Song Qiuyu could roughly understand what Jiang Xiao meant.
Not going to the library tomorrow—that probably meant a date or something like that.
She looked away with some difficulty, struggling to calm herself and sort out her thoughts.
“Jiang Xiao, this wish won’t work either! Besides going to the library to study tomorrow, we have to go work unpaid at the admissions office the rest of the time!”
After she finished speaking, she clearly heard Jiang Xiao let out a disappointed tsk.
“Alright, we have plenty of time to play during summer break. Once the illness is made public…”
She took a shallow breath, looked back at Jiang Xiao’s face, poked his hand with her fingertip, then hooked one of his fingers and swayed it.
“I’ll be able to go on a proper date with you as a girl, fair and square!”
Jiang Xiao sighed helplessly, gazing at her radiant smile. He felt the regret in his heart vanish in an instant.
“You said it yourself. When that time comes, you have to go with me to watch a movie, go to the aquarium, and make up for all the dates we missed over these six years in one go!”
Jiang Xiao raised an eyebrow and said with a light laugh.
Hearing this, Song Qiuyu’s brows furrowed delicately.
She really had no way to deal with his pushiness—just as he always spoiled her, she wanted to spoil him back the same way.
So she scratched the back of her neck and looked elsewhere again.
“Fine, but I have very poor stamina. What if I can’t walk anymore and my legs get sore?”
“Then I’ll carry you!”
Jiang Xiao’s eyes immediately lit up.
“No carrying!”
Just imagining Jiang Xiao carrying her while shopping made Song Qiuyu so embarrassed she could barely breathe.
She couldn’t fathom how bad her condition would be if that actually happened!
Not to mention anything else, they weren’t just ordinary passersby—they were a good-looking couple.
Not to mention, they were short video creators with a bit of a reputation.
If they went shopping like that, who knows how many photos and videos from bystanders might end up circulating all over the internet!!
Song Qiuyu raised both hands to reject the idea.
“Then carrying you on my back is fine, right?”
Jiang Xiao pretended to think seriously.
“Or should I hoist you over my shoulder, or prepare a wheelchair or a crutch for you?”
Hearing this, Song Qiuyu immediately raised both hands in surrender.
“Please, just let me walk on my own two legs.”
Jiang Xiao chuckled, no longer teasing her.
“So tomorrow really is still the original plan?”
“Yeah, original plan!”
Song Qiuyu breathed a sigh of relief.
Actually, she really wanted to go on a date with Jiang Xiao too. They were already boyfriend and girlfriend, but they hadn’t even had a single formal date yet.
The ones that seemed like dates before didn’t really count.
The date she wanted was one where it was just her and Jiang Xiao, where she didn’t have to be bound by those restrictions and could be herself completely.
“Alright, then…” Jiang Xiao paused. “For now, I don’t have any ideas for the six wishes.
Let’s wait until summer break.”
After saying that, he pinched the tip of her small nose.
“Then you’d better think carefully. My thoughts change every day. By the time summer break comes, I might not want to fulfill those six wishes anymore—”
Song Qiuyu said seriously.
“Doesn’t matter.” Jiang Xiao pulled out his phone and showed her the screen where he had ended a recording.
“Recording done. Don’t disappoint.”
Song Qiuyu stared blankly at the recording interface.
She was dazed for a long time before snapping back to reality.
Is a half-hour recording for real?
When did Haki Xiao start recording?
Damn it!
“Alright, sleep now, sleep now. We still have to go study at the library tomorrow. Jia’er, you don’t want to accidentally wake up late and get teased by Lao Xie and the others, right?”
Jiang Xiao patted her cute little head and said with a smile, “Something like—’Did you two go at it all night last night?'”
Before he could finish, his mouth was covered by a pair of soft, boneless little hands.
“Jiang Xiao, promise me one thing, okay?”
“What?”
“Please spend less time online. There are no real humans on the internet. Don’t let your genes get polluted!”
Song Qiuyu’s face was full of worry.
Hearing this, Jiang Xiao was momentarily stunned, then held back a laugh and pinched her nose again.
“Then Jia’er, you promise me too. Spend less time online. There are too many abstract types on the internet. I’m afraid they’ll lead you astray.”
“No can do. I have to write short video scripts. I need to be surfing at high speed!”
Song Qiuyu retorted without thinking.
“Then I’ll surf too!”
Jiang Xiao frowned.
“You’re not allowed to surf!”
Song Qiuyu gritted her teeth.
“Why can Xi’er surf but I can’t?”
Jiang Xiao frowned again and said.
“Because… because I’ve already surfed a lot, so I’m immune to it. But you’re different, Jiang Xiao.”
Song Qiuyu was very insistent. “In short, Jiang Xiao, you’re not allowed to surf!”
“Xi’er…”
Jiang Xiao suddenly chuckled softly, his fingertips brushing the strands of hair on her side and tucking them behind her ear.
“There are some places where you still don’t know me well enough.”
“Huh?”
Song Qiuyu was startled.
“Like many nights, while you’re asleep, I…”
Jiang Xiao lowered his voice.
Song Qiuyu held her breath.
While she’s asleep, what does he do? Could it be… oh no, not a neutralization reaction!
But she hadn’t felt anything at all.
“…secretly get up to play on my phone.”
