Dragon Clan: Lu Mingfei Returns from Japan

Chapter 636 Things Good Friends Can Do

"You guys really did something big..."

In a private room at the Open Mind café, Su Xiaoqiang looked at Lu Mingfei sitting next to her with a slightly resentful gaze and said...

This is a celebration banquet held after the Shilan Middle School Sports Meet. It celebrates Erii breaking the school's pole vault record and the team consisting of Liu Miaomiao, Su Xiaoqiang, Chen Wenwen, and Deng Zhuoyi achieving a third-place finish in the women's 4x800m relay.

Actually, this celebration banquet should have been held earlier. After all, the school sports meet lasted for several days, and Liu Miaomiao and her team won third place in the relay race on the second day of the sports meet.

However, because Liu Miaomiao sprained her ankle during the sprint, she was only able to walk with difficulty on the last two days of the school sports meet. As a result, the celebration banquet was postponed until today, the closing day of the school sports meet.

Seeing Su Xiaoqiang's fierce yet slightly jealous and smug gaze, Lu Mingfei thought to himself, "It was clearly Little Fairy herself who arranged for me to go on stage to present flowers, and it was Miaomiao who kissed me first. Why are you staring at me like that, Little Fairy..."

Su Xiaoqiang also pouted, experiencing a feeling that only Liu Miaomiao could understand before.

As Lu Mingfei's nominal girlfriend, watching her best friend and boyfriend interact sweetly... is this really such an unpleasant feeling?

As expected, the world is fair. While Su Xiaoqiang enjoys the status of Lu Mingfei's official girlfriend, she also has to pay a price.

To make a living, you must have...

Just then, the door opened, and Liu Miaomiao, Deng Zhuoyi, and several other girls who had gone to order returned to the private room. Su Xiaoqiang also turned his gaze away.

Today's celebration banquet wasn't just for Lu Mingfei and his friends; it also included Liu Miaomiao, Chen Wenwen, and the other girls in their class's girl group.

As a "friend," Liu Miaomiao consciously sat down in the seat opposite Lu Mingfei, together with Deng Zhuoyi and several girls from her small group who often played together. Erii and Xia Mi sat in the seats to Lu Mingfei's right.

"What did you order?" Lu Mingfei asked Liu Miaomiao.

"Creamy rolls, tiramisu, and the like? We come here often, so we didn't really order anything, just some random things. They just added a new Panatoni cake to the dessert menu, which is supposedly a traditional Italian holiday dessert. Zhuo Yi wanted to try it, so we ordered one," Liu Miaomiao replied.

Deng Zhuoyi asked Lu Mingfei with a grin, "Is everything alright, class monitor?"

"It's alright, it's alright." Lu Mingfei patted his chest with a smile, "Order as much as you want, the class monitor still has the money to treat you to coffee."

Today's celebration banquet was paid for by Young Master Lu. He was clearly the only one present who hadn't participated in any events at the school sports meet, so it's unclear why the task of paying the bill ended up on his shoulders.

However, this wasn't a big deal. After all, his girlfriends had achieved good results, so it wouldn't hurt for him, as their boyfriend, to treat them to a meal. They were all Miaomiao's friends anyway, and who knows, some of them might even be Miaomiao's bridesmaids at his wedding someday.

The decision of why the celebration party was held at a coffee shop instead of a pizzeria or restaurant was made by a unanimous vote of the girls present. All the girls voted for the coffee shop, with only Lu Mingfei supporting a pizzeria.

Faced with a choice between dessert and a main meal, girls will choose dessert 97 out of 100 times.

The only thing that made Lu Mingfei feel a little uncomfortable was that he noticed the girls sitting next to Liu Miaomiao and Deng Zhuoyi were constantly glancing at him and Xiao Tiannv, their expressions hesitant, as if they wanted to ask something but were afraid to. Yan Yan, in particular, was glancing at him especially frequently.

When Lu Mingfei looked over, the gazes on the other side immediately shifted away.

"..."

Lu Mingfei immediately understood what was going on... It was probably because of the kiss he and Liu Miaomiao shared at the closing ceremony of the school sports meet that afternoon.

Although both parties said it was a kiss on the cheek between friends, who would believe that?

If friends can kiss on the cheek, then countless girls in the whole school would want to line up to be friends with Chu Zihang, and of course, many would want to be friends with Lu Mingfei as well.

Almost everyone tacitly felt that there was still some ambiguity between Lu Mingfei and Liu Miaomiao.

Both parties involved claim to be friends. Moreover, Su Xiaoqiang, Lu Mingfei's current girlfriend and Liu Miaomiao's best friend, didn't say anything afterward. If they continue gossiping, it's like the eunuchs are more worried than the emperor.

"Miaomiao, you played that piece so well just now..." one of the girls started the conversation.

