XYLFTL Chapter 3

“Ugh, I’m exhausted!” Su Zixuan said, panting.

Jiang Shixue retorted, “Give me a break, you’re carrying the least amount of stuff.”

Su Zixuan sighed deeply and said, “You wouldn’t understand, I’m mentally and physically tired.”

“What new sentence did you invent?” Jiang Shixue responded.

“Okay, okay, we’re almost at the dorm, stop bickering, save your energy,” Xia Xing interjected.

The four of them walked down the hallway carrying big and small bags. A passing classmate saw them and said, “Oh, your dorm is stocking up again!”

Dorm leader Xia Xing nodded in response.

Finally, they reached the dorm. Su Zixuan threw her things on the table and collapsed into a chair.

Lin Anping was behind her, taking out and organizing the items. Soon after, Jiang Shixue also came to help.

Jiang Shixue glanced at Su Zixuan in front of her and teased, “Zixuan, your standards for finding a partner must be very high.”

“Why?” Su Zixuan asked, puzzled.

Xia Xing came out from the balcony and said with a chuckle, “Because they have to be good-looking, have a good figure, be able to take care of you completely, and also…”

Su Zixuan jumped up with a whoosh and said, “I’m not like that! Wuwuwu, Anping, look at them!” After saying that, she moved closer to Lin Anping.

Lin Anping laughed along with them but still comforted her, “It’s okay, our Zixuan is so cute and so good, the person who meets you will definitely be willing to do these things for you.”

“That’s right, that’s right,” Su Zixuan said, but she had already started helping.

After everyone finished unpacking, they spread out the takeout they had ordered in advance on the table and chatted while eating.

Jiang Shixue suddenly thought of something and said, “Lin Anping, did you know that I heard them say that Shen Xiaoyou directly refused to let the person on stage come down to add you on WeChat?”

“Ah? Really?” Lin Anping asked in surprise, thinking that in her previous life, it seemed like no older student had ever actively added her.

Su Zixuan exclaimed, “Could Shen Xiaoyou be gay? Then she only added Lin Anping?”

Jiang Shixue nodded, “Probably, that’s what those people seemed to mean.”

“No wonder those people are so jealous!” Xia Xing said.

Lin Anping thought about it and finally said, “Why don’t we go to Shen Xiaoyou’s small bar one of these days? If she only kept my WeChat…”

“Sure, a small bar is not like a regular bar, it’s not chaotic, it’s just purely drinking and chatting,” Su Zixuan said.

Xia Xing agreed, “Yeah, a friend of mine went there, she said the security there is very well-equipped, it’s absolutely safe.”

Jiang Shixue’s eyes lit up and said, “Just drinking, purely chatting, that’s so great, our Lin Anping is too charming.”

Lin Anping was a little embarrassed and took out her phone, opened Shen Xiaoyou’s chat box, and didn’t know what to send, so she clicked on her profile picture and went to her Moments.

There weren’t many posts in her Moments, very simple, all very beautiful photos.

Lin Anping was a little engrossed for a moment. When she reacted, she found Su Zixuan looking at her with a smile that was not quite a smile.

She was inexplicably nervous and said, “Ah? Oh, that, eat!”

“Lin Anping, are you also not very straight?” Su Zixuan asked with a mischievous smile.

Lin Anping really didn’t know and said truthfully, “I don’t know.”

Su Zixuan thought and said, “Hmm… it’s okay, Xia Xing is gay, I’m bi, you’re also gay, only Jiang Shixue is a big straight woman.”

Jiang Shixue said, “Hey, hey, Lin Anping said she doesn’t know, why are you putting a label on her directly!”

“Go, go, go, big straight woman, don’t interrupt,” Su Zixuan waved her hand.

Jiang Shixue put her in a headlock and said, “Who said that? I’m also not sure.”

Xia Xing leisurely said, “Oh my god, Dorm 611 is completely wiped out.”

One sentence hit the dorm’s funny bone. Amidst laughter, the four finished their meal and cleaned up the dorm, all preparing to sleep and rest.

Close to midnight, the “Slow Down” sign was lit up. Shen Xiaoyou sat in the second-floor office, her fingers rhythmically tapping on her phone.

Knock knock knock

“Come in,” Shen Xiaoyou said.

“President Shen, there have been more customers recently, and many drinks have run out. We may need to restock earlier this month,” said the person wearing the manager’s uniform.

Shen Xiaoyou lightly hummed and said, “If there isn’t any, then restock. These kinds of things, whether it’s getting alcohol or adding equipment, as long as it’s not a large purchase, you don’t need to ask me, just use the company account.”

“Okay, President Shen,” the person said before leaving.

