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After drinking her fill, He Yushi walked over to Liu Yang and Tang Mengting. She tidied her hair, took a deep breath, and extended a fair, smooth hand toward Liu Yang.
"Hello, security guard classmate. I'm He Yushi. Nice to meet you. I remember you-you're Liu Yang, right? Everyone at school says you skipped thirty years of career stress by becoming a campus guard before even graduating. You're practically a local celebrity."
Seeing her playful smile, Liu Yang knew she was cracking a joke to break the ice.
He reached out and shook her hand, but didn't let go right away. "I never imagined that He Yushi, one of our university's four great campus belles, would know my name. I'm honored."
Feeling the supple softness of her skin, Liu Yang couldn't help but marvel in silence. Smooth as jade, flawless and soft... So this is what a campus goddess feels like?
Before the apocalypse, getting to hold her hand like this would have given a guy bragging rights from freshman orientation all the way to graduation.
He Yushi felt her cheeks flush under his lingering touch. Blushing, she quickly pulled her hand back and offered a bright, hopeful smile.
"Since we're schoolmates and already know each other, we're basically friends, right? So... could you spare a little food for a friend?"
Liu Yang gave an understanding nod.
This drop-dead gorgeous belle had acted friendly from the moment she arrived, and now her real goal was out in the open.
She wanted food.
Unfortunately for her, Liu Yang's food didn't come cheap.
He shook his head.
"No can do. We're in the middle of a apocalypse, and supplies are scarce. Every bite could mean the difference between life and death. I can't just hand it out for free, even to a campus belle."
"Aiya, big brother, please have some heart! I'm really starving here," He Yushi whined, instantly switching to a sweet, pouting voice. "If I don't eat soon, I'm going to collapse. You wouldn't actually stand by and watch me starve, would you?"
Her weaponized charm had never failed her before.
No matter how cold or distant a guy acted, none could withstand her pleading in that soft, coquette tone.
Yet Liu Yang remained completely unmoved. "Sorry, but this is a matter of survival. Acting cute isn't going to cut it."
"Then tell me... what do I have to do to get some food?" He Yushi asked, looking utterly miserable.
"Simple," Liu Yang replied with a wicked grin. "Go take a shower, then meet me in my bedroom. I'll tell you then."
His eyes swept over her from head to toe.
She possessed the striking, flawless features of a mixed-race beauty paired with a killer body-long, straight, milky-white legs, a waist so slender he could wrap his hands around it, and a mind-blowing waist-to-hip ratio.
That perfect physique was practically a weapon of mass distraction.
Before the outbreak, any guy who managed to win her favor would have been considered blessed by his ancestors for generations.
He Yushi stared at him in utter disbelief.
This guy was actually proposing that so casually...
He was completely shameless!
"Ah... isn't that a bit much? We only met today! Besides, didn't you share food with her?" He Yushi pointed at Tang Mengting.
"That's because she became my woman yesterday," Liu Yang replied flatly.
"Huh...?" He Yushi blinked in shock.
Tang Mengting was the Class One monitor and a campus belle in her own right. She had compromised that quickly and become a security guard's woman?
He Yushi couldn't bring herself to believe it.
"I'll be waiting in my room. Take your time thinking it over." Leaving her with those words, Liu Yang turned around and walked upstairs to lie down on his bed.
Once on the bed, he immediately activated Future Deduction.
Half an hour later, a soft knock came from his bedroom door.
"She actually came." A triumphant smile spread across Liu Yang's face.
The thought of her gorgeous features and breathtaking body made his blood race with excitement.
"Come in!" Liu Yang called out, taking a deep breath to suppress the rising heat in his chest.
He Yushi gently pushed the door open, a lingering trace of anxiety in her posture. She had clearly just showered; her long, black, straight hair was damp and draped over her soft, fair shoulders, creating an impossibly alluring sight.
She hesitated near the threshold, speaking nervously. "Classmate Liu Yang... can't we negotiate? We're both students from the same university, so please don't back me into a corner. How about you give me some food, and I'll draw a portrait for you? My art is really good! I can make you look super handsome!"
Her stomach was truly empty, aching from hunger.
Yet giving her body to Liu Yang just for a meal felt far too degrading.
Before the apocalypse, she was worshipped as an untouchable goddess. Countless top-tier suitors-brilliant scholars, handsome idols, ridiculously wealthy heirs-had pursued her, and she had rejected every single one.
To yield to a campus security guard now was a bitter pill she couldn't swallow.
"That's a hard pass," Liu Yang chuckled. "You're one of the four campus belles, a goddess everyone admires. Any normal man would want to claim you for himself. If I didn't feel that way, could I even call myself a man? Unless I were a eunuch, I'd definitely have those thoughts."
"But... but intimacy without real feelings has no soul!" He Yushi argued earnestly.
Liu Yang rubbed his chin. "You make a fair point."
"Right? You agree, don't you? So let's go with the drawing idea instead!" He Yushi's eyes lit up with hope.
Only for Liu Yang to crush it in the next breath.
"So why don't you just hurry up and develop some feelings for me right now?"
He Yushi: "..."
She was struck utterly speechless.
She had never met anyone with such a thick skin or such twisted logic.
Were feelings something you could just whip up on command?
Besides, falling for a security guard was practically impossible for her.
She felt on the verge of a total meltdown.
Noticing her frantic expression, Liu Yang pinched his throat and mimicked a feminine voice.
"'But asking me to catch feelings for a security guard is way too hard.'"
"Huh?" He Yushi's eyes widened.
Liu Yang exaggerated his expression and continued in the same high voice: "'So many rich guys, handsome guys, and top students pursued me before, and I turned them all down. How could I ever settle for a security guard?'"
"Huh?!" He Yushi was completely dumbfounded. She stared at him in horror.
"Can... can you read minds?! How do you know what I'm thinking?!"
Liu Yang grinned cockily. "I don't just read minds, I've got x-ray vision too! On the left side of your chest, you have a light red birthmark shaped like a heart!"
"Eek-!"
He Yushi's eyes bulged as if she had seen a ghost, and she instantly slammed her hands over her chest.