My Girlfriend is the Cutest in the World

　Don’t send voice messages to others?

　　Teach her to text?

　　Lu Yuanyuan was confused.

　　She didn’t understand. She was only casually talking about Shu Tian. Why did Su Lin suddenly mention this?

    “Teach, teach, teach, me.. to text?”

    “…… Mm.”

    But was texting something that could be taught?

    Lu Yuanyuan was a little curious: “How are you going to teach me, senior?”

    Su Lin wasn’t too sure either.

    But his face was still casual, his tone very normal, “I know how to, don’t worry.”

    “……”

    “So…. Do you agree?”

    “Hm?” Lu Yuanyuan thought for a moment before reacting to his words. “But…. why not send voice messages. It’s really easy to send voice messages ah….”

    “It’s not a matter of whether it’s easy or not easy.”

    “…… Hmm?”

    “If you send a voice message to a girl you haven’t known for a long time, she’ll think you’re trying to act like you’re close.”

    “……”

    “If you send a voice message to a boy you haven’t known for a long time….” Su Lin once again recalled the words she had just said and the little girl’s soft voice….

    Fuck.

    His collection of saved messages…. didn’t sound like that.

    He took a deep breath, then said: “…… In that situation, that boy might feel like you’re interested in him.”

    Especially with that tone. He silently added in his mind.

    “……”

    Lu Yuanyuan was taken aback.

    What he said…. made a lot of sense.

    But…. she hadn’t seemed to have sent any voice messages to boys she had just met, ah? Because she had gotten a phone after graduating from high school, besides the people from her class, she only had a few boys in her WeChat contacts.

    Only, except for-

    She had just wanted to say something when Su Lin concluded: “In fact, texting is the easiest way to talk with others. I’ll teach you. It’s very simple.”

    “Oh….”

    Lu Yuanyuan felt like there was something not quite right with his words, but after he changed the subject, she couldn’t remember for the life of her.

    She didn’t think hard again.

    In fact, she was also very distressed at how slowly she typed. She obviously knew pinyin, but every time she typed, she felt like she was illiterate.

    “Then, how are you going to teach me, senior?”

    “Leave it to me,” He said with a light expression, looking like it was a piece of cake, “Let’s listen to the lesson.”

    Lu Yuanyuan nodded: “Okay.”

    Su Lin turned his head to look at the podium, inwardly releasing a sigh of relief.

    Just now…. He was really afraid that she would say she had sent him voice messages.

    Fortunately.

    He stopped her in time from thinking that far.

    —

    On Thursday, the teacher for their general class was sick and sent out an email saying that they didn’t have to attend. Therefore, the four roommates in the dormitory were staying in and didn’t want to go out.

    Wang Yihan, unprecedentedly, also didn’t go out.

    Or rather, the number of times she had gone out recently could be counted on one hand, very different from her behavior in the past.

    Wang Yihan sat cross-legged on Lu Yuanyuan’s bed and asked while swiping on her phone, “Yuan’er, after the music club fell through, you didn’t find another club?”

    “Hmm?” Lu Yuanyuan looked up from her book, taking a while to realize what she was talking about, “Ah, no. It doesn’t matter if I join them or not.”

    Actually, she wasn’t too interested in things like clubs. When she tried joining the music club last time, it was to keep Lin Xi company.

    “Uh-huh,” Wang Yihan laughed, raised her chin, and nodded at the book in Lu Yuanyuan’s hand, “I know. Our top student Yuan’er loves studying the most.”

    Lu Yuanyuan was a little embarrassed: “No….”

    She wasn’t reading books related to her major. The books she borrowed from the library were the required books they needed to read during high school and the like. Up till now, she hadn’t had the opportunity to read these classics.

    Lin Xi was on the side playing online games on her laptop. Hearing the two mention the club, it seemed to have awakened a long-lost memory.

    Her hands stopped moving and she wondered, “Hey, speaking of the music club. Last time, we suspected that someone had opened the back door for Yuanyuan, so…. in the end, we still don’t know who it was, ah?”

