Chapter 86: Long Xing’s Birthday
The old Wang Yu always had a cold face that made people uncomfortable just looking at him. But now, whenever he faced An Han, his expression would soften, and his tone became much gentler.
Thinking of how he was before and how he was now, An Han pretended to be sad about not being able to hold the competition, but inside he was secretly very happy.
That’s what you get for trying to drag me to the gym every day!
He was very pleased in his heart, but he didn’t show it on his face. On the surface, he only sighed, “It’s fine if you can’t do it. Maybe in less than two months, an internet café nearby will hold a tournament.”
Wang Yu nodded without commenting. Then he raised his head and looked behind An Han.
The dorm door behind him opened at that moment. Long Xing had just stepped out and saw the two of them. He quickly walked over and excitedly invited Wang Yu to the weekend anime convention.
“President, do you want to go to the comic convention with us this weekend?”
These words made An Han’s heart jump. He immediately pouted and complained, “Do you think Wang Yu is the same as you guys, some kind of anime nerd?”
Long Xing looked at him, confused. He noticed that An Han was strangely sensitive and resistant to anything related to anime conventions. Every time someone mentioned it, he acted like a completely different person.
But normally, An Han was clearly interested in anime. When they talked about their favorite shows, he would get super excited. If he remembered correctly, in their freshman year he even said he wanted to go to a convention to see what it was like.
Long Xing finally realized something felt off, while An Han kept bad-mouthing the event.
“What’s so good about that stuff? Just a bunch of shut-in nerds gathering together. And the cosplayers... you can’t even recognize who they’re supposed to be. And—”
“An Han… are you planning to cosplay at the convention, so you don’t want us to go?”
An Han froze and looked at Long Xing.
“How is that possible?” He quickly walked toward the dorm room, clearly guilty, and muttered, “Why would I cosplay? And even if I did, why would I be scared of you guys finding out? That’s too ridiculous…”
Wang Yu watched him shut the door, then turned to Long Xing. “The more he hides it, the more obvious it is.”
“There’s definitely something going on!” Long Xing nodded hard. “Brother Wang, are you going?”
“I’ll pass.” Wang Yu rubbed his temples and sighed. Leaning against the railing with his arms crossed, he said, “I’ve been really busy these days because of the tournament your dorm’s Wang Sheng wants.”
Long Xing leaned closer curiously. “How did An Han convince you?”
Wang Yu stopped for a moment. A light blush appeared on his cheeks.
Thinking back, that night he must have lost his mind. Facing An Han, his brain was filled with messy thoughts, so he agreed without thinking and even expected a reward from An Han.
But An Han ran away that same night.
“He kept bothering me every day, so I softened,” Wang Yu said, making up a reason.
But Long Xing caught the strange expression on his face. He swallowed nervously and asked in disbelief, “President… don’t tell me… you like An Han?”
Wang Yu shook his head immediately. “No.”
He clearly didn’t want to talk about this anymore, so he turned and said, “I’m going to the gym.”
“I was just about to ask you to go,” Long Xing said, quickly following him, still full of worry.
Why does it feel like my roommate is flirting with guys everywhere? And he actually succeeds every time?? Even someone as cold as Wang Yu seems affected?!
Inside the dorm, An Han sat back down at his desk, resting his chin on one hand, staring blankly at the computer screen.
The sound of Wang Sheng’s keyboard clicked loudly beside him, making anyone annoyed just by hearing it. And Chen Junjie had just finished showering, his whole body smelling like An Han’s milk-scented body wash. He even walked around An Han on purpose, looking like he deserved a beating.
“I was wondering why you always smell like this. Turns out you changed your body wash and didn’t tell me.”
An Han didn’t even bother to look back. He just yawned and nodded.
To cover up his own scent, he had purposely bought a bottle of milk body wash. He didn’t know if it really had milk in it, but at least the smell was strong and milky.
Chen Junjie leaned closer, still teasing him. “Your body wash is pretty good. How much did it cost?”
“Forty-one a bottle.”
“Not bad, quite cheap.”
He peeked at An Han’s face. Seeing that he wasn’t angry at all, he immediately lost interest in causing trouble and went back to his bed to scroll through TikTok.
Right now, An Han was busy with too many small problems. He didn’t have the energy to argue with Chen Junjie like before. Instead, he was thinking about his current tasks.
First task: Trick Wu Dongming into wearing women’s clothes.
At that time, he ended up being the one fooled, wearing women’s clothes himself and even getting liked by Long Xing. Even though the task didn’t fail, it had been left unfinished. But to be honest, An Han was very interested in this task. Now he was hiding and waiting for the right chance to get Wu Dongming into women’s clothing!
But thinking about it again, knowing the system’s useless behavior, the “good reward” probably wouldn’t be good at all, maybe just a “house” in the most literal and disappointing sense.
Second task: Make Wang Sheng join a tournament at the internet café level.
He had already tried his best on this one. His methods were a bit shameless, but now all he could do was hope for good luck.
Third task: Wear a cheongsam outside, without covering it with a jacket or anything, and stay like that for a whole day.
The reward… pain-free periods. But he was a man.
An Han had zero interest in this cheongsam task. At most, he was only curious what he would look like in a well-fitting cheongsam. Would he look elegant and graceful like women in TV dramas?
He was also worried that after wearing a cheongsam, combined with his “enhanced charm”, he might actually start liking cross-dressing.
“What’s wrong? You keep looking annoyed every day.”
Wang Sheng had just finished a game. When he looked up, he saw An Han’s troubled expression.
An Han switched hands to support his cheek and muttered, “It’s nothing.”
“If something’s wrong, you can talk to me.” Wang Sheng was usually shy. He thought for a moment and then continued, “If I can help, I’ll try my best.”
“I’m thinking about how to get Wu Dongming to wear women’s clothes.”
“……”
Wang Sheng didn’t expect An Han to be troubled by something like this. He was speechless and didn’t know what to say for a long time.
He could only think, this really is so like An Han, even his worries are different from normal people.
Since he asked, Wang Sheng tried to give a suggestion. “Maybe you can… threaten him or bribe him?”
“I already tried bribing. Threatening… not really good. It’s just a joke anyway.”
If the system weren’t so unreliable and if the reward had a real chance of being useful, threatening would also be an option. But knowing how the system was, who knows how terrible the so-called “house” reward would be.
“Then… get him drunk? When he passes out, put women’s clothes on him?”
An Han suddenly looked up at Wang Sheng. His dark eyes lit up in surprise. “You actually have ideas! I thought you were super honest!”
A perfectly normal person… but when he becomes sneaky, he’s just as bad as the system!
“……”
“I think this might work! Find a reason to get him drunk! Then we work together and dress him up!”
“Work together?”
“Of course! If he gets mad, you help me take a few hits. Dongming’s small, his punches don’t hurt, it’s fine.” An Han patted Wang Sheng’s shoulder hard and continued persuading, “So what reason should we use to invite him to drink?”
“This… you need a reason to drink?” After thinking really hard, Wang Sheng added, “Isn’t Brother Long’s birthday coming up? He can’t avoid drinking on his birthday, right?”
“Brother Long’s birthday?”
An Han quickly pulled out his phone and checked the calendar. Only now did he realize that Long Xing’s birthday was indeed coming soon.
He immediately forgot about trapping Wu Dongming and instead started thinking about what kind of chaos he could cause at Long Xing’s birthday to lower Long Xing’s affection for him.
Compared to dressing up Wu Dongming, this was much more important!