After his blunder in the handsome guy's comment section was exposed.

The onlookers in the distance, who were still shipping the couple, clearly hadn't noticed this detail and were just being envious.

Wow, he even took pictures of his girlfriend, how thoughtful!

"It's true that comparisons are the thief of joy. Every time I ask my ex-boyfriend to help me take pictures, he gets impatient and only cares about eating, like he hasn't eaten in ages."

"No wonder he's my ex-boyfriend."

"Of course."

……

Lin Xuechun listened to the conversation between the two girls next to her, and then looked at Xi Chenzhou taking pictures of his girlfriend. Her disdain deepened.

Sure enough, a scumbag's attentiveness is something he practices on one girl after another.

Zhou Xinran leaned closer and whispered to Lin Xuechun, "Baby, I take back what I said before. Those playboys may be handsome, but let's stay away from them."

Lin Xuechun joked, "Didn't you say it wouldn't be a loss to sleep with her?"

"Forget it, who knows how many people he's slept with." Zhou Xinran waved her hand dismissively.

"Now you know how to advise me."

"Oh dear, I was initially attracted by his looks, who knew he was a player."

Lin Xuechun was discussing with Zhou Xinran when her phone suddenly vibrated.

A message from Xi Chenzhou.

Is it still in the bookstore?

Zhou Xinran, who was standing nearby, accidentally saw the message and asked, "He's not going to come find you after having lunch with his girlfriend, is he? Did he tell you before that he was having lunch with his girlfriend?"

"No, he only said he had something to do at noon." Lin Xuechun shook her head.

Zhou Xinran said knowingly, "What a scumbag, an absolute scumbag. He's always looking for something better than what he has. I bet he didn't even tell his girlfriend that he was studying with you."

"Possibly."

Lin Xuechun lowered her head and coldly replied to Xi Chenzhou with a single word: 【No.】

xcz: [You're back at school?]

Lin Xuechun felt a sudden unease when she thought about his ambiguous moments that morning. She couldn't deny that her heart was fluttering a little at the time, after all, he was indeed her type. But knowing that he did these things to her while he had a girlfriend, she instantly didn't even want to reply to his messages.

She turned off her phone screen.

"Aren't you going to reply to him?"

Lin Xuechun glanced into the restaurant. Xi Chenzhou was holding his phone, seemingly waiting for her message, but his girlfriend was sitting opposite him, watching him. He was with his girlfriend and texting her.

She shook her head and said firmly, "I don't want to go back."

What she hates most are scumbags who like to flirt with girls casually.

Every girl thinks she's the one who's favored, blushing and feeling her heart race when the other person gets close, unaware that she's just another fish in the other person's pond.

Zhou Xinran: "He'll definitely see us when he comes out after he finishes eating. How about we go to another restaurant? The grilled fish place next door looks pretty good."

They could smell the delicious aroma wafting over from where they were sitting.

"Shall we go eat grilled fish?" Lin Xuechun also thought the smell was quite tempting.

"Okay, let's go!" Zhou Xinran put down the Perler beads and stood up. Lin Xuechun followed her.

Xu Yang naturally had no objections; he ate whatever Zhou Xinran said she wanted to eat.

The three of them packed their things and went to the grilled fish restaurant next door.

Xi Chenzhou did not receive a reply from Lin Xuechun for a long time.

He stared down at his phone screen; the chat interface was quiet, and the message he sent, "Back to school?", was still hanging forlornly in the chat box.

No reply?

Still can't see it?

He scratched his head in frustration; waiting for someone's message for the first time was not a pleasant experience.

I stared at the dialog box for a few seconds, ran my fingertip across the screen, typed a few words in the input box, thought for a moment, and then deleted them one by one.

When Pei Xinyao returned after finishing the video call, she sat down and looked at her cousin with a cold face, seemingly unwilling to talk to him.

I glanced at my best friend who was editing a photo.

"How about we go see a movie this afternoon?" she suggested to the two of them.

Xi Chenzhou locked the screen, put his phone in his hoodie pocket, and said in a cold tone, "I have something to do, you can go."

Are you busy this weekend?

"Um."

He waved to the waiter to pay the bill, said goodbye to Pei Xinyao, and then picked up his backpack and left.

After he left, Pei Xinyao looked at her best friend and asked, "What did you two talk about?"

Guan Ying: "We didn't talk about much. I just asked him if he wanted to join the basketball club, and he said he wasn't interested. Seriously, your cousin is so aloof. I don't know how to continue the conversation with him."

"That's just his personality; he's indifferent and unresponsive. He only talks a bit more when he's with his friends."

"But he is indeed quite handsome."

"Is this the one you like? Do you want me to help you out? You're only three years apart in age, and you go to the same school."

"But I feel like he's not interested in me. Do you know what kind of person he likes?"

"I haven't actually asked him that. But he probably hasn't talked about it."

"Wow, so handsome, never dated anyone?"

"I've never seen him interested in any woman. When I visited him in the US during summer vacation, a blonde white girl pursued him. She was the kind of American sweetheart with a super hot body. He always gave her a cold look and even deliberately spoke Chinese. The girl couldn't understand him and had no choice but to leave in the end."

"If I don't like sweet girls, then I'll like mature women! Should I give it a try?"

"Go for it! Win over my brother, and we'll be relatives from now on. I'll create a group chat first, and you can add me on WeChat."

……

Lin Xuechun didn't look at her phone until after she finished eating.

Zhou Xinran couldn't help but gossip: "Baby, are you really not going to reply to Xi Chenzhou's messages? Are you just going to give him the cold shoulder like this?"

"No, I'll reply now." Lin Xuechun took out her phone and casually sent something.

Xi Chenzhou went swimming this afternoon.

The swimming pool at the five-star hotel wasn't crowded.

He was wearing only black swimming trunks, and as he walked out of the changing room, water droplets trickled down his pale skin.

He has broad shoulders and back, full but not exaggerated chest muscles, and neatly arranged abdominal muscles. His V-line cuts diagonally into the waistband of his pants like two sharp knife marks.

He walked to the edge of the pool, stretched his shoulders, and his shoulder blades slid under the thin skin like two folded wings.

Then he plunged into the water, shutting out all the noise from the outside world, with only the splashing sound of his arm cutting through the water.