5-Almost Died
“I don’t want to.” Suyun immediately replied.
The school belle is just someone who gets more attention and becomes an object of others’ assumptions. Other than that, Suyun thinks there’s no benefit at all.
Moreover, she’s male.
“Little Yun doesn’t want to be discovered so much…” Facing the decisive answer, Qin Xue wasn’t too surprised.
But before she could say anything else, she was interrupted.
“Xuejie!” A somewhat childish and cute female voice came from not far away.
In no time, that girl ran over to Qin Xue, intimately linking her arm as if they were a couple.
“What are you doing here?” Qin Xue looked awkwardly at Qin Yuanyuan beside her.
This girl is hard to deal with.
And coincidentally, she came while Suyun was with Little Yun.
After Qin Yuanyuan linked arms with Qin Xue, she noticed Suyun standing aside, then puffed up her cheeks in an apparent show of anger.
“Xuejie, who is she?”
“Well, I’m her friend. If you have something, I’ll leave first. Bye.”
Hearing the unfamiliar voice, Suyun knew it was time for her to go.
Out of politeness, she bid farewell to Qin Xue.
“Wait…” Qin Xue didn’t have time to stop her, and the girl next to her had already snuggled up, pressing down the hand she was about to extend.
“Xuejie, you promised to take me out to play this afternoon, why did you suddenly say no?”
“Is it because of her?”
…
After leaving, Suyun trudged alone with an umbrella to the Boshue Building, where there is a restroom on every floor.
As for whether to enter the male’s or female’s, Suyun chose the former.
The latter felt strange, like a thief’s mindset.
She didn’t want to, so she didn’t go.
Suyun was lucky; no male students came out when she entered, or it could have resulted in social death.
She opened the door, closed it, and stashed the umbrella in her backpack.
In the restroom where she was all alone, she pulled her long hair into a bundle.
However, Suyun found herself oddly concerned about what had just happened.
Who was that girl who suddenly ran over to hook arms with Qin Xue… a friend who is closer to her than I am?
Well, that’s also understandable; being a school belle means having many friends, and she understands that.
But Suyun felt a hollow sensation inside her.
Since they met yesterday, Qin Xue had been chatting with her, thinking of pulling her out to play.
Although the other party’s barrage of nonsensical questions had been annoying, it did show some degree of care for her.
It had been a long time since anyone paid such attention to her thoughts.
No matter whether Qin Xue was a school belle or male or female, Suyun would think this way.
In high school, she actually had a very good friend.
That friend considered Suyun as her best friend too; there were many things they would only discuss amongst themselves, playing and eating together every day.
Unfortunately, that feeling disappeared in college; although roommates will call and go out to eat, and always chat together.
But Suyun knew that the roommates treated other roommates the same way; she wasn’t a special case.
“…” Now that she had neatly tied her hair, Suyun stood in the restroom in a daze, not knowing when she would push the door open.
She still had things to do and couldn’t procrastinate any longer.
There was an advanced mathematics class in the afternoon, and she hadn’t written her homework yet.
Then Suyun quickly took out the umbrella and dashed back to the dormitory.
Since it was still early, most of the people in the dorm weren’t asleep.
When Suyun entered, she saw five people: two were reading novels, two were watching videos while eating, and one guy was lying still on the bed.
“Suyun, why have you been out of the dorm so much recently?”
“You’re still holding an umbrella, is it raining outside?”
During the time Suyun entered, her roommates would casually chat.
“I just went out to eat, I’m tired of takeout.” Suyun didn’t think much of it.
This was just a casual response.
“No, no, no, you guys haven’t figured it out.” Suddenly, someone said loudly.
Suyun turned in surprise to see that it was the person who wanted to take off her hat after class.
At that time, she had even tapped him on the shoulder.
Is he angry? Is he going to criticize me?
“You guys haven’t noticed there’s a new hat on Suyun’s head, have you? Just now when I wanted to touch it, she directly swatted my hand away, so it’s definitely a gift from someone!”
Then that roommate stood up as if to declare the verdict.
“An umbrella, raining? No, it was meant for someone else. Suyun also came back last night at eleven, and then she got this hat, so she was probably on a date with her girlfriend, and the hat was a gift from her.”
“You’ve been keeping it under wraps, not telling us! What’s going on?” The roommate was excited, and a little envious at the same time.
