Chapter 78: Like a Complete Dummy
Hu Yu Ying felt a little embarrassed after being called out.
“Brother Dragon, you’re sooo mean! Always teasing me!” She spun around and slammed the door shut behind her.
The thing was, Hu Yu Ying had a face that looked easy to bully—kind of like a cute little doll—so people just couldn’t help but want to tease her.
“Little girl, you’re so easy to mess with.”
Leaning against the doorframe, there he was, quietly listening to Ye Liang Chen’s voice.
A faint, charming smile hovered at the corners of his lips.
In the silent night, the heartbeat sounded amplified—a thrumming loud enough to drown everything out.
Quietly, Hu Yu Ying opened the door just a crack—no one was outside.
She tiptoed to the alley, only able to see the distant silhouette of Dragon Brother retreating away.
Watching his back, Hu Yu Ying’s hands unavoidably fidgeted together: “Goodbye, Brother Dragon… I’m so happy today!”
Just as she finished her sentence.
When she saw Dragon Brother turn around, Hu Yu Ying’s reflexes kicked in—she quickly hid beneath the eaves. Her delicate face was already tinged with a faint blush.
Waiting a moment, she poked her head out, but Dragon Brother’s figure had vanished into the alley.
Seeing that he was nowhere to be seen, Hu Yu Ying locked the door again and returned to her room.
She looked at the little white rabbit plush on her bedside table and the pink water cup on the stool.
Hu Yu Ying jogged, then threw herself onto the bed.
Snuggling into her blanket, she spun around in circles, then paused at her little bunny toy. She stuck a finger to poke it and giggled foolishly at her own antics.
Do you ask her why she’s so happy?
She’d seriously shake her head and say: “No idea, but I just feel happy inside.”
Happiness without reason.
Just like all sadness eventually passes.
Upstairs, Dragon Brother Ye Liang Chen’s pocket phone buzzed with a notification.
Hu Yu Ying: [Brother Dragon, are you home yet?]
“Just got in,” Ye Liang Chen replied, smiling to himself—this little girl was so precise, even knowing what time he’d return.
“I was really happy today too,” he added after a thought.
Earlier, he heard Hu Yu Ying’s voice but turned around to find her gone in the blink of an eye.
Hu Yu Ying: [Grinning wide]
Ye Liang Chen immediately sent back a sticker—a head-smacking, cartoonish gesture.
Then, he tucked away his phone, opened the bathroom door, and went in.
Meanwhile, Hu Yu Ying was lying on her bed, fiddling with her phone, deleting and editing messages, uncertain about what to send.
Despite having plenty to say inside her heart, she found it hard to express it clearly with words.
Turns out, she wasn’t very good at chatting with people.
Looking back, every time she was with Brother Dragon, it was always him who unintentionally started the conversation and gently led it along.
“Ugh, I’ve been hanging out with Brother Dragon for so long, and I still haven’t improved a bit.”
If Dragon Brother Ye Liang Chen heard that, he’d probably smack her on the head again.
He was the best person to judge—over this period, Hu Yu Ying had definitely changed quite a lot.
Surprisingly so.
From a shy, gloomy girl—ridiculously self-deprecating and withdrawn.
To now… well, not exactly sunny, but at least the smile on her face was more frequent, and she carried herself with more confidence. These were obvious external signs of her transformation.
But Hu Yu Ying herself hadn’t quite realized it yet.
Suddenly, her eyes lit up.
Quickly typing on her phone, she sent the message without a second thought.
No hesitation.
After sending it, she sat obediently cross-legged on the bed, waiting eagerly for Ye Liang Chen’s reply.
Twenty minutes later.
Her phone vibrated—she hurriedly grabbed it.
Seeing his response, she immediately flipped onto her back happily.
“Then I’ll cook you some egg drop soup tomorrow?”
“Today I ate so many salty things; morning should be light.”
Yep, the only thing Hu Yu Ying could think of was what dish to make for Brother Dragon tomorrow.
He’s not picky about food—he happily eats whatever she makes.
In their rural hometown’s words: He’s pretty easy to feed.
