CHAPTER 659: CHAPTER 419: FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN BOYS

College students are quite a magical group.

To kids who haven’t gone to college yet and the older generation, they should be a vibrant, positive group, always busy, juggling academics while striving to improve themselves, nearly spending every moment on self-improvement.

But only college students know.

Just how damn much free time they actually have.

For instance, right now,

Even though vacation time is approaching, technically, it hasn’t started yet. With just a message from Lin Tian, Xu Yong and Su Ran came to Baijing all the way from Sichuan.

This is not only because their usual academics aren’t that intense, and skipping a few classes doesn’t matter much.

It’s also because applying for leave went smoothly for them.

This is quite a tough hurdle.

Everyone who’s been to college knows how meddlesome the freshman counselor can be, practically the moodiest entity in the four years of college.

In this first year, the college and counselors make all kinds of rules to establish authority, often inversely proportional to the college’s level.

Let alone the fact that taking a leave is as hard as climbing the sky, and it’s only the most basic part of it.

Other universities even force students to attend both morning and evening self-study sessions like they’re serving an entire family.

If you’re extraordinarily lucky and end up at a university that also mandates running drills, that would be the best material for your high school reunion chats.

When a classmate boasts about how strict their college counselor is, hearing your experience, they’d be full of admiration, giving a thumbs-up spontaneously—yours is more hellish indeed.

Su Ran got lucky; she met an older counselor, a gentle auntie, and her leave was approved without hassle.

Xu Yong wasn’t as fortunate, encountering a young female counselor who just graduated from graduate school and was at her goddess peak at 26. Xu Yong couldn’t prevail despite his best efforts.

"Leave only if absolutely necessary" made Xu Yong curse his counselor a thousand times in private but to no avail.

It wasn’t until the female counselor learned Xu Yong was invited to attend the send-off ceremony for Moonlight and Cat...

She burst into laughter, "Why didn’t you say so earlier~"

Then, while saying "take a lot of photos" and "get two signatures," she flatteringly approved Xu Yong’s leave.

Leaving Xu Yong both laughing and crying.

Knowing they were Lin Tian and Gan Yan’s high school friends, He Zhichen specially arranged for them to dine at the renowned Rongsheng Grand Hotel in Baijing.

Lin Tian led the two into the private room, where Gan Yanyu was already seated at the dining table.

Upon seeing Gan Yanyu, Su Ran immediately cupped her face with her hands, showing an ecstatic expression:

"Oh my, Gan is even cuter now!!"

Su Ran said excitedly as she ran towards Gan Yanyu.

Then, she lifted her hands, wanting to pinch Gan Yanyu’s cheeks.

At this moment, Su Ran’s hands paused for a second, as if she thought of something, turned her head to seek Lin Tian’s approval:

"Can I pinch? Can I pinch? Can I pinch....."

"Go ahead, pinch away."

Lin Tian, overwhelmed by Su Ran’s incessant chatter like a ghost, nodded almost wearily.

"Alright!"

Once approved, Su Ran immediately pinched Gan Yanyu’s cheeks, "Wow, Gan really has gotten cuter....."

So, are we not going to ask Gan Yanyu’s opinion??

Lin Tian thought to himself.

Lin Tian seriously suspected that Su Ran came here just for Gan Yanyu, calling out Gan’s name in every sentence since getting off the plane.....

Looking over, Gan Yanyu was clearly enjoying herself too, her face slightly red, showing a silly, foolish smile:

"Thank you....."

You even blushed!

Lin Tian thought that he never really complimented Gan Yanyu for being cute; it takes a good female friend to say such things without any mental burden.

But Lin Tian was different, being a man, he wouldn’t easily say such compliments as "cute."

And frankly, apart from her personality, Gan Yanyu’s looks were never the "cute" type; she always had the appearance of a serene and cool goddess.

If one day, Lin Tian would suddenly start complimenting Gan as "cute" consistently.

Then you’d best hope they’re in a proper setting.

"Let’s eat, let’s eat."

Xu Yong, noticing Lin Tian’s slight displeasure, immediately invited Su Ran to take a seat.

But Su Ran, immersed in her world, sighed:

"Oh, if only I were as beautiful as Gan, then my Douyin followers wouldn’t be stuck here...."

It seemed Su Ran’s envy of Gan Yanyu’s looks was genuine and came from the heart.

Then, Su Ran sighed again,

"Indeed, being in love really nourishes a person, Gan truly looks prettier than before...."

As soon as she said that,

Lin Tian and Gan Yanyu both became a bit silent, their faces unsure of where to go.

——Embarrassed!

This Su Ran, as soon as she entered the room, hadn’t even spoken more than three sentences before pulling the conversation to this topic!

Lin Tian critiqued inwardly.

In fact, feeling shy at this point was normal.

After all, the two had previously openly acknowledged their relationship without inhibitions, mostly to strangers or less familiar friends.

But Xu Yong and Su Ran were different.

They were their high school friends, with Xu Yong having met Gan Yanyu the day after Lin Tian did, and the four of them spent the last days before the college entrance exam together.

This kind of tight-knit relationship,

made it a bit shy for them to see Lin Tian and Gan Yanyu together now.