Get off work and become a magical girl

Chapter 270 Friendship Proof Meeting

The chocolates made by Xia Liang were obviously more exquisite in shape than those made by Bai Jingxuan. Although Lin Xiaolu could only see the half-finished product, the deliberately shaped flower-like shape and the distorted patterns on the surface all showed the attempts and efforts of the maker.

"You are amazing. You did it really well."

Walking to Xia Liang's desk, Lin Xiaolu tried to identify his work: "Is this shape... a leaf? Or a flower?"

"It's the Heart Gem."

Xia Liang wiped his hands with a towel and chuckled as he explained, "What you are looking at now is made to imitate your heart gem, so it is in the shape of a bud."

"I see. I was wondering why it looked so strange. It turned out to be the bud of my heart..."

Lin Xiaolu rubbed her chin and nodded, but then she looked at Xia Liang belatedly: "Hey, mine?"

"What else? Xiaoxuan can make chocolate for you, but I can't?"

Xia Liang shrugged: "Valentine's Day is about giving chocolates to the people you love, right? So I prepared one for each of you."

"No, it was just a little unexpected."

Lin Xiaolu shook her head: "Bai Jingxuan is still young, so she can just say something like 'I like everyone'. I thought a precocious guy like you would be more particular about this, and would think 'chocolate can only be given to the person you like the most' or something like that."

"It's not like you're really confessing your feelings to the opposite sex, so why are you being so polite?"

Hearing Lin Xiaolu's evaluation of him, Xia Liang couldn't help but roll his eyes at her: "Why not, who said that I gave you chocolate just because of that kind of broad courtesy, and it can't be that I really like you?"

"Ah, oh..." Lin Xiaolu blinked, and then her calm voice suddenly became louder: "...Ah? What did you say?"

"I said I actually like you."

Xia Liang repeated with a hint of annoyance: "Is this something terrible? Why are you acting like you've seen a ghost?"

"You, you like me?"

Lin Xiaolu was startled by the other party's open confession. She pointed at herself, and her confused thoughts seemed to turn into a vortex in her eyes: "This, this is a bit... But I, I only treat you as an ordinary friend..."

"This is also a love between teammates and friends. Is there any problem?"

Xia Liang originally felt a little strange about Lin Xiaolu's reaction, but soon realized what Lin Xiaolu had thought. Then he grinned and said with a teasing look on his face: "What kind of love do you think it is? Are you having a love affair?"

"Huh? What do you mean by love-brain? How is that possible!"

Lin Xiaolu finally came to her senses and immediately retorted: "I, of course I know it's just between friends! It's obviously you who express it in a weird way!"

"You know it's between friends?"

Xia Liang blinked innocently, then his eyes trembled, his eyebrows drooped, and he immediately revealed a sad expression: "That is to say, don't you think Xiaoxuan and I are your friends? We shouldn't like you, and we are not worthy of your love?"

"Why is there such an interpretation?" Lin Xiaolu widened her eyes.

"Alas, I thought that after a year of getting along with each other, fighting side by side, staying up late to make up lessons together, we had already become sisters with a close relationship. I didn't expect that in your heart, I am not even a friend."

Xia Liang lowered her eyes slightly and pretended to wipe away her tears: "You are so heartless, Xiaolu."

She didn't deliberately put on any superb acting skills, so that even Lin Xiaolu could easily tell that she was acting. During this process, Xia Liang even deliberately lifted her hair to reveal the earrings that Lin Xiaolu gave her on her birthday. But when Lin Xiaolu wanted to refute, she found that she had unknowingly stood on the wrong side, and immediately showed a disgusted expression as if she had eaten a fly.

Snapped!
Not only that, Xia Liang's movement also attracted Bai Jingxuan who was standing beside him. She walked behind Lin Xiaolu and patted her shoulder:
——"Don't bully Sister Xia Liang!"

Then, she gave her "just judgment".

The expression on Lin Xiaolu's face suddenly became uglier.

She glared at Xia Liang who was still pretending to cry, but she blatantly stuck out her tongue while crying, which immediately made her furious. However, the other party's intention of "let me see how you comfort me" was very obvious, and it could be said that the correct answer was put on the table. Even Lin Xiaolu knew that it would be better to follow the other party's intention at this time.

"…You guys misunderstood."

So she could only take a deep breath and speak in a voice that was almost like a murmur: "I always thought you were my friends."

"So perfunctory." Xia Liang commented.

