Chapter 33: What is your younger brother's name?

Zhao Gaoyang did not leave a good impression on the people in Dan Yuyue's dormitory.

This has to be traced back to the first mixer last year; at the time, Cheng Huaiyu was pursuing Dan Yuyue intensely, and several roommates, wanting to watch the fun, tried to play matchmaker, so they organized a mixer gathering.

The place chosen for the gathering wasn't particularly expensive, but for seven or eight people to eat, it still cost over a thousand yuan; they were all still students, so taking out over a thousand to treat friends to a meal was a bit extravagant, so they discussed splitting the bill.

As it turned out, when it came time to pay the bill, Zhao Gaoyang was unhappy, saying that the food at this restaurant wasn't even that good, so why did everyone have to pay over a hundred yuan each.

Dong Xinxin explained that this restaurant was a very famous place in Jinling, and the prices were a bit higher than ordinary storefronts.

But Zhao Gaoyang still frowned and complained; Dan Yuyue couldn't stand it and mocked him, "You wouldn't happen to be unable to even take out a hundred yuan, would you?"

Zhao Gaoyang retorted with a red face that he wasn't unable to take out that much money, he just originally thought that going out for a meal would cost five or six hundred at most, averaging seventy or eighty per person, but now it had actually doubled, and it would have been better to eat at the snack street.

In the end, there was no other way, so a few people split a bit more of the cost to let him only pay one hundred, which also caused the few girls who came out to have their favorability toward Zhao Gaoyang drop to almost zero.

They were all people who came from cities, whether big cities or small cities, and had never seen someone who was so stingy over a few dozen yuan when going out to eat together.

After returning, Dan Yuyue even declared in the dormitory that if a person like Zhao Gaoyang could find a girlfriend in university, she would write her name backward.

Yet now, Zhao Gaoyang wanted to treat the people from both their dormitories to a meal?

Dong Xinxin and Wang Yi stared at each other with wide eyes, both seeing the astonishment in the other's eyes.

Wang Yi couldn't help but say, "Yueyue, are you sure you didn't hear wrong? Is it possible that Cheng Huaiyu said he was the one treating..."

"Actually, when I first heard this news, I was more surprised than you," Dan Yuyue said. "Who doesn't know how stingy Zhao Gaoyang is, but I confirmed it with Cheng Huaiyu repeatedly; it is indeed Zhao Gaoyang treating."

"That guy must have struck it rich," Dong Xinxin muttered.

Dan Yuyue shrugged, "Who knows, maybe he's taking us to eat at a roadside food stall~"

"Eating at a food stall is not bad either, as long as it's not a roadside steamed bun shop treating us to two buns," Wang Yi actually had a change of attitude toward Zhao Gaoyang; Zhao Gaoyang was stingy when he was poor, but quite generous after getting rich.

And she didn't know that Zhao Gaoyang treating them to a meal had nothing to do with being generous; it was entirely to show off in front of Fan Xi and make a grand display.

If Fan Xi could agree to go out for a meal with just the two of them, then he would immediately change his tune and go back on his word, saying he was very busy recently and didn't have time to take them all out to eat, so sorry about that.

Zhao Gaoyang was just that kind of person; he would never touch anything that didn't benefit him.

As the three were chatting, Ying Ziyun, who had gone to the hallway to finish drying her hair, happened to return.

The matter of going to the dinner party definitely couldn't be hidden from her; in the dormitory, Dong Xinxin and Wang Yi also had a pretty good relationship with Ying Ziyun, so they casually asked, "Ziyun, Zhao Gaoyang is treating everyone to a meal, are you going?"

"Not going." Ying Ziyun's personality was on the cold side, and having just been angered by Dan Yuyue, she spoke even less.

"Ah?" Dong Xinxin didn't expect her to refuse so decisively, so she smiled awkwardly, "We are all going; if you are the only one in our dormitory not going, wouldn't that be a bit of a slight to Zhao Gaoyang?"

