The aloof school beauty has been reborn and is now pursuing me relentlessly.

I went back into the carriage and took a look.

There really was a couple sitting there.

She was only in her early twenties, and looked like she had just graduated and started working.

The man wore glasses and had a composed and refined demeanor, while the woman had fair skin and striking looks. She was chatting and laughing with the man and seemed quite generous and outgoing.

The carriage has two rows of bunk beds, which are shared by men and women.

Lin Ran and Su Qingyan were in the left-hand row against the wall, while the new couple were in the right-hand row.

The couple was sitting side by side on the lower bunk chatting when they saw Su Qingyan come in with a boy. They immediately stood up and greeted her warmly and politely.

Lin Ran and the other person introduced themselves to each other.

I learned that the man's name was Zhuang Zhe and the woman's name was Lin Yue.

Both of them are now working at the same internet company. They are a couple, and Zhuang Zhe is also Lin Yue's boss.

After exchanging greetings, the two sat back down on the bed.

Upon hearing that Lin Ran and Su Qingyan had been admitted to Donghai University and were going to register for freshman orientation together, Zhuang Zhe looked on with amazement:

"Tunghai University—"

"It's no worse than Tsinghua and Peking University, that's amazing."

Lin Yue's gaze swept over Lin Ran and Su Qingyan with interest, and she spoke with a hint of gossip and curiosity:

"So, the relationship between the two of you is..."

Before Lin Ran could speak.

Sitting to the side, Su Qingyan smiled slightly and answered:

"They were high school classmates and deskmates."

Zhuang Zhe looked surprised:

"What a coincidence?"

"Xiaoyue and I were also high school classmates, and we sat at the same desk for three years."

These words surprised Lin Ran as well:

"That's quite a coincidence."

Su Qingyan looked at Zhuang Zhe:

"So, what about now?"

Zhuang Zhe laughed:

"We're a couple now, of course."

"We started dating and confirmed our relationship after we got into the same university."

Hearing this, Lin Yue couldn't help but pout and looked at her man with a coquettish tone:

"You still have the nerve to say it."

"I was incredibly proactive with you in high school, giving you all sorts of hints, almost making it explicit."

"Someone is like a block of wood. I don't know if he's really stupid or just pretending not to understand. Anyway, he's never appreciated anything."

Lin Ran: "..."

Why does this sound so familiar?

The school beauty sitting next to him seemed to glance at him, a half-smile on her face, before turning her gaze back to the couple opposite her, as if curious:

"Really? Could you give me an example?"

One sentence immediately ignited Lin Yue's enthusiasm for chatting:

"Of course!"

"There are tons!"

"At that time, I took the initiative to invite him to eat outside the school, held his hand, and even made up an excuse to coincidentally run into him on the street and go shopping together."

"Isn't that straightforward enough?"

"This guy just thinks it's perfectly reasonable for him to do all this because we're deskmates!"

"Qingyan, Xiaoran, you be the judge. Is your brother Zhuang Zhe an idiot?"

Su Qingyan's lips curled up so much she could barely contain them, yet she pretended to be nonchalant and indifferent.

"Ah."

"He's pretty stupid."

"Lin Ran, what do you think?"

Lin Ran: "..."

"Sweating profusely.JPG"

Zhuang Zhe smiled wryly and waved his hand:

"Don't laugh at me."

"Actually, I did understand at the time, but I was a little flattered that Xiaoyue, the class beauty, liked an ordinary person like me."

"I lack confidence and I'm not sure if Xiaoyue really likes me, which is why I'm hesitant."

"But later, when we went to university, we were still in the same school and spent a short time together, so I took the initiative to confess my feelings."

Lin Yue nodded with a smile:

"That's right."

"So, even though we used to be deskmates."

"But after things progressed, they eventually became a couple~"

As she spoke, she glanced mischievously at Lin Ran and Su Qingyan, then winked:

"It's hard to say what the future holds."

……

When it was time for dinner, Lin Yue and Zhuang Zhe ordered takeout meals in advance, and the flight attendants pushed a cart to deliver them to their carriage to eat.

Lin Ran and Su Qingyan were about to get up and go to the dining car next door for their meal.

They stepped out of the carriage.

The person immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

They chatted for a long time.

Sweating profusely is a given.

What's causing such a strong sense of déjà vu, like looking in a mirror?

Su Qingyan glanced at Lin Ran and said in a light tone:

"Not every pair of deskmates is like Zhuang Zhe and Xiao Yue."

"Don't be afraid..."

【Um? 】

【Fear?】

Lin Ran was immediately displeased:

"Who's scared? I'm not scared!"

What a joke!

