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After answering that sentence, Period did not appear again.
But the atmosphere of the forum was instantly stirred up by that anonymous Period’s short three sentences——
61L [= =]: !! A true bestie is exactly the one who makes her romance public! No problem at all!!! Period-jiejie, you are the most awesome bestie!!!
62L [= =]: Aaaaahhh thank you Period-jiejie! I was so excited I sat straight up from bed and shouted to wake my roommate up to ship the CP hahaha!!!
……
68L [Baldy]: A student from the department next to Software Engineering here, I already saw the photo long ago. At that time, it was the great beauty in the photo who came to pick up the pretty little sister after school (yes, that’s right, you didn’t see wrong, pick up after school = = but I don’t know the cause and effect ah). Then our whole floor was stirred up, because it was just after class, a few classrooms worth of people all came out together, and as a result we saw quite a few people looking in one direction, so we also followed to look……
I’m not belittling our department’s male classmates, it’s just that, standing together with the great beauty, our simple and plain male classmates really did look like they weren’t of the same art style, so it was particularly eye-catching.
69L [= =]: Damn, another exposer came out, Baldy-jiejie! Picking up after school?? But…… it’s already university, why still need to be picked up after school?? Why am I so sour???
70L [= =]: ??? A head full of question marks.
71L [= =]: The me who has never once been picked up after school?
……
80L [= =]: Ah, uninvited classmate of pretty little sister here.
I know the cause and effect…… because our class that day had back-to-back one class of Electrical Engineering and one class of Physics, everyone at the time really all wanted to die, so we all posted a Moments, with a meme attached [Come on, some parent pick the kids up from school qaq.jpg].
Pretty little sister also posted it, she copied our content and posted it. Among so many of us who posted, only she…… really had a parent come to pick her up from school……
And moreover it wasn’t the kind of “meet and leave right away” pickup, pretty little sister that day carried a very pretty small backpack, and then the great beauty took it right off her back and directly carried it in her own hand——a real·pickup after school.
81L [= =]: ……Fuck! kswlkswlkswl!! [kswl = “I’m going to die from how sweet this is”]
82L [= =]: [Link]—[Cloud Village Music Share: “If Even This Doesn’t Count as Love”]
83L [= =]: I knew it! I knew it! Even just watching the video you could tell, too obvious, okay, the little sister answering those questions was all with a tangled face, and even kept glaring at the great beauty, ah kswl.
84L [= =]: No picture no truth, so I’m here with a picture. Pickup after school, real shot [Image].
85L [= =]: ……Aaaaahhh saved it saved it thank you thank you family!!!
86L [= =]: Damn, isn’t this sweeter than my CP that never puts out sugar and I have to dig sugar myself? Grandpa won’t ship that anymore, Grandpa is switching ships! Great beauty x little beauty, Grandpa’s here!!!
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103L [= =]: Although but, family, I’m very puzzled, why in the video did pretty little sister deny that they were a couple?
104L [= =]: Just got together not long, shy right? I don’t care, using couple wallpaper, always living together, pickup after school, damn it I don’t care why she denied it, they are the truest!!!
105L [= =]: Good, tonight I’m going to smuggle into T University forum, first raise a smurf account, then find a proper chance to slam this video and the bestie’s revelation together.
106L [= =]: Hahahaha I support the one upstairs! Let everyone see, no matter how awesome the handsome guys are, weren’t they still caught by our school’s little sister! Proud
Yan Luqing drew until past midnight the previous night, the next day she nearly woke up late.
Because Gu Ci was also going to school, and her school arrives earlier than T University, it happened to be on the way, so they agreed to set out together.
When Yan Luqing went downstairs, Gu Ci had already finished eating. She asked Aunt Disney to pack her a sandwich, and at the same time, taking advantage of Gu Ci not paying attention, she secretly leaned close to Aunt Disney’s ear and whispered: “Auntie, please help me clear away the bamboo in my room, thank you.”
Under Aunt Disney’s bewildered and astonished gaze, Yan Luqing and Gu Ci went out the door and got into the car.
