☆ Chapter Seventeen
The second semester of freshman year began again, plain and ordinary. However, Mu Rou finally found an available dormitory room with the help of a teacher by the end of April and moved out. Originally, the dormitory rooms were already assigned, and if Mu Rou wanted to switch with someone, she would need their agreement. But no one wanted to switch with her… However, by the end of April, many fourth-year students had basically moved out of the school, so Mu Rou moved into the fourth-year dormitory and lived with graduate students. Mu Rou’s attitude was that even living with fourth-year students, she would absolutely not mix with them… Now, only three people remained in the dormitory, and these three were quite happy about it… For nearly a year, Mu Rou had barely spoken to them, so their emotional connection wasn’t deep, and there was no need to feel sad about her leaving… Her empty spot could at least be used to store things! Then, Ye Ling’s birthday arrived. On this day, An Qi gave her the gift she had long prepared and warmly said “Happy Birthday”; Dai Xue, true to her character, gave Ye Ling a book – a collector’s edition of a classic. Ye Ling opened An Qi’s gift and found a very cute hairclip. It was shaped like a small sunflower that would shine brightly in the sunlight… Very cute… But An Qi clearly wanted her to clip back her bangs… This made her hesitate and stare blankly for a while, and she put the hairclip in the drawer. Sighing softly, whenever she lost the protection of her bangs and made direct eye contact with others, her heart would race as if it might jump out, and her whole body would tremble. She wasn’t psychologically prepared, so… she would have to disappoint An Qi’s gift for now! Ye Ling thought this and picked up the book Dai Xue had given her to read.
