After seeing Zhao Dandan, the three of them quickly gathered together.
With Zhao Dandan present, she would proactively think of ways to find topics for Ning Mu and guide the conversation content to a level that all four of them could pick up on.
Everyone’s relationships also became better and better as a result.
“Um, how about we add each other on WeChat? In the future we can also invite each other out to play.”
Cai Xiaotong, who served as the backbone of the four, said.
WeChat. Hearing Cai Xiaotong bring this up, Bai Yurou only then realized that she still did not have her WeChat.
Previously they had all contacted each other through QQ.
In Bai Yurou’s eyes, QQ was generally used for chatting with online friends, while WeChat was a bit more formal.
People one knew in real life such as family and classmates used WeChat to chat.
Bai Yurou gladly took out her phone’s QR code.
On the other side, Ning Mu also did the same.
Cai Xiaotong took out her own phone. The phone case showed two anime girls leaning against each other.
On the other side, Zhao Dandan also simultaneously opened her phone’s scan interface.
“Yurou, let’s also add each other.”
“Okay.”
After seeing that the two of them had finished adding friends, Bai Yurou finally mustered the courage to say the words she wanted to say:
“Ning Mu, let’s also add…… friends.”
Her tone lacked confidence, fearing that Ning Mu would refuse.
Actually, she had wanted Ning Mu’s WeChat the entire day today.
It was just that she could not find a suitable opportunity. If she spoke up rashly, the other party would probably refuse, right?
Although she could feel that Ning Mu’s attitude toward her had eased quite a bit now, at most it had only changed from strangers to ordinary friends.
Now that Cai Xiaotong had taken the lead in proposing to add friends, she took the opportunity to also speak up.
This way the probability of being refused should be a bit smaller, right?
Bai Yurou felt uneasy inside.
Unexpectedly, she did not hear Ning Mu refuse her. Instead, Ning Mu continued speaking in that tone that revealed no emotional change:
“Alright.”
Ning Mu agreed! Bai Yurou felt elated inside, and her little finger unconsciously curled outward. Even the smile on her face could not be hidden and was directly displayed.
Then she realized that she was being watched just like that by the three of them, and hurriedly restrained the expression on her face, explaining:
“After all, Ning Mu is so beautiful. Being able to add such a beautiful girl as a friend makes me very happy.”
The three of them did not say much more, but Bai Yurou felt that looking at their expressions, they probably did not believe her explanation.
Bai Yurou hurriedly opened her phone’s scan interface and added Ning Mu as a friend.
Ning Mu’s WeChat was still the same as before.
The profile picture was a lemon that had been cut open a little, revealing the pale yellow flesh.
A few juice-filled segments slightly bloomed open.
The background had no particular decoration and was just ordinary white.
The WeChat nickname was also simple and straightforward, just called “Lemon.”
Bai Yurou recalled that back then Ning Mu had chosen this nickname simply because “lemon” and “Ning Mu” sounded similar, with no other meaning.
That profile picture had also just been randomly found online in order to match her own nickname.
However, if this nickname and profile picture were seen by someone who did not know her, they would probably think it was some young girl with a case of literary youth disease.
***
After finishing adding friends, the few of them continued walking around again.
Before long they passed by the main stage of the anime convention.
On the stage stood only a female host cosplaying as an otherworld elf.
Below the stage stood a few scattered people, looking somewhat cold and deserted.
On the stage was placed a gacha machine—as long as one turned the handle, a random gacha capsule would drop out.
Inside the capsule was a slip of paper, though no one knew what was written on it.
Just as the few of them were about to leave, they heard that female host say,
“Big sisters, do you want to play a game?”
“A game?”
The few of them asked in confusion.
“Just some quiz games of our anime convention. You form pairs of two and answer some questions related to anime. As long as you answer the corresponding number of questions correctly, you can exchange for prizes. But if you answer wrong, you have to turn the gacha machine and carry out the corresponding punishment according to the content of the slip of paper inside the capsule.”
Seemingly afraid that the few of them would refuse, the host added:
“Even if you don’t answer the corresponding number, it doesn’t matter. We have participation prizes. Moreover, the punishment content will not be too excessive. It’s all at the level of truth or dare.”
She had finally managed to find a few peerlessly beautiful cosplayers and could not let them get away.
She had to pull them up so that it would also attract other people to come watch their stage.
Hearing the host say this, Cai Xiaotong looked toward her companions.
“What about you all? Do you want to play?”
Thinking that they had come to play anyway, Bai Yurou also did not refuse.
Moreover, she was very confident in her own reserve of anime knowledge.
Zhao Dandan also nodded at the same time.
But unexpectedly, even Ning Mu, who was not an otaku, also agreed.
“Alright, then let’s form teams.”
After seeing that all three of them had accepted, Cai Xiaotong continued:
“I’ll team up with Dandan-jie. Yurou, you team up with Ning Mu.”
“Eh, me?”
On the other side, Zhao Dandan was instead a bit puzzled.
She had thought it would be Cai Xiaotong and Bai Yurou as one team, and herself and Ning Mu as one team.
“After all, you’re my older cousin. If not you, then who?”
Cai Xiaotong spoke as she pulled Zhao Dandan up onto the stage.
Cai Xiaotong doing this actually had a little scheme in mind.
From the very beginning of today she had known that Bai Yurou had good feelings toward Ning Mu, and just earlier when Bai Yurou obtained Ning Mu as a friend, her expression had not even been acting anymore.
Bai Yurou was a good best friend she had recognized.
For the sake of her good best friend’s love, she naturally had to provide some assistance.
Seeing Cai Xiaotong and Zhao Dandan take the lead in going up onto the stage and starting the game, Bai Yurou also looked toward the Ning Mu beside her.
“Do you really want to play? You don’t watch anime, right? Can you answer those questions?”
“Since there’s a consolation prize as a guaranteed minimum, why not play? Moreover, if I don’t play, we won’t be able to make up four people, right?”
Ning Mu explained with a smile.
“So later, I’ll have to trouble you. Let’s receive fewer punishments.”
Ning Mu said a bit playfully.
This was the first time Bai Yurou had seen Ning Mu speak to her in such a joking tone.
Previously it had always been relatively flat, cold, and without emotion.
On the stage, Cai Xiaotong and Zhao Dandan advanced through difficulties all the way and correctly answered many questions.
“In the game Umineko When They Cry, Beatrice says in EP4 that Ushiromiya Battler is guilty. What is Ushiromiya Battler’s sin?”
Before long the host threw out a new question, instantly stumping the two of them.
“This is way too niche.”
Cai Xiaotong complained upon hearing it.
She had naturally heard of the work Umineko When They Cry and also knew its evaluation was very high, but she had never had the time to finish it and naturally would not know the answer to the question.
Zhao Dandan likewise did not know.
In the end the two of them could only turn the gacha machine and draw their first punishment.
【Use a washable marker to draw a small animal on the other party’s face.】
“It seems the two big sisters have drawn a cute punishment. I wonder what they will draw on each other’s faces.”
The host miss spoke as she took out a marker from the pocket of her clothes.
This quickly attracted a portion of people.
After all, the scene of two beauties drawing on each other’s faces was still something people looked forward to quite a bit.
Cai Xiaotong took the marker.
Because of height reasons, Zhao Dandan could only half-squat so that Cai Xiaotong could reach her face.
Cai Xiaotong borrowed the pen and drew a crude little bear on her older cousin’s face.
Although she was cosplaying as Noah, Cai Xiaotong’s drawing skills seemed to also be quite terrible.
Then Zhao Dandan also took the pen and drew a chibi little cat on her younger cousin’s face.