Ye Qingchang got off the car at the school entrance, and by the time she got off while saying thank you to the driver, it was already six o’clock in the evening.
In early autumn, the sun did not set particularly late, and at just past six, a bit of the sunset’s glow still remained.
She looked at the time on her phone and narrowed her eyes.
If she waited for a group-order meal to be delivered at this hour, she would surely starve to death.
Thinking this, she decided to buy a rice ball for dinner.
One portion of pork tenderloin, one grilled sausage, and various side dishes—this was her fixed combination for buying rice balls.
Sometimes, because she came so often, the owner would even recognize her and have the rice ball ready before she even opened her mouth, waiting with a smile for her to pick it up.
“I’ve paid.” Ye Qingchang waved her phone.
Before she could even turn around, she was slightly pulled back from behind by a sudden force.
This degree of bending backward might be easy for other girls, but for a top-tier gloomy shut-in like Ye Qingchang, it was practically fatal.
“My back, my back!” Ye Qingchang felt like she was dying.
“What do you want?” Yang Shuli, who was standing on tiptoes behind her and covering Ye Qingchang’s eyes, tilted her head, “Shouldn’t you be guessing who I am right now?”
“You’re my daddy, okay? Just let go already!” Ye Qingchang’s face had already turned the color of pig liver.
Fortunately, Xu Nian, who was nearby, picked up Yang Shuli before she realized what was happening; otherwise, Ye Qingchang might have been choked to death.
Ye Qingchang, clutching her old back, turned around and looked at the kid behind her with a hint of anger.
The kid, Yang, shrank her neck: “Uh, I didn’t do it on purpose just now. I didn’t know you could have a seventy-year-old’s back at the age of twenty. You’re quite mature.”
Ye Qingchang laughed from anger.
She then saw Xu Nian standing nearby, smiling at her apologetically.
Originally, when Yang Shuli was brought out by Xu Nian, it looked like a parent with a child, but now it looked even more like that.
As the parent, Xu Nian was currently apologizing for the trouble the kid Yang had caused.
“Why did you think of coming out to eat today? Did the group-order app get taken down?” Yang Shuli shifted the topic in an instant, acting as if what just happened had nothing to do with her.
Ye Qingchang just pressed her waist, a slight smile on her face.
It was fine; anyway, that brat would have a hard time once they got back.
She was going to tie her respected dorm leader to the bed and then eat her snacks right in front of her.
At the thought of what kind of despairing expression Yang Shuli would show then, she couldn’t help but hum lightly.
“I just came out with Old Second, and I’m buying food to take back.” Ye Qingchang said this with a calm face, but in reality, she was already thinking about which snacks she should eat in front of Yang Shuli when they returned to the dorm.
“You went out with Old Second? Where’s Old Second?” Yang Shuli looked around.
Turning back, she saw the somewhat terrifying smile on Ye Qingchang’s face.
Suddenly, a great horror, like falling into an ice cellar, descended upon Yang Shuli.
Something was wrong!
Ye Qingchang, wearing that chilling smile, pressed down on Yang Shuli’s shoulder just as she was about to take a half-step back; that smile carried a long-awaited cruelty.
“Since you can ask that question, does that mean you didn’t check the group messages?” A demon-like whisper sounded in Yang Shuli’s ear.
“I remember, I specifically @-ed you, right? I even sent you messages twice, didn’t I? Once in the group and once in a private chat. Not only did you not look at the group messages, but you didn’t even look at the private ones?” Ye Qingchang pressed her forehead against Yang Shuli’s head, her dilated pupils appearing somewhat distorted at such close range.
“No, it’s not like that……” Fear and a stutter unconsciously entered Yang Shuli’s voice, “Actually, actually, I did look at them.”
“Oh?”
Ye Qingchang’s smile became even more unbridled, appearing somewhat nightmarish in Yang Shuli’s eyes at this close distance.
It was only then that Yang Shuli noticed she seemed to have said the wrong thing again.
Or rather, it was only at this step that she stepped into the trap Ye Qingchang had prepared long ago.
“You mean to say, you saw the messages, not only did you not reply, but you also pretended not to see them, didn’t take them to heart at all, and now you’re asking me again?”
Ye Qingchang’s hand slid from Yang Shuli’s shoulder and suddenly grabbed Yang Shuli’s neck.
“Hiss, can we settle this peacefully?” After a solemn expression, the tiny dorm leader resigned herself to fate and struck a posture of begging for mercy.
“At this very moment? You must be joking.” Ye Qingchang grabbed Yang Shuli’s neck and began to shake her back and forth.
A moment later, Ye Qingchang, seemingly finished venting her anger, let go.
Yang Shuli, whose head was spinning, fell into the arms of Xu Nian, who had been prepared to catch her.
Shaking her hands and letting out a long sigh of relief, Ye Qingchang looked at the dizzy Yang Shuli: “Do you have any other plans next? Or do you plan to go back to the dorm with me? Old Second has taken leave for a few days and won’t be staying at the dorm.”
“Do you want me to go back to the dorm with you?” Yang Shuli pointed at herself, “Is it because you’re lonely now that there’s no one to accompany you in the dorm?”
Ye Qingchang’s expression was flat, and she simply reached out and grabbed Yang Shuli’s neck again, though this time it was the back of the neck.
“Actually, I originally wanted to follow you back to the dorm; I was just joking with you earlier.” Yang Shuli lightly patted Ye Qingchang’s hand, “I’ve found that you’re a really serious person, bro.”
“That’s good. I thought you had some grievance against me, bro.” Ye Qingchang said, smiling as she patted Yang Shuli’s shoulder.
“Sigh, we’re all fucking bros.”
The two walked away with their arms around each other’s shoulders, just like biological brothers who had been separated for a long time.
Leaving Xu Nian behind, who departed between laughter and tears.
The two of them walked all the way into the school with their arms around each other’s shoulders before Yang Shuli was the first to pull her hand back.
“No way, you’re a bit too tall. Having my hand on your shoulder means I have to keep it raised; it’s so tiring.”
“Who can you blame for being short yourself.”
“Hey! I can actually blame someone for this. I can really blame that Trainee Goddess for why she molded me so short.”
“Right.” Ye Qingchang remembered something and continued, “Have you heard any news, like how you’ll die if you don’t complete the love missions?”
“There’s such a thing?” Yang Shuli’s eyes widened, “Really?”
“Wasn’t I asking you?”
“I don’t know, let me ask Xu Nian.” Yang Shuli called Xu Nian on the spot.
She hung up in less than five seconds.
“He said there’s no such news.”
Ye Qingchang was stunned: “Wait, you even told him about things like love missions? Is that something you can just say casually?”
“It’s fine, he doesn’t know the mission target is him.” Yang Shuli waved her hand.
“So your love mission target was him all along?”
Yang Shuli covered her mouth in regret.