The sky suddenly darkened. Thick clouds swallowed the scorching sun, and the wind began to pick up.

Ning Chu instinctively looked up. Dark clouds were gathering at a visible pace, and not a single ray of sunlight remained in the sky.

Finally~

He marched in step with his classmates to the instructor’s cadence, barely holding back tears.

The entire first week of military training had been under blazing sunshine, torturing him to the point of tears. At last, today brought some rain.

Cool droplets dotted his forehead and face. The first scattered raindrops had begun to fall, stirring up the students, but the instructors quickly shouted them back into order.

Even if the rain didn’t get heavy today, at least they wouldn’t be training under the sun.

In less than ten minutes, the drizzle thickened into steady rain. Military training had to be put on hold, and the students were moved under the trees for shelter.

“If the rain gets heavier, does that mean we won’t have to train?” Wang Jie was clearly the happiest of them all. He sat cross-legged on the ground, gazing up at the cloud-covered sky, his voice full of hope. “What if it rains for five days and five nights? Then we can skip training for the rest of the week!”

“They’ll probably make us do it later, right?” Ning Chu sat on the circular flowerbed beneath the tree, unable to keep the joy from his voice.

Wen Yang had brought the bread and bottled water Han Jingye had prepared for the students back under the tree. He plopped down beside Ning Chu, but before Ning Chu could say anything, a girl lowered her head, her face bright red, and held out a thermos to him.

“I... I made plum drink.”

“Uh...”

He didn’t even have time to refuse before the thermos was pushed straight into his hands.

The girl hurried away and melted into the group of girls. They quickly gathered around her, teasing her from every direction for her courage.

“Must be nice~ Getting to drink plum drink a girl made just for you~”

Ning Chu sounded so jealous it was practically spilling out of him.

Why hadn’t he transmigrated as the protagonist?! He was the one who’d written the novel, so why had he ended up as a minor female character destined to get screwed by the protagonist?!

If he’d become the protagonist, he definitely wouldn’t be resisting the plot like this. When he’d been writing it, he’d always put himself in Wen Yang’s shoes and treated Wen Yang as himself.

“Want some?” Wen Yang smiled and offered him the thermos.

“But that girl gave it to you~”

Wen Yang looked a little awkward at Ning Chu’s sarcastic tone. “I don’t really like plum drink, anyway.”

“If you don’t want it, give it to me.” Zhang Shaoqing appeared from who knew where, snatched the thermos, and gulped down half of it. “Gulp!”

Ning Chu shot him a look of contempt.

What a jerk!

The wind on the field grew more violent, whipping their clothes with a sharp snap. Someone’s hat blew away, swept across the field, and vanished into the bushes at its edge.

Too bad the girls on the field were all wearing their training uniforms, not the short skirts they usually wore.

Ning Chu lowered his head and held down his hat.

The circular flowerbed was already packed with students. Wen Yang and Zhang Shaoqing, on either side of Ning Chu, were forced closer and closer together. Ning Chu, squeezed between them, found his space shrinking until his shoulders touched both of theirs.

Well, would you look at that—surrounded by men on both sides already.

He had no choice but to stand up and make room for his classmates.

Seeing that he had nowhere to go, Wen Yang patted his thigh and gestured for Ning Chu to sit down.

“Tsk!”

Ning Chu turned away in disdain.

Even though he was still a man through and through, he had absolutely no desire for intimate physical contact with either the male lead or the villain.

Not even putting an arm around their shoulders! Let alone sitting right on their laps.

Rain seeped through the dense branches and fell onto the heads of everyone taking shelter beneath them.

The instructor took out his phone to ask his superiors what to do. A moment later, he announced in a booming voice, “Military training is suspended!”

“Woo!”

The students cheered, but the instructor continued without changing his expression. “In half an hour, I’ll be inspecting your dorms with the school administrators for cleanliness and safety! Any dorm that fails will have to run five laps tomorrow.”

“Boo~”

“Dismissed!”

The rain had brought the dorm inspection forward.

Just thinking about the mess in their dorm gave Ning Chu a headache. They’d only cleaned it on the first day of the semester, and in the weeks since, he hadn’t seen anyone bother to sweep the floor.

But strangely enough, there wasn’t any trash on the dorm floor, either.

“Come on, let’s go clean the dorm!”

“Does my hair dryer count as a high-power appliance? Oh, crap! They’re not gonna confiscate it, are they?”

The students around them erupted into a noisy commotion. They left in groups of three or five, heading for the dorm buildings.

“Let’s go, too.” Wen Yang stretched. “Where’s that girl from earlier? I still have her thermos.”

“Over there, sneaking glances at you.” Zhang Shaoqing pointed at the girl in the distance and teased him. “You’re returning the thermos as an excuse to get her WeChat, aren’t you? Laying the groundwork for your future love life?”

Ning Chu jolted and instinctively turned to look at Wen Yang.

If Zhang Shaoqing was right, Wen Yang would lose his virginity in a matter of days!

For some reason, when Wen Yang saw the faint worry in Ning Chu’s eyes, he felt a strange sense of guilt, as if he were betraying his roommate...

“I’ll return it for you!” Ning Chu grabbed the thermos and darted off at a jog.

Watching the petite figure hurry away, Zhang Shaoqing smirked and ribbed Wen Yang. “Look at him. He’s so afraid you’ll talk to another woman.”

“Cut it out.” Wen Yang rolled his eyes. “If Ning Chu hears you, he’ll get mad and shut himself away again.”

“Sure, sure~”

“There!” Ning Chu came hurrying back, a thin sheen of sweat on his forehead. “I gave it back to her!”

He quickly noticed Wen Yang’s slightly odd expression and Zhang Shaoqing’s look of barely contained amusement.

His smile stiffened. He realized his actions could easily be misunderstood, and stammered out an excuse. “I just thought that girl was pretty... and she seemed really shy.”

“Oh, come on. Put her in heels and she’d be half a head taller than you.”

“She’s not that tall!”

He kicked at Zhang Shaoqing, who yelped and hopped out of the way.

“Hey~ You can’t hit me!”

This really was the first shy, introverted girl Ning Chu had seen here! Just look at the other girls—each one was more aggressive than the last. One wrong move and they’d devour Wen Yang whole.

Girls like that were usually genuinely shy, but in smutty novels, girls like them were all incredibly sensitive in bed... A huge raindrop smacked him right on the forehead, soaking a patch of skin and dragging his weird thoughts back to reality.

“Wang Jie! We’re heading back to the dorm!”

The rain kept getting heavier. It poured more and more densely through the branches, and the trees could no longer keep anyone dry.

Ning Chu and the others didn’t have umbrellas, either. The four of them dashed through the rain toward the dorm building for ten minutes.

By the time they reached the dorm lobby, their clothes were almost completely soaked. Ning Chu wasn’t very fit, and after running for ten minutes, his throat was dry and his chest heaved as he panted. He could only bend over where he stood, hands braced on his knees, to catch his breath.

“Where’s Wang Jie?”

But when Wen Yang asked and Ning Chu turned around, he saw Wang Jie still far from the dorm building, running so hard he could barely catch his breath.

That guy was even less fit than he was!