Chapter 278

Not long after, Chen Zhuang walked into the classroom laughing and talking with two other boys from the class, still wearing his basketball jersey and covered in sweat.

Alright, no need to ask; this was nine times out of ten what it looked like after playing basketball for half a day.

Qin Tian and Xia Nuannuan looked at each other with helpless expressions, then looked at Shen Siqi, who was sitting inside.

Sure enough, Shen Siqi was resting her chin on one hand, her expression clearly unhappy.

The two boys sat with their roommates in front, and after Chen Zhuang saw Qin Tian and the others, he walked straight over and sat down in the seat next to him with a cheerful smile.

"Brother Tian, you guys all came so early!"

"You deserve to be single!"

Qin Tian said in a low voice, speechless.

"What did you say?"

Chen Zhuang didn't hear clearly. After putting the basketball under his feet, he pulled up the collar of his jersey to shake it and said to himself, "It's so hot. Why doesn't this classroom turn the air conditioning down?"

"I said, don't tell me you played basketball all day? You smell like sweat!"

Qin Tian looked at him in annoyance.

"No, I started playing after two in the afternoon."

"What about the morning? What did you do?"

"What do you mean what did I do? I've been in the dormitory since I finished breakfast!"

"Playing games?"

"Yeah, let me tell you, my feel was great today. I carried several games in a row, but it's a pity the marksman was too trashy and had no output in team fights. If they had even one-tenth of your level, Brother Tian, they would have ranked up."

Chen Zhuang said with a look of disgust.

Qin Tian smiled, speechless for a moment.

"What's wrong?"

Chen Zhuang showed a confused expression.

"Nothing, I think you can go back to playing ball after the roll call."

Qin Tian gave him a roll of his eyes, too lazy to talk nonsense with him.

"No, we've already agreed. We're going back to the dorm to play after eating. Brother Tian, you should join us, carry us to victory!"

"No, I refuse."

"Why? Do you have something to do tonight?"

"Even if I didn't, I'd rather duo-queue with Nuannuan. A girlfriend is the real priority."

Qin Tian looked at him seriously, his tone carrying a hint of "I wish you were better."

Xia Nuannuan, sitting on his right, heard this and a sweet smile bloomed on her pretty face, while Shen Siqi, sitting further in, looked even colder.

Look at someone else's boyfriend, then look at that idiot—truly, goods are compared to be thrown away.

At this moment, Chen Zhuang also reacted belatedly and hurriedly looked at Shen Siqi inside.

Shen Siqi was resting her chin on her left hand, looking straight ahead, not even looking at him at all.

"That... Shen Siqi? I'll treat you to dinner later!"

Chen Zhuang invited tentatively.

Qin Tian slapped his forehead.

Shen Siqi simply pretended to be intermittently deaf and ignored him.

"Siqi?"

Chen Zhuang called out cautiously again.

Only then did Shen Siqi turn her head to look at him, her expression indifferent. "Are you talking to me?"

"Yeah!"

Chen Zhuang nodded.

"Ah, sorry, I was too bored today. I slept in the dorm all day and my brain is a bit dizzy. I didn't hear clearly, what did you just say?"

"This..."

No matter how slow Chen Zhuang was, he could hear that the emotion in her words was wrong, and he cast a look of distress toward Qin Tian for help.

Qin Tian gave him a look of "you're on your own" and ignored him.

At this moment, the counselor, Shu Peng, walked into the classroom, attracting everyone's attention.

"Good evening, everyone!"

"Good evening, counselor!"

"Sister Peng, I haven't seen you for two days, why do you feel even more beautiful?"

The girls sitting in the front row sent a rainbow-colored compliment with a smile.

"Stop it, how could I be as beautiful as you young girls."

Shu Peng smiled brightly and exchanged some commercial compliments with them.

Over the past half-month, everyone had gradually become accustomed to the way they interacted with the counselor.

Plus, Shu Peng had a very easygoing personality and was usually more like a confidante to everyone.

After putting down some documents, Shu Peng walked off the podium and chatted with the boys and girls sitting in the front.

"How was the social event for the boys in Class 1 yesterday? Did anyone succeed?"

"Counselor, it's not that easy to chase girls. It's only been half a day, how can you say it's a success? We still have to see what happens later!"

"That's true, haha... keep working hard. As long as you've added each other's contact info, there's a chance!"

"Sister Peng, they don't have a ghost of a chance. There are so many beauties in our class they don't see; isn't that just being blind and having low emotional intelligence? I think they just went to eat some skewers."

"What are you talking about? There are many beauties in our class too, but you guys didn't give us a chance!"

"Joke, it's you guys who didn't look for opportunities yourselves. You deserve to be single."

"Aren't you girls the same? How can you say that about us?"

"We have plenty of people chasing us, no rush!"

"Hehe, then don't say we're blind or have low emotional intelligence. We'll do our chasing, and you guys keep 'not rushing.' Just don't be still dreaming when you graduate from college."

"Cough, cough..."

Hearing the argument between the two, Shu Peng suddenly felt like she had been stabbed and cleared her throat to mediate.

"Alright, alright, what are you two doing? Can we still have a pleasant chat?"

Both of them snorted coldly at the same time and gave each other a look of disgust.

As the time approached seven o'clock, the remaining students from the two classes arrived one after another.

Qin Tian and the others were right; Cao Mingliang had indeed gone out on a date with Lv Yanran. Like Qin Tian and Xia Nuannuan, the two of them walked into the classroom affectionately holding arms.

Lv Yanran had a brand-new designer bag on her shoulder, which attracted the attention of many girls and made the discussion in the classroom significantly louder.

"Nuannuan, how much does that bag cost?"

Shen Siqi leaned into Xia Nuannuan's ear and asked in a low voice.

"Don't know, I don't understand these things."

Xia Nuannuan shook her head, then changed the subject. "But I do recognize the brand. My mom has a few bags of this brand."

"Your mom has them? Then they shouldn't be cheap! Cao Mingliang is really generous!"

Shen Siqi said with a strange expression.

Xia Nuannuan just responded with a smile.

What she didn't say was that her mother often used bags of this brand to go grocery shopping, sometimes not repeating the same one for days.

That was why she didn't have much of a sense of the value of designer bags, cars, and such things.

In her eyes, as long as things were useful, that was enough.

At the same time, Chen Zhuang was also whispering to Qin Tian.

"Brother Tian, is Cao crazy? They've only been dating for a few days, and he's already gifting a designer bag. Even if you have money, you shouldn't squander it like this!"

"You should worry about yourself first. Today you played games and basketball and forgot about Shen Siqi, directly lowering your favorability by half, you know that?"

"Ah? Is it that serious?"

"Duh!"

"Then what should I do?"

"Figure it out yourself!"

Qin Tian said in annoyance.

After Cao Mingliang and Lv Yanran walked straight over, they sat down in the row behind them, next to Lu Lei, who had just come over with a few books.

"Lu Lei, what book are you reading?"

After Lv Yanran sat down beside her, she asked with a smile.

"A foreign novel."

Lu Lei turned her head to look at her, then her gaze fell on the bag she had placed on the table, and she praised, "This bag is very beautiful."

"Thank you!"

Lv Yanran thanked her with a radiant smile.

Lu Lei gave a gentle smile and didn't say anything more, lowering her head to continue reading.

Lv Yanran was stunned, and a sense of inexplicable irritation welled up in her heart.