At the start, I tricked the school beauty, and ended up with twins?

Gu Yu lay on the bed and set the photo of Lin Xinyue secretly kissing his cheek as his phone wallpaper, which put him in a delightful mood.

Qin's reaction speed was incredibly fast—he actually managed to capture that moment in a mere 0.01 second!

It was worthy of being called a Xiaomi phone with a hundred-million-pixels camera!

In the photo, a handsome Gu Yu tilted his head back while Lin Xinyue stood on her tiptoes, her lips pressed against his right cheek. Although his expression was a bit astonished, the yellowish streetlight cast a romantic and atmospheric glow over the entire photo!

"Laosi, you're so not cool! We captured such a precious photo for you, aren't you going to treat us nicely tomorrow?"

"Exactly! Thanks to us! A meal of dry pot chicken in exchange for that photo isn't asking too much, right?"

"Tsk tsk, I must say, Laosi really has some charm, being strongly kissed by the school beauty like that!"

"..."

The three older brothers sang and harmonized under the bed.

"Tsk! Each of you has a girlfriend, and yet you're taking sneaky photos of my girlfriend!"

Gu Yu rolled over and glared down at them, and Yu Laoer and Qin Laosan instantly fell silent.

But Boss Pu wasn't having it!

"I freaking don't have one! Damn! I'm the only single dog in this dorm! You guys are too much—sob sob sob~"

"I'm only twenty-one years old, all I want is a sweet romance. What did I do wrong!"

Boss Pu pretended to wipe his tears, and Gu Yu fell silent too.

Because he suddenly remembered that he had forgotten to ask Lin Xinyue today if she had any best friends for Boss Pu to get to know.

Too many things, he had pushed it to the back of his mind.

My bad, my bad.

"Boss, don't be sad, how about I take you all to Linlang Restaurant for a meal someday soon? I can also ask Xinyue if she has any good girlfriends to bring along?"

After a moment of silence, Gu Yu offered a solution.

"Ay! Hehe, I knew it! Our Laosi isn't the stingy type. He always thinks of us! Having such brothers in my life, Pu Tongren is blessed!"

Upon hearing the latter part of Laosi's words, Boss Pu immediately brightened, his quick change of face was embarrassing.

He patted his chest, trying to curry favor with Gu Yu.

The others looked on with disdain.

Boss Pu focused on the latter half of the sentence, while Yu Laoer and Qin Laosan focused on the first part.

Linlang Restaurant!

"No way? Laosi, did I hear you right, you just mentioned Linlang Restaurant on Hongqiao Road? The one where the average cost per person is nearly a thousand yuan?"

Yu Laoer's eyes widened as he vigorously dug his ear, thinking he must have heard wrong.

"A thousand per person? What kind of restaurant is that! That's outrageous!"

Qin Laosan was also stunned; he usually didn't pay much attention to restaurant info, but hearing Yu Laoer's words, he quickly checked it on a niche review app.

On checking, indeed, the average cost was 800+ yuan—truly nearly a thousand yuan per person!

Both of them felt that Gu Yu must have misspoken, or perhaps it was a restaurant with a similar-sounding name?

After all, treating them to a meal at a restaurant with an average cost of a thousand yuan per person was too extravagant!

But Gu Yu remained calm and pointed at the photo on Qin's phone, nodding:

"No mistake, it's that one. I see those food influencers on Dou Ying always recommending it, its steak and cod are quite famous. Let's try it!"

"Try...we can't afford to just 'try'! For the four of us in the dorm, even choosing a set meal for four would cost over two thousand!"

"Over two thousand, that's more than a month's living expenses!"

The group exchanged glances, thinking Laosi had lost his mind.

It can't be because he wants to save face that he's planning to overspend on a meal, right?

That must not be allowed!

They must talk some sense into him—they were only joking, after all.

"We think that the Xuzhou pot chicken near the south gate of the school is pretty good, only twenty yuan per person and it tastes amazing!"

"Yeah! It's incredibly delicious! We aren't used to eating stuff like steak and cod, better not go."

A few older brothers chimed in one after another, planning to give "face-sensitive" Laosi a way out.

Gu Yu leaned back on the bed, watching them like that; how could he not know they were providing him an out?

But, it wasn't necessary! He had money now!

Although he had spent five hundred thousand, he still had one hundred and sixty thousand in his account!

Spending a thousand per person on a meal was nothing to him now!

"No... what's so great about pot chicken? Let's eat steak and cod! I'm going to message my girlfriend right now to set a time and ask her to bring her friends too!"

