This should be the T University internal gossip group Little Mahua had mentioned breaking into.

At the very top of the screenshots, the group name was One Hand Grabs Experiments, One Hand Grabs the Melon Field.

Yan Luqing: “……” Not only carrying out a “two-handed grasp” policy, but also a single rhyme—worthy of being top students.

【Wholehearted Study: On the way to eat I ran into that physics department handsome guy, his name’s Gu Ci right? How come this time he had a little pretty one following by his side, anyone recognize if that little pretty one is carrying his bag? [image]】

【Shout to Me to Do My Lab Report if You See Me: Speaking of Gu Ci, my roommate said he’s famous even in the neighboring school, over there they all call him Big Beauty, I’m dying of laughter… But inexplicably, I also feel Big Beauty suits him more. /grinning】

【Heart Full Only of Study: Let me see! Where there’s a Big Beauty, there I must be!】

【Heart Full Only of Study: Looks like it really is his bag, that bag however you look at it doesn’t seem like something this little pretty would carry (what’s with little pretty)】

【Study to the Ends of the World: ! A classmate from the same class comes to confirm, this is indeed Gu Ci’s bag! Ahhh does any sister know who this little pretty is? The two of them… seem… like a couple?】

【The Grass on the Plains: Little pretty is from the neighboring school. I remember today I even heard my dorm sisters say they saw a post of those two, I’ll go look for it, if I can find it I’ll send it over.】

【Study to the Ends of the World: Okay, Sister Grass! Waiting for you!】

……

This was the content of the first two screenshots.

Yan Luqing recalled for a moment—just now really had been the time when the campus was most crowded after class. Gu Ci had already seemed to be a focal point of attention; the two of them walking together and being photographed in profile was entirely normal.

The only truly shameful thing was… the scene of her carrying his schoolbag had actually been captured as well!

Yan Luqing took a sip of water to calm her nerves, then thought: but this could also count as completing half of the plan.

Wasn’t the plan precisely to let everyone misunderstand that Gu Ci was not single, and then make him suffer from gossip, “lose reputation and be ruined”?

After that, the person called Grass on the Plains sent a link to the group—that was the post Yan Luqing had seen in the afternoon.

【Wholehearted Study: As expected. What’s this, is it called sharp eyes discerning a pearl?】

【Heart Full Only of Study: Yours should be called sharp eyes discerning a CP. Also I just learned a new phrase, kdl, kswl】

【Boundless Sea of Study: Big Beauty actually let the little pretty carry his bag kswlkswl】

【Shout to Me to Do My Lab Report if You See Me: After reading, what puzzles me is that they’re actually not together yet? After reading, I even want to make a PPT to prove what negative consequences will result if these two don’t get together.】

【I Don’t Eat Melons: ??? Ohhh, elder sister please!】

【Study to the Ends of the World: Reporting to elder sister, presenting you with a pen!】

【Grass on the Plains: Waiting for your masterpiece.】

……

Yan Luqing: “……”

This development seemed to have strayed somewhat from what she had imagined???

Before she could give rise to any other thoughts, Gu Ci’s voice suddenly came from beside her: “What’s wrong with you.”

Yan Luqing lifted her head to look at him: “Hm?”

“Your whole face…” Gu Ci seemed to observe for a moment, then chose his words precisely, “looks like a mixture of shame and shock.”

“……”

Exactly right—those were indeed the two emotions enveloping her.

Yan Luqing locked her phone screen, unable to explain this matter to him, so she glossed it over vaguely with “I saw an indecent piece of news.”

After speaking, the ordered food happened to be served just in time.

During the meal, Yan Luqing asked him again about his campus life these past two days; their conversation was fairly harmonious.

Just like last time, near the end of eating, someone came over with movie tickets to promote films, again an event with the cinema, tickets at a flash price of 9.9 yuan.

Two films to choose from—one horror film, one comedy romance.

