“Bang!”
“Zhi Qiu, all done!”
Yang Hongwei kicked open the door and walked into the 206 Dormitory, saying proudly, “With my voice actor-level skills, answering roll calls for others is a piece of cake.”
“But skip the morning classes if you want. For the afternoon compulsory class, you’d better attend. Professor Hao is not to be trifled with. If we get caught, both our participation scores will be gone.”
Yang Hongwei reminded him, “Without participation scores, I might fail the final exam. It’s the last year of university, and it would be a shame if my record of never failing a class was broken, not to mention my virginity.”
As one of the most economically developed cities in the country, Huahai City’s Huahai Media University, like a favored son, naturally had no shortage of money. The accommodation conditions were quite good, with four-person dormitories featuring bunk beds with desks underneath.
Hearing the movement of his roommate returning, Ye Zhiqiu, who was sitting at his desk, casually closed his laptop, stood up, and took the disposable lunchbox Yang Hongwei handed him. He smiled and said, “Thanks, Wei Ge. I’m pretty much done here. I should be skipping classes a lot less from now on.”
Yang Hongwei nodded indifferently. Another roommate, Xie Jun, who had come in with him, asked with concern, “Fourth Brother, are you alright?”
Ye Zhiqiu was taken aback. “What could be wrong with me?”
“Nothing, it’s good if you’re alright, it’s good if you’re alright…” The two exchanged glances and quickly waved their hands. But from their tone and expression, they clearly didn't quite believe him.
Ye Zhiqiu immediately understood from their expressions and said with a wry smile, “You guys don’t still think I’m dwelling on the breakup, do you? I got over that a long time ago. I’ve been skipping more classes this past month because I’ve been busy, not because of her.”
Xie Jun chuckled. “Then we’re relieved. As long as you’re not heartbroken and thinking foolishly, it’s fine.”
“Who would have thought that you, the straight-A student, would recently become a master of skipping elective classes and selectively skipping compulsory classes, even more brazen than me? It’s too abnormal.”
Xie Jun was a native of Huahai City. His family was said to run large supermarkets, and he was the type who would return to inherit a fortune worth over a hundred million after graduation. According to him, university life was meant for indulgence, so skipping classes naturally became commonplace.
Yang Hongwei, on the side, also pouted and said, “Fourth Brother, it’s good that you’ve seen through it. I said early on that Chen Yuan was a total bitch and no good.”
Ye Zhiqiu smiled faintly, not intending to defend his “ex-girlfriend,” and opened his bento box to eat.
It had been over a month since he transmigrated here, and Ye Zhiqiu had gradually adapted.
Yes, Ye Zhiqiu had also caught the wave of transmigrators. He was originally a somewhat successful novelist in his previous life, toiling away, but after another all-night writing session, he woke up to find himself transmigrated into the body of a senior student at Huahai Media University with the same name.
After a few days of initial panic, disbelief, and daze, Ye Zhiqiu finally accepted the reality of his transmigration.
He must have transmigrated into a parallel world. The current global situation, economy, and technological level were almost identical to Earth in his previous life.
On the contrary, after merging the memories, Ye Zhiqiu felt a strong sense of disappointment towards his predecessor.
This kid, his predecessor, to put it nicely, was stubborn; to put it less nicely, he was pigheaded.
His appearance, however, was impeccable, much better than his own in his previous life, who was constantly working late and had terrible skin. From the front, he resembled Takeshi Kaneshiro; from the side, he looked like the unassuming Louis Koo; even from behind, there was a hint of a young Edison Chen, and he naturally possessed a touch of delicate and melancholic temperament, truly a handsome man.
With such a heaven-sent start, a true possessor of the “priority mate selection” buff in university, he actually fixated on one person! What made Ye Zhiqiu even more speechless was that he was even dumped!
The culprit was the “green tea” Chen Yuan, as Xie Jun called her. The “green tea” and his predecessor came from the same high school in the same small city and both got into Huahai Media University. To be precise, his predecessor followed her out of love.
