Chapter 243: Sleeping While Hugging

Outside the hotpot restaurant, He Yijun and Yue Zhu were wildly speculating, the more they thought about it the more they felt Jiang Qin was unfathomable. Meanwhile, Jiang Qin was actually inside having a meal with his dormmates, just a wall apart.

The pretext for this meal was to celebrate Ren Ziqiang getting 5th place in the 1000-meter preliminaries at Linchuan University’s Spring Track Meet – quite a mouthful but not very impressive.

But it didn’t matter, none of them cared, because free hotpot was the real deal.

Jiang Qin picked up a meatball from the pot, blew on it twice and fed it to Feng Nanshu. But the little rich girl only bit half of it before shaking her head, looking silly, cute and obedient.

“Don’t like meatballs?”

“Mm.” Feng Nanshu nodded lightly.

Jiang Qin disliked wasting food so he could only eat her leftover half meatball. “What else do you want to eat?”

“I want another meatball.” Feng Nanshu pointed at the pot with her pale finger.

“?”

Seeing this, Cao Guangyu, Ren Ziqiang and Zhou Chao all gritted their back molars, thinking to themselves, just now to prank Jiang Qin they had ordered all meat dishes, how come when it reached their mouths it all tasted like dog food? This was unreasonable.

The most aggrieved was Cao Guangyu. He clearly had a girlfriend, the only one in the dorm to have one, yet at this moment he was still forced to doubt life from their flaunting.

Unhappy, very unhappy.

But this meal was still Jiang Qin’s treat no matter what. As the saying goes, the guest follows the host’s wishes. You can’t tell people to stop flaunting.

Seeing how he ate the leftovers with such relish, if you told him to stop eating, he might even get angry. If he got angry, what if next time he didn’t treat anymore?

The three of them whispered for a while and immediately thought of a way to make themselves feel better without interrupting the couple.

Then, they buried their heads and wolfed down the food, satisfying themselves in advance. Turning around, they ditched Jiang Qin and Feng Nanshu to go online somewhere else.

Seeing the three people across from her leave, Feng Nanshu couldn’t help opening her cherry red lips again, speaking coldly and clearly.

“Jiang Qin, I want to eat a bamboo shoot.”

“Jiang Qin, eat a slice of meat…”

“Also that, that star-shaped thing, eat one of those too.”

“Jiang Qin, Jiang Qin, I want that…”

The little rich girl was a pure foodie. Although she was also picking up food herself, she still wanted Jiang Qin to feed her.

But for everything Jiang Qin fed her, she only ate half and left the other half. She looked at him with a serious expression, as if doing this was very fun.

Once or twice was fine, but after five, six, seven, eight times, Jiang Qin was certain she was doing it on purpose.

“No eating just half. If you want to eat then finish it, otherwise I won’t feed you anymore.”

“Then…then I’ll eat one more meatball and stop.”

Feng Nanshu pursed her little mouth and spoke. Then she was fed a meatball, her entire pink cheeks bulging, looking lively and adorable.

People will always have some instinctive desires to do certain things without knowing why.

Just like how the little rich girl wasn’t sure why she liked sticking to Jiang Qin so much, but she knew she was very happy when sticking to him.

Gao Wenhui said this was liking someone. Feng Nanshu solemnly acknowledged it but didn’t know how this “liking” unique to Jiang Qin differed from ordinary “liking”.

If you called her dumb, she learned things faster than anyone. She even dared to pretend to be dumb to trick Jiang Qin several times.

But if you called her smart, her simple world didn’t provide enough useful information to help her sort out this complex concept.

However, she also had her own set of problem-solving ideas. That was to do things based on her heart’s feelings. If she liked sticking to him, she would stick to him. If she liked being fed by him, she would let him feed her. Anyway, Jiang Qin never got angry at her no matter what. If he really disagreed, she would just call him brother.

“Done eating?”

“Done eating.”

Jiang Qin wiped his mouth and led the little rich girl out of Wanzhong Mall. He called Cao Guangyu and the others.

Those three guys were in the midst of teaming up to play Counter-Strike at the Golden Finger Internet Cafe. They were in high spirits now, so they told Jiang Qin to bring Feng Nanshu over to sit for a bit. They would go back after they had their fill of playing.

Jiang Qin had clout in the school’s security room and even more clout with the dorm aunties. There was no need to worry about curfew issues at all.

Moreover, for students like Zhou Chao and Ren Ziqiang who were always cooped up in the dorms, they finally came out to the city for a stroll. They really didn’t want to go back too early.

Not to mention the poor environment of internet cafes outside the school, the internet fees weren’t cheap either. How could they compare to the comfort of internet cafes in the city center? Even the sofas were soft and cozy. You could even see girls in low-rise hot pants.

A while later, Jiang Qin brought Feng Nanshu into the internet cafe and found Cao Guangyu and the others sitting in the lobby, engrossed in the game.

“Jiang Qin, want to join?”

“Don’t know how to play. Finish this round and let’s go back to sleep.”

“We finally came out to the city, play a bit longer.”

Jiang Qin swept his gaze around the internet cafe. “Then let’s change locations. I’ll go to the front desk and get a private room. You guys move over later.”

Ren Ziqiang, who just got headshotted, took off his headphones and glanced at him. “Why waste money on that? It’s more exciting in the lobby.”

“When we entered just now, I caught a glimpse of some loser about to watch porn.”

