Chapter 3: The Little Princess of the Campus

  It was a scary place, and from time to time, someone would let out a sharp cry. After finishing the movie, Liu Ya felt her scalp tingling and all the pores on her body standing up. After watching it, everyone went back to their beds.

  "Are ghosts really that scary?" Seagull asked, still shaken, lying on the bed.

  "It should be." Lu Xuan replied nonchalantly, she was quite bold and seemed to watch horror movies just like ordinary ones.

  "Do you think there's something like that in our dorm?" Huang Ying asked timidly after scanning the room.

  "Don't worry!" Lu Xuan said calmly, "I have a strong yang energy, it doesn't dare to come."

  Liu Ya heard their conversation, her scalp felt even more numb, and her body in the quilt felt a bit numb too. She said timidly, "Uh, isn't it said that having strong yang energy would attract it?"

  "Ah——!" The girls heard Liu Ya say this and were frightened, screaming and hiding under the covers. Everyone cursed in their hearts: damn it, that stupid Lei Zhengzi, what's wrong with him, why does he like to watch horror movies?! Next time before eating, they must ask clearly if they need to accompany him!

  Digression

  Apologies for the hiatus due to a cold.

  Chapter 13: The Bizarre Ranking Method

  Happy weekends always pass so quickly, and before you know it, dark Monday is here. For Liu Ya, who insists on the spirit of "learning as the main, entertainment as secondary", Monday isn't that scary. But for those dormitory beauties who spend 99% of their time playing and don't even spare 1% to study, Monday is like a little monster's hatred towards Ultraman. Hate it or not, school has to be attended, and the class monitor had already warned: "Dare to skip class, boys will clean the girls' bathroom, girls will clean the boys' bathroom!"

  As the morning bell rings, seagulls and canaries walk in front, while Liu Ya, Lu Xuan, and Zi Qing follow behind. As soon as they arrive at the classroom door, they see a painting on the wall opposite the door, with a crowd of people squeezed in front of it. The students in the crowd are discussing it enthusiastically.

  "The latest ranking method for mid-term assessment, the higher the ranking, the closer to the front!" a classmate said loudly.

  "How strange!" "Let me see where I am ranked?" "Where is mine?"

  "I scored 128 points, on my neck!" "I scored 100 points on my belly!" "I scored 61 points and was ranked under Pig PP!" The class monitor standing in another corner of the classroom looked at his fellow students' reactions with a sly smile!

  Liu Ya was still in shock, while Zi Qing and Lu Xuan were like rockets with their butts on fire, shouting as they charged into the crowd.

  "Hey classmate, what are you looking at? What's going on?"

  "Lend me some, just lend me some!"

  Still, Hai Ou and Huang Ying were relatively calm. Liu Ya thought to herself in her heart, but the next actions of those two sisters almost made Liu Ya want to bang her head against the wall. Only then did she see that Hai Ou and Huang Ying simultaneously raised their hands, making a megaphone shape, and without caring about the sly smile on Ban Fang's face, loudly shouted: "Teacher Fang is going to take roll call! Classmates quickly take your seats!" Some classmates, out of instinctive reaction, swiftly returned to their seats with a few whooshing sounds. Lu Xuan and Zi Qing across from them simultaneously raised their right hands, giving Hai Ou and Huang Ying a thumbs up! Liu Ya glanced at the classmates in their seats again, only to see that they also successively stretched out their right hands, gave a thumbs up, then stretched out an index finger, and finally, sunk down slightly - disdain! Disdain! Liu Ya awkwardly looked towards Fang Xueqing teacher again, only to see that Ban Fang's face was full of black pearls!

  "Wow! - Ah Ya, 148 points! Got the only first prize!" Zi Qing yelled excitedly at Liu Ya, regardless of her image.

  "Hehe..."

  "Aya, congratulations! Pig head!"

  "Hmm..."

  "Awesome! Aya, you blockhead!"

  "Awesome! Ah Ya, pig head!"

  "Aiya, pig head!"

  Liu Ya's face turned red, her neck turned red, and she wished she could find a crack in the ground to crawl into. In her heart, she silently despised: "Classroom! Do you have any more ridiculous ranking methods!"

  Teacher Fang Xueqing looked at the classmates who were making a ruckus and made eye contact with Liu Ya and Hai Ou, signaling them to return to their seats. After clearing her throat, she said, "It seems that everyone is quite accepting of this ranking method!" She then proudly announced, "This time, for the mid-term assessment, I will be using the Wharton Ranking Method from Ohio University in the United States to announce the results. Everyone please take a look." Fang pointed to the pig-shaped chart on the wall: "The pig on the wall will clearly show you whether you are ranked at the top or the bottom."

  "Haha, fortunately that pig head isn't me!" a classmate said with schadenfreude.

  "It's not you, it's yours!" Teacher Fang Xueqing glanced at the classmate who spoke and pointed to a certain name on the pigtail.

  "Hehe, fortunately, the ranking on Pigtail is not me." There are always a few guys who love to be happy for others' misfortunes.

  "Yes, the ranking on Pigtail's buttocks is not you, it's that one!" Mu Lin Feng didn't wait for Ban Fang to speak up, pointing at the ranking on a lump of feces below Pigtail. Then he turned his head to look at Ban Fang, who silently nodded in agreement with what he said.

  "What bad luck!"

  "Haha, that Liu Yazi! Is he considered unlucky?"

  Liu Ya listened to the discussions of her classmates below, shaking her head in dismay.

  "Aya, you came in first place, why are you looking so down?! Is it just because you're a blockhead?!" Huang Ying saw the expression on Liu Ya's face and was both happy for her and also somewhat gloating.

