Chapter 4: Only Requires One Proposal, and She'd Marry Him

99 Proposals Rejected, the Cold Campus Belle Forcefully Pursues Me, Jiang Muye

Bigshot Moe Girl

"I'm not refusing anymore. I want to be with him."

Xia Xiran had already realized how important Jiang Muye was in her heart.

Studying was important, but love was important too.

This time, she was unwilling to let him slip by.

Jiang Muye had naturally seen Xia Xiran just now.

But when he thought of her indifference, his heart went cold.

There was nothing wrong with being alone. Why lose your pride?

Jiang Muye wasn't so foolish as to keep wallowing in self-pity, handing his dignity to the other party only to have it trampled underfoot.

Keeping tabs on Xia Xiran had become a habit, so this time, not paying her any attention had used up almost all of Jiang Muye's courage.

Fortunately, he had finally done it bravely.

After escorting Leng Ruoli to the bottom of the girls' dormitory building, Jiang Muye said gratefully, "Thank you for today."

"It's nothing," Leng Ruoli probed, "Are you okay?"

His face looked so haggard and exhausted.

Leng Ruoli's heart ached.

How she wished the person he liked was her.

No need for 99 proposals. Just one, and she would marry him.

Jiang Muye forced a smile. "Of course I'm fine. I'm an unkillable cockroach."

"Okay," Leng Ruoli tried her best to smile.

"I'll be going first." Jiang Muye gave a faint nod, then ran off into the rain holding his umbrella.

Watching that tall figure gradually disappear before her eyes, Leng Ruoli felt both joy and worry.

The joy was that Jiang Muye's proposal hadn't succeeded, so she still had her chances.

The worry was that she didn't want to see the person she liked keep getting hurt.

Before, it had been Jiang Muye protecting her.

Now it was her turn to protect Jiang Muye.

…

【Congratulations, Host, on successfully signing in at the dormitory once. You have obtained one million rmb.】

The system's message rang out.

Jiang Muye saw the balance panel receive one million rmb.

This system made money much faster than he'd thought.

Sure enough, when you fail in love, a little money comes to soothe the wounded soul.

Jiang Muye put away his umbrella, wrung the water from his clothes, and hurried into the dormitory.

The moment he stepped inside, he was bowled over by the stench.

"Holy shit, did the school's cesspit explode?! This stinks!"

Jiang Muye pinched his nose and started retreating to the doorway.

He found three roommates gathered around a small stool cooking luosifen.

That smell was foul enough to choke the heavens.

Jiang Muye was starting to have trouble breathing.

"Where's the stink? It's fragrant as hell. One bite and you feel like an immortal." Old He snorted. "Too bad you can't stomach it. You're missing out."

Chen Ge, who was slurping his noodles, looked up to see Jiang Muye dripping wet. He immediately jumped up from the stool and ran to the balcony to collect his clothes. "Mother of god, it's raining! I haven't brought in my underwear yet!"

"Go to hell, Little White Dove. I thought you were worried about me, but it turns out those stinking underpants of yours are more important!" Jiang Muye said angrily.

Chen Ge had fair skin, and his name sounded like "pigeon," so everyone in the dorm just called him Little White Dove.

Little White Dove collected a few pairs of underpants with an air of complete justification and said, "If I don't bring them in, what am I supposed to wear? Streak around naked? Besides, it's not like you've never been caught in the rain before."

"You animal! Listen to what you're saying!" Jiang Muye rolled up his sleeves to give Little White Dove a beating.

The dorm head, Kai, quickly tossed a towel to Jiang Muye and said, "Hurry up and dry off with the towel. Go change into some clean clothes, or you'll really catch a cold."

"At least Kai has a heart." Jiang Muye chuckled.

"I treat you fine too, you know. Look, I knew you hadn't eaten dinner and don't like luosifen, so I specially went to the cafeteria to get you food. Still hot. It's got that pork with preserved vegetables you love. Expensive too. Six yuan a portion!" Little White Dove declared loudly.

Jiang Muye looked and saw there really was a boxed meal on his desk.

At that moment, he was genuinely a little touched.

Even though these three were loud and boisterous, seemed heartless, they were really sharp-tongued but soft-hearted.

Jiang Muye wiped his hair, then changed into clean clothes and dumped the wet ones into the laundry basket.

