Chapter One Little Girl

  Li Rouyu was seen by An Zhi Shui as he slipped into the classroom through the back door.

  Late again, and still bald. He introduced himself as a worker, hoping he could buy a wig to wear, but surprisingly, he still hasn't bought one.

  An knew she wanted to call him over to criticize, but thinking about the past two days of contact with him, and remembering last night's phone call, for some reason, she felt a little guilty, afraid that others would think too much, so she sat there listening carefully to the teacher's lecture, temporarily pretending not to have seen Li Luyu.

  Li Luyu found that An Zhi didn't scold him, so he let out a sigh of relief and was about to find a seat when Qin Nan pulled him over and he sat down beside him.

  Qin Nan, Ma De Li, Sun Yan Qing and Liu Zi Yue from the neighboring dormitory sat together, with an air of superiority. On each of their desks was a celadon-colored ceramic mug with a cartoon image of a policeman and a bandit on the front, holding guns and striking various arrogant poses.

  "What a pity you didn't go yesterday... Zeng Yi performed terribly yesterday, always staring at the woman in front of him. That woman kept smiling at him, and then her boyfriend gave Zeng Yi three consecutive slaps. Wasn't that enough?" Qin Nan said with an indignant expression.

  The match of Qing Ci is a five-man team, Li Luoyu didn't go, so they had to find another person. This Zeng Yin is from the neighboring class, known as their class's number one sniper, used to replace Li Luoyu's position.

  "Didn't you guys get any prizes?" Li Luyou envied these trophies.

  "Only eighth place, I suppose it's a potential award. A membership card worth 100 yuan for each person, plus a mug and a ceramic mouse pad." Sun Yangqing said with a look of regret, but in fact, among the nearly 100 participating teams, entering the top ten was already very strong.

  "If you were here, we would have entered the top five without any difficulty at all." Everyone is familiar with each other's moves, and Liu Ziyue also knows Li Luyu's strength inside out.

  "Some classmates saw your performance, and there's even one uploaded to Youku. It's said to be the highest level of COSPLAY this year, is it you?" Madrid took out his phone, found the video on the Youku homepage, and the click rate had already exceeded 1 million.

  "Yes." Li Lu nodded and looked at the comments under the video. Apart from some self-proclaimed experts, amateur trolls, requests for background music, and requests for a combination of touching, there were many serious comments expressing extreme shock, after all, that lightning effect was one-of-a-kind.

  Some people say that this will bring about a new development in COSPLAY, and COSERs will no longer be limited to imitating costumes and props, adding various gorgeous light and shadow effects is the highlight of future COSPLAY performances.

  "How much money did you make?" Sun Yangqing asked with envy, he also wanted to go to work, feeling that the graphics card was not enough, and wanted to replace it.

  "Fifty thousand." Li Luyu didn't mean to hide anything.

  A row of people raised their heads, gasping in unison, and stared at Li Luyu in disbelief.

  "The two of us spent 100,000 yuan, including the cost of poster photography and two sets of clothing for use in the game. The price was quite reasonable and they didn't take advantage of us being newcomers," Li Luyou explained.

  "That must be treated as a guest." Madrid patted Li Luyu's shoulder with great force.

  Li Luoyou took out five tickets from his pocket and gave one to each of them.

  "Transformers 3, Peace Cinema IMAX, let's go see it together." This movie has been released for a long time, but Li Rouyou and her sister went to see "Harry Potter 7" during the summer vacation. The price was not cheap at all. At that time, although I heard that the plot of "Transformers 3" was pretty bad, Li Rouyou still wanted to see it, but she could only choose between "Harry Potter 7" and "Transformers 3". Of course, Li Rouyou chose her sister's favorite "Harry Potter 7".

  "We have to go together, then I'll bring my big yellow bee." Sun Yangqing was talking about an iron model he made himself, which took him the entire summer vacation without going home, just staying in school to make it.

  Several people were watching Gun Edition in the dormitory, and they all got excited at this time, praising Li Luoyu for his righteousness.

  Although the five movie tickets were quite expensive, Li Luyu didn't think it was a waste of money. As long as the money is spent in the right place, that's all that matters. The brothers from university may gradually lose touch and drift apart due to less contact over time, but the memories in their hearts remain. Those days of staying up all night playing video games, drinking and having fun together, and pulling all-nighters will make a group of middle-aged men with big bellies feel more at ease when they meet again, with fewer formalities and superficial hypocrisy, simply because of the simple and pure shared experiences in their hearts.

  There aren't many people around Li Ruyu who pay attention to him, but he will definitely care about his friends.

  After class, five people went to the cafeteria together to eat a small stir-fry and coincidentally met An Chishui who would occasionally appear in an ordinary cafeteria.

  She held a tray and frowned at those chopsticks and spoons.

  "Li Luyu." Seeing Li Luyu, An Zhishui hailed him.

  "Class monitor, I didn't have time yesterday and this morning either. After lunch, I'll go buy it." Li Luoyu hastily begged for mercy, he even believed that An Zhishui would appear in the cafeteria just to criticize him.

  It wasn't until now that I remembered, yesterday afternoon I went home with him together, at that time it was almost dark.

  "Alright, since there's a civilized class evaluation this month, the counselor attaches great importance to it. Your bald head might affect the inspector's score, so I've decided to go with you later to buy a wig, lest you buy some weirdly-shaped one." An Zhishui held the dinner plate in both hands, placed it neatly on his chest, and walked away without looking back.

