Chapter 53: Why are you so angry?

Ah! She celebrated too soon!

Song Qiuyu’s ears turned crimson, and her pearly teeth bit her lip.

This time, Jiang Xiao wasn’t just tattling on her; he was writing a whole exposé!

She should have known long ago that Jiang Xiao was this kind of person.

Thankfully, she was Shen Xi, and Shen Xi was her, so Jiang Xiao’s message ended up on her phone!

Damn him, how could he tell Shen Xi such an embarrassing thing? Shouldn’t this be a secret between the two of them?

Song Qiuyu gnashed her teeth.

“So you’re finally showing your true colors, huh, ‘Haki Xiao,’ you ungrateful wretch who forgets friends for looks!”

“Girlfriends are your ‘own people,’ so you can just sell out your brother’s secrets, right?”

“Uh, wait…”

She stared at the “?” in the input box, which she had almost sent with a single tap, and her eyes suddenly went blank.

As everyone knows, when the other party in a QQ chat box is typing characters in the input box, your side will have a special “typing…” prompt.

In other words, on Jiang Xiao’s end, Shen Xi’s chat page was showing “The other party is typing!”

The dormitory lights had already been turned off.

Separated by their bed curtains, Jiang Xiao was also lying in bed, looking at his phone, but what he was looking at was his phone calendar.

On the calendar, October 2nd was specially marked by him.

This was an extremely important day for him.

Even more so for Shen Xi.

On the other side of the bed curtain, Song Qiuyu didn’t know Jiang Xiao’s situation.

She almost choked on her breath because of the stupid thing she had done.

The next second, she didn’t hold her phone steady, and it hit her face with a loud “thwack” like a brick.

“Ah!”

Song Qiuyu let out a scream, her eyes narrowing.

“?”

The other three people in the dorm were startled and sat up, turning to look in her direction, their faces filled with worry and confusion.

“Qiuyu, what’s wrong? Are you okay?” Lin An was the first to speak.

“Nothing, nothing. I just saw a ghost image and was so scared that my phone hit my face!”

Song Qiuyu explained, feigning calmness.

“Oh, so that’s what it was.”

Lin An breathed a sigh of relief.

Xie Zhuran also lay back down with peace of mind.

Jiang Xiao looked thoughtfully in her direction.

After a few breaths, he withdrew his gaze and also lay back down.

He had also been scared by a ghost image before.

After he was scared, he would go chat with Xi’er…

Xi’er was very good at cheering people up, helping him quickly get over his fright.

Song Qiuyu ignored the pain from being hit by the phone, her eyes wide like copper bells, staring intently in Jiang Xiao’s direction.

Jiang Xiao didn’t see, Jiang Xiao didn’t see, Jiang Xiao didn’t see…

She silently cast a spell.

Jiang Xiao absolutely must not have seen it!

Otherwise, this would be a sudden “resurrection” after three years!

What should she do?

Her heart pounded faster.

The bed next door was very quiet.

Her chat page was also very quiet; there was no sudden “The other party is typing” prompt.

Song Qiuyu took a deep breath, quickly deleted the characters in the input box, and then switched her account back.

Then she held her phone, screen-down, against her chest and tightly closed her eyes.

It would be okay.

Thankfully, after a long while, there was no movement from the bed next door, and only then did she fall into a deep sleep.

In the following days, they all led the typical university life of a “four-point-one-line” routine.

Their daily activities, besides filming, consisted of attending classes, eating, and sleeping.

The filming of the short video went even smoother than they expected, taking only six days to complete all the content.

During the process, their instructor was often present, supervising and helping out.

At the very end, Sang Tian even made a cameo, playing a colleague of the psychiatrist, a pretty nurse.

However, the fly in the ointment was that they still had many embarrassing moments during filming.

Besides being caught off guard by the instructor’s various candid shots, all these incidents became material for Jiang Xiao’s “little essays.”

