Later, Minister Yan somewhat regretted not pursuing the matter further.
That night, multiple circuit breakers tripped across No. 26 High School, plunging the campus into widespread darkness. The dormitory building buzzed with noise and commotion.
Outside Yu Sui’s dorm room, a small group quickly gathered, bustling and lively, though their chatter differed from others clamoring for candles.
“Let’s go now, quickly. Once the power’s back, we won’t be able to leave.”
“How will we get back when the power comes back on?”
“We can always come back tomorrow morning, right?”
“Are we leaving or not?!”
“Hurry, hurry, don’t waste time!”
Everyone from Yu Sui’s dorm stepped out and joined the group
Five minutes later, over ten students appeared outside the walls of No. 26 High School.
Yi Tian was doing something this outrageous for the first time; even after walking quite a distance, her face remained pale.
“I’m actually a bit excited,” Yi Tian kept saying.
“Is the haunted house really open now?” a boy asked.
Liang Wen corrected him, “It’s not called a haunted house anymore—it’s an escape room game. It’s been quite popular lately—”
The abandoned old mansion in Fu Village had quietly been converted into a large commercial venue. No one knew when the interior renovations had been completed. Over ten days ago, someone passing through Fu Village mentioned seeing the “haunted house” open for business, prompting No. 26 High to remove the post about it.
Although the haunted house was no longer “haunted”, they still maintained their primal curiosity about it. And since the “haunted house” opened, rumors from all sides said that the interior decoration was very special and the design was very artistic, making these people increasingly eager to go, and they even took advantage of a power outage to escape.
Yu Sui walked at the back of the group—elegant, clean, fair-skinned, refined, and well-behaved.
While the others looked like truants, he seemed merely out for an evening stroll.
Of course, the young master wasn’t heading to Fu Village with them—he was going to pick up his “goods.”
He could have waited a couple more days, until after the warm-up competition, and collected them on Yan Xiu’s birthday. That would have been fine too.
But he preferred to prepare in advance, to avoid any unforeseen circumstances.
Although the school blackout itself was a major unexpected event.
Yan Xiu had finished tidying everything up that evening, and since there was nothing to do during the power outage, he could take his phone and wait for the power to come back on.
Compared to the chaos in the dormitories, this floor was relatively calm.
However, once the lights came back on, everyone from the student council’s dormitories came out.
“Now, immediately, check the dorms!” The Director of the Moral Education Office stood at the dormitory entrance, hands on hips, glaring fiercely. “Check every single room! Write down the names of everyone missing! This is outrageous!”
This task usually fell to the Discipline Inspection Department. Other departments, feeling unjustly implicated, sympathized while yawning and heading back, leaving the Discipline Inspection members exchanging glances.
Within just five minutes, the red-armband squad swiftly patrolled the dormitory building.
A large number of students were missing.
They decided to consult each class monitor, opting to grant everyone a fifteen-minute grace period to return to their nests.
As for Class 3 Arts…
Yan Xiu silently put away his phone, deciding to spare them some dignity—and himself some as well.
“How’s it going on your end?” Zheng Zi’an asked.
Minister Yan lowered his gaze, once again folding the red armband and tucking it into his pocket. “Catching someone.”
“…”
“We’re going to get caught.” The sneaky group hadn’t even reached their destination when they were notified and rushed back.
A moving, eye-catching sight on the road
Yang Feiwen finally got through to Yu Sui’s phone and asked urgently, “Where are you?” The other end sounded quite calm. “On the wall.”
“What?”
Yu Sui: “The school wall. I’m coming down now. Hurry up.”
With that, he hung up first and glanced around.
When he left, he hadn’t brought anything except his phone, making the climb over the wall especially easy.
But now he was returning with a large suitcase.
He wasn’t sure where to land. He picked a spot that looked like thick grass and tossed the suitcase down first.
The suitcase hit the ground with a dull thud.
It didn’t sound like it had landed too hard.
After a moment’s thought, Yu Sui flipped over and jumped down.
This time, he didn’t land steadily, stumbling forward a step—but he still looked cool.
Just as he was thinking this, Yu Sui suddenly sensed someone behind him. Before he could get a good look, a sudden force grabbed his arm and shoulder.
Yu Sui instinctively struggled a few times, then abruptly caught the scent of medicinal herbs coming from behind him.
The young master’s brain short-circuited for a few seconds, slowly thinking, Did Yan Xiu take a shower?
The person behind him remained silent, but didn’t let go.
Yu Sui was absolutely certain this person was Yan Xiu and stopped struggling.
The group chat was buzzing with news of the Moral Education Director’s order for a surprise dormitory check by the disciplinary committee.
Just five minutes earlier, the disciplinary committee had notified everyone in the group chat to return to their dorms within fifteen minutes.
Yu Sui had calculated; he had ten minutes left, more than enough time to get back to his dorm from here.
Unfortunately, he’d jumped into the hands of Minister Yan.
Yu Sui blinked slightly, as if only now clearly realizing that the person he liked was a powerful Minister of the Discipline Inspection Department.
He moved slightly: “…Yan Xiu.”
The hands gripping him instantly withdrew.
Yan Xiu stood with his arms crossed at the foot of the wall, looking at him with utter speechlessness.
Yu Sui glanced at the suitcase, then looked at Yan Xiu.
He touched his nose, somewhat embarrassed: “I was wrong.”
An apology from a young master wasn’t always worth much.
Yan Xiu looked at him, seriously considering whether to tie this guy to a rope.
“Pretty good skills,” Yan Xiu said.
“…You flatter me.” Yu Sui glanced at the wall. “Do you know what will happen on the forum if others see us like this?”
“…” Yan Xiu was speechless at this pampered young master who couldn’t be hit or scolded. He simply closed his mouth, walked over to where the suitcase had landed, bent down, and picked it up
It was quite heavy.
Yu Sui’s heart jumped. He went over several times to take it from him.
He followed Yan Xiu towards the dormitory building.
Yan Xiu dodged his grasping hands.
“What happened?”
“Nothing happened…” Yu Sui faltered, his voice suddenly dropping, and fell silent.
At the end of the day, the night was starting to be deep, and while distant clamor filled the air, the area around them was quiet.
Yan Xiu stopped and turned to look at Yu Sui.
He always seemed to quickly sense Yu Sui’s emotional shifts—suddenly happy, suddenly unhappy, suddenly angry, or something else.
“What happened?” Yan Xiu asked again.
Yu Sui took the opportunity to take the suitcase from him, mumbling vaguely, “Nothing. I just suddenly remembered seeing someone write… about the two of us, saying I was caught by you for soliciting.”
In that book “Eagle Catches Chick,” which has three volumes, Yu Sui was caught in it for all three.
Later, Yu Sui finished reading that book, and the content indeed resembled his daily interactions with Yan Xiu. Except in that book, Yan Xiu liked him a lot, and he liked Yan Xiu a lot too.
“Where?” Yan Xiu asked.
Yu Sui snapped back to reality and whispered, “I forgot, A-Wen showed it to me. I don’t read it myself.”
Yan Xiu walked to his side: “Why?”
“…”
A sudden noise came from behind—the students from Class 3 Arts were running back.
Yu Sui listened to the noise for a while, thinking it was loud enough, before muttering, without even realizing it, with a wronged expression, “After reading it so many times, I started to believe it.”
Author’s Note: -←A Thousand Words
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