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I thought she would say something else, maybe a warning.

After all, the last girl who went to a hotel with Shane Sinclair at least slapped me and warned me not to get any funny ideas.

But this one just called me a bootlicker. It was hardly effective.

I shoved the items into her hands expressionlessly, took one last, deep look at Shane Sinclair standing on the steps, and turned to leave.

By the time I finally rushed back to my dorm, the door was already locked.

I clutched my coat and knocked again and again until I woke up the dorm supervisor and she let me in.

"It's so late. Why are you just getting back now?" the dorm supervisor asked, looking me up and down.

"I'm sorry, Ma'am. I'm late." I signed the register and sweet-talked her a bit before finally getting back to my room.

The lights in the dorm room were already out.

The sound of me opening the door startled my three roommates.

"I was just about to ask, where have you been so late?" Our dorm leader, Quinn, poked her head out from behind her bed curtain.

"Do you even need to ask? It was Shane Sinclair again, wasn't it?" Susie chimed in.

"I'm not trying to be mean, but besides his handsome face, what part of Shane Sinclair is worth you liking him this much?" Mona threw open her curtain, fuming.

Even in the darkness, I could feel the indignation in their eyes.

"Exactly! With your looks, even if you can't get the Campus Heartthrob, you could at least land a Department Heartthrob! And what about Sean Rollins from Class 6? He likes you so much! He even got into a fight last time because Shane Sinclair was making fun of you, so why do you..."

Susie was a chatterbox; once she got started, she could go on forever.

I ignored her, washed up, and climbed into bed, clutching the old phone from my drawer.

Seeing that I hadn't said a word, Susie finally sighed, shut her mouth, and went to sleep.

: 3

3

The girls in our dorm have always been close, mostly because the other three couldn't stand how love-brained I was.

Just two days into college, I made a grand confession to Shane Sinclair in front of our whole class.

Shane Sinclair had probably been spoiled by girls his whole life, so he was completely unmoved by my grand, public confession.

He just sat in his chair with a mocking smile. "You say you like me? How many days have you even known me?"

I stared at his face. "Three days."

School had only been in session for three days, and here I was confessing to him. It was no wonder he looked so utterly disdainful.

'But with a face like his, I felt that even waiting three days to confess was a bit too long.'

"You've only known me for three days and you're already saying you like me. Who do you think you are?"

"Are you the Newly-crowned Campus Belle or some rich man's daughter? What a joke!"

His words were sharp and cruel, but my gaze on him didn't waver in the slightest.

That was probably why Shane Sinclair started to take an interest in me.

"You're not my type, but if I rejected you outright, that wouldn't be very nice of me, now would it?"

"How about this. If you can keep liking me for three months, and do whatever I tell you to, then I'll agree to go out with you!"

I nodded.

From then on, whenever Shane Sinclair called, I would drop whatever I was doing and run to him. I never refused.

At first, my roommates just talked about me behind my back.

Then one day, I accidentally walked in on them bad-mouthing me in our dorm room, so I just told them they could say it to my face from now on.

"So, you know you're love-brained?" Susie, who I didn't know very well back then, was the boldest one.

She asked me bluntly, and I nodded in admission.

"But why? Why are you so set on liking him?" Susie asked, unable to understand.

"You're so pretty, and it looks like your family's well-off. Why are you so fixated on a scumbag who doesn't even like you back?"

4

I knew Shane Sinclair was a scumbag.

The moment I saw him at the start of the semester, I couldn't help but track down people from his hometown. I had to ask around, going through several contacts, before I finally learned about his checkered past.

They all said he was a scumbag.

But what did it matter to me if he was a scumbag?

I only liked him for his face.

"As long as I can be by his side, that's enough. I'll do anything he asks of me for that."

"I've never seen anyone so..." Susie bit her lip.

For someone as talkative as her, she was actually at a loss for words after hearing what I had to say.

I didn't care.

My days revolved around Shane Sinclair, aside from classes and studying. Even he found it unbelievable.

"Looks like you really do like me, huh!"

By then, he had already gotten rid of the girl from the previous night. He was sprawling on the hotel bed with just a towel around his waist, looking at me.

I handed him his things and didn't reply.

Shane Sinclair took out his phone and checked the date. "It's been almost three months."

He kept staring at me with a mocking look on his face. When he saw I had no intention of speaking, his expression soured.

"To be honest, I'm not really into you. But I'm a man of my word. Starting tomorrow, you'll be my official girlfriend. How about it?"

He said it with a condescending air, as if he expected me to be eternally grateful. But the next second, a white shirt landed on his face.

I finally spoke. "Then get dressed first!"