Classmate Li Zhuangsheng doesn’t want to be reborn

"You two are here again?" A middle-aged man asked with a broad smile.

"Hello, we're here again." Qin Luanyu smiled. "The food we had here last time was quite good, so we're here again this time."

The man was a little flattered. He glanced at the Ferrari outside through the glass window and asked, "What would you two like to eat this time?"

"Let's do it the same way as last time, bring out all the dishes you're good at," Qin Luanyu said, seeking Li Zhuangsheng's opinion, "What do you think?"

"Yeah, okay."

Li Zhuangsheng dared not have any objections. He finally remembered a saying from the Analects: "It is difficult to be poor without being obsequious, but easy to be rich without being arrogant."

"Now you know why I drove a Ferrari, right?" Qin Luanyu chuckled in a low voice.

"...I still don't know."

"You're so silly! Of course, I'm here to show you off and help you soar to new heights!" Qin Luanyu gently tapped Li Zhuangsheng's head, her smile playful and mischievous. "Do you have any enemies, or people you don't like, or people who look down on you?"

"What do you want to do?"

"Of course I'm going to help you get revenge!"

"Pfft..." Li Zhuangsheng couldn't help but laugh. "I thank you for your kindness, but I really don't have any enemies... However, I have a friend, and we can go and show off in front of him."

"The friend you're talking about, is it Zhang Qixiang who drives a BMW X5?"

"Huh, you know that? Have you met Zhang Qixiang before?"

"No, I only met your ex-wife and her friend last time, namely Xie Jiangqing."

"Oh...I see." Li Zhuangsheng lowered his eyes, seemingly unwilling to elaborate. "Did I know you were a girl before?"

"How would you know, you idiot? You only found out when we met last time." Qin Luanyu smiled, resting her chin on her hand. "But you did alright this time. Last time you absolutely refused to believe I was Village Chief Chu."

"It's truly unbelievable... If Xie Jiangqing didn't know you, I would also find it hard to believe."

"Hehehe, you were so eager to believe that I was the heroine from your novel who had run away!"

"Su Youran?"

"Oh, you know her too!"

“I’ve read my previous novels.” Li Zhuangsheng mustered his courage and finally had an excuse to examine Qin Luanyu. “But you do look quite like her, and Su Youran is also a rich young lady. She seems to have driven a Ferrari.”

Do you like Su Youran?

"I think it's alright, but my favorite is Yin Rou... Oops! I'm wrong, actually my favorite is Su Youran!"

Qin Luanyu then put down her chopsticks with satisfaction, it seemed that his emotional intelligence wasn't too low.

Li Zhuangsheng coughed and asked softly, "By the way, I wanted to ask you... what are you doing here at this hour? Aren't you in school anymore?"

"Didn't I tell you? I'm here for tourism, and I just wanted to check on you."

"Actually, I'm fine, so don't worry. Besides, there's not much to do for travel right now. I'll take you to the First Mountain, and you can come back during the summer vacation. I'll treat you to Thirteen-Spice Crayfish then. Don't let it interfere with your studies."

"Shall we go to that cabin again?"

"Where is the cabin? Did we go there last time? I don't remember. I don't know what a cabin is either."

Qin Luanyu was silent for a moment: "Haha, it doesn't matter if you don't remember, we can go again later... Actually, I wanted to come after I found out you had amnesia, but I got into a fight with my father at home, so I delayed for several days." Li Zhuangsheng was slightly taken aback: "You got into a fight with your father?"

Qin Luanyu nodded indignantly: "Yeah, he actually won't let me ask the school for a long leave!"

Li Zhuangsheng's lips twitched slightly: "No normal person would allow that, right? Why did you ask the school for a long leave?"

"Of course I came here to play!" Qin Luanyu said matter-of-factly.

"To be honest, I think your dad did the right thing... So why did you come here again? You didn't sneak over here, did you?"

"Of course not. After I argued with him and threatened to skip classes and drop out of school, he finally let me take a long leave of absence to come and play!"

Now that you mention it, I seem to have forgotten the original meaning of the phrase "to argue based on reason"!

"Don't take such a small matter to heart. In any case, I came here with my father's permission, and he knows everything I'm about to do!"

Qin Luanyu stared intently at Li Zhuangsheng, as if to say, "Do you understand? Do you understand?"

"Oh, I see... So your dad is pretty open-minded... uh, quite tolerant of you! If it were my dad, he would have whipped you with a belt by now!"

"Of course, after all, I'm his only daughter, hehehe. When he was with my mom, in order to respond to the national family planning policy and to prove his feelings for my mom, he had a tubal ligation... So all his money is mine!"

Li Zhuangsheng couldn't help but lean back, his face filled with solemn respect: "I never imagined your father was such a devoted and iron-willed man!"

"He's a hopeless romantic! He's had plenty of affairs since my mom died... He even cheated on me when she was seriously ill!"

Li Zhuangsheng's eyes widened, and Qin Luanyu's expression changed from a sneer to one of indignation.

"What are you looking at? You men are all the same!"

Perhaps out of misplaced anger, Qin Luanyu picked up her chopsticks again and lightly tapped Li Zhuangsheng.

Li Zhuangsheng instinctively dodged, but the chopsticks still landed on him, yet it didn't hurt at all. The other person's eyes held a smile and a hint of reproach, as if it were just teasing... or perhaps just playful banter between classmates.

Perhaps because Qin Luanyu was too young, Li Zhuangsheng felt a long-lost familiarity with her, as if he had finally met someone his own age.

For some reason, Li Zhuangsheng thought of the song "In That Faraway Place," which he used to listen to on his MP3 player when he was still in school.

His rosy smile is like the red sun. His beautiful, captivating eyes are like the bright moon at night... I wish she would hold a leather whip and gently lash me every day.

Suddenly, Dao Lang's soulful singing voice came to mind.

"Why are you spacing out again?" Qin Luanyu asked, holding up her chopsticks. "Want to try again?"

"Nothing, nothing!" Li Zhuangsheng thought to himself that he couldn't very well tell her. Love songs popped into his head. Besides, what does it mean to be willing to be whipped every day? Those who know better will think that being beaten is a sign of affection and being scolded is a sign of love. Those who don't might think he's a masochist.
“Actually, you remind me of someone,” Li Zhuangsheng said.

"Who?"

A friend from high school.

She was also the only girl who always chatted and laughed with him... However, how to put it, Li Zhuangsheng always felt that the two were somewhat different.

He was quite solemn and nervous when he was face to face with that girl, but he often relaxed unconsciously when he was with Qin Luanyu.

Despite the fact that she seemed incredibly wealthy, Li Zhuangsheng always felt relaxed and comfortable chatting with her, without any sense of restraint. It was as if they were truly old friends.

"Oh, male or female?" (End of Chapter)