Chapter 5 Everyone Under The Bed
The formation kept chiming.
I hurried to open it.
"Junior Sister." Lu Mingming blinked his big eyes at me.
"..."
Scared me to death. I had thought it was Senior Sister.
I was about to exhale when that breath caught again.
Because Lu Mingming had come to confess.
He held up a small bunch of white flowers and looked at me, hesitant.
"Junior Sister, I have actually liked you for a long time. Could I..."
I refused with a blank face.
"I don't like stacked names. Too girly."
Fifth Senior Brother looked like he could not believe it, and his voice turned aggrieved.
"But you said before that you liked my name."
Had I? I had forgotten.
I wanted to send Fifth Senior Brother away.
Then he seemed to see someone, and darted into my cave dwelling like a mouse spotting a cat.
"Little Junior Sister, shut the door! Don't tell my older brother I'm here!"
I twitched the corner of my mouth.
I looked. Lu Qingqing was walking this way from not far off.
Fourth and Fifth Senior Brother were twins. Their tastes were not far apart.
Don't tell me this was another confession.
Oh my god.
Where was I supposed to get that many titles for all of you...
Fifth Senior Brother, so panicked he was stumbling over himself, spotted the space under my bed at a glance.
A bad feeling hit me.
"Wait!"
There was no time to stop him.
Fifth Senior Brother slid under in one quick slide.
A muffled grunt came from under the bed. Xue Qianxing.
"Eldest Senior Brother?!" Fifth Senior Brother cried, startled and uncertain.
"Shut up." Xue Qianxing's voice was dark.
Fourth Senior Brother had already reached the door and triggered the formation.
The two under the bed went quiet too.
Speechless, I opened the formation again.
"Hey, Junior Sister." Lu Qingqing leaned on the stone door, a small chrysanthemum in his mouth, and greeted me.
"Today is Qixi. Senior Brother wanted to..."
"I don't like stacked names." I could not even be bothered to invent a reason. My voice was weak.
"Ah? Junior Sister, I haven't even started." Fourth Senior Brother looked shattered. He could barely keep the flower in his mouth.
I could not care whether his heart was in pieces.
Because.
Someone else was coming in the distance!
I rolled my eyes and figured it was only Second and Third Senior Brother left.
No need to hide.
I was about to call those two Senior Brothers out from under the bed.
Just lay it out with all of them.
A clean cut. No more love. No more stringing them all along!
Eldest Senior Sister would not be able to pick a fault with me then, right?
I sighed.
From then on my persona would be a little white flower who loved Senior Sister and could never have her.
It was for survival. Nothing shameful about that.
Until the person in the distance came close...
A sweep of cyan robes.
Cyan robes?
Second and Third Senior Brother did not wear cyan.
Who wore cyan?
The newcomer was tall and lean, with cold, striking features and an unmistakably proud bearing.
Who was that? Hazy, and weirdly good-looking.
I squinted, trying to see clearly.
In an instant, my eyes went wide.
Qin Ruoyi!
Eldest Senior Sister was wearing cyan!!
I grabbed the still-dazed Fourth Senior Brother and yanked him inside.
"Eh, Junior Sister, you agreed?"
"Agreed my ass! Get in!"
I could not care about image. I stuffed Fourth Senior Brother under the bed in a panic.
If Qin Ruoyi found out I was hiding this many men here, I would not even know how I died.
"Holy shit! Eldest Senior Brother!"
"There's me too..."
"Enough, shut up!"
The formation chimed.
The noisy men under the bed finally went quiet.