All these essays were duplicated, kept on both Song Qiuyu’s and Jiang Xiao’s phones.

Now that the short video was filmed, the next step was video editing.

Their instructor thoughtfully found an excellent senior from the directing department to guide them on editing techniques.

While editing, they also reviewed the entire filming process and the bloopers.

The four of them in the dorm divided the editing tasks, and then all the edited parts were compiled by Song Qiuyu.

Thus, after some of the videos were compiled, Song Qiuyu unexpectedly discovered several photos she had never seen before.

The photos showed her and Jiang Xiao handcuffed together, face to face, breathing each other’s air as they slept.

The photographer had even taken several shots from different angles.

So intimate.

Looking at the two people in the photos, Song Qiuyu pursed her lips. If these bloopers got out, how would Jiang Xiao ever find a wife!

Rumors would fly, and it wouldn’t be something a few explanations could clear up.

She didn’t want to be Jiang Xiao’s “cyber wife” anymore.

Jiang Xiao now needed a better girl, a good girl who could heal his wounds!

Not her, someone who had inexplicably turned from a man into a woman…

She didn’t pursue who took the photos; she just wanted to conveniently cut them out of the video first.

“No, don’t! Song Qiuyu, how can you bear to delete such wonderful bloopers!”

Xie Zhuran quickly tried to dissuade her.

Song Qiuyu ignored Xie Zhuran and was about to delete them when she scrolled past a few photos taken by Lin An.

“Qiuyu, actually, what Lao Xie said makes sense. These bloopers are indeed very exciting, but as for you, Qiuyu, aren’t you being a bit…”

Lin An paused, “It seems like you’re overreacting?”

Song Qiuyu was stunned.

She turned to look at Jiang Xiao, who was quietly checking the background music for the short video.

“Jiang Xiao, don’t you have any thoughts on this?”

“Huh?”

Jiang Xiao took off his headphones.

“What do you think of these photos?”

Song Qiuyu pointed to the computer screen.

Jiang Xiao got up from his seat, walked over to her computer, looked at them carefully for a few moments, and said faintly, “Just delete them.”

“OK.”

Song Qiuyu nodded, looked at Lin An and Xie Zhuran, and said solemnly, “You also don’t want our dorm to be mocked as ‘gay-ish’ or a ‘gay den’ if this short video becomes popular, right?”

“And then none of us in the dorm will be able to find wives, right?”

Lin An and Xie Zhuran were convinced.

They obediently sat back in their seats and continued editing their remaining videos.

While editing, Xie Zhuran turned his head to look at Lin An, and just then, Lin An also turned his head to look at him.

They simultaneously looked back at Song Qiuyu and Jiang Xiao, who were wearing headphones and diligently editing videos, and then looked back at each other.

“Lao Xie, you have backups on your phone, right?”

“Lao Lin, you have backups on your phone, right?”

The two said in unison.

After confirming their understanding, they reached a consensus and continued editing the videos.

Song Qiuyu breathed a sigh of relief, secretly glanced at Jiang Xiao, who had sat back down, and patted her chest, then quietly rubbed the swollen and painful areas on her chest twice.

Her chest had been sore and swollen these past few days, though the swelling wasn’t very noticeable yet.

But no matter what, she had to earn money quickly and strive to move out as soon as possible!

It was already mid-month.

Girls’ periods came every month, and she only had half a month of peace left.

Soon, she would have to get up in the middle of the night every day to wash her underwear again!

With anxiety, Song Qiuyu worked even harder on editing the video.

Three more days passed.

They used all their spare time and finally finished editing the short video.

That afternoon, Song Qiuyu posted the video using her own account.

User: Tangzhanlemon (Sugar-Dipped Lemon).

Work: When a shrewd lawyer, a cunning criminal, and an ordinary you are all thrown into an arena by a perverted killer, only one can survive…

Cover: A close-up, grinning headshot of a lop-eared rabbit bandit.

Duration: 8 minutes.

Status: Under review.