Saying that, Gu Yu's fingers tapped on the phone keyboard, sending a message to Lin Xinyue.

Seeing this, everyone realized he was serious!

They hadn't managed to dissuade him!

Boss Pu became anxious; he did want to eat an "introduction meal," but this was just too expensive!

Four guys and a few girls, even five or six thousand bucks might not hold up!

Laosi has gone mad!

The three exchanged glances, the same thought popping into their heads.

Watching the three looking dumbstruck, Gu Yu smirked, casually opened his Alipay, and handed over his phone to them.

"Look! You don't think a meal could bankrupt me, do you? Count it, how many digits is that?"

Boss Pu took Gu Yu's phone, glanced at the balance inadvertently, and his hand froze.

"Oh my freak!"

He let out a bizarre cry, completely taken aback.

Yu Laoer and Qin Laosan, seeing Boss Pu's reaction, curiously leaned over to look.

This glance scared them too.

Yu Laoer, fingers trembling, began counting the digits: "ones… tens… hundreds… thousands… big bro… dad…"

Qin Laosan's mouth gaping wide: "Holy shit! One hundred sixty thousand! Laosi, did you rob a bank today!?"

Gu Yu rolled his eyes at the three, reclaiming his phone from Boss Pu's hand.

"In your eyes, am I that kind of person?"

Watching Gu Yu feign annoyance, Boss Pu also came to his senses.

He didn't say a word, pulling out cigarettes and a lighter from his pocket, cigarette perched in his mouth, and lit it with a "click."

The others looked at him puzzled, not understanding what he was doing.

Then, Boss Pu took a deep drag, puffing out the smoke intensely, melancholy written all over his face, and finally spoke,

"Yu, if I, Pu Tongren, ever disrespected you in the past, please let bygones be bygones. Here, I'll punish myself with this one, to apologize to you!"

As Boss Pu spoke, his eyes were full of wistful regret, anyone unaware would think he'd committed some great error!

Before Gu Yu could respond, the other two brothers chimed in:

Yu Laoer: "From today on, Yu is our 502's boss! What's Pu Tongren? Trash that can be called a boss?"

Observing Boss Pu and Laoer suddenly take this stance, Gu Yu's expression gradually turned bizarre.

For some reason, he always felt there was a trick!

Something smelled wrong!

Sure enough, Qin's next statement shattered the mood Boss Pu and Laoer had set.

Qin Shan: "What the boss and second bro said is absolutely right! Same here!"

Gu Yu's mouth twitched, not hesitating, he extended a foot to sweep across the three: "Get out! Stop acting with me!"

The three ducked their heads, and the atmosphere in the dorm became lively:

"Hahahaha..."

"Qin Zhangfei! It's all your fault. We almost fooled Laosi with our acting, and you just had to say something like that!"

Boss Pu and Laoer chased Qin Laosan around, pummeling him.

Laosan escaped to the balcony from the beating, and just as Boss Pu, not yet satisfied, was laughing, he turned his gaze toward Laoer.

"Nice one, Yu Laoer! You just had to lick Laosi clean, then throw a diss at me! Seems like you've been coveting my position as the dorm head for a while, huh!"

Boss Pu and Yu Laoer started fooling around again.

Gu Yu lay on the top bunk, grinning unabashedly.

At this point, how could he not know that the three buddies were just joking with him?

They all seemed straightforward, yet they unspokenly didn't ask where the money came from.

These guys, real buddies!

...

Tired from playing, everyone lined up to shower and then went to bed.

The time was eleven o'clock.

Gu Yu had just sent Lin Xinyue a goodnight message and snuggled into his blanket when Qin Shan's voice came from the opposite bunk.

"Laosi, you're not kidding me, right? We really going to Linlang Restaurant someday?"

Then Boss Pu's voice also rang out:

"Eat, eat, eat! Laosan, all you think about is eating! Laosi, you better not forget about my sister!"

Yu Laoer: "Pah! Boss Pu, shameless! Always about your sister. Have you even met her? Yet you call her your sister!"

None of them were actually asleep yet; they were all still thinking about what Gu Yu had said.

Gu Yu put down his phone, a smile on his face: "Don't worry! Do I ever lie?"

Reassured by Gu Yu's affirmation, cheers erupted in the dorm room.

"Awesome! Steak! Cod! Grandpa's coming!"

"I'll definitely eat Laosi under the table!"

"Screw it! Talking about it makes me hungry! Let's sleep quick!"