"It's fake." Bai Jingxuan still puffed out her cheeks, looking very dissatisfied.

"Um..."

Lin Xiaolu, who was criticized by the review, pouted: "I didn't lie! I definitely think you are my friends!"

"...What do you think?" Xia Liang was too lazy to pretend to cry at this time, and instead stood with Bai Jingxuan, discussing as if they were judges. "I don't believe it, you always bully me." Bai Jingxuan, the second judge, spoke with obvious personal emotions.

"You know I'm telling the truth, right?"

Lin Xiaolu's face turned red with anxiety: "He's just taking this opportunity to make fun of me!"

"Don't use off-court logic, contestant Lin Xiaolu."

Xia Liang stretched out a finger and pushed it on the bridge of his nose, as if he was fiddling with a pair of glasses that didn't exist: "We need you to prove yourself now, not defend yourself."

"That's right." Bai Jingxuan immediately started to support.

"What proof do you need for this?"

Lin Xiaolu was really angry now. She pointed at Xia Liang and said, "You know I don't have many friends in school! If I really have friends outside of school, who else could they be except you? Can I conjure friends out of thin air?"

"Oh, contestant Lin Xiaolu gave a very convincing speech."

Xia Liang clapped his hands and looked at Bai Jingxuan on the side: "I feel like she's almost convincing me. What do you think, Dr. Bai?"

"Indeed... Sister Xiaolu, it seems like you don't have many other friends."

Bai Jingxuan had already begun to show sympathy: "Every time I get out of school, I go home, or I go on patrol."

"It's still possible, at least! I still hang out with friends occasionally, so I'm not that lonely!"

Lin Xiaolu subconsciously refuted, but realized her current purpose and lowered her voice: "But anyway, it's almost the same. Anyway, you have to believe it whether you want to or not."

"You have to believe it even if you don't want to... Dr. Bai, what do you think?" Xia Liang asked Bai Jingxuan again.

"It seems to be true." Bai Jingxuan nodded in affirmation.

"Yeah, I think so too. Although Lin Xiaolu couldn't convince us emotionally and from memory, after all, she has always been a spoiled and arrogant lady. Even if there are some 'tender moments' between friends, she herself seems unable to remember them. However, she has grasped the most critical part of logic."

Xia Liang opened his mouth and announced as if he was really presenting an award: "That is - even if she is in school, her only friend is Jiang Yuan. In other words, if she doesn't make friends with us, there will be no one to play with her!"

"You guy! I'm really going to lose my temper!" Lin Xiaolu yelled.

——"Anyway, that's pretty much what chocolate is about." After ending her exaggerated performance, Xia Liang showed her signature smile again, and then concluded lightly.

"...Huh?" Lin Xiaolu obviously didn't adapt to the change in context, and just continued to look at Xia Liang with an unhappy expression.

“That is, if you want to make chocolate but feel out of inspiration, just refer to the mood you just had.”

Xia Liang reached out and touched Bai Jingxuan's head, and said as if it was a matter of course: "You just needed to convince us verbally that 'we are friends' and prove yourself in this way. As for chocolate, you just want to pour out your feelings to the other person, to prove yourself to the other person, and to let the other person understand your feelings, and pour them all into the chocolate."

"I don't understand. Are you really not trying to change the subject?" Lin Xiaolu raised her eyebrows.

"In other words, I will use chocolate to tell the other person the answer to the question 'how do I really see you?' Just like Xiaoxuan wrote directly on the chocolate, I will also imitate your heart gem."

Xia Liang once again showed off the earrings on her ears: "Didn't you understand it very well when you gave me my birthday present? It was this feeling of 'only the two of us can understand'."

"Are we the only ones who understand...?" This time, Lin Xiaolu really lowered her head thoughtfully.

"Well, that's about it. Keep making chocolate, contestant Lin Xiaolu."

Releasing his hand on Bai Jingxuan's head, Xia Liang smiled and said, "You know, we are not the only two judges tonight. If you fail to express your feelings, you will be the one who regrets it."

"Ok, I know."

After this ridiculous "guidance", Lin Xiaolu did have some clues:

"But, speaking of which, you really were teasing me just now, and now you're trying to change the subject, right?"

No one answered her.

In response to this question, the only sound was the sound of two people working at the desk.

"Hey, you two—"

Yes, no matter what the final result is, from the process, there is no doubt that Lin Xiaolu was fooled.

(End of this chapter)