  "Club!" Liu Ya gently knocked Huang Ying's head with her fist and said, "Birdman, if you mention 'pighead' again, be careful or I'll get angry with you!" Liu Ya sighed lightly, "If I had known earlier that our class used this kind of weird ranking method, I would rather have scored lower!" The students behind them, Zi Qing and Lu Xuan, saw Huang Ying being 'clubbed' by Liu Ya and couldn't help but feel secretly delighted. They were glad it wasn't themselves who got 'clubbed', and they took pleasure in thinking that even the usually well-behaved Birdman would get treated like this.

  "Aiya, don't be so down! You came in first place, not only did you win against the four school grasses, but you won't be more miserable than them." Lu Xuan looked at Liu Ya's bitter face and comforted her with a smile, pointing to the ranking on the wall under the pig tail - "The most ridiculous thing is - there are rankings above it, and not just one!"

  "Exactly!" Zi Qing took over, with an aura as if she had come in first place, proudly saying: "Take another look, those 'Four Great School Idols' are lined up on the pig's neck, under your 'pig head' leadership, a dazzling golden diamond necklace was born! Without you, this 'pig head', even if there was a volcanic eruption, they would still be dull and colorless!"

  "Besides." After being hit by the mallet, Huang Ying saw that Zi Qing's words were so passionate and couldn't help but continue: "You won over the 'Four Great School Hotties', this is a joyful event, they will unconditionally do three things for you!"

  "Right, right! This time if the water is cut off again, we must get all four of them to help our dorm carry water! To avenge the last time you guys made us carry water as punishment! And they must fill both the bucket and basin to the brim!" Zi Qing said vengefully, with a fierce tone.

  "It's not like last time when the water was cut off, and we had to carry five or six buckets from the first floor to the tenth floor, taking the elevator multiple times. Is it really necessary to do this?! Poor 'Four Grass', you're being enslaved! Being stalked by Lei Zhengzi, you guys are so pitiful!" Liu Ya silently sympathized with the "Four School Flowers". Of course, Liu Ya would never prioritize romance over friendship, especially since she had supported them wholeheartedly when everyone else was betting on the "Four School Flowers" back then.

  "Then, which row are you in?" Liu Ya didn't go look, so she asked them very seriously.

  "Damn it, Mu Lin Feng that kid must have cheated! He actually scored 128 points and is even ranked ahead of me!" Zi Qing said with a glance at Mu Lin Feng, her eyes filled with anger.

  "Huang Ying 126 points, Hai Ou 123 points, Liu Fang 120 points, Zi Qing 108 points, I was a bit off, 105 points. We ranked after the 'Four Big School Flowers'." Lu Xuan thought for a moment before reporting their ranking.

  "Haha, not bad, pork ribs, the most valuable part of a pig's body, you and my sister have packaged it up!" Liu Ya glanced at the pig painting on the wall and couldn't help but burst out laughing. Liu Ya turned her head to look at Liu Fang in the next row of seats, with an even brighter smile on her face. Liu Fang looked at Liu Ya smiling at her, with a puzzled expression: "Could it be that this girl has gotten a 'pig head' and gone crazy!?"

  Just as Liu Ya was looking at Liu Fang, the "Four Great School Grasses" suddenly focused their attention on Liu Ya, exchanging glances with each other: "This girl is so happy just because she got a 'pig head' (a poor grade)?" If Liu Ya knew what her sister and the "Four Great School Grasses" were thinking, she would probably give them a good scolding!

  "No matter if it's the head or tail of a pig, anyway this time we were all fooled by Banfang!" Liu Ya thought to herself, "Banfang is the biggest winner! No matter how well we do on the exam, we still can't escape her 'pig' pen..."

  The next day, the campus bulletin board posted the top three lists of each class, which were published in the form of class materials, photos and scores of this assessment.

  "Wow, wow, big news, big news!" Zi Qing exclaimed loudly, rushing into the dormitory, her eyes seemed to be able to see through the handsome guys, and she said in a daze: "The list of top three students in each grade's mid-term exam has been released, there are so many handsome guys, so many oh!"

  "Really? Really!?" Huang Ying, Hai Ou and Lu Xuan each rubbed their fists and asked Zi Qing to confirm.

  "Of course it's true!" Kotobuki said with a confident smile, "Each and every one of them is top-notch! Don't believe me? Go see for yourselves if you don't!"

  "Shall we go and take a look?" "Let's go and take a look." "Take a look!"

  Just as they were about to go out, they suddenly thought of Liu Ya who was practicing calligraphy. Actually, Liu Ya's handwriting was quite good and she had participated in primary school and junior high school calligraphy competitions, winning first and second prizes.

  "Aya, let's go!" The beautiful sisters said in unison.

  "I'm not going." Liu Ya didn't even lift her head, continuing to write.

  "There's a handsome guy in front of you and you don't even look at him, instead you practice writing every day, aren't you tired of it?!"

  "There's nothing great about good-looking guys, besides, I'm not interested in them." Liu Ya glanced at the beautiful sisters and said, "It's better to practice a few more characters in the dormitory, calligraphy can also cultivate one's moral character."

  "Keep practicing and you'll become a bookworm, let's go!" Zi Qing and Lu Xuan didn't care to explain, they dragged Liu Ya towards the door. Liu Ya had no choice but to follow them to take a look at the so-called handsome guy.

  In front of the campus bulletin board, people surged forward.

  "Look, look, that one named Liu Ya, is the 'pig head' of class 1(8)! He doesn't look bad at all!"

  "Wow, first in the whole grade! I heard that he just transferred not long ago. And this time, he even surpassed the 'Four Great School Hotties'. What a pity, but in the end, he's actually a 'pig head'!"

  "Liu Jiawei, Xiao Yu! How could our Prince Charming be PKed down by her?"

  "Right, let's get our handsome guy to take her down, she deserves to be a pighead!" Just as they were approaching the crowd, some voices floated into Liu Ya's ears. Liu Ya really wanted to find another crack in the ground to crawl into and mentally greeted all of her classmates' relatives.

  Digression

  Guys, I'm back.

  Chapter 14: The Trouble Caused by Ranking Pig

  Liu Ya was feeling sad for herself when suddenly a hand from behind gently patted her shoulder. Liu Ya turned around to see that it was Liu Fang.

