"Xiaofeng, can you bring a girlfriend home for Chinese New Year this year?"
Listening to his mother's question on the other end of the line, Lin Feng was momentarily stunned.
"Mom, why are you suddenly bringing this up?"
"Your cousin just started college this year and already brought a girlfriend home. He even said they'll get married in a couple of years."
On the other end of the line, Zhang Hui sounded deeply frustrated. "You're three years older than your cousin, and you're better-looking than him too."
"How is it that you're about to graduate from college and you don't even have a single girlfriend?"
"Son, if you can't find anyone, you might as well come home for some blind dates."
Lin Feng paused and said helplessly, "Mom, what era is this? Who still does blind dates?"
"I'm just waiting to hold a grandson, aren't I?"
Zhang Hui said in a tone that allowed no room for argument:
"If you still don't bring someone home this New Year, I'm arranging blind dates for you."
Lin Feng: "......"
"Xiaofeng? Xiaofeng?! Don't just sit there in silence."
Hearing no response from the other end, Zhang Hui nagged on:
"You young people don't understand. Blind dates have their advantages—at least everyone knows each other's background."
"Let me tell you, your Aunt Wang's daughter is lovely. The girl seems very well-read and sensible..."
Listening to his mother's endless chatter, Lin Feng nodded half-heartedly.
"Yeah... Oh... Uh-huh..."
Having finally hung up the phone, his roommate Zhou Cheng, who had been holding back his laughter in the dorm, couldn't hold it in any longer.
"Hahaha! Feng, does your mother have some kind of misunderstanding about you?"
"As the campus hunk of our school, the girls chasing you could form a reinforced company."
"People post you on the campus crush wall every single day."
"It's just baffling how you think—you completely ignore all of them."
"Well, look at you now. If you still don't date anyone, you're going to have to go home for blind dates."
Hearing his good friend's teasing, Lin Feng felt quite helpless and could only reply, "I can't just say yes to every girl who chases me, can I?"
"The most important thing in a relationship is that both people genuinely love each other."
"Yeah, right, right..."
Zhou Cheng chuckled and said, "You don't even give people the slightest chance to interact, so how are you supposed to build feelings? How can there be genuine love?"
"How many cases of love at first sight are there really? What makes you think you'd just happen to run into one?"
Hearing this, Lin Feng fell silent for a second and said, "So... I should try dating?"
"......Fair enough. If I still don't bring a girlfriend home, my mom is really going to set up blind dates."
"Sigh, just to put an end to that idea of hers, I guess I need to find a girlfriend."
As soon as he said this, Zhou Cheng's eyes lit up.
If he remembered correctly, wasn't it about time for Liu Ruyan, the department belle, to come and confess her feelings?
Speaking of which, this department belle Liu Ruyan was truly devoted.
She came to confess to Lin Feng every single day, bringing a single rose a day, and she had kept it up for over three months! If she kept going today, given Feng's current attitude...
This thing was actually going to happen!!!
Thinking of this, Zhou Cheng was stunned, and then a mischievous grin spread across his face. "You said it yourself! Don't back out of going downstairs later."
This remark reminded Lin Feng.
Lately, it seemed there really had been a girl constantly confessing her feelings to him.
It had been going on for nearly three months now...
"Alright, if she comes again today, I'll say yes."
Lin Feng nodded.
This take-it-or-leave-it attitude made Zhou Cheng green with envy. "Look at you! Liu Ruyan is the department belle, after all!"
"Only someone as handsome as you could resist her continuous confessions for so many days."
"If it were me, I probably would've fallen on day one!"
"Tsk tsk tsk... Some people don't know how lucky they are—that's you!"
After venting his sarcasm at Lin Feng, Zhou Cheng grew somewhat nervous himself.
Would Liu Ruyan come today? Once this thought popped into his head, he grew too restless to sit still.
He simply stood up, walked over to the balcony, and began peering down at the area below the dormitory building:
"Bro, let me check for you—is Department Belle Liu coming today or not..."