    “……”

    Lu Yuanyuan stiffened for a moment.

    Wang Yihan took over: “Yeah. Originally, I went there for that, but then I-“

    “Hey, wait a minute,” Wang Yihan suddenly looked at her, “Yuan’er, do you know Qin Fang? That day…. the guy who was talking to me outside the door that day.”

    “……”

    Lin Xi interjected, “I remember. He was the one who interviewed me in the first round, ah. Yuanyuan, were you interviewed by him, too?”

    “I was.” Lu Yuanyuan nodded.

    Wang Yihan looked over with a slightly surprised expression, “So…. he was the one who interviewed you in the first round?”

    “……”

    Lu Yuanyuan recalled carefully and nodded affirmatively, “…… Mhm.”

    Although Senior Su seemed to be the one who opened the back door for her, she was indeed interviewed by that senior during the first round, ah.

    “Fuck.” Wang Yihan’s face suddenly sank, “So Qin Fang likes-“

    Her loud voice suddenly cut off.

    Lu Yuanyuan was startled.

    She looked at the person across from her, not understanding why she reacted so much, “What’s wrong with you, Caicai?”

    “I….” Wang Yihan tried to hold herself back from grinding her teeth, “I’m going to make a phone call.”

    Soon after, she immediately got out of bed and left the dormitory door wearing slippers.

    “……”

    Lin Xi watched, dumbfounded, as Wang Yihan stormed out of the dormitory, and only returned to her senses after a while.

    “Ahem. Yuanyuan, how are you going to spend National Day1?”

    Lu Yuanyuan hadn’t answered when Lin Xi ran to her bedside full of excitement, her bare feet touching the dorm’s carpet, “Our club has an activity. The upperclassmen said that it happens every year on National Day. This time, the vice president chose the place.”

    “He chose to go to an amusement park that no one’s ever been to. The tickets are extremely cheap and the bus company will arrange the transportation.”

    Lin Xi finished speaking, then moved even closer to her, “Yuanyuan, are you going to go back home? Or go stay at your grandparents’ house?”

    Lu Yuanyuan was distracted.

    Go back home….

    Go back to that home for what.

    She shook her head: “I won’t go home. I’ll still be in S City.”

    “Hey, you should come along then! It should be really fun! I haven’t been to any amusement parks in S City!”

    Lu Yuanyuan thought about it. She had no homework and no other things she had to do during National Day. She was just about to agree, but she felt like something wasn’t right, “But Xixi, I’m not in your club….”

    “It’s okay! I’ve asked our president.”

    “……”

    “It’s Su Shuai2, ah! The Su Lin I always talk to you about. I asked him if we could bring family members, and guess what he said?”

    “…… What’d he say?”

    Lin Xi widened her eyes: “He actually asked me the name of my family member!”

    “……”

    “Then I said your name. I said I had to ask your opinion but if you agreed, could you join us in that activity and he immediately agreed.”

   …. Asked for their name?

    “Oh, then-” Lu Yuan Yuan wanted to say something else, but Lin Xi cut in, “Don’t say anything else! It’s settled. National Day is seven days long, you have six days where you can stay at home. What’s wrong with going out to play for one day! “

    Looking at Lin Xi doing her utmost to persuade her to hang out, Lu Yuanyuan bent her lips, “Okay.”

    Lin Xi then sat back down to play on her laptop. Lu Yuanyuan was a little lost in thought.

    Senior Su… This time, was it also because they knew each other?

    She put the book down, picked up her phone to open WeChat, and found her chat with [Su Lin].

    She typed: Thank you, senior ~

    The split second before she was about to press send, she stopped.

    After thinking about it, she deleted the sentence and picked up her book again.

    Anyway, they’d meet tomorrow….

    It’d be better to say thank you in person.

1 National Day is a holiday celebrating the establishment of the People’s Republic of China.

2 Shuai: a mix of handsome/sexy/good-looking. I previously used Sexy/Handsome Su (I think) but it doesn’t capture the meaning perfectly. Anyway, I like Su Shuai because it rolls off the tongue. Because, alliteration, y’know.