Chapter 304: Chapter 304

He still remembered it clearly.

The last time he saw An Shihua was in front of her bathroom door at her house.

At that time, she had just finished bathing and stepped out of the bathroom, wearing only a loose casual shirt. Her body looked damp, and she emitted a pleasant fragrance of shower gel. She appeared exceptionally tempting and charming. Especially captivating were those partly-hidden, partly-visible, slender, and plump jade legs beneath her shirt hem—so fair and smooth. Each time he recalled it, he couldn’t help but feel a stir of excitement, his mind conjuring all sorts of fantasies.

Just as Su Yan was somewhat lost in nostalgic recollection of that enticing scene, Brother Zhang beside him patted his shoulder and said, "Younger Brother Su, don’t just stand there dumbfounded because someone’s pretty. Aren’t you going to hand over the map?"

As he spoke, Brother Zhang also shook his head in disappointment. This Younger Brother Su seems a bit unreliable, he thought. It’s just a good-looking girl, right? Was it necessary to be so transfixed, to stare until he zoned out? As one of the elite, a Heaven’s Chosen who got into Jing University, shouldn’t he have some ambition? If you said you saw an unparalleled genius and couldn’t take your eyes off them, or were so astonished you froze on the spot, that would be somewhat understandable. But you? You’ve been captivated by a woman. Sigh. This junior brother is just like that. Such a temperament. Such resolve. He’d probably soon become just another face in the crowd among the geniuses at Jing University. After all, the saying that women are the earliest roadblocks on the evolutionary path isn’t just a joke. This was a reality experienced by countless talents who had faded into mediocrity. Especially beautiful women. They can truly dazzle you, make you lose the drive to evolve, and only think about reproducing day in and day out. This was Brother Zhang’s life experience, and also a bitter memory from his high school days he couldn’t bear to revisit.

Meanwhile, Su Yan was still reminiscing about An Shihua’s stunning figure when Brother Zhang’s sudden pat startled him back to reality. He then quickly picked up a student map from nearby and, slightly embarrassed, handed it to An Shihua.

"Student Shi Hua, here’s your map."

"No, it’s your map." An Shihua gestured with a slender finger, pushing the map Su Yan offered back to him.

Su Yan was dumbfounded. What was going on? What did she mean, ’it’s your map’? What on earth was this girl up to? Su Yan was rather confused by An Shihua’s action, holding the map motionless.

An Shihua ignored the confusion on Su Yan’s face and simply said, "I’ll wait for you over there. When you’re done, show me around the campus."

"If time permits, let’s go have a meal together afterward."

With that, An Shihua didn’t wait for Su Yan to respond. She walked over to a nearby stone bench, sat down, and silently played with her phone. She didn’t give Su Yan any chance to object, simply assuming he agreed.

Su Yan wanted to decline An Shihua’s request, but alas, she gave him no opportunity. To be honest, that was quite forceful. He didn’t type of girl. He found Qin Yao’s personality much more appealing.

Having thought this, Su Yan continued to busy himself with the orientation tasks at hand.

By this time, it was nearly twelve o’clock, and not many new students remained. A glance around revealed only about thirty or forty.

But! More than twenty of them were girls, all crowded and lined up at Su Yan’s window. The remaining dozen or so were sparsely queued at the other four windows. They were quickly processed and departed.

"Brother Zhang, we’re done here, so we’ll head off first."

"Sure, you guys go ahead."

Following these exchanges, the volunteers and new students at the other four windows all left.

Only a few remained: Brother Zhang, the senior; Su Yan, the new student; a group of infatuated new female students; and An Shihua, who sat silently playing on her phone on the stone bench.

About half an hour later, the two finally finished with the long line of girls before them and heaved a collective sigh of relief.

"Younger Brother Su, it’s your fault for being too handsome. You’ve inadvertently increased my workload, so you owe me a meal someday," Brother Zhang said to Su Yan beside him, while tidying up the documents on the table. Nᴇw ɴovel chaptᴇrs are published on 𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭⚑𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓮⚑𝕟𝕖𝕥

Su Yan laughed after hearing this and said, "That’s no problem. I’ll treat you to a meal when I have some free time."

