Chapter 106: Suspicion
There were only about ten students admitted, two from the Qiao Lan dormitory, Qiao Lan and Luo Man.
Luo Man covered his heart palpitating, "I didn't play well that day, I was afraid that I couldn't pass, but I didn't expect to pass, I can't I have to send a weibo to my senior, tell him I passed!"
Three people enrolled in the program, only Liu Cancan was not selected, already not in a good mood, Luo Man also kept talking endlessly, Liu Cancan was a bit unhappy to dislike, "you passed it, and what to say to the senior bored you?"
"It's none of your business what I say about mine, the senior reminded me to prepare well, what's wrong with me giving a gift back now", Luo Man stared, "You didn't make the cut yourself, why are you taking it out on us?"
"Senior reminded Qiao Lan, why didn't she send a message to Ji Su?"
Qiao Lan: ......
What's the point of bringing her into this for a good reason.
Qiao Lan, because of Tan Mo's reasons, except for classes and sleeping time at night, usually do not and roommates together activities, so do not know what happened, Liu Cancan and Luo Man became every day must fight, Qiao Lan at first can persuade a couple of words, and later can not persuade to do the same with another roommate, wearing headphones and pretend to be deaf.
It's already a little cooler outside, and Qiao Lan doesn't really want to go outside to make a phone call, but it's noisy in the dormitory, so she puts on her headphones and sends a text message to Tan Mo.
Qiao Lan asked Tan Mo what he was doing, and Tan Mo sent her a picture of a book, The World's Greatest Traders.
[This one is not bad], Tan Mo did not ask her why she was suddenly text chatting, and was very cooperative in talking to her, except that after hearing Qiao Lan say that she had already passed the interview for the Psychology Club, it took a few seconds for her to reply to the letter.
Tan Mo looked expressionlessly at the word [Congratulations] he had typed out, and finally deleted it in favor of a slightly better tone.
[Great]
Although he didn't want to congratulate Qiao Lan at all, and even worse, he even hoped that Qiao Lan didn't pass the interview, but Qiao Lan still passed, who made her so outstanding.
But he already told Qiao Lan that he doesn't care, now he's putting on an unhappy face for whoever.
Qiao Lan is in a good mood after passing the interview, there is no need for him to make Qiao Lan feel bad, after all, he has to be the perfect boyfriend every moment of every day so that he won't make her angry and make her dislike him in order to stay by his side forever.
Compared to Qiao Lan's favorite, one's mood, in fact, is not so important.
Tan Mo did not notice that the books had been crumpled by his pinching, and controlling the annoyance in his heart, he tried to be as natural as possible and asked if there were any other people in her dormitory who had also chosen to go in.
Qiao Lan replied, [There is one more]
Tan Mo felt a little better.
If it was a voice chat or a video, Qiao Lan might be able to tell something about Tan Mo's tone and face, but unfortunately it was only text now.
Tan Mo's tone was normal, not upset or weird, like the most normal of chats, and once again, Qiao Lan didn't notice, so the topic was dropped and Qiao Lan talked about Tan Mo's birthday.
October 19th is Tan Mo's 18th birthday, which is very close, it's next week, next Sunday.
It was a holiday weekend, and Qiao Lan felt that she couldn't stay in the study hall as usual, but had to go out for a date on such a meaningful day.
Two days ago Qiao Lan was trying to plan ahead what to do for Tan Mo's birthday, either by finding good local food or going to the movies ......
After thinking for a long time, Qiao Lan was so depressed about her lack of relationship experience that she thought of only a few things, and then she finally opened up Zhihu, and found an oceanarium, an arcade, an amusement park, a house of horrors, and so on.
Qiao Lan wrote it all down in a memo for future reference.
Qiao Lan took a screenshot of the memo and sent it to Tan Mo, who didn't react at first and asked her what it was.
[Date plan, I checked it specially], Qiao Lan said, [Momo, let's go out on your birthday!]
Tan Mo stared at this cell phone screenshot with a faintly sweet heart.
Qiao Lan recorded very carefully, and should be selected after reading a lot, all the places he has not been, and they have not been together.
Qiao Lan said they could plan together and arrange a perfect birthday itinerary, with a trip to the Oceanarium in the morning, a movie and tea in the afternoon, and a trip to the House of Horrors in the evening.
Qiao Lan is actually quite excited about talking about the house of horrors.
