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"I'm sorry, I was wrong! Please don't do that! Otherwise, my life will be ruined!"

Left with no other choice, Eriri had to bow down and apologize to Li Xiao with a humiliated expression.

Li Xiao smiled, "Hmm~ That's right."

Eriri, Eriri, didn't your mother tell you that you shouldn't give in too quickly when someone threatens you, otherwise they'll only take advantage of you?

"So do you know what you should be doing now?"

"...This is the only thing I can't do! I can give you a lot of money, I've earned tens of millions over the years, I can give you two thousand...no, I'll give you it all!"

Li Xiao hooked her chin with his finger, looking troubled.

"You're making it difficult for me to do this."

Eriri thought he was going to hit her, and her hands and feet started to tremble.

Seeing her like this, Li Xiao stopped teasing her and withdrew her hand.

"Fine, I don't want your money. Just spend some time with me after school today."

Eriri pleaded, "You still want the money!"

Li Xiao patted her shoulder, feigning reassurance, and said, "Don't worry, I won't do anything to you, otherwise I could have done it by now."

"That's...okay."

Eriri had no choice but to compromise.

Just then, the school bell rang. Eriri seemed to hear that her savior had arrived, and immediately looked at Li Xiao with a questioning gaze.

"Then you should go back to class."

Eriri didn't say a word, turned around and left. Her footsteps were so fast she looked like she was running, as if some ferocious beast was chasing her.

Li Xiao simply watched her panicked back with a smile.

Eriri rushed back to the classroom, apologized to the teacher, lied that she wasn't feeling well, and successfully returned to her seat.

But at this moment, she couldn't concentrate on the lesson at all. Her mind kept replaying what Li Xiao had said, and she was restless and extremely anxious.

What should we do? Should we call the police? No, we can't call the police.

Should we tell Mom? Is that okay? Eriri didn't know.

She is currently in a state of confusion and doesn't know what to do.

Before she knew it, it was time for school to let out in the afternoon.

Main text: Chapter 170 Reading Lines

Eriri walked towards the school gate in a daze; that was where she and Li Xiao had arranged to meet.

"Eri-ri!"

But then, someone suddenly darted out and called out to her loudly.

Eriri looked up blankly and found that it was her childhood friend, Aki Tomoya.

“Rinya…” Eriri murmured at first, then realized what she meant and snorted.

"You bastard, didn't I tell you not to talk to me at school?"

Aki Tomo didn't care about Eriri's attitude towards him. He was used to it anyway, and he had come here to ask her for a favor.

"Eri, listen to me! I've got a really great idea! I ran into my dream heroine yesterday, and the scene was so amazing! So let's play a game together!"

"Huh? What nonsense are you talking about!"

Eriri, who was initially worried that Li Xiao might get impatient from waiting too long and do something bad, instantly flew into a rage upon hearing Tomoya's words, especially the part about meeting the heroine she was attracted to.

"You bastard, you might as well just die! Get lost, I don't have time for any games with you!"

Eriri stomped hard on Aki Tomoya's foot, then turned and left.

After being attacked, Aki Tomoya clutched his foot and cried out in pain a few times, then tried to catch up with Eriri despite the pain to continue persuading her.

But he was limping, and Eriri was walking very fast, so he naturally couldn't catch up and could only watch her walk further and further away.

Fortunately, Eriri stopped at the door.

Aki Tomoya thought she had come to her senses and was waiting for him, and he was overjoyed.

But after looking around, Eriri walked up to a man she had never seen before.

Although he didn't know what they were saying, and he couldn't see their expressions because they were too far away, he could tell that it was Eriri who took the initiative to talk to him.

This made Aki Tomoya suspicious, so he didn't go any closer and instead hid behind a tree, watching the two of them from a distance.

Li Xiao naturally spotted Aki Tomoya.

Then, on a sudden impulse, he reached out and put his arm around Eriri's shoulder, pulling their bodies close together and making a very intimate gesture.

When she felt Li Xiao's hand climb onto her shoulder, Eriri stiffened for a moment, but dared not resist at all.

