Bai Yurou woke up in the afternoon, reached out to feel for the phone by the bed, and glanced at the time—half past two in the afternoon.
The room was already cool enough, so she casually turned off the air conditioner.
She didn’t feel like getting up and just wanted to keep lying on the bed like this.
How comfortable. Besides, there was nothing to do today anyway.
Registration at Moon City University would continue for a few days, and only then would there be the class meeting to meet the counselor and head teacher.
These few days she was free, with nothing to do.
Bai Yurou fished the tablet out of the backpack by the bed, hugged it to her chest, and wanted to watch something.
Only then did she realize there was no Wi-Fi connected—she had been using mobile data on her phone the whole time and hadn’t thought of this at all.
Although Young Miss Bai didn’t lack this little bit of money, it was still better to save where she could.
She had no choice but to reluctantly get out of bed and push open the door.
In the living room, the air conditioner was already on.
Ning Mu was sitting on the sofa, eating potato chips while watching TV.
It was a sports anime about figure skating, telling a story of the bond between an athlete and a coach.
“You’re watching anime?”
Bai Yurou was a little surprised. Ning Mu hadn’t watched anime or played games throughout her three years of high school.
Otherwise she wouldn’t have only known Detective Conan.
“Mm. Dan Dan recommended it. Now that I’m in university, it’s a good chance to cultivate another hobby.”
“I also finished Magical Girl Witch Trial recently.”
As Ning Mu spoke, she held out the opened bag of potato chips in her hand.
“I won’t eat any.” Bai Yurou waved her hand.
Potato chips were high in calories and fat and would increase the burden on her heart.
It was better for her to eat less of them.
“By the way, have you watched this series?”
“I have.”
“I’ve been catching up on 2D culture recently. Do you have any works you can recommend for me to try? Anime, movies, games—all fine.”
Ning Mu actively found another topic.
Don’t you already have Zhao Dandan?
That sentence almost slipped out, but Bai Yurou managed to swallow it back in time.
Ning Mu was actively seeking her out instead of Zhao Dandan.
This meant she had accepted her and wanted to get closer.
“Alright. I’ll go back and organize a list to send you.”
Bai Yurou agreed to her request.
The current Ning Mu could be said to have returned to her original self—actively closing the distance and starting conversations with people she was familiar with and wanted to deepen relationships with.
The coldness from the previous period had instead been caused by the huge blow Lin Ye’s death had dealt her.
She herself was still a relatively outgoing person.
Bai Yurou felt that she was now very familiar with Ning Mu’s state.
Finally it was no longer the cold, unresponsive state from the funeral and the early part of the cosplay event.
Instead she was actively finding topics to chat with her and actively seeking her help—exactly the way Lin Ye and Ning Mu used to interact.
Bai Yurou squatted down in front of the coffee table and picked up the router to study it.
“Are you looking for the Wi-Fi password? I already sent it in our dorm group.”
Ning Mu said from behind Bai Yurou.
Bai Yurou opened her phone and took a look. It really was there.
Just now she had only used her phone to check the time.
If she had opened WeChat at all she would have seen it.
If I had known earlier I wouldn’t have gotten up.
Thinking this, Bai Yurou connected her phone to the Wi-Fi, and the tablet automatically connected as well.
“By the way, Ye Hui went out just now. She said she’ll handle dinner herself and won’t eat with us.” Ning Mu added, then asked, “Then what do you want to eat tonight?”
Bai Yurou didn’t really have any ideas.
“It’s only a little past two right now. We can talk about it later. Ordering takeout or going out to eat both work.”
Her tone carried a somewhat go-with-the-flow casualness.
She turned and went back to her room, then carried the tablet and charging cable out together.
Actually staying in her own room was fine too, but since she had already gotten up, she might as well go to the living room.
Besides, the living room already had the air conditioner on.
She had just turned off the one in her own room and was too lazy to turn it on again.
The most important reason was—she wanted to stay with Ning Mu.
