After My Secret Identity Was Revealed, My Crush Said He’s My Biggest Fan - Chapter 8

“Hello everyone, my name is Hang Yubei, and I am from Lushan Province up north. But do not misunderstand, I came here to study medicine with a peace of mind, not to drop out halfway and go take the civil service exams!”

“Hello everyone, I am Xiang Tongfang, from Jibei Province. Although Shanghai is not that close to Jibei, I still want to say a crowd-pleasing promotional line: ‘So close, so beautiful, come to Jibei for the weekend!'”

“Hello, I am Lu Yue from Shanghai. If anyone gets halfway through and does not want to live in the dorm anymore, you can come straight to my house. I especially love hanging out with friends, and my family is all about complete free-range parenting.”

To be honest, Lin Yu did not understand the point of Wen Yue randomly pulling people up to give voluntary self-introductions right off the bat. But those students with particularly active personalities really did use this opportunity to heavily boost their presence in front of everyone, and the popular memes and stereotypes that people deliberately played on themselves had a classroom full of students laughing out loud. Wen Yue was obviously extremely happy right now, her eyes curved into smiles:

“Haha, thank you student Lu for your relief to everyone. Are there any other students who want to introduce themselves? If not, we will move right along?”

The atmosphere inside classroom 3108 had already been brought up by the previous few students, so even if no one responded afterward, Wen Yue naturally transitioned to the next segment:

“Alright, now everyone can get familiar with each other with your roommates.”

Saying this, Wen Yue switched the PPT to the next page. Lin Yu raised his gaze to glance at what was displayed on the big screen, then raised an eyebrow with interest. The name of the next activity was “Confirmed Through the Eyes,” meaning that people from one dormitory formed a small circle, and every time the counselor shouted a command, they had to raise their heads to make eye contact with someone and then call out the other person’s name. Those who could not quickly find an eye-contact partner or quickly call out the other person’s name would be deducted one point, which would be uniformly calculated into the dormitory score after five rounds of games.

“What kind of activity is this? Why does it smell so gay, it feels like a bunch of people permuting and combining to discharge electricity to each other in turns.”

With extreme oddity, Yin Hongfei spoke such a sentence. Afterward, Lin Yu and Xia Chenxuan each cast a doubtful look in his direction, but neither said anything.

Immediately, Wen Yue loudly announced the start of the activity. Lin Yu simply looked around at his other roommates and then began making preparations. After the five-second countdown ended, he started reacting expressionlessly beneath his mask:

“Three, two, one!”

“Yan Yi.”

“Lin, Lin Yu.”

“Three, two, one.”

“Yin Hongfei.”

“Ah, Lin Yu!”

“Three, two, one.”

“Xia Chenxuan.”

When the activity reached the third round, Lin Yu finally raised those peach-blossom eyes, tilted his head, and gently cast his gaze toward Xia Chenxuan. His eyes were naturally extremely pretty, and at this moment, with the lower half of his face covered by a black mask, it made the deep black pupils appear even more filled with infinite charm.

Lin Yu knew his eyes were good-looking; back in middle school, little classmates frequently praised him like this when confessing their feelings to him. Sure enough, the moment his gaze cast over, he seemed to notice Xia Chenxuan freeze slightly when raising his head to make eye contact with him, a momentary daze appearing vaguely in those slightly lighter-colored eyes.

Seeing that the other person had this reaction, Lin Yu slightly raised the corners of his lips. Afterward, a shallow smile surfaced at the edge of Xia Chenxuan’s lips, and with curved eyebrows, he called out his name in a moderate voice:

“Mm, Lin Yu.”

Xia Chenxuan had a typical bright youth voice timbre, and sitting in the classroom reading these two words unhurriedly at this moment sounded exceptionally pleasant. Lin Yu gave him a wink with great satisfaction and then continued the game.

To his unexpected surprise, this was only the beginning. The third time he made eye contact with Xia Chenxuan, Lin Yu could not help questioning the mechanism of this game in his heart.

Those four roommates in room CD had paired and combined themselves far too happily; every time he tried to look over, he found that side was already paired up. The very last time, it was even Xia Chenxuan who called his name first, preventing him from being caught by Wen Yue and becoming the deducted single person left behind.

