There were only two microphones in the private room. Xiang Di pretended she couldn’t sing at all, staying beside Liang Qianqian the whole time, responsible for clapping for everyone else.

With the person she liked here, for her, it was both an enjoyment and a kind of torment.

The enjoyment was in being able to see, just by lifting her eyes, Bai Jiangxin lazily sitting on the sofa over there drinking fruit wine, his fingers long and slender, and when he tilted his head back, his Adam’s apple slightly rolling along with the swallowing motion of the liquid, cold yet sexy.

The torment was in not daring to make any rash moves. There were many songs on the playlist she wanted to order, but even if she ordered them, she wouldn’t dare sing, afraid of accidentally going off-key or cracking her voice and losing face in front of him.

Ye Minjia had just finished singing a song and stepped down, and noticed that a certain two people were sitting like two Buddhas, one on the left and one on the right, with what seemed to be a Milky Way between them, as if they weren’t here to sing, but here to meditate.

If it were before, he would have simply thought these two people were just not familiar with each other, but now, Ye Minjia would only think that these two were simply too good at pretending.

In private they were already people who had flicked each other’s lips with their tongues, and in public they acted unfamiliar, but behind people’s backs they kissed fiercely—right, let’s see how long you can keep pretending.

Ye Minjia sat back beside Bai Jiangxin, pulled the bottle of fruit wine out of his hand, and then said to everyone, “Just drinking is kind of boring, let’s play a game?”

Wang Sichen was the first to respond: “I agree!”

“Play what?” Liang Qianqian said.

Glancing at a certain two people, Ye Minjia suggested, “Truth or Dare?”

Xiang Di’s body instantly became a little tense.

With the person she liked present, she both looked forward to playing this and was also very afraid of playing it.

Who knew that Liang Qianqian would show a look of disdain on her face: “That game is so lame, it’s been played to death already.”

“……”

Ye Minjia rolled his eyes at Liang Qianqian.

Pig teammate, completely impossible to carry.

He suggested a few more small games, all of which were things everyone had played at gatherings before, with no sense of novelty. Ye Minjia could only ask Zhou Linxiao, “Bro, are there any more fun drinking games abroad? Recommend one?”

Zhou Linxiao also mentioned a few. It was just the language that was different; the actual game content was more or less the same. Foreigners looked like they were all open-minded, but if you really talked about cleverness, their ideas actually weren’t as many as Chinese people’s.

Zhou Linxiao shrugged and said, “Actually, many of the games we play abroad were brought out from China by Chinese international students. Nothing new.”

Ye Minjia had no choice but to search on his phone.

It was really a bit difficult—he had to both bring together those two non-initiative Buddhas, and also ensure the game was interesting, and not let the other four turn into NPCs who only existed to accompany the two of them.

“Have you found one yet?” Liang Qianqian complained. “It’s just finding a game, is it that hard?”

Dead pig teammate. Not only waiting with mouth open for him to feed her, but also having so many opinions. Ye Minjia completely lost his temper, plopped down beside Liang Qianqian, reached out and grabbed her ear, and whispered fiercely through clenched teeth.

Liang Qianqian’s eyes gradually widened, and then, under Ye Minjia’s look of anger at her for failing to live up to expectations, she revealed an expression of sudden realization.

Liang Qianqian smiled very embarrassedly. “Our class monitor really went to great lengths. Sorry, sorry, I didn’t get what you meant just now.”

Ye Minjia snorted softly. “Good that you know.”

Xiang Di sat beside them, her pair of almond eyes wide open, extremely curious about what the two of them were whispering about so close together.

As a result, Ye Minjia noticed and immediately warned her, “When adults are talking, kids are forbidden from eavesdropping.”

Xiang Di: “……”

Two minutes later, after careful screening by Ye Minjia and Liang Qianqian, they decided to play “Change Name and Surname.”

The rules were: during the game, you couldn’t call your own name, but had to switch to someone else’s name. Then everyone would randomly rush to shout a number. If two people reported a number at the same time, they had to rush to call out the other person’s name for that round of the game. The one who reacted more slowly would lose. The numbers went from 1 to 5. If 5 was already called, then the person who hadn’t called any number would lose.

This kind of game became harder the more familiar people were with each other. Under habitual thinking, when you looked at someone’s face, their name would automatically pop into your mind. The game was about breaking that habitual thinking. No props were needed—it was purely a test of reaction speed.

This game made several of the boys quite eager to try. Xiang Di was a little worried, afraid her reactions were too slow, and that she would keep losing and embarrass herself.

But everyone had no objections to this game, even Bai Jiangxin had no objections, so she could only steel herself and join.

Ye Minjia spoke first: “Then I’ll be called Bai Jiangxin.”

Liang Qianqian raised her hand: “Then I’ll be called Xiang Di.”

Bai Jiangxin’s name was taken, so Xiang Di said, “Then I’ll be called Liang Qianqian?”

“Hey, no, it’s just you two girls. That’s too easy.” Ye Minjia directly arranged it for them. “Bai Jiangxin will be Liang Qianqian, Liang Qianqian will be Wang Sichen, Wang Sichen will be Xiang Di, Xiang Di will be Zhou Linxiao, and Zhou Linxiao will be my name. OK, that’s it. Let’s play a few rounds first to get familiar with the game.”

Wang Sichen was already dizzy from being spun around. Holding his head, he said, “Wait, what am I called again? And who is calling my name again?”

Ye Minjia couldn’t be bothered to give him time to react and directly shouted to start.

Ye Minjia: “Start, 1!”

Liang Qianqian: “2!”

Zhou Linxiao: “3.”

There were only five numbers in total. If she didn’t shout now, there would be no numbers left to shout. Xiang Di decisively called out “3,” and ended up colliding with Wang Sichen.

Fortunately, in this round Wang Sichen was using her name. She immediately pointed at Wang Sichen and shouted: “Xiang Di!”

Wang Sichen froze. Ye Minjia said, “You lost, drink.”

Wang Sichen looked at Xiang Di with an unconvinced face. “Your memory’s pretty good.”

“Many thanks, many thanks.”

Xiang Di let out a heh-heh laugh, secretly rejoicing that she had escaped disaster.

After a few rounds, Wang Sichen had the slowest reactions and drank the most. Bai Jiangxin drank the least, only making one mistake.

No one was surprised. After all, the halo of being first in the grade was right there. Bai Jiangxin wasn’t the bookworm-type top student; he was the gifted-type top student. His brain was good to begin with, so naturally he wouldn’t be bad at games either.

“I don’t want to play with you brainy top students who think so fast anymore.” Wang Sichen looked dejected. “This is just bullying.”

Ye Minjia couldn’t be bothered to care about him and said again, “Let’s increase the difficulty. This round we won’t use full names—we’ll use nicknames.”

Ye Minjia directly pointed at Xiang Di. “I’ll choose Xiang Di. Xiang Di, what’s your nickname at home? Didi, or Xiao Di?”

Xiang Di let out an “uh” sound. “Di Bao’er.”

Hearing such an extremely doting nickname, you could tell she was a little girl who had been spoiled by her family since childhood. Ye Minjia nodded. “OK, then this round I’ll be called Di Bao’er. Later, don’t you guys call it wrong. If you call it wrong, you drink.”

After saying that, he immediately shot Liang Qianqian a look that said “be smart about it.”

Liang Qianqian said, “Then I’ll choose Bai Jiangxin.”

Having his name called by an unexpected person, Bai Jiangxin lifted his eyes. Liang Qianqian looked at him with a smiling face. “Bai Jiangxin, do you have a nickname at home? If not, I can make one up for you right now.”

Respecting the game rules, Bai Jiangxin answered honestly: “Xin’er.”

It was also the first time Ye Minjia heard Bai Jiangxin’s nickname, and he mercilessly mocked him. “I’m dying. Xing’er? Then I’ll be Yue’er.”

Bai Jiangxin glanced at Ye Minjia expressionlessly. “What’s your nickname?”

Ye Minjia was rather proud. “Xiao Maodan. My maternal grandpa gave it to me. How about it, cute and down-to-earth, right? Do you want to use my nickname?”

