Chapter 32: Classmate, Is This for Me?

Monday morning.

Jiang Cheng walked briskly along the road of Aidelisa College, carrying a vitality that didn’t belong to someone heading to an 8 AM class.

She hummed an unknown tune, its melody bright and pleasant.

A girl walking ahead had her head drooping, looking as dejected as if she had lost a battle.

Clearly, she had left her cozy bed for an early class and was still in her morning mood.

“Good morning!”

Jiang Cheng quickly walked to her side, tapped her shoulder, and greeted her with full energy.

“Uh… morning?”

The female college student was startled, clearly not expecting someone to greet her so intimately.

She responded instinctively, turned to look at Jiang Cheng, and froze.

Before her stood a girl with white hair.

Sunlight hit her from behind, illuminating her face. Her eyes were curved like crescent moons, and her lips were curled into a small smile, looking very happy.

The female college student felt her heart skip a beat.

By the time she came to her senses, the girl was already far away.

“Cl…classmate!”

For some reason, she subconsciously followed, trailing behind the white-haired girl.

“What’s up?”

Jiang Cheng stopped and turned to look at the other girl as she jogged up to her.

“Nothing, cough cough… I was just heading to class the same way.”

“Oh, I see…”

Jiang Cheng nodded. ‘Girls walking to class together is normal, right…’

‘Should I hold her hand?’

Jiang Cheng thought it over and decided against it.

‘Even though girls holding hands is common, I don’t even know her name, so I can’t do that. Yeah, I have to be reserved.’

“So, which building is your class in?”

Jiang Cheng asked casually.

“The South Building,” the classmate blurted out.

But immediately, she regretted it.

Sure enough, the white-haired girl in front stopped and turned to look at her.

“Classmate, this is the way to the North Building,”

Jiang Cheng kindly reminded her, pointing. “The South Building is over there.”

So she had to stop, watching Jiang Cheng wave at her and then disappear around the corner.

Suddenly, she realized.

‘Ah, I haven’t asked her name yet…’

She abruptly grabbed a passing girl with glasses.

“Classmate, do you know that cute white-haired girl just now?”

“Ah!”

The girl with glasses was startled. She adjusted her glasses and looked apologetically at the girl in front of her.

“Um… I was looking down at my phone just now, so I didn’t see anyone.”

“Oh, okay…”

The classmate felt a bit disappointed.

“However, the pretty white hair… she might be a classmate from the next class, a 2026 student in Class 1 of XX College. I think her name is… Jiang Cheng?”

In this world, white hair was a rare trait. Most people had a thing for flaxen or blonde hair, and someone with natural white hair like Jiang Cheng was extremely rare.

“Is she famous?”

The classmate blinked.

“It doesn’t seem so?”

“Does she have any fan club?”

“Probably not?”

“Great!”

The female college student suddenly became energetic. “I’ve decided to organize a Jiang Cheng Fan Club at school.”

She grabbed the glasses girl’s hand. “Bestie, be my vice captain! Let’s go to the Community Center now!”

“Um… but I still have class?”

“Come on, we’ll have to queue if we go later!”

“Hey hey hey! Can’t we wait until after class?”

***

In the third-floor corridor of the teaching building.

Several girls were leaning by the window, chatting idly about this semester’s schedule and the new food stall in the cafeteria.

“By the way,”

one suddenly remembered, “speaking of that, what about that Jiang Cheng? Haven’t seen her today?”

“Who knows, maybe she’s playing the rich lady somewhere again.”

“Exactly. Dyeing her hair white just to stand out. She’s a college student now, still pulling that crap.”

“And her voice is so sickly sweet, it’s unbearable.”

A tall girl wearing a baseball cap and gym clothes leaned nearby, not joining the conversation.

She didn’t like Jiang Cheng either.

That kind of delicate, fragile-looking girl who seemed like she’d fall over with a gust of wind—just standing there made her uncomfortable.

They were adults, why pretend to be a middle schooler?

“Meng Yu, don’t you think?”

Someone nudged her arm.

“Yeah,”

she responded flatly.

As they were talking, the classroom door opened, and a girl with a ponytail walked in.

