Chapter 370: He Has Three Girlfriends

"By the way, using your identity to join the group shouldn't be a problem, right?" Ying Chanxi asked Qiao Xinyan.

"That's fine," Qiao Xinyan shook her head. "Xu Yinghuan already joined this group before, but she just lurked after entering. It's no issue if I join their group too."

"Then if Xu Yinghuan asks about it later, don't let anything slip." Ying Chanxi warned.

"Relax, but you can't tell anyone else either," Qiao Xinyan whispered.

"Mm-hmm!" Ying Chanxi nodded vigorously and immediately used Qiao Xinyan's identity to slip undetected into the 【Little Queen Mo Qinghan Fan Club】.

Because she joined via a secondary account, Xu Yinghuan assumed Qiao Xinyan didn't want to reveal her identity, so she never told the group members who she was.

Ying Chanxi didn't change her group nickname either; after joining, she quietly lurked and glanced at the chat history.

It was nearly identical to Qiao Xinyan's 【Dongdong the Cutest in the World】—both groups shared information about Li Luo and Yan Zhusheng and fangirled over them.

Just thinking about how these people secretly fangirled over Li Luo and Yan Zhusheng made Ying Chanxi puff out her cheeks, a faint unease stirring in her heart.

Out of curiosity, Ying Chanxi quietly opened the group member list and stole a glance at who was in it.

What she saw surprised her.

Although many hadn't changed their group nicknames to their real names, Ying Chanxi quickly recognized several familiar faces by cross-referencing their QQ nicknames with her main account's friend list.

The group owner, Xu Yinghuan, was obvious.

In addition, Ren Zheng and Hua Xiuxiu were also there.

But what left Ying Chanxi utterly baffled and shocked were the three boys inside.

Liu Shaowen, Shao Heqi, and Xie Shuchen.

How did these three end up in Mo Qinghan's fan club?

Ying Chanxi checked 【Dongdong the Cutest in the World】 again but found no trace of them.

That was really strange.

She'd never seen them interact with Yan Zhusheng before.

Ying Chanxi couldn't figure out the logic behind it, but she didn't dwell on it and kept scrolling through the chat history.

Compared to Qiao Xinyan's group, this one was clearly more useful to her.

After all, it was like an on-campus surveillance system—she could at least find out what Yan Zhusheng and Li Luo were doing together.

For instance, someone had just mentioned seeing Li Luo and Yan Zhusheng secretly passing notes.

Ying Chanxi sat in the desk right in front of Li Luo; unless she turned her head by chance, she'd never have noticed anything like that.

Thinking of this, Ying Chanxi felt her decision to infiltrate was absolutely correct—she'd successfully obtained vital intelligence.

As for Li Luo, he remained completely unaware of all this.

After the elective exams ended, the sports meet was coming soon.

The exams were over, results would be out before month's end, and there was nothing left to worry about—Li Luo continued his usual daily routine.

But lately, he'd suddenly felt something was off.

Whether it was Ying Chanxi or Yan Zhusheng, their frequency of secretly using phones at school seemed to be increasing.

Whenever he approached, they'd immediately hide their phones, and he had no idea what they were looking at.

But since he assumed it might be something related to girls, Li Luo didn't ask further.

During this period leading up to the sports meet, something major happened in the rock club.

"Li Luo, over here."

After the Saturday afternoon club session ended, Yan Zhusheng quietly grabbed Li Luo's hand and pulled him toward the back door of the gymnasium.

"What's so secretive?" Li Luo followed, puzzled. "Xixi's waiting for us to go back."

"Just a minute, it'll be quick," Yan Zhusheng whispered. "Keep your voice down, don't get caught."

"I'm warning you ahead of time—don't do anything weird."

"We're here," Yan Zhusheng stopped, patted Li Luo's shoulder, and cautiously poked half her head out through the gym's back door crack, then immediately pulled back, grinning mischievously. "Look—over there on the right. Don't get spotted."

Li Luo had suspected Yan Zhusheng was up to some mischief, but now it seemed they were sneaking to spy on someone else's mischief?

Li Luo peered out suspiciously, glanced right—and immediately pulled his head back.

"Xie Shuchen?"

"Mm."

"Tang Maimei?"

"Yes."

"How did they get together?"

"I don't know."

"When did you notice?"