Yan Luqing carefully read the introductions multiple times, confirming there would be absolutely no suspense or thriller elements, and without hesitation chose the latter.

Comedy romance should not go wrong this time!

Since they had already gone through the process once before, everything all the way up to entering the cinema went smoothly.

Only when they reached the popcorn counter in front of the ticket check did the two of them stop at the same time—but in the end, it was still Gu Ci who went to buy.

Yan Luqing watched him waiting beside the counter, watched him carry the rim of the popcorn bucket in one hand as he walked back toward her, and hand it over right before her eyes.

She also noticed the two young ladies selling popcorn, who, after Gu Ci turned around, covered their mouths and secretly laughed, glancing at Gu Ci then at her.

Yan Luqing accepted it, the sweet fragrance once more flooding her nose: “Thank you.”

She did not know why, but she suddenly wanted to say something to Gu Ci.

“Actually…”

“I don’t especially like eating popcorn either.”

Hearing these two sentences, Gu Ci turned his head and saw Yan Luqing picking up popcorn as she spoke: “Mainly, it seems to have a kind of binding relationship with movies. And when I was little, I rarely had the chance to watch movies in the cinema, so both of these things are rather novel to me. When I see popcorn, I can’t help but want to eat it.”

Pausing, as though suddenly remembering something, she looked at him with both embarrassment and a bit of gloom, her tone tinged with grievance: “…Don’t you dare ask me why a wealthy young lady rarely watched movies.”

Ask, and the answer was memory disorder.

Gu Ci’s eyes deepened; he smiled at her: “Mn, I won’t ask.”

This time, the comedy romance film did not overturn expectations. It truly lived up to its label—filled with laugh-out-loud moments, with a sweet-and-sour love line running throughout.

For most of the first half, Yan Luqing watched with great relish. But when it came near the ending, after the protagonists confirmed their relationship, there was one drunken night when the male and female lead grew overly excited. At first they bragged to each other, bragged and bragged, until they ended up on the bed.

On the bed, they gazed into each other’s eyes.

As they gazed and gazed, their lips pressed together.

It was probably meant to capture the atmosphere before go/to/bed, so the kiss was especially long, especially intense, the male lead calling out “wife” one word after another, his panting especially heavy.

Yan Luqing, when she had watched such scenes before, would still comment on the acting skills in the kissing scenes. But for some reason, maybe because before she had watched on a small screen, not as vivid as in a cinema, or maybe… because before she went with her girlfriends, and now she was watching with Gu Ci.

At this very moment, her shame level suddenly skyrocketed; watching others kiss was making her feel unbearably embarrassed.

Amidst the protagonists’ panting, Yan Luqing’s mind turned into chaos. Perhaps because of the male lead’s repeated cries of “wife,” her thinking by habit instantly leapt to the person sitting beside her—Gu Ci’s face flashed into her mind, and her shame soared even higher, nearly to the point of blushing red to her ears.

Unable to endure, Yan Luqing shifted her gaze away from the big screen. Naturally, her eyes fell upon the person seated beside her.

But unexpectedly.

Gu Ci was also looking at her.

In the background of that scene, with the extremely ambiguous panting sounds, their eyes met.

The two of them seemed cut off from all others around them, the movie’s sound effects also growing indistinct.

Under the dim lighting, only each other remained clear within their line of sight.

……!

Yan Luqing instantly felt as though her hair were about to stand on end.

She widened her eyes, forgot to eat the popcorn, her fingers unconsciously clutching the armrest of the cinema seat, her heartbeat a chaotic disorder.

“…Why are you looking at me?”

At these words, countless emotions seemed to flash through Gu Ci’s eyes—too fast, too complex to grasp.

Their seats were side by side. He suddenly lifted his hand, fingertips lightly touching at the corner of her eye.

“Then you ought to first ask your own eyes,” Gu Ci fixed his gaze on her, speaking slowly, “why they could see me looking at you.”

Yan Luqing seemed to hear her heart give a muffled “thump.”