Still Arch-Rivals

Upon learning that refueling a yacht once costs fifty thousand yuan, Wang Haoran immediately expressed that yachts didn't sound so wonderful after all.

Jokes aside, this kind of consumption was purely a toy for the wealthy class. Even top-tier wage earners who became CEOs couldn't reach that level.

In fact, many luxury expenses were like this. An excellent wage earner could grit their teeth and afford to buy them, but they couldn't afford to maintain them.

Just like luxury cars, if there was a minor bump or scrape, the repair costs alone would make one's heart ache to death.

Su Bai didn't have such problems at all. Of course, his driving skills were also good; anyway, Wang Haoran had never seen him get into any scrapes.

After complaining for a while, the two logged into the client and started playing ARAM.

It had to be said, after experiencing many luxurious lifestyles, Su Bai finally understood why so many rich second-generation kids were addicted to the internet.

Damn it, phones and computers were still the most fun!

Art exhibitions, extreme sports, traveling around the world, RVs, and yachts—they were fine to play with occasionally, but doing it every day got boring. In everyday leisure time, one still had to play games fiercely to wind down.

Oh, women were fun too, but generally, an average person's body couldn't handle going too hard. Su Bai, on the other hand, had always maintained a high intensity in this regard. After eating cream cake with Ningning last night, he was still full of energy today.

Cream cake was really delicious.

He should try similar playstyles more often. After all, satisfying both the upper and lower mouths was hitting two birds with one stone.

While playing the game, someone Su Bai didn't know at all suddenly added him as a friend. It looked like a female account. After accepting the request, the other party introduced herself, saying she was from the art department of the neighboring Normal University.

Good heavens, the Normal University's art department...

Actually, Su Bai didn't have a very good impression of the art department at his own university either.

There were indeed many pretty girls. If there were clean ones to play with, it wasn't impossible, but clean, smart, and obedient ones like the Wan sisters were the minority among minorities.

But the girls over there were generally empty-headed. Getting along with them wasn't as smooth as with girls in STEM.

Perhaps this was an inevitable trade-off; the overall appearance of the smart girls' group was slightly inferior.

Top-tier girls like Chen Yusheng were ultimate exceptions, after all.

The art academy at Jiang University was already so watered down, let alone the neighboring Normal University.

Even when Su Bai browsed the campus confession walls of both schools, he often saw drama tearing apart the art department of the neighboring Normal University.

Who became the other woman, who cheated on whom.

It was literally staging Tiny Times every single moment.

Mainly because there were actually quite a few rich guys who went to pick up girls in the Normal University's art department, then fell deep into emotional whirlpools, and some even acted as simps. Who knew what their mindset was. Su Bai felt these guys probably had a "become stronger by being a simp" system...

Holding a mindset of watching the fun, Su Bai pulled the girl in to play a couple of rounds together.

They didn't duo queue; Wang Haoran was still present. The girl was quite dissatisfied with this but could do nothing about it.

After playing two games, he decisively found an excuse and kicked her.

During this time, Chu Mingzhe returned to the dorm to get a book. He originally planned to go to the library again to pretend... oh wait, to study seriously!

As a result, he was unexpectedly sealed away by the bed monster.

Then he heard that girl fighting to play with Su Bai, showing off her fake cutesy voice for a long time, only to be ruthlessly kicked out by Su Bai.

"Brother Su Bai, why did you kick her out so soon? I thought this girl's voice sounded pretty nice."

"Nice where??" Su Bai was numb. "Her forced cutesy voice makes me uncomfortable."

"True, it's too deliberate (Keqing pun), not natural enough," Wang Haoran echoed. "And she plays really terribly, ruining the experience. She's even worse than Brother Bai."

"Damn, what do you mean worse than me? You're quite deliberate (Keqing pun) too..."

"Sigh!" Chu Mingzhe inexplicably sighed.

This piqued Su Bai's curiosity: "What's wrong, Shanghai Lord? Did the scene trigger your emotions and remind you of your Leilei?"

Recently, Old Chu and the goth girl's relationship had entered a white-hot stage.

This wasn't alarmist talk. Just two days ago, Leilei threw a tantrum and almost ended up in the hospital.

Actually, she did go to the hospital, but the emergency room doctor took one look at the seemingly fatal but actually minor superficial cuts, sent her to the outpatient clinic, and casually prescribed a stomach pumping.

After health insurance reimbursement, it didn't actually cost much money.

But it truly turned Chu Mingzhe's life upside down.

Su Bai knew that Old Chu, this guy, seemed to like pretending to be artsy and deep, but his psychological quality was actually lacking.

Getting stuck with such a girlfriend was really something else.

Could it be that he also wanted to make a clean getaway?

Thinking back to the past... oh wait, it really wasn't that long ago. When the Shanghai Lord and the local guy first started dating, they were really competing to show off their affection.

Now they both wanted to back out. Sigh, I see the Shanghai Lord and the local guy are also a pair of ill-fated lovers!

Chu Mingzhe sighed again: "Sigh, yeah. Leilei has been saying she feels insecure lately, but damn it, my final grades have no security either!"

Pfft!

Although it was very dark humor, neither Su Bai nor Wang Haoran could hold back and laughed out loud.

You really have to admit, Chu Mingzhe was one of Xia's key targets of attention... not for anything else, but for whether he would fail his classes.

Xia even sent review materials summarized by the Student Union's Study Department to those students with dangerous grades, urging them to be more serious during exam week.

It had to be said that this counselor was still very competent.

"I think studies are more important. If a relationship affects your life, it's better not to date," Wang Haoran said.

He was the smartest. He only dated 2D characters, didn't spend a dime, and if he wanted to change his 2D wife, he could retreat at zero cost. He belonged to the veteran hatchet-runner players in the emotional field.

"But, it wasn't easy to get into this relationship... and well, only Leilei can understand my heart!"

"Understand where?"

"She can talk with me about Hayek, classical music, modern philosophy history..."

Holy crap, the artsy niche bro has arrived!

No bro, if you want to talk about these things, wouldn't it be much more satisfying to go to those elective courses in the liberal arts college and talk with the professors?

Take Xia for example, she actually listens to classical music too. Because of this, she took corresponding elective courses during her undergrad.

Jiangcheng University, as a comprehensive university of considerable scale, don't ask about its level in cutting-edge fields, but at least there is absolutely no shortage of fancy elective courses.

I think you kid aren't artsy enough at all; you purely just want to talk about those things with pretty girls!

Su Bai felt somewhat helpless.

"And this, we've only been dating for a few months. At least... at least I can't break up earlier than the local guy!"

"That's so true!" Su Bai and Wang Haoran said in unison.

This aspect of being competitive all one's life, this aspect of being rivals.

They had both just overlooked this point.

Chu Mingzhe changed the subject: "So I decided to have a good talk with Leilei. Brother Su Bai, what do you think about that camping trip this weekend? The activity organized by the Outdoor Association doesn't require worrying about too much, and we can get close to nature. It's a good place to have a heart-to-heart talk with a girlfriend..."

"Support! I absolutely support it!"

It's going to be really lively, this camping trip.