  "What's wrong? Little princess, did you do well on the exam, but your face looks so bad?" Liu Fang joked.

  "Alright, stop teasing me." Liu Ya pouted and said helplessly, "I've heard before that our school's teaching methods are a bit unconventional, but I didn't expect the ranking system to be so weird too. If I had known this earlier, I would rather have gone with you to the ribs place."

  "Haha, get used to it, get used to it." Liu Fang heard Liu Ya say this and burst out laughing, not forgetting to comfort her little sister.

  "Huh? What's so funny? Share it quickly!" Liu Jia Wei shamelessly stuck his head between the two sisters, with one hand on Liu Fang's shoulder and the other on Liu Ya's shoulder. From the front, it was indeed a 'left embracing right'! "Could it be that Little Princess got a 'pig head', making you two sisters laugh so hard?"

  "Get out!" Liu Ya glared at him and shook off the hand that Liu Jia-wei had placed on her shoulder, while Liu Fang seemed to not mind Liu Jia-wei's hand on her shoulder.

  "You're so small, but your temper is so big! Be careful that you won't be able to get married in the future!" Liu Jia Wei whispered a sentence into Liu Ya's ear, then straightened up and stared at Liu Ya with an unpredictable expression, bursting into laughter in his heart.

  "What did you say?! If you have the guts, speak louder!" Liu Ya turned around and stood in front of Liu Jiawei, looking up at him while stretching out her index finger to poke his chest. Only then did she realize that some people didn't even know what they were eating to grow so tall for no reason!

  "Let's keep this between us, don't let them know." Liu Jiawei said with a shameless face and a light tone.

  At this time, the surrounding classmates and those around them, Xiao Yu, Liu Fang, Mu Linfeng, Zi Qing, Li Jinyi, Lu Xuan, Hai Ou, and Huang Ying suddenly focused all their attention on the two of them. All they saw was Liu Ya's face red with anger, gritting her teeth and staring at Liu Jiawei - she had never seen anyone so shameless! What did he mean by "our business"? What did he mean by "don't let them know"? He made it seem like their relationship was not normal! If Liu Ya had a gun in her hand now, she would definitely kill this thick-skinned and shameless guy!

  "What's going on between you two?" Mu Lin Feng looked at Liu Jia Wei, then at Liu Ya, "What happened between you two?!"

  "Aya, you two?" Liu Fang looked at them incredulously and asked in confusion. Liu Jiawei had been close to Liu Fang since childhood, and Liu Fang had secretly loved him all along. If her sister also liked him... then... Liu Fang didn't dare think about it anymore.

  "Aya, what on earth happened between you two?" Lu Xuan and Zi Qing were shocked, as if it was really true, the other beautiful sisters also couldn't help but reveal their surprised expressions, waiting for her response. The surrounding classmates, upon hearing them gossiping, all gathered around to watch the excitement.

  "Hmph! What could there be between us, you go ahead and tell them if you dare!" Liu Ya said with a nonchalant expression, because she was certain that she had no weaknesses in Liu Jiawei's hands, which is why she dared to provoke him. Besides, Liu Ya just wanted everyone not to misunderstand, who would dare guarantee that among this crowd of people, there wouldn't be someone who could take her down instantly, like those two girls who just stood up for a certain handsome guy.

  "Really? You really want me to say it?" Liu Jiawei's face was full of slyness, with a smile that hid a knife as he looked at her.

  Liu Ya disdainfully stared at Liu Jia Wei's face, weighing it in her mind, thinking silently, "I really don't have any handles in his hands, what am I afraid of?"

  "Alright, I've said it." Liu Jiawei put on an innocent face and asked loudly with a familiar tone: "Yae sister, how do you want your 'pig head' to be cooked tonight? Steamed or braised?" After saying this, Liu Jiawei ignored the burst of laughter around him, pushed through the crowd, and ran away. I dare say that if Liu Jiawei had run one second later, he would have been killed by Liu Ya. All over her body, a strong murderous aura was emitted, and if the sun hadn't been shining so brightly, it's likely that flames could be seen burning from her body. Looking again at Liu Jiawei, who ran faster than a rabbit, Liu Ya couldn't help but furiously shout: "Liu Jiawei! I despise you!" And she didn't forget to cast a vicious curse on his back: "Liu Jiawei, may you have no toilet paper when you go to the bathroom!"

  "This girl is so vicious!"

  "Kwai Lo's misfortune strikes again!"

  "Haha, Jia Wei brothers are in big trouble."

  The remaining three dormitory students secretly communicated with each other in a low voice, trying to suppress their laughter, fearing that they would be too loud and Liu Ya would also curse them. Haha. And the four beautiful sisters from the dormitory next door had black lines all over their faces, but it was unclear whether it was for Liu Ya or Liu Jia Wei. However, one thing is certain: these two must have been enemies in their past lives!

  One day, boys' dormitory, bathroom.

  "Mu Lin Feng, how could you use up all the toilet paper without refilling it?!" Liu Jia Wei angrily asked Mu Lin Feng through the air transmission while staring at the empty paper holder on the wall.

  "Ah! ——?" Mu Lin Feng's thoughts turned around, "Ah! I remember now, I forgot!"

  "Damn it! You can even forget this?! Son of a... Hurry up and bring some paper over!"

  Digression

  Honey, I'm back

  Chapter 15: I Want Revenge!

  Watching Liu Jia-wei walk away and the surrounding classmates holding their bellies in laughter, Liu Ya was indeed a master of emotional adjustment, quickly calming down. She put on an air of nonchalance, but amidst it, she exuded a hint of coldness and arrogance. The surrounding classmates felt a hint of danger and quickly dispersed in twos and threes.

