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Join the ServerThe buffet Chengzi picked looked packed. It was just mealtime and a long line already stretched outside the door. Rumor had it the waitlist was past number three hundred. If they waited, they wouldn’t eat until after midnight.
Good thing Chengzi had reserved a table early. Otherwise Bai Ling and her three goofball roommates would be stuck outside waiting for their number.
“Did you guys sign up for that exchange study program coming up?” Lin Xiaoxia poked Su Jiuli in the waist. Poking people in the waist was her specialty. “I heard it’s going to Tianque. I’ve always wanted to go.”
The history department exchange seminar they were talking about was in Tianque, a historic city in the heart of the country. People called it the ancient capital of thirteen dynasties at home, and it was practically the city with the richest history in the whole nation.
Normally this kind of intercollegiate exchange seminar had nothing to do with freshmen like them. But maybe because the school buildings had been destroyed, the school seemed to be trying every way to send these students off. As a result, they became the first freshmen in the school’s history to take part in an intercollegiate exchange.
It was called an exchange seminar, but really it was just trailing behind professors and upperclassmen to see the world, with a bit of sightseeing on the side.
Lin Xiaoxia wasn’t about to let such a good chance slip by.
“Of course I signed up. I can go home while I’m there too.” Su Jiuli peeled a crayfish.
The girl was from Tianque, but the way she talked and acted didn’t seem like someone from Guanzhong at all. It was impossible to connect her with that ancient capital.
“Then we can visit your place too while we’re at it?” Chengzi wiggled her shoulders in excitement, as if she wanted to jump on a plane right now and rush to Tianque.
“Girl, did you sign up?” She bumped Bai Ling with her shoulder.
“Mm, not really interested…” Bai Ling had just bitten into a small cake. When Chengzi bumped her shoulder, she bumped Chengzi back, her words muffled.
Chengzi didn’t know why lately Bai Ling always leaned in and sniffed her for ages whenever they met, like a husky. Bai Ling had also told her never to use juicy or perfumed cosmetics, Western medicine, or anything with gardenia fragrance: body wash, perfume, makeup, laundry detergent, anything that would leave a smell on her body.
No one knew what had gotten into her.
But today she looked like a starving ghost reborn, clutching a plate of desserts and devouring them.
Usually when someone was like this, either they hadn’t eaten in days, or they were holding in some worry, like a breakup.
That lit Chengzi’s gossip fire, but watching Bai Ling chew her egg tart like it was her enemy, Chengzi didn’t dare ask.
She’d never seen this girl so interested in desserts before.
Chengzi exchanged a look with the other two roommates: something was up.
How could they know Bai Ling had both problems right now? For one, she felt like she hadn’t eaten in days. Everything looked good. She was always hungry.
Sometimes she even woke up in the middle of the night starving. If she couldn’t find food, she wanted to eat Xu Zhi alive.
On the other hand, her demon power had recently become strangely sluggish, and it worried her. She kept thinking maybe she was pregnant, then kept thinking she was scaring herself. One shot hit the soul? How could it be that accurate?
Still, she couldn’t help chewing her egg tart while calculating what to do if she really was pregnant. Keep it or not?
Getting rid of it felt too cruel. Keeping it would be hard to explain, especially to Guan Qing or her mom. Guan Qing would probably break her legs.
As for her mom…
During New Year this year, she’d said she would come back by the end of the year. Bai Ling didn’t know if she really would, but she had a feeling her return might make the sky fall and the earth crack.
‘Yo! Mom! Haven’t seen your son in seven years and he’s about to become a mother! You’re going to be a grandma!’
Wouldn’t that scare her into a seizure?
‘What was she going to do…’
And Xu Zhi. Oh, Xu Zhi was no worry. What happened today, that blockhead definitely wouldn’t overthink.
But this was his seed!
Then she started thinking maybe she’d been too rash. She’d only been a girl for less than a month and now she might be pregnant…
But if she hadn’t done that, Xu Zhi would definitely have died.
When it was either -1 or 1, she would definitely choose 1.
Then her thoughts started slipping around like she’d stepped on a banana peel. She’d just wondered whether demons and humans had no reproductive isolation, but then remembered half-demons were born from humans and demons, so she dismissed that guess.
Then she started wondering: snakes lay eggs, humans give live birth. If she gave birth, would it be a baby or an egg?
As she thought, she unconsciously started crawling under the table.
“Stop being a mushroom!” Chengzi suddenly grabbed her shoulder and hauled her up. This girl always crawled into narrow gaps whenever no one was looking.
Once Chengzi came back to the dorm and couldn’t find Bai Ling for ages. She thought Bai Ling had gone out. Then she went to the bathroom and discovered the girl had somehow crawled into the washing machine and was sleeping.
Who knew how she squeezed into such a small space? Did this girl know bone-shrinking magic?
Later they put a sign on the dorm washing machine: “Bai Ling Forbidden.” Not because they were afraid she’d break it, but because if she kept crawling in there every day, eventually she’d get stuck.
Then calling the fire department to rescue her would be really awkward.
“Did you fight with Xu Zhi?” Lin Xiaoxia gave her a suspicious look. Su Jiuli nodded in support.
Su Jiuli usually looked cold and rational, but in truth she was the nosiest of them all.
“No, I’m just staying at his place…” Bai Ling swallowed the egg tart with difficulty. “We’re bros!”
“Smack!”
Chengzi suddenly slapped the table and glared at her. “Do you think everyone in the world is as slow as a blockhead?”
“Be serious! This is a three-way interrogation!”
“Confess honestly!”
“We’re really innocent…”
Even Bai Ling didn’t believe that.
‘Innocent, my ass!’ She was a fresh virgin girl just starting out, and she’d stepped on the gas and let him ruin her.
‘Wait, no. It seemed like she had been the one to make the first move…’
“Innocent?” Lin Xiaoxia put on the tone of an ancient county magistrate trying a case and ordered the clerk Su Jiuli to record the details. “There are so many places you could stay. Why did you have to go to Xu Zhi’s?”
“Don’t you know men and women are different?”
Bai Ling nodded hard, then shook her head hard. “Your Honor, I’m innocent!”
‘Men and women are different. Was she supposed to know that or not?’
“Have you two done it?” The clerk Su Jiuli suddenly dropped a bombshell.
Bai Ling’s face went red instantly, red enough to drip blood, redder than the little dish of ketchup on the table.
“No!”
She jumped to her feet. “I’m going to the bathroom!”
She wiggled her hips and fled through the gaps between the tables toward the bathroom.
“The clerk is wise!” Magistrate Lin Xiaoxia gave a thumbs-up.
“I wouldn’t dare. The magistrate is tall and hard.” Su Jiuli waved modestly.
“Hey, do you guys feel it?” Prefect Chengzi suddenly pointed at Bai Ling’s receding back, her fingertip aimed at Bai Ling’s butt, tight in denim shorts. “This girl seems more womanly than before.”
“So it really is that?”
“Eek! How bold.”
The girls’ shrill, shy screams drowned in the restaurant’s noise.
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