Classmate Li Zhuangsheng doesn’t want to be reborn

Chapter 727 Love?
"Brother-in-law, you're tattled on me again!"

Hu Mengke ran up to Li Zhuangsheng, raised her little fist, and spoke in a coquettish tone.

"How did I tattle?" Li Zhuangsheng laughed as he caught her fist.

"How could you tell Hu Mengdie everything I told you!"

"You didn't tell me to keep it a secret."

Li Zhuangsheng laughed, which annoyed Hu Mengke, who grabbed Li Zhuangsheng's arm and started biting it wildly until Hu Mengdie interrupted their antics.

"Hurry up and eat, then I'll take you to school."

"Hmph, you're just trying to drive me away from my brother-in-law on purpose!"

Hu Mengdie smiled faintly: "So what if it is?"

Hu Mengke, fuming, could only complain to Li Zhuangsheng: "Brother-in-law, look at her! Don't be fooled by my sister's appearance, she's a bad woman!"

Li Zhuangsheng smiled and nodded: "Yes, I know."

Hu Mengke's eyes widened: "Then why don't you divorce her!"

"But I still quite like your father-in-law."

Hu Mengke straightened his back and patted his chest: "Are you stupid, brother-in-law? I offer a service where you can swap wives but not fathers-in-law!"

Li Zhuangsheng laughed and said, "Then there's no need for me to change it."

"A word is settled!"

"Huh? What did I say?"

"You said you want them all, so you won't change them!"

"Get lost! Go back to school and study properly. There's still more than half a year until the college entrance exam."

"I don't even want to go to school anymore. It's just a lousy vocational school, so boring! Brother-in-law, our family must have a lot of money, right? How about I be your secretary? Don't forget, the other night, we slept together, and that's what happened to her innocence..."

"Hey, hey, hey, don't make up stories in front of your sister."

Hu Mengke covered her face and pretended to cry: "That was my first time! How could you turn your back on me like that? Waaah!"

Li Zhuangsheng retorted irritably, "How come I didn't know your first time had anything to do with me!"

"Wasn't it you who slept in the same bed with me that day?"

"Wasn't that just sleeping? And didn't you insist on squeezing next to me and threaten me with that?"

"Sleeping together doesn't mean it's not our first time, and we even kissed!"

"When?"

"Before you even woke up in the morning!"

"Aren't you stealing a kiss? I'm calling the police!"

The two were arguing pointlessly when Hu Mengdie finally couldn't help but cough.

"Alright, hurry up and eat. I'll take you back to school after you finish." Li Zhuangsheng quickly put away his smile and said seriously, "You need to think this through carefully. This might be your only chance in your life to surpass your sister. If you study hard now, I'll find someone to pull some strings for you. You have a chance to get into the Central Academy of Drama or the Beijing Film Academy! At the very least, you can get into the Shanghai Theatre Academy. That'll be a piece of cake for you, surpassing your sister's school!"

Upon hearing this, Hu Mengke finally quieted down, then revealed a look of sudden realization: "Oh right, my sister only went to Nanjing University of the Arts! Ugh, so weak!"

……

"She's making a fuss again. I still prefer the well-behaved and sensible Hu Mengke."

After dropping Hu Mengke off at school, the cool autumn breeze rustled through the yellow leaves. Hu Mengdie and Li Zhuangsheng didn't rush to drive away, but instead took a walk hand in hand nearby.

“You can say that, but you definitely prefer Meng Ke to be herself like this. By the way, I’m planning to buy a nicer car, so I can show off when I need to go out,” Li Zhuangsheng said. “What do you think?” “That’s good. You’re worth billions now, so you can dress like an ordinary person.”

“There are also times when things are different. Recently, I like to go to different big restaurants to eat and order their expensive signature dishes.”

Hu Mengdie smiled slightly: "I quite like you. How many people can stay true to themselves?"

Li Zhuangsheng lowered his eyes and smiled faintly: "I'm just afraid, afraid that I will no longer be myself, afraid that I will become arrogant and then one day fall from the sky like a punctured balloon. After all, I didn't get all of this through my own abilities."

"But you're growing too. You certainly couldn't have managed Zhuangzi's Butterfly Searching Five years ago."

"That's true, but it inevitably feels like we're not quite up to the task... I'm planning to buy back some of Rong Xuechang's shares at a high price. I want to expand the company. Right now, the 'Huabiao Millennium' animation and mobile game are too small. I want to create something bigger. What do you think?"

“Alright, I support you. I can hand over my shares as well.”

"I don't need yours!"

"That won't do!" Hu Mengdie winked with a smile. "What if you go bankrupt one day? Then your shares will be worthless. I need to cash out now while I can get a good price!"

Li Zhuangsheng chuckled: "Fine, fine, you surrender before the battle even begins, you have no faith in me at all!"

As the two were chatting and laughing, Li Zhuangsheng's phone rang. He glanced down at the text message, then rubbed his forehead in exasperation.

"What's wrong?" Hu Mengdie asked innocently.

"Xie Jiangqing and Yao Xingyu are arguing again. Since it's in Yi Yunshui's room, they almost broke her monitor, and she's complaining to me about it now," Li Zhuangsheng said irritably.

"Oh, you must be really working hard, patriarch."

"Don't act like it's none of your business!" Li Zhuangsheng complained. "Don't you even think about whose fault this is!"

Hu Mengdie looked utterly innocent: "Could it be that it's my fault?"

Li Zhuangsheng's lips twitched: "Otherwise what!"

No one expected that Hu Mengdie, someone so concerned about her image, would be the first to confess to her best friend. Of course, knowing her cunning, she naturally had something in mind. No one knows what she said to Xie Jiangqing, but Xie Jiangqing moved into the room originally prepared for Hu Mengdie.

Li Zhuangsheng couldn't say anything about it, since Hu Mengdie owned a share of the house, and if she let Xie Jiangqing stay in her room, who could stop her?

Since arriving, Xie Jiangqing had been following Li Zhuangsheng around like a shadow, acting as Hu Mengdie's blatant eyes and ears, and indirectly interfering with Zhu Zhixue and Li Zhuangsheng's intimacy. Enraged, Zhu Zhixue summoned Yao Xingyu in as well.

So Xie Jiangqing and Yao Xingyu's main job at home was to compete against each other.

But the root cause is still Hu Mengdie's problem.

Li Zhuangsheng complained, "Why are you so arrogant? You sent Xie Jiangqing to monitor me. If you had just moved in yourself, there wouldn't have been so much trouble!"

After Li Zhuangsheng finished speaking, Hu Mengdie did not respond, staring blankly at the other side of the road.

"Ok?"

Li Zhuangsheng followed his gaze and saw that a young couple was breaking up across the street.

The man seemed reluctant to let go, kneeling on the ground and begging, trying to win the girl back. But the girl looked disgusted, even kicking him and yelling at him to get lost.

Li Zhuangsheng frowned.

"What a spineless person," Hu Mengdie said.

“That’s right, they really have no self-respect,” Li Zhuangsheng also said.

Hu Mengdie withdrew her gaze and calmly smiled, "Li Zhuangsheng, do you love me?"

Li Zhuangsheng was slightly taken aback and was about to answer when he saw the faint sadness in Hu Mengdie's eyes. It was like a fallen leaf in the autumn wind, swept into the air and then gently falling to the ground under the clear blue sky.

(End of this chapter)