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!
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
] [Lone Wolf, No Male Gaze] [Protagonist is pursued early on; extreme protagonist-stans, stay away!] The "Carnival Paradise" descends and slowly devours the real world in the form of a game. By chance, Zhu Yan awakens the talent [Roleplay], becoming one of the first beta players. He thought he could develop safely, but after clearing the first instance, he is branded by humanity as the chief culprit behind the game's spread—a traitorous villain. A villain? Who would ever... become one! He'll be the villain! From then on, Zhu Yan is not only a player but also a lackey for the Carnival Paradise. Between the straight path and the crooked path, he chooses the con. With his left hand, he dons the villain's mantle, staging scenes within instances, infuriating players who decry him as a despicable traitor, all while the game happily promotes him. With his right hand, he joins the non-human organization "Fangcun Mountain," which opposes the Carnival Paradise, transforming into a mysterious player who slaughters game bosses, earning cheers of "Long live the expert!" from fellow players. Gradually, Zhu Yan rises to become an S-rank human player in Fangcun Mountain's archives, while also being the Carnival Paradise's certified top game Boss. But when the final war erupts and both major factions place their hopes in him— Players tag his various aliases: "Experts, this offensive depends on you." The Carnival Paradise's supreme Boss throws an arm around his neck: "Bro, you're the iron, I'm the steel; you can't let me down again!"
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!"
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
