"Hmph hmph hmph~"

Sunday morning, Jinghe District, Bai Yi's house.

In her bedroom, Bai Yi was humming a song, nervously clutching a small flower while lying on the bed, intently staring at her phone in her hand.

On the screen of the messaging app plane, she was brewing a message to send to Yan Huan,

"Yan Huan, the weather outside is nice today, do you have some time? Want to go out and play together?"

She extended her slender fingers, tapping "tap tap tap" to enter the message into the input box, then turned her head to lie down on the bed, puckering her lips to think it over for a while. 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

Eventually, she finally made up her mind, closed her eyes, and pressed the "send" button.

Right after sending it, she let out a "whew," placed the lit-up phone on her face, and also clasped her hands together, devoutly bowing to the phone three times.

While bowing, she muttered,

"Whew, damn phone, please make sure Yan Huan's reply is an agreement! Agree, agree, agree, agree..."

In the invisible room of a pretty girl, she did such a foolish act without any decorum, but fate did not let her down, and soon the phone chimed,

"Ding~"

"Ah, it's here!"

Hearing the sound, Bai Yi immediately brightened her eyes, lifted her head, and cradled the phone in her hands, carefully reading the message Yan Huan sent,

Yan Huan: "Sorry, the kitty apologizes"

"Sorry, I have other plans today, can we arrange a time to meet later?"

Seeing this, Bai Yi instantly turned grey, resisting the urge to cough up blood, shakily extending her hand, pretending not to care as she replied,

"Ah, okay, then see you at school tomorrow~"

"Mm-hmm."

As soon as she saw the "mm-hmm" from Yan Huan, she immediately threw the phone onto the bed in anger, grabbing a nearby long Kuromi pillow, and sat on it, tormenting it,

"Damn, damn! Damn Yan Huan! And all you replied with is 'mm-hmm', huh?! I gathered a lot of courage to invite you, you know!"

Fuming, she sat on the pillow, as if interrogating an invisible Yan Huan beneath it, spinning around in agitation.

After a while of this interrogation, she miserably flipped over on the bed with the pillow, drifting into wild thoughts,

"No way, no way, is Yan Huan really mad about what happened that day?"

Thinking for a moment, she flipped over again, showing a relieved smile,

"Oh dear, no way, Yan Huan's not that petty... I know Yan Huan better than anyone else..."

But flipping over, her face was once again filled with horror,

"Could it be because I turned him down earlier, he's already agreed to be someone else's dance partner? Is that why he's been so cold to me lately..."

Bai Yi's face turned pale as she quickly looked back at her phone.

Opening Yan Huan's social media, attempting to find any possible clues, proving that he might have something going on with another girl.

But this guy Yan Huan, like many other boys, hardly ever posts on social media!

Looks so handsome but never posts anything for me to see, making him a complete mystery...

Annoying, annoying, annoying!

"..."

Bai Yi lay on the bed squirming for a long time, but then she suddenly thought of something, and opened her own social media.

Compared to the silent Yan Huan, Bai Yi is a frequent user of social media.

She often uploads pictures of herself looking pretty, and leaves some suggestive words.

For example, the post she shared yesterday:

"What a beautiful flower, I wonder what its language is? Feels so pretty, I really want to give it to the person I like..."

"Picture"

Bai Yi trembled and clicked on the densely packed list of likes, but as she scrolled through, she found no likes from Yan Huan...

None!!

Sweat popped out on Bai Yi's forehead.

But that wasn't the end of it; she had just closed the list of likes to look at other posts.

Among a swarm of girls with comments like "cute cute" and "so pretty wow," a comment from classmate Yahashiki stood out glaringly,

"Ah, this flower is a Tumi Flower, isn't it? The flower language is 'beauty at the end of the road,' usually used when breaking up or when a relationship falls apart, right..."

"..."

Who asked you, huh?!

Why do you know so much about this?

Right, Yan Huan and Yahashiki are also friends, right?

Could he have seen that comment and thought my feelings for him were broken, that's why he didn't like it, and why he was so cold today?!

Upon seeing this, Bai Yi's face turned dark, but she still deleted this post.

"..."

After doing all this, she did not get any answers, but rather felt more and more irritable and restless.

After struggling for a long time, she lay on the bed, drenched in sweat, staring blankly at the ceiling, muttering as if burnt out,

"What am I doing, idiot... it's just that Yan Huan didn't agree to my invitation, that's all... ugh, and I thought Ye Shiyu was the repressive one..."

"Ding~"

The next second, the phone beside her chimed again.

She blinked, immediately sat up, and turned her head to pick up the phone.

But on the screen, it was not a message from Yan Huan, but...

"Ye Shiyu?!"

Bai Yi's eyes widened, her mouth stiffening slightly as she looked at the message she sent,

"Do you have time today?"

"..."

...

...

In a shopping mall in Jinghe District.

Bai Yi, with a light makeup, wore a casual camel cardigan, white shirt paired with a pleated long skirt for a spring look.