Lu Sheng could feel Lan Yu’s confusion through the screen.
[Lan Yu: ...Ah? What’s been resolved?]
Lu Sheng sat at her room’s desk, with Black Bean lazily snoozing on her lap.
She lowered her head, her fair and pretty hand gently stroking Black Bean’s fur, while her right hand typed on her phone: [It’s about the issue with our team’s school anniversary event.]
[I saw Lu Qianrou’s Weibo, she’s not only plagiarized once.]
[But I think, she must have directly copied our team’s creativity just to target me.]
[So I’ve thought of a new plan that should be able to solve our current predicament.]
[What plan?] Huo Yu suddenly chimed in, clearly having not enabled Do Not Disturb but merely lurking earlier.
Lu Sheng replied in the group chat.
[Since the original Doraemon theme café idea has already been scooped by Lu Qianrou and her team, there’s no need for us to keep fixating on the café.]
[Because Lan Yu pointed out the biggest selling point of our shop is handsome waiters. So what we’re selling or the theme isn’t really the most important.]
[Which means, we could do a theme café or any other kind of shop. Our theme could be Doraemon, or some other element.]
[I thought about it, and cookies, biscuits, and egg tarts are simple and easy to make, and can be made in large batches. Lan Yu, Juanjuan, and I should be able to handle it.]
[So, we could set up a dessert house on the day of the school celebration. A dessert house filled with sweet aromas seems more suited for the girls.]
[As for the shop theme, it could be HelloKitty. Pink matches sweets and girls well, and guys dressed in tender pink seem even more enticing.]
At this moment, the four boys outside the screen showed different expressions upon seeing the messages Lu Sheng sent.
Han Jing rolled his eyes—were they, the boys, also going to wear pink? That seemed somewhat challenging.
Huo Yu couldn’t help shifting his gaze as he read the message.
...Enticing? The girl on the other side of the screen was earnest, yet what she said was bold and straightforward.
If it was her idea to have them wear pink, then it seemed not so unacceptable to him.
As for Lu Youye, he completely ignored the words "handsome waiters" and focused on the phrase [dressed in tender pink], instantly getting excited.
A HelloKitty themed dessert house, and wearing tender pink? Doesn’t that mean his Shengsheng will be wearing a cute little pink dress that day??
Lu Youye vividly imagined Lu Sheng in a pink dress and was exhilarated—
So cute, so cute, so adorable! His Shengsheng must be the cutest at the event!
Lu Youye hadn’t read carefully that the ones to wear pink were the waiters who were to attract customers with their "beauty."
Meanwhile, in the Lu Family’s second-floor room, Lu Youming, hearing Lu Youye’s howls from next door, rolled his eyes.
...What’s there to be excited about?
They’re the ones who have to wear pink.
Lu Youming, who had barely done any outdoor sports growing up and spent most of his time indoors, had a pallor that came from rarely seeing sunlight.
He was physically weak with low immunity. Now, during the change from summer to autumn, he always caught a cold or fever, and today was no exception.
He had only felt a dry throat and some nasal congestion the past two days, but today after school, he became dizzy and felt very heavy.
So, he didn’t dine but went straight to his room for a shower and then to bed.
In the current nearly twenty-degree weather, while Lu Sheng and Lu Youye wore short-sleeved pajamas, Lu Youming had already put on thick pajamas.
Lu Youming slightly frowned as he read the messages in the group chat Lu Sheng sent.
Pink, that had nothing to do with him, who always dressed in black. He didn’t want to wear it at all.
Just as he was about to refuse, he saw the other three boys had already agreed.
[Lu Youye: Yes, yes, the tender pink is the cutest!]
[Han Jing: I can~ I’ve never worn pink before, but I’ll look handsome in any color~]
[Huo Yu: I’m fine with it too.]
Seeing this, Lu Youming hesitated. The words he had typed up were erased with a lift of his hand.
This was probably the first time in his life that he participated in some kind of mainstream social team activity, and he didn’t want to affect the decisions of most people on the team because of himself.
Ever since returning to the country, these days, Lu Youming felt his life seemed to have changed.
If it was the past him, he wouldn’t have participated in this school celebration event, which he considered meaningless and noisy.
Nor would he be holding his phone, even though he was ill, watching the flurry of messages in the group chat.
Lan Yu, Han Jing, and Lu Youye’s noisy chatter, any random comment would spawn hundreds of messages.
But strangely, he didn’t feel the rejection or disgust he would have expected; instead, he felt a kind of peaceful tranquility.
He had always despised the mundane and craved thrills.
His former self, afflicted with two potentially lethal diseases, only felt the significance of life when racing through the night on dangerous missions or skirting on the edge of death.
But now, something quietly seemed to be changing.
The catalyst for change was that suddenly appearing, enigmatic girl, the one who linked these people together.
Lu Youming was still unaccustomed to calling Lu Sheng his sister.
His character was completely different from Lu Youye’s; he found it difficult to trust or feel close to people. He also found it hard to let someone into his world or develop an intimate relationship with someone.
Since Lu Youming didn’t speak up in the group chat, everyone assumed he hadn’t seen the messages or simply agreed by default.
Lan Yu enquired in the group chat.
[But, there probably aren’t any ready-made HelloKitty element waiter uniforms on the market, right? We can only go for customization like we did before.]
[But if we customize now, time seems tight. How about we just customize four HelloKitty themed aprons?]
[It might seem a bit perfunctory, and much less impressive compared to Lu Qianrou’s custom uniforms... but at least we could have it in time.]
[It doesn’t have to be waiter uniforms; leisure suits also suit the purpose,] Lu Sheng replied, [What do you think about these four sets of clothes?]
With that, Lu Sheng sent over four pictures.
Lan Yu widened her eyes at the sight of the four sets of clothes Lu Sheng had sent.