Bai Jiangxin curled his lips. “…No.”

He didn’t want to be pointed at and called Xiao Maodan later.

In the end, Bai Jiangxin chose Zhou Linxiao’s nickname. Zhou Linxiao’s Chinese name was something he only took after coming to China, so he didn’t have a Chinese nickname. His Spanish full name was quite long, and his family in China always called him by his short name, Nico, which was affectionate and easy to say.

After everyone finished choosing, they all switched names. Bai Jiangxin was called Nico, Xiang Di was called Qianqian, Ye Minjia was called Di Bao’er, Liang Qianqian was called Xin’er, Zhou Linxiao was called Wang Sichen’s nickname, Chenchen, and Wang Sichen picked up the unwanted Xiao Maodan.

Before the game started, Wang Sichen raised his hand and said, “Can we not chug bottles this round? If I drink more, I’m really going to throw up.”

“Alright, alright, we’ll take care of you this once.”

They had just played one round and half a dozen bottles of fruit wine were already gone. KTV prices were expensive, so it was also a good chance to save some alcohol. Ye Minjia picked up the cups on the table that hadn’t been used yet. “No more chugging bottles. Pour into cups, okay? Drink cup by cup.”

Wang Sichen said in a moved tone, “Thanks, class monitor. Next semester when we choose class monitor, I’ll still vote for you.”

Liang Qianqian laughed helplessly. “You’re drunk, aren’t you? We don’t even have a next semester, big brother.”

Wang Sichen froze. Oh yeah.

Their group would be graduating and going their separate ways in two months. Where would a next semester come from?

Ye Minjia waved his hand. “Hey, hey, hey, don’t talk about such sad stuff. Keep playing.”

The game started. Wang Sichen took the lead: “1!”

Zhou Linxiao followed: “2.”

Xiang Di still loved the number 3 as always, and ended up saying it at the same time as Ye Minjia. She reacted quickly and immediately pointed at him and shouted: “Di Bao’er!”

Ye Minjia lost, opened a new bottle, poured himself a full cup, and drank it in one go.

The next round started. Xiang Di became confident and was the first to shout “1.”

Liang Qianqian: “2!”

Bai Jiangxin: “3.”

Ye Minjia: “3.”

Bai Jiangxin quickly realized he had collided with Ye Minjia. He still remembered that this round Ye Minjia was using Xiang Di’s nickname, but as soon as the word “Di” came out, for some reason, he got stuck.

Ye Minjia had already shouted “Nico.”

“You lost, drink.” Ye Minjia smiled as he poured Bai Jiangxin a cup of wine. “I feel like Di Bao’er is pretty easy to say, so why did you get stuck?”

Bai Jiangxin pressed his lips together, said nothing, directly lifted the cup, and drained it in one gulp.

The next round continued. This time, Xiang Di and Liang Qianqian collided.

Xiang Di froze. She remembered that this round Liang Qianqian was using Bai Jiangxin’s nickname. Among everyone’s nicknames, the ones she remembered most clearly were her own and Bai Jiangxin’s.

But.

In less than a second of hesitation, Liang Qianqian had already called out her nickname.

Xiang Di had no choice but to admit defeat and drank a cup.

She could only pray that in the next round she wouldn’t say the same number as Qianqian again.

However, Murphy’s Law arrived right on time. When you worry about or fear something will happen, then that thing will definitely happen.

She and Qianqian seemed to be matched up.

Compared to being embarrassed about calling the nickname of the person she liked, she even more didn’t want to lose the game.

“Xin’er!”

“Xin’er!”

“Xin’er!”

The young girl’s sweet and crisp voice rang out again and again. In her desire to win the game, Xiang Di called it more and more smoothly, and Liang Qianqian could only admit defeat.

After drinking another cup, Liang Qianqian shrugged at Ye Minjia.

Ye Minjia held back his laughter and turned his head to look at Bai Jiangxin’s reaction beside him.

This person looked calm,

seeming to have no reaction at all. He leaned over and ambiguously bumped his shoulder. “Xin’er?”

Bai Jiangxin raised his eyebrows at him. “What?”