Chapter 283: Su Hanhan, You’ve Changed

“Silly Hanhan!”

Watching Su Qinghe’s happy expression, Gu Yifan shook his head with a helpless smile.

“I am not a silly Hanhan!”

Su Qinghe shot Gu Yifan a look, chiding him playfully.

“Uh…”

Gu Yifan was taken aback.

“Alright, alright. You’re not a silly Hanhan. You’re my little cutie, how about that?”

Gu Yifan said helplessly.

“Hmph~”

“I heard people say that in some places, ‘little cutie’ is an insult!”

“I don’t want to be a ‘little cutie’!”

Su Qinghe glared at Gu Yifan, annoyed.

“Okay, okay, okay. You’re not a little cutie, you’re a great beauty. Is that better?”

Gu Yifan compromised with a look of resignation.

“That’s more like it.”

Only then did Su Qinghe nod in satisfaction.

Gu Yifan was speechless.

He looked at Su Qinghe. ‘This girl’s moods change even faster than mine.’

‘Where on earth did this Su Hanhan read that ‘little cutie’ is an insult?!’

Gu Yifan thought helplessly.

‘I never even considered it an insult!’

Seeing Gu Yifan looking at her with a puzzled expression, Su Qinghe took out her phone, fiddled with it for a moment, and then held it out in front of him.

Then, with a dead-serious expression, she explained, “It’s true!”

“Look at this. It says here that in the Liangguang region, ‘little cutie’ is actually an insult!”

“Besides ‘little cutie,’ ‘little trumpet’ and ‘seven head’… all these weird phrases are insults, too!”

Gu Yifan: “…”

‘seven head…??’

‘Seven heads???’

Gu Yifan was completely baffled.

Then, after thinking for a moment, he suddenly recalled lines from those Hong Kong dramas…

‘Uh…’

He understood in an instant.

He looked at Su Qinghe with exasperation.

‘This Su Hanhan actually went and looked this stuff up??’

‘She’s changed!!’

‘This Su Hanhan has changed!’

‘She’s no longer that simple-minded, foolish Hanhan I could trick with just a few words!’

Gu Yifan gazed at Su Qinghe with a complicated expression.

Still, this more cheerful version of his Hanhan was a sight he was happy to see.

The Hanhan from before had been too insecure and withdrawn.

Now, she was much more cheerful, and her face was full of smiles.

Su Qinghe felt uncomfortable under Gu Yifan’s gaze.

“Yifan… why, why are you looking at me like that?”

Su Qinghe asked weakly, her face blushing.

‘This jerk isn’t thinking of something naughty again, is he?’

‘Ever since they officially achieved “negative distance communication,” this jerk had been wearing her out every night!’

‘And he always made me call him “Daddy~”.’

‘It’s so embarrassing!’

The more Su Qinghe thought about it, the redder her face became.

“Uh…”

Snapping back to his senses, Gu Yifan saw Su Qinghe’s face getting redder and redder. He was completely baffled.

‘What… what’s with this Su Hanhan??’

He looked at Su Qinghe in confusion and asked, “Su Hanhan, what’s wrong?”

“Ah?”

Gu Yifan’s words pulled Su Qinghe from her thoughts back to reality.

“N-Nothing…!!”

she stammered, her face red as she spoke in a small voice.

“Uh…”

‘This Su Hanhan is acting so weird!’

Gu Yifan frowned, but he couldn’t figure it out.

He glanced at his watch. It was already a little past 1:40 PM.

They had been eating for over an hour. With class in the afternoon, it was time to pay the bill and leave.

“Su Hanhan, uh… should we get the check and go?”

Gu Yifan said to Su Qinghe.

“Ah?”

“Oh, oh… okay!”

Su Qinghe, still a bit dazed, snapped out of it and nodded quickly.

Gu Yifan glanced at Su Qinghe again, his expression puzzled.

But he didn’t ask any more questions. He stood up, grabbed their things, and left.

After paying, the two of them went to the parking lot.

They got the car and hopped in.

By then, the blush on Su Qinghe’s face had completely faded.

“VROOOM!!!”

Gu Yifan started the car and stepped on the gas.

The car sped out of the parking lot with a roar of its engine.

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Soon, they arrived back at Jinling University. Gu Yifan drove straight to a classroom building. Their majors were different, so their classes were in separate buildings, which meant he usually dropped Su Qinghe off first before heading to his own.

After Su Qinghe got out of the car, Gu Yifan got out as well.

“Yifan, you can go ahead. I can head up by myself in a bit.”

Su Qinghe said, looking at Gu Yifan.

“Okay. Call me if you need anything.”

Gu Yifan nodded, adding a reminder.

“I know.”

Su Qinghe smiled and nodded.

Watching Gu Yifan’s retreating figure, a blissful smile spread across Su Qinghe’s face.

She knew that her relationship with Gu Yifan was getting better and better.

‘Even though he’s still harsh with me sometimes,’ she thought, ‘I know it’s only because he cares about me so much.’

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Class hadn’t started yet when Gu Yifan returned to the classroom.

The room was already full, however. Gu Yifan walked straight to the back row where Peng Shaoqiang, Wang Shouyi, and the others were sitting and took a seat.

As soon as he got there, he heard Peng Shaoqiang and Wang Shouyi arguing about what kind of girl men like most.

‘Seriously…’

Listening to their conversation, Gu Yifan was speechless.

‘These two really have nothing better to do. Wouldn’t it be better if they put this much energy into their studies?’

‘Honestly!’

Shaking his head, Gu Yifan casually sat down.

The moment he sat down, Peng Shaoqiang, Wang Shouyi, and the others noticed him.

“Hey, Old Fan, you be the judge. Tell us, don’t all men prefer curvy, full-figured girls?”

Peng Shaoqiang said, pulling Gu Yifan into the conversation.

Gu Yifan: “…”

“Bullshit!”

“Men obviously like good-looking girls. The face, the looks—that’s what’s most important, okay?”

“Otherwise, even if she has a great body but an ugly face, could you even bring yourself to kiss her?”

Before Gu Yifan could speak, Wang Shouyi, who was beside them, retorted.

“Nonsense!”

“How could a girl with a great body possibly be that ugly?!”

Peng Shaoqiang said with a disdainful look.

With that, the two started arguing all over again.

Gu Yifan watched the two of them, red-faced from arguing, with a look of resignation.

“Brother Fan, what kind of girls do you think men generally like?”

He Dongdong, sitting next to Gu Yifan, asked.

As soon as he said this, Peng Shaoqiang and Wang Shouyi couldn’t help but turn their gazes toward Gu Yifan, eager to hear his answer.

“Uh…”

Gu Yifan glanced at them and said coolly, “Of course, I only like your sister-in-law. I don’t give other girls a second look.”

Wang Shouyi: “…”

Peng Shaoqiang: “…”

He Dongdong: “…”

‘What an unexpected blast of PDA!’

“Come on, Old Fan, your sister-in-law isn’t here. You can drop the act!”

After a moment, Peng Shaoqiang looked at Gu Yifan resentfully and said sullenly, “Seriously, what kind of girls do you think men like?”