Shen Xiaoyou opened her phone and saw the little kid that had been added in the chat interface. She clicked into the chat box and then into her Moments.

While looking, she thought: A little kid who is both beautiful and loves life, it’s so good to be young.

Shen Xiaoyou remembered this afternoon when she had just entered the classroom, this little sister looked at her for a while, and after a while, she stared straight at her. Shen Xiaoyou was puzzled, what was she looking at?

But later, she didn’t look at her again, just earnestly listened to the lecture. And, why did she directly ask for her WeChat?

Shen Xiaoyou, with doubts, left the office door, went downstairs, walked to the bar, and said to the bartender Xiaomi, “Xiaomi, do you see anything strange about my outfit today?”

Xiaomi carefully looked her over and said, “No, Sister Xiaoyou, you look incredibly beautiful. If I were a man, I would want to marry you.”

“Go, go, go, what about my makeup? Is there anything weird?” Shen Xiaoyou asked urgently.

Xiaomi came closer and carefully looked at it, “Sister Xiaoyou, it seems like the blush on both sides of your face is applied differently.”

“Ah? Okay, I got it,” Shen Xiaoyou turned around and went upstairs.

Xiaomi was puzzled, why did the boss ask her these questions, could it be that she was in love? When she realized this idea, Xiaomi was very excited. She really wanted to know what kind of person her boss liked.

Could it be that she was looking at me because of this? Is she learning makeup? Shen Xiaoyou wondered in her heart.

“Pair of eights.”

“Pair of kings.”

“Royal Flush, hehehe, I only have one card left.”

“Two.”

“Yay, yay, yay, I won, I won!” Su Zixuan happily wanted to fly on the bed.

“Ugh, I’m tired of sitting, let’s not play anymore, aren’t you sleepy yet?” Jiang Shixue asked, stretching.

“Let’s sleep, it’s pretty late, even though we don’t have classes tomorrow morning,” Lin Anping said, getting up.

The four of them also got up from Jiang Shixue’s bed and returned to their own positions.

The next day, around 11 a.m., they gradually got up.

“We really can’t play cards when we can’t sleep, the more we play, the more addicted we get, and we don’t get enough sleep,” Jiang Shixue said, yawning.

The others nodded in agreement.

After a simple cleanup, the few went to the cafeteria to eat together.

“They all say that our dorm has a particularly good relationship, always together, other dorms have long been arguing and falling apart,” Xia Xing said with a giggle.

“We are destined, our fate is too deep, it will only become closer and closer,” Su Zixuan said.

After entering the cafeteria and ordering food, Jiang Shixue suddenly asked Lin Anping, “Lin Anping, why don’t we go to Shen Xiaoyou’s place this weekend? Anyway, we don’t have classes on Friday afternoon, and we all rest on the weekend.”

“Sure, then I’ll tell Sister Shen in advance?” Lin Anping asked.

Su Zixuan nodded, “Yeah, let her know, we’re coming to visit, hahahahaha.”

“The courses this semester aren’t that many. Isn’t it that if you pass the Computer Level 2 exam, you don’t have to take the Computer Operation course? You can get credit for it if you get the certificate,” Xia Xing said to everyone while looking at her phone.

“Really? I’m going, that’s great,” Su Zixuan happily wanted to jump up.

“Really!” Xia Xing handed her the phone to look at, the notification in the academic affairs system.

Jiang Shixue hugged Lin Anping’s arm and swayed back and forth, “Thanks to Lin Anping, who led us in studying and taking the exam last semester, our dorm all has Level 2 certificates.”

“That’s also because you were willing to study, otherwise it wouldn’t be useful even if I led you,” Lin Anping was also happy for them.

Then, thinking of something, she picked up her phone and looked at it happily, “Computer Operation is on Friday! That means we don’t have any classes on Friday.”

“Wow!! Ahhhhhhh, hahahaha, that’s great,” Su Zixuan happily ran to add more food for herself.

The remaining three looked at each other and then laughed loudly.

After finishing class in the afternoon and returning to the dorm, Lin Anping looked at the calendar, today is Wednesday, she’ll tell Sister Shen on Friday morning.

Shen Xiaoyou was at home eating instant noodles, and then received a call from home, “Hello, Mom.”

“You still know I’m your mom. You’re just out there running your broken bar, not doing proper work. The grandchildren at home are either trying to win over the elders or familiarizing themselves with the family business. What about you? We raised you for nothing. If it weren’t for your brother’s illness… sigh!”

Shen Xiaoyou impatiently said, “Are you done? I won’t starve myself, whoever wants to inherit it can inherit it.”