After it ended, Dormitory 401 obtained a pretty good overall score because almost no one was obviously left behind. Yin Hongfei, acting as the dormitory head, first happily applauded and then said:

“Not bad, but Xuan-ge, Lin Yu, why have you two been pairing up the whole time afterward? Does this count as cheating?”

“Who cares, as long as we got points.”

Hearing Xia Chenxuan say such an explanation with an “extremely utilitarian atmosphere” while half-smiling, Yin Hongfei, who had constantly been uttering world-shaking remarks, could not help making a fake motion of wanting to slap the table and laugh. Then he tried to bump Xia Chenxuan’s arm according to his habitual straight-guy interaction mode, but suddenly thinking of something, he sheepishly withdrew it.

Lin Yu noticed his action, then specifically glanced at Xia Chenxuan. Xia Chenxuan was still smiling brightly at this moment, and apart from his body vaguely shifting away toward the side away from Yin Hongfei, there was no change on his face.

Then, Wen Yue continued with a clear female voice:

“Alright, now the two class monitors and I have finished tallying the scores for the first round of games, and there are two games left. The next round is called ‘I Have What You Do Not,’ and each dormitory will draw one student to share an experience of their own. The rules are already projected on the multimedia screen. Are you ready? Starting from the girls’ dormitory 202.”

This round of activity did not leave a deep impression on Lin Yu because he did not directly participate. Ten minutes later, the scoring ended once more. Wen Yue looked at the strokes of “zheng” representing point deductions one after another on the blackboard:

“So now the situation is about even; the girls’ dormitory 502 and the boys’ dormitory 401 are tied for first place. Now we enter the final segment. Each dormitory will discuss and select two representatives different from just now to come on stage and perform ‘Blindfolded Drawing a Circle.’ Discuss amongst yourselves, and get ready to start!”

“Oh crap, if I had known, I would have given the speaking slot to someone else. I have wanted to play this for a long time.”

The moment Wen Yue’s voice fell, Yin Hongfei somewhat irritably launched a complaint at them. Then he looked in the direction where Xia Chenxuan was:

“Right, Xuan-ge, did you say yesterday that your athletic nerve is very good? We are already very close to first place, why do not you go up on behalf of our dorm?”

“Sure, but this requires two people. Who else?”

“Then I will go up with you.”

Hearing this voice, Xia Chenxuan turned back somewhat surprised, and then for the countless times today made eye contact with the pretty wolf-cut guy wearing a mask. Lin Yu raised an eyebrow at him, seeming somewhat proud of his “striking first.”

To be fair, Xia Chenxuan was not the type of person who resisted showing off during activities anyway. He thus returned a dashing and handsome wink to Lin Yu, and then let Yin Hongfei leave his seat so the two of them could go out.

The rules of “Blindfolded Drawing a Circle” were very simple. Each time, two dormitories were sent to compete, having two sets of contestants walk from the very back of the classroom along two corridors running through the front and back to the podium, and then draw a circle on the blackboard using the chalk in their hands. The person holding the chalk had to be blindfolded from start to finish, letting their teammate guide them forward.

Lin Yu and Xia Chenxuan walked together to stand in front of the class monitor located at the front right of the classroom. On the way, Lin Yu seemed to hear a little classmate exclaim, “The broad shoulders and narrow waist physique of that guy in front is really good.” Xia Chenxuan, who was at the center of the topic, acted as if he did not care at all, simply turning his head to ask Lin Yu:

“Do you want to draw the circle or do you want to give directions?”

“I will just draw the circle.”

Having said that, he gently reached out and removed the mask covering his face. The youth’s pale and pretty face was displayed in front of the entire class for the first time today, raising his peach-blossom eyes to look at Xia Chenxuan once more, inexplicably causing another commotion inside the classroom.

Xia Chenxuan took the strange ribbon-like black silk band from the class monitor’s hand, and then they went together to the far back left of classroom 3108. Wen Yue stood on the podium at this moment and shouted:

“Are students on both sides ready? You can blindside your eyes now!”

Hearing the counselor’s voice, Lin Yu quite obediently blinked at Xia Chenxuan. Then he turned around and tidied his hair, incidentally exposing his slender and fair back neck several times during the process, and then spoke:

“Alright, blindfold my eyes.”

