“Actually, I’m not really sure what happened between your sister and Su Li either.”
“Su Li isn’t very close with the rest of us either.”
The girl watched Chi Qingyao’s skillful operation, admiration filling her eyes.
Even though it was playing games during class, she still thought Chi Qingyao was impressive.
“Su Li isn’t close with everyone either?”
Chi Qingyao thought for a moment, becoming even more curious about Su Li.
“Mm. Just like your sister, she usually doesn’t come to class at school.”
Since she doesn’t live in the dormitory, sometimes you can’t even see her at all.
“And Su Li rarely talks in the group chat. When everyone does team-building activities, she doesn’t come either.”
The other girls in the class were also curious about Su Li.
Because Su Li was really cute, like a fragrant, soft little sweet cake.
And she never wore makeup.
So quite a few girls wanted to ask Su Li the secret to her skin care.
But Su Li was too cold.
She didn’t interact or talk much with others on a normal day.
“I just happened to run into that situation between your sister and Su Li. I don’t really know what it was like either.”
“By that time, your sister was probably already having conflicts with the people in the dormitory.”
“Later, your sister often ate with Cai Rongrong and the other two. I think maybe something happened between her and Su Li.”
“Or maybe her relationship with Su Li was always just a casual acquaintance.”
Chi Qingyao nodded, looking at the teammates in the game.
Even if their skills were a little lacking, it didn’t matter.
At least it wasn’t like Su Li and Keai Yuyu—bad at the game, loved to play, and always paired together, forcing the other three teammates to fight five-on-three.
She could still carry the team.
Besides, using Yang Jian, she wasn’t even playing at full strength.
With normal play, her skills were pretty good.
After all, she was addicted to Honor of Kings and had spent a lot of money on this game.
It definitely wasn’t just because the skins were pretty.
If she lost every day, she would have uninstalled the game long ago.
“Little sister, you’re really good at this game.”
“It’s nothing really. I just used my sister’s study time to play games. My grades aren’t that good.”
“That’s okay, little sister. If there’s anything you don’t understand during school, you can come ask me anytime.”
“Thank you, sister. If you want to rank up or just relax by playing games, you can come find me too.”
Chi Qingyao exchanged contact information with her.
Then she turned and started chatting with the girls nearby.
Chi Qingyao looked at her younger sister, who was so close with the other girls in the class, her eyes showing admiration.
She just couldn’t be like that herself.
“Report.”
“Come in.”
A sound of reporting came from the doorway.
Su Li quietly entered the classroom.
Actually, she hadn’t planned on reporting—she was worried about interrupting the teacher’s lecture.
But the teacher’s gaze happened to fall on her, and it would have been impolite to just walk in directly.
Su Li glanced toward the first row by the window and silently took her seat.
She naturally noticed many eyes in the classroom turning toward her, but Su Li didn’t mind.
This morning, when Cat sent her to school, they encountered a little kitten abandoned in a box on the street.
Su Li and Cat took the kitten together to get a checkup.
Afterward, they brought the kitten home.
Cat said she would use her own salary to raise the cat. Since they found it together, Su Li naturally agreed to share the care.
So she was delayed a bit.
Although Su Li had plenty of experience raising cats, she couldn’t compare to Cat when it came to taking care of them.
Su Li thought that by human standards, Cat shouldn’t have any experience raising cats.
But Cat really did take excellent care of the kitten.
After telling Cat some precautions, Su Li rushed to school, which was why she was a little late.
[Location]
[Su Li, Su Li, come here tonight. Tell me before you arrive—I’ll come get you]
Su Li looked at the message MOKA had sent her last night.
After briefly chatting with MOKA yesterday, she had gone to sleep.
She didn’t notice the message until Cat reminded her this morning.
But she didn’t reply right away.
“1.”
Su Li replied simply, then took out her book and began to listen attentively.
“Little sister, that’s Su Li.”
Chi Qingyao heard the girl’s voice in her ear.
From the moment Su Li entered the door, her gaze had fixed on Su Li.
She looked exactly like the photo of her older sister.
Su Li was extremely delicate—her palm‑sized face was white as snow, and beneath her fine bangs were a pair of glossy, spirited almond eyes.
Her lashes were thick like little fans, casting faint shadows beneath her eyes when she blinked.
The tip of her nose tilted up slightly, and her lips were a natural cherry pink, carrying a hint of sweetness even when she wasn’t smiling.
Her figure was slender and exquisite, and when she wore a loose cotton dress, she seemed like a flower bud wrapped in mist.
When the hem of her dress lifted, it revealed a sliver of her waist, so thin it seemed one hand could encircle it.
When sunlight fell on the ends of her hair, she looked like a CG character coated in soft light—even her flowing strands seemed as delicate as if painted with a brush.
The most notable feature was her rare white hair.
From the moment Su Li appeared, Chi Qingyao’s gaze stayed on her.
She had a unique, cool aloofness.
It made her seem different from other students her age.
Chi Qingyao didn’t think this aloofness was put on.
It wasn’t the kind that was deliberately displayed—it was as if Su Li was naturally that way.
Thinking of the Su Li who always hung around Tangren Machao praising him, Chi Qingyao suddenly felt a sense of dissonance.
It was hard to connect the two images.
Almost like they were separate people.
“Cute, right?”
“Cute.”
Hearing the girl beside her, Chi Qingyao nodded.
“Actually, everyone wants to say hi to Su Li, but little sister, you can probably feel it too—it’s like she’s… on a different layer from us.”
“Even bothering her feels like a crime.”
Of course, some people had confessed to Su Li, but she had rejected them all.
“Su Li also doesn’t use social media much. You can see people asking for her contact info on the confession wall every few days.”
“But no one has ever managed to add her.”
“Even I, as her classmate, haven’t added her.”
Chi Qingyao nodded, suddenly feeling that paying a hundred bucks to play a game with Su Li was totally worth it.
She wondered if anyone would believe her if she said she was Su Li’s friend.
Maybe Su Li herself couldn’t imagine that the online friend she had played games with last night was suddenly sitting in her classroom today.
Chi Qingyao wanted to approach Su Li, but suddenly felt her heart pounding violently.