May you have good fortune.

May you have good fortune.

In the end, they still went to the police station on campus.

The reason is simple: this middle-aged man is just too much of a troublemaker.

It's obviously not a good look to make a scene at the police station late at night. Even the most arrogant relatives will be intimidated by the police, especially since they were in the wrong to begin with.

Sure enough, all the accompanying relatives quieted down, except for the "uncle" who was already quite drunk.

There's no need to say anything more. It happened on the school's main road, and the entire incident was captured by surveillance cameras from every angle. The drunkard was the one who rushed up, started cursing, and then attacked.

The three students from the school were quickly released.

Tonight was supposed to be an outdoor military training session, but due to a sudden downpour, it was changed to a meeting between students and instructors inside the classroom.

Liang Jiayu felt helpless. She had no idea her relatives would come, and had asked her counselor for leave in advance. While receiving her relatives, she secretly called her mother. Her mother cursed and yelled at her on the other end of the phone, saying that Wang Zhiqiang was a good-for-nothing, and that the family already avoided him. Now he dared to mess with her daughter.

Her mother was yelling loudly on the other end of the phone, telling her not to worry about it and to just leave.

With her mother's support, Liang Jiayu felt a little better. However, as the younger generation, she was still a little afraid of her uncle. She was worried that he would cause trouble at her school, so she thought she would let it go after tonight.

But she felt sorry for her brother and his friends, because he had to come to pick them up and was inexplicably scolded, which led to the police station. It was so embarrassing late at night.

The young woman had just started university and wasn't yet familiar with her surroundings. She hadn't even gotten to know all her roommates yet, and missing the chance to meet her classmates that evening made her feel like she was falling behind and becoming an oddball. Then, she encountered some strange relatives at her door. Even with her optimistic personality, she felt very wronged at that moment.

The rain had almost stopped by now, but the ground was still wet. There were several puddles on the old road, and the light from the streetlights reflected into her eyes, causing them to gradually well up with tears.

Liang Jiayu walked beside Xiang Zhixing with her head down, her throat gradually choking up. She tried hard not to cry, but the tears all flowed down her tear ducts into her nasal cavity. She didn't dare to sniffle, afraid of making a sound, and as a result, more and more tears accumulated until her nose could hardly hold any more.

At this moment, Xiang Zhixing suddenly called out to Liang Jiayu. Liang Jiayu forced a sob into a "Hmm?" and immediately blew a snot bubble.

She probably thought she had hidden it well, but Shen Muwei noticed her red eyes when she came out of the police station.

Shen Muwei secretly sent Xiang Zhixing a message: [Your sister is crying.]

xzx: [How did you know? I checked and it seems fine.]

Movie: [I saw it, let me offer some comfort.]

The snot bubble burst in the air with a crisp sound, and then, as if it could no longer be contained, the snot made a rumbling sound inside the nasal cavity.

Shen Muwei silently pulled out a few tissues from her bag and handed them to her. She couldn't hold back any longer and burst into tears.

"I'm sorry, brother... I'm sorry, senior... I didn't know they would come... I'm a victim too... *&&%￥"

Shen Muwei couldn't hear what was said next, but the scene was getting more and more ridiculous.

Liang Jiayu squatted on the ground and cried. Shen Muwei was busy handing her tissues. Xiang Zhixing reached out to take the tissues after wiping his nose and tears.

After a long while, Liang Jiayu finally stopped, sobbing, "I want my mom to beat him up... Waaah..."

Xiang Zhixing nodded: "Yes, your mother has the ability."

This was someone else's family matter, and Shen Muwei didn't feel comfortable interjecting, so she squatted to the side and remained silent.

After crying, Liang Jiayu felt much better after venting her emotions. She belatedly realized how embarrassing she had been, but she couldn't help herself when she reached her emotional breaking point.

Short-lived yet long-lasting.

She remained in a squatting position, unzipped the bag on her side, and reached in with one hand to take out her phone.

The words "Xiaobai" on the screen are quite large, and anyone who glances at it can clearly see the name.

She swiped to answer the call, casually placed the tissue in her hand into Liang Jiayu's hand, and got up to answer the call from the side.

Song Yuanbai had arrived at school early and sent her a few messages. When she didn't reply, he assumed she was busy. He sent her another message after a while, but still didn't get a reply. He waited for quite a while longer.

He was so worried that she might encounter danger while having dinner with her male classmates that he couldn't help but make a phone call.

"Don't worry, I'm fine, I'm at school... umm..."

Xiang Zhixing's gaze was unfocused on Liang Jiayu's shoulder, but his ears were actually perked up, listening to the sound of someone answering the phone on the other end.

