Su Can was somewhat dazed.
He even began to doubt whether the girl Chu Youwei had some kind of short-circuit in her brain.
Even after he had been smeared and slandered like that, she was still actually worrying about whether he would be able to find a girlfriend.
Without even thinking, the words slipped right out of his mouth.
"It's fine!"
"Aren't you still here?"
As soon as he said that, however, both of them fell instantly silent.
Su Can was filled with awkwardness.
*Oh no!*
*I accidentally let it slip.*
*My ulterior motives were exposed way too fast.*
Meanwhile, Chu Youwei's little face flushed crimson in an instant.
She hadn't expected that Su Can would be so direct either.
.......
Frightened, Su Can hurriedly waved his hands and explained, "No, no, no!"
"That's not what I meant, don't get me wrong."
"I just meant, aren't the two of us friends?"
"As for girlfriends and all that, whether I find one or not doesn't matter. As long as you're here keeping me company, that's enough!"
The moment those words left his mouth, Su Can wanted to slap himself a few times.
Forget it.
He'd better not explain.
The more he explained, the harder it was to clear things up.
.......
Right at that moment, Chu Youwei asked softly, "Su Can?"
"Am I really that ugly?"
In truth, a large part of the reason for Chu Youwei's introverted personality stemmed from a lack of confidence in her own appearance.
When she was very young, her father had disappeared without a trace, leaving her and her mother to depend on each other for survival.
Moreover, Chu Youwei's mother was in poor health, and her meager wages barely sufficed to cover Chu Youwei's tuition fees.
Their daily life was extremely strained.
Fortunately, Chu Youwei was very sensible. From a very young age, she had started carrying a hemp sack around to scavenge for discarded items to help supplement the household income.
However, pretty little clothes and dresses—things that other girls her age took for granted—were completely out of reach for Chu Youwei during her childhood.
Year after year, she wore ragged, ill-fitting clothes, which, combined with a strange, lingering odor about her, caused the young Chu Youwei to endure countless malicious glances and cold shoulders.
This led her to live in a state of deep self-doubt and introversion.
One could tell simply from her hairstyle and the way she dressed: all year round, she wore a thick, heavy fringe that hid her pretty face tightly away, not daring to let anyone see it.
Her graceful figure was likewise hidden away year-round inside various oversized, ill-fitting coats.
This had always been Chu Youwei's mindset: when buying clothes, you had to buy them several sizes too big, because once you grew taller, you could still wear them.
Therefore, when she asked this question, she was not joking.
She was genuinely worried from the bottom of her heart that Su Can would look down on her and despise her.
.......
Yet, to Su Can's ears, this question sounded a bit like showing off.
He had seen Chu Youwei when she was dazzling and stunning enough to captivate everyone present.
And the Chu Youwei of ten years later made him feel so inferior that he wouldn't dare harbor any thoughts of aiming above his station.
That self-confidence and queen-like aura, resembling a flower on a snowy peak, left Su Can completely in awe.
Everyone else thought Lin Shanshan was the campus belle, but only Su Can knew that if the girl in front of him were to unleash her true beauty, Lin Shanshan wouldn't even be fit to carry her shoes!
.......
Consequently, upon hearing these words, Su Can naturally placed his hand against Chu Youwei's forehead and asked with a puzzled expression, "You don't have a fever!"
"What kind of nonsense are you talking about?"
"How could you possibly be ugly?"
"Let me tell you, you're ten thousand times prettier than that Lin Shanshan, okay?"
Although Su Can's tone was utterly sincere, mentioning something like "ten thousand times" obviously sounded like he was just trying to comfort her.
Therefore, with a trace of desolation in her eyes, Chu Youwei said, "Su Can, thank you for comforting me!"
"But I still have a pretty good idea of what I look like."
"I'm really glad you can say that."
Now it was Su Can's turn to grow anxious.
*Why won't you believe me even after I said that?*
Just at that moment, Su Can noticed several students setting up grounds inside the school, pasting up colorful flags and notices bearing the words [Welcome New Students] everywhere.
That made him suddenly remember: because of the consecutive torrential rains this year, the freshman welcome party had been postponed time and again.
The [Freshman Welcome Party], which was originally supposed to be held in September, had been dragged out until tonight to finally take place.
If he remembered correctly, in his past life, Lin Shanshan had walked out in a white dress, performing the song "Because of Love" for everyone, instantly stunning the entire audience and becoming the undisputed top choice in the campus belle selection for the next three years, turning into the white moonlight in the hearts of countless male students.
........
However, since he had already been reborn, naturally he wasn't going to let Lin Shanshan have such an easy time.
Campus belle?
Hand her over to me!
At this thought, Su Can immediately turned to Chu Youwei and said, "If I remember correctly, we only have elective classes this afternoon, right?"
Hearing this, Chu Youwei tilted her head and thought for a moment before nodding, having no idea what Su Can was planning to do.
To her surprise, Su Can reached out and grabbed her arm directly.
With a light chuckle, he said, "Good!"
"Then let's skip class! It doesn't matter if we make it up next time!"
With that, Su Can pulled Chu Youwei along, breaking into a jog all the way out of the school gates.
Anyway, the Bitcoins had already been bought for today, and he couldn't think of any new money-making ideas in the short term.
So he might as well use this time to properly experience college campus life once again.
In his past life, he had been too busy acting like a desperate simp; this time, Su Can was going to make up for all the youth he had lost.
.......
As soon as the two stepped out of the school gates, they headed straight for a hair salon.
Chu Youwei was still somewhat puzzled.
What was Su Can trying to do?
Slipping out of school by ditching class just to bring her to get a haircut?
"Tony?"
"Give my friend here a bad-girl big wave!"
"Make it look natural, and ditch the bangs—expose her entire face."
Hearing Su Can put it that way, the stylist Tony's eyes instantly lit up.
Since it was currently the year 2013, popular women's hairstyles were generally classic straight black hair with blunt bangs, women's short hair, or bobs.
Long hairstyles like big waves only started becoming trendy after 2018.
At first glance, Tony hadn't thought much of the friend Su Can had brought along.
But when he brushed her bangs aside to take a look, he was instantly struck dumb with amazement.
Such a gorgeous face shape had actually been covered up by such a large, heavy block of bangs!
What a terrible waste of natural beauty!
Furthermore, after pondering it for a moment in his mind, Tony was surprised to find that long big waves really were the most suitable hairstyle for this girl!
Could this young student-looking guy actually be an expert?