I became financially independent right after entering college.

Chapter 107 Living in the same room

Touching Li Xue's legs all the way, Bai Chou looked at the navigation and came to a racing supplies store. There must be a stationery store near the school, and there must be a racing supplies store and repair shop near the racetrack.

Li Xue asked why they were coming here if they were not going to the hotel.

Bai Chou said that you didn't bring anything with you when you went out today, and you won't be going home at night. If I don't buy everything for you, will you rent it at the racetrack tomorrow?

Going on the track is not as cool as described in many novels, nor as handsome as Initial D, where you can just go without any preparation.

Racing suits and shoes are another matter, but a helmet is a must, and many racetracks have mandatory helmet requirements. If you're wearing a helmet, you might also want to wear a sweat-wicking and fire-resistant headgear.

Finally, a pair of gloves: racing is a very physically demanding sport, and F1 drivers can lose several kilograms of water after a race.

Track activities for amateur drivers don’t require as much physical exertion, but they will still sweat. Once the palms of the hands holding the steering wheel sweat, they may slip and make mistakes, so gloves are also a necessity.

Helmet, fire mask, and hood, just these three things.

Bai Chou had already prepared everything in advance, and this time he came to buy it for Li Xue.

Li Xue was reminded by Bai Chou that when she first curiously sat in the passenger seat of her cousin to experience the track, she was also asked by the track stewards to wear a helmet.

At that time, she rented a helmet from the track. Although the track stewards said that their helmets would be professionally cleaned and maintained after each use, Li Xue always felt that there was a strange and smelly smell in the helmet.

Helmets, boxing gloves, goalkeeper gloves – sharing these things with others is really disgusting. The smell is strong, needless to say.

Li Xue chose a helmet that looked very similar to the one in "Durararauma of the Headless Horseman". It had two cute pointed cat ears on the top. She also picked out a few head covers and a pair of gloves. When she put them on the front desk and counted them, Li Xue's little face immediately wrinkled into a knot.

"More than 4,000 yuan, why is it so expensive?" Are you fucking robbing me?

"Hello, ma'am. This helmet is made of carbon fiber and is FIA certified. It's a bit more expensive. Please take a look at the other helmets in our store. We also have affordable helmets for a few hundred yuan..."

Li Xue grabbed the two cat ears on the helmet with a very conflicted expression. If she rented one, any one would be fine, but if she bought one herself, of course she had to choose one that she liked and looked good.

After walking around the store, she decided that this helmet looked good and the others were ugly.

"Forget it, I'll just give it to you..." Bai Chou, not wanting to waste any more time, took out his mobile phone and scanned the code to pay.

"Oh, this is not good..."

Li Xue was of course very happy that Bai Chou wanted to give her something, but she felt it was inappropriate to accept Bai Chou's gift for no reason in such an occasion.

The Hermès scarf she bought last time was no cheaper than this helmet, but that was her errand fee and the income from her labor. This helmet is purely a gift without any merit.

"You pay for the room tonight."

"Okay then." Since there's give and take, it's not just accepting gifts casually; it's normal interaction between friends.

Back in the car, Li Xue sat in the passenger seat holding a cat-ear helmet and kept grinning. From time to time, she lifted the helmet to glance at it. Hehe, this gift Bai Chou gave me is not a fee for running errands. It looks cute no matter how I look at it.

Lishui District and Jiangning District are both considered suburbs in Jinling, and Lishui is a suburb within the suburbs. Many old Jinling people do not recognize Lishui as an administrative district of Jinling.

At least you can find a Jingfeng Marriott in Jiangning, but there are really no five-star hotels in Lishui.

Bai Chou randomly found a hotel that was close to the racetrack and advertised as having a lake view. He parked the car and went downstairs with Li Xue, who was holding a helmet.

"Let's get two double rooms." Li Xue glanced at the hotel price tag. Fortunately, it wasn't very expensive. A standard double room only cost three or four hundred yuan, which was affordable.

The hotel receptionist was a girl in her early twenties. She glanced at Li Xue holding a helmet and Bai Chou standing behind Li Xue playing with his mobile phone, and immediately understood.

"Sorry, my hotel is very limited. I only have one twin room with lake view..."

what?
Only one room left?
Li Xue was surprised and delighted. She went to the hotel with the boy she liked to book a room, but was told that there was only one room left. What kind of fantastic plot in a novel was this?

But she was not ready yet. Suddenly she had to live in a room. It was too fast, and it felt like she was being rushed.

"We really want to get two rooms." Bai Chou looked up and knocked on the counter. What are you doing here?

