It was just a love letter; I'm really no great writer!

On the bus home.

Xia Liang and Di Lingyan sat in the back row, chattering like larks.

The national highway is lined with golden rice paddies and rolling green hills.

Cement roads leading to every household, solar streetlights, and glazed tiles on the roofs of every home showcase the achievements of rural urbanization.

After the initial novelty wore off, Xiao Di started to doze off.

Lu Ran had taken a nap early on, but now he was full of energy.

He glanced at Xiao Di nestled beside him. Her eyebrows and eyes were very similar to Di Qingling's, like a willow leaf, and her lips were small and moist, red rather than vermilion.

Will no one notice if I take a sip?

Lu Ran: I'm a pervert, not a pervert!

He turned his head away, his Adam's apple bobbing as he suppressed the desire in his heart.

If you make a mistake, you should drink poison to quench your thirst... wait, no, you should look at plums to quench your thirst...

In short, we cannot repeat the same mistake.

Lu Ran is not a saint, nor will he rigidly adhere to etiquette; however, he has his own bottom line.

"How much longer until we arrive?" Xia Liang couldn't stand the loneliness.

"Soon."

"Your home is really in a remote area."

"It's just a small county town to begin with."

If it weren't for that dream, Lu Ran thought he would have followed the path of the small-town exam-taker using magic potions.

Well, then I won't be able to meet Sister Di.

He was quite curious about who he had been with in his ordinary, unremarkable past life.

Unfortunately, the dream of the parallel world was too blurry to remember clearly.

Xia Liang leaned closer and whispered, "Hey, you and Xiao Di... is it real?"

Lu Ran said, "You've asked that several times already."

"I don't think...it seems like it," Xia Liang breathed softly. "They don't seem like a couple."

"Then how can it look like that?"

"Haha, you've been exposed, haven't you?" Xia Liang chuckled. "Don't I know Xiao Di well enough?"

"If you were really her boyfriend, she would be clingy to you, unlike now where she's all shy and hesitant."

"If you ask me... Sister Di is more like her than her."

Lu Ran's heart skipped a beat when he saw her carefree smile, but he remained calm on the surface: "Heh, you really have a vivid imagination."

"Haha, I was just saying." Xia Liang chuckled. "But I do hope you'll like Sister Di."

Why?

"Didn't you notice? In our literary club, you confessed to two girls, and Xiao Di likes you too..."

Xia Liang wrinkled her nose and waved exaggeratedly:

"My God! Are you going to ruin the literature club?"

"If you really get together with Xiao Di, how awkward will that make Yi Shuang and Han Zhi? Yi Shuang and Xiao Di are still best friends..."

"So, stop ruining our literary society. I still want to make Huaizhong Pictorial bigger and stronger."

"I never expected this!" Lu Ran said, "The most mature person in our literary society is actually you... this elementary school student."

"Hmph, who are you calling an elementary school student? I'm at least a high school student, okay!" Xia Liang turned her face away arrogantly.

"Yes, yes, yes."

Lu Ran thought to himself, "Chatting with Xia Liang is still the most comfortable; she's so open and generous!"

"Don't worry, I'll be going to Yande next semester. She won't see me then, so our feelings will naturally fade."

"Don't forget to submit your manuscript; you're our pillar of strength!"

They talked about everything from literature to philosophy, from the southernmost to the northernmost parts of the country...

The afternoon drive flew by, and we soon arrived at our final stop.

Xia Liang shook Di Lingyan awake: "Get out of the car, get out of the car."

"Hmm~" Di Lingyan rubbed her eyelids.

She stayed up half the night in the closet, drank her milk, played on her phone in the living room, and only went to Xia Liang's house to knock on the door this morning.

I took a nap in the car and I'm still a little groggy.

"Have we arrived yet?"

"Get off the bus. My house is behind that big camphor tree."

Lu Ran added, "Oh right, although my family is warm and hospitable, some of our ideas are quite traditional."

"You guys... just say you're my classmates, visiting Pixian for a few nights and want to freeload off me."

"Oh, okay." Di Lingyan blinked. "So, I have to pretend... I'm not your girlfriend?"

Xia Liang rolled her eyes: "Stop pretending, Xiao Di. I found out a long time ago that you were pretending to be Lu Ran's girlfriend!"

"Huh?" Di Lingyan exclaimed in surprise, "You knew all along?"

"It's just that Yi Shuang's family doesn't want Lu Ran and Yi Shuang to develop any romantic feelings, so they sent him to Yan De. Lu Ran wants to find someone to pretend to be his girlfriend to create a smokescreen."

