Chapter 111

The time it was posted was perfectly timed—not a second more, not a second less—exactly at midnight.

The night was deep, the wooden chair was quiet, and in his arms he held someone wearing his jacket. Her face couldn't be seen, only half her body and their interlaced fingers.

Caption: 【Already have a partner, and furthermore, have only ever dated this one.】

Shen Li slept for another half hour before slowly getting up. She brushed her teeth in front of the mirror in the bathroom, wearing long-sleeved, long-legged pajamas. Her long, dark, beautiful hair was a bit messy, and her thoughts were still somewhat dazed. Thinking of what happened last night, she felt as if she had just had a dream.

Last night...

A drunk Xie Qin held her hand, half-kneeling in front of her. She couldn't control herself, cupped his face, and kissed him on the corner of his mouth. This kind of action was something even she couldn't control, exceeding her instinctive reaction.

Was she... a bit...

In Xie Qin's words, it was that she was a bit... coveting his male beauty, and then, she couldn't hold back.

Xie Qin... was indeed quite handsome. Although she wasn't bad herself, even if they were together, she felt she didn't have much sense of security in her heart. She still wasn't ready.

While she was self-doubting on one side, she also thought of Xie Qin bowing his head to her, looking like he was about to cry.

At that time, she didn't think much and her heart softened. She didn't want him to be like that, so she took the initiative once.

Perhaps Xie Qin should also like her very much.

Pulling her thoughts back, Shen Li rinsed the toothpaste foam from her mouth and put down her toothbrush cup. Just as she was about to leave, she saw a faint red mark that had appeared on her neck at some point.

She brushed her long hair aside, pulled her clothes down, and looked in the mirror. The color wasn't deep. She touched it with her hand, and it didn't hurt. She thought it must have been a mosquito bite from last night.

Since her clothes could cover it a bit, she didn't take it to heart.

Walking to the balcony to take down last night's clothes with the pole, her peripheral vision caught a cigarette butt on the ground.

Shen Li stared at it for a moment. Zhang Zixin wasn't there last night. Recalling the smell of smoke that drifted over while she was lying in bed last night, she turned slightly to look at the other bed, her eyelids drooping, her long lashes casting a shallow shadow...

After folding the clothes and putting them into the wardrobe, she changed her clothes, packed her things, put on her bag, and went to class.

Walking out of the dormitory and closing the door, she looked down at her phone. At 10:29, there was a missed call from a stranger; it must have been someone urging her to go to class.

In her message list, there were still the few messages Xie Qin had sent her, plus a few friend requests: Xu Zhouyuan, Zhou Mingyu, and Qiao Lang.

Walking out of the dormitory, she thought about it for a moment and accepted Qiao Lang's friend request.

In the class, except for the few people who often played with Xie Qin, almost no one had his contact information. People who wanted to add him generally didn't dare to, and even if they did, he wouldn't necessarily pay attention. Keeping him on the list was just for show.

Xu Zhouyuan drank too much last night and was a bit inflamed; his eyes were quite bloodshot. Zhang Zixin was helping him put in eye drops so he could feel a bit better. After finishing one eye, he reminded him: "Heaven knows, even a player knows how to settle down. Why don't you hurry up and delete all those women on your list? I'm kept on a tight leash; except for my mom, I don't even have a female contact."

"Watch out for being checked up on."

Xie Qin was biting on a candy: "If they want to check, let them check. It's not like it's something shameful."

Zhou Mingyu laughed: "I think you should delete everything that needs to be deleted; you're so confident."

The game Xie Qin was playing suddenly became uninteresting, so he simply turned off his phone and stuffed it into his pocket, "I'm such a clean, upright person; I disdain doing these secretive little actions, understand?"

Xu Zhouyuan: "Damn. You say that, but I don't believe that with so many pretty girls adding you, you haven't flirted with them."

"Do I have that much free time?" Xie Qin glanced at the open back door and then withdrew his gaze, "My reputation is so bad, and it's inseparable from you guys."

"Oh, holy crap." Zhou Mingyu went berserk, "If you've got guts, give me your phone and let us check it, including the browser history."

Out of ten men, nine of them, before they die, the first thing they do is clear their browser history.

Xie Qin took out his phone and threw it on the table, "I'll let you check. If you can't find anything, starting today, you guys treat me and my wife to a month of meals, plus a cup of milk tea, three-quarters sugar, must be pure milk."

"Whatever we eat, you guys pay for."

Xu Zhouyuan slapped the table, "Come on!" He took Xie Qin's phone, and Zhang Zixin, Zhou Mingyu, and Qiao Lang all surrounded his position, clicking on the friend list and looking one by one.

They discovered that this dog-son really had added quite a few girls, but even if there were messages, they hadn't seen him click on them; it was all unread messages.

Shen Li was pinned to the first position.

Zhou Mingyu stared blankly, turned his head to look at Xie Qin: "With so many messages sent over, you haven't clicked on them?"

Xie Qin: "Too lazy to look, no interest."

Xu Zhouyuan selected a girl with a pink profile picture; she had sent the most messages, "Click on this one and see."

Once opened, it was all the girl sending things on her own—all kinds of sexy photos. Most of the messages were things like "Let's go out for a meal," "I like you," that kind of sickening stuff. There were also a few 60-second long voice messages that hadn't been clicked on; the red dots were still there.

Xu Zhouyuan: "Damn, so many messages, and you haven't replied to a single girl. How did you manage to hold out? This would take until the year of the monkey to scroll through."

After scrolling through ten or twenty of them, they were too lazy to scroll further.

Xu Zhouyuan: "Since you're not interested, you might as well just delete them. Why keep them?"

Xie Qin: "Too lazy to delete."

With thousands of people, deleting them was indeed a chore.

His social media feed was clean; they could testify to that. Indeed, they had never seen Xie Qin post anything, except for the one from last night.

Zhou Mingyu looked at Xu Zhouyuan and pointed to one: "Look at this one."

Xu Zhouyuan squinted his eyes, and they exchanged a tacit, wicked smile.

Half a minute later, several people turned their heads at the same time to look at Xie Qin.

Xu Zhouyuan: "Really a suck-up."

Zhou Mingyu: "Have some shame?"

Qiao Lang was speechless: "..."

Zhang Zixin: "She doesn't delete you even after this?"

Xie Qin swept a glance over, his hand on the table, his fingertips lightly tapping the surface, looking both annoying and roguish, "I'm willing."

He was indifferent to other girls, but to Shen Li... the messages he sent, the harassment every few days—it was Shen Li who could endure it and didn't delete him.

Scrolling up, with so many messages, on average, Shen Li replied to one out of every twenty.

Furthermore, the browser history had nothing.

Not seeing what they wanted to see, they returned the phone, feeling bored.

"Xie Qin! You bastard, you didn't give us a backup phone, did you?"

Xie Qin made a 'tsk' sound and raised an eyebrow: "Starting again?"