Chapter 3: The Eldest Brother Spoke Up

  Yang Tao walked quickly in front of Chen Chufan as soon as he entered the campus, and warned Chen Chufan not to catch up with him from a distance of ten meters away. His original words were: "Just because I have this handsome and invincible appearance in the universe, if I walk with you together, what if I accidentally become famous, wouldn't I be bothered to death by those little girls who squat at our dormitory door every day?"

  "You're overthinking! The dormitory staff won't let the little girls run into the boys' dorm and squat at our door!" Chen Chufan replied coldly, still thinking Yang Tao was making a big deal out of nothing.

  "Even if those little girls can't escape the sharp eyes of the gatekeeper, they can't sneak into the boys' dormitory. But if they don't sleep at night and run to the boys' dormitory building to sing love songs for me, making everyone unable to sleep well, isn't that also my fault!" Yang Tao threw down this sentence, and then really left Chen Chufan alone, walking by himself in the back, while he ran to a distance of at least ten meters away from Chen Chufan before starting to walk normally.

  Later, on the way back to the dormitory, Chen Chufan discovered for the first time that Yang Tao was not exaggerating in every sentence. At least when he said that he had become famous and really famous, there was absolutely no exaggeration.

  From the moment he met his first classmate who recognized him and greeted him, there were no less than two, or even three, gossiping men and women following closely behind Chen Chufan. He could even faintly hear the whispers carried by the wind.

  "That's the infatuated guy who jumped into Nanhu Lake! He looks like a clever young man, how could he be so desperate!" This is the mature and serious type.

  "Hey, look! The sentimental guy from the School of Literature is back on campus! Go and worship him quickly!"

  "Alas, since ancient times, there has been much sorrow and regret left over. Pitiful are the people of Da who jumped into the lake."

  "That's the infatuated emperor, looks so handsome! How could he get dumped?" This is absolutely a flower idiot type.

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  As sentence after sentence of comments poured into Chen Chufan's ears, Chen Chufan walked with his head lower and lower, and at the same time, he walked faster and faster. Just then, he suddenly heard a cry of surprise. "It's going to crash, no!"

  With a loud "bang", Chen Chufan could even hear a muffled sound. He had actually buried his head too low and hadn't seen the road, directly crashing into a utility pole by the side of the road! A sharp pain hit him, and at that moment, Chen Chufan really felt like he was seeing stars. And just then, someone shouted loudly, "Everyone come quick and see! The lovesick emperor tried to jump into the lake but failed, and as soon as he left the hospital, he used his head to fiercely smash into a utility pole!"

  A group of people who were originally hanging around not far away to watch the excitement quickly gathered around, and even a small girl who looked quite delicate actively supported Chen Chufan, who was a bit dizzy, and said softly: "Infatuated brother, don't hit here again! Sister Lian can't see it, thank goodness!"

  When he heard this, Chen Chufan really had the urge to crash directly into the utility pole. Fortunately, Yang Tao heard the commotion behind him and rushed over to help, picking up Chen Chufan who was already dizzy from being pushed around, and made his way back to the dormitory.

  Until Chen Chufan ran into the dormitory building, the crowd that was infatuated with him gradually dispersed, but inside the dormitory building, another explosion occurred.

  Chen Chufan's dormitory was room 302 on the third floor, and the entire floor consisted of second-year students from the History Department of the College of Liberal Arts. Today happened to be Friday. There were only two large classes in the morning, and they had already finished. Most people returned to their dormitories, and when they heard that Chen Chufan was back, almost every classmate who returned to the dormitory ran into Chen Chufan's room to comfort and persuade him for a few words, making Chen Chufan feel so embarrassed that he felt like dying.

  It wasn't until half an hour later that room 302 finally returned to calm.

  "Condolences!" It wasn't until everyone had dispersed and only three people were left in the bedroom that Meng Wei finally spoke up to comfort them. Meng Wei was a tall, dark-skinned northerner, his skin almost as black as an African's.

  Meng Wei, Yang Tao and Chen Chufan are three well-known iron triangles in the second year of the Chinese Department of Literature. The relationship between the three is surprisingly good, like close brothers. Throughout the university, only these two people were considered as brothers by Chen Chufan. In their freshman year, the three of them learned from the TV series "Three Kingdoms" and became sworn brothers under Yang Tao's persistence. By age, Meng Wei is the oldest, Yang Tao is the second, and Chen Chufan is the youngest. So Meng Wei naturally became the undisputed leader. Yang Tao once tried to persuade Chen Chufan to swap the title of second-in-command with him, but was shut down by Meng Wei's single sentence "What you've earned yourself, don't waste words." This left Yang Tao complaining endlessly.

