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  Chapter 124: The Little Rich Lady Lost Her Soul

  TL: Etude

  The following day, iernoon, Jiang Qiurned from the Polyteiiversity. Without even stopping by his dormitory, he headed straight for the teag building.

  The campus beauty test there was gradually getting on trad didn’t need his close supervision anymore. All it took was a group of enthusiastic otakus waving fgs and cheering, like arrows released from their bows or bullets fired from their barrels, flying towards their predetermiarget for a while.

  However, studying was a more challenging task; it required his personal attention.

  After all, you ’t just leave your brain on the desk and expect it to learn on its own.

  The human brain, it seems, is still not quite mature.

  Fortunately, the first year didn’t involve too many specialized courses. Instead, there were meneral education csses, which is why Jiang Qin dared to skip csses, skirting on the edge of the rules.

  The first css iernoon was Microeics, a bined css for both the third and fourth ses.

  The was noisy before the lesson began.

  Groups of students chatted in twos and threes, gossiping about who fessed to whom, which celebrity was holding a cert, or enting on how white a girl’s legs looked, dismissing it as just leggings.

  This was typical college life, where students discussed muters and only paid attention to those around them, unlike Jiang Qin, whose life was hectic, busier thahe uy president.

  At this moment, amidst the crowd, there was a girl who seemed out of pce.

  She wore a white hoodie and sat he window, her eyes bright and calm, quietly indifferent to the outside world, flipping through her textbook in a seemingly absent-minded manner.

  Sunlight streamed in from the window, casting a pat her desk and another on the floor.

  Many boys around her chatted about their own topics, yet their gnces often fell on her, stealing a look before quickly looking away, feeling a secret satisfa.

  Jiang Qiered from the back door of the and quietly sat behind her. From his angle, slightly tilting his head to the right, he could see her smooth, jade-like fad delicate, curly eyeshes.

  To others, her cool demeanor erceived differently by him – as a kind of naive and silly ess.

  “Look, Jiang Qin is back.”

  “They really broke up, not sitting together anymore. The rumors are true!”

  “How could he dare to do that to Feng Nanshu, who’s so pretty!”

  “Men are like that. No matter how beautiful a girl is, they’ll get tired of her one day!”

  Jiang Qin frowned slightly, thinking to himself that even when he was not around, there were absurd rumors about him everywhere.

  It felt like a web novel author who usually worked from home and decided to go out one day, only to be surrounded by neighbors asking if he was the rumored freeloader.

  It was annoying. He was actually w hard to support his family! (lmao Author talking about himself here)

  Meanwhile, Feng Nanshu seemed to catch her name in the chatter. She looked up attentively for a moment, then, realizing her name was no longer beiioned, quietly lowered her head back to her book.

  “Feng Nanshu, I bet you were just thinking about Jiang Qin. How about a dinner bet?!”

  Gao Wenhui snapped Feng Nanshu’s book shut, her gaze intense as she stared at the beautiful face. Lately, she ehis game, because with the male protagonist absent, they needed something else to tease about for a banced diet.

  “I wasn’t. I was reading.”

  Feng Nanshu sat upright, her cherry-red lips moving as she denied harb thoughts of him.

  “Then tell me what was on the page you were just reading. Just a sentence will do. If you do, I’ll believe you.”

  Gao Wenhui narrowed her eyes, her pierg gaze as if seeing through everything.

  “…”

  Feng Nanshu paused, realizing she couldn’t recall, then grudgingly pulled her book bad started flipping through it.

  Iivities uaken by the person Jiang Qin, all as are aimed at achieving the greatest be at the least Jiang Qin cost.

  Feng Nanshu appeared somewhat bewildered, a trace of fusion flickering in her eyes.

  Why was Jiang Qin’s name written all over this book?

  “Wenhui, I’ll treat you to dier,” Feng Nanshu offered.

  “No, unless you admit you’re thinking about him, even if I jump from here, I wo your dinner,” Gao Wenhui retorted.

  Overhearing their versation, Jiang Qin couldn’t help but reach out aly pat Feng Nanshu’s shoulder.

  Feng Nanshu, with a puzzled look in her eyes, turned around. Upon seeing Jiang Qin, she seemed momentarily startled. Her beautiful eyes blinked lightly, and then the ers of her mouth gradually lifted, brightening her gaze like the clear skies after a rain.

  “Jiang Qi’s go for a walk.”

  “After css.”

  Feng Nanshu pursed her lips, a hint of stubbornness fshing in her eyes: “I haven’t go with you for a walk in days.”

  Jiang Qin patted the empty seat beside him, his eyes showing a tenderness he himself hadn’t noticed.

  At this moment, Gao Wenhui, lying on her desk, was gazing bnkly at the bckboard, thinking of another way to probe into Feng Nanshu’s stormy inner world hiddeh her calm exterior. But wheurned back, they were gone.

  Huh?

  She looked around and suddenly noticed that Jiang Qin had arrived.

  Feng Nanshu, true to her ure, immediately followed him and sat in the back row with him.

  “Jiang Qin, you still remember to e back, huh? Do you know Feng Nanshu has been soulless these past few days?” Gao Wenhui, always ready to stand up for others, ented.

  Jiang Qin turo Feng Nanshu: “Little rich dy, where did your soul go?”

