Chapter 430 - The First Song of Qin (3) (2/2)
“Someone’s coming out.” The gossip crowd suddenly grew excited.
A girl appeared at the entrance to the dormitory and she strode over to Tang Jinchen. “Junior Tang, don’t wait anymore. Qian’qian isn’t coming down.”
Hearing her words, the crowd grew disappointed. ‘It’s not her ah? But who’s Qian’qian?’
“I’ll wait here till she comes down.” Tang Jinchen lifted his head to look at the dormitory building as he spoke in a resolute tone.
“Whatever you say.” The girl turned around and went back upstairs.
Bzz bzz bzz…
Shi Sheng’s phone suddenly started vibrating. Chen Xi had called her.
“Hello?”
“Chu-Chu, hurry over! The new professor’s taking attendance! Those who don’t come are getting their credits deducted! And just now, everyone who tried to cover for someone had their covers blown!”
Chen Xi was probably making this call in secret, for his voice was lowered and he hung up as soon as he said this.
Shi Sheng fell silent. And then calmly put her phone back in her pocket. This school deducted credits at the drop of a hat—Qiao Chu’s credits had probably already been fully deducted, so it didn’t make much of a difference if they took away a few more…
Qiao Qian’qian came down in the end, her head lowered as she dragged Tang Jinchen towards the school’s artificial lake.
She was too quick, so most people weren’t able to see her face. And since it would be in rather bad form to chase after the two, they could only ask the people beside them whether they’d seen the girl’s face.
Without a show to watch any more, Shi Sheng continued on her way back to her dorm room.
Inside, the senior that usually spent all her time in the library was surprisingly present. Seeing Shi Sheng return, she smiled and said hi.
The senior asked her in curiosity, “Did you see Tang Jinchen when you came back just now?”
“En, yeah.”
“Guess who he’s waiting for?” The senior put on her jacket and picked up the books on the table while asking Shi Sheng.
Shi Sheng spoke without hesitation, “Qiao Qian’qian.”
The senior was surprised. “You knew? She went down?”
Shi Sheng shook her head. “Yeah, but no one saw her face clearly.”
“So how come you saw her?” The senior took her bag and had already walked to the door, stopping there to wait for Shi Sheng’s answer.
Shi Sheng smiled slightly. “Because I’m surnamed Qiao.”
The senior had a confused face. ‘So what if you’re surnamed Qiao[3]? Don’t tell me all people with the surname Qiao have telepathy between each other???’
“I think Junior Tang was in your year. What a shame about that god…” The senior shook her head. “I’ll be leaving first, no need to leave the door open for me—I won’t be coming back today.”
‘A shame? For what? For liking an older woman?’
In most people’s minds, it was only normal if the woman was younger.
Shi Sheng gave the senior an OK sign.
The Year 4 female dorms didn’t have such strict rules like the other years did—dorm rooms weren’t even checked at curfew. The only real rule was to not allow men inside.
After all, Year 4 students were either preparing for their graduate exams or were on internships, so most of them wouldn’t even be in their dorms.
Shi Sheng bathed and changed into sleepwear, planning on having a good rest.
This nap lasted more than 3 hours. By the time she woke up, it was already evening.
Shi Sheng checked her phone. Perhaps because she’d accidentally set it to silent, there were 10 missed calls.
7 were from Chen Xi while the other 3 were from the same unknown number. Shi Sheng checked it. It was from the same city. ‘Who’s this?’
Just as she was planning to call Chen Xi back, the unknown number called again.
[1] It’s one of those wordplay things that don’t translate very well. I believe I translated a similar one in arc 2.
[2] Thanks to my TLC, I think this is a reference to The Chinese Odyssey, a movie (?) loosely based on Journey to the West.
[3] There’s plenty of people who share surnames but aren’t related.