Chapter 75 - Chief Can Only Help You To Here (1/2)

Meng Fan hailed a cab and headed back to school. When he arrived, the gates were already closed.

When he had streamed in the afternoon, Meng Fan had long completed the experience required to complete task phase three of [Famous Streamer] and received 100 points and +1 charm as a reward. By now, the number of online viewers had already reached 1.21 million, entering the requirements for task phase 4.

After the +1 charm, coupled with his captivating smile, Meng Fan was confident he could get past the grandpa at the dormitory gate holding a thermos.

As he headed over, his phone rang.

It wasn’t a phone call, but a WeChat call request. Nickname: Freckles.

“Why is she calling me so late?”

Meng Fan picked it up, hearing her voice through the receiver. “Are you coming? Ten minutes right? I’ll wait for you.”

Meng Fan was baffled.

Freckles responded with another sentence. “I kept sending you messages did you not see? I called a bunch of times too, can you come fast?”

She hung up as soon as she finished.

Meng Fan was a bit dazed. What the hell?!

She’d called him?

He thought about it. He didn’t have her number, so her calls must have been intercepted and blocked as an unknown number by his spam call APP.

He checked his WeChat. There were quite a few messages, but he scrolled down to find the ones from Freckles.

“Meng Fan, I want to ask you for help.”

“When you’re done streaming can you come to pick me up from the Duo La Mi near campus?”

“I’m at karaoke with my roommates, and there’s a guy here who I’ve liked for a long time. I think he has a girlfriend and brought her too.”

“I’m a bit embarrassed and want to leave, but my roommates are keeping me here because someone she likes is here too.”

“They say they wanna go drinking after and I don’t want to join. My roommate said that there was nobody else in the dorm and I might not be able to get in, even when we return so she won’t let me go.”

“So I’m asking for your help, to tell them I have a friend coming to get me.”

“I know you like Wu Tong from the traditional painting department. I told them we are from the same hometown, so it won’t cause any misunderstandings for you.”

There were more than a dozen WeChat messages, spanning an hour between all of them. They had been sent incrementally every few minutes, evidently with the worry that Meng Fan would not come. She continued to explain herself again and again.

Meng Fan remembered when he had ‘confessed’ to Freckles, she had told him that she likes someone else. It seems like it wasn’t just an excuse to deal with him. As for this guy, she liked having a girlfriend, it was awkward he brought her to the KTV. In addition to all the weird business with her roommate and the guy that she liked… These weren’t things a single dog like Meng Fan could understand.

“Is it really obvious that I like Wu Tong?”

Meng Fan didn’t think Freckles would know about this too. But it was good that she knew; for after the last ‘confession’ and their interactions that followed, Meng Fan was worried that the girl had misunderstood him.

Guess he had to go.

Meng Fan estimated that based on Freckles’ character, it would be difficult for her to abruptly refuse her roommates appeal. It was awkward to stay, hence why she had sent him so many texts. Thankfully, it was only a few minutes from where he was to Duo La Mi.

When he arrived at Duo La Mi, Meng Fan sent Freckles a WeChat message. After waiting for approximately three minutes, Freckles came down the stairs. A group of students also followed her, around eight or nine. They were all done singing and ready to hit up the next round.

“He’s not the one picking you up, is he?”

Her roommates inquired, stunned. Meng Fan’s presence was so strong, these people had noticed him immediately.

“Yeah. I’m gonna head back first.”

Freckles nodded, then happily approached Meng Fan.

Out of this group of students, there was one who had been interested in Freckles. At the KTV, there were no shortage of solicitous boys—this was another reason why Freckles wanted to leave so bad, but it wasn’t easy to tell Meng Fan—and upon hearing that some guy was coming to pick her up was a bit upset. Now upon seeing Meng Fan, he was still upset. But he had to keep it in.

If it had been someone else, the guy could still think of a way to keep Freckles there or drive off the person picking her up. But Meng Fan, the man who had tackled a thief so bravely like a tiger; what could he do?!

The pickup went smoothly, as did the walk from Duo La Mi to the school gates. But their re-entry into the school did not go smoothly, as they were barricaded from going in.

Meng Fan didn’t understand. Was his charm lacking or his smile not good enough? Or had he already won over the grandpa at the gate? Or else, why would this grandpa holding a thermos give him such a strange look.

That look repeatedly said to him, “Young lad, chief can only help you up to here.”

What the hell!?

Freckles looked at Meng fan. “Now what…?”