Fortunately, after waiting a moment, Zhou Cheng spotted three or four girls surrounding a graceful figure holding a bouquet of roses as they crossed the athletic field.
"Lin Feng! Good buddy! She's here!" Zhou Cheng's voice cracked with excitement. "Downstairs, downstairs, get downstairs right now!"
Lin Feng was stunned, and then, dragged and pulled by Zhou Cheng, he walked down.
As the department belle, every move Liu Ruyan made attracted immense attention.
Not to mention, she was confessing to campus hunk Lin Feng! Besides, this was her 99th confession to Lin Feng! So by the time Lin Feng arrived downstairs at the dorm,
a crowd had already gathered as usual to watch the spectacle.
Everyone looked at him with eyes full of envy, jealousy, and frustration.
"Is Lin Feng really that hard to get? Department Belle Liu has been confessing to him for over three months straight!"
"To be exact, today is day 99. Don't ask me why I remember that number; it's just heartache."
"I wonder if it'll work out this time?"
"I bet it'll come to nothing. In the past three years or so, when have you ever seen Lin Feng accept any girl's confession?"
"True. Poor Department Belle Liu, giving her heart to the wrong person!"
"If I had Lin Feng's looks, I wouldn't even know how many girls I'd have dumped."
"That's why Lin Feng is the campus hunk and you're not!"
"......"
Ignoring the surrounding chatter, Liu Ruyan wore a gentle smile and walked gracefully up to Lin Feng:
"Classmate Lin Feng, today is the 99th day I've confessed to you. Will you accept my flowers?"
Flowers, a beauty, and 99 days of confessions...
The surrounding guys beat their chests and stamped their feet, hating that the person favored by the goddess wasn't themselves.
Meanwhile, the expressions on the faces of the surrounding girls were much more subtle.
Lin Feng was the man even the department belle couldn't win over.
If Lin Feng were to accept *their* pursuit, wouldn't that mean their own charm was even greater than the department belle's? Facing gazes of all sorts, Lin Feng paused and reached out to take the flowers.
"Um... thank you. Shall we... give it a try?"
*Crack!*
In the crowd, a chorus of heartbroken sounds rang out...
"What? Did I hear that right? The campus hunk actually got taken down?"
No one knew which girl started it, but suddenly the scene spiraled out of control.
"No, if he liked this style, he should've said so earlier!"
"Forget sending flowers and confessing for 99 days, I'd give myself away 99 days in a row if I could!!"
"The ancestors always said that a girl chasing a guy is like separating themselves with a single layer of gauze—why didn't I listen?!"
"My white moonlight is gone!!!"
"......"
Amidst a wave of wailing, Liu Ruyan's lips curled upward.
Instead of looking at Lin Feng, she turned around and walked toward the crowd.
"A bet's a bet, pay up."
With her back to Lin Feng, she said rather smugly to the few girls in front of her.
At this point, Lin Feng felt rather puzzled.
Why did Liu Ruyan turn around and leave right after he agreed to accept her confession?
And why was she going over to talk to the other girls?
Though those girls seemed to accompany Liu Ruyan whenever she came to confess.
Were they her roommates or something? "Eh? What's going on?"
Before he could ask, Zhou Cheng beside him shook his phone at Lin Feng.
"Iron trees don't bloom easily. The moment I yelled in the dorm chat, everyone regretted going out today and started demanding you treat us!"
"Huh? What are Liu Ruyan and her roommates talking about? Don't tell me they're going out to celebrate too?"
Once this thought arose, Zhou Cheng's mind became active.
The guys in his dorm were still single.
If they could arrange a joint celebration, wouldn't the opportunity present itself? Working for his brother's welfare was his unshirkable duty! Therefore, Zhou Cheng stepped forward with a smile and said to the girls:
"Should our two dorms have a mixer and go out to celebrate together?"
However, while Zhou Cheng wore a smile, the girls opposite him all wore straight faces.
One of them even bluntly rolled her eyes. "A mixer? Celebrate?"
"What's there to celebrate?"