Even Liang Jiayu stopped crying. She analyzed the situation and felt that her brother's condition was not optimistic. Suddenly, she stopped being sad and looked at him with sympathy, feeling sorry for him.

Song Yuanbai seemed to have a lot to say. He first asked her if she had arrived at school, then asked her what she had for dinner, and then talked about what happened on the high-speed train and what happened after she returned to school. This phone call had the potential to last for several hours.

Shen Muwei scratched his forehead and looked back at the girl who was still sobbing and Xiang Zhixing who was squatting on the ground.

Then Xiang Zhixing walked over. He bent down slightly, seemingly to consider her feelings and to speak softly so as not to disturb her phone call. In reality, he didn't lower his voice at all and was quite close to the microphone.

He lowered his voice, which was magnetic: "Help me, I can't handle this."

Shen Muwei leaned back and glanced at Liang Jiayu, who was indeed crying with snot and tears streaming down her face.

She took off her phone and glanced at the time in the upper left corner. It was almost time for the dormitory to close, which was a bit late.

"Hey, Xiaobai, I'm not going to talk to you now. I'll talk to you when I get back to the dorm."

Xiang Zhixing was quite happy when he heard the first two sentences, but his eyes darkened when he heard the last sentence.

Shen Muwei went over and patted Liang Jiayu on the shoulder to comfort her. With a few words, she calmed her down and stopped crying.

She wondered when she had become so good at comforting people. Maybe it was from comforting Song Yuanbai since she was a child.

On the way back to Liang Jiayu's dormitory, Shen Muwei received a message from Song Yuanbai, containing only two words: "Classmate?"

Shen Muwei frowned, wondering why Song Yuanbai was being so clingy today. So she replied with a little yellow bean-shaped smiling emoji with a raised hand and the words "Don't worry about me" in the upper right corner.

After seeing Liang Jiayu off, Xiang Zhixing and Song Chenmu returned.

When they arrived at the girls' dormitory, Xiang Zhixing said, "Thank you for today. Actually, that relative is a shameless scoundrel. There's no need to take him seriously. I was worried you might get hurt."

He was a little embarrassed about the second half of his sentence, so he mumbled it in a lower voice and didn't say it clearly.

Shen Muwei shrugged. She was probably too immersed in the role; protecting Xiang Zhixing had become a habitual action for her. Actually, if she hadn't intervened, the matter wouldn't have ended up at the police station.

But she really didn't hear what he said in the second half of his sentence.

"What did you say?"

I said thank you.

"No, I meant your last sentence."

He swallowed the words that were about to come out: "I forgot."

Shen Muwei gave him a strange look, glanced at the time on her phone screen, and realized it was getting late; she should go inside.

"I'm heading back now. Can we contact each other by phone if anything comes up?"

Xiang Zhixing: "Okay... Good night."

He clearly had more to say, but he swallowed it back. Shen Muwei noticed this small gesture and couldn't ignore it.

"What, what do you want to say?" she asked.

Xiang Zhixing still remembered what Shen Muwei and Song Yuanbai said before hanging up the phone. She said she would hang up first and talk again when she got to the dormitory.

There would be far too much information to discuss back in the dorm. He had seen firsthand how clingy Zhou Chengming was with his girlfriend when they were dating.

"I want to ask, have we made up?"

Let's bring the topic back to this matter. Almost immediately, Shen Muwei knew why he asked about it.

The fox's tail was finally revealed.

Shen Muwei: "Fine, didn't I send you a message last night? Plus, you treated me to dinner, so we're completely back to normal."

"So I can still message you tonight, right?"

Shen Muwei knew he was referring to the previous incident; to him, she was only useful for a little bit.

Knowing Xiang Zhixing's true colors, Shen Muwei felt that Xiang Zhixing's eyes were like X-ray machines, able to see through any of his words and understand his motives.

She smiled and said clearly, "Of course."

Xiang Zhixing smiled and nodded, her expression carrying a hint of shyness.

"That's fine, you go in first, I'll message you when I get to the dorm."

Shen Muwei smiled politely, nodded, and walked into the dormitory building. The moment she turned around, her expression fell.

She had just finished washing up and was doing her skincare routine in front of the mirror when she received Song Yuanbai's message.

Song Yuanbai simply asked her if she had arrived at the dormitory safely.

Shen Muwei replied that she had arrived safely.

I had just finished typing the message when another unread message popped up in the upper left corner.

Xiang Zhixing had already arrived at the dormitory and sent her a message saying he was safe. Now, he was asking her if the Japanese food he ate tonight was good. It was obvious that he was just trying to make conversation.

Before Xiang Zhixing could reply to his message, another unread message bubble appeared in the upper left corner. Needless to say, it must be Song Yuanbai.

