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