"Yesterday," Yan Zhusheng blinked. "What did you just see?"

"They were already kissing."

"Huh?" Yan Zhusheng froze, then quickly leaned out again—Li Luo yanked her back.

"Stop looking, stop looking—it's their private business," Li Luo pulled Yan Zhusheng back toward the gym.

Yan Zhusheng stared longingly at the receding crack of the back door, reluctant: "Yesterday I saw them holding hands, just now I only saw them hugging—I didn't even see the kiss."

"What's so interesting about that?" Li Luo's face darkened, pulling her toward the gym's front entrance. "You're still a kid—don't get corrupted."

"I'm not a kid," Yan Zhusheng pouted. "Besides, you write kissing scenes in your books—what's wrong with me watching?"

"The characters in my books are adults, okay? You're a minor—behave."

"I want to kiss too," Yan Zhusheng tugged Li Luo's hand. "Are kisses really that nice?"

"... I've never kissed anyone—how would I know?"

"But you described them in such detail in your books—every sensation and reaction is written so clearly," Yan Zhusheng said earnestly, discussing it with him.

"It's precisely because I've never kissed anyone that I can write so much about it," Li Luo chuckled. "Someone who has might not be able to capture this feeling at all—it's all fake, just fooling girls like you."

"How can you know what it's like if you never kiss?" Yan Zhusheng encouraged. "I can help you experience it."

"... Behave yourself," Li Luo forced his gaze away from Yan Zhusheng's plump, rosy lips and took a deep breath.

"You looked at my mouth."

"I didn't."

Finally, they walked out through the gymnasium's main door.

Ying Chanxi, who had come from the gifted class, was already waiting here. Seeing Li Luo and Yan Zhusheng emerge, she asked curiously, "Why are you two so slow?"

"We tidied up the activity room," Li Luo coughed twice, then led the two girls toward home.

On the way, Li Luo reviewed that fleeting glimpse behind the gymnasium's back door inside his Memory Palace.

He never expected Xie Shuchen, once he started playing around, would be so bold—hugging someone right in a quiet corner of the school.

Couldn't they wait until after school to do that somewhere else?

Tan Maimai, as the only female keyboardist in their rock club, had plenty of interaction with Xie Shuchen during position handovers.

But Li Luo never imagined that the guy who had once been single-mindedly pursuing Ying Chanxi could change his heart so quickly.

Still, Li Luo thought about it briefly and roughly understood what had happened.

After Chongran's pseudonym was exposed and Ying Chanxi transferred to Class Eight, many false rumors naturally couldn't continue spreading.

For instance, the rumor that Li Luo and Ying Chanxi were cousins was debunked by those who knew the truth after various fan support groups established their QQ clusters.

Xie Shuchen probably realized he had no chance anymore, so he switched targets and started dating a junior in the same rock club.

It's just unclear what Liu Shaowen thinks about it.

【I saw Li Luo walking out the school gate with the two of them】

At this moment, someone posted this message in the group 【Dongdong Is Number One Cutest】.

When Ying Chanxi checked her phone and saw this, she instinctively glanced around.

It was just after club activities ended, and students were leaving school in small groups; there were many people nearby, and Ying Chanxi couldn't tell which little fan was spreading the news.

Her cheeks flushed slightly.

She had never felt anything before when surrounded by stares, but now, knowing someone was shipping them, she felt shy.

【Li Luo came out of the gym with them—probably attending the rock club's event?】

【I remembered the video of their performance at the New Year's Eve show. Suddenly, they seem quite compatible.】

Seeing these sudden messages from the group member, Ying Chanxi's expression darkened immediately.

——【You should at least check the group's name before speaking. Don't be a traitor, okay?】

Ying Chanxi couldn't hold back and finally sent a message using her alt account.

【I just spoke from the heart. Of course, Dongdong and Li Yang are also very compatible.】

——【Of course they are. Look how Xi Xi rushes to the gym door right after class to wait for Li Luo—isn't that obvious?】

【But she never spends time alone with Li Luo. Maybe Zhusheng and Li Luo secretly kissed in the gym?】

——【You—you're not supposed to say that! Don't undermine morale here! If you really like Zhusheng, then leave this group!】

【I still prefer Xi Xi. I just spoke from the heart after seeing that scene.】

【That's better.】

After diligently correcting her groupmates' wrong thinking, Ying Chanxi nodded in satisfaction.

