When Su Lin returned to the dormitory, it was around four o’clock.

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  He pushed open the door of the dormitory and bumped into his three roommates who were preparing to go out.

  Both sides were taken aback.

  Qin Fang was wearing sportswear, holding a basketball in his right hand and a water bottle hanging from his left.

  “Lin ge,” He quickly snapped back to attention and patted the basketball he was holding, “Come play ball, ah? Together.”

  “With who?”

  “The ones from the International Trade 1 department.
They happened to be free.”

  “……”

  Su Lin was silent for a while.

  Not long after, he nodded: “Okay, I’ll change my clothes.”

  Everyone in dorm 401 were in the finance department1.

  Second semester of their freshman year, their physical education course coincidentally happened to be alongside the international trade department.
The two groups of people played basketball a few times and felt they were evenly matched.
After a whole semester, they could be considered familiar with one another.

  At four or five o’clock in the afternoon, there were very few people doing sports since most majors either had club activities or required courses.

  The basketball court was empty, and the two sides played to their heart’s content.
In the end, they didn’t keep score, playing just for fun.

  They stopped only at mealtime.

  Su Lin finished his bottle of water just as the international trade department’s forward came over to tease him, “I haven’t seen Lin ge for a whole summer, and your playing style’s become more aggressive.”

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  If it wasn’t an interception followed by a slam dunk, it was a three-pointer, both impossible to guard against.

  Su Lin just finished playing ball and was in a good mood.

  He hooked the corners of his lips, sweat dripping down the sides of his forehead, and his tone was warm and mild, “It’s you who was weak.”

  “……”

  These few seniors chatted about mundane matters as they left the stadium.
Passing the dining hall, Su Lin slowed his steps.

  He narrowed his eyes and settled on one spot.

  In front of him, his elective course seatmate was holding hands with the girl next to her, turning the corner towards the dining hall.

  She didn’t change out of her t-shirt and skirt, just adding a knitted pure-white cardigan over it.
Her long black hair hung down over it, only exposing her white and slender calves.

  The whole person looked very soft.

  Lu Yuanyuan and the person beside her chatted and laughed as they entered the dining hall.

  Seeing her, Su Lin remembered the incident from two hours ago.

  After he was asked a question, the book she quickly pushed over had two lines written on it.

  “Choose 1”

  “2 means sorry.”

  A very comprehensible answer.

  His eyesight was good, her handwriting was clear, and he understood it with just a quick glance.

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  After answering just like that, Yan Chuan told him to sit down and announced that class was over.

  Lu Yuanyuan took her notebook back and started to pack her papers and pencils into the book bag.

  Because her head was down, her hair was blocking part of her face.
He could see her long eyelashes moving as she blinked.

  For a reason only God would know, he opened his mouth and asked her, “What did he just ask?”

  Lu Yuanyuan was about to stand up when she paused.

  Then she sat back in her seat, and her dark eyes looked over earnestly: “What he asked was whether to use pardon or désolé when asking for directions.”

  “………”

  To use what? And what?

  Perhaps the confusion on his face was too obvious.
Lu Yuanyuan opened her book bag again and pulled out her notebook.

  She turned to the first page and pointed to a line, “It’s these two words.
Pardon means excuse me in English, désolé means sorry or expressing regret.
So, when asking for directions, you use pardon.”

  Because it was the end of class, the surrounding people were noisy.
Although her voice was still soft, you could see that she tried very hard to raise her voice to speak to him.

  Her face was slightly flushed from the effort.

  -

  They had played until they were sweating all over.
They returned back to the dormitory to shower before going to dinner.

  Leaving the dining hall, lao da and lao er were walking together in front, with Qin Fang and Su Lin behind them.

  The dormitory building appeared in front of them and Qin Fang was very excited, “If we eat two chicken dinners tonight, we’ll be ace2.”

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  “Lin ge,” Qin Fang hooked an arm over Su Lin’s shoulders, “I will rely on you later to carry, ah.”

  These first few days of school, after dinner, their group would parachute into the stimulation battlefield.
Their routine was very regular, very fixed.

  Who would have thought Su Lin would pull his hand off and faintly say, “Won’t play tonight.”

  Qin Fang was taken aback.

  Then asked, “You have something to do?”

  “Mm.”

  “What is it?”

  “Going to the library.”

  “…..
Ah? What are you going to do there?”

  “Study.”

  Qin Fang was stunned again.

  A few seconds later, he once again hooked his arm over Su Lin’s shoulder: “Lin ge, that wasn’t a good joke.
With your brain, why even studying? Let’s hurry back to eat chicken.”

  “Eat by yourself.” Su Lin once again plucked down his arm.

  Qin Fang stared at him, looking a little like he couldn’t comprehend.

  If anyone said they were going to the library, he would believe.

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  But this person in front of him, of the two semesters freshman year, it was only during final exams that he entered a few times.
Even then, he was brought against his will by them to predict a few questions they should review.

  Furthermore.

  Su Lin, this person, had very few hobbies.
Playing games was one.

  Late at night, he put down his games to go to some library?

  He, Qin Fang, did not believe.

  “No….” They unknowingly walked to the dormitory building, Qin Fang saw he had no intentions to enter the dorms, and voiced again: “You’re really going to the library?”

  “……”

  Su Lin ignored him this time, and continued to walk straight ahead.

  “Holy shit.” Qin Fang stood in the same place and cursed.
He caught up in a few steps and asked: “Then, then tell me, what are you going to the library to study?”

  He really didn’t believe it.

  At that, Su Lin stopped in his tracks and was silent for a few seconds.

  Then he looked at him and spoke, “French.”

  Qin Fang: “……”

I was supposed to translate at least seven full chapters the past week but I accidentally fell down a kdrama hole (why the heck was Penthouse so binge-able man).
Then I accidentally posted this chapter early which I hope no one saw (besides those on my email list).
Anyway, I’ve decided on a schedule for MGCW which is Wednesday and Saturday.

1 If you all remember before, I put that Yuanyuan was in the finance department.
Turns out, I somehow added that in myself.
She’s actually in the mathematics department oops.
  

2 Ace is a PUBG rank, the second highest in the game (to be in the highest rank, you gotta be in the top 500).
So, they’re literally insane. 

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