  "Alright, we'll go help you catch Liu Jia Wei back, wait for us!" When Liu Ya's gaze turned to Xiao Yu, Li Jin Yi and Mu Lin Feng, Mu Lin Feng found an excuse 'sheep stealing vegetables, please cow help drive' and gave Xiao Yu a signal. Then the three quickly retreated in the direction of Liu Jia Wei.

  "Are you guys still watching? I'm heading back first." Liu Ya didn't respond to Liu Fang's words, only asking them a question, and not waiting for their response, she directly headed towards the dormitory direction. In her heart, Liu Ya secretly vowed: "Liu Jia Wei, you always make fun of me, this grudge will not be repaid, I'll write my 'Liu' character upside down!"

  Liu Fang watched Liu Ya's back, silently sighed, and then followed her away from the bulletin board. Huang Ying looked at Liu Ya leaving, then turned around to look at the sisters in the dormitory, and finally everyone nodded in agreement and followed suit. Liu Ya felt a belly full of grievances: originally, having excellent grades was an honorable thing, but now it had become the object of others' ridicule, and she really couldn't understand why. Liu Ya walked slowly with her head down to the bottom of the dormitory building, and just as she was about to enter the elevator, she seemed to see the same plumber uncle who was fixing the water pipe under Building E last time. So, she came out again and went to the front lawn, and indeed it was the same plumber uncle who fixed the water pipe last time.

  "Uncle, you're watering the flowers again?" Liu Ya looked at the water spraying up from the ground and greeted him politely. Hehe, another explosion?!

  "You kid, always joking!" The plumber uncle saw that it was Liu Ya, shook his head and pointed to the broken water pipe, saying helplessly, "This isn't watering flowers, you might as well ask me if I'm raising fish in a pond! This water pipe is old, always bursting here and there. Alas, this month has been repaired several times already."

  "Wow, 'Menstrual Spring' is back?" Zi Qing stretched her head to look at the burst pipe and frowned in dismay.

  Liu Ya turned her head and found that Liu Fang and the four beautiful sisters in the dormitory were all standing behind her.

  "Uncle, on your way back, buy some fish fry and release them. Maybe by the end of the year when we're on holiday, we can bring a few back to taste, haha." Lu Xuan jokingly followed the hydroelectric worker uncle's train of thought, resulting in everyone bursting into laughter.

  "I'm fine with raising fish, I just worry about at night, I reckon you'll have to fetch water again." The electrician uncle kindly reminded them.

  Liu Ya's mind lit up when the electrician said that, and she fell into deep thought. Suddenly, she remembered a suggestion Zi Qing had made two days ago, and her heart felt happy. So, she turned around, foolishly smiling at Zi Qing, and gave her a thumbs up. Zi Qing felt uncomfortable all over from Liu Ya's gaze, and when she saw Liu Ya's silly smile, she looked to Lu Xuan and Hai Ou for help, exchanging glances with them. As a result, everyone shook their heads, indicating they didn't understand: It's all over, this kid is probably beyond salvation!

  "I want revenge!" A sly smile flashed across Liu Ya's face.

  "Do you want to know what kind of reaction it would cause in Lujiao if the 'four great school flowers' were to fetch water for our dorm?" Liu Ya asked with a radiant face.

  "Huh? - Ah!" The crowd surrounded Liu Ya, their eyes shining brightly as they nodded in agreement with her actions.

  "Little princess, are you sure about this?" "Just for today?" Lu Xuan and Zi Qing asked with a happy face.

  "Yes! Better to seize the day than wait for it. Anyway, they can't do anything too significant, so let them help us with something within their power."

  "Hurray! " The beauties in the dormitory all cheered together.

  "I'm going to cherish the water that handsome guy brought us, tonight I must take a bath! Let's keep them all on our bodies." Zi Qing said crazily.

  "It's better if you just drink them all and keep it in your heart." Lu Xuan didn't forget to strike at Zi Qing.

  "You're jealous, aren't you? Otherwise, let's do it together. At worst, I'll get Ah Ya to tell them: 'Add a few more buckets'." Zi Qing didn't mind Lu Xuan's sarcasm and instead invited her to join in.

  "I don't want to see your flat-chested body." Lu Xuan proudly pointed at Zi Qing's chest, then said seriously: "I'm going to get a bottle and fill it with water fetched by handsome guys. I'll hug it when I sleep tonight."

  "You... you... you, I'm just as flat-chested as ever!" Zi Qing retorted, puffing out her chest in indignation. "You're just a bit more developed than me, what's there to be proud of?"

  "What's it to you?" Lu Xuan said with a provocative expression.

  "The buns in the cafeteria are all bigger than your MM, you know?" Zi Qing said sarcastically.

  "Your face is still smaller than a bun, and you're already acting like 'Wang Zi Xiao Mantou'." Who would have thought that Lu Xuan wasn't one to be trifled with either.

  "Stop!" Liu Ya shouted loudly, because she really couldn't bear it anymore. "You should think about how to make 'four grass' more 'slave' points now. Don't waste the opportunity for us to do three things, first thing is to utilize it well!"

  "Why don't we go borrow a water bucket then?" Huang Ying crossed her arms and looked at everyone, asking for their opinions.

  "I think we should get some more bottles, set up a table at the dorm entrance, and sell this water to infatuated girls like Xiaoxuan. I'm sure business will be good." Haigui is indeed the descendant of a merchant family, with a mind full of business strategies.

  "Alright, sounds good!" Liu Yaluo laughed. "However, apart from the bottles, if the sisters in our building need to wash their faces or brush their teeth and whatnot, let them come to our place, we'll accumulate some virtue today, all for free."

  "This is great! What a good idea!" Others chimed in unison: "Little princess, you're awesome!"

  "Oh, right." Liu Ya seemed to remember something, with a weird expression on her face, "There's one more thing that must be done!"

  "What's going on?" everyone asked.

  "It's a secret!" Liu Ya winked and then said to the beautiful sisters, "As for other things, you help prepare them, I'll go call Liu Jiawei and the others over."