Xia Liang patted his chest, looking smug.

"To be honest, your acting is terrible. I could be a better actor than you."

"...What flaw do I have?" Di Lingyan retorted, unconvinced.

"Hmph."

Xia Liang stretched out her palm and broke off her fingers one by one:

"First, the fact that you didn't dare to look Lu Ran in the eye all day shows that you're insecure; "

"Secondly, they didn't hold hands; instead, they deliberately kept their distance..."

"fifth……"

"In conclusion, this is definitely for couples, I'll eat it!"

"Am I really that bad at acting?" Xiao Di asked, somewhat dejected.

But after glancing at Lu Ran, she became happy again.

My acting skills aren't great, but my ventriloquism is!

Where does the beautiful woman teach the flute? This is something Lu Ran himself has personally verified.

"Alright, Mao Li Xiaoliang, stop showing off." Lu Ran sighed and dragged his luggage onto the main road.

I don't know if bringing them back this time is a good thing or a bad thing.

……

"Ahem, what I mean is, isn't Lu Ran at Huaizhong High School? There are so many top students there, my Yuyu doesn't even have time to study on her own..."

Yu Tao coughed and quickly explained.

"Explaining knowledge points to others is also a learning process," Ni Dong said clearly. "Lu Ran's score of 831 is not bad. He doesn't take all subjects in the college entrance examination. I heard he scored 148 in Chinese, the highest in the city!"

"This...this..." Yu Tao stammered. He couldn't very well say that he was afraid the Lu family's son would kidnap his daughter, could he?

"Oh? 148 in Chinese?" Li Huaming was stunned. Lu Ran hadn't told her the specific score.

"Mmm." Yu Lianyi nodded obediently. "Aunt Ming, our final exam in Chinese included Lu Ran's essay, 'The Back View'."

She looked towards the kitchen: "This article is about Uncle Lu's back as he climbed the platform."

"What? What?" Lu Guosheng, who rushed over upon hearing the news, was completely bewildered.

Yu Lianyi opened the test paper she had photographed with her phone.

The final exam papers for Huaicheng are available on the official website, especially the essay "The Back View," which has sparked another round of heated discussion online.

This even gave rise to a famous meme—"I'm going to buy some oranges. You stay here, don't move."

"Did Uncle Lu really climb the platform?" Yu Lianyi asked curiously.

Lu Guosheng: "...It seems like I climbed there, right?"

Li Huaming read the essay twice and beamed with joy: "Haha, my son wrote it so well."

"Hey, Xiao Ran's essay is already on the exam? Ming-jie, how did you teach him? He's so talented!" Ni Dong laughed, jokingly saying, "I wish he were my son..."

"How about we have Lu Ran recognize me as her godmother?"

"Haha, sure!" Li Huaming laughed.

She knew that her sister was a naive and innocent girl who had always wanted a son but had not been able to have one.

Anyway, my son got dumped after writing that love letter...

Yu Yu is a good student, well-behaved and cute, and also very pretty.

It's perfectly reasonable for a mother to plan ahead, right?

At this moment, Yu Tao was looking at "The Back View" and questioning his life.

He had only heard of Lu Ran because he had seen him on short videos from the same city.

The marketing account summarized Lu Ran's major love letters and also introduced his romantic "history".

He had a preconceived notion that Lu Ran was a playboy.

But looking at this piece, "The Back View," which depicts such a touching father-son relationship, Yu Tao couldn't help but laugh. How could this be a scumbag?

Maybe I'm overthinking it—

"Mom! I'm home!"

Lu Ran's shout carried far.

He was puzzled when he saw the Mercedes in the yard. Had they come to visit?

"Lu Ran is back."

Li Huaming strode out the gate, followed closely by Ni Dong.

The sound of something is heard before it is heard, which is already captivating.

Yu Tao looked around curiously.

A tall, handsome young man strode over, his smile clear and bright, like the chirping of cicadas in summer.

Behind him were two stunningly beautiful girls, whose looks were in no way inferior to his own daughter.

One left and one right.

She looked like a newlywed bride, feeling uneasy.

The other one is carefree and easygoing, as if he were entering his own home.

Before dusk, the sky and clouds were bathed in light.

Yu Lianyi was also quite curious about the poet she had never met before. As she stepped out the door, her eyes met Xia Liang's, and they were instantly drawn to each other as if they were magnets.

Both women were momentarily stunned.

"Yu Lianyi, what are you doing here?" Xia Liang thought to herself, is Huaicheng really that small?

Yu Lianyi snorted coldly.

"Who do you think it is? It's just that we've met by chance."