The topic shifted faster than Lu Mingfei had expected. The girls chatted about this and that, from the Korean idol group invited on the previous episode of "Happy Camp" to Chanel's new summer items, covering all sorts of topics. Soon, the gazes that had been focused on Lu Mingfei quietly disappeared.

Lu Mingfei didn't know if the topic had really changed, or if everyone had tacitly stopped bringing up the matter between him and Liu Miaomiao.

But seeing the group chatting enthusiastically, and Erii even writing in her notebook to join in the conversation, he gradually felt at ease. He ate mochi and egg tarts on the side, quietly taking turns opening the Coke cans that the girls handed him.

"This is supposed to be a semi-Western restaurant, so why doesn't Open Mind serve iced Coke in glasses? What's the point of just giving us cans?" Lu Mingfei muttered to himself.

Not long after, he realized he had finished the mochi. He wiped the frosting off his hands with a tissue and said, "I'll go order two more servings of mochi. Do you want anything else?"

Xia Mi raised her hand: "Senior brother, could you also order me a roasted milk?"

"I'll go with you."

Liu Miaomiao also stood up from her seat: "That Panatoni cake tastes pretty good. Let me see what new items are on the menu, and we can order some to try."

The two of them left the private room together, but the lively atmosphere inside remained unchanged.

After a while, Yan Yan also stood up from her seat with a smile: "I'm going to the restroom."

The door to the private room blocked out the girls' conversation behind her. Yan Yan quietly let out a breath.

She didn't actually want to go to the restroom; she just wanted to get some fresh air. Her boundless curiosity made it difficult for her to feign indifference to Lu Mingfei and Liu Miaomiao's behavior at the school sports meet closing ceremony.

"But haven't Miaomiao and the others come back from ordering yet? Isn't that taking too long?" Yan Yan muttered to herself.

Yan Yan didn't want to go to the restroom, but she also didn't want to go back to the private room so soon. After thinking for a moment, she decided that she might as well go out to the river for some fresh air.

Open Mind Cafe is located on an old street not far from Shilan Middle School. It's also not too far from Uncle Lu Mingfei's house and Chen Wenwen's house.

After leaving the coffee shop, walk a short distance to the school's crossroads. A short detour leads to the riverside road that Lu Mingfei and Chen Wenwen often walk on their way home.

Unfortunately, before she even reached the coffee shop's lobby, Yan Yan saw Lu Mingfei and Liu Miaomiao turn in from the end of the corridor. The two were standing very close together, laughing and chatting, seemingly oblivious to her presence.

After all, it seems a bit impolite to just leave without saying a word after seeing the other person.

Yan Yan thought for a moment and decided to take the initiative to greet Liu Miaomiao first, saying that it was a bit stuffy in the private room and that she would go out for some fresh air.

Just as she was about to walk over, she suddenly noticed that Lu Mingfei's hand seemed to be on Liu Miaomiao's waist. The sound of their voices followed immediately.

“Let’s talk about it when we get back. My parents went on a business trip out of town today, so they can come home a little later tonight…” That was Liu Miaomiao’s voice. “It’s okay, no one else is coming here, and they wouldn’t recognize us anyway,” Lu Mingfei said.

"What if a classmate comes out of the private room and sees us?"

"So what if they saw it? They can just make it official..."

"We can only kiss for a short while. We need to hurry back to the private room, or the others will get suspicious..."

"..."

Lu Mingfei lowered his head, and at the same time, Liu Miaomiao stood on tiptoe and closed her eyes.

Slurp, slurp, sizzle, sizzle.

Yan Yan's eyes widened, a question mark of doubt gradually forming in her mind, as she hallucinated hearing the sound of something shattering. That was her worldview.

So... is this something that good friends can do?

……

Lu Mingfei, of course, had no idea that Yan Yan had discovered his secret intimate behavior with Liu Miaomiao.

Given his alertness, he should have easily noticed that someone was watching him from not far away.

The main reason is that the passion between the man and woman at this moment is like dry wood meeting a raging fire...

Lu Mingfei was so focused on taking advantage of the time while ordering food to sneak a little intimate time with Liu Miaomiao that his ability to observe his surroundings naturally decreased.

There was no way around it; back on the podium, he couldn't wait to kiss Liu Miaomiao's pink and moist lips as a "good friend's response," declaring to all the boys at Shilan Middle School that he still retained his sovereignty over the little girl.

But the thought that it would be difficult to end if he actually did it—although the scene of Liu Miaomiao kissing his cheek was already difficult to end—made him stop and only kiss her on the cheek.

However, this behavior is already quite shocking.

The "surprise" between Young Master Lu and School Beauty Liu spread like wildfire in the class groups of every class in the school.

Half of the people are saying it's true that you can be friends after breaking up? Look at the relationship between Lu Mingfei and Liu Miaomiao after their breakup. They're not just good friends, they're the kind of good friends who can kiss each other on the cheek. Their relationship is just as good as it was back then.

