[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-m-focused-on-science-but-you-want-to-trick-me-":3,"chapter-i-m-focused-on-science-but-you-want-to-trick-me--i-m-focused-on-science-but-you-want-to-trick-me--chapter-52":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","I'm Focused on Science, But You Want to Trick Me Into Love?",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2333188,4563,"Chapter 52: Is Xu Qingzhou Eating With a Girl?","i-m-focused-on-science-but-you-want-to-trick-me--chapter-52",52,"\u003Cp>The minor incident passed quietly; everyone deliberately ignored the earlier discomfort, since there were girls present, so Xu Qingzhou and the others ordered no alcohol, only a large bottle of cola.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the dishes arrived, Dong Shan and the others began taking photos and created a group to send them there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This Beijing duck’s passable—crispy outside, tender inside. But the tripe’s weak; look, the plate’s even cold.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Qingzhou hadn’t expected Xu Zhengyang, who seemed so unserious, to actually be quite professional.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liang Dongni, across from him, spoke little, ate quietly, nodded occasionally in agreement. After eating a while, her gaze kept drifting toward Xu Zhengyang’s cardboard box, but she hesitated to ask for napkins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Qingzhou found it amusing, pointed at the box, and said, “Old Xu, pass us some napkins.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh, sure.” Xu Zhengyang pulled out half and handed them to Xu Qingzhou.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Qingzhou took them and placed them between himself and Liang Dongni.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zhengyang quickly explained, joking, “It’s a social event—adding other girls is a huge no-no.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Read!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After sending that message, she closed her phone, hummed a tune, and kept organizing her bookshelf, waiting for Xu Qingzhou’s invitation and feeding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kong Xianbo asked curiously, “Is that Song Yao from the confession wall really from our major?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zhengyang assumed it was the classmate Xu Qingzhou met today, thought bitterly, Serves you right for being single.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Thank you,” Liang Dongni said shyly, her impression of Xu Qingzhou subtly improving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Qingzhou: Collect the emoji—my persona’s collapsing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her tension eased considerably, so she deleted the earlier text and asked, “Are you guys having dinner?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I really want to hit someone—what do I do! Wait.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She’d originally planned to wait until Xu Qingzhou looked up, then naturally strike up a conversation, but he kept typing, his lips unconsciously curving upward, so she couldn’t help but ask.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing those two words, Song Yao imagined a possibility: Xu Qingzhou would probably ask her out to eat, or even send her food to her dorm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Yao paused her actions, snatched up her phone—the first two messages were photos: roast duck, desserts, stir-fried liver—all food, making her mouth water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Yao: Have you eaten? (cute)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Have you eaten?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ding~ Ding~ Ding~ Three messages popped in succession.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After adding each other as friends, everyone started gossiping.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then another message popped up behind Xu Qingzhou’s avatar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Restaurant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yuan Xiaoye wore an “I knew it” expression—surrounded by a bunch of straight guys, how could he possibly find a girlfriend?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a guy. Dong Shan and Deng Lin nodded; they’d also talked a lot with old classmates today, after all, everyone had just arrived in a strange place and weren’t yet at the point of sharing personal thoughts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You and Liang Dongni are both from Sichuan-Chongqing, right? Add each other’s contact info?” Xu Zhengyang kept trying to create opportunities for Xu Qingzhou.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I already added you in the group,” Liang Dongni said, blushing shyly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yeah, she became our department’s beauty the moment she enrolled,” Deng Lin sighed, then smiled and asked, “So, you want her contact info?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zhengyang clinked his cola bottle against Xu Qingzhou’s and said, “Right, Old Xu, I support you—go chase Song Yao!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Qingzhou said dryly, “Not necessarily—after all, even a toad dreams of eating swan meat.” “Don’t even think about Song Yao—she’d never look at you,” Yuan Xiaoye said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“She can chat happily with a guy.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dong Shan also thought her roommate was being too harsh, so she told them, “Actually, when Song Yao enrolled, I heard she was brought by a guy—probably her boyfriend.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Slender fingers, pale arms. Girl!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He put down his chopsticks, opened it—it was Song Yao’s message.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Yao pouted; she was a girl too—why couldn’t she use cute emojis?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Room 206.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No, I just saw it today and got curious—wondering if she’s really that beautiful.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The others all turned to look, especially Dong Shan and the other girls—wasn’t it said everyone in their dorm was single? Xu Qingzhou put away his phone and answered calmly, “High school classmate. We walked around campus this afternoon, just asking if she’d eaten.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Xu Qingzhou looking at her, Liang Dongni whispered, “I just noticed you kept typing replies.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yeah, I was too tired from walking this afternoon, didn’t go out to eat with my roommates.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Really?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes, two dorms.” “A social event?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’ll add you too,” Kong Xianbo seized the chance, pulled out his phone, and added all the girls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Yao leaned back in her chair, legs stretched out, toes gently swinging, typing back: “Not yet.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Qingzhou was about to reply when Liang Dongni’s voice came from beside him: “Girlfriend?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’m eating now, it’s decent—look at the photos, you won’t be hungry.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Zhengyang really wanted to curse—how could someone this bizarre exist in college?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Qingzhou shook his head, had just scooped up a few bites when his phone vibrated twice in his pocket.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Deng Lin thought a moment and said, “She’s even prettier in person.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Yao: “?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>!.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Yao sensed something wrong, quickly opened the earlier photos—the first was a close-up of roast duck, skipped over; the second was a group shot of dishes. She wasn’t interested in the food—she focused on the hand accidentally caught in the lower right corner of the photo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Qingzhou is eating with a girl! Song Yao felt betrayed, grabbed her phone, and typed furiously: Who are you eating with? Then she realized it was wrong, opened the photo again—eight sets of chopsticks, and in the corner, one extra dish—that meant eight people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Yao felt worse, grabbed the doll on the table as if it were Xu Qingzhou, and pounded it angrily. This guy actually went to a social event? It’s only the start of the semester—he’s this impatient? But… she had no relationship with Xu Qingzhou—was she overstepping? No—his parents had specifically asked her to watch over him when they left!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The third was text.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Fine, Old Xu, I take back what I said—you’ve got no shot.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hahaha.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So weird—we’re eight people, and not one of us is from the same hometown.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s college—people come from all over. It’s normal. Actually, it’s good—when you want to travel somewhere later, you’ll have someone to know.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1047,"2026-06-20T21:06:39.533Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","dd93fc2ac17ba98e03a0f058ab78868401f30055a1b23881b46f249415364756","i-m-focused-on-science-but-you-want-to-trick-me--chapter-53","i-m-focused-on-science-but-you-want-to-trick-me--chapter-51",790,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-m-focused-on-science-but-you-want-to-trick-me--cover.jpg"]