The commissary’s warm, bright lights, damp with the night rain, settled on Xu Tongtong’s pink hair.
“Jiang Xiao, I always feel like you don’t like me very much.”
“Did I do something wrong to make you dislike me?”
Xu Tongtong raised her eyes, looking a bit wronged as she met Jiang Xiao’s gaze, and said listlessly.
Jiang Xiao quietly held his umbrella, about to walk past her, not intending to spare her a glance.
The moment he brushed past, his large hand holding two bottles of mineral water was suddenly grabbed by a slightly cold, small hand.
“Jiang Xiao, my umbrella is a bit broken. Can you share your umbrella with me, and then… then we can walk around the base?”
Xu Tongtong’s face was slightly flushed, her silver teeth biting her lip.
Jiang Xiao decisively pulled his hand away.
Startled, Xu Tongtong stumbled backward a couple of steps before regaining her balance.
The umbrella in her hand tilted, and cool rainwater splashed onto her, soaking her thin military training top.
Her figure wasn’t as curvaceous as Sang Tian’s, but it was still the typical “otaku killer” type.
The parts that should be plump weren’t thin, and the parts that should be thin weren’t plump.
Fortunately, Xu Tongtong was wearing a white T-shirt underneath, so it wasn’t too revealing.
Jiang Xiao looked at her disheveled appearance, and some images flashed through his mind.
He had never felt happy about being pursued and entangled by many girls, but when he was dating Shen Xi, he had experienced a brief moment of secret joy.
Because he could see Shen Xi secretly getting jealous in her words, asking for hugs and kisses, and declaring her possessiveness in various ways.
To prevent her long-distance boyfriend from being deceived by other women, Shen Xi even spent a lot of time and effort teaching him how to identify other girls’ tricks.
Shen Xi might not have noticed, but at that time, he genuinely felt his girlfriend was incredibly adorable.
He had already imagined their future wedding, the names of their children, and growing old together.
Unfortunately.
He would never see it again.
His expression turned dejected, and his mood plummeted uncontrollably.
Xu Tongtong suppressed her shock and surprise at being rejected, feigning concern in her tone: “Jiang Xiao, what’s wrong?”
Jiang Xiao coldly looked up.
Under Jiang Xiao’s icy gaze, Xu Tongtong subconsciously froze, her body stiffening. This time, she genuinely wanted to ask him what was wrong.
His reaction was so extreme, it could be called a stress response…
“If you try anything with me again, I’ll beat you up.”
This was what Shen Xi had taught Jiang Xiao back then.
When dealing with “green tea” girls.
You have to be fierce and cold.
So-called “green tea” needs warm water to brew, so as long as you don’t give her a single chance, the “green tea” will cleverly roll away on its own.
“…”
Jiang Xiao finished speaking with a cold face and then left with his umbrella.
After walking a distance, he saw a figure holding an umbrella and walking quickly towards him from afar; it was Song Qiuyu.
For some reason, Song Qiuyu looked anxious, like a mother whose child had gone missing.
“Jiang Xiao, you…”
Song Qiuyu stopped mid-sentence, her gaze going past Jiang Xiao to the figure behind him, and she couldn’t help but be stunned.
Isn’t that Xu Tongtong?
Sure enough, Jiang Xiao left with Xu Tongtong.
Nothing must have happened between them, right?
Jiang Xiao didn’t know about her worries; he simply handed her one of the mineral water bottles he was holding.
“Hmm?” Song Qiuyu was startled again, looking at the mineral water he offered in surprise, then belatedly understood.
“Thanks, Jiang Xiao, so you went to buy water for me!”
“Let’s go.”
Jiang Xiao was not in a good mood; he wanted to talk even less than usual and couldn’t squeeze out any more words.
“Mmm!”
Song Qiuyu looked back at Xu Tongtong one last time, then retracted her gaze, her heart pounding.
She wanted to ask Jiang Xiao directly but felt it would be pointless to ask.
So she didn’t ask in the end.
Silence continued until they returned to the base apartment dormitory.
“Ugh…”
Song Qiuyu was brushing her teeth, white toothpaste foam already spilling from her lips and mouth, running down her fair chin.
Her mind was still full of questions about Jiang Xiao and Xu Tongtong.
“Holy cow! When did you secretly get into a relationship behind our backs?!”
Suddenly, Xie Zhuran’s shout caught her attention.
She turned her head to see her roommates, who just a short while ago were cheering over their well-praised skit and excited about tomorrow’s shooting practice, now surrounding Gu Nian, pointing and gesturing.
“Oh my, look at this, ‘my dear’ this, ‘my dear’ that, I’m getting goosebumps all over!”
“And he’s ‘insomniac,’ needs ‘my dear’ to kiss him to sleep? Is he a three-year-old or what? Can’t stand it, can’t stand it!”
“Are you guys playing house like kindergarteners? Come on, let’s talk about adult stuff!”
What in the world were they talking about?
Song Qiuyu quickly finished brushing her teeth and squeezed over, peeking from beside Xie Zhuran. Her gaze fell on the lit phone screen.
Just one look, and she was utterly speechless.
Gu Nian’s phone screen was filled with flirtatious messages between him and his girlfriend, the kind that were over the top.
She suddenly felt that she, too, might have been like that with Jiang Xiao in the past.
At that time, she probably had no sense of boundaries; she just did whatever she found fun.
“I know you guys are envious.”
Gu Nian crossed his legs and raised an eyebrow: “But this is just our daily life. I’ll tell you a secret, she even recorded herself taking a shower and sent it to me!”
That one sentence completely fried everyone’s CPUs.
Song Qiuyu’s beautiful brows furrowed, and a faint blush of embarrassment spread across her neck.
She didn’t know if she had ever done something like that, but her mind, refusing to obey, completed this memory for her, making her bite her lip.
If it were her, she’d probably first call Jiang Xiao to play games, then pretend to forget to turn off the mic, go make sounds like she was showering, and then come back, feigning surprise as if she’d just realized she hadn’t turned off the mic… something like that.
Seriously.
She felt like buying a block of tofu and just ending it all.
Jiang Xiao didn’t join them; he glanced at the deliberately raised phone screen, briefly lost in past memories, his eyes darkening.
Couples in love are probably all like this.
How nice.
“So, how did you meet this girlfriend of yours?”
Xie Zhuran gritted his teeth and pressed on.
“Met her through gaming!”
Gu Nian crossed his arms.
Song Qiuyu’s expression subtly changed.
What a coincidence, her alternate account and Jiang Xiao met through gaming too!
“Oh.”
Lin An adjusted his glasses and said with a smile: “So, just online friends then.”
Xie Zhuran glanced at Lin An, already struggling to suppress his laughter.
He was too experienced; that guy Lin was so cunning!
“Yeah, it’s an online relationship, what’s wrong with that?”
Gu Nian felt an inexplicable chill from Lin An’s smile.
“Have you met offline?”
Lin An asked.
“Not yet, but we’ve already discussed meeting this Christmas!”
“Oh.”
Lin An smiled, “Then you’d better be mentally prepared. Be careful when meeting offline; your girlfriend might turn into a ghost, or even a tank!”
“…Or there might be a beast under the skirt, and when you lift it, you’ll meet a fellow man and shed tears.”
At these words, Song Qiuyu’s heart skipped half a beat, her HP bar was emptied by the critical hit, and she nearly fainted.