  Yang Tao and Meng Wei are two extremes. Yang Tao can be considered a top-notch talker, once he starts talking, he can go on for several hours without repeating any topics. This is not an exaggeration. In our freshman year, during the Modern World History class, the old professor asked a question in class, trying to analyze the similarities and differences between Soviet Russia's New Economic Policy and China's Reform and Opening-up. The professor who taught Modern World History had a habit of randomly picking students to answer questions by reading out their names from the attendance sheet.

  Yang Tao suddenly stood up, and he talked endlessly, from the economic difficulties of the Soviet Union to the chaos of China's special period, from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the reform of China's state-owned enterprises. He even took the initiative to discuss with the old professor the unreasonable actions of Gorbachev, the leader of the Soviet Union at that time, when it collapsed, leaving the old professor stunned and speechless until the bell rang, signaling the end of class. Yang Tao still had more to say. From then on, the old professor never again called on Yang Tao to answer questions!

  Meng Wei, on the other hand, has a dull and infuriating personality. If he can answer with one word, he absolutely won't use two. During their freshman year, once when three of them went to an internet cafe together, everyone still liked chatting online at that time. Yang Tao and Chen Chufan snuck a peek at Meng Wei's QQ chat records with a female while Meng Wei was in the bathroom, only to see that except for the first sentence which said "hello" with two words, everything else was basically just "uh-huh", "yes", "none", and "oh".

  "Ah", "no", "good" and other single words. Let 2 people immediately worship their leader at that time.

  Although Meng Wei didn't say much, whenever he spoke, his words were classic and left people speechless. After Chen Chufan started dating Wang Linlin, he took her to meet Meng Wei and Yang Tao for dinner for the first time. After sending Wang Linlin back to her dormitory, the three of them walked along the road back to their own dorms. On the way, Yang Tao said with a sour tone: "Chen Chufan, I admit that your girlfriend is prettier than mine, but you have to admit that my girlfriend has a higher IQ than yours! My wife always gets first place in our grade's exams, what about Wang Linlin?"

  Before Chen Chufan could respond, Meng Wei suddenly chimed in with a confused expression: "Oh, so what? Did you sleep with her brain or something?" One sentence was enough to shut up Yang Tao, who was known for his chatter, and he just glared at Meng Wei with a resentful gaze.

  Actually, even Chen Chufan couldn't understand how these two extreme people ended up together. However, at this moment, being able to hear the boss's consolation made Chen Chufan feel somewhat comforted, although it was just two words: "condolences".

  "Where's Fatso?" Chen Chufan asked casually, noticing that there was still one person missing in the dormitory. Fatso was another classmate from Room 302, but his relationship with the three of them wasn't particularly close.

  "Get online!" The old man's answer was always so concise and meaningful.

  "Alright, you still have the heart to care for fatty, think about yourself!" Yang Tao chimed in from the side.

  "Right!" The boss immediately responded in agreement.

  Chen Chufan sighed with a bitter smile, "What can I do now that things have turned out this way?"

  "Stop jumping!" The boss said.

  "Boss, it's actually a misunderstanding this time. I really didn't want to jump into the lake! I admit that I was heartbroken, but you know me, right? Am I such a fragile person? At that time, I..." Chen Chufan heard Boss's words and became excited again. He didn't expect that usually calm and collected Boss would also think he jumped into the lake on purpose. He really wanted to explain clearly. However, when it came to explaining why he fell into the lake, thinking of that eerie feeling at the time, he didn't know how to explain it either. After hesitating for a while, he finally said "I slipped and fell into the lake!"

  "Ah!" The boss replied after hearing Chen Chufan's explanation.

  "So you believe me now? Boss!" Chen Chufan looked at Old Master Meng Wei with full of hope.

  Meng Wei, who was stared at by Chen Chufan with an expectant gaze, rarely spoke out a complete sentence: "I don't believe you have any use for it, just stop jumping and that's it!"

  Chen Chufan really wants to cry at this moment!

  Just then, the phone in the dormitory rang. Yang Tao hastily got up to answer it: "Hello, who is this?"

  "Has Chen Chufan been discharged from the hospital?" Old Xiao's gloomy tone came through the phone.

  "Yes! He's already been discharged from the hospital and is now in his dorm room. Director Xiao, you can go find him!" Yang Tao replied while making a silly face at Chen Chufan.

  "Get him to my office, now!" The line went dead with a series of "beeps".

  "Chen Chufan, congratulations! Old Xiao is inviting you to have tea!" Yang Tao hung up the phone and said with a raised eyebrow.