Lu Yuanyuan was a little puzzled at first.

    Afterwards, she was a little apprehensive.

    Su Lin had been intently staring at her phone screen for at least dozens of seconds.

    Did she…. type something wrong again?

    She frowned and thought about it. They were such simple words, it didn’t seem like she made any mistakes….

    “Senior…. what are you looking at?” She said, moving closer to take a look.

    She approached him too suddenly that Su Lin reflexively dodged back.

    Lu Yuanyuan was standing up with one of her knees bent on the bench. She didn’t expect Su Lin to suddenly pull his hand back, so her outstretched arm met with empty air. Her whole body could help but fall forward-

    The next second, her chin knocked hard against his shoulder.

    The two were pressed tightly together.

    Su Lin yanked her phone back, but didn’t anticipate that Lu Yuanyuan would lose her balance because of his actions, and then….

    Fall on him.

    Because his left hand was holding the phone, Su Lin involuntarily, without thinking, stretched his right arm around her waist.

   …. So thin.

    The second his arm touched, the little girl immediately stiffened.

    Lu Yuanyuan came back to her senses. She straightened up and took a step back, sitting back on the bench.

    It seemed like she’d never gotten so close to the opposite sex outside of her family. When she had boys at the same table in middle school or high school, she also kept them at a distance.

    Her heart was beating fast, and she felt her face burning up, “Um, I didn’t mean to….”

    She observed the expression of the person in front of her that didn’t seem to change at all, then explained in a whisper, “I just…. wanted to get my phone back.”

    Her quiet, trailing voice reached his ears.

    It was like Su Lin woke up like a dream.

    His Adam’s apple rolled. He cleared his throat a little unnaturally, and handed the phone over.

    “You-“

    He had only said one word, when Lu Yuanyuan quickly grabbed the phone, carried her bookbag and stood up, “Senior, thank you for today, I’ll leave first!”

    “……”

    She escaped out of the library. Running out the door, you could still see the redness on her cheeks.

    Su Lin suddenly lowered his eyes and smiled.

    He looked at the hand that was just placed on her waist and felt that his fingertips were somewhat scorching hot.

    So shy….

    What’ll they do in the future, ah.

    ***

    This National Day, the Music Club decided to go to “Deceving You1 For Fun” amusement park, famous for its ridiculousness and for driving visitors away. Right after it opened, it quickly attracted countless famous online travel guide bloggers who took the initiative to explore the magical amusement park.

    After the bloggers flocked there, the evaluation was divided into two extremes: either giving it a ten and hyping it to the sky, or giving it a zero and cursing it without mercy.

    Qin Fang also didn’t expect that he could, in sophomore year, become the vice president of one of the biggest clubs at school.

    In addition, in a situation where the president was only a president in name.

    If this was in ancient times, it could be said that Su Lin’s power and authority were all given to him.

    Qin Fang himself was super curious about this place, and thought that it’d be boring if only a couple of people went, so he simply clapped his hands and decided on the spot, why not just turn it into a group activity.

    On October 1, early in the morning, he stood near the bus at the entrance of the school, set up the sign [Music Club Meeting Place], and started checking the box for drawing lots, water, and cameras he brought.

    He was hard at work while his nominal president, who was seated in the first row of the bus, was relaxing with his eyes closed.

    Qin Fang popped next to him, “Don’t you have any shame! Will you get some by sleeping!”

    The other person’s eyelids didn’t even twitch. There were already people who were getting on the bus one after another, so Qin Fang cursed in a low voice and started greeting the members.

    —

    It took an hour and a half, but they finally arrived at the place.

    After the people got off the bus, Qin Fang gave a short speech under the amusement park’s “Deceiving You For Fun” sign.

    “So, fellow students, you’ll be separated into groups of two. We’ll draw lots to decide, and whoever you get, don’t be angry. I just set up a group chat, so if something happens, send a text there. Meet back at the entrance at five o’clock.” Qin Fang quickly finished and picked up the box on the ground, “Come, come, come draw lots. There’s a total of twenty names. The person drawing the name and the person whose name is pulled are both null and void. Who’s first-“

    He hadn’t finished yet when a fair and thin hand reached over from the side.

    He took a look at the arm and was happy, “Oh! Our Su Shuai also has a day when he participates!”

    Su Lin didn’t reply.

    He lowered his eyes in concentration, feeling around the box with his hand.

    Feeling around and around.

    Qin Fang could only carry the box, watching as he felt around for a minute before finally pulling out a white slip. He couldn’t help but roll his eyes, “You’re fucking slow.”

    Su Lin ignored him.

    The moment he unfolded the note, he breathed a sigh of relief.

    He didn’t know what was wrong with Qin Fang’s brain that he could come up with such a thing like deciding groups by drawing lots. He was so sleepy this morning because of this lousy draw.

    Last night, Su Lin purposefully waited until Qin Fang fell asleep to take out the lottery box from underneath Qin Fang’s bed. He flipped through the slips one by one before getting to Lu Yuanyuan. He made a mark, folding her paper a different way from the other names.

    So that he could pull her name at this time.

    He stared at the person standing furthest away with her head down and doing who knows what, then read out the name on the slip of paper without much expression: “Lu Yuanyuan.”

    Suddenly being named, Lu Yuanyuan raised her head.

    This…. this could be drawn?

    Beside her, Lin Xi excitedly uttered a few”fuck”s, “Yuanyuan! Good luck! Good luck! Good luck ahhhh, good luck!”

    Lu Yuanyuan: “……?”

    What luck, ah….

    She watched Su Lin walk up to her with the paper, in a white shirt and black pants, tall with long legs, his handsome face shining, “Let’s go.”

    “……”

    Ay. There was nothing she could do.

    She waved her hand at Lin Xi and hung her head to follow him.

    Until they gave their tickets and entered the amusement park, neither one spoke.

    Lu Yuanyuan sighed again. It was really awkward yesterday, ah…. she escaped from it.

    Yet, they were actually put in the same group today!

 

My fave arc of the novel!! Hopefully I haven’t gotten your hopes up too high LOL

1 It actually is ‘Pit You”. It’s a Chinese term that basically encompasses setting a trap/tricking/messing/ with you. I decided to change all the pit terms to ‘deceiving/deceptive’.

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