Chapter 17: What’s Going On?

Su Nuo immediately reached out to Su Xiao Nuo in her mind.

“Do you know her?”

Through the body’s perspective, Xiao Nuo carefully examined the girl in front of her.

“Isn’t this that Zhao Xue, the one who blocked us at the dormitory entrance yesterday? I almost didn’t recognize her without a tennis racket.”

Xiao Nuo couldn’t remember classmates’ names, but she could remember their “occupations.”

She knew this one played tennis, that one played basketball, and the other over there was a beach volleyball player.

So she said,

“It’s fine, this person isn’t important. You can be tougher. Just say, ‘Can’t I come?'”

Su Nuo didn’t listen to her and instead smiled.

“Hello, Zhao Xue. I wasn’t feeling well a few days ago, but I’m better now, so I came to class.”

Don’t ask. If you ask, it’s because she wasn’t feeling well.

And don’t even ask why.

The little pre-class incident didn’t last long.

As the teacher entered the classroom, the lesson officially began.

But not long after, Lin Chu Xi felt someone tug her sleeve from the left.

She turned her head and saw Zhao Xue giving her a look, signaling her to check her phone.

I just sent you a message.

[She really is pretty cute, and her smile is gentle.]

Lin Chu Xi’s pretty face tensed. She quickly put her phone away, her heartbeat speeding up.

Su Nuo was sitting right beside her.

If a friend said something like that and it was discovered, how would she explain?

She didn’t dare look at the silver-haired girl next to her, afraid the other might have glanced over or seen something on her face.

In reality, Lin Chu Xi was overthinking it.

At this moment, Su Nuo was in a half-dizzy state, her mind buzzing.

“It’s fine,”

Su Xiao Nuo comforted her.

“We don’t need to worry about these difficult questions. As long as we pass, it’s enough.”

Su Nuo twitched her lips.

“Can you explain what content this teacher is referring to that continues from the last class?”

“I don’t know.”

But fortunately, everyone in class was doing their own thing.

No one cared if the beautiful girl in the corner with a generous chest was actually listening or just pretending.

Since she couldn’t understand the lesson anyway, Su Nuo simply observed the surroundings, watching what her classmates were doing—especially asking Su Xiao Nuo if there were any she was familiar with.

“I don’t remember any of the boys. You know, I’m a pure-blood yuri.”

Su Xiao Nuo stated this upfront.

So Su Nuo focused her observation on the girls.

Besides her roommate Lin Chu Xi and her good friend, “the tennis player” Zhao Xue, there weren’t many she was familiar with, and the favorability was rather low.

For example, the few girls in the front row looked like a small clique.

Su Xiao Nuo especially mentioned,

“I don’t get along with them.”

Su Nuo was curious.

“What happened?”

“Well, to be specific, the root cause is that we’re all the same kind of people.”

Hearing this, Su Nuo became even more puzzled.

“If you’re the same kind, why don’t you get along?”

Shouldn’t you have more in common?

“Because we’re all gold-diggers,”

Su Xiao Nuo said confidently.

Su Nuo was silent for a while.

“Got it. Any other reasons?”

“The direct reason is that they’re not as pretty as me, nor are they as well-endowed. So, they had to work harder in other areas, especially trying to be active in front of the teacher. They used to be class cadres, and for anything—class activities, club activities, school events—they’d be super enthusiastic and try to drag others along. You know me, I’m not active at all, so we often clashed.”

Compared to those boring and pointless activities, Su Xiao Nuo would rather go back to the dormitory to play.

“I see.”

Just as Su Nuo was about to say she understood, Su Xiao Nuo added,

“Besides these, there’s another objective reason—we’re in competition.”

Although there were people like Lin Chu Xi in the class, whose families really had businesses to manage after graduation, and people like Su Xiao Nuo, who were unemployed upon graduation, the school arranged some internships starting from the second half of summer vacation to help these students.

Many in the class applied, including Su Xiao Nuo and the girls in the small clique.

“At the time, I didn’t know if I’d get it, so I applied with a scattershot approach. But don’t worry, the number of internship slots is limited. If you slack off during the trial period, you naturally won’t have to go. At most, you waste a day or two.”

“Alright.”

Speaking of which, back then, people fought to the death for those internship spots, but now they’re easy to toss aside.

It’s kind of ironic.

Su Nuo looked at the girls in the front row.

They were sitting right under the teacher’s nose, posture upright, meticulous.

They looked nothing like herself—no pretending—just seriously studying…

“Don’t be fooled by how they look. In the final exam, they only scored about ten points higher than me. Couldn’t even reach eighty,”

Su Xiao Nuo said.

“It’s ridiculous.”

“……”

That really was a bit much.

Su Nuo stopped any further small movements, quietly waiting for class to end.

Finally, when the bell rang, she stretched and turned to the girl beside her.

“Lin Chu Xi, let’s go back.”

“Chu Xi, want to go to Cafeteria Street together later?”

Zhao Xue spoke up at the same time.

Lin Chu Xi hesitated for a moment, then gave her friend an apologetic look.

“Got it, I understand,”

Zhao Xue raised her hand.

“You two go ahead.”

Forget the look—she already understood before Lin Chu Xi turned around.

What else was there to say?

Eating alone is enjoyable, too.

Isn’t there a Japanese drama that says that?

The Lonely Gourmet.

It even had several seasons.

“Then see you next time. Bye-bye.”

With a carefree farewell, the three girls parted at the classroom door.

Two walked together; one went alone.

Only Su Nuo didn’t understand.

On the way back to the dormitory, she said,

“Sorry, I delayed your chance to eat something good.”

“It’s fine, I didn’t really want to go anyway,”

Lin Chu Xi replied instinctively.

“I just wanted to go back to the dormitory.”

As soon as she finished, her pretty face turned red.

She remembered how, last time when shopping, she also said, “I just wanted to buy something,” but ended up buying nothing.

Now she’d said almost the same thing again…

Lin Chu Xi carefully looked up.

Su Nuo wasn’t staring at her, so she secretly sighed in relief.

Come to think of it, even lying in front of her seemed allowed, just like in a shopping mall.

With that thought, the girl’s heart felt warm.

…In reality, Su Nuo was busy communicating with Su Xiao Nuo.

“Did you see? When we left the classroom earlier, those people were looking at you and muttering. They were probably saying, ‘Haha, Su skipped class like crazy these days. The teacher noticed. She’ll be in trouble later!’ But they don’t even know when ‘later’ is supposed to be.”

Su Xiao Nuo said this, and as a soul residing in Su Nuo’s mind, helping her observe all around was her proudest achievement.

“But if you fail the final exam, summer vacation will be hell,”

Su Nuo urged.

“Let’s work hard together later!”