Jiangcheng University, Boys' Dormitory Building 7, Room 510.
Xue Tao was on the balcony making a phone call again.
Wang Haoran was wearing headphones and playing games. He wasn't grinding gacha games today, or rather, there hadn't been any important events in those anime-style games recently, so he was just playing League of Legends ARAM. You just have to play Hextech ARAM!
It's seriously addictive.
Fortunately, Wang Haoran was a student with relatively strong self-control. Playing games didn't stop him from muddling through his homework; he could even bluff his way to decent grades in exams and major projects, making him a top-tier slacker genius.
At the end of the day, the process didn't matter. As long as it produced good results, who cared what you did in the dorm every day?
Only elementary and middle school students care about things like study attitude...
However, Xue Tao and Chu Mingzhe, those two goofballs, cared a lot.
Approaching finals week, their performative studying became increasingly dramatic, making it incredibly hard for Wang Haoran to keep a straight face.
To be honest, it was pretty sweet too.
Both of them would run off to study outside, either in the study hall or the library, leaving Wang Haoran alone in the dorm. It was great—whether he was studying or gaming, nobody bothered him.
Su Bai occasionally returned to the dorm. However, Brother Bai no longer studied in the dorm either, yet his studies hadn't fallen behind. Every time Wang Haoran had a question he couldn't figure out, Su Bai could answer it perfectly.
Brother Bai was truly invincible. With his time management skills, juggling so many girlfriends and still managing to study—wasn't that way better than those national scholarship candidates?
Yet Su Bai didn't apply for any scholarships. His reasoning was that he didn't need the money and wanted to leave the scholarships for students who needed them more.
Makes perfect sense to me. That's Brother Bai's broad perspective for you. Do any of you have that kind of perspective, I'd like to ask?
At this moment, looking through the balcony glass and watching Xue Tao passionately talking on the phone while braving the chill of Jiangcheng's winter, Wang Haoran instantly realized: Brother Tao was fighting with Liu Yuanyuan again.
It felt like those two spent more time arguing than being sweet to each other.
What was even the point of this relationship, I ask you?
Honestly, having been in college for almost a semester now, Wang Haoran's conclusion from observing those around him was this: unless you were like Brother Bai, with off-the-charts looks and stats, completely disillusioned with women and impossible for them to manipulate, dating was a very meaningless endeavor. In fact, most of the time, the experience was just painful.
Recently, while participating in the competition sponsored by Brother Bai, Wang Haoran actually encountered a girl from another school trying to hit on him, which made him sigh in amazement.
She seemed to be from the neighboring Jiangcheng Normal University, a pretty and delicate girl who took the initiative to strike up a conversation with him, saying she also liked watching anime and stuff...
But after chatting for a bit, she exposed her true colors. It felt like she was just fishing for attention, not a true fan. Anyway, Wang Haoran felt nothing for her; instead, he thought she was a bit too utilitarian.
Maybe it was because after receiving his salary from Brother Bai, his consumption level had gone up. His food, clothing, and daily expenses had improved by more than just one tier compared to before. Although he couldn't compare to truly rich guys, he at least stood out as unique among a bunch of strapped-for-cash STEM majors.
Sigh, at the end of the day, weren't the uniqueness and romance in girls' eyes just built on money?
And a lot of times, money wasn't even enough; what was needed was a relaxed and contented attitude towards life.
For example, the high-end programmers at some tech companies near the Jiangcheng Entrepreneurship Park had very high salaries. However, vain girls wouldn't necessarily like them, because those guys always gave off an aura of anxiety.
Well, there was no helping it; they had to work to make money.
Wang Haoran believed he was just purely lucky. Hanging out with Brother Bai meant he wouldn't have to participate in the rat race in the future, making his overall state of mind very relaxed.
He saw things very clearly.
As for the girl's flirting, he just played dumb and ignored it.
Then the girl went to hit on Xue Tao. And then, that girl, who seemed to be named Huang Ran, asked Xue Tao out for a meal, only for them to coincidentally bump into Liu Yuanyuan, who was out eating with some senior...
Brilliant, absolutely brilliant!
When Xue Tao finally finished his call and came back inside, pacing angrily back and forth in the dorm, he saw Wang Haoran taking off his headphones to stretch and get up to take a leak. Xue Tao quickly seized the opportunity to ask, Haoran, tell me, should I consider ending this relationship and starting a new journey?
It's hardly a journey... Wang Haoran thought to himself. Normal University is right next door to our school, it's not far at all.
Besides, he didn't think there was any fundamental difference between Huang Ran and Liu Yuanyuan.
Ultimately, for most female college students, dating was a drain on men. Did they really think everyone could have it as good as Brother Bai?
I don't know, man. Follow your heart, be brave and be yourself!
...No, bro, help me come up with a plan. I really feel like Liu Yuanyuan isn't suitable for me anymore.
How so?
She can't even make me happy when we're playing games anymore. In contrast, some other, uh, friends, can get along with me perfectly fine. Isn't that weird?
It really is!
So, sigh, I guess I'll just interact more first. Maybe the next one will be more obedient, hehehe...
The next one will be more obedient—Xue Tao only dared to spout this kind of bullshit in the dorm. Would he dare say that to Liu Yuanyuan?
