Han Mingyue grasped Zhen Yu’s hand tightly upon hearing the words and pulled her to a stop on the spot. Zhen Yu turned around as if sensing something, staring at him with wide eyes. The dim street lights made her eyes sparkle with a faint and fragmented glow in the darkness! With his indefinable intentions, Han Mingyue felt his cheeks flush under her gaze, at a loss for words. It was only a momentary exchange of glances, but Zhen Yu’s hair, tousled by the cold wind, covered half of her face! Just as she was about to lift her hand to move it away, Han Mingyue had already stepped in to brush her hair aside for her. While holding down her wispy bangs with the hood of her down jacket, he gently asked, "Your hair has grown long, after the ’Dragon Heads-raising Festival’, do you still plan to cut it as short as before?" Zhen Yu blinked, and her usually fluctuating Emotional Quotient happened to peak at that moment! She almost instantly grasped the subtle disapproval in Han Mingyue’s tone! So, after contemplating for a bit, she said, "No! I’ll keep it shoulder-length while the weather is cold." Hearing this response, Han Mingyue’s lips curved into a slow smile. As he smiled, his head gradually lowered, inching closer and closer to Zhen Yu... Although the streets were almost deserted on this cold winter night, Han Mingyue still merely gave Zhen Yu a soft kiss before straightening up. It wasn’t his first time kissing his girlfriend, but afterward, Han Mingyue still felt somewhat shy about meeting Zhen Yu’s eyes. It might not be exactly shyness; perhaps it was more of a feeling of bashfulness! Han Mingyue lowered his gaze to the ground a short distance away, as if fixated on an imaginary nail there, and asked, "Are you going home or back to the dorm?" Zhen Yu wasn’t much more composed than he was! Lowering her head, she mumbled, "I’m going back to the dorm." School was to start the next day, so of course, all the dormmates were back. But when Zhen Yu opened the door and walked in, the seven other roommates in the dorm fell silent for a moment! After a second of silence, Zhang Zhe was the first to speak up. "Zhen Yu! How was your winter break? Did your family...?" Although Zhang Zhe didn’t finish her sentence, everyone understood what she meant! They wanted to ask if Zhen Yu had been scolded by her parents, given that her academic performance had dropped so much over the semester that she couldn’t even stay in the top class. "No! What about you?!" Zhen Yu quickly replied. "Me?" Zhang Zhe turned her hand and pointed to the tip of her nose, "I did about the same as when I first enrolled, so of course, I didn’t get scolded! But no praise either!" "Oh." Zhen Yu replied uninterestedly before reaching for her toiletries to head to the Water Room. Turns out, Zhang Zhe was also about to head over to fetch water to wash her feet, carrying a basin; thus they ended up leaving the dorm one after the other. Just as the dorm door closed behind them, Zhang Zhe quickly continued. "Eh? Zhen Yu! They were all saying during the day that you might be changing dorms, is that true?!" Zhen Yu was surprised! "How would I not know if I were changing dorms? Where did they hear that from?!" "They said you’re about to be moved to a different class soon! They say 208 dorm houses all the girls from the top class, and with someone like you, uh! They said you definitely wouldn’t be kept there!" This text is hosted at n0velfire.net "Heh!" Zhen Yu actually didn’t want to stay in 208 either, but she had already learned from Zhen Yan that once dorms are assigned at First High School, there would be no changes! Once a student is placed, they must stay for three years! A valid reason is required to request a dorm change, and it’s another matter whether the school would approve it! Zhen Yu couldn’t help but think to herself: "It seems I’ll just have to put up with living with them for three years..." Perhaps because the other six girls were holding the attitude of "Zhen Yu is going to move out of Dorm 208 soon anyway," from the time Zhen Yu returned to the dorm until lights out, no one except Zhang Zhe paid any attention to her! The most obvious among them was He Xi, who had actually gotten along fairly well with Zhen Yu in the first half of the semester. As for the other five, ha! Better left unsaid! Zhen Yu, however, didn’t care about this at all, even feeling somewhat pleased with the silence. After getting into bed and drawing the curtains, she immediately dived into the Space and summoned the System interface! Having not added any points during the winter vacation, at the start of the semester, of course, Zhen Yu inevitably had to do some cleaning up first! Moreover, she had another task to accomplish! She had once promised Han Mingyue to send some walnuts to nourish Han Jiayang’s brain a few months before his midterm exams! And her own foolish brother Zhen Yan was about to take the college entrance exams too, so she must help him with the same! With such thoughts, Zhen Yu immediately contacted 6781! "Little Liu’er! Do you have any good recommendations?! I need to exchange some items from the Mall to help someone nourish their brain! Something like walnuts will do!" "Eh... alright then! Thirty walnuts a month, four months left until the middle and college entrance exams, so let’s exchange for 240, oh no! 480 walnuts!" [Ding! Walnuts exchanged: 480 pieces, deducted 96 Mall Points!] "Get me a timer too!" [Ding! This item has reached the maximum exchange limit and cannot be exchanged again!] "Damn it!" Zhen Yu shouted in her mind, unable to hold back her complaints, "Little Liu’er, what is it with you always causing trouble! Why can’t I exchange for it all of a sudden?!" This was a strict rule, and 6781 had no way around it. So, it simply avoided answering and released three notifications that Zhen Yu had already met the conditions for and triggered at the end of January, but which it had been suppressing all along. [Ding! Consumption Points have reached 5000! The System Mall is fully unlocked! Newly opened—VIP area!] [Ding! Consumption Points have reached 5000! Storage Space can be upgraded! Storage Space can be upgraded!] [Ding! Consumption Points have reached 5000! Trading Platform is connected! Would you like to randomly access Dimension 3 now?] "No!" Zhen Yu was so stumped by the ’dings’ that she had no mind to randomly access anything right then. She blurted out her first question: "What’s this VIP area for? Open it up, let me have a look first!" [You can’t afford it!] Even though 6781 said this, it still pulled up the interface for her. "Damn! So many nice things!" As soon as the interface opened, Zhen Yu’s eyes were nearly blinded by all the goodies! Although there weren’t many items, the description of each one was very grand! Of course, the prices were also super expensive! Starting at no less than a thousand! It began at two thousand! Three thousand, five thousand, and even tens of thousands! How could she afford any of this?! "Close it, close it! Out of sight, out of mind!" Zhen Yu grumbled, "And here I thought I had hoarded over a thousand ability points, and could exchange for some good stuff! But what now... Sigh! I better just add points first!" [Please look at the Third-level Mall! It starts at five hundred!]