In front of room 303
Lu Lili carried a bag of fruits and a bag of snacks, raised her hand and knocked on the tightly closed door.
But after waiting for a while, no one came to open the door for her.
“Is Shi Yan not at home?” Lu Lili asked inwardly.
The system replied, [She’s here, host, but she’s afraid to open the door for strangers.]
Lu Lili thought for a moment and quickly understood, “Well, as a girl staying home alone, it’s right to be cautious. There are many bad people these days.“
System : […]
What it didn’t say was : No, Shi Yan didn’t dare to come out and open the door simply because she has severe social anxiety!
Inside the front door, a girl with bangs and a tied back low ponytail stood in the living room, looking completely bewildered. She had even wrinkled the hem of her shirt with her hands.
She had been doing her homework in her room when she felt thirsty and walked to the living room to get a glass of water.
Suddenly, she heard a knocking sound from outside the door, and that sound entered her ears like a note of doom.
She froze in place, afraid to make any sound.
Her heart raced nervously, and her dark eyes were filled with panic and resistance.
In her mind, she even desperately pleaded, who could be outside the door? There’s no one in her house. Can she leave immediately?
Yes, Shi Yan was certain that the person knocking on the door at this moment couldn’t be her family.
Her father has already given her and her younger brother a whole semester’s worth of living expenses, so it’s impossible for him to come home and see them within a few months.
Even if he does come back, her father has the key to the door since the property is under his name, after all.
Of course, her younger brother also has a key, and he rarely forgets to bring it.
Even if he needs to knock on the door, he knocks it so loudly that it shakes the heavens, afraid that nobody will hear it, and the entire floor can be disturbed by the noise.
Right now, Shi Yan only hopes that the person outside the door will leave quickly, no matter who it is. Even if it’s a relative from the family, she doesn’t want someone to come knocking when she’s alone at home!
She is so nervous and flustered that her mind is blank. She doesn’t know how to greet or deal with them, so she can only choose to avoid and pretend that she’s not at home…
Lu Lili has never experienced social anxiety and has always been thick-skinned and confident.
So at this moment, Lu Lili doesn’t think too much. She believes that Shi Yan is not opening the door out of safety concerns, considering that Shi Yan is just a sixteen-year-old girl.
Lu Lili thinks that since they still have plenty of time and opportunities in the future, there’s no rush to become friends with Shi Yan at this moment. She gives up on knocking on the door and turns back to her own front door.
She looks up at the topmost door number : 302.
This building only has three units on the first floor.
She doesn’t know who lives in 301.
302 is herself and her mother, Zhao Fen.
303 is Shi Yan and her younger brother.
Fortunately, Zhao Fen bought the third floor. Each building in this residential complex has eight floors with stairs. The third floor is neither too high nor too low, so it’s not tiring to climb.
Just as Lu Lili took out her keys to open the door, she heard the sound of footsteps coming up the stairs behind her.
She turned around and saw the tall and leggy teenager in an all-black outfit again.
People with long legs climb stairs faster. Instead of taking one step at a time, he skipped every other step, taking big strides.
By the time Lu Lili snapped out of her daze, the teenager was already standing in front of the door to apartment 303. He skillfully inserted the key into the keyhole, twisted it with ease, and opened the door without even looking at Lu Lili.
Without glancing in Lu Lili’s direction the entire time, he closed the door with a bang.