Chapter 275 - 243: Senior, You’re Confessing to a Girl Like This... Empty-Handed?

Chapter 275: Chapter 243: Senior, You’re Confessing to a Girl Like This... Empty-Handed?

After her performance of "Samsara," Liu Ye’ye took a bow and left the stage.

Yu Dong, having made up his mind, patted Huang Zhiqiang’s arm.

"Huang, let’s go."

"Whoa, look at the expert here. Leaving the moment Liu Ye’ye’s performance is over? Real subtle. Don’t tell me your ’big move’ is to wait by the door and confess to her, right? Hahahaha~"

"You know, you just reminded me of something."

Yu Dong had a busy night ahead, but he could spare a moment for a confession. At the same time, he also needed to verify something that had long been puzzling him.

He dragged the reluctant Huang Zhiqiang out of the auditorium and waited by the entrance.

Huang Zhiqiang stared at Yu Dong in shock. "No way, you’re actually going to wait for her?"

Yu Dong glanced at his phone. 7:15 PM. Fifteen minutes had passed since his reincarnation.

He had to complete the first step of his plan before the Shuangseqiu lottery drawing at 9:15 PM tonight.

Starting now, within the next two hours, he had to win the trust of all the key individuals he had identified in his previous life and prove to them that he was a Reincarnator.

This time, he was a far cry from the inexperienced key-user of his past life. He now held the Triple Key to many people!

From objective facts, to personal secrets, to foreknowledge of the future!

He had applied the method Ji Luo taught him to everyone, and he had even updated the keys for his friends from his previous life.

For instance...

Yu Dong’s eyes fell on the silver Casio watch on Huang Zhiqiang’s wrist, and a mysterious smile touched his lips.

"Huang, if I told you I was a Reincarnator, would you believe me?"

"Dongzi, I don’t think you’re making a ’big move’... I think you’re just losing your mind. If you keep this up, I’m calling Xufeng and the others over!"

As far as Huang Zhiqiang was concerned, Yu Dong had been spouting nonsense ever since he woke up—all this talk about power, salvation, control...as if he were some high-ranking official!

"If I can prove it, how about you let me borrow your watch for a few days?"

"Fine. Go on, show me what you’ve got."

Huang Zhiqiang also wanted to gauge Yu Dong’s current mental state and see if he needed to be taken to a hospital.

"Inside your suitcase, there’s a blood donor card. It records a total of six donations from high school through college. You always told us it was four. That’s because during our sophomore year, when you got into that car accident, we rushed you to the hospital. You needed an urgent transfusion, and Youcai even went back to get your donor card. But... the hospital refused to give you free blood because you hadn’t donated *there*. After that, the three of us chewed you out and forbade you from ever donating again. But later... you went and donated twice more behind our backs. It’s all recorded in that little book, you idiot! If the future you hadn’t told me, I never would have known!"

Hearing this, Huang Zhiqiang stared at Yu Dong, utterly shocked. He was the only one who knew about this; he hadn’t wanted his roommates to call him a fucking idiot.

"Sigh... I have Rh-negative blood. The blood bank is always low, and the hospital begs me to donate every year. I figured I might as well save a life if I can. It was never... it was never about getting free blood anyway."

Yu Dong sighed helplessly. That was exactly what the future Huang Zhiqiang had said, too.

’What was he supposed to do?’

’What more could be said to an idiot like this?’

Huang Zhiqiang looked at Yu Dong in astonishment. "I can’t believe it... Dongzi. You actually... you actually... went through my locker."

Yu Dong: "?"

"Huang, are you serious? I... went through your locker, just to find your blood donor card? You think I’m that bored?"

"It means you care about me."

Yu Dong: "...Fine. The Triple Key works. Let’s move straight to the second part. The future you also told me another secret, an extremely private one that nobody else knows."

"Is there?" Huang Zhiqiang himself couldn’t think of anything off the top of his head.

"When you jerk off, you have a habit of sitting on one of your hands until it goes numb before you start. That way it feels like someone else is doing it for you. Heh heh~ Private enough for you?"

’This key for Huang is pretty reliable,’ Yu Dong thought, ’on par with Sun Shan’s "Hu Tao Impact."’

Huang Zhiqiang’s eyes went wide, his face flushing red in an instant.

"I don’t! It’s not me! Stop making things up!"

"Come on, we’re practically brothers. This is enough to prove I’m a Reincarnator, isn’t it? Who else would tell me something like that besides the future you?"

Yu Dong glanced back into the auditorium. Inside, Liu Ye’ye was packing up her things and would probably be out in a moment.

’Perfect. After ’activating’ Huang, I can ’activate’ Liu Ye’ye.’

’I’ll have two core members secured right after reincarnating.’

