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  Chapter 24: Lightly Dressed

  TL: Etude

  During their casual versation, time quickly reached twelve o’clooon.

  After everyone had their fill, they called the owner over to settle the bill.

  Jiang Qin was surprised to find that the other two boys weren’t the type to generously pay for others like Qin Zi’ang, only paying for their own milk tea.

  Guo Zihang, however, the simpleton, was about to pay for everyone using his living expenses, but Jiang Qin stopped him.

  Starting uy and already pying the nice guy, especially to a few unfamiliar girls and a couple of guys, wasn’t that just foolish?

  In the end, everyone obediently paid their own bill, with Jiang Qin asking the owo round down his amount.

  “Kid, the milk tea is already ten yuan, there’s no ge to round off.”

  “ I pay eight yuan then?”

  “Ah… okay, I guess.”

  Hearing this versation, everyone else couldn’t help but give Jiang Qin disdainful looks.

  Although uy students don’t have much for living expehey should be able to afford a ilk tea costing ten or twenty yuan, right?

  With a snap, Jiang Qin crisply pced a braen-yuan note oable.

  “No need for ge, sider the remaining two yuan a tip.”

  The owner was stunned, so were the students from Lin Uy of Sd Teology, but Jiang Qin just smiled.

  What’s the meaning of life?

  Of course, it’s to lightly dress up at any given moment, to fort these long and b days.

  Seeing this, Hong Yan, who was sitting opposite, couldn’t help but take a serious look at Jiang Qin. She found him quite iing. He spoke with ease and didn’t follow the usual patterns, different from other boys she had met.

  The three boys o her pondered, w if they could also try this clever, cost-free tacti the future.

  At around one iernoon, with the weather hot, the group began discussing where to go for lunch.

  Jiang Qin patted Guo Zihang’s shoulder, indig he wouldn’t be joining. He wasn’t a student of the Uy of Sd Teology and didn’t o stay longer.

  “You guys enjoy your meal, I o head back to school.”

  Guo Zihang panicked immediately: “Godfather, I ’t do this without you. I ’t talk to people I’ve just met.”

  Jiang Qin spat in disgust: “You coward, you’re a disgrace to yodfather. I’ve helped you socialize, but do I have to help you date iure too?”

  “But… we officially start school tomorrow, what do you have this afternoon?”

  “Feng Nanshu is arriving this afternoon, I o show her around first. She’s really bad at familiarizing herself with new pces,” Jiang Qin said, cheg the time on his phone.

  “Jiang, why do I feel like you’ve adopted a daughter?”

  After hearing this, Jiang Qin paused, then agreed. Feng Nanshu was socially awkward and naturally clueless, really like a little girl who never grew up. As a man nearing his forties, it wasn’t wrong to say he was raising a girl.

  So, Jiang Qin bid farewell to everyone and took a bus towards Lin Uy.

  Upon arrival, he saw the familiar school gate. Calling it a gate was a bit of a stretch; it was an irregur quadriteral structure, entirely white, with “Lin Uy” inscribed on it. It was both imposing and artistic.

  Due to the start of the erm, the entrance was crowded with people. There were udents with their families, returning students, and even local merts seizing the opportunity to sell various household items.

  In short, it was chaotic.

  Jiang Qin didn’t want to squeeze through the crowd, so he squatted at the bus stop, watg the female students ing and going, admiring their fair, tender legs and shapely figures.

  But the moment, he caught sight of a familiar girl, who looked at him in surprise.

  “Jiang… Jiang Qin?”

  “Hong Yan, you’re at Lin too?”

  Both asked a question, looked at each other, and thehing became clear.

  What a performance!

  They, actually students from Lin Uy, had tally met at the Uy of Sd Teology’s social gathering, pretending to be cssmates, only to find out they truly were.

  “Let’s reintroduce ourselves. Lin Uy, Law Faculty, Hong Yan.”

  “Lin Uy, Finance Department, Jiang Qin.”

  Hong Yan was surprised to have guessed correctly, then couldn’t help but smile: “Why didn’t you say so at the beginning? You even cimed to be from the puter Sce Department of the Uy of Sd Teology. Such a ving act!”

  Jiang Qin smiled slightly: “I’m too handsome, not the typical studious look. I was afraid people wouldn’t believe me.”

  “Really?”

  “Of course, but mainly I was there to apany a friend. He was the main character, so I didn’t o stand out.”

  “I was thinking the same.”

  Hong Yan’s eyes twinkled with a newfound curiosity and fondness for Jiang Qin. She had always had higher emotional intelligehan her peers and was good at g for others’ feelings. This earned her many friendships but also caused her distress.

  Why?

  Because of her higher EQ, the as of those around her seemed childish, especially since she was attractive and had a good figure. Many boys in high school would shout and make a se to get her attention.

  Once, while she passed the basketball court, a boy even dunked in front of her and then ‘actally’ threw the ball at himself.

  She found these as foolish but couldn’t ht say so. Hence, she spoke less and smiled more.

  This left her feeling lonely.

  But this time, she met someone whose words and as felt fortable to her, a rare occurrence.

  Imagine if someone else had been iea shop?They would likely have boasted about being from Lin Uy, seeking praise from others.

  Hong Yan didn’t dislike such people but preferred to befriend those who were more stable. Jiang Qin cealing his identity hit right at her preference.

  However, she was in a hurry to get back to her dormitory to settle in and didn’t have much time for chit-chat, so she took the initiative to add Jiang Qin on QQ.

  “This is the first time I’ve added a boy on QQ on my own initiative. I’ve never dohis before.”

  “tally, this is the first time a girl has added me on QQ.”

  Hong Yan smiled gently and rexed: “I should go now. There’s a lot to do in the dormitory. Shall we chat some other time?”

  Jiang Qin nodded slightly: “Sure, we’ll meet when we’re free.”

  “Goodbye.”

  Hong Yan waved at him and then turo ehe East Campus gate.

  Meanwhile, Jiang Qin crossed the overpass and headed towards his ous. After much effort, he squeezed into the crowded campus, only to find it even more packed inside.

  A young man seemed to have lost his girlfriend in the crowd, frantically calling out “Qi Jiayi, Qi Jiayi!”

  Jiang Qin, annoyed, squeezed through to tell him: “Brother, Qi Jiayi (sounds like 7(qi) +(jia) 1(yi)) equals eight. You’re a uy student, ’t you do simple math?”

  Following the map included in the admission notice, Jiang Qin finally found his equally crowded dormitory building.

  Upoering, three people were already chatting. Jiang Qin, squeezed and irritable, sat down and listened, gradually getting to know them.

  Zhou Chao, from Longg in the south, dark-skinned, and short.

  Ren Ziqiang, from Dongshan, tall and skinny with some ae, but polite.

  Cao Guangyu, from Hang City, dressed in branded clothes, carrying himself with an air ance, eveioning his father was a businessman during his introdu.

  “And you?”

  “Jiang Qin, from Jizhou. I like to do business.”

  Cao Guangyu almost lost his posure. Wasn’t that basically saying he was his father?

  Ren Ziqiang and Zhou Chao ughed heartily, thinking he deserved it for showing off.

  Jiang Qin thought to himself, “I didn’t say anything wrong. I like doing business, what’s the issue?”

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