The coincidence of my story with Tong Chen's in the Outer Chapters

  "A freshman in his first year of college managed to win over a beautiful flight attendant within half a month..." This news was like a bombshell, breaking the calm sky of Hua Yuan's gossip circle, which had been quiet for a long time. It also revitalized many idle "mother dog" and "father dog" fans overnight. As a result, in the following period, I would often be surrounded by several unfamiliar faces in the campus, cafeteria, or water room, who would use both carrot and stick to force me to confirm the authenticity of this news or reveal the latest developments between my friend and me. Meanwhile, San Baozi (Three Fatty) was often squatting in the toilet, taking advantage of the opportunity to read yellow books, when several burly men would kick open the toilet door with one foot, record his shameful behavior with their mobile phones, and try to extract valuable gossip news from him. Although this behavior ultimately did not pose a great threat or harm to me, it had a significant impact on San Baozi's future life. From then on, whenever he went to the toilet and was about to do his business, if there was no one standing next to him, he would suffer from constipation. This unconsciously verified the biological theory of "conditioned reflex" and made me feel shocked by the harm and diligence of the paparazzi in this society. During his break, Tong Chen came to school to find me, and we appeared together in a intimate posture on campus, which was a great treat for all gossip enthusiasts.

  Just as I was waiting boredly for Tong Chen to get off work today, Guo Cheng called. As a fellow English classmate who also holds the idea of "anti-English imperialism", Guo Cheng and I quickly became inseparable "class siblings" after several exchanges in English class.

  "Hey, I heard you're dating! And she's a flight attendant!" Guo Cheng's voice came through the phone before I could even exchange pleasantries.

  "Really? What's wrong? You object?"

  "I strongly opposed it! You are also too irresponsible! Our school originally had few boys, and the high-end ones were even fewer! Don't you know that you have a certain historical responsibility and mission?! Your behavior has seriously caused the loss of our school's rare resources and set a very bad image!" I, who was known for being carefree, didn't expect to be left speechless by a little girl at this moment. And I even more didn't expect my love affair could be linked to a certain level of awareness by Guo Ceng, making me quickly feel a strong sense of guilt.

  "Can you escape responsibility by not speaking?! I'm now representing all the schoolgirls to punish you!"

  "Really?! I'm just talking about a little romance and you're already so shocked, Miss Guo the beauty?!"

  "Stop shirking and face the music! Now I'm punishing you by making you accompany me on a trip!!"

  "What's wrong with me?! Aren't you just trying to ask me out?! Although I'm already taken now, I still belong to the people of this great nation and our overseas compatriots. If you want to ask me out, just say it straight, no need to beat around the bush! And stop making me feel like I'm some kind of saint, it's embarrassing! This dishonest style is really not something I advocate for!"

  "Alright, alright! I really need your help!" Guo Cheng said impatiently over the phone.

  "What's there to say!" I said with equal impatience.

  "It's inconvenient on the phone! I'll wait for you at the side door, where are you going to find me!" Guo Cheng's requests were often like orders, and he wouldn't even wait for a response before hanging up the phone.

  In a seemingly forced state, I met Guo Cheng 10 minutes later at the side gate of the school. She was dressed in a way that always made people's eyes focus on her in the crowd. When she saw me, she first gave me a smile full of temptation as usual.

  "Speak! Apart from betraying and selling out the code of chivalry, I can agree to anything!" I skipped those seemingly hypocritical pleasantries and directly got to the point with Guo Cheng.

  "With just a few pounds of flesh, you're not even worth considering! Who'd want to buy that?" Guo Cheng lightly punched me and said with a smile, "I want to buy something, can you be my advisor?"

  "What are you selling?!"

  "Men's stuff!"

  "Things for men? You still want me to be your advisor? ... Don't tell me you're going to buy underwear and have me model it for you..."

  "If you have this hobby, I'll satisfy you another day, but today isn't what you expected..." Guo Cheng said to me with gritted teeth.

  "What do you want me to do?! I'm risking my girlfriend's jealousy to see you! You can't be too excessive!" I pretended to be obedient.

  Said to Guo Cheng.

  "Great! I've always had certain expectations of you, so I optimistically thought that the kind of thing 'valuing material wealth over friendship' wouldn't happen to you, but judging from your current words and actions, it seems like there's a strong tendency for me to be disappointed..." Guo Cheng's face was flushed with excitement, making it hard for me to tell whether he had truly reached an emotional state or if he was just influenced by my teasing.

  "It seems that today I have to use actual action to awaken your dying confidence!" Guo Cheng didn't directly respond to my words, but instead gave me a complex look before turning around and leaving, seemingly using body language to ruthlessly express "come or not, it's up to you!" In consideration of maintaining the unstable friendship we had just established, I had no choice but to follow Guo Cheng out of the side door with a humble attitude, and innocently looked at every pair of sympathetic eyes that were cast upon me.

  It wasn't until we arrived at the destination that Guo Ceng wanted to go to - the Golden Sun Shopping Mall next to the Sofia Church - that she told me that the purpose of inviting me on this trip was to ask me to help her choose a birthday gift for her boyfriend.

  "Hey! That's not right! Weren't you always wandering around school as a single person?" I asked in surprise.

