My skill tree increases every day.

After accepting Li Mai's friend request, Lin Yu also sent friend requests to his other two assigned teammates.

These kinds of course assignments are the most troublesome. Teaming up with strangers to do group assignments is arguably the course activity that college students are least willing to participate in.

Li Mai's message popped up quickly: "Hello Lin Yu! Shall we create a group chat? It'll be easier to discuss things later."

"Okay, senior," Lin Yu replied.

It's really great to have people in the group who take the initiative to step forward.

The worst thing about group projects is when no one takes any action and everyone just competes in the group chat to see who can stay calm the longest. That will only lead to everyone rushing to meet the deadline, exhausted and overwhelmed, and ending up with a shoddy mess.

But Lin Yu waited and waited, and even after he had finished lunch with his roommates, he still hadn't received the message about creating a new group.

"Um, senior, is our group chat ready yet?"

"Well, the other two students haven't approved yet, so we can't create a group chat just because it's just the two of us."

Lin Yu glanced at the friend requests and, sure enough, all the friend requests he sent to his two teammates were still waiting for verification.

Maybe they haven't had time to check the message yet. I hope those two aren't the type who don't work; the worst thing about these randomly assigned group projects is encountering those lazy bums who just won't do any work.

"Hey Lao Lin, is Su Wanqing in your group? The Su Wanqing who was one of the top ten singers last year!"

"I think so."

"That's great, I can get the contact information of a goddess like this just by taking a class."

Lin Yu had seen Su Wanqing once before, from afar, during the school's arts festival. That day, she wore a long red dress, held a microphone, and stood in the center of the stage, drawing all eyes to her.

I don't know if it was because of the spotlight, but she seemed to be glowing when she sang on stage that day.

She's definitely the kind of person you can't forget after seeing her once.

"What's there to be envious of? Who chats on QQ these days? We only use it for class." Lin Yu rolled her eyes at him. "Besides, they haven't even accepted my application yet!"

"It's only a matter of time. She can't possibly not take a share of the profits, can she? You can tell her whether it was added or not then!"

Lin Yu wasn't so optimistic. Based on his intuition, this person was definitely not someone to be trifled with.

"When you add her on QQ, stalk her QQ space, spy on her preferences, and like and comment on every single one of her posts like a simp, I hope you can be as assertive as you are now."

Li Si patted Lin Yu's shoulder earnestly.

"Prime Minister, you are mistaken. Brother Yu is currently troubled by being pursued by girls. How could he be in the mood to be a simp?" Liu Zhiyuan stepped forward.

"What?!"

"Lin Yu, I think you're a well-fed man who doesn't know the hunger of a starving man!"

Lin Yu was thrust into the spotlight by Liu Zhiyuan's words, and the other two immediately erupted in excitement.

"Damn! Lin Yu, you've already found a girlfriend, leaving the three of us single men to fencing each other?"

"That's not it. I'm not interested in her at all. I have absolutely no intention of having anything happen between us right now."

What could possibly happen between Chen Shuyan and me? Would we end up like boneless chicken feet?

I don't want that kind of thing!

"Then let me ask you, is she a man or a woman?" This was Li Si talking nonsense.

"A woman."

"Is she not pretty?" This was Liu Yiyuan's question.

"Of course it's beautiful."

"Then I think you can't tell the difference between the King and Queen!" That was Liu Zhiyuan's conclusion.

"Damn it, yesterday you were giving me all sorts of advice on breakups, and now you're barking like a dog."

"Heh." Liu Zhiyuan summarized again, "Anyway, our mission is to help Brother Yu stay single, understand?"

"clear!"

"Don't worry, with a few of us around, you're guaranteed to stay single for ten thousand years! Ten thousand years!"

Looking at the three men in front of him, Lin Yu was certain that once he learned even the slightest bit of their skills, Chen Shuyan would lose all interest in him.

Oh, right! Just to be on the safe side, I'll report Ms. Marry first.

Lin Yu submitted anonymous reports to both the academic affairs office and the police station. For the sake of my little Zuo and Xiao You, I can't let it go even if it's an accidental injury!

"Oh, I got a message."

Lin Yu took out his phone; it was a message from Chen Shuyan.

"Come on, everyone, it's time to show your skills."

Lin Yu opened his phone, displaying a message pop-up from Chen Shuyan.

Chen Shuyan: Do you have class today?

"Don't rush, let it cool down for a bit. It's best to make her feel like you don't value her!" Lin Yu was about to reply when Liu Zhiyuan, quick as a flash, stopped him. "Come on, let's go back to the dorm and talk."

Lin Yu thought it made sense, so he put his phone away.

"Make it clear beforehand that the goal is to make her lose interest in me and think I'm a boring person, not some crude method like coming right up to her and immediately talking to her," Lin Yu suddenly added on the way. He still didn't dare to provoke Chen Shuyan too much.

"No problem, we're not the kind of people who have no class." The three men below were extremely confident.

The cafeteria was not far from the dormitory building, and Lin Yu and the others soon returned to dormitory 112 in Building 3, which they had not seen for a long time.

Although Lin Yu had not lived in the school dormitory for a long time, the school did not reassign Lin Yu's bed to anyone else. These days, Li Si and Liu Yiyuan have been enjoying the luxurious two-person dormitory room.

The positions of Lin Yu and Liu Zhiyuan had long been completely occupied by the two of them.

The dormitories at Qingzhou Polytechnic University are standard four-person rooms with bunk beds and desks underneath. The two empty beds are currently piled with large items such as suitcases, while the desks under the beds have been requisitioned by the two people who stayed in the dormitory.

The floor was cluttered with all sorts of things, leaving no room to stand. There were only two open areas in the entire dormitory, clearly the living space that Li Si and Liu Yiyuan had reserved for themselves.

"I told you it's one thing for you to use my space to store junk, but what's with you putting junk in your own spot and then sitting in my seat?"

Lin Yu looked at his laptop on his desk, then at the odds and ends scattered on Li Si's desk, and couldn't help but ask a question.

"You've got it all cleaned up! I still have to tidy up my place." Li Si chuckled, pushed the clutter in the middle of the aisle aside, moved a chair to the middle of the dormitory, and the group formed a circle, discussing their strategy while looking at Lin Yu's phone.

"That's about enough, you can reply now." Liu Zhiyuan glanced at his watch. "Remember the key points of your reply: be brief, indifferent, and don't introduce any topics! You'd better just reply with an 'Mm'."

"That's right, a perfunctory answer is the worst!"

Following his roommates' advice, Lin Yu simply replied with an "Mm".

A few seconds later, my phone vibrated again: "We also have classes this afternoon. Did you take a lunch break?"

Lin Yu continued to employ his strategy of giving perfunctory answers.

"without."

"Hey, don't rush back!" Liu Yiyuan said, looking at him with a disappointed expression.

"No, Lao Lin did the right thing," Li Si spoke up. "If you reply to a message right now, the other person can see that you've read it if they reply instantly. Not replying at this point would seem a bit deliberate!"

"But that's exactly what we need to do to make the other side feel like Lao Lin doesn't value her!" Liu Yiyuan retorted sharply, refusing to back down an inch, determined to determine who was the lowest-ranking man in the dormitory!

"No, you don't understand. Old Lin is on the defensive now; these difficulties are nothing to the other side!"

"..."

"..."

Just as the two were arguing, another new message came in.

Chen Shuyan: So what are you doing now?