seeking fake heiress? Thrown into the harsh realities of the working class to learn humility. The love-struck real heiress? Pushed toward academic excellence, so lofty goals would blind her to trivial romances. As for the betrayed, vengeful arranged marriage wife… the plot hadn’t even begun yet. There was still time—if he couldn’t handle her, he could at least avoid her. "CEO Lu, are you avoiding me?" Mo Qingli fixed her gaze on Lu Chenyuan. For the first time, the shrewd and calculating Lu Chenyuan felt a flicker of unease.
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