He planned to take them to the laundry room tomorrow.

Then he heard Old He's strange voice. "Muzi, don't you have an umbrella? Why'd you still get rained on?"

Jiang Muye sighed. "It's a long story."

Little White Dove said, "To make it short, he got rejected by the Campus Belle Xia again, obviously. Otherwise, would he be out in the rain?"

Jiang Muye walked over and slapped Little White Dove hard on the back, saying through gritted teeth, "If you can eat, then don't talk."

Little White Dove nearly choked.

Kai said earnestly, "Muzi, listen to your big bro here. Nothing in this world is hard—if you're willing to give up. If this one doesn't work out, we'll just find another girl. Plenty of people like you anyway."

Old He said, "Everyone in our dorm has a girlfriend except you, still a bachelor. You're dragging down our dorm's relationship success rate!"

Little White Dove nodded. "He's right. They say chasing a girl is like climbing a mountain, but yours is Mount Everest! You've proposed 99 times and she still hasn't budged. Do you want to graduate still a single dog?"

But Jiang Muye just opened the meal box and started eating. "What's wrong with being a single dog? With no woman in your heart, you draw your sword like a god."

Having gone through those 99 heart-wrenching proposals, Jiang Muye had finally come around.

Before, he thought others turned back after hitting a wall, while he wanted to push the wall down.

In the end, he realized he'd been wrong.

If you want to push the wall down, the other person has to let you.

Clearly, Xia Xiran had no such intention.

When he was out in the rain, she didn't care at all. When he burned his hand cooking for her, she just gave him a faint glance, not a single word of concern.

He had proposed 99 times because he didn't want to look back one day and regret not going all out. And now he didn't plan to continue—simply because he didn't want to keep humiliating himself.

He'd drunk the strongest liquor, loved the worst person. Before, he never looked back; from now on, he wouldn't settle.

The three roommates let out a long sigh.

In all honesty, they felt terrible for Jiang Muye.

Time after time getting tormented by the Campus Belle Xia, yet he kept loving her with all his heart.

This Campus Belle Xia—apart from a pretty face, good grades, and a decent family background—how did she deserve Jiang Muye?

But love wasn't something that could be worn away just because outsiders disapproved.

In their hearts, they could only pray that tomorrow, on Jiang Muye's 100th proposal, the Campus Belle Xia would torment him a little less.

A woman tormenting their brother meant that, as his brothers, they naturally had to make it up to Jiang Muye double.

Old He took out the country-style chicken leg he couldn't bear to eat himself and placed it on Jiang Muye's desk. "Muzi, here. Eat your fill tonight. For you."

Little White Dove said, "My bad this time. I added sour bamboo shoots to the luosifen. Next time I definitely won't!"

Kai said, "Here, I made you some 999 Cold Remedy granules. Don't actually catch a cold, or the whole dorm will suffer!"

Jiang Muye looked at the three of them acting so caring and burst out laughing. "What guilty conscience do you three have?"

Little White Dove spat, "Bullshit. We just lost ten ranked games in a row on your LoL account!"

Jiang Muye exploded. "Little White Dove, you're asking for a beating!"

"Just kidding, look at you getting all worked up. I spent all my time cooking luosifen, where would I find time to log into your account!"

Jiang Muye laughed and cursed, "Alright, you guys finish that luosifen already and open the window for some air. This smell is making your daddy want to throw up! It's like I'm eating a luosifen bento!"

Little White Dove annoyingly held out a bite of noodles. "Come on, come on, take a bite. Heavenly delicacy!"

"Fuck, I'm gonna kick you. Get lost, get lost!"

"What's with the attitude? I don't even have enough to eat myself, and I'm still offering you some!" Little White Dove happily went back to slurping his noodles.

Jiang Muye ate his meal with a helpless smile.

The gloom in his heart from being rejected slowly wore away amid the banter with his brothers.

At that moment, the system panel's notifications kept coming.

【Congratulations on successfully signing in at the dormitory. You have obtained 500,000 rmb.】

【Congratulations on reaching five minutes of sign-in at the dormitory. You have obtained 100,000 rmb.】

【Congratulations on reaching ten minutes of sign-in at the dormitory. You have obtained 200,000 rmb, and a bonus lottery draw chance.】

A lottery draw!

Jiang Muye was very interested in that.

What could he draw?

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