Going home for Chinese New Year, I squeezed onto a bus with three energetic young women.

Bai Li held her forehead.

have to.

I shouldn't have had any expectations of this girl.

Li Mengmeng sat at the dining table and swallowed the last piece of mutton.

She pulled out a tissue, wiped the red oil from the corner of her mouth, and licked her lips with lingering satisfaction.

"You have to admit, it's really delicious..."

Bai Li straightened up and glanced at the two of them:

"Now that Mengmeng has finished eating, she and Ruyue should get some rest."

"It's getting late, I'll go back next door to rest first. I still need to go to the studio tomorrow to keep an eye on the filming progress."

The voice just fell.

Bai Li then felt something pulling him back.

Looking down, I saw a soft little hand tugging at the hem of my trench coat.

"Stay a little longer~" Li Mengmeng looked up, her voice so sweet it could be drawn out like silk.

Those eyes were watery, and her face was full of reluctance.

Beside it, the other hand was not to be outdone.

Jiang Ruyue also pressed closer, grabbing Bai Li's right arm and pulling him back with small, quick steps:

"That's right, stay with us a little longer."

Bai Li looked down at Li Mengmeng on her left, then glanced at Jiang Ruyue on her right, who was pretending to be a good girl.

The two girls, one on the left and one on the right, seemed determined to keep him there no matter what.

"Okay." Bai Li compromised and sat down on the sofa.

Li Mengmeng cheered and kicked off her plush bear slippers.

Her two legs, clad in white stockings, were curled up on the sofa, her upper body naturally resting against Bai Li's left shoulder.

Jiang Ruyue gave a soft snort and pulled Bai Li's arm tighter into her embrace.

Her fair face rested on Bai Li's right shoulder, the hem of her pleated skirt brushing against his knee.

The TV screen lit up, playing "Crayon Shin-chan".

The three of them laughed heartily as they watched the little kid wiggling his bottom on the screen, creating a warm and cozy atmosphere.

Just then, Jiang Ruyue turned her head and stared at Bai Li.

"I suddenly remembered something."

Bai Li turned his head and looked into her clear, foolish eyes:

"What's wrong?"

"I saw it on a short video platform a couple of days ago." Jiang Ruyue recited the joke in a serious tone:

"You're the smartest kid."

"After eating Cao's Spicy Food, he didn't wash his hands and went to KTV, insisting that he was a spicy Shin-chan."

"Stop reading those pointless jokes." Bai Li scolded her impatiently.

"I have been to KTVs, but I have never done that kind of thing."

Before Jiang Ruyue could even refute,

The screen of Bai Li's phone lit up and vibrated twice.

He pulled his arm out of Jiang Ruyue's arms and glanced at his phone.

The sender's name in the contact list made Bai Li frown deeply.

Zhao Gang.

The scene of that utterly absurd class reunion replayed in my mind.

Under pressure at the time, he directly revealed that Zhang Yan had contracted a venereal disease.

Zhao Gang broke down on the spot.

Unable to accept the reality that he had been infected, he went mad in the Triumph Hotel.

As a result, he turned the Triumph Hotel into a biohazard hotel.

This idiot covered in poison buffs, why is he looking for himself in the middle of the night instead of going to see a doctor?

Looking for revenge after being upset?

Bai Li's eyes were full of doubt.

Li Mengmeng leaned closer and saw the name on the screen.

"Huh?" Li Mengmeng's tone was full of disdain.

"Why would that scoundrel Zhao Gang be looking for you?"

Jiang Ruyue had never attended that gathering, and upon hearing this, her curiosity was piqued.

She tilted her head and asked in a dazed and innocent way:

Is Zhao Gang a bad person?

"Hmm." Bai Li's fingers traced the edge of the phone:

"He and Zhang Yan are both extremely wicked people. They specialize in looking down on others."

Jiang Ruyue pointed to the tip of her nose and suddenly blurted out:

"Am I worse than you?"

Bai Li was bewildered by the little girl's inexplicable competitive spirit, and watched her with a calm and collected expression:

"Tell me first how bad you are. Only then can I judge who is worse between the two of you."

Jiang Ruyue cleared her throat and proudly announced her misdeeds:

"Now, every time I play King of Glory, I only click 'confirm' in the last second of the countdown!"

The air was silent for two seconds.

"Hahaha!" Bai Li burst out laughing: "Then you're still not as bad as him."

Li Mengmeng poked Bai Li's hand with her finger and urged him:

"Alright, alright, let's ignore her kindergarten-level bad behavior."

"Quickly see what this bio-engineered monster is going to say."

Bai Li opened the WeChat chat interface.

Zhao Gang: [Are you there?]

Zhao Gang: [I was wrong before. I shouldn't have looked down on you, and I definitely shouldn't have gotten together with that idiot Zhang Yan who bullied your boyfriend. I'm no human being.]

Zhao Gang: [You're a magnanimous person, don't hold it against me. We broke up a long time ago, completely cut off contact, and she blocked me on WeChat.]

Bai Li scoffed at the words of surrender and submission.

He tapped on the screen with one hand, mainly displaying a read message.

Bai Li: [Oh, so what are you trying to say?]

Within two seconds of the message being sent, the status bar at the top immediately changed to "The other party is typing...".

The text kept flashing and jumping.

It was clear that Zhao Gang was frantically typing away on the other side of the screen.

After a short while, a long paragraph of text with punctuation marks popped up.

Zhao Gang: [Could you... lend me some money? Or maybe I could get a job working for you...?]

Zhao Gang: [Please, Bai Li! I've been going to the hospital every day to treat that disease, I've emptied my savings, I even sold my house.]

Zhao Gang: [That day at the hotel, the police came and immediately found me fully responsible.]

Zhao Gang: [I also have to compensate the hotel for the renovation costs of the private room, and pay the security guards for medical expenses and lost wages.]

Zhao Gang: [Now I really have nothing left, even food is a problem.]

Zhao Gang: [You're the richest and most successful among our classmates, can you please have some mercy and help me out?]

After reading this short, sob story...

Bai Li casually tossed his phone onto the coffee table and let out a cold laugh.

This guy used to drive an Audi around Ping County, showing off this and that.

During the party, he even made sarcastic remarks to her directly and tacitly allowed Zhang Yan to bully Zhang Qian.

Now he has nothing left, and he even has to help himself.

Does he really think he's a living bodhisattva running a charitable temple?

"How dare you say that?"

Bai Li took a green grape from the fruit bowl on the coffee table, popped it into her mouth, and bit into the skin, releasing a burst of juice.

"He used to act like a big shot, now he acts like a little grandson."

Jiang Ruyue leaned over the edge of the coffee table and scanned the chat history from beginning to end.

She raised her pure, aloof first-love face, her expression filled with incomprehension and disdain.

"This person is so shameless," Jiang Ruyue commented, pouting.

"If you don't have money for medical treatment, you can go beg on the street or collect garbage to sell."

"What's the point of asking you for money? You two don't even get along."

"If you ask me, he deserved it all; this is what they call karma."

Li Mengmeng straightened up from Bai Li's embrace:

"Is this idiot out of his mind?"

Li Mengmeng rolled her eyes dramatically, and her mouth started firing off a barrage of words as if it were on steroids:

"Having a host of incurable diseases, and you still want to work?"

"Who the hell would want to work with a bio-mother?"