That afternoon Yuan Yuqi and Zhang Xiaoyan were going out shopping for clothes together. Zhang Xinzhou had already talked it over with them before the break started. Li Tongwen was too embarrassed to go along, so once they'd eaten he took the subway back to school by himself.

There wasn't a soul in the dorm.

Zhang Xinzhou had gone out somewhere with Yan Qing.

Yang Fei had spent all three days of the New Year's holiday taking the trading company's campus agents out for meals.

As for Xu Ye, there was no need to even ask. Even when it wasn't a holiday he was hardly ever in the dorm.

Li Tongwen pulled out a chair and sat down. Going back over the morning in his head, he found a smile on his face without meaning to put one there.

After a short rest he got up and started cleaning the dorm.

It wasn't until five in the afternoon that the three roommates came back, one after another.

"Here, here, here — try some of the frosted hawthorn I brought back. Sour and sweet at the same time. Insanely good." Yang Fei came in cradling a box of hawthorns and gave all three of his roommates a few to try.

Xu Ye ate two, decided they weren't bad, and asked, "Where'd you get them?"

"New place inside the Industrial University. Only opened recently. I was walking past and picked some up."

Xu Ye was reaching for two more when Yang Fei pulled the box back. "That's all I bought. Don't sit there and eat them all on your own."

"Go screw yourself."

Xu Ye stuck a leg out and kicked at him. Yang Fei twisted out of the way, but he still let Xu Ye have two more.

Xu Ye had no intention of telling Yang Fei about running into Li Lulu at Earl No. 1.

The two of them had broken up for good by now anyway, and bringing her up again would only give Yang Fei something else to be miserable about.

Zhang Xinzhou grinned. "Xu Ye, where'd you…