She left, and sure enough, it was Song Yuanbai: [I should be back this Saturday. How about I bring you some local specialties? Didn't you say they were pretty good?]

Shen Muwei felt like a customer service representative, wondering why she was so busy so late at night, having to reply to messages one by one.

She has a temper too; she left it aside and started carefully applying the essence.

I'll check my phone after I'm done wiping it.

The two profile pictures both popped up at the top of the chat because they had posted the latest news, right below her pinned family group chat.

Like in Super Mario, you jump up to collect coins.

Judging from the message preview outside the list, the two seem to have struck up a conversation.

xzx: [My roommate said the newly opened Thai restaurant in the nearby Thai Yue Shopping Mall is delicious.]

Xiao Bai: [I asked him, "Really?"]

xzx: [He said liars are dogs.]

...

Shen Muwei burst out laughing.

After finishing her skincare routine and drying her hands, she took her phone to bed and began to selectively reply to the messages from the two people.

The last message she sent to Song Yuanbai was: "I'm sleepy, going to sleep now, goodnight."

The last message I sent to Xiang Zhixing was: "Okay, we can go eat together next time."

She didn't mention that she was going to sleep, and just put her phone aside.

When she woke up the next day, she found that Xiang Zhixing had sent some more messages. Seeing that she hadn't replied, he sent her a "goodnight."

Shen Muwei didn't reply. She needed to get up quickly to wash up and then rush to class with her roommate. That day, she chatted with Xiang Zhixing in a half-hearted manner, but increasingly felt that there was nothing to talk about with him, so she started to give him perfunctory replies.

This situation lasted for about three or four days, and Shen Muwei became increasingly reluctant to respond, unconsciously lengthening the intervals between her replies.

One Thursday night, Shen Muwei was so tired that she went to bed at nine o'clock. She forgot to turn on Do Not Disturb mode for her phone, and it woke her up in the middle of the night because it was under her pillow.

For a moment, she thought she was sleeping next to a volcano that had erupted.

Shen Muwei glanced at the time; it was eleven o'clock. Her pent-up emotions finally erupted at this moment. After answering the phone, she told the other party the whole truth before the other party could speak.

"Xiang Zhixing, please stop torturing me, okay? Let me tell you the truth, there are no ghosts or monsters at all. The day you came to the secret room, I happened to be working there part-time. I only scared you because I thought you were too arrogant and wanted to teach you a lesson. You fainted from fright, you understand? So please cheer up now! There are no such things at all. You should strive to be a qualified, positive, healthy, and progressive young person!"

She said all of this in one breath, and there was no response from the other end of the phone. Chen Muwei scratched her hair in frustration and said impatiently, "Speak!"

"I know, it's my fault... I must have been too annoying. I won't contact you again. You should get some rest. I can manage on my own..."

He hung up the phone first.

The trembling, aggrieved voice in Shen Muwei's ear made her increasingly irritable.

Now that everything had been said, she felt no longer burdened. But for some reason, she couldn't calm her heart.

The stark contrast between her own angry shouts on the phone and Xiang Zhixing's voice made her feel increasingly uneasy.

The other two people in the dormitory were still awake. Zhao Ranzhu pulled back the curtain and asked, "What's wrong, Xiaowei?"

Shen Muwei also pulled back the curtain: "Did I disturb you?"

Qian Eryun poked her head out from under the bed: "No, we're all still awake. Are you alright?"

"I'm fine, I'm just a little grumpy when I wake up. You guys keep going."

After saying that, she shrank back into her bed, grabbed the half-empty bottle of Vitamin C from the small table, and chugged it down in one gulp.

The sour taste spread throughout her mouth, and the cool liquid quickly flowed down her throat into her stomach, making her belatedly more awake.

She licked her lips, opened her phone, and found that Xiang Zhixing had sent her several messages before the call:

Have I done anything recently that upset you?

See? People can tell when you're being perfunctory.

xzx: [If I did anything to upset you, I apologize. I'm sorry for causing you trouble, and thank you for taking care of me during this time.]

He called her because she hadn't replied to his messages for a long time.

Shen Muwei lay back and suddenly felt that she was really awful. How could she have spoken like that? Even if she really wanted to break up with him, she should have spoken properly to avoid all the trouble that followed.

That's why impulsiveness is the devil...

On the other end of the phone, Xiang Zhixing hung up, his aggrieved voice suddenly tightening, his expression returning to normal. He lifted his eyelids to look at Zhou Chengming beside him:

"What's the matter?"

Zhou Chengming shuddered inexplicably. "Shen Muwei, you'd better pray for yourself," he thought.