Tan Mo's smile unconsciously overflowed from her lips, the unhappiness she had just experienced washed away by Qiao Lan's attentiveness.
Maybe he's overthinking it, after all, more than just Qiao Lan is in the club, and since the University of B is so busy with studies, there shouldn't be a lot of club activities.
Xie Hongyi cheered in his ear that he had received a notification from the club that he had passed, and bounced around the dormitory several times in joy, while Kong Sha next to him looked bored.
He and Xie Hongyi into a club, if not for Xie Hongyi, he would not have entered this club, thought it was impossible to pass, but the result is really passed.
Xie Hongyi is enrolled in a club called the Zen Society.
Xie Hongyi says she's tired of watching her roommate fall in love every day, so she's enrolling in a Zen club to calm her mind.
Who would have thought to actually give it a pass.
Xie Hongyi was happier than Kong Sha, saying that the club was particularly active and had scheduled a dinner out for this week.
Potluck?
Tan Mo froze.
He hadn't participated in any of this and didn't know the process of club activities, and now he realized that some of the club's activities weren't actually at school.
Wouldn't Qiao Lan's psycho society have been so full of shit?
Before Tan Mo could ask Qiao Lan, Qiao Lan really got the news.
Luo Man asked her to look at the discussion groups she had recently joined, and when Qiao Lan opened them, she saw that there were already 99+ messages from her newest home group, and there were also some @ herself.
Qiao Lan opened the group chat after the interview results came out, and found that they were chatting very happily. Scroll up and it wasn't just @ her, it was @ all the members, as new members enter the club, and every day when we welcome the newcomers, we all have to have dinner together, so we can take this opportunity to get familiar with each other.
The reservation is for October 18th at 6:30pm.
Eighteen?
Qiao Lan's mood, which was still quite excited, instantly dropped by eighty percent.
Because Tan Mo's birthday is the 19th.
Even though it wasn't the same day, Qiao Lan instinctively had the idea of reserving the day or so for Tan Mo's birthday, and it was a surprise to realize that the gathering was scheduled for the day before Tan Mo's birthday.
The leader of the group is now the vice president of the Psychology Club, and after @'s the whole group asks if everyone has time, and deducts a 1 if they do.
Qiao Lan flipped the chat log from top to bottom, a smooth 1, because October eighteenth fell on a Saturday, and generally everyone had time on their hands, not to mention after the evening.
It's a little hard to justify not going to the first group event, but it makes even less sense to ask people to reschedule again for their own reasons.
Qiao Lan hesitated for a few moments and then clicked on the private chat of her schoolmates and asked them when the gathering would be held and what time it would probably end.
Sister replied quite quickly, [Everyone is just having dinner, it won't be too late, you can definitely go back to the dormitory at ten o'clock].
Ten o'clock ah ......
Qiao Lan wanted to say that it was still a bit late, but she was the only one left in the discussion group who hadn't given an answer, and Qiao Lan agreed after a moment of silence.
After I replied to my sister and told Tan Mo that I would be participating in a club activity next Saturday, Tan Mo was quiet for a long time and didn't hear back.
Tan Mo didn't know what to say, and really, didn't want to say a word.
He hadn't been in a good mood, and it was hard to think that the two of them could be together undisturbed on his birthday, only to turn his head and get news like this again.
He was going to say that he couldn't play much in one day on Sunday, or he'd go out on Saturday.
There's no need to talk about it now.
Tan Mo had never had a good impression of this mental club from the beginning, probably because of Ji Su, and now she was even more fed up with it.
Disgust at everything that disturbed him was mixed with an anger that could not be ignored.
He was really angry, even at Qiao Lan.
But on second thought, what did Qiao Lan do wrong?
It's the 18th, not the 19th. It's just a meal. Everyone goes to Qiao Lan. There's no reason not to go, it's all normal.
Yes, it's normal.
Tan Mo repeated in his heart over and over again, as if brainwashing himself, repeating to the end if not for his heart or mouth is still difficult, he really want to believe.
If all this is normal then why is he angry and why is he hard?
So in the end, does that mean it's still him who's the most dysfunctional?
He doesn't want Qiao Lan to come into contact with other people, he doesn't want Qiao Lan to have any traces in his life other than himself, to have all the time to himself, to have Qiao Lan look only at him, only at him.
Thoughts like this.
In and of itself, it's pretty dysfunctional.
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Published at: 09/08/2024 12:00