With global currency devaluation, I'll wear these back and take my whole family flying!

The boy instinctively wanted to follow her in, but Gu Lianxing turned around and raised her hand to stop him outside the door.

"Don't come in. The lady downstairs said you have to leave within five minutes. Give me your things."

The boy had fair skin, wore a white shirt and gray casual pants, and had a pair of black-rimmed glasses under his shoulder-length bangs. The lenses were visibly thick, making him look somewhat dull.

He nodded expressionlessly, pushed the box into the dormitory, and then turned and left.

Although the two were of the opposite sex and even helped each other move things, Shen Ci could sense that they were not in a romantic relationship.

"My driver's son is a math major."

Gu Lianxing casually offered an explanation.

Shen Ci understood. Judging from Gu Lianxing's appearance and temperament, it wasn't hard to guess that she came from a well-off family and was clearly a pampered girl who had been raised in luxury since childhood.

Gu Lianxing went to the bed opposite Shen Ci, looked it over, and said with a reluctant expression, "Then I'll choose this one, and sit opposite you."

As she spoke, she suddenly tilted her head, looked at Shen Ci, and smiled, "You're so beautiful."

Shen Ci was slightly taken aback, seemingly not expecting this young lady to have such a whimsical way of thinking, praising herself without warning.

"You're very pretty too," she complimented politely, and indeed, Gu Lianxing was very pretty, the kind of bright and radiant beauty.

The next second, Gu Lianxing pouted and said, "This dormitory looks like it has been empty for a long time. There is a thick layer of dust everywhere."

"You probably don't know how to clean either, do you?" Shen Ci asked, looking at her.

Gu Lianxing nodded without hesitation, then looked at Shen Ci with some difficulty and said, "Wouldn't it seem a bit much of me to ask you to clean all by yourself?"

"I can treat you to a big meal!" Gu Lianxing's eyes lit up.

Shen Ci couldn't help but chuckle. Her new roommate was not only pretty but also quite cute, and she was starting to like her.

"Leave it to me," Shen Ci said, taking out her phone and fiddling with it.

Gu Lianxing curiously leaned over to take a look, only to see that Shen Ci had opened a group called "USTC Dormitory Cleaning Orders Group".

"We need 3 people for post-construction cleaning of Room 336, Building C, West Campus Women's Dormitory. Each person will be paid 1 cent. First come, first served."

Someone in the group immediately jumped out to accept the order.

Gu Lianxing blinked in surprise: "You can do that?"

Shen Ci explained softly, "This group is full of students from our university, both male and female. Most of them come from families with financial difficulties and usually take on dormitory cleaning jobs in the group to earn some living expenses."

She was added to this group by a classmate when she first enrolled. Although she received a monthly stipend as a special student, she would occasionally take orders in the group to earn some extra money. Later, after she got together with Li Xiao, he disagreed with her, so she stopped taking orders.

But she never left the group, and it just so happens to come in handy today.

Before long, three girls arrived at the dormitory with tools; they were all freshmen.

"Hello, senior sister."

The girls were very polite, and Shen Ci took the initiative to say, "This is an empty dormitory, and there must be many hard-to-clean corners. I'll have to do a deep cleaning for you."

One cent per person is already a high price. Shen Ci also took into account the need for deep cleaning of the dormitory when he quoted the price, which is why he increased the payment.

Gu Lianxing quickly added, "Especially the restrooms, they must be kept clean."

Several junior girls nodded in agreement: "Don't worry, senior, leave it to us."

The dormitory cleaning takes two hours each time, and they're in the way standing here. Shen Ci looked at Gu Lianxing and asked, "Shall we go out for a walk first?"

Gu Lianxing naturally had no objection; the dust was flying everywhere when cleaning, and she didn't want to stay in the dormitory.

After leaving the dormitory, Gu Lianxing remained unusually silent the entire way, not uttering a single word.

Shen Ci was filled with confusion and was wondering when the other person suddenly turned to look at him and shouted, "Ah!"

Shen Ci was startled and stood frozen in place with a shocked expression: "Huh?"

"I finally remember you, Shen Ci, right? I remember you!" Gu Lianxing looked at her excitedly and said, "You're Li Xiao's girlfriend. Someone took a picture of you and posted it on the school forum when you first enrolled last year. I saw it!"

"Oh, I finally remembered! I was so anxious! I was saying that I felt a bit familiar when I saw you, and after I learned your name, I was even more sure that I had heard it before. I thought about it for a long time and finally remembered."

She let out a long sigh of relief, a look of immense relief on her face.

Shen Ci was both speechless and amused. It turned out that her sudden silence was because she was trying to remember who she was.

However, judging from the tone of her voice when she mentioned Li Xiao, they seemed to be quite familiar with each other.

"Do you know Li Xiao?" Shen Ci asked tentatively.

Gu Lianxing pursed her lips and nodded, saying, "That's right. My dad and his dad are business friends. I've known him since I was very young, but we don't have many opportunities to meet, so we're not very familiar with each other. We only see each other occasionally when our elders meet for social occasions."

"But I know about your relationship. I saw Li Xiao confessing his love to you with roses downstairs in the girls' dormitory."

"I broke up with him." Shen Ci quickly interrupted her, afraid that she would say something more beautiful and enviable.

Gu Lianxing opened her mouth: "Huh?"

Shen Ci smiled calmly and nodded gently at Gu Lianxing.

Gu Lianxing's expression changed slightly, but she still couldn't help asking, "Why?"

Shen Ci pursed her thin lips, hesitating to speak. In her previous life, Li Xiao's plagiarism of her thesis happened three years later, so she obviously couldn't use that as a reason now.

She hesitated for a moment, then whispered close to Gu Lianxing's ear, "He's not very good at that..."

"That? Which one?" Gu Lianxing blinked blankly, and after noticing Shen Ci's meaningful expression, her pretty face flushed red to the roots of her neck: "That...that one?"

Shen Ci raised a finger to her lips, signaling her not to make a fuss: "Don't tell anyone else."

Noticing that no one else was around, Gu Lianxing's shy expression instantly changed, and she lowered her voice in confusion, saying, "That shouldn't be the case, he... he seems quite good at it!"

Shen Ci shook his head in disappointment: "You can't judge a book by its cover."

"Tsk tsk tsk." Gu Lianxing also shook her head: "A tall guy of over 1.8 meters is all for nothing."

Because of this topic, the two suddenly became much closer. Hand in hand, they walked across the west playground and out of the school gate. Gu Lianxing said she would treat Shen Ci to a farewell dinner.

As a result, the two of them ended up at a hole-in-the-wall restaurant in the snack street behind the University of Science and Technology of China.

Gu Lianxing looked around with obvious disgust, then picked up a tissue and wiped the table in front of her again and again, but no matter how many times she wiped it, she could still get oil stains out.

"I said I'd treat you to a fancy meal, and you chose this place?"