After saying that, she hung up the phone.

At the Shen family, Mother Shen, who had been hung up on, sighed deeply and looked at Father Shen, “It’s all your fault, if you hadn’t always favored her brother, and didn’t care about her much.”

“When did I not care about her? If I didn’t care about her, could she have gotten into Jingcheng University?” Father Shen refused to admit it.

“That’s because she was self-reliant,” Mother Shen glared at Father Shen.

“Mom’s favorite is Xiaoyou, only Dad doesn’t like her. But Dad doesn’t control the company’s leadership. As long as Xiaoyou is willing, the Shen Group is Xiaoyou’s,” Father Shen sighed.

Shen Xiaoyou looked at her phone weakly. Did they think that the previous favoritism didn’t matter? It was an indelible scar in her heart.

Recalling her childhood…

“Mom, Mom, I have a parent-teacher conference tomorrow,” Shen Xiaoyou said, holding her certificate and grades, wanting to show her mom.

Mother Shen, sorting out her brother’s things, said to Shen Xiaoyou, “Xiaoyou, be good, we need to go to your brother’s parent-teacher conference tomorrow.”

For everything, she would always prioritize her brother, no matter what, no one cared about her. It was useless no matter how good her grades were.

Only Grandmother loved her, but Grandmother was always very busy because the Shen family was Grandmother’s. Mom followed Grandmother’s surname, and she also followed Mom’s surname. She also didn’t want to always bother Grandmother.

Returning to her thoughts, Shen Xiaoyou thought that she had never had her parents attend a parent-teacher conference, and her smile was very forced.

Scrolling through her Moments, she saw a dorm group photo posted by Lin Anping. Sunlight shone on their faces, a very vibrant age, unrestrained youth.

Shen Xiaoyou thought, she must have grown up in a very happy family.

On Friday morning, the four got up and ate. Lin Anping took out her phone and sent Shen Xiaoyou a message: “Hello, Sister. My friends and I are visiting your small bar tonight. Can you give me the address?”

After sending it, Lin Anping said, “I sent it, let’s wait for a reply.”

Shen Xiaoyou almost replied instantly: “Okay, little kid, the bar is waiting for you.”

“Address”

Lin Anping looked at the message with a puzzled expression, thinking: She’s not that much older than me, why does she call me little kid?

Then she told the others that they were going tonight. The four of them discussed doing their makeup tonight and going after they were done.

Lin Anping then replied: “Sister, you’re not much older than me, just call me by my name. My name is Lin Anping.”

Shen Xiaoyou immediately said: “Lin Anping, what a nice name. What’s wrong with little kid? That’s what I’m calling you.”

Lin Anping felt that it didn’t matter, so she said: “Okay, Sister, you can call me whatever you want. May I ask Sister’s full name?”

Shen Xiaoyou deliberately said: “Didn’t you remember it last time?”

Lin Anping felt that this sentence had a bit of a resentful meaning, so she said: “No, it was too noisy at the time, I only remembered that your surname is Shen.”

Shen Xiaoyou saw the message and the corners of her mouth slowly rose: “Shen Xiaoyou.”

“Wow, what a cute name,” Lin Anping replied, and also included a cute emoji.

Shen Xiaoyou was stunned, huh? Cute?

Shen Xiaoyou did not continue to reply, and Lin Anping did not send any more messages.

In the evening, the group put on their makeup and left the school gate, hailing a taxi: “Master, go to Slow Down.”

“Okay, okay, this place is quite popular recently,” the driver asked.

“Yeah, going to take a look,” Xia Xing, sitting in the front row, replied to the driver.

Soon, they arrived at the entrance of the store. Everyone looked at the doorplate and saw the security guards at the door.

Jiang Shixue couldn’t help but admire: “No wonder everyone says it’s safe here, people who cause trouble wouldn’t dare to drink here.”

Su Zixuan agreed: “This isn’t security, these are a bunch of bodyguards that were hired, and it feels like the decoration is expensive, even though it’s dark.”

Lin Anping said with a smile: “Let’s go in.”

The four walked to the door, and the security guard at the door opened it. It was also very quiet inside, not very noisy.

As soon as they came in, Lin Anping saw Shen Xiaoyou sitting at the bar. Today, her hair was tied up, and she was wearing a black shirt tucked into black suit pants, making her figure look curvaceous.

She lowered her head, her long and charming eyes, a pair of glasses were propped up on her tall and straight nose, very seductive, and couldn’t help but stare in fascination.

Knowing that someone came, Shen Xiaoyou raised her head, just in time to meet Lin Anping’s stunned gaze, slightly frowned, wondering: What exactly is she looking at?