’No matter how idiotic Huang Zhiqiang is, he’ll always be one of my core members. Because... Huang Zhiqiang is the kind of guy who would help me hijack a cruise ship, and I’d never have to worry about him betraying me.’

"Hold on, Dongzi!"

"Even if... perhaps... maybe... it’s possible... I might have done that before, that’s still not enough to prove you’re a Reincarnator! Lots of people do that, right?"

Yu Dong: "???"

"You’re insane! Who else does that?!"

"I learned it online... You already went through my locker, who’s to say you didn’t snoop through my favorited TikToks too! What Reincarnator... I’m pretty sure you’ve just got some weird designs on me."

Seeing Huang Zhiqiang’s shameless expression, Yu Dong was floored.

"Huang, you’re unbelievable. Just you wait. Seven days from now, I’m going to have to kill you with my own two hands this time. Just fucking die already!"

’Psycho!!!’

’I swear I’ll never trust Huang Zhiqiang’s activation key again.’

’Is this guy even human?’

"Forget it. Go buy me two tubs of vanilla H?agen-Dazs. And take off that watch and give it to me. It’s not like you even know how to properly wear a Casio."

"Oh..."

Huang Zhiqiang took off his one-hundred-yuan "designer" watch, handed it to Yu Dong, and hurried off to buy the H?agen-Dazs. But he couldn’t shake the feeling that something was off.

’How is Dongzi so practiced at ordering me around...?’

’Should I call Xufeng and Youcai? Dongzi seems really off today.’

After sending the annoying Huang Zhiqiang off on an errand, Yu Dong finally calmed down a bit.

’Although the first two keys for Huang Zhiqiang failed, the third one is the clincher. If I can accurately predict the Shuangseqiu lottery results, he’ll have no choice but to believe.’

Just then, Liu Ye’ye came skipping out of the building. She was wearing a pale yellow, traditional-style long dress and had a small bunny backpack slung over her shoulders.

When she suddenly spotted Yu Dong waiting by the entrance, her steps faltered. She immediately stopped skipping and began to walk out slowly, like a proper lady. She then pretended to casually look aside, stealing a glance at Yu Dong from the corner of her eye.

When she noticed he was staring at her, she quickly turned her head away and pretended nothing was amiss, continuing on her way out.

"Liu Ye’ye."

At the sound of Yu Dong’s voice, Liu Ye’ye froze in her tracks. She turned back to look at him, her expression one of confusion.

"Are... are you calling me?"

"Who else? Playing dumb and pretending you don’t know me?"

"Oh... What is it?"

Liu Ye’ye shuffled over, then angled her body slightly to the side as she looked at Yu Dong, waiting to see what he wanted to say.

Seeing that Liu Ye’ye was reacting exactly as she had in his previous life, Yu Dong breathed a sigh of relief.

’I really hurt her in my past life... Liu Ye’ye even said she wouldn’t speak to me in our next life. I was genuinely afraid she might have some strange premonition that could affect her now, after my regression.’

’But now, it seems everything is fine.’

"Liu Ye’ye, I’ve liked you for a long time. Can we try going out?"

Faced with Yu Dong’s sudden confession, Liu Ye’ye’s face flushed red. Her mouth fell open in surprise before she quickly covered it with her hand.

She had fantasized countless times about how their first official meeting would go, but she’d never imagined it would be like this.

’Is this some kind of sci-fi story?’

’How could the world be this coincidental?’

But a girl’s unique sense of modesty prevailed. Liu Ye’ye, her face beet red, pressed her legs together and fidgeted, kicking one of her little boots up behind her.

"Senior, are you really... confessing to a girl just like that, with nothing but words?"

A smile played on Yu Dong’s lips as he snapped his fingers.

SNAP~

Huang appeared behind him, carrying two tubs of H?agen-Dazs.

Yu Dong placed one tub of vanilla H?agen-Dazs into Liu Ye’ye’s arms and held the other himself.

"Junior, your senior is treating you to some ice cream~"

Liu Ye’ye stared in astonishment as Yu Dong beamingly produced two tubs of ice cream—her favorite flavor, no less.

In that moment, she truly believed in one word: destiny.

"I... I’m not that easy to win over! You haven’t... you haven’t even taken me out to dinner or a movie..."

"Add me on WeChat. Tomorrow night. I’ll see you then."

"Mm..."

Blushing, Liu Ye’ye added him on WeChat, then fled from the campus as if making an escape.

Behind Yu Dong, Huang Zhiqiang, who had witnessed the whole exchange, stared with wide, unbelieving eyes. He then slowly pulled his phone out of his pocket.

"Xufeng, stop watching those stupid ’try not to laugh’ videos! Grab Youcai and get to the auditorium right now! Something big is going down!"