The two of them entered the back seat from the left and right doors respectively. The moment they settled into their seats, their eyes met for an instant. Yan Luqing saw Gu Ci smile a barely perceptible smile.
He was dressed very similarly to yesterday, but his shirt had been changed to a black one. When he wasn’t speaking and had no expression, he looked extremely cool. This faint smile made his whole person soften considerably.
Yan Luqing, holding her breakfast and trying to open it, was puzzled: “…What are you smiling at?”
Gu Ci, leaning against the seat back, asked in a leisurely tone: “What’s wrong with your eyes?”
Yan Luqing was taken aback: “My eyes?”
“Mm,” Gu Ci looked at her with interest for a few seconds, then commented, “Quite like a certain animal.”
She still hadn’t caught on: “Like what?”
Gu Ci: “A giant panda.”
Yan Luqing: “……”
Yan Luqing thought to herself: I’m not just a panda, I’m a panda persecuted and bewitched by bamboo shoots, I’m the King of the Panda Kingdom.
Just a decadent king, that’s all.
She had gotten up late this morning and hadn’t had time to put on makeup, so it was normal to have some dark circles under her eyes.
As the car started moving, Yan Luqing began eating her breakfast. While eating, she asked the person next to her: “Gu Ci, what time is your first class? Won’t you be late?”
He also seemed somewhat lacking in energy, his eyelids drooping as he pinched the bridge of his nose, and replied: “Same as you.”
The distance between their schools was only about ten minutes. Yan Luqing calculated and then nodded: “Oh, then it should be fine.”
Then, feeling a little puzzled, she asked: “Are you tired too? Didn’t sleep well last night?”
“A bit.”
Yan Luqing initially wanted to ask him what he did last night, but seeing his state, she changed her question: “Then you should sleep. I’ll wake you up when I get out of the car.”
After saying this, she continued focusing on eating.
However, eating on the road is never quite the same as eating seated in a restaurant. Yan Luqing ate the last mouthful a little too hastily, swallowed it down forcefully, and choked.
Having grown up, it wasn’t her first time choking; she had experience. So, without panic, while rolling her eyes, she tried to wash the food down—
Just at that moment, an empty water bottle was pressed into her free hand.
She also seemed to feel the touch of a segment of a finger, cool yet warm, which brushed against her and then was gone.
Yan Luqing picked up the water and drank, gulping down several mouthfuls. She finally managed to swallow smoothly, and her whole body felt comfortable.
The driver was driving; it could only have been Gu Ci who handed it to her.
Princess Ci was really thoughtful today.
Thinking this, she turned her head, intending to thank Gu Ci. But because she had gulped down a bit too much water, the moment their eyes met, she opened her mouth and first uncontrollably let out a short burp.
“……”
Sensing the atmosphere freeze for an instant, Yan Luqing originally planned to pretend nothing had happened and smiled awkwardly. But Gu Ci did not share her intention.
“Is this your way of thanking me?” The corners of his lips lifted, and his eyes also curved. “Your method is quite novel.”
“……”
Seeing her at a loss for words, yet seemingly also as if she were pleased, Gu Ci smiled and said: “You’re welcome.”
Clearly he had also said he was sleepy, but his state was obviously not the same as panda-eyed Yan Luqing’s. Now when he smiled, there was completely no trace of drowsiness, instead carrying a kind of lazy allure.
She didn’t know if it was because she had lost face in front of him, or because of that smile, but her cheeks suddenly felt as if their temperature was rising.
Moreover, with Gu Ci saying it like that, the gratitude in Yan Luqing’s heart instantly disappeared without a trace. She shut her mouth tightly, snapped the lunchbox containing the sandwich closed and placed it at the back, then turned her face away to look out the window.
Silence continued.
Yan Luqing also didn’t look to see whether Gu Ci was sleeping or doing something else. When there was just one more traffic light before reaching the school, she rummaged back and forth in her bag, but didn’t find any other makeup items—only one lip balm with a bit of color.