"I was just kidding. You don’t really have to treat me." Brother Zhang packed the sorted materials into his bag and continued, "If there’s nothing else, I’ll be heading off first."

"Go and find your old acquaintance, lest she gets too impatient from waiting around."

After saying that, Brother Zhang picked up his bag and left. His figure quickly vanished as he hurried towards the cafeteria.

Watching the direction in which Brother Zhang’s figure disappeared, Su Yan just stood silently in place, unsure for a moment how to approach An Shihua. To be honest, he wanted to leave directly. He didn’t want to take An Shihua on a campus tour, nor did he want to go to the cafeteria with her. Given the time, he would rather return to his dormitory to read more books on evolution and supplement his specialized knowledge as much as possible.

On the other side, An Shihua, sitting on the bench waiting for Su Yan to call her, frowned slightly when she saw him still standing there motionless after a long while.

There was no helping it. If the straightforward man wouldn’t take the initiative, then she would just have to inconvenience herself and make the first move.

Thinking this, An Shihua lifted her flawless, jade-like legs, gracefully rose from the stone bench, and slowly walked towards Su Yan.

Her waist was slender, yet her figure was full and well-rounded. As she walked, she moved like a delicate water snake, making one instinctively want to reach out, wrap an arm around her waist, and hold her with a single hand. Beneath that, her full, sensual thighs were lightly veiled by her gauze skirt, offering tantalizing glimpses with her every movement. Each step exuded a mysterious allure that made one’s heart yearn. Further down, her calves were as white as jade and as slender as bamboo shoots. She walked with a light, graceful gait, her calves swaying rhythmically beneath the gauze skirt, a dazzling sight.

Seeing An Shihua approach him, Su Yan felt very troubled. He just wanted to be a steadfast, straightforward man, quietly focusing on his evolution, hoping to one day become a Mythical creature. However, fate had other plans. It insisted on surrounding him with nation-toppling, Fairy-like beauties. First was Jiu Li, then Qin Yao, and now An Shihua. And even beyond them, there was Song Yuqin, the intellectual Sister Yu, and Xu Xinyi, the female streamer he had only met once. Each one was devastatingly beautiful, and all of them seemed interested in him. They were ready to throw themselves at him at any moment, offering themselves freely and pursuing him with intense strategies. The thing was, he was just a straightforward man, not some dispassionate and desireless Monk. Being relentlessly pursued by such a bevy of Fairies, he was bound to lose his composure sooner or later, or even suffer a disastrous setback. Alas, my life is so hard.

With all these thoughts, Su Yan couldn’t help but sigh inwardly at his predicament.

As he pondered, An Shihua had already walked up and stopped in front of him. On her exquisitely beautiful and cool face, a smile bloomed like a spring breeze melting winter snow, as she said, "Let’s go, Su Yan. Show me around Jingdou University’s campus."

An Shihua’s smile, though still carrying a hint of cool detachment and not overtly seductive, was nonetheless captivating enough to stir one’s soul, make their bones tingle, and nearly steal their spirit away.

"Su Yan?" Seeing that Su Yan hadn’t responded, An Shihua adorably tilted her small head and asked.

"Ah, this...!" Seeing the usually cool and aloof An Shihua suddenly act in such an uncharacteristically cute manner, Su Yan was completely stunned. For a moment, he thought he was hallucinating and wondered if the An Shihua before him was actually a Fox Demon in disguise.

After snapping back to reality, Su Yan directly followed his deep-seated ’straightforward man’ instincts and stated firmly, "Student Shi Hua, I have things to do later, so I can’t show you around campus."

After saying that, perhaps feeling his rejection wasn’t tactful enough, he added, "Some other day. Some other day I’ll take you on a tour of Jingdou University’s campus."

"Some other day won’t do." An Shihua couldn’t accept Su Yan’s proposal and decisively disagreed. Then she added, "There’s no time like the present. Let’s do it today."

"Better some other day. I have things to do, so I’ll leave first. We’ll talk another time."

Having said that, Su Yan turned and walked away without looking back, unwilling to get further entangled with An Shihua.

Seeing him about to leave, An Shihua pursed her lips and took a deep breath. Then, watching his retreating back, she said, "Su Yan, actually... you know it’s a Demonic Plant, right?"