Lighter and Princess

Chapter 4

After spending two minutes readying herself, Zhu Yun moved forward. Ren Di just happened to be leaving, so the two of them bumped into each other.

And then, guitar on her back, Ren Di walked right past Zhu Yun. Zhu Yun, "...." Was it too dark?

"Ren Di?" she tried calling out, but Ren Di seemed totally out of sorts. She picked up her small motorbike from a dark corner and then rode off, disappearing in an instant.

Well, that was pretty awkward.

Now, only one of her targets remained. Zhu Yun really wanted to leave, but then she recalled Fang Shumiao's hoarse voice and her mother's earnest instructions. After standing in place for a few minutes, Zhu Yun decided to just bite the bullet and go for it.

"Um..."

Li Xun didn't seem to be stuck in his own world this time. He heard her voice and turned. Because he'd looked up with his eyes, a few creases appeared on his forehead. The glow of his screen added a coolness to his facial features.

Regret... Oh, she felt regret, regret, regret.

She should have just returned to her room and enjoyed both cups of milk tea on her own.

"What are you doing?" Li Xun asked.

The knot in Zhu Yun's stomach tightened. She should introduce herself first. "Um, hello. I'm Zhu Yun. We're—"

"What is it?"

"...." Zhu Yun tried to calm down. "So, recently the school is looking into the morning and evening study hall..."

Li Xun lowered his head and resumed his typing.

"...."

Can't you let a person finish speaking first?

Zhu Yun continued evenly, "Because school just started, the teachers are keeping a watchful eye. The class president is really anxious about it too. She doesn't want to report you guys, so she's been hiding it, but if—"

Suddenly, something else appeared in front of them.

Once again, she didn't get to finish speaking.

Li Xun was sitting on the grass. One of his hands was typing on his laptop, and the other pulled a cigarette out from his pocket and lit it.

He blew out a puff and then told Zhu Yun, "Hold this."

?

"Hold this."

Zhu Yun put her milk tea on the ground and grabbed the laptop with both hands.

There was a code compiler on the screen.

"Press space."

"Ah?"

"You don't understand when people talk?"

"...."

Zhu Yun pressed the spacebar, and then a window popped up. In it, there was a dark pixel character holding a sword.

A game?

"Arrows and spacebar to move. Dodge the balls that float down and cross the river." Li Xun was sitting on the grass, his back to a goalpost. He held a cigarette in his hand, legs stretched out, as he looked up at her. "You get three tries. If you don't die, then I'll go to morning study hall."

Huh?

Well, fine then. Playing games was easier than trying to speak with him.

Zhu Yun took a deep breath and clicked start. Bang! A ball dropped down from the top of the screen. Zhu Yun trembled. She was dead. He called that "floating" down?