She glanced around briefly, then turned to look behind her. Not seeing anyone she knew, and with Aki Tomoya not following, she breathed a sigh of relief.

But then she thought about her current situation. She was being held hostage by some wicked man who had appeared out of nowhere! What was there to be thankful for?!

Oh no, he still has feelings for me after all. Next, he's definitely going to take me to a hotel and then have all the sex, right?!

He might not even bother to book a room, and just drag me into an alley to do this and that, while making me listen to the conversations of my classmates outside and cover my mouth so I wouldn't make a sound.

It's certain, this man will definitely humiliate me like this!

Li Xiao probably didn't expect that simply putting his arm around her shoulder would make this doujinshi artist, whose mind was filled with lewd thoughts, think of so many things.

However, that wasn't his main purpose; it was just for Aki Tomoya, who was spying on him from behind.

What was Aki Tomoya doing at this moment?

When he saw Li Xiao put his arm around Ying Lili's shoulder, perhaps even he himself didn't realize that his expression instantly turned extremely ugly.

He desperately wanted to rush over, pry the man's hand off, and yell at him.

But after taking only two steps, he stopped.

Eriri didn't resist. What if... what if that person was her relative? This must be a misunderstanding. I'll ask Eriri again later; she'll definitely explain it to me, she definitely will...

He ultimately lacked the courage to step forward, afraid of hearing something he didn't want to face. He could only grit his teeth and keep reassuring himself.

Li Xiao was quite pleased to see him acting so cowardly.

That's how it should be; that's how you make the victim feel.

He even deliberately turned around and gave Aki Tomoya a mocking smile.

Even worried that he couldn't see her expression, Li Xiao used hallucination hypnosis to magnify her expression in Aki Tomoya's eyes so that he could see it clearly.

Although Aki Tomoya didn't know why he could suddenly see so far, he wasn't in the mood to care anymore.

He just stared at Li Xiao's mocking smile and the hand that was kneading Eriri's back with a look of rage.

At that moment, in a fit of extreme anger, he became furious.

In his heart, he had long considered Eriri and Kasumigaoka as his own, but he knew that if he accepted one of them, the other would definitely slip away.

In addition, he also thoroughly enjoyed the feeling of being surrounded by beautiful girls, so he pretended to be stupid.

But he couldn't believe that Eriri would betray him!

Only after Li Xiao left with Eriri did Aki Tomoya, who had been standing there for a long time, forcefully punch the big tree in front of him, only to scream in pain himself.

This drew laughter from a group of passing students.

No one would be lenient with this notorious bad guy in the whole school. In fact, if it weren't for the strict discipline at Toyonosaki Private School, someone like Aki Tomoya would have been bullied long ago.

Although Aki Tomoya was thick-skinned, he didn't want to be surrounded by these people, so he covered his hands and slunk away.

He decided to question Eriri again tomorrow to find out who that person really was.

Meanwhile, Eriri, who had been pulled away by Li Xiao, was feeling uneasy.

Seeing Li Xiao straying further and further off course, she finally couldn't hold back any longer and cautiously spoke up:

"Um...where are you taking me?"

She wondered if Li Xiao would really do what she thought and just appear in the alley.

Li Xiao casually replied, "Don't worry, we'll be there soon."

Hearing him say that, Eriri had no choice but to quiet down.

Soon, the two arrived at a tea shop.

He told Eriri to wait outside, and then pushed open the door and went inside by himself.

"Hello, are you buying tea? I highly recommend this health-preserving tea."

The shop assistant was a young man who rushed to greet Li Xiao when he came in.

"You really should take care of your health, after all, you have such a large collection."

"Eh?"

The shop owner was a little confused and didn't understand what Li Xiao meant.

"Do you own the complete collection of Eri Hakuki's manga?"

The shop owner looked at him with a hint of surprise.

"Well... I do have one."

Since Li Xiao is also a man, he wasn't embarrassed at all.

"I don't know if you have any plans to make a move."

The shop manager looked reluctant. "I'm sorry, those are just for my collection, I don't plan to sell them."

"one million."

Upon hearing this, Li Xiao immediately offered a price.

"It's not about money."