"I'm sorry. I know you two did plan to book two rooms, but we only have one lake view twin room left. As you know, it's the National Day holiday now, and Jinling is a traditional tourist city, so all hotels are very short of rooms."

The receptionist explained politely.

What to do? Bai Chou frowned slightly.

The front desk clerk must be telling the truth. During the National Day holiday, most budget hotels in Jinling will indeed be a bit tight on room availability, and there aren't any particularly luxurious hotels in Lishui District...

"How about we just live here?"

Li Xue was eager to make a move: "The other hotels near the racetrack should have no vacancies. I don't care anyway. Two beds, one for each of us. As long as you don't covet my beauty and touch my bed at night..."

"Who would like you if you looked like such a skinny guy?"

"You'd better keep your word. If you touch me on the bed, I'll kick you out!"

Bai Chou glanced at Li Xue with disdain and waved his hand: "Forget it, a twin room is a twin room, hurry up and get one."

"Okay, please give me your ID cards so I can register you..."

Li Xue took out her ID card and handed it over. Her heartbeat suddenly accelerated. Although it was a twin room, this was her first time sharing a room with someone of the opposite sex, and with a boy she liked...

Sure enough, he really likes me, otherwise why would he agree to stay in the same room with me? He must have bad intentions towards me. What should I do if he really touches me in bed at night? Should I obey him or be half-hearted... Oh, I'm so conflicted.

Li Xue took the ID card and room card in a daze, and followed Bai Chou into the room in a daze.

Bai Chou took a quick look at the room layout. It was okay. There were two 70m beds and a table and chairs in the 1.5-square-meter space. The overall look was clean and tidy. The lake view behind the floor-to-ceiling windows was the same as in the hotel's promotional pictures.

There is no difference in the photo of people.

"It's still some time before dark. Do you plan to go out and play for a while or something?" Bai Chou looked back at Li Xue.

"Uh?"

Li Xue was stunned for a moment, and then her face immediately showed the disdain of an old Jinling person for Lishui District: "Just buy some snacks and stay in the hotel, order takeout at night, eat, and go to bed.

This poor and remote place is like Lishui, what fun is there? "

Li Xue thought that Lishui's only advantages were its greenery and abundant open space; otherwise, they wouldn't have built a racetrack there. There wasn't even a decent shopping street. Li Xue didn't want to play, and Bai Chou had no plans to go out for a run.

There really isn't anything fun or interesting to visit in Lishui District. Besides, Bai Chou, who had worked hard all night last night, hasn't fully recovered yet, so Kim Hyo Joo is really good at squeezing people out.

After calling Li Xue to move all the stuff in the trunk into the room, Bai Chou casually tossed the car keys to Li Xue: "There should be a supermarket nearby. Go buy whatever you want."

"Ah, let me drive your car to buy it?"

"How about I buy it for you? It's not like you don't have a driver's license yourself."

Humph, I'm too lazy to go out shopping if you're not with me. I might as well ask someone to bring me what I want to buy.

Li Xue wanted to refuse, but suddenly her eyes rolled, her amazing wisdom activated, and she changed her mind. She took the car keys and snorted, "Then I'll drive your car for a while and come back later."

"casual."

"What if I accidentally crash? I'm not a very good driver."

"Then you can just wait to become the car owner. I just happened to be buying a new car."

"Okay, so you're planning to sell this car to me. I don't want this junky car of yours. If I were to buy one, I'd buy a convertible!"

"Then don't drive."

"Just open it, just open it!"

After picking up the car keys, Li Xue made a face and ran out angrily. She got into the cockpit and grabbed the steering wheel with a surging heart. The dream of driving a convertible sports car instantly disappeared.

Although it is not a convertible, the GT3RS's landing price of just over yuan and its highly racing and exaggerated styling are enough to make up for the lack of a convertible.

Hehe, it's pretty good even without the convertible top.

Li Xue, who didn't want to get a Weilong loan and become a car owner, held the steering wheel carefully and hesitated. It took him more than three minutes to move the car out of the parking space and slowly drove onto the road.

Turning on the car stereo to play pop music, with both windows lowered to the lowest point, Li Xue imitated Bai Chou's driving style, holding the steering wheel with one hand and driving slowly and leisurely around.

It was awesome. Although the car speed never exceeded 40 mph, it was awesome.

After wandering around for more than an hour, Li Xue, who had satisfied her driving craving, finally found a large supermarket and started shopping. By the time she finished shopping and returned to the hotel, it was already five or six in the evening.