Li Luo glanced suspiciously left and right, seeing the two girls again hunched over their phones, doing something mysterious—he grew curious.

But whenever he leaned in, they instantly hid their phones, looking slightly embarrassed, so Li Luo didn't press further.

He had no idea what they were up to.

…

November 10th, Thursday morning.

The new year's annual Fuyi High School Sports Meet officially kicked off.

In the blink of an eye, over a year had passed, and Li Luo and his classmates were now Gao Er.

But unlike last year, this time Ying Chanxi had become a member of their Class Eight.

Walking cheerfully beside Li Luo in the lineup, watching Yan Zhusheng—who as sports committee member led the front row—Ying Chanxi smiled sweetly and whispered quietly to Li Luo.

"After we go downstairs, you and Zhusheng will head backstage to prepare, right?" Ying Chanxi asked softly.

"Mm." Li Luo nodded. "I'll leave midway."

"I'll go with you," Ying Chanxi said. "I need to do a patrol inspection anyway."

Like Xu Youyu last year, Ying Chanxi, now as Student Council President, had plenty to manage during the Sports Meet.

She was responsible for coordinating the entire opening ceremony, assigning tasks to Student Council members, managing athlete check-ins and queues, and maintaining order among classes on the stands.

With all these miscellaneous duties piled up, Ying Chanxi almost regretted taking over from Xu Youyu.

If there weren't so many tasks, she could spend most of her time on the class viewing stand, watching the competitions with Li Luo.

Now that they were in the same class, she was busier than ever.

When Class Eight reached the first floor and entered the playground, Li Luo and Yan Zhusheng broke from the formation and headed toward the backstage of the podium.

Ying Chanxi accompanied them, simply seeing them off to the backstage before immediately checking the venue's preparations, confirming no oversights.

Soon.

The opening ceremony began amid stirring music.

The program followed nearly the same format as last year—still fresh to freshmen, but tedious for Gao Er and Gao San students, whose eyes had grown weary of the repeated performances.

Still, everyone eagerly awaited one final, climactic act.

After the last class had entered and stood on the lawn, listening to the principal and other leaders' speeches.

As the rhythm of a drum kit began, the red curtain behind the podium was slowly drawn open.

The drummer Lin Suifeng, keyboardist Tan Mamai, and bassist Jiang Songhe were all new faces.

Of course, familiar faces were also not absent.

Including the two guitarists this time, Xie Shuchen and Li Luo.

And at the center of everyone's gaze—Yan Zhusheng, holding the microphone.

This time, even though Yan Zhusheng was performing on stage for the first time this semester, even first-year students were very familiar with this tall, waist-length-haired, aloof senior.

Not only because they had watched her singing performances, but also because some first-year students had secretly joined suspicious fan groups…

When the students of Fu No. 1 High School saw Li Luo and Yan Zhusheng standing side by side on stage, some bolder ones couldn't help cheering aloud.

And Yan Zhusheng did not disappoint; as always, she displayed her stunning voice, closing the sports meet opening ceremony with a beautiful performance of "The Sky Has No Limits."

"That girl—isn't she the one who appeared on that show recently… what was it called?" Principal Wang of Fu No. 1 High School asked while watching the performance.

"'I Am a Singer,'" Director Liu whispered in reminder.

"Yes, yes, 'I Am a Singer,' that's the one." Principal Wang nodded. "Her mother is Yuan Wanqing, right?"

"That's correct."

"And that young man beside her—who's he again…?"

"That's Li Luo from Class 8, Grade 2," Director Liu said. "He's also Chongran, the one who writes songs for Yuan Wanqing."

"Right, I heard about it," Principal Wang nodded. "He apparently wrote a novel too—it's really popular. Shouldn't our school promote that?"

"Uh…" Director Liu quickly replied, "Singing and songwriting can definitely be highlighted—it shows our school's commitment to holistic development in morality, intellect, physical fitness, aesthetics, and labor. But that novel… hmm… I think it's still debatable."

"Why?"

"There's romance in it," Director Liu whispered.

"Romance among minors?"

"No, not that."

"So what's the issue? As long as it doesn't promote early romance."

"But… the protagonist has three girlfriends."

Principal Wang: "…"

"Let's just promote the singing then."

"Got it, no problem."