White Roses Dyed Blood Red

Sheng Rong's POV

Two arms looped around her neck while a chin rested on top of her head. In front of her, the two hands connected to the arms presented her an iced latte in a mug.

"Thanks," She felt the owner of the head resting on her head smile.

"No problem, anything for my boo,"

She faked a vomit while suppressing the urge to turn around and hug him back.

They were great together. Let's not ruin their friendship.

Their friendship included the basics plus friendly flirting that always set her heart over the edge.

She felt the arms move down and wrap around her waist lightly.They watched their friends across from them.

Yaorui was speaking to Chuan Si about that favour she asked of him, while Hu Angli, someone who was very much in love with Yaorui, stood at the side sulking.

Chuan Si blushed, and Hu Angli's hands fisted.

Chuan Si grabbed her arm, and Hu Angli was drawing blood with white knuckles.

It was hard to tell if Angli was happy when she hit her arm where she was held. But it became clear when she gently rubbed the spot right after.

"Those two, what are we gonna do with them?" She shook her head and took a sip of NuNu's ice latte specialty.

"What about we give them a push?"

"Like what?"

"Truth or dare, what better way than that? They're both a bit too prideful for their own good,"

"Then let's schedule a group activity tonight," Precious stood next to them, leaning on the counter without a single care in the world.

"You too?" Jian Nu looked unconvinced that she would give a shred of care.

"Those two drive me crazier than you two,"

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"It means all four of you are unbelievably dense,"

"We're not dense,"

"Whatever you say lovebirds,"

"We aren't lovebirds, are we?" She looked at her boy best friend.

"We totally are,"

"Are we now?"

"Yup,"

"Should we go official then?"

WHAT WAS SHE THINKING!

"Y-"

"RongRong!"

And just like that, the conversation was delayed much later.

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Yaorui's POV

"Angli!" She skipped over to where he was. "What's got you all riled up?" She took his hand in hers and gently pulled his fingers loose.

"Ah, nothing," He tried to pull his hand back.

"Well, obviously something since your palm is bleeding. Gebao! Can you get me the first aid kit, please?"

"RongRong! Can you do that?" She heard Gebao call for Sheng Rong, who agreed and handed her the kit a few seconds later.

"What happened to your hand?"

"Hands," She corrected.

"Both of them?" She nodded in response to Jian Nu's question.

She disinfected the wound and the area around it before wrapping his hands in bandages.

"Good as new,"

"You know~" Angli gave her a mischievous look, "A kiss can make the pain go away," He wiggled his eyebrows.

"Except you're not in pain,"

"Owww, it hurts soo much, I think you need to kiss it,"

"Not happening,"

"But it hurts~~!"

"Nope,"

"Tsk, you're no fun,"

"Tsk, I'm hungry,"

"I'll get you some food,"

"But you're hurt,"

"Kiss, or I'll go,"

"Don't forget to get me some dessert,"

"I should've seen this coming," And he stalked away to get some food for his queen.

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Later that afternoon

"Guys! Good news! The furniture arrived!"

"Finally,"

"Took three days,"

"It's here!"

"How am I going to put this together?"

"It is supposed to have these many pieces?"

"That is a lot of bookshelves!"

"And desks,"

Yaorui joined the group in the foyer to pick out what was her's and transport everything inside.

Angli was already there with a few others, carrying in boxes, going back and forth."Let me help with that,"

"It's fine Rui'er,"

"Then I'll go help someone else then, Chuan S-!"

"I need help, here," And Angli dropped the lightest box in her hands.

"I can carry more," He dropped the next lightest box.

Soon enough, Yaorui was carrying loads of boxes back and forth along with her friends Wenshi, Zhangmin, Sheng Rong and Gebao.

"Are we failures of boyfriends for letting our girlfriends carry heavy things?" Jiexu consulted Long Ao.

"I don't know, according to the books, it was good to let the girls do what they want, but it was bad to let them do too much manual labour,"

"But if we aren't allowed in the East wing, who will build the furniture for them, if we let them do it, then they'll be doing too much, right?"

"I think so?"

"What do you think they're talking about?" Gebao asked Wenshi, while occasionally glancing at their boyfriends.