  "OK! No problem!" The beautiful sisters including Liu Fang were all enthusiastically preparing.

  Inside the boys' dormitory.

  "Jiawei, I think you went a bit too far just now." Li Jin said nonchalantly while operating the game in his hand. It turned out that they were playing games together and were in the middle of a PK match with others.

  "Jin Yi, how come your tone sounds like that..." Mu Lin Feng said with a smirk while attacking his opponent in the game and glancing at Li Jin Yi, "Do you feel sorry for her?"

  "I just think that at the time when there were so many people, Jia Wei was still making fun of others, it's a bit too much." Li Jin said indifferently.

  "I also think that Jia Wei has gone a bit too far." Xiao Yu expressed agreement with Li Jin Yi's statement, "After all, she is a girl."

  "Just now, I seem to have seen Liu Ya's eyes turn red." Mu Lin Feng said while playing a game. If Mu Lin Feng knew that it was because Liu Ya was so angry with Liu Jia Wei that her eyes turned red with rage, he would not think that Liu Ya had cried.

  Liu Jiawei and Xiao Yu were shocked by Mu Linfeng's words, shifting their gaze from above to Li Junyi, hoping to get confirmation from him.

  "What are you looking at?" Li Jin glanced at them, "I didn't see Liu Ya cry."

  Suddenly, Mu Lin Feng let out a loud cry: "Jia Wei, Xiao Yu, be careful, you're being ambushed from behind!" But before he could finish his words, the enemy's close combat and group attack skill combination had already annihilated them.

  "I didn't expect it would be like this." Liu Jia Wei thought that Liu Ya was actually fooled into crying by him, and his heart also felt a bit uneasy.

  Ding dong... The doorbell rang. Everyone looked at Xiao Yu, who was sitting near the door. Xiao Yu also glanced at them and got up to open the door. With a creak, the door opened, and Xiao Yu stared at the person outside, thinking he must be seeing things.

  "Ah Ya, is it you?" Xiao Yu looked at Liu Ya outside the door in surprise, they had just been talking about her and now she appeared.

  "Really? Unexpected?" Liu Ya smiled faintly and asked back.

  "No, not really. What's up?" Xiao Yu was indeed very surprised and couldn't figure out why Liu Ya would be here. Liu Jia Wei, Li Jin Yi, and Mu Lin Feng in the dormitory knew it was Liu Ya who came to knock on the door, looked at each other, and then walked towards the door together.

  "It's nothing, I just wanted to ask for your help with something," Liu Ya said with a bitter face. "Our dormitory has no water again, everyone drew lots to decide who would go fetch water, and the result..." This girl is really good at pretending! She didn't forget to seriously inform the other person that she needed help, and it was just a small favor, making it impossible for them to refuse.

  "Did you lose?" Li Jin asked with concern.

  "Hmm." Liu Ya responded with a hint of grievance, "I guess I'm just having bad luck today." After saying that, she looked at Liu Jiawei with an innocent expression, as if it was all his fault that she lost at rock-paper-scissors.

  "It's just fetching water, I'll help you carry it." Liu Jiawei was stimulated by Liu Ya's innocent eyes and unconsciously said this sentence.

  "It's not just about carrying my bucket, but also the buckets of those beautiful sisters in our dormitory. And, and their buckets are bigger than mine." Liu Ya still said with a bitter face, "You're going alone, aren't you going to make many trips? When can you fill it up?" Then, she glanced at the 'four great school flowers' and said with delight: "If you all go together, I estimate it will be filled up quickly."

  "It's just a big deal, no problem, we'll go together. With the four of us handsome guys here, nothing is a problem." The four school grasses said in unison. Liu Ya heard them agree to help them carry water, and finally had a smile on her face. In fact, she was secretly overjoyed. Hold on, hold on! If she laughed out loud, she would really have to do it herself! Ah, poor four handsome guys, don't underestimate the "harmless little creature", they still have quite the ability to dig holes, look, you've fallen into one now!

  Digression

  Friends, I'm back, have you guys returned?

  Chapter 16: Brother, you're in big trouble now!

  Liu Ya saw that they should be coming down, so she waved goodbye and left first.

  "Are we really going to help Aya fetch water?" Mu Linfeng saw Liu Jiawei change into a pair of canvas shoes and asked, "Aren't we just teasing her?"

  "Why not just carry a bucket of water? Can't you even fill a bucket of water? Or, as a grown-up, can't you fulfill such a small promise?" Liu Jiawei retorted, "If you don't go, I'll tell Aya about it."

  Li Jinyi and Xiao Yu didn't care, they followed Liu Jiawei out the door. Mulan Feng saw that all three of them had left, spread his hands and muttered to himself: "Am I still afraid of carrying water?!" And so, he also followed behind the three of them.

  They had just arrived at the floor below when they suddenly discovered that there were always two or three girls hurrying towards E building. Liu Jiawei and his three companions looked at each other, all of them bewildered. The elevator reached the 10th floor, and as soon as the door opened, wow! In the corridor, two rows of girls from the elevator entrance to the door of room 108, lined up in a neat queue, each holding an empty mineral water bottle, warmly cheering for their arrival.

  "Liu Jia-wei! Liu Jia-wei!" "Xiao Yu! Xiao Yu!" "Mu Lin-feng!" "Li Jin-yi! Li Jin-yi!" "Ah——!" "Handsome guy, handsome guy……" Mu Lin-feng and his group of losers, each one fixing their hair in front of the elevator mirror, adjusting their clothes, then walking out like stars on the red carpet, waving to the screaming girls on both sides.

  "The four most popular guys in school, hello! We are from the Journalism Department of Lüjiang College and would like to interview you..." A bespectacled girl rushed over to them as soon as she saw the four of them approaching, and started interviewing.

  "Liu Yazhen is really showing off!" The four of them thought to themselves at the same time. That scene, it seemed like they had really become stars, their whole body feeling light and floating, flying high, the feeling was great! (Hmph, you're feeling great now? Just wait till you cry later!)

