Chapter 177 175. One of Life’s Three Great Illusions
“I’m famous at school now…”
“An Han, you really went too far, didn’t you?”
Wang Sheng kept his head lowered, avoiding the gazes of other students, his face full of sorrow as he angrily accused An Han and Long Xing of what they’d done that afternoon. “And you too, Long Bro! Why did you join in the fun? Helping a bully commit evil, huh?!”
“Wasn’t I just worried about your lifelong marriage prospects?” An Han laughed as she defended herself.
“You just wanted to see me embarrass myself!”
In the evening, the group walked out of the boys’ dormitory, preparing to head to a restaurant off campus for a proper meal as a celebration of Wang Sheng’s championship win.
The original plan was to invite all of Wang Sheng’s teammates, but in the end it turned into a dorm gathering instead—only with Su Peng shamelessly tagging along.
“Long Bro, next time something like this happens, call me too! What kind of face did Wang Sheng make back then? Like he’d just eaten shit?” Chen Junjie, who’d gone on a date that afternoon, deeply regretted missing the scene.
“How was I supposed to know where you were?” Long Xing replied flatly.
“Wang Sheng, did any girls actually add you on WeChat?” Chen Junjie turned to tease Wang Sheng instead. “Any really pretty ones? Anyone you’re into?”
Wang Sheng kept his head down, sighing without answering.
An Han and Su Peng walked side by side at the back, smiling as they watched their roommates fool around.
“This is really nice~ So lively,” she sighed. “But Wang Sheng won the championship—why does he still look so unhappy? He even got over a dozen girls’ WeChat contacts.”
Su Peng felt that anyone in Wang Sheng’s position wouldn’t be happy right now.
“And this is my dorm dinner—why are you here?” An Han looked up at Su Peng beside her, complaining unhappily. “Just had to mooch a meal, huh?”
“Isn’t this a celebration dinner? I helped find sponsorship, after all. Without me, the competition wouldn’t even have happened.”
She clicked her tongue through her teeth.
Clearly she didn’t want too much contact with Su Peng, yet every time they met, her legs refused to listen and kept drifting closer to him.
It was always only after separating from Su Peng that she regretted it, swore again to ignore him next time—and then repeated the same thing all over again.
An Han wore a smile on her face as she looked at her noisy roommates ahead, but deep down she felt uneasy.
Every interaction with Su Peng brought genuine happiness and shyness from the bottom of her heart. Even when he took liberties with her, the emotions she felt were mostly embarrassment mixed with excitement—and sometimes even a desire for more.
It was terrifying…
She even wondered whether her sexual orientation had already changed, and she was just stubbornly refusing to admit it.
Luckily, she’d be moving out soon. Once that happened, her contact with Su Peng would surely decrease a lot.
Laughing and chatting, they left the school and arrived at a nearby barbecue restaurant, sitting around a long table.
Fond of drinking, Long Xing immediately carried over a crate of beer, opened it, and placed the bottles on the table. “Come on, one bottle each.”
As An Han scanned the QR code on her phone to place the order, she reached out to grab a bottle of beer.
Her hand grasped nothing.
She looked up in confusion and saw that the beer she was about to take had been moved away by Long Xing.
“You should skip it. Forgot what happened last time at KTV?”
With an expression of concern “for your own good,” Long Xing placed the remaining beers somewhere she couldn’t reach.
An Han’s eyebrows shot up as she was about to angrily argue, when Su Peng chimed in from the side, “Yeah, just drink Coke.”
Her momentum instantly deflated. She sat down listlessly, muttering, “Eating barbecue without beer just feels like something’s missing.”
It was obvious Long Xing was only stopping her from drinking because he knew she was a girl now.
Why, though?! Her alcohol tolerance was way better than Long Xing’s, okay?!
Everyone at the table was a classmate or roommate—the only truly dangerous one was Su Peng…
Su Peng had already placed a Coke in front of her and smiled as he handed over his phone.
“What for?”
“Watch something while we wait for the food. Here—earphones.”
“What’s there to watch…”
She muttered as she put on the wireless earphones.
The barbecue had already been ordered. Normally this would be the time to drink, chat nonsense, and snack on peanuts—but An Han could only sip Coke, with no interest in bragging at all.
So she shifted her attention to the video Su Peng wanted her to see, dragged the progress bar to the start, and propped her chin up with one hand.
The content was about **—an uploader had infiltrated a ** group, exposing the extremely ugly and perverse side of certain deranged scum.
An Han wasn’t very concerned at first, but the more she watched, the more alarmed she became.
You never really know people by their appearances. Scum who use ** often target people close to them—the more familiar, the less guarded the victims are… and the victims could be either male or female.
Seeing this part, she shot Su Peng a suspicious look.
“Why are you looking at me like that?” Su Peng laughed helplessly. “I just want you to be more cautious.”
“I think you have strong criminal motives.”
She muttered, suspecting Su Peng was using this video to hint that the boys’ dorm wasn’t a safe place to stay anymore.
Wang Sheng, sitting on An Han’s other side, leaned over curiously. “What are you watching?”
“Yeah! What video could be more important than a group dinner?” Chen Junjie shouted.
“None of your damn business!” An Han snapped at Chen Junjie and handed the phone back to Su Peng.
After that, the way she looked at all the men present felt different.
Chen Junjie was a known scumbag, having dated several girlfriends over two years; Wang Sheng looked honest, but who knew what filth he might hide inside; Long Xing liked her in women’s clothes—who knew if that might lead him to do something weird; and Su Peng had the biggest motive of all—his favorability was over a hundred. If he ever lost patience…
An Han swept her gaze over the men at the table. Feeling guilty for suspecting her friends brought a twinge of discomfort, but her desire to leave the dorm grew even stronger.
When the barbecue arrived, An Han obediently drank Coke and didn’t consider alcohol anymore. Compared to past dorm gatherings, she was noticeably quieter this time.
Seeing everyone chatting animatedly, Wang Sheng leaned over slightly and whispered, “An Han, um… do you still want the prize money?”
“Yes. Just transfer it directly by red packet.”
Even though the money came from Su Peng, from another perspective it was the system reward she’d earned through her own effort—an “unexpected windfall.”
“We split it up. I got seven hundred. I’ll give it all to you.”
“You’re not keeping any for yourself?” An Han felt uneasy. “You won the championship—how can you end up with nothing?”
Wang Sheng smiled shyly and shook his head.
Something about him felt off to An Han. She lowered her gaze and noticed his phone screen seemed to be stuck on a chat interface.
Though he liked using his phone during meals, he usually read novels.
Her suspicion flared instantly. She suddenly leaned in and glanced at his screen.
“What are you doing?!”
Wang Sheng immediately slapped his phone face-down on the table. The others who were chatting all stopped and looked over.
An Han’s smile spread uncontrollably, teasing and smug. “Ohhh, look at you~ You were scolding me earlier, and now you’re already chatting with a girl who added you on WeChat~”
“Spring has arrived~”
In an instant, Chen Junjie and Long Xing both stood up and pounced, each hooking an arm around Wang Sheng’s neck, shouting in unison, “Let us see!”
“It’s really boring stuff, just chatting a bit!” Wang Sheng argued with a red face. “It’s not that kind of relationship—we’ve only been talking for half a day!”
“We’ll be your advisors!”
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