Walking into the classroom, the two of them found gazes cast upon them.
“Happy birthday, Class President!”
A girl in the class was the first to send her blessings with a smile.
Others immediately chimed in. Even many girls from Class Two, with whom they had little interaction, offered their congratulations.
“Thank you, everyone!”
Xia Nuannuan, flattered, quickly expressed her gratitude.
“Class President, if you hadn’t posted that update, none of us would have known it was your birthday yesterday. Eighteen birthday gifts, tsk tsk, how enviable!”
Cheng Meng teased with a bright smile.
Xia Nuannuan blushed, a little embarrassed, and shot her a playful glare.
“Why are you glaring at me? Can’t I even express envy!”
Cheng Meng feigned an innocent expression.
Xia Nuannuan rolled her eyes, still not engaging further, and walked with Qin Tian to their seats behind her.
“Brother Tian, you’ve single-handedly raised the difficulty of us finding partners!”
A boy from the class not far away turned to Qin Tian and complained.
Qin Tian paused, looking amused and exasperated. “Then you can’t blame me. I didn’t think that far ahead. You have to blame those who reposted Nuannuan’s update.”
“I won’t even mention the shares on QQ Space. I’m truly impressed by the one that made it to the school forum.”
The boy said, full of speechlessness.
“Yeah, I saw that post too. So many girls replied to it, it was quite lively.”
“Look, it’s already over a hundred replies. The forum moderators are also accomplices; they even pinned and highlighted it.”
“These girls just love to stir up trouble. They really think everyone is like Brother Tian. If we were to date a girlfriend and prepare so many gifts for her birthday, where would we even get them?”
“That’s right. Not to mention the effort, our wallets can’t handle it!”
“Sigh, enough said, I’m tired!”
The boys in the classroom chimed in with their agreement, all wearing expressions of resentment and melancholy.
Qin Tian quietly started reading his book, pretending that none of this concerned him.
Xia Nuannuan, on the other hand, felt a bit guilty, as she was the one who had posted the update.
She took out her phone and, out of curiosity, opened the school forum website. She immediately saw the post that had indeed been pinned and highlighted.
The post’s title was: Look at other people’s boyfriends!
Below, the username of the poster could be seen.
“Xiao Yue Liang?”
Xia Nuannuan murmured softly, inexplicably feeling a sense of familiarity.
“What Xiao Yue Liang?”
Qin Tian, hearing her voice, asked in confusion.
“The nickname of the person who posted this!”
Xia Nuannuan gestured towards her phone.
Qin Tian focused on the phone screen and said with a smile, “Click on it and see!”
Xia Nuannuan hummed and clicked on the post.
“They’re all envious and jealous female ‘lemon spirits’ like me. Not many boys are replying to this post either,”
Cheng Meng turned to them and said with a smile.
“Do you want me to buy a lemon later and have you perform an act of eating it raw?”
Xia Nuannuan asked humorously, tilting her head up.
“That’s a bit too difficult. This humble subject cannot achieve it!”
Cheng Meng chuckled.
Xia Nuannuan rolled her eyes again and looked back down at the post.
This post had also been published the previous night, about an hour after Xia Nuannuan had posted her update.
The content was simple: first, a screenshot of her QQ update, followed by a sentence from the poster.
“Big sister is always generous; such high-quality ‘dog food’ cannot be enjoyed alone. Eat it, everyone!”
“Pfft!”
Xia Nuannuan couldn’t help but laugh at this, quickly raising her hand to cover her mouth and stifle her giggles.
“Look below!”
Qin Tian also said, unable to suppress his amusement.
Xia Nuannuan nodded, her thumb gently sliding across the screen, browsing through the replies.
Just as Cheng Meng had said, the replies were mostly from girls.
“First comment, claiming the sofa! Are you a demon, senior? I shouldn’t have opened the forum.”
“Whose boyfriend is this? *Sob sob*… I’m tired of saying the word ‘envious.’”
“Excuse me, where can one find such boyfriends? Are they assigned by the country?”
“Eighteen years old, eighteen birthday gifts, and crystal high heels. This boyfriend is truly so thoughtful!”
“I won’t say more. Can these two just get married on the spot!”
“Does anyone know who this Cinderella is? Is she also from our school?”
“My boyfriend forgot my birthday, and I had to remind him. He only gave me a bouquet of flowers, and it was a wilting rose. Ahhh, the more I think about it, the angrier I get.”
“Sister upstairs, don’t be angry. At least you have a boyfriend. What about us who have been single since birth? We must be crying our eyes out!”
“By the way, why are there only girls? No boys are browsing the forum? I don’t believe it!”
“Seeing this update, no boy would dare to show themselves.”
“Sigh, boys nowadays don’t put in any effort when chasing girls. A dry ‘I like you’ is just like picking up girls. Forget it!”
“Exactly. If they could at least learn from this boyfriend and put in some thought, we wouldn’t still be single.”
“Forget the eighteen gifts; just these crystal high heels, if a boy gave them to me on my eighteenth birthday, I’d slap myself even during a fight!”
“Big brother, you’ve become a model boyfriend!”
Xia Nuannuan turned to Qin Tian, her smile sweet as she teased.
Qin Tian smiled and shrugged, saying rather proudly, “Haven’t I always been?”
“So conceited!”
Xia Nuannuan pouted.
“Don’t I seem that way in your heart? Sigh, that’s heartbreaking.”
Qin Tian feigned a heartbroken expression.
“Hee hee…”
Xia Nuannuan’s eyes crinkled with laughter as she nodded, “Yes, yes, you are the best boyfriend in the whole world.”
“That’s more like it.”
Qin Tian smiled with satisfaction.
“Hey, hey, hey, you two, seriously? You’re being too mushy.”
Cheng Meng shivered, a look of disgust on her face as she turned away.
Receiving such close-up ‘dog food’ was simply unbearable.
“By the way, who is this Xiao Yue Liang? Your update was reposted to the forum an hour later. She should be your QQ friend, right?”
Qin Tian asked curiously.
“I don’t know. I don’t have many QQ friends, and I don’t think anyone uses that nickname!”
Xia Nuannuan shook her head.
To them, the poster Xiao Yue Liang seemed quite amusing.
In the first few dozen replies they had browsed, she had replied to every comment, as if determined to make all the girls eat ‘dog food’ and thoroughly enjoying it.
“Take a look at your QQ friend list, see if there are any similar nicknames.”
Qin Tian suggested.
“Oh, right!”
Xia Nuannuan suddenly realized and immediately exited the school forum website to open QQ.
She didn’t even need to open the list; Xia Nuannuan’s attention was immediately drawn to a chat window.
After adding the friend, she had already changed the remark to the person’s name, with the word “Senior” added afterward.
But the moment she saw the name, she seemed to sense something and clicked on the person’s profile.
The nickname wasn’t Xiao Yue Liang, but “Xiao Yue Yue,” yet it was already very similar to the poster on the school forum.
“Could it be… Senior Xiao Yue?”
Xia Nuannuan looked at Qin Tian with astonishment.
“Most likely.”
Qin Tian nodded with a chuckle.
At the same time, Xiao Yue, who was replying in her dorm, sneezed several loud sneezes in succession. Immediately afterward, she heard the familiar QQ message notification sound.
Looking at the flashing familiar avatar in the bottom right corner of her computer, she saw it.