  Just as they reached the door of Room 108, the door slowly opened and Dormitory Director Xiao Xia slowly walked out of Liu Ya's dorm room, followed by Hai Ou, Huang Ying, Lu Xuan, Zi Qing, and finally Liu Ya.

  "Xiao Hua?! How did she end up here?!" Mu Lin Feng was shocked to see Xiao Xia, and the three boys behind him had similar thoughts.

  "Hello, classmates!" Xiao Xia didn't mind their surprise, but instead was surprised herself, scanning them from head to toe and then from toe to head again, making the four school grasses feel uneasy in their hearts. As a result, Liu Jiawei stepped forward.

  "Xiao Guan, what are you doing here?" Liu Jiawei asked in puzzlement.

  "Uh, Liu Ya told me that the E building is out of water today. The four of you enthusiastically came to help carry water, she was worried that there would be too many students coming to fetch water, so she asked me to come and take a look." Xiao Xia said, nodding at the four of them, "I think you four are very brave! Facing so many students coming to fetch water, yet still rushing to help without hesitation, not bad, not bad. Enthusiastic and friendly help for fellow students, this is a good example..."

  Liu Jiawei and the others turned around to look at the road they had just walked, and the girl holding an empty bottle on that road, could it be, could it be the classmate Xiao Guan said was coming to fetch water? This time, they were even more shocked!

  "Xiao Guan, you said they came to fetch water?!" Xiao Yu asked in surprise. "We only deliver water to Aya's dormitory, how can there be so many people coming to fetch water?!"

  "Huh, what's this?" Xiao Xia only heard Liu Ya say that Liu Jia Wei and the others were coming to help with carrying water, but she was worried that there would be too many people and something unexpected might happen, so she asked her to come and help keep an eye on things. She didn't know what had happened in between, so she turned to Liu Ya and said: "Liu Ya, classmate, what's going on? Where's Liu Ya?"

  "Oh, I'm over here." Liu Ya heard Xiao Guan calling her and came out from behind the four beautiful sisters who were in a daze. She looked at Xiao Yu and others, then said to Xiao Xia: "I just asked them for help to fill up the water in our dormitory."

  "What's going on with them?" "They heard that the famous 'Four Great School Hotties' of Yujiang were coming to help us carry water, so they came to catch a glimpse. We didn't have anything good to give them, so we just let them take some bottles of water from the Four Great Hotties as a souvenir. But we didn't expect there would be so many people chasing after their fame." Liu Ya paused slightly, looking at Liu Jia Wei and the others, saying lightly: "Actually, their bottles are small, they can't hold much. As long as you help us fill up our water buckets, that's enough. If it really doesn't work out, you guys just help us fill up our dormitory's water bucket first, then I'll let them take some water, how about that?"

  "It turned out to be like that." Xiao Xia listened to Liu Ya and instead admired the charm of the four big school grasses, "Since things are born from you, then you four can help them fill up their dormitory water bucket."

  "Hmm—" The four of them heard that as long as they filled the bucket with water, they all let out a sigh of relief. A bucket can't be that big, at most it'll take two or three trips to finish.

  "Girls, bring out your buckets!" Liu Ya shouted softly. Behind her, Lu Xuan, Zi Qing, Hai Yan and Huang Ying quickly placed empty buckets in front of the four school grasses with a few "clanging" sounds. The four school grasses looked at the so-called water buckets in front of them, their eyes and mouth corners began to twitch irregularly - are these water buckets? These are clearly cafeteria water tanks!

  "Brother, you're in trouble! You're in big trouble!" Mu Lin Feng said with a trembling voice.

  "Who was the idiot who agreed so quickly to help Aya carry water just now?" Liu Jiawei asked angrily with a sullen face.

  "Whoosh---!" Three fingers pointed at him simultaneously.

  "It's all right, let's get some water..."

  Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh! Eight small buckets were delivered into their hands, just right for two per person. These small buckets weren't really that small, it's just that compared to the four large buckets in front of them, they seemed smaller. The seagulls had run around borrowing from several dormitories to get these.

  "Liu Ya, you're cruel!" Liu Jia-wei muttered as he passed by Liu Ya's side.

  "Aiya, thank you for helping me lose weight." Mu Linfeng said with a gloomy face. Xiao Yu and Li Jin each carried two buckets, looked at each other, smiled helplessly, and turned to look at Liu Ya together. Liu Ya calmly put her hands in her pockets, leaned lightly against the wall, and gazed at them faintly.

  Actually, Liu Ya just wanted to dampen their enthusiasm. As she watched the four of them disappear behind the elevator doors, she felt a pang of guilt and loss. Liu Ya suddenly remembered when she was young, the first time she played a prank on her classmates in school. Once during class, she saw her desk mate about to sit down, so she quickly pulled out her chair, causing her desk mate to fall and cry loudly. Because of this incident, the teacher even called both sets of parents. That day when she got home, her father used a salt-soaked bamboo stick to whip her left hand, which swelled for an entire week, and that's how the salt-soaked bamboo stick was etched into her memory. It was also then that she received her father's strict scolding for the first time: "If you have so much time to play pranks on your classmates, every day after school, write 300 Chinese characters with a brush pen. If you don't finish, you won't be allowed to come out and eat." Liu Ya thought about her current behavior again, looking at her excited classmates around her, but instead felt regretful. So she quietly slipped away from the crowd, walked into her dorm room, gently closed the door, took out paper and pen, and silently started writing Chinese characters with a brush pen.

  Digression

  Guys, are you back?

  Chapter Seventeen: The Cunning Little Rabbit

  Liu Yaxin calmly and peacefully practiced calligraphy, with bursts of cheers from her classmates outside the door.

  "Cheer for Liu Jiawei! Cheer for Xiao Yu!" "Cheer for Mu Linfeng!" "Cheer for Li Jinyi! Li Jinyi, cheer! Cheer!"