  "Hehe! Isn't that so I can easily communicate with more classmates? If everyone knows I have a boyfriend, how can I still work with the handsome guys!!"

  "How could I have known that you were preparing for elopement all along!!" I asked with feigned surprise.

  "Go die! What do you know!? This is called multi-cultivation and then key selection! Now, locking yourself onto one goal, isn't that a loss! This world is full of choices!" Guo Cheng said to me with a sly smile.

  "I really wish that one day a hero will stand up and seek justice for those male compatriots who have been bullied by you."

  "Great! I really hope that a heroic knight riding a white horse will appear before me, letting me experience the thrill of being on the verge of death! What's with your interest?" Guo Cheng asked me with a sly smile after a moment of indulgence, his familiar smile reminding me of my first foreign friend Marco's face from school.

  "I'm allergic to horsehair... forget it, let's just leave it to those who are capable... Why do you need me to help you pick a birthday gift for your boyfriend? Don't you know what he likes?" I asked in puzzlement.

  "We actually only started dating after the college entrance exam, and before that, we hadn't even talked much. You say it's weird or not? So, I was actually together with him for a very short time and didn't understand him well," Guo Cheng said in a tone that was hard to make out.

  As for what Guo Cheng experienced, I also had a deep feeling about this phenomenon, especially when going to school to pick up the admission notice. It would be surprising to find that people who hadn't exchanged a word in three years, and even had deep grudges against each other, were now hand in hand, intimate and inseparable on campus. This made me feel that some of the essential characteristics of revolutionary work were still well preserved.

  For those poor couples who were suppressed by teachers and parents during their high school years and couldn't express themselves emotionally, the college entrance exam seemed to have become a ritual that hinted at the possibility of legal love. During this period, they would show off with multiple partners or with a vengeful attitude, or with a pathological desire to show off, strutting around campus with an air of "I'm already graduated, what can you do to me?"

  Guo Cheng was always at a loss for what gift to buy her boyfriend, and I was even more perplexed than Guo Cheng. Although they were both boys, the only common interest that all boys had, as far as I could determine, was their fondness for adult videos. If this were given as a birthday present, it might have an unexpectedly good effect on improving their relationship and taking it to the next level. However, due to the recent severe decline in quality and shortage of adult videos in the market, this idea only flashed through my mind before being dismissed. Guo Cheng's habitual stinginess also added to the difficulty of this purchase.

  "After all, you still have some emotional foundation... It's just once a year, can't you show some love? I feel sorry for him! Is it right to buy such cheap things to get rid of your boyfriend?" Guo Cheng's ugly behavior finally awakened my sense of justice.

  "What do you know! We are now purely consumer class! Buying those luxurious and decadent things can only corrupt our simple hearts, didn't the hardships and simplicity of education since childhood leave a deep impression on you?! Guo Cheng spoke to me with a barrage of words, at this moment I could only silently lament that in the realm of nonsense, there is always a higher level, so I changed my expression to a profound one and quietly followed behind Guo Cheng..."

  "Wow! Look at the beauty!!" As Guo Chenggang and I walked out of Jintaiyang's gate, Guo suddenly became excited and whispered to me, seemingly her demand for beauties made me feel embarrassed. If it weren't for his flowing long hair and sexy figure, I would definitely think that a normal man was standing next to me.

  I quickly forgot the past as I followed Guo Cheng's gaze, and saw that a familiar figure was chatting and laughing with a man in his thirties while carrying things to get on the car, seemingly very intimate. When the familiar back turned into a familiar face, my expression could no longer be described as surprised. For the first time, I saw Tong Chen being somewhat intimate with a male other than me, leaving me at a loss for what to do. I didn't know what all of this meant, but now I've started to think wildly and feel a tightness in my chest.

  "Hey, what's wrong with you? You've been staring at the beautiful girl for so long that you're stunned!" Guo Cheng asked, shaking my arm after I remained silent for a while.

  "Ah......you go back first......I have something to do......" I said a few sentences drowsily to Guo Cheng, then hailed a taxi and pushed him into it. After the car drove away, I took out my phone and called Tong Chen. After two rings, she picked up.

  "Hello? What's up? Missing me? I'll be right back!" Tong Chen said eagerly after answering the phone.

  "Where are you now?" I asked Tong Chen, controlling my emotions.

  I am outside accompanying friends to buy things.

  "Friend? Male or female?" I couldn't help but ask.

  "Haha...... girl!" I saw Tong Chen say this sentence while seemingly playfully sticking out her tongue and smiling at the man, but when I heard this answer, I couldn't help but start thinking wildly.

  "Where are you?" Tong Chen asked me.

  "I... am just behind you, not far away..." Tong Chen heard my words and subconsciously turned around, "Do you see me?" I asked with a bitter smile after seeing Tong Chen look this way. After seeing me, Tong Chen quickly jogged to my side.

  "What are you doing here?" Tong Chen asked me in surprise.

  "I also accompanied a friend to buy things." I said with a somewhat depressed and bitter smile.

  "Really? What a coincidence?"

  "Yes! I also think it's quite a coincidence... no coincidence, no book... I won't disturb you, I'll leave first..." After blurting out a few incoherent sentences, I turned around and left, ignoring Tong Chen's repeated calls of my name behind me.

  ...