“Oh, right.”
“Suyun, what did you do yesterday?”
Then the four roommates, who had originally been watching videos and reading novels, walked over and surrounded Suyun.
Not explaining would probably not work.
“This hat was bought by me, don’t make wild guesses.” Suyun hurriedly took out her phone and found the payment receipt.
There were several payment transactions from last night at eleven.
“Really? … Tch.”
“I said, how could Suyun suddenly find a new one with her sleeping habits?”
They quickly dispersed, looking disinterested.
“Is that so?”
Only the first roommate to speak looked confused as he returned to his seat.
Then why did he tap him? Was it that serious to be upset about a hat?
As he thought about it, he suddenly recalled that the feeling of Suyun tapping him seemed off.
He turned his head sharply; at that moment, Suyun was already writing her math homework.
And he had been secretly watching for a long time.
Why does it feel like Suyun’s hands have gotten smaller? Her face also looks a bit fairer?
Just like a girl.
…
Suyun used the university’s problem search to tackle the advanced math homework, adding a little of her own thinking to make it look less like copying.
Class started at three in the afternoon; Suyun arrived at two, finished her math homework, and charged her phone before coming.
After all, if she wasn’t sleepy, it was better not to stay in the dormitory; being alone was more comfortable and quiet.
Suyun looked at the dimly lit, empty classroom, walked to the front to turn on the light, and sat back down in the last row corner.
“Baby, have you eaten lunch yet?” Her mom had sent her a few voice messages.
Suyun played them out loud and typed a reply.
(I: I ate, now preparing for class)
Since there was no work at noon, her mom would reply to her messages immediately, and soon she sent Suyun several messages.
It was impossible to reply to them all.
After chatting for a while, her mom asked her to pay attention in class.
But in fact, class hadn’t started yet.
Bored, she scrolled through a few uninteresting videos.
Getting tired of that, she turned off the screen and looked up at the blackboard.
By the way, wasn’t Chen Tingting the one who found that school belle ranking on my phone?
Thinking of this, Suyun pulled up WeChat again and scrolled down to find that mini-program.
Unable to resist her curiosity, she clicked in.
The ranking only had girls, no boys, meaning no school hunk.
Suyun didn’t mind this; she thought this kind of ranking was mostly viewed by boys.
In the girls’ rankings inside, they were divided into an overall list and by year from freshman to senior.
The listed individuals only had a photo and a name.
Each person could only vote for someone once a day.
After roughly understanding the rules, Suyun thought it was quite simple.
But why did so many people pay attention to this kind of thing?
“Two hundred thousand?” After looking for a while, she found the introduction for the number one girl on the overall list.
Qin Xue, with 200k votes.
Below her, the second place had 20k.
Wow, what a big difference.
Suyun was astonished looking at this incredible gap.
Is this the acknowledged school belle?
How many people are at our school in total? It seems only a bit more than ten thousand; that means the entire school voted for her for two weeks.
Absurd.
Suyun marveled for a while and suddenly felt that it was quite impressive to become friends with Qin Xue.
But there’s nothing to brag about; she wouldn’t emphasize to others that she’s friends with the school belle.
Suyun didn’t even dare to say it; or else later…
‘Shocking news: Certain student from Information Engineering cuts off second brother…’
Then Suyun casually looked at the other rankings.
Aside from Chen Tingting, who was thirteenth on the freshman list, she didn’t recognize anyone, casually scrolling through, treating it like eye candy.
“2:34.” Suyun looked at her phone and prepared to take a nap before class.
Just as she was about to rest her head on her hands, she suddenly felt dizzy.
“Ugh…”
That feeling was like being given anesthetics; for the first few seconds, Suyun felt her consciousness dispersing, almost fainting, but fortunately, she held on until the last moment and regained her senses.
“Hah…” She couldn’t help but breathe heavily and made a pleasant sound, as if she were…
Fortunately, there was no one in the class.
At that moment, Suyun remembered the duck blood she had eaten at noon.
It was terrible; worse than tasteless sauce noodles, it tasted like something expired, sour.
At that time, she thought she couldn’t waste it and forced herself to eat it; unexpectedly, the reaction was so strong.
Is the cheap blood not okay…
That feeling of slowly emptying her head, not being able to speak, made her think she was going to die.