He knew he looked good-looking, and even more so, he knew he had held very favorable impressions of Xia Chenxuan ever since the moment of their reunion. He was just taking this opportunity to close the distance with Xia Chenxuan and peacock in front of Xia Chenxuan by the way.

Though the backward posture right now made it impossible for him to see Xia Chenxuan’s expression. He only knew that Xia Chenxuan gently placed that pitch-black blindfold band over his eyes, and subsequently, his vision was entirely stripped away, so that whether his eyes were open or closed, he could barely see the light filtering in from the outside world.

Yet his hearing and touch were amplified; he could even feel Xia Chenxuan accidentally brushing against a strand of hair at the back of his head after tying the knot for the ribbon. Until that phrase “Alright” came from behind him, Lin Yu smiled once more:

“This ribbon is of really good quality. I cannot see anything right now, so I will have to trouble you to escort me to the front of the blackboard later.”

Though Lin Yu could not see himself, the other students inside the classroom observed Xia Chenxuan’s magical expression at this moment very clearly. The handsome youth with height and long legs had his expression freeze on his face for a split second, and his heroic eyebrows furrowed slightly, as if thinking about something.

After a long time, he nodded in a place where Lin Yu could not see:

“Okay, then I will hold your wrist as we walk.”

Lin Yu had never liked wearing short sleeves, plus he had been indoors for the vast majority of the day today, so he wore a cooling white long-sleeved shirt. The slender wrist of the long-haired youth was faintly concealed by the shirt sleeve; although the action of Xia Chenxuan resting his hand over through the fabric was already light to the utmost, he still very clearly felt Lin Yu’s prominent wrist bones.

He was simply too thin, so thin that most of the time he did not look like an 18-year-old college youth standing at 180 centimeters, especially when standing together with Xia Chenxuan, who had broad shoulders, a narrow waist, and was taller than him by a little more than half a head. By comparison, it practically made people feel his figure was as thin and light as a sheet of white paper.

Regardless, Xia Chenxuan, who possessed extremely strong boundary awareness, ultimately found a communication method through the shirt sleeve that made both of them temporarily comfortable, and then led Lin Yu to walk toward the front of the classroom.

“Walk forward, keep going, there is a small step here. Do not walk to the left, you will bump into a stool.”

The tall youth in a refreshing khaki outfit walked sideways in front of him, his broad palm gently resting on his companion’s wrist while watching the road ahead to guide the way for him. Lin Yu moved his steps in the back according to what Xia Chenxuan said, occasionally feeling a light smile whenever Xia Chenxuan exerted a bit of force to pull him back because he walked in the wrong direction.

The pitch-black blindfold band and pitch-black loose hair set off his skin to appear increasingly fair, looking so pretty it was practically like an unreal sculpture.

Since they were the first group, quite a few students inside the classroom held curiosity and cast their gazes over here. The tacit cooperation of the two made their progress much faster than that dormitory on the right side, and Xia Chenxuan even caught a glimpse out of the corner of his eye of several girls raising their phones to take pictures.

Whether it was because of the presence of the cameras, he inexplicably felt that the temperature coming from Lin Yu was a bit hot.

Finally, Lin Yu stepped onto the podium amid his guidance voice of “We have arrived.” Wen Yue stood aside watching them with full expectation in her eyes, and he thus led Lin Yu to the front of the blackboard against everyone’s gaze, then let him raise his hand to draw a circle.

The circle-drawing skill of the teenager with long hair was neither good nor bad, only allowing people to barely make out that it was a circle. Yet a happy smile lightly tugged at the corners of his lips, and then he removed the ribbon covering his eyes with his other hand that was not holding chalk:

“Finally done, the time should be pretty good.”

The class monitor standing on the left side of the classroom had already welcomed them back up. Lin Yu turned his head to blink his peach-blossom eyes at Xia Chenxuan behind him, and then walked toward the class monitor’s direction.

Seeing him cast his gaze over, Xia Chenxuan smiled similarly, his arms crossed over his chest while the expression on his face remained somewhat smug. He watched Lin Yu walk toward the class monitor holding the ribbon, while mentally pondering which cafeteria to go to for dinner tonight. Suddenly, however, he seemed to notice something on the floor in front of that slender youth.

It was some kind of shiny object, yet Lin Yu stepped onto it with his stride completely unaware. Then the next second, he instinctively rushed forward in a single bound toward his swaying roommate.

“Careful!”