“…”

Honestly, if it was just a group of guys going online, sitting in the lobby was fine. But Jiang Qin didn’t want Feng Nanshu sitting with them in the lobby. So ignoring the opinions of the other three, he turned and went to the front desk to get a 6-person private room.

The five of them packed up and relocated. Those playing games continued playing games, those chatting continued chatting. Jiang Qin opened a video site and started watching a movie with the little rich girl.

He was a rather unconventional person. Whether in his previous or current life, he never played any games. He didn’t even touch the hugely popular Honor of Kings mobile game in his later life. The only thing he played was PUBG Mobile, and that was because his younger male cousin pulled him in to make up the numbers during Chinese New Year. But he uninstalled it right after the holiday.

This wasn’t to say he was pretentious. It was simply because he couldn’t even figure out the game maps.

“Jiang Qin, I want to watch this one.”

“Spirited Away? Didn’t you already watch it once?” Jiang Qin glanced at her.

Feng Nanshu nodded. “I want to watch it again.”

“Actually, Hayao Miyazaki has quite a few famous works. Have you seen My Neighbor Totoro?”

“Haven’t seen it.”

Jiang Qin found a pirated site, downloaded My Neighbor Totoro, and started watching it with great interest alongside the little rich girl.

The sofa chairs in the internet cafe were narrow, but the armrests on both sides were very wide and thick. In a word, they were clumsy. Two people sitting on two sofa chairs staring at the same screen was actually very uncomfortable. Just twisting your neck would make it sore.

Feng Nanshu was smart as can be. She gradually shifted over to the armrest of Jiang Qin’s sofa chair. Then she rested her little head against the back of the chair, watching the dreamlike scenes in the animated world, her eyes clear and bright.

Early the next morning, Cao Guangyu extricated himself from the gaming world and stretched with a cracking sound. He unscrewed a bottle of iced red tea and took a swig. His eyes were extremely red.

“Who the hell is winning this game?”

“Bah, not even a dog would play it!”

He grumbled as he woke up Zhou Chao and Ren Ziqiang, who had already slumped over. They discussed going to West Street to find a breakfast shop to eat. But when he stood up, he saw a rather interesting scene.

Jiang Qin was already asleep leaning against the sofa. Meanwhile, Feng Nanshu was sitting in his embrace, her head resting on his shoulder, her arms around his neck. Half her little face was buried in the crook of his neck as she slept very sweetly.

“This is called good friends? Give me a dozen of these good friends!”

“Shh, what are you yapping about? Let’s go out and buy some buns to eat.”

“Okay, I remember Jiang Qin likes three-filling soup dumplings.”

“Those shooting guns, quietly leave.”

The three tiptoed out of the room, then went to a nearby breakfast shop to buy steamed buns and soy milk.

At the same time, Jiang Qin woke from his sleep, suddenly feeling like he had been wrestling someone for three days and three nights and lost. His whole body ached everywhere, especially his neck.

He opened his eyes, dazed for a moment, before remembering he had fallen asleep in the internet cafe last night.

And he was hugging a fragrant, soft girl, warm and toasty. Who else could it be but the little rich girl?

Feeling her even breaths blowing into the crook of his neck, Jiang Qin couldn’t help gently shifting up a bit, pulling out his numb hand. Then he lightly tidied the little rich girl’s messy hair.

It was his first time seeing the little rich girl’s sleeping posture. It was simply adorably well-behaved.

But perhaps due to the poor posture, a thread of glistening drool flowed from the corner of her slightly pouting lips onto Jiang Qin’s collar.

Jiang Qin reached out to wipe it for her but ended up waking the little rich girl.

Their eyes met. Feng Nanshu was still a bit dazed. She lightly nuzzled against him, changed to a more comfortable position and lay back down in Jiang Qin’s embrace, looking like she wanted to sleep a bit more.

“Jiang Qin, move your phone away, it’s poking my butt.”

Jiang Qin glanced at the phone placed on the computer desk and calmly said, “Wake up, little rich girl. We should go back to school.”

“Want to sleep a bit more.” Feng Nanshu muttered.

“If you sleep more, my neck will snap.”

Only then did Feng Nanshu sit up, rubbing her eyes, looking like she wasn’t fully awake. “Jiang Qin, you hugged me again.”

Jiang Qin chuckled. “Who knows which of us hugged the other.”

The little rich girl mumbled as she took out her phone. She found that Gao Wenhui had called her thirteen times and Fan Shuling had also called her seven times.

She thought about it and was going to call Gao Wenhui back, but Jiang Qin stopped her.

Good grief, staying out all night with him without returning. With Gao Wenhui’s personality, wouldn’t she imagine all sorts of things that would make people kowtow and shout for ancestors?

Jiang Qin felt Fan Shuling was more reliable. As the big sister of the dorm with a less flighty personality than Gao Wenhui, she definitely wouldn’t have any misunderstandings.

“Call Fan Shuling back.”

“Okay.”

Feng Nanshu didn’t know why she couldn’t call Gao Wenhui, but she just liked listening to Jiang Qin. So she called Fan Shuling.

Hearing that she had been with Jiang Qin all night, Fan Shuling on the other end instantly breathed a sigh of relief. Then she asked them several times what it felt like, making Jiang Qin grit his teeth hearing it.

Had the little rich girl’s dormmates all been infected by that toxic woman Gao Wenhui?