After eating some takeout snacks, Bai Chou turned on the TV to watch a show, but unexpectedly got into another argument with Li Xue.

Bai Chou planned to watch the replay of "Go Fighting" on the hotel TV, while Li Xue wanted to watch "If You Are the One" more, saying that it was her and her mother's favorite show.

"You're just a little girl of eighteen or nineteen, and you're fooling around by watching a blind date show? Those shows are all scripted. What's so good about them?" Bai Chou pressed the remote control under her butt to protect it tightly.

"What do you care? I just like watching it. Besides, you brought your laptop with you. Can't you just watch it online?"

"How big is a computer screen? How big is a TV screen?"

Li Xue, who was used to playing with Bai Chou, jumped onto Bai Chou's bed like a vicious dog, trying to grab the remote control under Bai Chou's butt. After trying several times but failing, she started to scratch Bai Chou's waist.

Li Xue played some bad tricks, but Bai Chou naturally didn't tolerate Li Xue's bad temper. He also started to tickle Li Xue's waist. After a while, he kicked Li Xue on the butt and kicked Li Xue off the bed.

Damn it!
Li Xue fell so hard that she was about to cry. Seeing that she couldn't snatch the game from Bai Chou, she rubbed her butt and walked to the TV and used the buttons on the TV to change the program.

If you don't let me watch the shows I want to watch, I won't let you watch the shows you want to watch.

This kind of situation would never happen when Bai Chou was with Jin Xiaozhou. Jin Xiaozhou almost never argued with Bai Chou. She would watch whatever Bai Chou was watching, whether she liked it or not, whether she could continue watching it or not.

After confronting Li Xue for a while, Bai Chou, feeling bored, threw the remote control to Li Xue. Forget it, continuing the confrontation would only result in mutual losses.

"Hmph, if you had given me the remote control earlier, everything would have been fine. Besides, it's not like you didn't bring your computer." Li Xue proudly held the remote control and tuned to Jiangsu Channel.

Bai Chou ignored Li Xue, took out his laptop, leaned against the headboard, plugged in headphones and watched "Go Fighting" online. After watching for a while, he felt something was wrong. He turned around and saw Li Xue lying on the side of his bed, staring at the computer screen intently with her eyes wide open.

"Hey, why did you pause the show? Please continue the broadcast. Was Zhang Yixing fooled by Sun Honglei?"

Li Xue, who was in high spirits, pushed Bai Chou in dissatisfaction.

Bai Chou took off his headphones, his face full of disbelief: "You can watch this without sound?"

"It's worth watching. This show is really good." Li Xue hummed twice.

"Just now I told you to watch this, but you refused to watch it and insisted on watching your If You Are the One..."

"It's not that I haven't watched this show. I think it will probably be as scripted and boring as Running Man..." Li Xue muttered softly.

When Li Xue said this, Bai Chou instantly felt the same way.

When Running Man was first released a few years ago, it was really popular all over the country. Bai Chou could watch the first two seasons with great interest, but the show became more and more scripted as time went on, and gradually Bai Chou stopped liking it.

Bai Chou was quite happy that he had successfully recommended his favorite TV show to others.

The two agreed on what show to watch, and after some discussion, they simply turned off their laptops and used the replay function on the hotel TV to find past episodes of "Go Fighting" to watch together.

The bigger the screen, the better.

At first, the two of them were lying on their own beds, with a large bag of snacks and drinks beside them, watching and chatting about the show. They said Sun Honglei was too reckless, Zhang Yixing was so pitiful, and Wang Xun had really big front teeth...

After chatting for a while, Li Xue simply ran to Bai Chou's bed and put the snacks in the middle. The two of them lay on either side of the bed. Li Xue and Bai Chou lay side by side, watching TV, chatting about the show, and eating snacks. No one thought much about it.

When watching TV programs, it would be more convenient to sit or lie closer. Wouldn’t it be better to go back before going to bed?
After watching several episodes in a row, both of them felt tired. They quickly packed up the snacks and garbage, went back to their beds, and went to sleep in their clothes.

People wear less clothes in the summer, and since a man and a woman are sleeping in the same room, it’s okay for them to sleep with their clothes on.

Bai Chou was a deep sleeper. In the middle of the night, after hearing the sound of a toilet flushing, he vaguely felt that someone was lying next to him.

Bai Chou, who was used to sleeping with Kim Hyo Joo, touched the person beside the bed and pulled him into his arms. His little hands began to march north dishonestly, occupying the high ground in a half-asleep and half-awake state, and then continued to sleep.

(End of this chapter)