Chapter 16: Is in Danger?

After saying those words, the president of the Anime Club paid no mind to what Gu Bai might be thinking and just went back to his business.

Gu Bai and Su Wan’er were left standing there, staring blankly at each other.

Finally, it was Su Wan’er who took the initiative to speak.

“Senior Gu Bai, um… lead the way?”

“Alright then.”

Facing Su Wan’er’s slightly expectant gaze, Gu Bai truly didn’t have the heart to refuse.

Under Gu Bai’s lead, the two quickly found a vacant changing room.

Since these women’s changing rooms had many individual stalls, Gu Bai simply escorted her inside and stood by the main door.

“You change here, I’ll go get busy—”

However, mid-sentence, Gu Bai noticed Su Wan’er shrinking back, a look of fear on her face.

Because the electrical wiring in this changing room had some issues, the lights were flickering and dim, flashing in a way that was quite eerie.

Coupled with the fact that this changing room was in a relatively secluded location with no other students around—most people went to the other, more popular changing rooms and wouldn’t come to this one from who-knows-how-many years ago—the atmosphere was unsettling.

Seeing this, Gu Bai could only let out a helpless sigh.

“How about I take you back to that crowded changing room from before?”

“No… no.”

For Su Wan’er, a crowd was even scarier than the dark.

She didn’t like exposing herself to a group of people, even if the changing room was filled only with girls.

“Then you go in? I’ll wait for you here.”

Since this changing room was indeed too remote, Gu Bai didn’t feel comfortable leaving Su Wan’er alone in such a place.

“…Okay.”

Su Wan’er looked at the clothes in her hands, hesitated for a moment, then gritted her teeth and walked in.

Gu Bai leaned against the wall next to the door, closing his eyes to rest.

He, of course, wouldn’t do something like peeping at someone changing.

He was waiting for Su Wan’er to finish changing; once she was satisfied, it would be about time for him to leave.

But leaning against the wall waiting for someone really did bring back memories of the past.

Back then, Su Shuhao had also changed her clothes here, and he had similarly waited outside for her to come out.

The difference was that back then, this place wasn’t abandoned; it was crowded, and he was just an inconspicuous face in the crowd.

Now, there was no one else—just him and a girl he had just met.

Alone together in this dim, gloomy place, even Gu Bai couldn’t help but marvel.

Was Su Wan’er being a bit too trusting of him?

Had she really not heard the rumors about him circulating at Nanjiang University?

If he really were to lose control of his “primal instincts,” there would be no one here to save her.

Though, he wasn’t the type to do something like that anyway.

With his eyes closed, Gu Bai’s mind was filled with random, messy thoughts.

“Eek!!”

Suddenly, a sharp girlish scream erupted from inside the changing room, the voice tinged with a hint of a sob.

There was even a dull thud, as if something had happened.

Hearing the sound, Gu Bai immediately called out to the interior.

“What happened?”

But Gu Bai’s call received no response.

At that moment, terrifying possibilities began to race through his mind.

For instance, an intruder lying in wait who had kidnapped Su Wan’er, or perhaps a venomous snake.

“Are you okay?”

“Sob… sob…”

Gu Bai called out again, but the only response was the girl’s pitiful whimpering and sobbing; she didn’t answer him.

Realizing that Su Wan’er might be in danger, Gu Bai didn’t care about anything else. He grabbed a nearby broom and burst inside.

As mentioned before, there were many stalls in this changing room, so Gu Bai first had to locate exactly where Su Wan’er was.

Following the sound, he quickly found her stall.

Through the gap at the bottom of the door, he could see her sitting on the floor, her body trembling slightly, looking extremely frightened.

Gu Bai didn’t dare make any more noise, worried that there might actually be a criminal inside.

He placed his hand on the door handle and struck with a sudden, powerful “One-Inch Punch.”

The sturdy lock was instantly destroyed by Gu Bai’s force.

His martial arts training was no joke.

After violently breaking down the door, Gu Bai immediately pointed the broom into the stall.

However, upon looking closer, he saw that there was no one else in the room.

It was empty, save for a disheveled Su Wan’er sitting on the floor, her face pale as if she had seen a ghost.

Seeing Gu Bai rush in, Su Wan’er didn’t care whether she was fully dressed or not; she lunged directly into his arms and said in a trembling voice: “There… there’s a cockroach…”

Upon hearing this, Gu Bai’s racing heart finally went dead.

He helplessly lowered the broom.

He had thought she was in danger, but it turned out she had just encountered a cockroach.

Indeed, some girls couldn’t stand those things, but Gu Bai hadn’t expected Su Wan’er’s reaction to be this extreme.

And…

Right now, she was only wearing her underwear as she threw herself onto him.

Summer clothes were thin to begin with, and Gu Bai’s light shirt was completely unable to block the delicate, soft sensation pressing against him.

The girl’s fragrance wafted up into Gu Bai’s nose, making him momentarily lightheaded.

After all, Gu Bai was still a teenage boy.

He had barely even held a girl’s hand a few times—when had he ever seen such a temptation?

Once Gu Bai snapped back to his senses, he grabbed the clothes the girl had dropped on the floor and draped them over her petite figure.

Then, he swatted the cockroach with the broom and swept it out of the room.

After finishing this, Gu Bai said to Su Wan’er:

“The cockroach is dead. There’s no need to be afraid of it; it’s more scared of you than you are of it.”

“But… but…”

Su Wan’er wanted to argue, but then she finally realized her current state.

Her face turned bright red, and with a cute cry of embarrassment, she hurriedly pushed Gu Bai out, saying:

“Don’t look, don’t look!”

“It’s pitch black, what could I even see?”

Gu Bai naturally didn’t stay in the changing room.

After being pushed out, Su Wan’er’s face was as red as a ripe apple; she was so ashamed she wanted to find a hole to crawl into.

The mood to try on cute clothes was gone; she just leaned against the wall in a daze.

With only a thin stall partition between them, once it went quiet, Su Wan’er even worried that Gu Bai might hear her nervous, pounding heartbeat.

Just as she was overwhelmed with shame, Gu Bai spoke up with absolutely zero romantic tact.

“Hurry it up. Usually, if you see one cockroach, it means there’s a whole nest nearby.”

“Waaaah!!!”

Poor Su Wan’er was so startled by Gu Bai’s words that she nearly jumped out of her skin.