Chapter 43

It was still that same toilet. In just a few short minutes, Su Yuan found herself back at the scene, but this time, she was somewhat reluctant.

Two pairs of eyes gazed at each other. Lan Qiuzhu, feeling a bit awkward, said, "Um... classmate, are you okay?"

Su Yuan grunted. How could she be okay? Her butt was almost split open! It still hurt!

Seeing that she didn't respond, Lan Qiuzhu tried to express her apology. She knew that the fall had really hurt her junior. Now, thinking about it, she felt a bit regretful. The other party was just a little girl; why had she taken it so seriously?

Lan Qiuzhu came from a martial arts family and had been trained from a young age. As she grew older, she gradually became a beauty, and opportunities to use her skills became fewer.

In fact, Lan Qiuzhu's parents didn't really want their daughter to practice martial arts. With the development of society, reading and studying were the right paths. Even her parents had abandoned martial arts to become business owners and teachers, let alone their daughter.

However, Lan Qiuzhu often joined in when her grandfather was training her brother, learning a few moves here and there.

Although she later became a beauty and developed a sense of propriety, she didn't use her skills much, but the foundation was still there. When she saw Su Yuan's smooth and well-formed attack, it immediately reactivated the few moves she had learned.

"Let me rub it for you," Lan Qiuzhu thought she had a good idea. Her junior had fallen and was in pain, so she could help by rubbing it.

"No!" Su Yuan dodged.

Lan Qiuzhu's eyes twinkled, thinking her junior was just shy. "Don't be afraid, let your senior sister rub it for you. By the way, my name is Lan Qiuzhu. What happened just now was a misunderstanding; I didn't mean to knock you down."

Seeing her insistence on rubbing her butt, Su Yuan felt both embarrassed and angry. She quickly said, "No need to rub it. I believe you didn't do it on purpose."

"But you fell so hard, are you sure you're okay?"

"I'm fine."

"Does it still hurt?"

"A little."

"Let me rub it for you, then."

Su Yuan rolled her eyes. "How persistent are you!"

Lan Qiuzhu laughed. "I'm just worried you might be hurt. I'm sure that fall must have been very painful!"

"Definitely!" Su Yuan said, her face full of dissatisfaction.

If someone simply fell to the ground, it might not hurt much if the ground was soft. But in reality, even a slightly hard surface could cause serious problems. Especially when someone fell almost flat on their back like Su Yuan did, the pain was almost unbearable, and it was no wonder she had tears in her eyes.

"It's my fault! Do you want me to take you for an X-ray?"

Su Yuan shook her head. Getting an X-ray seemed like overkill. She said, "No need. It just hurts a bit, nothing serious."

"Then let me treat you to a meal."

"Uh, no need." Actually, Su Yuan was quite attracted to the idea of a free meal, especially with a beautiful girl. But as the saying goes, when someone is overly nice, it's usually for a bad reason. Su Yuan's intuition told her that this girl, Lan Qiuzhu, had ulterior motives.

From the beginning, her approach seemed very purposeful.

"Oh, that's a pity," Lan Qiuzhu sighed, but she found the junior girl even cuter.

"We've talked for so long, and I still don't know your name," she said.

"You don't recognize me?" Su Yuan was a bit surprised.

Lan Qiuzhu was taken aback. "Why should I recognize you? Are you famous in school?"

Su Yuan came to her senses. She suddenly realized she had fallen into a misconception. She always thought she was notorious in school, and everyone should know her. But at this moment, she knew she was overestimating herself. The world would keep turning without her, and what qualifications did she have to expect everyone in the school to know her?

Her reputation was indeed poor, and it was even getting worse. Therefore, Su Yuan often felt people pointing and whispering about her. Influenced by this, she thought everyone was talking about her behind her back. In reality, the number of people who had heard of her was probably very small.

They were the so-called Xiao fans.

Su Yuan felt like crying. What did it mean to see the light after the clouds cleared? It turned out she wasn't in such a bad state after all.

Her confidence returned, and she smiled at Lan Qiuzhu. "I'm Su Yuan. Su as in Su Dongpo, and Yuan as in origin. I'm a sophomore this year."

"Su Yuan? Why does a girl have such a name?"

Su Yuan's expression froze. She realized that this senior sister had always thought she was a girl. No wonder she wanted to rub her butt, thinking she had ulterior motives. A girl rubbing a boy's butt was quite ambiguous, but between two girls, it wasn't strange.

Realizing she might have said something wrong, Lan Qiuzhu laughed. "I'll call you Su Su."

Su Yuan nodded numbly, not bothering to explain her gender. The more she explained, the more confusing it would get. She might even be considered a psychological deviant.

"Oh, right, I almost forgot the main thing. Here, this is for you!" Lan Qiuzhu took out a stack of application forms from her bag.

"Anime club?" Su Yuan looked at it, a bit surprised.

"Yes, I'm the president of the anime club. I wanted to invite you to join, but it turned into a big misunderstanding."

Su Yuan's cheeks turned a bit red. She had misjudged Lan Qiuzhu's intentions.

But Lan Qiuzhu being the president of the anime club was unexpected! She looked more like the president of the martial arts club.

"I have a few more forms here. If you find any good candidates, feel free to introduce them to the club."

Su Yuan took the forms and said goodbye to Lan Qiuzhu. As for joining the club, she hadn't really considered it. Now that Lan Qiuzhu thought she was a girl, Su Yuan certainly didn't want to risk exposing her identity.

Anime club, she would have to be careful and avoid their activities.

As she was walking, she passed by an experimental building and saw a woman in a white lab coat from a distance. The woman also saw her and waved.

"Xia Jie, what are you doing here?" Su Yuan ran over, smiling.

Xia Linfei naturally patted her head. "I'm a graduate student here, and I do experiments in this building."

So that's it! Su Yuan nodded. Seeing that Xia Linfei was holding a tray of reagents, she offered, "Let me help you carry it."

Interpersonal relationships are quite mysterious. Some people naturally get along, while others clash immediately. For example, Lu Wei in her class, though they hadn't directly clashed, seemed to have a mutual animosity. On the other hand, Xia Linfei gave Su Yuan a special feeling, a sense of familiarity as if they had known each other for years.

Su Yuan liked the wildness in Xia Linfei, especially when it was wrapped in a gentle and mature aura, revealing itself subtly, making her appear both strong and gentle.

"Su Yuan, what happened to your butt? Why are you walking differently?"

"I didn't mean to. It still hurts," Su Yuan said with a bitter smile, explaining the misunderstanding in the library.

"I don't think it's entirely her fault. If she wasn't skilled, she might have been the one knocked down."

Su Yuan nodded.

The building where Xia Linfei worked was a specialized experimental building for biochemistry students and professors at Binhe University, built with a large investment and equipped with the most advanced instruments in Binhe City. Many graduate students like Xia Linfei were conducting research in this building.

"Xia Jie, you're studying molecular biochemistry, right?" As they passed through a locked gate and then a glass door, Su Yuan looked at the precision instruments in several rooms, and an idea flashed in her mind.

"Yes, what's up?"

"What does molecular biochemistry do?"

Xia Linfei laughed. "Nothing special. You're studying biology, right? Molecular biochemistry is a branch of biology, focusing on molecular-level research."

"Is it about modifying and analyzing DNA and genes in cells?"

Xia Linfei placed the reagents on the table and nodded. "That's genetic engineering. It's not much different from molecular biochemistry, just with different names and focuses."

Su Yuan was excited. "Can it also check chromosomes?"

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