  "Hey, slow down, there's water all over the floor!"

  "We'll also help you wash the floor while we're at it, how about that?"

  "We're afraid that if we turn back, some people might accidentally 'slip away', otherwise, it's no big deal!"

  "In other words, there's no 'medical expenses' subsidy on this side!"

  "We're glad! I smiled proudly, I smiled proudly again,......" The voice faded away.

  "They, the first time they came up, right? With such a big lineup, can they hold on? If they can't hold on... Hehe..." Liu Ya's face had a faint smile, her heart was even more calm, and her hand holding the brush was even more steady as she wrote stroke by stroke.

  Time flew by, and half an hour had passed. Liu Ya raised her head and calmly nodded at the manuscript on the table, the ninth sheet, which meant that after finishing this one, she would have written 50,000 words. Liu Ya stopped her pen and quietly listened to the sounds outside the door.

  "Hurry up, hurry up!" This was Zi Qing's voice full of joy, "One more trip, and we'll probably be full. Come on, handsome guys!"

  "I really didn't expect your water bucket to be so big, are you going to slaughter a pig at night?!" Mu Linfeng panted and said with a smile: "After slaughtering the pig, remember to leave us brothers a few pig trotters for drinking!"

  "Whether or not to kill the pig has nothing to do with you, hurry up. However, if you're willing to help out here all the time, I reckon these beautiful girls will all like it!" Lu Xuan smiled and nodded slightly towards the two "dragons" as she spoke to Mu Linfeng.

  "I'm crazy, I!" Mu Lin Feng responded to Lu Xuan while pouring water into the large bucket. Then, with his hand on the edge of the bucket, he stared at Lu Xuan and said, "Actually, you're quite pretty too, it's just...just..."

  "What's up?"

  "It's just that place has been stained with ink!"

  "Get out! You scoundrel! Your heart is as black as ink!"

  Liu Ya heard this and a faint smile appeared at the corner of her mouth.

  "It's so lively outside, why are you alone practicing calligraphy here?" A voice came from beside him, "After all, you're also the 'master of the house', shouldn't you go out and take a look?"

  "Practicing calligraphy can calm my mind and reflect on my behavior." Liu Ya didn't lift her head, still writing with a calm and peaceful brush. "Look? I'll go out after they finish talking, this commotion isn't my type, it's more suitable for those beautiful sisters in our dormitory and the girls lining up in the corridor."

  "Haha! You're really quite special. However, the words you wrote are indeed not bad!" The person next to her paused for a moment, looking at the finished paper on the table, and couldn't help but praise her. Seeing Liu Ya being so calm, she couldn't help but ask, "You, why do you like practicing calligraphy so much? I heard from Huang Ying that you set aside some time every day to practice. But today, didn't you write too much?"

  "When I was young, I teased my classmates and got my left hand smacked by my dad; every night, I was forced to practice calligraphy for three hours, for an entire semester." Liu Ya spoke softly, recalling the scenes from her childhood, putting down her pen and saying slowly to the person beside her: "I don't know why I used this method to test their commitment; I don't know, please come over, Director Xiao, please come over, those from the journalism department, will it have any impact on them in the future? I don't know if what I did was teasing my classmates or not; but I really want to know, can they who were raised with privilege persist? Even if they do persist, how will they end up? I'm still looking forward to seeing what happens next, hehe..."

  "Hehe, you just want to test their resilience? I'd rather kill their sharpness." The person next to him smiled lightly and said: "Sharpness is a double-edged sword, if used well it's a sharp sword, but if not, it's a knife that hurts people. They're still young, they'll eventually enter society, so it's good to occasionally give them setbacks for their future development. However, your internal squabbles I won't intervene in; what's crucial is that you must unite and present a united front when the time comes!"

  "Uh-huh, I remember." Liu Ya smiled slightly and responded faintly, then lowered her head to practice calligraphy again. The person next to her looked at Liu Ya with a knowing smile: This kid is interesting.

  Downstairs, beside the faucet.

  "Hey, I'm saying, why do we always listen to them? We've been going up and down for five trips already! Aren't you guys tired?" Mu Linfeng asked his buddies discontentedly while helping the other three fill their buckets with water.

  "Can you afford to lose?" Liu Jiawei asked Mu Linfeng with his hands in his pockets and leaning against the wall, "Didn't you see how much thought Liu Ya put into getting us to help them carry water without going back on her word?"

  "Haha, Aya really has her ways." Li Jin's face showed a look of admiration as he chuckled and praised, "She invited all the classmates and Xiao Guan, and even called those gossipmongers from the journalism department. You can't escape no matter how fast you run. This time, I think we're going to be famous to the point of being purple."

  "Hey, I'm saying, aren't you tired?! And yet you still have the heart to praise others. If you're not tired, help me carry this bucket." Mu Linfeng heard Li Jun praising Liu Ya, and although he also admired her in his heart, he still asked with a hard mouth. He thought to himself: "Admiration is fine, but it's better to keep it in your heart, saying it out loud would be embarrassing! The four of us big men are being played around by a little girl like this."

  "Liu Ya just grasped this point, hehe, and created such a magnificent trap." Xiao Yu smiled helplessly, suddenly asking: "Is Liu Ya a rat? He's so good at digging traps!"

  "Isn't it?" Li Jin subtracted their age difference of four years according to his own zodiac sign and said, "It should be the rabbit, right?"

  "I'll go ask, how can rabbits also be so good at digging holes!" Mu Lin Feng said indignantly.

  "Go! Ask him!" The others responded in unison, then picked up the water and walked towards the elevator, the final round, victory is in sight.

  In the room, Liu Ya took out the 'Rain Before Dragon Well' tea that her father had given her when she was about to leave Long County. She pulled out a delicate glass tea set from the drawer and earlier when she went to call Liu Jiawei and others, she didn't forget to borrow a thermos flask from the teacher. At this time, the hot water in the thermos flask slowly started to boil. When the hot water poured into the tea leaves, the room was filled with the refreshing aroma of tea, which made people feel refreshed and invigorated.

