Is my roommate a caged bird? I'm stealing her away.

As Zhou Suisui looked at the text message, she recalled her video call with Chen Boxu yesterday.

My fingertips tapped and typed on the screen, deleting and rewriting, and finally I only replied with "Hmm."

As soon as she sent it, she felt that the single word was a bit too cold, so she quickly opened the emoji interface to find a suitable emoji to replace it.

I flipped through several lines, but none of them were suitable; they all seemed strange.

Damn, all I have are these abstract emojis! Can't you find any cuter ones?!

Zhou Suisui became increasingly agitated. She tapped the search bar, typed in "cat emoji," and started searching.

This seems a bit silly, won't this make her seem too forward? She was struggling with this when she glanced at the time out of the corner of her eye; a minute had already passed.

Holy crap! There's no time... Hurry, hurry, hurry! This won't work, this won't work either...

Afraid of missing the reply time, Zhou Suisui grew increasingly anxious, her fingers flying across the screen. Inadvertently, she sent a fish-shaped emoji with a whip, accompanied by the message: "I really need to discipline you properly."

Her heart skipped a beat, and just as she was about to pull back, Chen Boxu's reply popped up: [?]

Zhou Suisui quickly typed, her fingertips trembling slightly: [Slip of the finger! Really!]

After sending it, she stared at the screen for a few seconds, but there was no response from the other end, so she quickly added a cat-like, aggrieved emoji.

Chen Boxu's reply came a few seconds later; the words on the screen carried a dangerous undertone: [Wednesday, waiting for you to try.]

Oh no! This man is incredibly ruthless…

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The Moon-Viewing Hall private room on the third floor of the Grand Hyatt Hotel.

Just one year after graduation, the so-called class reunion was more like an unspoken showcase of achievements.

The air was filled with the mingled scents of perfume, and the laughter and conversation were deliberately raised as everyone tried their best to present their first report card since leaving campus.

Zhou Suisui and Liu Weiwei pushed open the door precisely at 5:30, and there were already nearly twenty people sitting inside. The air conditioning was strong, but it couldn't suppress the undercurrent of eager anticipation.

"Sui Sui! Wei Wei! Over here!" The class monitor stood up and waved. He was a bit fatter than last year, and his face was beaming with a warm smile. Several pairs of eyes followed, scrutinizing and comparing.

Zhou Suisui wore a rock gray dress today, with a minimalist cut that made her stand out.

Her long, flowing hair cascaded smoothly over her shoulders, adorned only with a pair of small pearl stud earrings. She had styled them herself.

Liu Weiwei also felt that she was a good match for her, and her studies during this period had yielded some success.

Liu Weiwei, dressed in a black fishtail dress, smiled and responded to the class monitor's greeting. She pulled Zhou Suisui towards the table by the window, but her eyes quickly scanned the entire room.

"Jin Lulu isn't here." Liu Weiwei whispered in Zhou Suisui's ear as she sat down, "Look at the main table, the one next to Wang Jiaqi."

Zhou Suisui looked up. At the center of the main table, Wang Jiaqi was wearing a Chanel tweed suit from the current season, with exquisite makeup.

She was tilting her head slightly, listening to a man in a navy blue business casual suit speaking beside her.

The man was around thirty years old, with a decent appearance, and wore a Panerai watch on his wrist.

He was gently adding warm water to Wang Jiaqi's cup with a calm and focused gaze.

"Is this the one that got robbed?" Zhou Suisui picked up her lemonade, took a sip, and asked softly.

"Hmm, I heard he owns his own company that makes medical devices, so he seems to be doing quite well."

Liu Weiwei also picked up her cup, her tone flat, "The key thing is, they really treat Wang Jiaqi well. Look at the way they look at her, tsk, they're definitely giving her the best food."

As if to confirm Liu Weiwei's words, the man whispered something to Wang Jiaqi, and Wang Jiaqi covered her mouth and laughed, gently touching his arm with her shoulder in an intimate gesture.

Several classmates surrounding them immediately started making ambiguous noises.

Zhou Suisui had mixed feelings about Wang Jiaqi; she couldn't say she disliked him, but she definitely didn't like him either.

During her university years, she disapproved of some of Wang Jiaqi's behaviors, but she didn't dislike her.

Because this woman has her strengths. Putting aside her weaknesses of stealing men and being boastful, she is actually a smart person who is very good at reading people's expressions.

Zhou Suisui wasn't annoying; after all, she couldn't steal Zhou Suisui's thunder, and besides, Zhou Suisui didn't have a boyfriend at the time.

She hates stupid people even more than people like Wang Jiaqi.

Zhou Suisui still remembers that in her second year of university, there was a girl named Tang Tang in her dormitory who had a crush on a boy in the class but never dared to approach him.

Jin Lulu volunteered to get the boy's contact information for Tang Tang.

At first, everyone thought she was pretty good. In the second week, Tangtang brought a lot of delicious food to the dormitory, and the shopping trip cost several hundred yuan.

Tangtang shared the food with everyone, giving the most to Jin Lulu. She and Liu Weiwei were just casual fare, but she didn't mind, since Jin Lulu had genuinely helped Tangtang.

Everything was fine for the first week; Tangtang and the boy got along very well. But in the third week, Tangtang suddenly told everyone in the dorm that the boy had said she was disgusting on WeChat.

Tangtang cried for a long time that day; she was very pitiful, and no amount of comforting could help.

Zhou Suisui thought the matter was over, but two weeks later, Liu Weiwei returned to the dormitory with a rather subtle expression.

Liu Weiwei. Zhou Suisui felt that she was rather sarcastic and looked down on women who were too manipulative. She thought, "You can be bad, you can be cheap, but you can't be a bitch."

Jin Lulu crossed the line into being a "bitch," and Liu Weiwei said that she was previously with her boyfriend.

Turning around, I saw Jin Lulu and that boy—yes, the one Tang Tang likes. They were sitting by the flowerbed, kissing passionately.

When Tang Tang heard this, her face turned pale instantly. Then Liu Weiwei said that Jin Lulu might have seen her later, and she immediately bent over and buried her face in her legs.

She probably thought that Liu Weiwei wouldn't see her this way; how incredibly stupid of her.

After hearing this, Tang Tang couldn't help but cry, and her words came out in broken sentences.

At that moment, Zhou Suisui's impression of Jin Lulu plummeted.

It turns out that even on that day, Jin Lulu was still by Tang Tang's side comforting her, telling her to let go of that boy, saying that she deserved better, and scolding that boy in various ways.

Tangtang said many times that she no longer cared about him, but he kept saying it. Then, Tangtang felt embarrassed and brought him a lot of delicious food during this time.