She would absolutely explode!
Xue Tao climbed into bed and started teaming up with Huang Ran to play Honor of Kings.
Judging from Xue Tao's performance during their voice chat, this one was indeed more obedient than Liu Yuanyuan.
The main thing was that Liu Yuanyuan actually had a half-dead attitude right from the start. Back then, Xue Tao had just entered college and was still carrying the repressed energy of three years of high school, so he could tolerate it. Now, he purely couldn't stand it anymore.
Actually, it also had to do with Su Bai's influence. Under Su Bai's influence, all the guys in this year's Computer Science department were very picky about relationships. If there wasn't a girl they got along with exceptionally well, they felt it was better to just stay single.
You could say our Brother Bai has contributed to male awakening.
They played games late into the night. After the other party logged off, she chatted with Xue Tao on WeChat for a while and sent some short videos, stirring up Xue Tao's emotions.
Afterwards, Xue Tao was too excited to sleep. He just happened to see that Su Bai had posted a picture of the night view.
Who knows which high-end residential area it was taken in. There were very few clouds tonight, but there were still some thin ones, and the way they reflected the moonlight in the photo looked strangely beautiful.
Good heavens, Brother Bai's photography skills were getting better and better. He remembered that just a few months ago, Su Bai was still a clueless straight guy who didn't know how to take pictures. Now, if Su Bai ever claimed he didn't know how to do something, Xue Tao wouldn't take it seriously. The guy was hiding his true depths.
[Xue Zhitao: Master, are you there Master? Help me clear up my confusion!]
[Crispy White Goose: ?]
[Crispy White Goose: What's up]
[Xue Zhitao: Do you think it's appropriate for me to change girlfriends right now?]
Seeing this line, Su Bai almost lost it, but he managed to hold back from laughing out loud. After all, he was currently at Lu Yuning's house, and Ningning was already asleep. She really couldn't handle the physical exertion of their private time together. He felt her stamina was about on par with Chen Yusheng's before she started working out.
So he didn't laugh out loud to avoid waking her up. Heh heh, I, Su Xiaobai, am still quite gentle towards the women who truly love me!
he colors of other people’s emotions. Light red meant anxiety. Gray meant exhaustion. Orange meant excitement. Yellow... meant repression. At the same time, he could gain unlimited control over one of those colors. Pale cyan: relaxation. Using this ability, he started offering “two-yuan hugs,” spending an afternoon exchanging emotional-color experiences with others. Then came his final female customer of the day— a girl whose emotional color was pure black... —— A week later, Xu Chuan had become skilled at using pale cyan—Relaxation—treating it like a bottle of menthol balm whenever he needed it. That was when he discovered he had unlocked another unlimited emotional color: Purple, the color of fear. So these emotional colors refresh every week? Fine, I take it back—I’ll never call you useless again... —— Much later, after Xu Chuan had accumulated countless emotional abilities, one night, he suddenly found himself inside someone else’s dream. There, he could use the emotional colors he possessed to paint. And in her dream, he painted her a shower of pink shooting stars, spreading across the depths of the night sky...
ions, keeping it grounded and realistic】 After quitting his job, office worker Su Yang accidentally binds with the "Enjoy Life System." As the name suggests, simply by indulging in life's pleasures, he can earn random rewards from the system—no need to spend money on beautiful women or grovel before anyone. Just enjoy, and the money follows, making it all about effortless fun. The system comes with a scanning feature, allowing him to establish a favorability bond with women rated 85 points or above. Every 20-point increase in favorability unlocks additional rewards. After suffering through over twenty years of hardship, Su Yang trembles with excitement, his dull eyes suddenly gleaming with newfound hope. "Enjoy life? How hard could that be?"
e school belle recognized by the whole school, a genius girl from the kendo club. She also has a hidden identity, the youngest legendary demon hunter. Chen Shuo just transmigrated and found himself turned into a weak, helpless little vampire. He was caught by Su Xiyen and taken home at the very beginning. Since then, Chen Shuo's life creed only had two items. "First, classmate Su Xiyen is always right." "Second, if classmate Su Xiyen is wrong, please refer back to item one." Many years later, Chen Shuo, who had turned back into a human, led a pair of twins to appear in front of all the vampires to share the secret of how he turned back into a human. "It's simple, I tricked a female demon hunter into becoming my wife!"
uld barely embark on the path to immortality. Just as he was on the verge of death, his golden finger awakened. No matter whether it was poison, drained blood and vital energy, diminished lifespan, or any other physical debuff caused by paying a price—once midnight passed, everything would be refreshed. From then on, whenever someone asked what kind of person Chu Ran was, the answer was simple: Forbidden arts that other cultivators dared not learn? Chu Ran would learn them. Prices that even demonic cultivators dared not pay? Chu Ran would pay them. Lifespan that even righteous cultivators dared not burn? Chu Ran would burn it. All the blood essence in his body? Take it. Want both his hands and feet? He would cut them off and send them to you. You say he’s finished? He wasn’t built to sit idle. You think he’s gone mad? No—he was simply waiting for midnight. From that day onward, Chu Ran would respect neither Heaven nor Earth, bow to neither gods nor ghosts. He had only one wish: For midnight to arrive a little sooner.