Although Huahai Media University was also a key institution, with his predecessor’s college entrance examination scores, he could have easily chosen a TOP 5 university, let alone a TOP 3.
But his predecessor, in his first flush of youth, for the sake of so-called “love,” resolutely chose to follow his high school crush and applied to this school.
Although he eventually got together with her after university, it was short-lived. In their senior year, his art student ex-girlfriend dumped him, citing “imminent debut, no dating allowed.” The very next day, the entire dorm happened to see the “green tea” smiling radiantly as she got into a Lamborghini parked at the school gate.
His predecessor only then woke up from his dream. Unable to accept the cruel reality of having given his heart to a dog, he got drunk for the first time. With his pitiful alcohol tolerance, after a heavy drunken stupor, the Ye Zhiqiu from Earth arrived here.
After merging his predecessor’s memories, Ye Zhiqiu decisively cast aside his self-pitying emotions. As for his recent brazen class-skipping behavior, it was just a momentary daze, unable to fully accept his current situation.
His family in this life was not wealthy. Both his parents were ordinary workers; his mother had been laid off and did odd jobs, and he had a younger sister in high school.
In Ye Zhiqiu’s opinion, his predecessor was only good at studying, but his emotional intelligence was truly lacking. Looking back now, there were actually early signs of the breakup; one could tell from his ex-girlfriend’s later cold attitude.
Yet, this foolish boy still naively thought she was just going through “those few days” of the month and even used his living expenses and hard-earned money from tutoring to buy an iPhone 13 Pro Max as a gift to try and cheer her up.
The “green tea” indeed beamed with joy, accepted the gift without hesitation, and rewarded him with a fleeting kiss, the kind that didn’t even smudge her lipstick. Then, a week later, she decisively broke up with him.
After merging memories, these stupid things were his own doing! His mind still clearly remembered the sensation of that, for lack of a better word, kiss. Every time he thought of it, Ye Zhiqiu felt his liver ache with anger…
At this moment, the rich second-generation Xie Jun continued disdainfully, “According to gossip, that ‘green tea’ must have latched onto a scion, which is why she has a chance to debut. Fourth Brother, if you ask me, such a person doesn’t deserve you.”
Ye Zhiqiu’s expression was calm. His two roommates continued to speak up for him, “I heard that ‘green tea’ only has a bit of looks, but her professional skills are nowhere near the top in the Art Academy.”
“If we’re talking about becoming a star, Fourth Brother, you have much more market appeal than her. With that face, just standing on stage without doing anything could make those young ladies cry and scream about wanting to have your babies…”
Although their words were a bit exaggerated, they weren't entirely without reason.
Ye Zhiqiu was initially captivated by his art student ex-girlfriend, the high school beauty queen from a small city. To please her, he specifically put in a lot of effort to practice guitar, and his singing level was decent enough to hum a few tunes. After entering university, he also joined the literary and art association, performed a few times, and was somewhat well-known at Huahai Media University.
While the rich second-generation Xie Jun and Yang Hongwei were still chattering on, expressing their disdain for the “green tea,” Ye Zhiqiu casually tossed the empty lunchbox, which he had finished in a few bites, into the trash can. He smiled and interrupted them, saying, “Alright, I’m really fine. You don’t need to worry.”
“There are plenty of fish in the sea; why pine for just one? That matter is in the past. Just consider me blind back then.”
Hearing this, Xie Jun’s eyes lit up. He exclaimed excitedly, as if he had found a kindred spirit, “There are plenty of fish in the sea! Well said!”
“Exactly, Fourth Brother, you’ve achieved enlightenment!”
In his excitement, Xie Jun slapped Yang Hongwei on the back with a “smack” and loudly declared, “Good! To celebrate Fourth Brother’s new beginning, I’m treating tonight! Let’s call the dorm leader, and our dorm won’t go home until we’re drunk!”