  "I suspect that An Zhi Shui's family relationship is definitely not good, her father and mother are not close to her, so she vents the gloominess in her heart on her classmates." Liu Zi Yue analyzed.

  "Ah, she's got her eyes on Li Luyu now, probably wants to catch a typical example." Qin Nan expressed his sympathy.

  Ma De Li and Sun Yan Qing were considering whether to change the cafeteria because the elementary school class leader said that they might still have to take care of their meals, so they made a big noise and didn't manage anything. She was determined to treat all students in three classes as elementary school students.

  Soon, Li Lu and a group of people saw An Zhi Shui criticizing someone because that person had skipped class in the morning but was on time for dinner, which naturally made him the focus of An Zhi Shui's criticism.

  After finishing dinner, Li Luyu walked ahead first, then An Zhi Shui threw down his plate and ran over.

  "Where are you going?" and in front of many people, An Zhi Shui looked a bit expectant at this time, she clenched her two small fists in front of her chest and stared at Li Luoyu.

  To take the bus, they went out of the university town to a small commodity market where wigs were wholesale, and the price was much cheaper than the storefronts on the outside street. Li Luyu took An Zhi Shui to take the bus, just five stops, and they arrived quickly.

  The small commodity market was underground and somewhat stifling. An Zhi followed closely behind Li Luyu, looking around in all directions, and suddenly exclaimed with surprise: "How did you find this place? I didn't even know it existed."

  Li Luyu thought An Zhi knew that she usually strolled around high-end shopping malls and didn't have many friends, so who would bring her to a place like this?

  An Zhishui seemed to have forgotten that she and Li Luyu came to buy wigs. She first took a fancy to an eighty-yuan straw bag, decisively cutting the price by fifty percent, which was not a problem in such a place. Li Luyu was even more ruthless, only paying thirty yuan.

  "You're even more ruthless than a girl!" The boss glared at Li Luyou, but still sold it to An Zhi Shui for thirty bucks.

  "You're really great, even better at bargaining than me." An Zhi Shui was delighted to tie up the grass-woven package with a small shrimp flower in front.

  Li Luyu didn't say that she wouldn't haggle at all, but just smiled and said, "Haggling is saving money. One yuan can be used as two yuan, which is equivalent to earning one yuan."

  "This afternoon, I'll negotiate the price with you. You'd better be prepared to pay a high price, or else you'll have to return the money." An Zhishui looked at Li Luyu very seriously, thinking that this was a formidable opponent and he couldn't let him gain the upper hand easily in the afternoon.

  "Alright, let's see who's tougher." Li Luyu said it was true, An Nanxiu could spend money now, but who knew when she would be able to return to the Tianyun Divine Realm? If it took several months or even half a year or a whole year, and she still couldn't come back...Li Luyu couldn't just ignore her.

  Saving money is making money, Li Luyu has always thought so. If the actual price of the things An Zhi brought in the afternoon exceeded his acceptable bottom line, he wouldn't insist on taking them down either. Of course, An Zhi might not mind the discount being a bit scary low, but Li Luyu felt that such cheapness couldn't be taken for granted, others having money wasn't a reason to take advantage of their cheapness.

  An Zhishui glanced at Li Luyu, smiled slightly with her mouth closed, and then turned her head to look at the hairpin next to her.

  Li Luoyu was stunned, An Zhi Shui smiled at that time, with a very simple and pure look, two shallow small dimples, clean and neat smile, in this dim, noisy and full of various smells underground shopping mall, bright and beautiful like the flowers welcoming the sunlight in the morning.

  An Zhishui picked up three hair clips, a pen holder, a pen with a rogue rabbit's logo on it, and a whole set of doll stickers. Unconsciously, she saw the wholesale wig stall and suddenly remembered what she was here for. Then, pretending to have been looking for this place all along, she said to Li Luyou: "Is this the place? Let's go take a look."

  "Xiao Li, you're here." The shop owner was a plump young woman. In the past, Li Luoyu often brought his COSPLAY friends he knew to this place to custom-make various colors and styles of wigs, and the shop owner was quite welcoming to Li Luoyu.

  An Zhishui looked at Li Luyu with a curious gaze, thinking that Li Luyu's life must be quite extraordinary. She couldn't imagine herself having anything to do with a woman who had no bus stop nearby, had to walk about 50 meters, then enter an underground shopping mall, make several turns and finally sell wigs in a small shop of less than 10 square meters.

  "Yes, I had a buzz cut and it's taking some getting used to. I'm thinking of buying a wig that's similar to my original hair to wear." Li Rouyou said with a smile.

  "Take a look at this row, it doesn't have to be very different from the original hairstyle, are you afraid your girlfriend won't like it? Don't worry, let her choose." The shop owner enthusiastically pulled An Zhi Shui and gestured for her to pick one.

  An Zhishui's face suddenly turned red, and she couldn't help but turn her head to look at Li Luyou, only to find that she was actually standing so close to him. He was holding the grass-woven package for her, and earlier he had pulled on his sleeve to walk in, too busy looking around to notice that her hand was still grasping his sleeve without letting go.

  The update is a bit late, something happened in the afternoon, but it should be fine to release two more chapters tonight. Xia Hua's small stockpile has already been depleted.