That’s why Dragon Brother Ye Liang Chen, at this moment, had already towel-dried his hair and was lying on the bed.
Gazing at the chat screen with Hu Yu Ying, no new messages popped up. He was about to close the app, play some Snake, and then sleep.
But before he could log out…
A friend request pinged on the screen.
Since it was a keypad phone, he could only see a nickname: 【Sweet and Sour Li Ji】
He clicked ‘accept’.
Sweet and Sour Li Ji: “Guess who I am?”
Ye Liang Chen: “Are you Li Qing Xue?”
Sweet and Sour Li Ji: “You guessed right! Here’s a reward.”
With that, a file was sent via the penguin chat interface.
Opening the folder, he saw it was full of physics notes.
Li Qing Xue leaned against her headboard, looking at the successful file transfer with a proud little tilt of her chin.
“Since you cheered me up, this is a little thank-you gift.”
Seeing how Ye Liang Chen grimaced when he mentioned physics that morning, Li Qing Xue couldn’t help but giggle.
Turns out, even this guy had his frustrations. Since she was free anyway, she figured she’d review some physics and help him out a bit.
Though she knew Hu Yu Ying was also helping him study, everyone’s way of learning and solving problems was different. Hopefully, she could lend a hand too.
She habitually clicked into Ye Liang Chen’s penguin space.
Inside, aside from a few game screenshots, everything else was just little essays about working out.
Boring—she closed it and went back.
Soon after, she received a message from Gao Quan.
She casually opened it, but just one glance nearly made her want to toss her phone across the room.
“Nuts? Sending me these pictures so late at night?” Li Qing Xue closed her eyes and cleared all of Gao Quan’s messages at once.
She only glanced at the pictures but recognized the person in them—Ye Liang Chen.
It was Ye Liang Chen, bl**d all over his face, drinking alcohol in the photo.
Late at night—definitely scary…
And she didn’t even bother to read what the caption said.
Exasperated, she started complaining to Ye Liang Chen.
“Is he brainless or what? Sending these pictures at this hour?”
Li Qing Xue muttered, then remembered something and rolled her eyes with a smile.
Thinking about how Ye Liang Chen looked so miserable when he mentioned physics that morning, she couldn’t help but laugh.
Turns out, even this guy had his worries—since she had nothing better to do, she decided to help him review some physics, although it was just a small favor.
Though she knew Hu Yu Ying was also helping him learn, everyone’s thinking was different. Maybe she could help him out in her own way.
She habitually entered Ye Liang Chen’s penguin space again.
Inside, mostly just game screenshots and her own little fitness essays—boring stuff.
She closed it and was about to log out.
But right at that moment, a friend request from Gao Quan popped up again.
She clicked on it, and her eyes nearly popped out of her head.
“Are you crazy? Sending these pictures at night?”
She quickly cleared all Gao Quan’s messages, then silently scrolled past the images.
The person in the photos was Ye Liang Chen—bloodied yet again.
She shook her head, speechless.
She thought: What is wrong with this guy? Is he as dumb as a block of wood?
Based on Li Qing Xue’s reaction, Ye Liang Chen suddenly remembered that he’d actually seen Ye Liang Chen earlier today.
He smirked awkwardly, stylishly tousled his hair, and mumbled some nonsense, then ended up bleeding himself by accident. All those actions—just made him look like a clumsy shrimp.
And he even saw the disgust in Hu Yu Ying’s eyes when she looked at Ye Liang Chen.
Automatically, he didn’t like him either.
Sweet and Sour Li Ji: “He wasn’t like this before. I didn’t expect him to change so much. I’m honestly speechless.”
Once he had someone to vent to, the topic just kept flowing.
Li Qing Xue also knew that talking behind someone’s back wasn’t a good habit.
But she just couldn’t stop.
Inside, she was never good at hiding her feelings, and she genuinely couldn’t understand how Ye Liang Chen had turned out like this.
Looking at the flood of messages on her phone, Ye Liang Chen could even imagine how angry Li Qing Xue must be right now…