  Outside the door.

  "Ah - finally, full!" Mulin Feng looked at the several full water buckets in front of him, excited.

  "Ah Wei, next time when you help others carry water, remember to ask clearly how big the bucket is." Xiao Yu patted Liu Jia Wei's shoulder and pointed at the bucket in front of him, reminding him: "This kind of bucket, one is enough for a whole dormitory."

  "Got it." Liu Jia-wei thought of being played by Liu Ya, his heart slightly burning with a small fire, "Liu Ya, you wait!"

  "Oh! Done?!" Xiao Xia walked around the full bucket of water and said with certainty: "You guys are really great! Next time, if there's no water..."

  "Next time, maybe we won't be free!" The four school grasses echoed in unison after Xiao Xia finished speaking.

  "It's okay, Aya asked for your help, so you should be free now." Lu Xuan looked at the four of them with a pleased smile.

  "Aya?!" Liu Jia-wei just realized that Liu Ya was not in the crowd at all.

  "What about Aya?" Li Jin and Xiao Yu asked simultaneously.

  The door of Room 108 slowly opened, and Liu Ya's faint smile floated on her face. Her hands held a delicate pear wood tea tray with ten cups of pale green "Rain Before Dragon Well" tea soup floating with a hint of mist. She walked out. Liu Ya was the kind of person who naturally possessed a spiritual beauty that gave everyone present a comfortable and warm feeling as she emerged from the room.

  "Thanks for your help today, Xiao Xia. Have some tea." Liu Ya said first, handing a cup to Xiao Xia as a gesture of gratitude.

  "No need to be polite, no need to be polite." Xiao Xia smiled and looked at Xiao Yu and the others, saying: "If you really want to thank someone, it should be those four young men."

  "Thank you for your help today, it was a lot of hard work." Liu Ya held her tea and walked in front of the four of them, unable to help but laugh, saying: "Well, I'm really sorry about this. Firstly, I didn't know that my beautiful sisters borrowed a water bucket that's bigger than usual, and it would be so big. Secondly, I also didn't expect that there would be so many classmates who came just for you. Thirdly, in order to fulfill my promise to fill up the water for all the beautiful sisters here as a keepsake, I made you guys run back and forth so many times, I'm really sorry."

  Liu Jia-wei and Mu Lin-feng exchanged a glance, then looked at Li Jin-yi and Xiao Yu beside them, but none of the four reached out to take the tea. Liu Ya saw their hesitant and puzzled expressions, smiled faintly, and said with some melancholy: "This is authentic 'West Lake Rain Before Dragon Well', although the water here can't bring out the flavor of my hometown, the taste is still much better than ordinary tea. You've worked so hard to fetch the water, why not give it a try?"

  "Aya, I have a question for you." Mulin Feng couldn't help but ask: "What's your zodiac sign?"

  "Ah!" Liu Ya was taken aback, not understanding why he asked that. After a slight pause, she replied softly: "Rabbit."

  "Really a rabbit?!"

  "Yes." Liu Ya asked very seriously: "Is there a problem?"

  "No, we just want to confirm why rabbits can dig holes better than mice! Xia Guan, Journalism Department, so many girls, and three big holes!" The four school grasses replied in unison.

  "Haha, haven't you heard of 'the cunning rabbit has three burrows'? The person who was just talking to Liu Ya in the room heard them ask Liu Ya like this and came out to give them an answer on her behalf."

  "Wow, there's still someone in the room! The four of them looked at the person who walked out and were shocked: "Banfang!"

  "Hehe, no need to be so surprised, I just happened to pass by." Fang Xueqing teacher said with a happy smile, "You guys underestimated the little rabbit, didn't you? The little rabbit is quite agile after all." Then she looked at Liu Yapa's tea and said: "This is top-grade 'Rain Before Dragon Well' which is not often seen, won't you try some?"

  "Of course." Liu Jiawei, Xiao Yu and Li Jinyi each took a cup.

  "Can't you just try it! We've worked so hard to get here!" Mu Lin Feng said, and with a heroic air, he picked up the teacup and drank it all in one gulp. Liu Ya looked at his drinking method, suddenly her mind went blank, her mouth slightly open, staring at him stupidly.

  "You... you... Are you drinking tea?" Liu Ya asked weakly.

  "Right, or else what do you think I'm doing?" Mu Lin Feng's mouth was twitching as he looked at Liu Jia Wei and said: "It seems like there's nothing special about it either."

  The soup was a pale green color, and it tasted sweet and slightly bitter. "Not bad," said Xiao Yu after taking a sip of tea. Liu Ya couldn't help but steal another glance at him upon hearing his comment.

  "Alright, the water has been fetched and the tea has been drunk. Everyone can disperse now." As soon as Teacher Fang Xueqing spoke, the classmates gradually left one after another. Before long, only Liu Ya, Liu Fang, Hai Ou, Huang Ying, Lu Xuan, Lei Zi Qing, Mu Lin Feng, Liu Jia Wei, Li Jin Yi, Xiao Yu and Teacher Fang Xueqing were left in the corridor. Teacher Fang Xueqing looked at them seriously and said: "It's still the same old saying, I don't care about your petty squabbles, but when it comes to critical moments, you must unite. Today's matter ends here. Don't let it happen again."

  Teacher Fang looked at them calmly, her hands stretched out from behind her back, distributing the papers to everyone. She said: "Just now, I saw Aya practicing calligraphy, and her handwriting was very good. I asked her to write two characters for you all, hoping that in the future, we can get along harmoniously and make progress together." Everyone unfolded the paper and took a look, and there were two majestic characters: 'Unity'.

  It's a good ending after all. That night, although other dormitories were out of water, the 108 dormitory was not short of water at all. The lovely beauties started taking baths from 9 pm and didn't finish until almost 12 am when it was finally Liu Ya's turn.