Chapter 147: The One Really Important Person
Music Academy Girls’ Dormitory.
“Wan Ning, are you sure you just went out for a meal?” the roommate asked, barely holding back her laughter as she looked at Lin Wan Ning, who’d been fussing with her makeup for over an hour.
Lin Wan Ning nodded seriously: “Mm-hmm, just going out for a meal.”
“But you’ve changed six outfits already…” the roommate pointed out with a teasing grin.
Hearing this, Lin Wan Ning bit her lip, caught a bit off guard, not sure how to respond.
The roommate chuckled and said, “Looks more like you’re going on a date than just having dinner!”
“Yeah, yeah, no wonder they say the school’s cold-looking beauties turn crimson when they hear dirty jokes—they’re often the first to fall in love and the first to get married. Meanwhile, us who spout vulgar jokes? Totally single as a ghost…”
Lin Wan Ning’s delicate face flushed with embarrassment: “No, no, I just went out for a simple meal, seriously.”
“Okay, okay, eating’s just eating. I only really want to know—was that the hero saving the beauty guy from last time?”
As their classmates gossiped and snickered, Wan Ning immediately turned on her heel: “I’m not talking to you anymore, I’m leaving!”
Her cold tone sounded distinctly detached, but deep down, an unnoticeable blush buried beneath her composure. Yet, even her little tight-lipped smile couldn’t escape the seasoned gossip’s radar.
Leaving the dorm, Wan Ning headed outside the campus.
She pulled out her phone while walking, biting her lip as she stared at the chat interface.
Honestly, she wasn’t the type to make the first move.
Moreover, she’d already arranged dinner with Dragon Brother yesterday—yet he hadn’t reached out himself…
But thinking again, in the two encounters she’d had with Dragon Brother, he looked so serious, but sometimes… kind of silly too…
Like yesterday, after grabbing her wrist, he even made a point to explain himself…
She hadn’t really said much, either…
“Could it be he’s never been in love before?”
A happy smile crept onto her face at that thought.
That smile—a crystal-clear, delicate frost flower blooming atop a snowy peak, pure and tender.
Her mood suddenly lifted.
She tapped the send button and sighed softly.
Sitting on the bench from yesterday, Wan Ning kept glancing at her phone, then leaning her head back against the bench’s incline, watching the towering trees on both sides of the road.
The sunset’s last rays peeked through the leafy canopy, casting patchy golden light on the ground.
“Sorry I’m late,” Dragon Brother appeared from the direction of T University just as Wan Ning was lost in her thoughts.
Squinting, his orange-tinted light caught his handsome features, giving him an almost haloed glow.
He looked at her with a faint smile, and her cold aura momentarily seemed to melt away: “You’re here.”
Slowly standing up, her white dress fluttered gently with each step, like a butterfly ready to take flight from her skirt’s hem.
Seeing the surprise flicker in Dragon Brother’s eyes, Wan Ning felt a small surge of pride.
“What are you looking at me like that for?”
“Cough cough,” he cleared his throat awkwardly, grinning shyly: “Today, you look especially beautiful.”
After over an hour of fussing with multiple outfits, Wan Ning was indeed radiant today.
Hearing his compliment, her smile swiftly flashed across her eyes but she dared not look directly at him. She just nodded gently: “Let’s go eat.”
The moment she turned away, her lips curled into an almost-heavenly smile, impossible to suppress.
No one dislikes being complimented, not even those who appear aloof and distant…
“Honestly, I feel a little shy now, hahaha.”
“Why be shy? You helped me, I can’t ignore that, but you shouldn’t ignore it either.”
Alone in a strange city, encountering such disgusting things, with no kin or friends around—Wan Ning’s heart was a mess she couldn’t quite put into words.
At that moment, Dragon Brother stepped in like a hero, blocking her from danger and saving her.
Forget inviting him to dinner—if she had the chance, she’d gladly buy him ten!
Perhaps only those who’ve truly experienced it can understand.
Buying someone a meal? Really, it’s nothing.
At least, for now, that’s how Wan Ning felt.
No matter what others might think or what strange feelings stirred inside her—she knew this meal wouldn’t make up for Dragon Brother risking himself to help her.
But still, she should do something, right?
Maybe this is what they call seeking a tiny bit of comfort in her heart.
Just as they sat down, her phone rang.
When she saw the caller ID, Dragon Brother’s eyes seemed a little softer.
Watching his smile, Wan Ning glanced at his phone, hesitating. She opened her mouth but, true to her shy nature, said nothing.
Soon after, Dragon Brother put his phone down.
He looked at her with a sorry expression: “Just checking a message.”
“Is it your girlfriend giving you trouble? Sorry for taking up your free time,” Wan Ning said quietly.
“No, not my girlfriend.”
Hearing that, she couldn’t help but lift her eyes to look at him.
Dragon Brother, for some reason, chuckled and continued: “But she’s an important person to me.”
“An important person?”
“Yeah.” He couldn’t help but smile: “Pretty important.”
She was the first person he met in this world.
Wan Ning nodded, but honestly, she didn’t mind much because she already knew everything she needed to.
Before that, she’d never realized how happy it could make her just to eat with someone.
Dragon Brother was eating so deliciously—taking big bites, savoring every mouthful.
He didn’t care about maintaining an image; he just ate happily—especially with a pretty girl sitting right across from him, who’d even admitted she liked him.
“You must be tired, right?” Wan Ning knew silence during a meal wouldn’t bother him, so she asked, knowing deep down she didn’t want this meal to end so soon.
“Huh?”
“Army training—must be exhausting, huh?” boys had way more stamina than girls and burned energy faster. Seeing Dragon Brother wolfing down his food, she couldn’t help but ask.
“Not bad. Pretty fun, actually.”
For Dragon Brother, this was a completely new life experience—something he’d never tried before—and that made it interesting.
Walking back to the academy, Wan Ning’s melodious voice rang out quietly: “Are we friends now?”
“Of course. Otherwise, just call me Brother Long, and I’ll look out for you.”
Wan Ning stayed silent, only throwing a few complicated glances at him now and then…
