Chapter 216: Chapter 216

In the morning, Qin Xi helped Li Xianglu with her quilt and sheets and went to the dormitory first. After helping her set up, she left.

Li Xianglu greeted Wang Ke, who had arrived at the dormitory before her, and then began to bend over to spread out her bed sheet, place her quilt, and organize some clothes to put in the closet. Just as she was about to stand up, she heard Wang Ke say with a laugh, "You’re back?"

Then she heard a hearty reply, "Yeah, there are so many people!"

Li Xianglu found the voice familiar and couldn’t help turning around to look. She saw two faces who were also surprised to see her. The person who had been talking to Wang Ke immediately said cheerfully, "It’s you, are you Li Xiang... what?"

While speaking, Li Xianglu’s hand was grasped. Her smile was a bit stiff but soon adjusted as she said with a smile, "I am Li Xianglu, and you are Tian Tian."

Tian Tian, hearing that Li Xianglu remembered their names, said happily, "You still remember our names, yeah, I am Tian Tian, and she is Lin Dongxue. We’ve transferred here to study. What a coincidence! How come you also live here?" She then looked towards Li Xianglu’s bed.

Li Xianglu smiled and said, "I’m in this dormitory, I didn’t expect such a coincidence; we’re actually in the same dorm!"

Li Xianglu thought to herself, what a coincidence, heh heh.

Wang Ke, watching the three of them greet each other, finally realized and said, "So you guys know each other?"

Tian Tian said with a smile, "Exactly, it’s really fate. We met on the train back in July, and now we’ve become classmates and roommates."

Li Xianglu raised an eyebrow and said, "Classmates?"

Tian Tian smiled even sweeter, "Yes, aren’t you from the finance department? I heard this whole dormitory is for finance majors."

Li Xianglu smiled and nodded, "I am too, that really is fate."

Tian Tian felt it too, while Lin Dongxue had already quickly climbed onto her bed and lay down, looking lazy and relaxed.

Li Xianglu had a thousand thoughts running through her mind. These two people suddenly became her classmates? Was this really a coincidence? She would have to talk to her grandfather when she returned in the afternoon.

As she was lost in thought, she saw Lu Anna and Iro arriving with big and small bags. The security guard hadn’t come in today; they had moved their things in themselves.

Seeing Lu Anna, whose smile had become a bit brighter, Li Xianglu thought of Qin Zhen, who had left three days ago.

He refused to let them see him off at the train station and even asked his family for two thousand yuan in Foreign Exchange Vouchers and some cash, going to the train station four hours early.

Li Xianglu remembered that he had made a call lasting an hour the day before and had also made a call before he left, but it was very short, only about five minutes.

Li Xianglu wanted to redial, but the phones at that time did not have this function, and even if they did, the next step would be manual switchboard operation, so she also couldn’t be sure if the person on the other end was Lu Anna.

Not long after, Xu Xin’s boyfriend arrived and helped to bring things into the dormitory. They seemed to have grown much closer, and when he dropped off the things, Xu Xin even sent him away, which bewildered everyone – they were at the same school, after all, what’s with all this sending each other off?

The last to arrive was Xiao Chong, whose leg still hadn’t recovered. Her family brought her in, and this time Xiao Chong’s mother was very polite. She was aware of the children’s affairs, and although she was a bit angry that her daughter was injured.

But when she thought about how her daughter had almost been deceived by a married man, it was the girls in the dormitory who protected her and prevented her from being bullied, which made her feel somewhat relieved.

Because another girl had spoken up for her, she was not punished. Thank God, these events made the child grow up a lot. So, Xiao Chong’s mother was quite polite this time, she brought a lot of fried small silverfish for everyone to try.

After sending off Xiao Chong’s mother, all the dormitory residents were now present—eight beds all occupied. Xu Xin who used to sleep on the top bunk is now on the bottom, and the top bunk has been taken by the newcomer, Lin Dongxue.

The bottom bunk that used to be Ma Lingling’s is now Xiao Chong’s spot. Xiao Chong injured her leg at the end of last semester, and after she was discharged from the hospital, everyone just moved her down.

Thus, the top bunk is now occupied by the new girl, Tian Tian.

Tian Tian is very cheerful and loves to laugh, quickly getting to know everyone and even helping to fetch water for the group.

In the afternoon, the group went together to collect their books. Because Lu Anna, Iro, and the three of them left late, they got their photos developed.

Not wanting to look at them in the class, the three girls headed to the back of the library, planning to distribute the photos and then head back together.

Li Xianglu looked at her own photo in a green dress, which wasn’t as pretty as Anna’s in a red dress, and pouted heavily, causing the other two to burst into laughter. There was also a photo of them fishing the next day.

Li Xianglu caught a palm-sized sea fish, but as Lu Ping’an was in a rush to grab it, the fish’s tail was exceptionally powerful and slapped the child’s face, making little Ping An cry with lips parted—that too was captured in a photo.

Just as they were happily viewing the photos, a discordant voice emerged. The three looked up to see six or seven young men walking out from both sides of the alley.

Li Xianglu’s eyes turned cold—are they planning to block our way?

Then she saw Lu Anna standing up and said coldly, "Pang Xinran, what are you here for?"

It was then Li Xianglu recognized a somewhat familiar figure among the crowd, it was Grandpa Pang’s son—the same creep who sniffed her underwear.

Pang Xinran touched his nose, chuckled without hiding, and came out from the side, sheepishly saying, "Anna, what are you doing here?"

Lu Anna rolled her eyes and said coldly, "Stop the nonsense, get lost!"

As soon as this was said, a young man in front of them wearing an army green T-shirt was displeased and said, "Hey, hey, whose darling is this, speaking so aggressively?"

Iro stepped forward and retorted, "Hmph, who are you to come here? Planning on blocking our way? Just look at yourself before acting tough, if you don’t have any business, scram!" She and Anna often encountered such delinquents in the courtyard, all of them self-righteous troublemakers.

Hearing this, the guys started to hesitate. They initially heard that there were three beautiful girls behind the library and thought to come over for some fun, but the girls didn’t care for them, and it looked like they weren’t ones to mess with. But who were these guys? They were the notorious rascals of Si Jiu City, the courtyard kids—how could they lose face here?

The leader stepped forward, shouting, "Hey, hey, come here and apologize to your brother, otherwise, you’re not leaving today."

Just as the three were about to erupt, the sound of a window opening was heard. Then, they saw a woman with chestnut-colored hair jump out nimbly.

Without another word, the woman grabbed the young man at the front and executed a back throw. A cry of pain followed as he hit the ground! Then she took down two more people, scaring the others off.

Only then did the woman turn around so that everyone could see her clearly. She had snow-white skin, slightly curly chestnut hair, a tall nose, and a pair of blue eyes. She was looking at them with her chin raised, asking, "Are you little ruffians?"

ps: I’m stepping out for a bit, will be back by nine. There are two more updates to come.