"Message sent, but the recipient has declined to receive it."

Li Lulu looked at the notice on WeChat and for a moment couldn't make sense of it.

She called Zheng Guotao right away, and that didn't go through either — only a recording, repeating itself over and over. "Hello. The number you have dialed is currently busy. Please try again later…"

Li Lulu felt the first faint stirring of unease.

Because this morning, when she'd messaged and called Yang Fei, she'd gotten exactly the same thing. She had guessed then that Yang Fei had blocked her, and it hadn't made her angry. After as long as she'd spent around him, she knew exactly what kind of person he was, and she had never once pictured the two of them going the distance, so being blocked didn't move her mood a millimeter. She already had a new option lined up.

The new option was, naturally, Zheng Guotao, who came out ahead of Yang Fei on every count. They had only met a handful of times, but she already knew his family was in business in a big way, and it seemed to her that Zheng Guotao was the better fit by a distance.

So what was this?

Why wouldn't the WeChat messages go through, and why wouldn't the call connect?

He…

He hasn't blocked me too, has he?

The further Li Lulu followed that thought, the more it worried her.

Because she still didn't know where Zheng Guotao worked or where he lived. If he had blocked her, she couldn't have found him if she'd gone looking.

… Chen Qingqing lay slumped over the desk in her dorm, her arms folded gently under her head, waking her phone screen every so often. When she saw that the hour they'd agreed on had already come and gone, she said quietly to herself, "How is he still not here~"

Zhang Ruowei was puzzling over much the same thing at about the same moment. What is with Zhao Ming today? It's Friday already and he still hasn't come to get me.

Except that Chen…