A reborn individual, a mature soul in his thirties.

Since he was determined to have a thrilling contest with the school beauty's deskmate.

How can one always be suppressed and passive by the school beauty?

Just because a tiger doesn't roar doesn't mean it can take me for a sick cat.

You must take the initiative!

After a moment's thought, Lin Ran looked at Su Qingyan in front of him and suddenly smiled:

"If it were really like those two, there wouldn't be anything wrong with it."

Su Qingyan seemed to be taken aback upon hearing this:

"what?"

Lin Ran pressed his advantage, stepping forward and forcing the school beauty's deskmate to retreat to the corner of the train aisle:

"I mean--"

"It's okay if the relationship between deskmates develops further."

"I'm not at a disadvantage anyway."

"What do you say?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he delivered a cool wall slam, placing his hand on the wall next to the girl's face.

As if caught off guard by Lin Ran's sudden action, a blush instantly appeared on the girl's face:

"Lin Ran, you..."

【How about that, scared now? Even the school beauty gets nervous sometimes, hehehe!】

Seeing the expression on the school beauty's deskmate's face, someone's inner miniature self smugly laughed three times, hands on hips, full of pride:

Welcome to the Confrontation Lane!

however.

next second.

But the girl's face was still flushed, and her lips parted slightly as she uttered a few words:

"You...you're blocking the food cart."

【Eh? 】

The person was stunned.

Turning his head subconsciously.

I saw a middle-aged woman standing in front of me pushing a food cart, looking at me with an unhappy expression.

The position he was standing in completely blocked the passageway.

"I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry—"

The person, who had been so cool for less than three seconds, immediately became flustered and quickly pushed aside to make way, apologizing repeatedly.

[I was ambushed by the food truck lady.]

The confrontation failed.

……

Upon arriving at the dining car next door, Lin Ran and Su Qingyan took two boxed meals and sat down at a table nearby.

There was also a mother and daughter at the same table.

The mother's surname is Chu, she is around thirty years old, and has a gentle temperament. The little girl is named Mengmeng, she is five or six years old, and is as cute as a porcelain doll.

During our casual conversation, I learned that the mother and daughter were also going to the East China Sea.

Sitting in her mother's lap, Mengmeng glanced at Lin Ran and then at Su Qingyan, before asking in her childish voice:

"Brother, are you and sister husband and wife?"

Lin Ran was amused and corrected him:

"No, we're classmates."

Mengmeng looked at Lin Ran with a puzzled expression:

"My sister is so beautiful, why don't you marry her, brother?"

"Brother, are you a coward?"

Lin Ran: "...?"

The five- or six-year-old girl had a surprisingly rich vocabulary.

Someone looked up at Mengmeng's mother:

“Mengmeng will be taking the college entrance exam in thirteen years, right? Sister Chu, could you buy her some ‘53’ (a popular set of study materials for college entrance exams) so she doesn’t fall behind from the start?”

A mature soul in their thirties.

Extremely vengeful!

……

After dinner, Lin Ran and Su Qingyan returned to their respective carriages.

On the berth, Zhuang Zhe and Lin Yue, a couple, were playing cards out of boredom. When they saw Lin Ran and her companion return, they immediately invited them to join them.

in the night.

The train rumbled forward.

The four people in the carriage were playing cards with great interest, and every now and then they could be heard making excited or frustrated noises.

Time passed quietly.

Around 10 p.m., the group was getting sleepy, so they put away the cards and went back to their bunks to rest.

Su Qingyan was in the upper bunk of Lin Ran's room.

When the girl took off her shoes and climbed up the ladder next to someone's bed, a pair of shapely, fair legs in white socks were dangling in front of him.

Lin Ran kept his eyes focused on his nose, his nose focused on his heart, and his gaze fixed straight ahead!

The lights inside the carriage were turned off, and silence returned.

Lin Ran lay down, closed his eyes, and gradually felt sleepy, eventually falling asleep.

I don’t know how long it took.

In the darkness, I could vaguely hear some strange noises.

He was awakened from his sleep.

Lin Ran groggily opened his eyes, not even having time to pinpoint the source of the sound in the darkness.

My phone on the pillow vibrated quietly.

Lin Ran put her phone under the covers to block out the light and turned on the screen.

It was a text message from my classmate, the prettiest girl in school, who was sitting in the bunk above me!

"Did you hear that?"

Lin Ran paused, her drowsy state dissipating somewhat.

Then he pricked up his ears and listened more carefully.

Once it was confirmed that the sound was coming from the upper berth on the left side of the carriage.

And to discern the specific origin of the sound...

The person was instantly wide awake, all sleepiness gone!

【Fuck! ! ! 】