At noon, I made an appointment to have lunch with Jiang Zhou. After class, I greeted Zhao Xinyue and the others and left.

Jiang Zhou was waiting for me downstairs. He was wearing a white shirt, with a smiling expression on his face, standing gracefully under the tree. I couldn't contain my joy and ran towards him.

He caught me and said he would take me to the best cafeteria in the school. I gladly agreed.

The cafeteria was bustling with people, and it took us a while to find a vacant seat. He asked me to wait while he went to buy the food.

Bored, I held my phone and opened the conversation with Zhao Xinyue, contemplating the message she sent me yesterday, which I didn't quite understand.

At that moment, the typing indicator appeared in the conversation window, but I waited for a long time and she didn't send a message.

Jiang Zhou came back, holding a plate with many dishes. I quickly took it from his hands, put down my phone, but I didn't notice the message notification that popped up on my phone: [Don't eat lamb!].

"It smells so good!" I exclaimed.

"Try this dish, it's a specialty of the school," he said, pointing to a plate of spicy stir-fried meat.

I salivated. As a typical Sichuan girl, I liked oily and spicy food, and Jiang Zhou knew my preferences.

The meat was tender and silky. For a moment, I couldn't tell what kind of meat it was. It was rare to find a dish that suited my taste so well, and I quickly finished it. Jiang Zhou handed me a bowl of soup and asked me to eat slowly.

I asked, "What kind of meat is this? It's delicious."

At the same time, I opened my phone and saw the message from Zhao Xinyue.

[Don't eat lamb!]

"Lamb," Jiang Zhou said as he noticed my empty bowl and filled it with soup.

The spoon in my hand fell into the bowl, and I stared at Jiang Zhou in a daze. This wasn't lamb. As a foodie, I could distinguish any meat I had eaten before.

Seeing my expression, he asked me what was wrong. Thinking of Zhao Xinyue's message, I concealed my uneasiness and said, "It's nothing, just feeling a bit full."

I initially didn't pay much attention to the dormitory rules, but a series of strange events made me start to suspect everything around me.

I remembered that the rules stated that if you accidentally consumed lamb, you couldn't enter the dormitory for three hours. But I didn't want to stay with Jiang Zhou anymore. I decided to send a message to Zhao Xinyue and ask her to meet up.

Since I didn't have any classes in the afternoon, I told Jiang Zhou that I wanted to rest in the dormitory. He insisted on escorting me, and I didn't miss the excitement in his eyes. What was he so excited about? My heart sank halfway. Does he know about the dormitory rules too?

To avoid arousing suspicion, I entered the dormitory building under his gaze.