"Probably figuring out a way to come to the East wing and build our stuff for us cause we'll be doing too much manual labour,"

"You're spot on," Zhangmin came in beside them holding yet another box filled with shelf pieces, "I just walked by them and overheard their conversation,"

"See, I told you,"

"You're good at this, I want candy," Gebao pouted. Her sweet tooth was sweeter than YaoYao's. "I want milk candies,"

Jiexu's ears twitched, and he abandoned Long Ao to hand over a handful of milk candies to his one and only.

He couldn't spoil her before, but now he was set on spoiling her rotton. And his efforts were bearing fruits.

Some smiled at their interaction while others envied, and the rest showed no care nor interest.

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Later that night

"I'm telling you, whoever the murderer is, they're only after girls,"

"We don't know that for sure,"

"But they've only killed girls, not a single guy was even touched,"

"So, what are you saying? That the murderer is super s.e.xist?"

"YES! My point exactly!"

"Why can't you say something nicer? Like we gotta protect the girls or something?" A third voice chimed in.

"Are you a damsel in distress?"

"...not right now, no,"

"Than shut up,"

"All of you shut up, the only people that should even give a f*ck about this is me, and Kahn Shen since he's a forensic scientist and I a future layer than judge," Ma Liang but in.

"Everybody gather around! It's time for truth or dare, spin the bottle edition!"

In the back of the main wing, all the couches and tables have been moved aside. This allowed everyone to fit in a tight circle in the pit.

Usually, on both sides of her sat her friends (her female friends), but today, her friends seemed adamant about seating her right next to Angli.

Why? That question was never answered because before she could even get out a word, Xun Shouhan opened his mouth and begun explaining the ground rules.

"First rule: No cheating, don't touch the bottle while it is spinning. Second rule: No backing out, a dare is a dare, and a truth is a truth. Third rule: If the bottle points to two people on the same end, rock, paper, scissors, solves everything, got that!"

"YES!"

Now it was Qi Ming Ming's turn to explain, "The head of the bottle indicates the darer, or the asker, while the b.u.t.t points to the victim! Don't mess it up, ya?"

"Got it!"

"Then, let's welcome our wonderful leader up to do the first spin!" More cheering followed behind.

Her second brother Long Ao puffed his c.h.e.s.t proudly.

"Zhang Wenshi!" Her brother became prouder.

Wenshi crawled into the circle, squatted and spun the bottle before rushing back to her spot in their group of five.

All eyes were glued to the bottle, people crossed their fingers and hoped not to be chosen as the victim. And their prayers were answered well because the one person that hadn't prayed at all was chosen.

The darer/asker was a boy named Fang Gucwei, a fifth year and a close friend of Chuan Si (Fourth year).

"and Junior Li Yaorui is the victim!" Announced an excited fifth year.

"Truth or dare?" Fang Gucwei asked her.

"Dare,"

"I dare you to sit to the left of Lan Yue,"

"Alright," It was a simple dare, nothing special came out of it.

It was a little bit disappointing.

She sat down and greeted Lan Yue, who was happy and presently surprised to be remembered by her.

A/n: They met at the banquet in an earlier chapter.

Next, she greeted the person to her left and was pleased to see that she was familiar with the person.

"Chuan Si, hi, I will be your elbow buddy for the night," She smiled jokingly and held out her hand.

"Li Yaorui, thank you for the great honour of being my elbow buddy for the night,"

"You should be thanking your friend,"

"Will do,"

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Angli watched them from all the way across the circle, his eyes blazing

.Hmph! I saved her life, she won't abandon me that easily.

He tried to comfort the burning flame inside of him.

He looked to his friends for a possible distraction but saw that they were a bit busy. Jian Nu was having a heated conversation with Sheng Rong with their eyes while Long Ao and Jiexu were occupied with heatedly gazing at their own future wives.

His eyes lingered on the Jian Nu and Sheng Rong.

He tried to find a reason why they weren't a couple yet only to fail at finding even one.

His senses sharpened when he heard a certain someone giggle from across the room.

That bastard, he was trying to steal his sunshine.

But because he held no right, he held back his possessive urges and focussed on Yaorui reaching out to spin the bottle.

Tonight was going to be a long night for him.