Classmate Li Zhuangsheng doesn’t want to be reborn

Chapter 683 Long Hair
On the day of club recruitment, the autumn air was crisp and clear. Li Zhuangsheng, wearing a light jacket, strolled around the campus.

The campus was bustling with people, every club was recruiting new members, and many freshmen were looking around expectantly. Most of them had never been involved with clubs before, and a considerable number of them had a romanticized view of clubs through the lens of Japanese anime.

Li Zhuangsheng walked through it with the mindset of someone who had been there before. He hadn't visited much last year, but Li Xiuyu had dragged him to the women's self-defense club.

A large crowd had gathered in front of the anime club, partly due to the presence of some scantily clad older women. Several girls from the anime club, dressed in sexy cosplay outfits, some even wearing black stockings, strolled around campus, trying to recruit anyone who seemed interested. They weren't actually particularly attractive; their appeal lay mainly in their revealing clothing, but it still drew blushes and furtive glances from many innocent young men.

This made Li Zhuangsheng unable to look directly at them. After all, seeing them reminded him of himself, and few people could look directly at their past, shameful selves.

Kids, don't let beauty seduce you!
Even if you join the anime club, it doesn't mean you'll get a two-dimensional girlfriend, and you're unlikely to be surrounded by all sorts of beautiful girls there!
If you join the anime club on a whim, you'll only lose your membership fee, and you probably won't go back to the anime club a second time!

"Hey classmate, you're interested in the anime club too... Tch, brother-in-law!" Someone saw Li Zhuangsheng standing in front of the anime club cosplayers and couldn't help but go up to greet him, but when they saw his face clearly, they immediately showed disappointment.

Li Zhuangsheng glanced at the other person, feeling as if he had seen him somewhere before, but he didn't know him well.

"What are you doing here, you 'friend of women'? Why don't you go help out in your club?" the other person said disdainfully.

“There’s nothing I can help with there,” Li Zhuangsheng said with a smile.

He did want to help out in the women's combat club, but the senior members didn't want him at all. Their reason was that they were worried a boy in the women's combat club's tent would scare away potential members.

"Then can you lend us Zhu Zhixue for a day?"

"Sorry, I don't lend out my wife!" Li Zhuangsheng laughed. "Besides, she's at the Hanfu club, she can't be in two places at once!"

"You're so stingy!"

After exchanging a few words, Li Zhuangsheng continued strolling around. He walked to the Hanfu club's booth and saw Zhu Zhixue directing people to fill out forms. He didn't go over to disturb her, but simply waved with a smile.

But to everyone's surprise, after seeing Li Zhuangsheng, Zhu Zhixue immediately ran up to him and kissed him on the cheek.

"What's wrong? Aren't you shy in public?" Li Zhuangsheng smiled and hugged her.

"Ugh, so annoying! Some guys just keep adding me as a friend!" Zhu Zhixue glanced at Li Zhuangsheng's expression, her tone ambiguous.

Li Zhuangsheng glanced at the many envious glances around him, then kissed her on the cheek: "Who told you to be so beautiful? I'll stay and keep you company!"

"Hehe, but you must have a lot on your mind, right?" Zhu Zhixue smiled brightly, her face round and radiant, like a peach blossom.

"I had nothing to do today, I was just strolling around."

Li Zhuangsheng was completely unconcerned about Zhu Zhixue's little scheme.

In the evening, after the Hanfu club's welcome party, Zhu Zhixue and Li Zhuangsheng strolled hand in hand around the school. Zhu Zhixue hadn't changed her clothes yet, but she had already let her hair down.

"It's so hot." Zhu Zhixue reached out and fanned herself.

"It's much cooler now," Li Zhuangsheng said with a smile. "It was still hot a few days ago."

"I was so scared today, I almost thought I'd lost my earring!" Zhu Zhixue said, touching her ear. "Thankfully, I found it in the end!"

She was referring to the snowflake earrings that Li Zhuangsheng had given her before. Today, she was going to wear Hanfu to welcome the new year, and it wasn't appropriate to wear the earrings, so she took them off, and they almost got lost.

She really liked these earrings; she hadn't worn them before, she had just put them away. But starting from summer vacation, she put them back on.

"It's okay, don't worry, I'll get you another one if you lose it!"

"That's different!" "What's different? I gave them both anyway, right?"

Zhu Zhixue felt that Li Zhuangsheng was right, but something still felt off, so she muttered, "Anyway, they're definitely different! The gifts given at different times have different meanings!"

A refreshing evening breeze caressed the faces of the college students, and the bright moon shone down.

"I've been wanting to say this for a while now, your hair is so long!" Li Zhuangsheng said with a smile, looking Zhu Zhixue's hair up and down. "Haven't you had it cut in a while, have you?"

"I'll still get my hair fixed... It's such a hassle to wash my hair every time!" Zhu Zhixue said. "Sometimes I go to the hair salon to have it washed, but they charge me 20 yuan every time!"

"Washing your hair is hard work, so 20 yuan is a very reasonable price," Li Zhuangsheng said with a smile. "Why did you grow it so long?"

"Hehe, isn't your hair almost waist-length already?"

Zhu Zhixue curled up a strand of her hair.

Li Zhuangsheng nodded, then suddenly paused, as if the image of that laughing figure from years ago after the rain appeared before his eyes, sunlight filtering through the trees, the puddles on the ground reflecting the brilliant sunlight.

"When my hair grows long enough to reach my waist, will you marry me, Mr. Li?"

He felt a pang of shame.

"Hmm...it feels like it's coming soon." Li Zhuangsheng licked his lips. "Your hair will almost reach your waist."

“But you can’t marry me…” Zhu Zhixue’s voice lowered unconsciously, “I’m actually quite unhappy.”

"I'm so sorry, I didn't want to upset you, but this is the only thing..."

"Actually, I've regretted it more than once. If only I had agreed when you suggested having a banquet back then. How wonderful that would have been."

That wretched Hu Mengdie, you actually tricked me, you deserve to die!
Li Zhuangsheng remained silent.

“But then I thought, if that were really the case, you would never be happy for the rest of your life. You would definitely be very sad.” Zhu Zhixue held Li Zhuangsheng’s hand tightly. “So thankfully, thankfully, I didn’t agree back then.”

Li Zhuangsheng slowly looked at Zhu Zhixue's face, and she forced a sad smile.

……

"You're back so early tonight, didn't you get intimate with that cow girl?" Li Xiuyu asked without looking up.

Li Zhuangsheng sighed softly and said nothing.

"Why don't you just bring her here to live? You've rented such a big house, there's room for more than just Zhu Zhixue. You could bring Hu Mengdie, Lin Yuehua, and the others too."

"You really want her to come?"

"I don't care..." Li Xiuyu said insincerely, "But, she's a virgin... oh, even though you took her. But she still has her pride, doesn't she? Living with you so early, how embarrassing would it be if her friends teased her?"

“There are quite a few people who live together in college.” Li Zhuangsheng smiled. Li Xiuyu just didn’t want Zhu Zhixue to come.

In fact, Li Zhuangsheng had proposed it to Zhu Zhixue, but Zhu Zhixue did not agree. Even now, Zhu Zhixue still has not agreed to Li Zhuangsheng's harem plan. Although she has tacitly agreed in her actions, her refusal to live together is her last cover-up.

(End of this chapter)