Rebirth: Saving the Lovely Girl from the Start

Qian Huabiao's face went blank. Xue Rui was asking where they'd met?

'He's doing this on purpose. This kid is absolutely, fucking doing this on purpose.'

'Is he trying to bait me into admitting I was at Jiao University yesterday? And then casually bring up how I was pretending to be an upperclassman there?'

'That would blow my cover completely! God, please don't let the story about my ex kicking me out come up too!'

'And another thing—you said you got into a top-tier university. So what was with that awkward, embarrassed look on your face when I asked you yesterday?'

'Is getting into a top-tier university supposed to be embarrassing?'

'I really thought he'd gotten into some diploma mill. Last night, I even messaged him to ask which University City his school was in so we could hang out later. He never replied.'

'Well, I guess I don't need to ask anymore. Great. We're roommates now!'

Qian Huabiao's mind raced. Forcing a polite smile, he said, "No, I just saw your name taped to the empty bunk and tore it off."

'And here I was, thinking it was just a coincidence. Turns out it's the same guy?'

'Anyway, as long as I don't admit we've met, yesterday's incident won't come up.'

Xue Rui smiled and nodded. "Hm, I must be mistaken then."

Qian Huabiao breathed a long sigh of relief. 'At least Xue Rui knows how to let a guy save face.' But looking at Xue Rui's calm and confident smile, he was reminded of the phrase "a knife hidden behind a smile," and a shiver went down his spine.

'He knew this wasn't over.'

"Rui, I think he's lying," Lin Ruoxi whispered in Xue Rui's ear. She had studied some Behavioral Psychology and was afraid Xue Rui was being tricked.

Qian Huabiao, being quite sharp-eyed, read Lin Ruoxi's lips. 'Was she really calling me out for lying?'

'This girl isn't just beautiful, she's smart too?'

'Then again, Xue Rui already knew I was lying. As long as the other roommates didn't notice, it was fine.'

The other guys snapped out of their surprise, realizing they probably shouldn't be staring at a girl like that. They shifted their attention to their late-arriving roommate.

"Hey, Xue Rui," Zhao Chaojie said. He instinctively reached for the pack of cigarettes on his desk to offer one to Xue Rui, but then remembered the girl present. He awkwardly retracted his half-extended hand.

Seeing Zhao Chaojie's movement, Xue Rui suddenly remembered something: all of his roommates were heavy smokers...

In fact, two of them had even asked the dorm manager to be moved to room 622 because their previous roommates didn't smoke.

Basically, room 622 was destined to become the floor's notorious smokers' lounge—the kind of room the administration would deliberately skip during inspections.

'I have to break them of these bad habits,' Xue Rui thought. 'Even if they can't quit, they should at least smoke outside. Otherwise, this room will be unlivable.'

Just then, Zhang Xuelun, who had been silent the entire time, wordlessly took the bedding from Lin Ruoxi's hands.

"Hey, sis," Cai Huazhou said with an embarrassed expression, pulling popsicles out of a plastic bag. "Downstairs earlier, that really wasn't drool, it was just a melted popsicle. Want one?"

Cai Huazhou had just met the pair downstairs and had jumped to the conclusion that Lin Ruoxi was Xue Rui's older sister.

The others nodded and smiled. 'So this mature, beautiful woman is our roommate's sister?'

"Oh, thank you, but I'm good," Lin Ruoxi said, walking further into the room. She wasn't bothered by them calling her 'sister'.

The reason was quite simple: in high school, all her classmates had called her either "Sister Xi" or "Teacher Lin." Lin Ruoxi was used to it.

'These guys probably think I'm Xue Rui's sister too,' she thought. 'But it doesn't matter. We'll all be in the same class anyway, so the misunderstanding will clear itself up eventually.'

Right now, her main priority was getting Xue Rui settled into his dorm comfortably.

Xue Rui's dorm was a six-person room, but only five people were living in it. Out on the balcony was a messy pile of trash that looked like it had been sitting there for a long time, its colors faded by the sun.

The guys suddenly felt awkward and uncomfortable. They had planned on cleaning up together once all the roommates had arrived. Who could've guessed a beautiful woman would show up unannounced?

Xue Rui frowned. 'These guys are still as lazy as ever,' he thought. 'They won't do a major cleanup unless their lives depend on it.'

As expected, Lin Ruoxi took the initiative, grabbing a broom to start cleaning the dorm for them.

Usually, no one wanted to be the first to start cleaning the dorm at the beginning of the school year. It was often a parent, dropping off their kid, who would start cleaning. Then, a few of the roommates, unable to just stand by and watch, would join in and they'd clean the whole place.

But everyone in their dorm had come to register on their own, with no parents in tow. That's why the trash had been piling up until now.

Now that Lin Ruoxi was voluntarily taking on the role of a parent, the others grew even more certain that she was there as Xue Rui's guardian.

"Excuse me, could you move your feet?" Lin Ruoxi said to Zhang Xuelun.

Zhang Xuelun felt as if ants were crawling all over his skin. 'A girl is going to clean my spot? I'm a grown man!'

He spoke up. "Uh... Sis, I can get it myself."

Xue Rui said with a serious expression, "Don't worry about it. It's hot out. You guys just sit and rest."

He then proactively grabbed the mop to get some water. 'This girl won't leave until the place is spotless,' he thought.

Even though Xue Rui and Lin Ruoxi kept insisting they didn't need any help, their actions were a huge blow to the other four guys' consciences.

Lin Ruoxi said, her voice full of concern, "Rui, you go rest. I can handle this."

"What are you talking about? You think I could just stand here and watch?" Xue Rui said with a stern look.

Lin Ruoxi tilted her head. "But at home..."

"Ahem! Let's work," Xue Rui cut her off.

'If she was talking about back home, he was, in fact, the one who always just watched...'

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