After happily finishing the fish and resting for a while, Song Qiuyu suddenly twitched her nose a few times and sniffed the scent on her own body.
“There’s still time. Should I take a shower before going to the library?”
Although it was very faint, Song Qiuyu felt she could smell a hint of sweat.
Besides the sweat, there was still the spicy aroma from the fish clinging to her.
The sticky feeling on her body wasn’t too heavy, but it still made her uncomfortable.
“What’s wrong?”
Jiang Xiao was puzzled.
“I’ve been busy all morning, so I feel a little sweaty. That’s why I want to shower first before going out.”
Song Qiuyu wrinkled her small nose as if she disliked her current self.
“Really?”
Jiang Xiao was even more confused.
“If you don’t believe me, smell for yourself?”
Song Qiuyu said casually.
Hearing this, Jiang Xiao walked over, actually leaned in close, and sniffed gently. He didn’t catch any sweat, but instead, was greeted by a sweet girlish fragrance.
“Nope, I don’t smell anything.”
“That means your nose isn’t as sensitive as mi—”
As she spoke, Song Qiuyu turned her head, and then her pupils slowly widened, a stunned look appearing on her pretty face.
Only now did she belatedly realize that she’d called Jiang Xiao over to sniff her, and he had actually come! Seeing the girl embarrassed and blushing from her sudden realization, Jiang Xiao was stunned as well.
He might really have made a mistake. Facing such a face day and night, it would be hard to keep himself in check for long…
He would end up drained sooner or later.
He knew well that people who aren’t particular about small things would sometimes make little blunders in unexpected ways, just like Song Qiuyu was doing now.
But such little blunders were really too much to handle… “Anyway, I’m going to shower first!!”
Song Qiuyu couldn’t care about anything else. She turned and dashed into the bedroom to grab a change of clothes.
Jiang Xiao stood there, frozen and silent.
After Song Qiuyu found her clothes and passed by him again, she rushed into the bathroom and closed the door.
Only then did he turn around, head for the sofa, sit down, and sink back into thought.
A shower, huh…
Unconsciously, he recalled a certain scene from a doujin he’d read.
That scene didn’t happen in a dormitory, but in a setting just like their current cohabitation.
He suddenly grew curious: did he really look like the kind of person who would barge into the bathroom and force Song Qiuyu?
Did he really?
Song Qiuyu firmly believed Jiang Xiao wouldn’t do that.
But even so, she still locked the bathroom door behind her.
…She undressed, carefully hid her used sanitary pad, turned on the water, and stood naked under the warm stream.
There was a mirror in the rental apartment’s bathroom, even bigger than the one in the dormitory.
She didn’t intentionally look in the mirror; she just wanted to finish up quickly and get to the library. But as her hands washed up to her chest, she suddenly froze.
This softness…
Had it developed from little red beans, to soup dumplings, and now into even bigger buns?
Huh?
Song Qiuyu held her breath, cautiously measuring with her hands a few times, and her whole face darkened.
The good mood from enjoying delicious food, having the best rental apartment, and great roommates suddenly vanished, replaced only by a wave of grievance.
She’d thought at the earliest she’d grow like this by winter break, but this was just way too fast!
She glanced toward the outside of the bathroom, sniffed lightly, and remembered that Jiang Xiao was still waiting for her.
She could only pull herself together and stubbornly continue showering.
There was nothing to be done—she’d just have to buy a bandeau later.
With her current physique, there was no way she could claim it was just her chest muscles growing!
“It’s nothing, it’s just this.”
She glanced at the mirror—no matter how she looked at it, she no longer resembled a boy at all. She was now every bit a girl in the throes of puberty, her cheeks slightly red.
As long as she didn’t admit it, she was still a boy in appearance!
After finishing, she put on clean clothes, opened the bathroom door, and as soon as she stepped out, she saw Jiang Xiao sitting on the sofa, hugging his head like a Psyduck, looking utterly distressed.
What was he doing?
“Jiang Xiao, just give me a few more minutes, I’ll change clothes and then we can leave!”
Jiang Xiao was startled, then after a moment, responded coolly, “Okay.”
Library.
Since Jiang Xiao moved out of the dormitory, and now with Song Qiuyu moving out as well, the only two left in 602 Dormitory fell into deep thought.
“Lao Song, Lao Jiang, stop hiding! Tell the truth, are you two secretly dating?”
Xie Zhuran had the look of someone who’d uncovered the world’s greatest secret.
Song Qiuyu was taken aback.
“I get it, I understand now. Song Qiuyu, you’re really a girl, aren’t you?”
Definite.
Xie Zhuran’s brows furrowed, his tone turning even more certain.
Hearing this, Song Qiuyu felt her weak spot had been poked, and started to break down a little.
The thing she’d been hiding for so long kept getting blurted out by others so easily!
“Lao Xie, so you mean Qiuyu is a girl disguising herself as a boy to sneak into the men’s dorm, all for Lao Jiang?”
“In short—Qiuyu likes Lao Jiang?”
At that, Song Qiuyu grabbed two books from the table.
Jiang Xiao quietly edited a text message off to the side.
“That’s right, that’s what I think!”
As soon as Xie Zhuran finished speaking, he and Lin An both suddenly noticed something wrong in the expressions of the people across from them, as if something was about to explode.
“Can’t you put your wild imaginations to better use?”
Song Qiuyu shot to her feet, a book in each hand, and thumped each of them on the head.
Along with her sharp voice, the sound echoed through the entire reading room.
Everyone who had been immersed in their studies now looked up at her, casting kindly, understanding glances in her direction.
“Shh, shh, shh! Lao Song, this is the library, keep your voice down!”
Xie Zhuran quickly glanced around at the other students staring at them.
He was stunned—it was the first time he’d ever seen Song Qiuyu explode with such a sharp voice, sounding exactly like a real girl.
But then he remembered how she’d imitated a catgirl’s voice in the short video shoot earlier, and it made sense.
He even felt a bit moved.
To make the short video shoot even better, Song Qiuyu was working so hard already—what reason did they have to slack off?
Of course, Song Qiuyu couldn’t ignore those stares. She gritted her teeth, glared at the two roommates opposite her, and then sat back down.
Just as Jiang Xiao finished sending his message, he turned his head and saw the person next to him pursing her lips, eyes lowered, looking thoroughly aggrieved.
He was slightly stunned, and a sharp pain stabbed through the place in his chest that must have been his heart.
It wasn’t the first time others had teased them, but this was the first time Song Qiuyu had shown this expression…
Xie Zhuran noticed, too, and immediately felt a pang of conscience.
Though alongside his guilt, he somehow felt the pleasure of teasing the little sister next door—though, of course, he didn’t really have a little sister.
“It was just a joke, don’t take it so seriously! And that whack just now really hurt! Alright, enough, let’s study.”
Xie Zhuran nudged Lin An with his elbow as he spoke.
“Yeah, studying for the exams is more important. But if you’re still mad, Qiuyu, you can hit Lao Xie a few more times,” Lin An said, rubbing his sore head.
“Why the heck me?”
Xie Zhuran quickly protected his head.
Lin An was about to say something to divert the attention of the now-mighty Song Qiuyu when, just then, a figure none of them expected appeared in their line of sight.
And just like that, Song Qiuyu’s attention was completely drawn away.
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