The next morning, nicolle asks if xia yuan has come yet. He's surprised that he hasn't, because xia said that she'd pick him up that day. She also said that he didn't need to pick her up, but that he'd always be "contingent" on her. She's the one he's always thinking about, he says, because "a person like myself sometimes is redundant" . He tells xia that he and lueran decided to go to school together, and that they're going to have to wait for the president to come to check on their progress. He also says that there are two boxes of paper still in the store room, and he'll go pick them up. . She tells him to hurry up, because there's a girl in the room next to xia, and she's got a crush on him. He asks her what role she'll play in the love triangle between xia and Lueran. She could be a rival, a "passer," or a "supporter." .