CHAPTER 467: CHAPTER 466 DORMITORY GATHERING

"What about yours?" Bai Xue immediately sensed something was off.

"You can’t put both eggs in the same basket!" Zhen Yu vaguely remarked.

As far as Zhen Yan and Han Mingyue were concerned, her guqin should be in the Han’s shop because she didn’t bring such a thing with her to school when she registered!

But in reality, Zhen Yu carried it in her space and brought it with her! After all, she had to find time every day to practice in her space!

So, from any perspective, Zhen Yu would not put her guqin in the classroom either!

Bai Xue felt there was a bit of sense in what Zhen Yu said, so she didn’t ask any further.

"Before you get the guqin, you might as well join us for morning runs! Start by getting in the habit of waking up early!"

"Ah!! No way..."

—

After pushing Bai Xue’s head down and forcing her to agree to wake up at four in the morning, Zhen Yu went upstairs.

No sooner had she pushed the dorm door open than Zhang Zhe immediately complained to her: "Zhen Yu, why are you back so late? Hu Xi suggested that our dorm mates should have a meal together tomorrow, and we’ve been discussing it for ages! We were all waiting for you!"

I didn’t ask you all to wait! Zhen Yu returned to her bed with an unchanged expression amidst Zhang Zhe’s grumbling and after sitting down leisurely declined: "I have other things to do, so I won’t go. You guys have fun!"

"Zhen Yu, why are you like this?!" Upon hearing Zhen Yu decline to participate in the dorm’s activities, Zhang Lili was the first to jump out and criticize: "We’re all from the same dorm! What’s wrong with going out for dinner together?! Only you can put on airs! If you’re so antisocial, why live in the dorm at all? It would be better to live on your own!"

Yang Yueyue also appeared to mediate but implicitly backed Zhang Lili up: "Zhen Yu, don’t be mad! Lili is just straightforward and means no harm! But out of eight people in the dorm, it does look a bit... bad if you are the only one not participating."

Hu Xi carefully observed Zhen Yu’s expression and, seeing no change after listening to the other two, also started persuading her:

"Zhen Yu, we’re going to live together for three more years! Since this is the first meal out for the eight of us, no matter how busy you are, you still have to eat, right? Maybe you should just join us!"

"Yeah! No matter how busy, you still have to eat!" As soon as Hu Xi finished speaking, Li Mengting quietly chimed in.

Niu Lili also hastily didn’t want to be left behind and said: "Exactly! We’re all high school students! Zhen Yu, you can’t have anything too important to attend! Don’t tell me you’re looking down on us and that’s why you don’t want to interact with us!"

Her words struck a nerve! Suddenly, including the usually silent Ren Jing, all seven people’s gazes ’swooshed’ to focus on Zhen Yu’s face!

Zhen Yu looked back at each of the seven people in turn, then casually retorted.

"Stop making excuses! I don’t have money to go to restaurants, okay?"

Niu Lili suddenly burst out with a noise!

"You are lying! Zhen Yu, do you dare to say that what you’re wearing on your neck isn’t a gold necklace?!"

Zhen Yu pursed her lips in a smile, pulled out the necklace to look at it, and then said quite innocently: "This? It’s made of gold!"

"Wearing a gold necklace and saying you have no money?! Are you treating us like fools?!" Zhang Lili angrily retorted.

What no one expected was that Zhen Yu unapologetically nodded!

"I think you do look quite foolish! It’s precisely because I wear this gold necklace that I have no money! Did you think it came from a gust of wind?"

Zhang Lili’s face instantly turned red as a liver, and she was unable to utter another word.

——

The plans for a group dinner at Dormitory 208 fell through that same night, all because Zhen Yu thwarted it.

As for what they planned after that night, that was none of Zhen Yu’s business anymore! She had made up her mind that she would absolutely not dine with those scheming people, just to spare herself a stomachache!

The next morning during her run...

Bai Xue trailed behind Zhen Yu and spoke lethargically, "Xiao Yu, I won’t be able to join you for dinner at the cafeteria tonight, we’ve decided to have a dormitory dinner out."

Zhen Yu nonchalantly responded with a "Stay safe," before turning her gaze towards Han Mingyue.

But Han Mingyue just exchanged a glance with her before averting her eyes, then nervously pursed her lips and lowered her head.

Zhen Yu had everything figured out by then. "You’re going for the dinner too?"

"... Yeah." Han Mingyue’s voice was very low.

He suddenly had this illusion that he had somehow betrayed Zhen Yu’s trust.

"Fine! You all go ahead!" Zhen Yu was unexpectedly easygoing! She briskly ran a few steps ahead to catch up with Zhen Yan, who was also being dragged out of bed by his little sister at four in the morning!

And then...

"Little sister, I’ve got plans with some brothers from the Martial Arts Hall tonight! Why don’t you come with me?!"

"Go to hell!" Zhen Yu glared at her brother!

"Do you feel uncomfortable because Cao Zhixin has been quiet these past few days and you have no drama to watch?!"

"That’s not it! Little sister, you really can’t recognize good intentions! The only reason he’s been quiet these days is that I told him you were tired from military training! Uh," Zhen Yan realized he had slipped up and quickly swallowed his spit to cut himself off.

——

Zhen Yu was already feeling very desolate having to eat alone at the cafeteria. But when she had only eaten half of her dinner, Shen Qi, that oblivious fool, suddenly sat down right opposite her!

This really annoyed Zhen Yu! Whenever she got annoyed, she liked to make whoever irritated her feel the same!

So before Shen Qi could even open her mouth to speak, Zhen Yu ’slam’ dropped her chopsticks onto the plate, got up, took her tray and left! Left...

As she had hoped, Shen Qi was left infuriated and lost her reason, getting up and pointing at the retreating Zhen Yu as she shouted, "Zhen Yu! Stop right there!"

Zhen Yu wouldn’t pay her any heed, that would be strange! Not only did she not stop, her steps became even quicker!

Shen Qi was not willing to let it go! As she watched Zhen Yu heading towards the cafeteria door, she suddenly yelled loudly, "Zhen Yu! I want to compete with you fairly! Look,"

"Shen Qi! Are you freaking sick?!" Zhen Yu roared angrily while quickly turning back around!

The moment she heard the words ’fair competition’, Zhen Yu’s heart skipped a beat! But no sooner had she stopped, she heard Shen Qi shout out the word ’Han’!

Zhen Yu, who had misunderstood and taken it the wrong way, immediately burst out!

"How is there any fairness in this world?!" Zhen Yu’s gaze at Shen Qi was like that of a venomous snake, her face ashen as she stepped towards her!

"Some people are born beautiful! Some people are born ugly! Some people still have their parents well into their old age, while some lose both parents the moment they’re born! There are geniuses, and there are natural-born fools! There are rich second generations, and there are little beggars from the slums! You talk to me about fairness?! Who the hell gave you the courage?! Huh?"