Qin Xuanye had been awake the entire night.
The next day, while driving to school, he found himself passing by this place as if guided by some ghostly whim. He walked into the house to look.
Chen Liuyue had already left.
But traces of her were everywhere.
The grey slippers casually kicked off at the entrance.
Looking at these slippers, he could imagine her impatiently kicking them off in the morning and then bending over to put on her shoes.
He walked further inside, passing the bathroom.
His toothbrush and cup had clearly been moved.
Even his grey bath towel was casually draped over the metal rack.
Chen Liuyue had actually taken a shower here last night and used his bath towel?!!!
Qin Xuanye's face turned pale, then flushed. He almost ran to push open the bedroom door.
A faint, pleasant fragrance lingered in the air.
It smelled like shower gel, and also like the natural scent that seemed to belong to Chen Liuyue.
His steps faltered.
He saw his grey quilt twisted and bunched up into a ball, allowing him to imagine how Chen Liuyue must have hugged it while sleeping last night.
He took two more steps closer.
On the white bedsheet were a few strands of long, fine black hair.
As if possessed, Qin Xuanye picked one up with his fingertips, stared at it for a second, then viciously threw it on the floor and stepped on it with his slipper.
"Damn it!"
Why was this woman always so careless and heartless.
Before, she had vanished silently from his life.
Now she arrogantly and domineeringly occupied his house, occupied his big bed, and even left her hair behind...
This once cold dwelling, just because she stayed one night,
seemed to have regained its vitality.
It looked messy and disorganized.
Yet it wasn't the lifeless gloom of when he used to live there alone.
A dark glint flashed in Qin Xuanye's eyes. He unconsciously rubbed the corner of his lips where she had forcefully kissed him last night.
He murmured in a low voice, "...Liuyue, Liuyue."
...
Chen Liuyue was very happy.
Because Chen Zhenye had given her this month's allowance, which was several tens of thousands.
So, upon returning to the dormitory, she shared her mind-blowing family background with her roommates.
All four girls in Dorm 302 were present.
"That's right! I am the real daughter of the wealthy Chen family," Chen Liuyue said rather dramatically, lifting her chin.
Her roommate Little Zhu rubbed her eyes, then her ears.
"Really? Liuyue, you haven't been reading too many web novels over the weekend, have you?"
The oldest, Da Mai, looked her up and down.
"Today isn't April Fool's Day."
The beauty-conscious Ya Ya, who was sitting in front of her mirror applying lipstick, almost drew outside her lip line upon hearing Chen Liuyue's words.
Then, as if remembering something, she said,
"The department beauty from the dance department next door, Chen Ruanruan, is from the local Chen family. Are you saying you're the real daughter?"
Chen Liuyue nodded proudly.
She replied to them one by one:
"Little Zhu, I haven't been reading novels, and this isn't a short drama."
"Da Mai, it's true."
"Ya Ya, I live with the Chen family now and call Chen Ruanruan 'sister.' So, my adoptive parents are her biological parents."
The dorm fell silent for three seconds.
Finally, the three of them exclaimed in unison: "OMG!!! Our girl has really made it big!"
Little Zhu said excitedly, "So you'll be a young lady from a rich family from now on."
Da Mai, more serious and analytical, said, "Then you won't have to worry about job hunting after graduation."
Ya Ya considered more.
"Isn't this the true heiress and the fake heiress? Liuyue, I'm telling you, be careful. Don't get schemed against."
Chen Liuyue moved, hugged her.
"Ya Ya, you're so good to me."
Ya Ya's eyebrow pencil slipped slightly, turning her well-defined willow-leaf brows into a mess.
"Liuyue!"
Chen Liuyue blinked innocently and whispered, "An accident, an accident."
Then she looked at her other two roommates.
"Don't worry, girls. It's time to fulfill the promises we made before."
"Now that your girl has made it, I'll treat you to the good life."
"No class this afternoon? Let's go out for dinner and shopping, my treat. Also, I invite you all to my house this Wednesday!"
Little Zhu, overly excited and afraid she was dreaming, patted her own cheeks:
"Oh my god! The wish I made long ago has actually come true!"
Da Mai seemed more restrained, but still happy: "Finally, I don't have to envy other people's good besties online."
Ya Ya rolled her eyes:
"You want to take us back to the Chen house? Won't your biological parents mind? According to the wealthy family dramas I've watched... doing this might upset them."
Chen Liuyue curved her lips into a smile.
"Relax! I'm their biological daughter. Surely they won't scold me just for bringing a few good friends home. No way, no way."
Since she put it that way,
the others didn't say anything more.
What if the Chen parents were really the understanding type?
So that afternoon, they rushed to the women's clothing street behind the school, finally free from haggling over ten or twenty yuan.
A sister likes a little dress over a hundred yuan? Buy!
Likes a pair of boots over two hundred? Buy!
As for all kinds of pretty but slightly expensive earrings and bracelets, it was buy, buy, buy!
The prices on the street behind the school were at a level college students could afford, not too expensive. After shopping around with her three roommates,
Chen Liuyue had only spent a few thousand yuan.
Compared to her current allowance, it was just a drop in the bucket.
She successfully earned two looks of admiration.
Little Zhu: "Liuyue, from now on you're my goddess."
Da Mai, feeling a bit embarrassed, said, "Liuyue, you spent too much today. I'll fetch hot water for your thermos in the dorm from now on."
Seeing this, Little Zhu quickly followed suit: "Then I'll take out the trash for you in the dorm."
"Little Zhu, Da Mai, you're both so great! What about you, Ya Ya?" Chen Liuyue tugged at Ya Ya, the tallest among them, a slender, long-haired beauty nearly 1.73 meters.
Ya Ya was waving her hand, her gaze fixed intently not far away. She said,
"Shh, quiet. Look over there. Isn't that the dance department's campus belle, Chen Ruanruan?"
The other three followed her gaze. It really was.
Little Zhu added, "And there's a guy next to her. Could it be her boyfriend?"
Chen Liuyue took a closer look.
"Oh, it's him."
Facing three pairs of intensely curious eyes, she said with a smile,
"That guy is my brother, also Chen Ruanruan's brother, Chen Haotian."
"Though, they aren't biologically related anymore."
The three roommates all drew out a long, understanding "Oh~".
Got it, got it.
So a brother has become a... sweetheart?
While they were talking, Chen Ruanruan also saw Chen Liuyue. She waved warmly and greeted her first.
Chen Haotian, standing beside her, glanced over with clear displeasure.
"Chen Liuyue!" His voice was stiff.
Chen Liuyue took two steps forward, smiling brightly. "Sister, are you and brother out shopping too?"
Chen Haotian looked puzzled.
"Shopping?"
Then he noticed the large and small shopping bags filled with clothes in Chen Liuyue and her roommates' hands, and his brow furrowed.
He began lecturing:
"I heard Dad gave you your allowance. Is this how you spend it?!"