"Let it be a slight then, I'm not familiar with him anyway." Ying Ziyun opened QQ and found that Xu Heng still hadn't sent her a message, so she closed the chat box in disappointment.

"But I heard Xu Heng is going too, Yunyun, are you really not planning to go with us?" Dan Yuyue finished applying her nail polish and blew on it with her little mouth, her expression playful.

Sure enough, upon hearing the name Xu Heng, Ying Ziyun's movements were obviously sluggish for a fraction of a second.

Dan Yuyue noticed this tiny reaction of hers and felt smug inside.

With Ying Ziyun's arrogant little temperament, if she had only been told that Zhao Gaoyang was treating, she definitely wouldn't have paid any attention, but adding Xu Heng made the "weight" of this mixer gathering a bit heavy.

Although she didn't know exactly what happened between Xu Heng and Ying Ziyun, Dan Yuyue could guess a thing or two from Ying Ziyun's performance over the past two days.

This girl must be regretting it!

Linking it with Ying Ziyun's foul temper, she knew that this girl now wanted to get back together with Xu Heng but couldn't bring herself to lower her pride.

Then the dormitory mixer was the best opportunity to bridge the relationship.

Actually, her guess was correct; Ying Ziyun was thinking that the first time she met Xu Heng, and the starting point of Xu Heng pursuing her, was a dormitory mixer. At that time, she wasn't familiar with Xu Heng yet, but the mixer invisibly created an ambiguous space for the two of them, and Xu Heng also took the opportunity to add her contact information, and the subsequent plot naturally followed.

Then could this mixer be like the last one?

Ying Ziyun was weighing it in her heart, while Dan Yuyue watched her deep in thought and smiled.

A flower grown in a greenhouse, and she still wanted to play mind games with her, Miss Dan?

This is just holding you firmly in the palm of my hand.

"Are you going or not? Give me a definite answer," she took the opportunity to add fuel to the fire and continued to ask.

Ying Ziyun didn't answer her, but opened the chat window with someone.

The last message was from June 3rd.

"If you have any grievances, tell me. I'm listening, I won't leave, I won't be annoyed. I love you always, very seriously."

I don't know where he copied this three-line love poem from; it was written very superficially.

But after that, he never sent such superficial poems again.

Ying Ziyun took a deep breath, as if she had made a major decision after hesitating for a long, long time, and sent a message to Xu Heng.

"There?"

"?"

His speed of replying in seconds was still as fast as ever, but the content was a far cry from before.

"Zhao Gaoyang is treating tomorrow, are you going?"

"Going."

Ying Ziyun wanted to continue chatting about something, but Xu Heng quickly sent another message.

"I have something else to do, let's talk later."

"..."

The silence between the two for several months was exchanged for only a few insignificant words.

Ying Ziyun held her computer, dazed.

However, Xu Heng didn't lie to her; he did indeed have something to do.

After finishing a day of welcoming new students, he still had to work overtime in the study room at night to type, so he was able to see her message immediately, but it was a coincidence that Liu Yiyan happened to call.

"Hubby, what are you doing?"

Just after pressing the answer button, Liu Yiyan's cloying voice came through.

Xu Heng found an empty corner in the classroom hallway, and after confirming that he wouldn't disturb the students attending the evening class, he said in a low voice: "Earning money to support you."

"Wow, Hubby is so handsome, so how about I come find you tomorrow?"

Liu Yiyan's voice was a bit cheerful and lively, very much like Little Sister Xu, and Xu Heng laughed: "Is your mother's health any better?"

"It's alright, the doctor said if we keep up the chemotherapy for another half a year, she should be able to be discharged."

"Then you should spend more time with your mother, she counts as half a mother-in-law to me anyway." After thinking for a moment, Xu Heng added an explanation, "I have things to do tomorrow, if you want to come play with me, you can come the day after tomorrow; my younger brother misses you quite a bit too."

Liu Yiyan, who had been happy upon hearing Xu Heng say her mother counted as half a mother-in-law to him, was suddenly stunned when she heard such an inexplicable sentence.

"What is your younger brother's name?"

"Sakurai Takamaru."