Six twenty.

Zhao Ming drove to the foot of the girls' dormitory in a mad hurry.

And then he called Zhang Ruowei and Zhang Ruowei did not pick up, and messaged Zhang Ruowei and Zhang Ruowei did not answer.

Zhao Ming stewed downstairs with no idea what to do. After a long wait he ended up calling Xu Ye.

"Xu Ye. I call and she won't pick up, I message and she won't answer. What am I supposed to do now?"

Xu Ye heard him out, thinking: Zhang Ruowei. You really can stir things up.

What he said was, "Don't panic. Let me ask my girlfriend first. Wait for my call."

"Right!"

Once the call ended Xu Ye messaged Chen Qingqing.

Xu Ye: "Qingqing. See what Zhang Ruowei's doing in the dorm right now."

Chen Qingqing got the message, turned around to look at Zhang Ruowei and answered quickly. "She's watching a Korean drama."

Xu Ye: "Never mind, I'll just ask her myself. Zhao Ming's downstairs waiting for her."

Chen Qingqing: "Playing strategist again, are you."

Xu Ye: "This is called doing a good deed."

Xu Ye messaged Zhang Ruowei directly. "Miss Zhang. What's going on with you? Zhao Ming's downstairs going around in circles and you won't even answer him?"

Zhang Ruowei had been waiting for Xu Ye to message her. She answered fast. "That bastard Zhao Ming suddenly tells me today that this weekend he's taking me to meet a friend of his. So I ask, and it turns out this friend is a woman, they were at the same high school, and they studied abroad in the same city."

"You mean Yu Jiaying?"

"You know her?"

"Met her yesterday. No, wait — is there something wrong with you? Yu Jiaying's family and Zhao Ming's family have known each other since their grandfathers' day. Zhao Ming looks at Yu Jiaying the way a mouse looks at a cat. You're not seriously thinking there's something going on between them?"

"That damn Zhao Ming. All he told me was that they'd known each other a long time. He didn't tell…