This was given to her by Little Mahua. The color was quite pretty. Little Mahua had boasted to her about the effect after applying it, absolutely jelly lips.
At the time she even showed off her romance: “Baby, I checked, the ingredients of this lip balm are fine to eat, after I applied it that time my boyfriend said it really looked like jelly, looked delicious.” Then with a red face she leaned close to Yan Luqing’s ear, softly saying, “Later he really did eat it, he said, it tasted just like jelly too!”
Yan Luqing had accepted it but hadn’t used it yet. Today she only brought this one, so just right to try.
She had no mirror at hand, so she directly uncapped it and blindly applied a layer to her lips. While applying, in her head she was still thinking: Must hold it in, until the car door opens, absolutely do not say a word to Gu Ci!
When the car slowly stopped at the university gate, Yan Luqing’s right hand had just pulled the car door open, her leg had not yet stepped down, when her left wrist that was holding her bag suddenly tightened.
She had originally exerted her strength toward the direction of getting out of the car, but the pull from her left wrist, though not strong, was in the opposite direction at just the right moment, directly tugging her back into the seat.
Because of inertia, she even slid a few centimeters toward Gu Ci’s side.
Yan Luqing blankly turned her head: “What is it?”
Then she saw Gu Ci, expression calm, reaching out to pull a tissue from the box at the side, while his other hand still held her wrist. That tissue directly pressed onto her lips.
And then wiped.
At such close distance, Yan Luqing once again smelled on him the same shampoo fragrance as on herself. Gu Ci lowered his eyes looking at her lips. At that instant, she could even see his eyelashes at such close range.
His movement was very quick, from the corner of her lips across her lips, it only took a second.
Afterwards Gu Ci released her, and unfolded the tissue in front of her, his tone plain and ordinary as he spoke.
“You ate dirty.”
Now the weather was getting colder day by day, the morning wind blowing on the face even felt like ice.
The cooling effect was actually not bad.
Yan Luqing walked all the way to the teaching building for class with a face emitting heat, and the temperature just about dropped enough, the color that ought to fade all disappeared.
The university campus was unlike the high school campus, larger and with more teaching buildings. On the way she also spent nearly ten minutes.
During this time, she kept recalling all of Gu Ci’s actions just now, the more she thought the more it felt wrong.
Just now when Gu Ci wiped her mouth, he did indeed wipe off a few bread crumbs, but why was the lip balm also wiped off???
Previously after handing her water he ridiculed her for burping, now after wiping her mouth he rubbed off her lip balm?
This morning did he just insist on picking on her? Was he in a bad mood for going to school, or simply too idle?
Yan Luqing reached the classroom, found a seat, and immediately opened WeChat to send Gu Ci a message.
[Runaway Saintess]: ?
No matter what, first send a question mark as a warning to intimidate a little.
[Runaway Princess]: ?
Unexpectedly, Gu Ci also sent back a warning.
Seeing this, Yan Luqing quickly typed: Helping me wipe my mouth is fine, thank you, but why did you wipe off my lip balm? Other than the edge of my mouth, there was nothing dirty elsewhere, right?
Gu Ci replied very quickly.
[Runaway Princess]: That was lip balm?
[Runaway Princess]: Looked like you smeared lard, so I wiped it off by the way.
Yan Luqing: ??? Does your family’s lard come with color?
She couldn’t stand it and typed: ……That’s called lip balm! And the effect after applying it is jelly lips, okay!!!
[Runaway Princess]: What are jelly lips.
[Runaway Saintess]: Of course lips that feel like jelly when kissed. Top student of T University, can’t even understand this?
After sending it, Yan Luqing didn’t feel anything was wrong. Although she hadn’t seen what effect it looked like on herself, but after all Little Mahua had said, after she applied it, her boyfriend said it was like jelly and made him want to kiss. Explaining it like this was most likely correct.
After sending, she even added a [Just this? .jpg] meme.
Gu Ci suddenly went silent for a while.
When Yan Luqing was already thinking he wouldn’t reply again, after half a minute, Gu Ci sent back two more messages——