“Jiang Cheng is here. She’ll be downstairs soon.”

No one responded.

“Why aren’t you all talking?”

Wang Jia was a little confused.

“She’s coming, so what? Nothing to say.”

“Exactly, just a poser. Who cares if she comes or not.”

Wang Jia hesitated. “But… she’s today…”

“What about today?”

“She’s…”

Wang Jia’s face slowly turned red. “Very pretty.”

The air was silent for a second.

Someone laughed. “Wang Jia, did you take the wrong pills? Did she put on makeup and charm you that much?”

“Or maybe Wang Jia is actually a lesbian, into that kind of baby-faced poser?”

“I’m not…”

“Then why are you going on about how pretty she is? Is it that serious?”

Wang Jia opened her mouth, her voice growing softer. “Just go out and see for yourselves…”

The others exchanged glances but didn’t move.

“Class is about to start. Too lazy to go.”

“Exactly, what’s there to see.”

“Meng Yu,”

someone suddenly said, “Aren’t you the one who hates that poser Jiang Cheng the most? Why don’t you go and deal with her?”

Meng Yu raised an eyebrow.

“Yeah, haven’t you always said you can’t stand her?”

The girl didn’t speak. She casually placed her half-drunk bottle on the windowsill, but then felt it wasn’t appropriate, so she picked it up again.

“Fine.”

She turned and walked toward the stairwell. “I’ll go.”

Meng Yu reached the corner of the stairs and looked down.

A white-haired girl stood on the landing in the middle of the stairs, looking down at her phone. Sunlight slanted in through the window, falling on her shoulders and the ends of her hair.

Meng Yu’s steps faltered for a moment.

At the stair corner, Jiang Cheng sensed someone above her. She looked up and saw a short-haired girl standing up there, holding a drink.

“Classmate, what’s wrong?”

Her voice was soft, the kind of irritatingly cute voice Meng Yu hated the most.

Meng Yu opened her mouth.

She intended to criticize Jiang Cheng’s voice for lacking spirit, to tell her not to act like an elementary schooler.

But when her eyes landed on the faint, almost imperceptible curve of the girl’s lips, she swallowed those words.

Her behavior confused Jiang Cheng. ‘Is she trying to make friends?’

In her previous life, Jiang Cheng had never been friends with girls, and the original owner’s memories only came back when she purposely recalled them, so she really didn’t know how girls interacted.

‘But considering my own appearance, being popular is a given.’

Jiang Cheng’s gaze fell on the drink in her hand.

The bottle was clear and sparkled nicely in the sunlight.

‘Maybe I can use this to give her an out.’

“Is this for me? Thank you!”

The girl reached out.

“Uh… ah… yes?”

Her mind in chaos, Meng Yu instinctively handed the bottle to the girl, then realized.

‘That was her drink.’

She should have stopped her, but Jiang Cheng moved too fast.

The girl took the bottle, tilted her head back.

Gulp gulp—

“Ahh—”

Wiping the corner of her mouth, Jiang Cheng let out a satisfied breath. A drop of water wasn’t wiped clean, sliding down her chin and glistening in the sunlight.

Meng Yu’s eyes followed that drop for a moment until it dripped onto the girl’s chest, then she quickly averted her gaze.

“Just the right amount of thirst. Thank you, Classmate Meng Yu.”

‘How does she know my name?’

Meng Yu was stunned for a moment, then recalled.

‘Right, it was normal for classmates to know each other’s names, wasn’t it?’

Jiang Cheng tilted her head and looked at her. ‘This girl is a bit odd. Is she socially anxious? Sigh, my charm is so strong that even socially anxious people can’t resist it.’

She shook her head, sighed narcissistically, then stepped forward and took Meng Yu’s hand.

“Let’s go, Classmate Meng Yu. It’s time for class~”

Then, under the shocked gaze of the other girls in the corridor, Meng Yu was pulled into the classroom by Jiang Cheng, looking as shy as a cat being scruffed.

Technically, Jiang Cheng’s judgment about how girls interacted wasn’t wrong.

But she forgot one thing.

This wasn’t Earth.

And the girls at Aidelisa Girls’ Academy…

were all secretly Yuri.