  “It went for a stroll,” Feng Nanshu responded, half-jokingly.

  “With whom?”

  Feng Nanshu lifted her gaze: “With a boy who climbs trees like a bear.”

  “?????”

  “Exactly, that’s what I want to see, sweet and sour. Hey, handsome guy in the back, let’s sces. I want a direct frontation.”

  Gao Wenhui, excitedly banging on the desk, stood up and sed seats with Cao Guangyu, who was sitting behind Jiang Qin.

  Cao had arrived after Jiang Qin, so Jiang Qin was unaware of his presence behind him.

  Moreover, Cao Guangyu inally didn’t want to ge seats, but hearing the word ‘handsome’ made it hard for him to refuse. He came over quietly, pulling at his colr, looking very low-key, without the arrogaypical of the unremarkable Young Master Cao.

  Jiang Qin uzzled by his silend even more so by his low profile.

  Being called handsome and still keeping quiet?

  Typically, he would have loudly responded, “What did you call me? I didn’t hear it, say it again, louder!”

  “Old Cao, why didn’t you say something when you arrived?”

  “Hello, Old Jiang,” Cao Guangyu replied perfunctorily. “You haven’t been back to the dorm for so long, everyohought you were dead.”

  Jiang Qin spat in his dire, his attentiourning to Cao’s hand pulling at his colr: “What’s with your neck? Why are you c it? Did a zombie bite you?”

  “It’s nothing, just a stiff neck. I put a pster on it.”

  Jiang Qin didn’t believe a word, knowing that a pster didn’t o be hidden under a colr: “Show me, I promise I won’t tell anyone.”

  “You promise?” Cao Guangyu hesitated.

  “I promise.”

  Cao Guangyu fell silent for a moment, then lowered his colr, revealing several simirly sized red patches on the left side of his neck.

  These patches were distinctive, mostly narrow at the ends and wider in the middle, resembling lip marks.

  Jiang Qin held his breath: “You got a girlfriend?”

  “Um…” Cao Guangyu showed the shyness uo an i boy.

  “Damn, I’ve only been gone a few days, and you’ve rocketed ahead so fast?”

  “It’s just how it happened, some things ’t be trolled. Don’t tell anyone, Old Jiang. Ren Ziqiang and Old Zhou still don’t know,” Cao Guangyu said nontly.

  Jiang Qin couldn’t uand, knowing too well what kind of person Cao was.

  If Cao had a girlfriend, he would certainly be boasting about it everywhere: “Look, I’ve got a girlfriend now, do you?”

  But Cao Guangyu’s unusual retice seemed suspicious, as if he had something he dared not reveal.

  Jiang Qin sidered the possibility that Cao had faked the marks himself to show off but was now feeling guilty aant to funt it.

  “Don’t worry, I won’t tell them, but you have to keep it to yourself too,” Jiang Qin reassured him.

  Meanwhile, Feng Nanshu, who had been somewhat clueless all this while, suddenly looked armed: “Jiang Qin, how did this happen?”

  Jiang Qin coughed and joked: “It’s a disease that affects people who stantly think about love. Some people are reserved, so it appears ter, but for some fieres, it happens on the first day.”

  What nonsense!Gao Wenhui, listening from behind, was baffled by Jiang Qin’s eous expnation. Though she wao object, she couldn’t find a fw in his logideed, some showed signs te while others were swift, nothing teically incorrect there.

  After a while, Ren Ziqiang and Zhou Chao also arrived in the , always timing their entrao the minute, as if ing a minute early would be a loss.

  “Old Jiang? You’re back?”

  Upon seeing Jiang Qin, the two greeted him warmly and then sat o Cao Guangyu, b him with questions about the quality of beauties at Uy of Sd Teology.

  Jiang Qin responded without a hint of emotion but realized something.

  Cao had e to css alone, indig he hadn’t left the dorm with Ren Ziqiang and Zhou Chao. This meant he must have just e from a date and directly headed to the .

  So, the kiss marks on his neck weren’t self-inflicted but genuinely acquired.

  Damn, the first one in the dorm to break free from singlehood was Cao Guangyu.

  But it was strange; why wasn’t he showing off?

  “Old Cao, what’s with your neck?” Zhou Chao also noticed the mark.

  Cao Guangyu coughed: “You have to promise not to tell anyone.”

  “No problem, we won’t tell a soul.”

  Cao hesitated for a moment before l his cain.

  Jiang Qin ughed, thinking, “That’s the real Cao Guangyu, never oo hide his light under a bushel. He just ged his tactics!”

  Seeing the envious looks from Zhou Chao and Ren Ziqiang, a hint of pride fshed in Cao’s eyes before he modestly covered his neck again.

  This robably a case of ‘you’re influenced by the pany you keep.’

  Jiang Qin knew Cao had indeed learned a thing or two about showing off from him.

  “Which department is yirlfriend from? Bring her out for us to meet!” they urged.

  Cao Guangyu pondered: “Let’s have diogether in a couple of days, and you all meet her then.”

  “As if you o tell us, now that you’re together, you must treat us to a meal,” Zhou Chao said, his enthusiasm for free meals evident.

  Meanwhile, Feng Nanshu quietly observed the kiss marks on Cao Guangyu’s neck, then g Jiang Qin’s neck, her expression being thoughtful. (oh dam)

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