Julia Bennett wished so much that Chris Brooks would just throw away that piece of paper with the phone number on it, but unfortunately, Chris Brooks still slipped it into his pocket.

At that moment, Julia Bennett felt as if she was about to lose Chris Brooks, even though she had never truly had him, and had even rejected him before.

Emily Clark was happily humming a song in the dorm, the other roommates were busy with their own things, Chris Brooks had already left, and the floor was covered with packages that needed sorting. Julia Bennett suddenly felt very sad and terribly homesick.

She picked up her phone, ready to call her dad, but in the end, she held back.

Just now, reality had given the greenhouse-raised Julia Bennett a good lesson. At Port City No.1 High, she was everyone’s goddess, but in the Dongda dorm, she was a nobody.

At that moment, Chris Brooks’s voice suddenly sounded again at the door: “Julia Bennett, could you please come down and vouch for me? Otherwise, the dorm supervisor auntie won’t let me out.”

Julia Bennett sniffed and stood up. She didn’t want the “heartbreaker” Chris Brooks to see her true feelings.

“Let’s go.”

Julia Bennett said coldly.

Chris Brooks led her to the corner of the second floor, then looked at Julia Bennett thoughtfully.

“What do you want?”

Julia Bennett didn’t want to meet Chris Brooks’s gaze.

“Relationships between college roommates are much more complicated than in high school dorms. You have to be careful with your words and actions.”

Julia Bennett had just arrived at the dorm and already had a minor conflict with her roommates. This was like forcibly making her college life more difficult. Of course, the main reason was that Chris Brooks was just too much of a flirt.

“In any case, if you have any problems, just come to me.”

Chris Brooks said slowly.

Hearing the concern in Chris Brooks’s words, Julia Bennett’s heart was slightly moved, but then she remembered how he had just been joking and laughing with other girls, leaving her out, and she felt even more upset.

“Got it, go on now.”

Julia Bennett turned away, urging him against her true feelings.

In such a completely unfamiliar environment, especially being so far from home and feeling wronged, Julia Bennett actually wanted to spend a little more time with the roguish Chris Brooks.

Chris Brooks gazed at Julia Bennett’s slender, graceful figure and thought, counting both past and present lives, I’ve liked Julia Bennett for six whole years.

In a way, Julia Bennett almost represented all of Chris Brooks’s youth.

Even though his mindset had changed after being reborn, he still couldn’t really ignore Julia Bennett, which was why he had come back especially to remind her.

“After all, we’re from the same hometown, we should help each other out. Besides, if I’d succeeded in confessing that night, you’d be my girlfriend now, and I should take care of you more.”

Chris Brooks spoke quite sincerely, and Julia Bennett was touched, unable to hold back her tears.

“Yet you keep making me sad. In three years at Port City, I didn’t cry twice, but you’ve made me cry twice in one day.”

This time, Julia Bennett cried so sadly, as if she was letting out all the grievances, homesickness, and heartbreak she’d felt along the way. And to keep others from hearing, she could only suppress her voice.

She was a beautiful girl, and even her crying was lovely.

Julia Bennett sobbed, her long lashes covered in tears, looking as fresh and pure as a lotus out of water. The tears seemed reluctant to leave her fair skin, lingering there without falling.

“You—you even hid another woman’s phone number.”

Almost involuntarily, Julia Bennett added this.

Julia Bennett was confused herself. Chris Brooks actually had nothing to do with her, he could keep anyone’s number he wanted. But Chris Brooks turned his pocket inside out to prove, “No such thing, I threw it away just now.”

Julia Bennett glanced and saw that there really was nothing in his pocket, and felt a little better.

“Getting along in the dorm requires a tolerant heart.” Chris Brooks reminded her again.

Julia Bennett nodded to show she understood.

“Then I’m off, you should go back upstairs.” Chris Brooks said.

Julia Bennett was stunned for a moment, then asked playfully, “Weren’t you asking me to see you out?”

Chris Brooks smiled, “I just needed a proper excuse to call you out. Your girls’ dorm is like a market now, people come and go as they please.”

“Chris Brooks, you really are a liar.”

Julia Bennett said sullenly.

Chris Brooks reached out, wanting to wipe her tears, and Julia Bennett instinctively tried to dodge, but after hesitating for a moment, she stood there gracefully, her delicate skin feeling the warmth of Chris Brooks’s fingers.

Then, the two of them tacitly said nothing more—one went upstairs, the other downstairs.

After leaving the girls’ dorm, Chris Brooks actually pulled a piece of paper out of his jacket pocket—the very one Emily Clark had just given him.

This scoundrel had tricked Julia Bennett again.

……

The campus of the Finance Institute was much smaller than Donghai University. Chris Brooks didn’t need any signs; relying on memory, he made his way to the student activity center, where freshmen of the Finance Institute came to register.

Chris Brooks first queued up at the payment office to pay his fees. The payment office was just like a hospital, where you could see all the ups and downs of life. In the eyes of middle-aged parents, there was not only the joy of their children getting into college, but also the reluctance to part with several thousand yuan in tuition.

After paying the tuition, Chris Brooks took the receipt and went to register with Class 2 of Public Administration in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences.