Chapter 1073: Together (8)

Dinner was a bit late, and when Hao Lianlian returned to the dormitory, she heard her roommate say that Huang Yongqi had come looking for her.

Why would he come looking for her at this time?

Hao Lianlian was a bit puzzled. Although the dinner was a last-minute decision, she did tell Huang Yongqi.

Could it be something urgent?

Hao Lianlian put down her bag and went downstairs to find Huang Yongqi.

The girls’ dorm and the boys’ dorm were separated by two streets, not too far apart. When she arrived, the old man downstairs smiled and said to her, "Girl, come on in, Huang Yongqi just left."

Could they have missed each other?

Hao Lianlian thanked the old man with a smile and returned to her dormitory the way she came.

She often asked the old man to help her deliver things to Huang Yongqi and would bring some for the old man too, so he had a good impression of her.

The dorm manager auntie downstairs said she hadn’t seen Huang Yongqi come by.

This was strange.

Hao Lianlian thought for a moment and decided to wait downstairs at Huang Yongqi’s dorm.

She repeated the process once more, and when she arrived at the boys’ dorm, the old man saw her and kindly invited her into his room at the entrance, "You can wait here; this way, when Huang Yongqi returns, you’ll see him. Don’t worry, sitting here you won’t miss him."

Hao Lianlian nodded with a smile.

But even by the time it was nearly ten o’clock and the dorm was about to close, there was still no sign of Huang Yongqi.

She had no choice but to return to her dormitory. That night, worrying about him, she tossed and turned, unable to sleep well. As soon as it was morning, she went to find him.

"Didn’t come back last night?" Hao Lianlian asked, a bit surprised.

Since they were all in their fourth year, the dorm was not very strict with their comings and goings. They could stay out at night.

"Could it be that he came back and you just weren’t there to see him?" Hao Lianlian asked.

"I’ll go check for you." Although he knew the chances were slim, the kind old man went up to check, and indeed, he hadn’t returned.

That day, Hao Lianlian was out of sorts, so distracted in class that when the teacher called on her to answer a question, she didn’t hear, and a classmate had to nudge her, "What’s wrong with you today? Did you have a fight with Huang Yongqi?"

Hao Lianlian shook her head.

A fight?

Their tempers were such that they could never argue.

Sometimes she was envious watching Loli and Zhao Xuefei bicker.

But she and Huang Yongqi were never like that, everything between them was always calm.

Perhaps it was because they were so similar in nature.

It was precisely because of their shared experiences that they came together so easily.

Huang Yongqi was also an orphan, like Hao Lianlian, unaware of who his biological parents were. However, Huang Yongqi was raised by his adoptive parents, while Hao Lianlian was taken in by Old Man Hao.

They were in the same department but not the same class. How they found out was during a gathering when everyone was introducing their families, and Hao Lianlian said she was raised by Old Man Hao.

When someone asked about her parents, Hao Lianlian calmly told everyone her background.

She felt there was nothing to hide.

Because of Old Man Hao, Hao Lianlian felt she was the luckiest person in the world to have such a loving grandfather.

Then, Huang Yongqi voluntarily spoke to her.

When they talked, she learned he was also an orphan.

And then, the two of them just came together like that.