Wei Jingyu's room

"Ready to go?" he asked with a smile on his face.

Ying Xuan spied a plastic bag in his hands and frowned. 'Where did you rush off to?' she asked. Wei Jingyu let out a mischievous smile as he opened the bag and Xuan gasped upon seeing the contents. Inside the plastic bag, were two giant ass tubs of ice-cream!

'What are you going to do with these?' Xuan asked, remembering her words from before and regretting the answer. Jingyu shrugged as he replied, "You were the one who said that you could eat a whole tub." 'I did not mean that literally!!' Ying Xuan exclaimed and Wei Jingyu chuckled upon seeing the expression on her face.

"Should have specified that. Now, come on." he said, helping Xuan up and bowing to the old lady before hurrying her out of the parlor.

A couple of minutes later . . . .

Ying Xuan found herself in Wei Jingyu's dorm room. She turned her eyes to the owner of the room, who kissed the side of her head and muttered, "I'll just change and come back." before rushing towards the bathroom.

Xuan's gaze lingered at him as he removed the sash around his body, then the overcoat and the waistcoat, and kept them all neatly on his bed. He then removed the ankle length boots and slipped on his slippers before walking into the bathroom. Once he was out of sight, Xuan looked around the room.

She had been inside this room only a couple of times, that too only briefly. Mostly to pick Jingyu up, or to drop something off. And of course, there had been that one time on his birthday. But she had never gotten a good look at his room. Xuan wasn't sure why. There wasn't any explicit rule saying that girls were not allowed in the boys' dorms, but you still had to sneak around if you were doing that.

And as she and Jingyu could spend as much time as they wanted around the campus together, there hadn't ever really been a need to sneak into his room.

Ying Xuan walked over to what could easily be identified as Wei Jingyu's side of the room. The walls were nearly bare except a poster of his favorite basketball team. But the bed and the study table was neatly organised, with a lot of painting supplies on the latter. Xuan picked up what clearly was Wei Jingyu's sketchbook and looked at the cover.

She wanted to open it very badly, but knew she should ask for his permission first. Xuan would have hated anyone opening her sketchbook without her permission, after all. As she was wondering if she should open the book or not, Xuan's eyes caught a small framed photograph in one corner of the table.

She kept the sketchbook back down and picked up the photograph. The photo showed two boys in school uniforms, you could tell it was a prestigious school by their uniforms. Xuan of course knew all about prestigious schools. Ying Xuan recognized one of the boys in the photo as Wei Jingyu. He was a lot chubbier back then and had short, cropped hair and acne on his face, but his features were quite similar. Enough to be easily recognizable.