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When everyone was about to set out toward the hotel, it was also the time when the boys came to help the girls carry their luggage.
It was only then that Yan Luqing discovered—her own luggage, at the time of getting out of the car, had already been in Gu Ci’s hand… carried by him all the way until now.
So at this step only the two of them stood still—the reason being Yan Luqing had no luggage, and Gu Ci had no intention of carrying luggage for anyone else.
Yan Luqing could not really be empty-handed. When she went to take the initiative to help the twin sisters carry things, Xia Yutian’s sharp eyes noticed this: “Heavens, I seem to remember Gu the Great Campus Prince has a young master’s temperament…”
Xia Xuetian instantly understood what her younger sister meant to say, and followed up: “That’s right, back then it was always the boys in our class giving him water and begging him to represent the class in basketball games and such. Aside from the teachers, who ever saw him carry things for anyone?”
Yan Luqing could not explain the somewhat complicated relationship between the two of them, so she hastily changed the subject, “By the way, why do they two have so much luggage in their hands? Even after the boys helped, there’s still so much left?”
She was referring to Yin Ning’an’s two follower-sisters. Each girl had a handbag in both hands, looking rather strained.
Xia Yutian said: “Oh, when they came I saw it, they didn’t bring that many things. Most of it should be Yin Ning’an’s.” She smiled at Yan Luqing, “After all, Yin Ning’an is a young lady, a rich woman. Back in our class there were plenty competing to curry her favor. It’s normal.”
Yan Luqing nodded, expressing understanding.
Originally everything was proceeding smoothly according to plan, no one expected that the sky has unforeseen changes——
The closer they got to the hotel, the more rain clouds drifted in from the sky. In the end, just as everyone stepped into the hotel lobby, the formerly clear sky changed face, and pouring rain came scattering down.
The first day’s mountain climbing plan, ended. The group had no choice but to sigh and go through check-in.
……
Ten minutes later.
“Damn——you two are living in one room?” Plaster number one stared incredulously at Gu Ci and Yan Luqing.
“……”
Because they joined later, when Yan Luqing booked the room at this hotel there was only a suite left. The largest room type in the suite was about the same as an ordinary three-bedroom, with two bedrooms inside. After asking Gu Ci, she booked this one.
Faced with the astonished gazes of everyone, and with Gu Ci having no intention of explaining at all, Yan Luqing had no choice but to explain the whole matter from beginning to end.
Next came free activity.
In the morning they gathered in the hotel lounge to chat, mostly about past funny incidents. Yan Luqing could not join in the conversation, and unexpectedly Gu Ci also did not participate much.
Yin Ning’an frequently hinted at him in secret, plaster number one and plaster number two also diligently cued him openly, yet all they managed to get from him was a smile and the words, “I’ve forgotten most of it,” which drew a chorus of boos.
After lunch, everyone went back to their rooms to sort out their luggage.
This suite, as large as a three-bedroom, was mainly large in the living room, with the two bedrooms being about the same size and with similar beds.
When ten-odd people turned into two, the surroundings suddenly became quiet.
“Gu Ci,” Yan Luqing was the first to break the silence, “you choose first.”
She felt she naturally had to yield to Princess Ci, since after all he had been unwilling, dragged out by her by force.
As if knowing what she was thinking, Gu Ci looked at her, the corners of his eyes carrying a smile, “Alright, thank you Miss Yan.”
Miss Yan: “……”
Once again, this kind of distinctive personal style.
Gentle voice and smiling words, yin-yang sarcasm that made people feel as if bathed in a spring breeze.
After Gu Ci said thank you, he chose the room slightly farther from the door, leaving the closer one to Yan Luqing. Both had gotten up early in the morning, so each slept a nap at noon.
In the afternoon the sun came out again, and Gu Ci was still not awake.
He had not closed the door, so Yan Luqing could directly stand in the living room and see from the bedroom doorway his silhouette lying on the bed.
Just how poorly had he slept… after dozing so long in the car midway, now he still had not had enough.
Yan Luqing quietly stepped out, first contacting Big Black and Little Black—these two had said they did not feel assured about their safety and insisted on coming along.
The place Big Black and Little Black stayed was only two hundred meters from the hotel she and Gu Ci were in. After meeting up, Yan Luqing felt she had nothing to do, so she wanted to stroll around nearby. After all, Dieye Mountain was one of the city’s tourist attractions; if there was anything interesting, she could bring it back for Gu Ci to play with.
As a result, just after the three had finished strolling down a street and turned a corner, Yan Luqing saw a middle-aged man all in black sneaking behind a young girl, his demeanor extremely abnormal.
“……In broad daylight a pervert is already tailing a pretty little sister, shameless.”
Yan Luqing cursed as she lightened her steps, signaling Big Black and Little Black to also follow the pervert.
At this time most people had just woken from a nap, those who had gone climbing had not yet returned, and the alleys here were all narrow; at a glance there were only the few of them on the street.
As Yan Luqing got closer, she discovered the girl seemed to be wearing a school uniform.
“Damn, that pretty little sister is even a high schooler——”
Just as she was sighing, suddenly—the pervert launched a hundred-meter sprint toward the girl!