She sat on the other side of the sofa and plugged into the living room power strip, which was also something Ning Mu had bought at the department store earlier.
Bai Yurou opened the tablet, switched it to silent mode, and started playing a game.
The Japanese voice acting coming from the TV beside her became just the right background sound.
“What are you playing?”
Ning Mu curiously leaned over and started another topic.
“Mahjong.”
Bai Yurou said.
“I didn’t expect you knew how to play mahjong.”
Ning Mu was a little surprised. She had thought a young miss like Bai Yurou would be a well-behaved girl, yet she actually knew how to play mahjong.
“Mm.”
This time Bai Yurou didn’t say more.
Because the her from before really hadn’t known how.
In their family only her father Bai Yuan knew, and then the three siblings had all been forbidden by their mother from learning it, because their father often drank at the mahjong table.
Zhou Wanting was afraid the three little ones would also inherit their father’s bad habits.
But Lin Ye had known. That was something Ning Father and Ning Mother had taught him.
The Ning family basically didn’t interact with relatives and spent the New Year by themselves.
After finishing the New Year’s Eve dinner, the four of them would set up the mahjong table, treat the Spring Festival Gala as background sound, and play for the whole night.
“Teach me how to play this game. I want to play too.”
Ning Mu said with some curiosity.
“Alright. Then what about your series? Not watching anymore?”
Bai Yurou pointed at the TV screen.
“I’ll find time to watch it later. Anyway these few days we have nothing to do.”
As Ning Mu spoke, she pressed the pause button with the remote.
“Alright then.”
Bai Yurou nodded, then privately messaged Ning Mu the official website of the game.
“This game doesn’t need to be downloaded. Just open the official site, register an account, and you can play.”
Ning Mu also opened her phone and, under Bai Yurou’s guidance, registered an account step by step.
“This game is Japanese mahjong. The rules are a bit different from domestic mahjong. But mahjong is all pretty similar. If you know domestic mahjong you should pick it up quickly.”
Ning Mu turned her head, a little puzzled. “How did you know I know mahjong?”
Bai Yurou instantly froze. Just now her brain had reacted one beat late and she had said it smoothly.
She could only brace herself and say, “I guessed.”
Then she added, “Just now when you saw that this was mahjong you immediately wanted to play, so I felt you should know mahjong.”
Ning Mu thought for a while and nodded. “So that’s how it is.”
Bai Yurou instantly let out a breath of relief. She had almost been exposed.
Thankfully this good little sister of hers didn’t have any bad intentions and hadn’t thought that much, so she managed to brush it off.
The rest of the afternoon was spent with Bai Yurou teaching Ning Mu how to play Japanese mahjong and then guiding her through a few games.
Before long it was already six in the evening.
“Time’s up. We should eat. What are we eating?” After finishing a new game, Ning Mu turned her head to look at Bai Yurou, who was leaning against the sofa scrolling on her phone.
“Let’s… order takeout.”
Bai Yurou proposed. She had caught a glimpse of a row of takeout lockers in the dorm building lobby and just wanted to try them.
Besides, Young Miss Bai had already been collapsed on the sofa for an entire afternoon and really couldn’t be bothered to move.
“Okay.” Ning Mu had no objections and casually opened the takeout app. “What do you want to eat?”
“I’ll order myself.” As Bai Yurou spoke she also opened her phone. She didn’t want to trouble Ning Mu for everything.
“Then we’ll each order our own.” Ning Mu smiled faintly and lowered her head to scroll the screen again.
Bai Yurou flipped to an ordinary Chinese restaurant and ordered a bowl of congee and a serving of tomato scrambled eggs.
There was no helping it.
Her body didn’t allow her to eat anything too greasy, so it was better to keep it light at night.
After the two finished ordering takeout, Ning Mu seemed to feel that starting a new game wouldn’t leave enough time.
She pressed the TV button again and continued playing the content she hadn’t finished watching earlier.
Bai Yurou also had nothing else to do, so she accompanied her in watching.