The other half said that their relationship is not only as strong as it was back then, but back then, did you ever see Liu Miaomiao dare to kiss Lu Mingfei on stage in front of the principal and teachers?
A small minority of voices secretly speculated that while they were gossiping about Lu Mingfei, the young master Lu had probably already started a harem.

Those who responded were immediately attacked on the Shilan High School forum and forced to delete their replies.

The reason is quite simple. It's like burying your head in the sand; you know perfectly well that even if you cover your ears, the sound of the bell still rings, but as long as you can't hear it, you'll feel that the bell isn't actually making a sound.

So far, only Liu Miaomiao and Su Xiaoqiang have officially announced their relationship, and Liu Miaomiao is currently only Lu Mingfei's ex-girlfriend and good friend.

But it's obvious to everyone that Lu Mingfei's relationship with several school beauties is a bit too close... Liu Miaomiao, Su Xiaoqiang, Chen Wenwen, and even Xia Mi, all four school beauties have been rumored to be dating Lu Mingfei.

Some people even dug up a photo of Lu Mingfei leading four school beauties through the "Valentine's Day Gate" of Shilan Middle School on Valentine's Day this year.

But we can't think about this too deeply. After all, let's assume—and they mean just what if—that there really is some kind of complicated and intertwined relationship between Lu Mingfei, Liu Miaomiao, and Su Xiaoqiang.

What about Chen Wenwen?

She and Lu Mingfei are usually inseparable, and rumors of a romance between them circulated during the school anniversary celebration. Later, when Chen Wenwen fell ill, Lu Mingfei braved the heavy snow every day to visit her in the hospital. Some insiders even said that Lu Mingfei's ideal girl was actually Chen Wenwen's type.

And what about Xia Mi?
Although Xia Mi and Lu Mingfei are said to be only cousins...

But Wang Yuyan and Murong Fu of Gusu are cousins! The protagonists of "Keeping a Beauty in a Golden House" – Ajiao and Emperor Wu of Han, Liu Che – were also cousins! Who knows if Young Master Lu is also secretly keeping a beauty in a golden house?

It's one thing for people to gossip about Lu Mingfei's incredible luck behind his back... but these things are absolutely forbidden to be mentioned, and even more so, forbidden to be thought about in detail!
All I can do is silently wish that Lu Mingfei and Liu Miaomiao's friendship will last forever.

This matter has also generated a great deal of discussion among teachers and school leaders.

After all, although there are many students in Shilan Middle School who are in early relationships, most of them are in private, so the teachers usually turn a blind eye.

However, this seems to be an isolated case within the school that has been brought to the forefront.

Although both of them claimed that they were just friends and that the kiss on the cheek was just a friendly gesture... you'd have to ask the school leaders if they believed it.

These two are no ordinary students. Lu Mingfei is now a model student at Shilan Middle School! As for Liu Miaomiao, she's even more of a figure of privilege—she's the little princess of the Liu Yue family… Who is Liu Yue? He's a provincial-level entrepreneur, a regular at meetings with city bureau leaders!

So even if Lu Mingfei and Liu Miaomiao aren't friends, the school has to continue pretending to be oblivious and define their relationship as that of good friends.

Only Lu Mingfei and Liu Miaomiao's homeroom teacher was singled out for criticism at an internal school meeting, becoming the sole scapegoat in this matter and silently bearing the blame for Lu Mingfei.

At this moment, Lu Mingfei, who was in the Open Mind Café, was unaware of all of the above.

He simply accompanied Liu Miaomiao out of the private room to the bar to order. At this moment, Liu Miaomiao glanced at the time on her phone and said that it was getting late and she needed to call home to tell them that she was out with her classmates and would be home late.

Lu Mingfei flipped through the menu without looking up and said, "Miaomiao, you can call."

Liu Miaomiao found her mother's phone number in her contacts, hesitated for a moment, then scrolled down one more page and dialed her father's phone number.

The moment the call connected, Liu Miaomiao turned her head and whispered, "Dad, yes, it's Miaomiao. I'm having dinner with my classmates today, so I might be home a little late..."

Lu Mingfei said to the clerk, "Two more servings of mochi... three servings, please. And two pieces of Panatoni cake, cut them into twelve pieces for me..."

Before he could finish speaking, he heard Liu Miaomiao beside him continue, "...Oh? You went on a business trip out of town today...Where's Mom...? She went on a business trip too? Okay, okay...I know, I'll go back early and won't stay out too late...Um, bye-bye..."

Liu Miaomiao hung up the phone.

Lu Mingfei's heart skipped a beat, and for some reason, his throat felt a little dry. He thought to himself, "How come the efficiency of the people like Jiude Mai is so fast?"
He wasn't quite ready for his "friendship" with Liu Miaomiao to change!

……

(End of this chapter)