Chapter 372 290: You Can't Afford It

"Lin Ruoxi, what was your college entrance exam score?"

"745."

"Hmm?"

The others exchanged odd glances. Was she joking?

'With a score of 745, why would she be here?'

"Lin Ruoxi, I'm Du Miaomiao. What's this big box? It looks just like my grandma's old TV." Du Miaomiao walked over to Lin Ruoxi and changed the subject. She reached out, twisted the "television's" knob, and even gave it a light pat.

"It looks like a microwave to me," Zhao Ru said, giving it a pat as well.

Lin Ruoxi said with a pained look, "It's an oscilloscope. You... you all, please don't pat it."

"A what-o-scope? Is it expensive? Then we'd better not mess with it," Jiang Yuan said, trying to smooth things over.

Lin Ruoxi answered honestly, "Very... very expensive."

The others gathered around curiously to take a look. Lin Ruoxi's shelves were filled with all sorts of objects they couldn't identify. They figured she was just bragging. 'If this stuff was really that expensive, why does she look so nervous?'

Being wealthy was something to be flaunted. Just a moment ago, Jiang Yuan had been showing off her new iPad and computer; this stuff was surely worth a lot less than those Apple products.

Lin Ruoxi didn't try to start any conversations either. For every sentence they spoke, she offered only a simple reply.

After a few brief exchanges, the others all went back to their own desks and stopped paying Lin Ruoxi any mind, simply thinking that a weirdo had moved into their room.

During this time, one of them left the room. A short while later, she returned with the dorm manager.

"Miss, you can't keep prohibited electronics in the dorm," the dorm manager said, pointing at the items on Lin Ruoxi's desk.

She couldn't tell what any of it was, but judging by the size alone, it had to draw a lot of power—definitely against the rules.

"I... I don't have anywhere else to put them," Lin Ruoxi said, lowering her head. 'Are they trying to make me leave?'

She nervously clutched her phone. 'I really want to text Xue Rui, but I should solve my own problems. I can't keep making him run around for me. It's too much to ask...'

Seeing Lin Ruoxi just sit there with her head down, not saying a word, the dorm manager started to lose her patience. She shouted to the others in the room, "Contact your counselor! Tell him to come here and deal with this."

"Oh, okay, ma'am."

Zhao Ru found the counselor's phone number in the class group chat and called him, asking him to come to the girls' dorm.

Lin Ruoxi sat forlornly on her chair. 'What am I supposed to do? Do my roommates dislike me because I have too much stuff?'

'But it's all in my own space.'

Before long, a young male teacher arrived at the girls' dorm, dragging his feet wearily and looking thoroughly reluctant to be there.

"I'm your counselor, Xia Tianjun. Which one of you brought unauthorized electronics?"

Xia Tianjun was mentally exhausted. 'There's always so much drama in the girls' dorms,' he thought. 'I've already been here several times today.'

'Unauthorized electronics? Did they really need to call me for this crap?'

"It's her, sir. Lin Ruoxi," said Zhao Ru.

Xia Tianjun glanced down and saw a beautiful girl looking up at him with a pitiful expression, which made his heart soften.

"Miss, this stuff of yours..." Xia Tianjun glanced at Lin Ruoxi's desk, and his weary eyes instantly flew wide open.

He had majored in Electrical Engineering and Automation. After getting his master's degree, he'd taken a job as a counselor at the university. He was all too familiar with this kind of equipment; most of it was so expensive that only the university labs could afford it.

He mentally did a rough calculation of the equipment on Lin Ruoxi's shelves. It had to be worth at least four to five hundred thousand, minimum.

"This...!" Xia Tianjun was stunned. 'Who puts a whole house's worth of stuff on their dorm desk?'

'What if someone accidentally bumps into it and breaks something?'

Zhao Ru smiled, satisfied. 'Looks like the counselor also thinks Lin Ruoxi has gone too far,' she thought. 'He's so angry he's speechless.'

She reached out to start gathering up Lin Ruoxi's things. The dorm manager had just told them to take it all downstairs.

However, the counselor suddenly shot out a hand and grabbed her wrist.

"Don't touch that!" Xia Tianjun said, his expression grim.

"What's wrong, sir? Is this stuff dangerous?"

"It's extremely dangerous! If you break it, you could never afford to replace it!"