Jiang Xiao watched her reaction, holding back a laugh, and said.
“You’re an idiot, aren’t you?”
Song Qiuyu snorted at him, then turned around and ignored him for the rest of the night.
The next day.
The four people in Dormitory 602 spent the morning studying at the library, then put on their “pain masks” and went to work unpaid at the admissions office.
Maybe because their admissions promotional videos were pretty good, ever since they started working, the number of people calling to inquire only increased, never decreased.
Luckily, although it was busy, as the weather got hotter, they got to enjoy free air conditioning every day, free sundaes and iced fruit, and occasionally other treats—even free Häagen-Dazs.
It was both painful and joyful.
So joyful that they wanted to just live in the admissions office to save on air conditioning costs at the dorm or rental apartment.
And so they kept busy like this until the end of June.
It wasn’t until the class counselor let them go and had other senior students take over their shifts that they saw their former selves in those seniors.
Eye contact confirmed: all unpaid laborers.
Fellow summer unpaid laborers! Why need we have known each other before!
In that brief encounter, the two batches of student workers had already formed a deep friendship.
At this point, there were only five days left until Lin An and Xia Qi’s wedding.
After the four left school, they immediately bought plane tickets.
But what they didn’t expect was that the weather forecast showed rain for the next five days in Lufeng City—thunder showers at that.
“Don’t worry, Lao Lin. This weather forecast is often wrong!”
Song Qiuyu said to her roommate in the back seat.
“Hopefully it’s wrong.”
Lin An adjusted his glasses and sighed.
“But honestly, some rain isn’t a big deal. As long as it’s not too heavy, switching to an indoor venue should be fine.”
“It should be. This forecast can even get the next day’s weather wrong, let alone predicting five days ahead!”
Song Qiuyu said with certainty.
Although Lao Lin didn’t say it outright, Xia Qi had mentioned wanting an outdoor wedding.
If it really rained, Xia Qi would be very disappointed, and Lao Lin would be unhappy too.
It was like an empathy lock between couples—they were easily influenced by each other’s moods, worrying about each other’s worries and rejoicing in each other’s joys.
“Jia’er, this plane food is pretty good!”
Just then, Jiang Xiao beside her used his fork to twirl some fried noodles from the meal box, took a bite, and suddenly said.
Song Qiuyu was stunned.
In that instant of daze, Jiang Xiao’s fork with the noodles was already right by her lips.
She didn’t know if anyone was watching, but Song Qiuyu’s face immediately flushed red.
She glanced at the flight attendant distributing drinks nearby and quickly shook her head at Jiang Xiao.
“The serving of fried noodles is just average. You probably don’t have enough to eat. Eat your own—I have mine!”
As she spoke, Song Qiuyu looked at the separate small bread roll, picked it up without hesitation, and placed it on the tray table in front of Jiang Xiao.
“Here, this bread is for you too. I’ve been putting on a little weight lately and want to lose some. The fried noodles are enough for me.”
“Lose weight? But I think you’re perfect as you are.”
Jiang Xiao smiled, leaned in a little closer, and lowered his voice, saying slowly, “Soft and cuddly. It feels really therapeutic.”
Song Qiuyu’s pretty face flushed even redder. “Alright, with all these noodles, two bread rolls, and a pack of pickled vegetables, can’t that shut your mouth?”
“Here, take this too. Eat properly and then sleep!”
She grabbed the individually packaged pickled vegetables and placed it on Jiang Xiao’s tray table as well.
“Fine, fine.”
Jiang Xiao stopped teasing her, looked at the pile of food on the tray table, and sighed helplessly.
Then he started eating with a smile.
Song Qiuyu watched Jiang Xiao for a moment, then tore open the plastic wrapper on her fork, carefully twirled some noodles, and put them in her mouth.
The noodles were salty and spicy, not quite as chewy as the ones outside, but as an in-flight dinner, she was already very satisfied.
When the flight attendant came by pushing the drink cart, Song Qiuyu’s eyes lit up at the iced drinks, but remembering that she was on her period, she gritted her teeth and only asked for a cup of plain hot water.
However, the flight attendant’s gaze seemed to carry a hint of curiosity, as if wondering about her gender, or maybe—guessing that she was on her period.
This made Song Qiuyu nervous.
Sure enough, not ordering a cold drink but asking for plain hot water was too obvious, right? After all, everyone before her had ordered cold drinks!
Or maybe this flight attendant had seen their short videos in her spare time and recognized them, but because she was still working, she couldn’t talk about non-work matters?
Should she switch to a cold drink and have Jiang Xiao drink it?
Maybe she could try?
The more she thought, the more complicated it became, and she panicked at the possibility of being exposed as a girl prematurely.
As luck would have it, the flight attendant had indeed seen their short videos.
By now, their videos had become much more influential—roughly one or two out of every ten people had seen them.
Still, the flight attendant didn’t overthink it.
She just assumed Song Qiuyu might be feeling unwell or simply wanted hot water, so she prepared to pour it.
But then Jiang Xiao also asked for plain hot water. And not just him—Xie Zhuran and Lin An both asked for plain hot water too.
This left the flight attendant a bit stunned. Suddenly, things had become truly strange.
Completely unaware of this, Song Qiuyu looked at her three roommates and felt a wave of emotion.
She instantly understood why they did it.