056 A Night of Chaos
As it turned out, drunk people were indeed a lot of trouble.
Tang Hexing hugged an osmanthus tree and shouted “Senior Sister Shinka” for five minutes. Everyone finally managed to pull him away. Just a few steps forward, he hugged another osmanthus tree and started shouting “Sister Ryougi Shiki.”
Wang Ke sighed with a hint of sadness. “I asked him what type he liked, and he said he liked lolis too. Tsk, liar. Look at him spilling the truth after drinking. None of the true loves he’s shouting about are lolis…”
Wang Heng was currently pulling Tang Hexing’s arm, but to no avail. Hearing this, he turned his head in astonishment. “Is this the time to be complaining about that? Let’s get him back first!”
Fu Hanwen grabbed Tang Hexing’s other arm, but couldn’t move him even with all his strength. He wiped the sweat from his forehead. “I thought he was already in true love with Senior Sister Shinka. Turns out he likes Ryougi Shiki more? Who’s next, Misaka?”
Suddenly, Wang Heng had a flash of inspiration and tickled Tang Hexing’s side.
Tang Hexing immediately started to feel ticklish and let go of the tree trunk he was hugging tightly.
Fu Hanwen quickly hugged Tang Hexing from behind and dragged him towards the school gate. This time, they made sure not to let Tang Hexing get close to any trees.
“He’s thin, but when he’s drunk and thrashing around, he’s really hard to hold!” Fu Hanwen complained as he struggled.
But just then, reinforcements finally arrived.
Sun Xingsi came jogging out from inside the school gate, pushing a handcart, and arrived in front of everyone.
“Here, here! Put him on this, and we won’t have to struggle so much.”
Fu Hanwen finally breathed a sigh of relief, let go of his roommate, and said with sincere gratitude, “Sun Xingsi, my vote is yours!”
Wang Heng: “Let’s not talk about votes first. Let’s deal with this guy…”
As they spoke, the two of them lifted Tang Hexing onto the handcart, as if they were moving a corpse that would occasionally reanimate.
Sun Xingsi wiped his sweat. “I’m not dealing with this anymore. My sister is also drunk. I still have to ask about the situation over there—what is he doing!”
Before he could finish, Sun Xingsi’s eyes widened. The others followed his gaze and saw that Tang Hexing had actually hugged a white cat that had just passed by!
The poor little cat was a victim of an undeserved disaster. It had innocently passed by the handcart, only to be scooped up and held in someone’s arms.
Tang Hexing sat up, holding the cat, and said with deep emotion and melancholy, “Hanekawa Tsubasa, you actually know everything, don’t you?”
A boy next to them couldn’t help but ask, “What? Is that another 2D character?”
Wang Heng: “…I remember now. She’s a girl from Bakemonogatari, the kind that can turn into a cat.”
Fu Hanwen was on the verge of going crazy. “Can’t that cat sense the danger? Why did it get close to a deranged drunkard!”
Wang Ke raised his hand. “I think it’s not the cat’s fault.”
Wang Heng walked to the handcart and patted Tang Hexing’s shoulder. “Buddy, let it go. It’s innocent.”
Tang Hexing hugged the cat even tighter. “What are you trying to do to my class president!”
Everyone was speechless.
Sun Xingsi clapped his hands. “Look on the bright side. At least he’s speaking more clearly, and his movements seem to be more agile… Is he about to wake up?”
But Wang Heng shook his head. “I think you might be a little too optimistic.”
Fu Hanwen also chimed in, “I also have a premonition that tonight might not be over yet…”
Sun Xingsi: “Let’s just get him back to your dorm first.”
**
With everyone’s concerted effort, they finally managed to get Tang Hexing onto his own bed.
The students who weren’t from dorm 414 all said their goodbyes and returned to their respective dorms. Although everyone had drunk tonight, Tang Hexing had drunk the most among the boys and had the worst alcohol tolerance. The others were all sober, and some boys even had the energy to go back and play another ranked game.
Sun Xingsi also returned to his dorm, took out his phone, and carefully read the text message from the girl from the University of Finance and Economics again:
【Your sister just @everyone in the student union recruitment group, saying that she’s going to give a lecture to people tomorrow. A lot of the freshmen believed her. If you don’t control your sister soon, the situation is going to get out of control.】
This text message had been sent nearly half an hour ago. At that time, he was still looking for the security guard to borrow a handcart.
Sun Xingsi was silent for a long while before finally sending a message: 【What’s the situation now?】
After waiting for half a minute, the other party replied: 【It’s okay. Your sister seems to have sobered up a little, but a few freshmen have replied to her, so she has no choice but to skip her required class tomorrow morning to give a lecture to the freshmen.】
Sun Xingsi: 【What kind of lecture does she want to give?】
【Originally, she said she wanted to talk about her views on love. We just managed to persuade her to change it to career planning for university students.】
Sun Xingsi finally breathed a sigh of relief and muttered, “I can finally go to bed…”
**
Han Yixuan couldn’t help but regret why she had put her phone next to her pillow when she went to sleep, and had also forgotten to set it to silent.
At two in the morning, she was woken up by the Q message notification sound on her phone. She groggily picked up her phone and saw an @all message in the student union group, from a department leader in the student union, a sophomore senior sister named Sun Ruimin.
“As a senior, I want to talk about the principles of life… and she’s sending it at two in the morning. Is there something wrong with this person?”
Han Yixuan grumbled, put down her phone, and closed her eyes, only to find something very wrong.
Her sleepiness was gone.
She sat up in bed and picked up her phone to read it carefully again.
Hmm, the senior sister wanted to talk about the principles of life. This was an official department activity, and the class would start tomorrow morning. Considering it was already past midnight, it should be said that the class would start this morning, in about nine hours.
“This person really has a problem…” Han Yixuan sighed quietly.
Ever since she was a child, her sleep had not been very stable. Once she was woken up in the middle of the night, it would become very difficult to fall asleep again. It seemed that tonight would be another sleepless night with poor sleep quality.
Han Yixuan picked up her phone and looked at it again. There was never a shortage of sycophants in the group. Someone had already posted that they would “seriously listen to the senior’s life experience,” which made the girl speechless. She exited the group chat and subconsciously scrolled down… Suddenly, her finger paused. Before her eyes appeared the contact name 【Wang Heng】.
Han Yixuan opened the chat with Wang Heng, then exited, then opened it again, then exited again.
Originally, she thought she had already forgotten that bastard. Starting a new life in university, joining the student union through an interview, meeting so many new friends… She thought those past memories had already been stuffed into the deepest part of the basement, but now, they were being dug up again?
After being dazed for a long while, the girl finally put down her phone, closed her eyes, and said to herself, “Insomnia really makes people sentimental.”
***
Translator’s Notes
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Ryougi Shiki (两仪式, Liǎngyí Shì): The protagonist of the light novel and anime series The Garden of Sinners (空の境界, Kara no Kyoukai).
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Misaka (炮姐, Pàojiě): A nickname for Misaka Mikoto from the A Certain Magical Index / A Certain Scientific Railgun series. “炮姐” (Pàojiě) means “Railgun Sister.”
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Hanekawa Tsubasa (羽川翼, Yǔchuān Yì): A main character from the Monogatari series (化物语, Huàwùyǔ). She is possessed by a cat spirit (sawarineko), which is why the drunk Tang Hexing mistakes the cat for her.
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Class President (班长, bānzhǎng): In the Monogatari series, Hanekawa Tsubasa is the class president. Tang Hexing is calling the cat “class president” because he thinks it’s her.