Yan Luqing was startled, but quickly reacted and also ran forward. The pervert grabbed the girl’s wrist, clearly about to drag her away. Yan Luqing, dragging along this broken-down body, could not run fast, and anxiously slapped Little Black frantically: “Quick, go chase, go chase, stop him, don’t let him assault her!!”
And then she inexplicably tripped and fell flat on the ground.
Falling down did not hinder her steps. Yan Luqing patted her knee, stood up, and immediately rushed with even faster speed to the corner—just in time to see Little Black holding down the pervert single-handedly.
Seeing Yan Luqing, Little Black reported: “Miss Yan, should we call the police?”
“Call, we must call!”
After Yan Luqing spoke, she turned her head to look for that young girl. She was leaning against the wall hugging her arms, looking especially helpless.
The first thing Yan Luqing saw were the girl’s eyes filled with panic and fear; she did not notice anything else, directly going up to wrap her arm around her shoulders, “Are you alright, little sister? He didn’t hurt you, did he?”
Just with this one sentence, the girl leaned against her and cried with sobs.
At this moment, no one noticed that passing by the two embracing them was a tall boy about the same age as the girl, his eyes strangely vacant.
Yan Luqing could not bear beauties crying the most.
Just now seeing the girl’s face, even though she had not seen clearly, just from the outline she could tell she was definitely a beauty.
This was a tourist area. After Big Black called the police, they took the man away and delivered him to the nearest management office to be held. Little Black stayed here.
Yan Luqing lifted the girl up from her shoulder, just preparing to wipe her tears, when her whole body suddenly petrified like stone in the wind, stiffening in place.
Her stiffness was so obvious that the girl was puzzled, and Little Black was puzzled too.
Yan Luqing blinked.
And blinked again.
No mistake. She had not seen wrong.
This young girl was indeed beautiful, at just over ten years old already clearly a budding beauty, but—
on her face and all around her body were drifting those extremely three-dimensional, extremely 3D, even carrying halo effects… rose petals.
Such a direct impact on her intelligence and such a blow against science left Yan Luqing stunned.
At this moment she truly forgot the lessons of the past, and subconsciously poked Little Black, using a very small voice to sigh: “……Grassland, did you see that pile of petals on that girl’s body and face?”
Little Black silently gazed at her for a moment, then wordlessly turned his head and dialed Doctor Qu: “Doctor Qu, not good, Miss Yan is having new hallucinations again, she thinks there are flowers on people’s faces.”
Yan Luqing: “…………”
Too much, too much, too much.
“Elder sister…” the girl suddenly spoke. She looked at Yan Luqing, and solemnly bowed to her. “Thank you!”
But in Yan Luqing’s eyes there were only those rose petals that shifted positions as she bowed.
The girl raised her head again, and said: “I came here with my class for an outing, I’m a first-year high school student. My name is Jiang Baichu. I really don’t know how to thank elder sister for… elder sister? Are you listening?”
Yan Luqing looked at her lips opening and closing, but could not help focusing on those petals that seemed to flow.
Wait—what did she say her name was?
Jiang Baichu?
Jiang Baichu????
This name, Yan Luqing could not possibly mistake.
She abruptly lifted her head, staring at the beautiful young girl before her.
——This was the original book’s female lead, Jiang Baichu.
No wonder.
No wonder the moment she heard of Dieye Mountain Yan Luqing always felt it so familiar, no wonder the girl’s face bore such an expensive rose-petal special effect—because she was the female lead!!!
Jiang Baichu looked at the person before her, her gaze shifting from puzzlement to fervor, then becoming slightly embarrassed: “Um… elder sister, is there something unclean on my face? You keep staring at me…”
There was indeed.
But Yan Luqing still shook her head, grasped her hand earnestly, and said: “No, I just think you are so good-looking that I can’t help but keep looking.”
The female lead Jiang Baichu’s little face flushed crimson all at once.
“Wow——Maria, just while I was on standby for a moment, why did your pink suddenly shoot up so much? It even leveled up several times! Someone’s affection value for you… or maybe their being-moved value? In any case, the pink type suddenly became really high!”
Makka Pakka’s excited voice rang in her ear, gossiping wildly, “Did you gain a pursuer in these few hours?”
But that pleasing shōnen voice had not stayed excited for long before suddenly turning into suspicion: “Wait, no! Something’s wrong——”
“What is it?” Yan Luqing replied in thought, three words.
“Did you change some plot?”
“……I just saved a person, how did I change the plot!”
“No, it’s that something went wrong with saving the person!”
“This was supposed to be Jiang Baichu’s first encounter scene with the male lead. She should have been saved by the male lead, not by you——with you appearing like this, the male lead has been reduced to a passerby!”
Makka Pakka went off to do something, and after five seconds continued, “I found it, I found it! Just now, the male lead already passed by you all with a completely baffled face!”
Yan Luqing: “…………”
It seemed, indeed, Jiang Baichu was supposed to be saved here by the male lead.
This was the very opening of the whole book, the beginning of their love story, the clichéd and melodramatic hero-saving-beauty, planting the budding seed in a sixteen-year-old’s heart.
