We ordinary people also need to fall in love.

"Your name is Lan Shiyu, does that mean you can only write poetry?" Li Mubai thought to himself.

"No, I don't play King of Glory anymore."

"Oh, that's a pity, otherwise we could have played together." Lan Shiyu said, then took out her phone from her pocket and started playing games in the room as the timing sound rang.

First blood!

Enemy Double Kill!

……

Enemy penta kill!

Aced!

As Lan Shiyu gradually adapted to the unfamiliar environment, she changed from sitting upright to lying down in the chair. Suddenly, she spoke, her tone tinged with smugness:

"Am I handsome or not?"

Hmm? Li Mubai looked up at Lan Shiyu, who was playing a game. Does "liang" mean "good"? He asked her how her game was going.

"Uh—impressive," he said dismissively.

Lan Shiyu looked up at him in confusion, just as a woman's voice came from the phone:

"Wow! Shiyu is so amazing! She carried me to the top rank today! Keep going, I'm going to reach the King rank today!"

An awkward silence filled the air. Seeing that Lan Shiyu didn't respond, the man continued:

"By the way, Shiyu, weren't you taken on a blind date today? How come...?"

Before the other person could finish speaking, Lan Shiyu quickly turned off the phone's sound. She lowered her head and typed rapidly on her phone, but the blush on her ears betrayed her embarrassment.

A blind date? Nobody told him it was a blind date. It was more likely that Lan Shiyu and her friends were just joking around. Li's mother would never allow him to have a relationship while he was in school.

Silence fell over the room, just as Li's mother arrived at the door with a smile:

"Xiaobai and Xiaoyu, come out for dinner."

At the dinner table, Li's mother looked at Li Mubai, then at Lan Shiyu, and asked:

"So? You two kids know each other now, right?"

"We've met." Li Mubai nodded.

"Then tomorrow, I'll trouble you, Xiaobai, to show Xiaoyu around the campus," Aunt Lan said.

"It's alright, Aunt Lan."

After quickly finishing his meal, Li Mubai tidied up and returned to his room, closing the door and sitting down to study.

dong dong dong.

Before they had been studying for very long, a soft knock sounded at the door. Li Mubai opened the door, and there stood an embarrassed Lan Shiyu.

"I'm sorry, Aunt Yang asked me to come," she said.

"Oh, okay, then please sit wherever you like." Li Mubai stepped aside to let her in, then closed the door. He needed to study; his mother and Aunt Lan's conversation was a bit loud.

Lan Shiyu walked straight to the chair.

"Wait, sit on the edge of the bed, I need to do my homework here," Li Mubai stopped her in time.

Lan Shiyu said "oh" and then sat on the edge of the bed, continuing to play games on her phone.

"Li Mubai, what games do you usually play?" she asked.

"I don't usually play games." Li Mubai didn't even look up, still hunched over his desk.

"So what do you usually do when you're bored?" Lan Shiyu asked curiously.

"Study by reading books."

"Besides reading and studying, what else do you do?" Lan Shiyu tried to find some fun that Li Mubai, as a middle school boy, should have, but she underestimated Li Mubai's mundane life and inner world.

After asking several questions, Lan Shiyu stopped talking and continued playing her game.

Boom boom boom!

"Xiaoyu, it's time to go home."

Aunt Lan's voice rang out from outside the door. Lan Shiyu jumped off the bed like a wild horse breaking free of its reins, then opened the door. If it weren't for her elders' orders, she wouldn't want to stay in a room with an unfamiliar boy.

"Xiao Bai, we're leaving now." Aunt Lan smiled and waved to Li Mubai, who was still sitting in the chair.

"Okay, goodbye Aunt Lan."

"Don't sit here, Xiaobai, come and see your Aunt Lan off," Li's mother urged.

Li Mubai reluctantly stood up from the chair and went to the front door. Aunt Lan and Li's mother chatted as they opened the door.

"Then we'll have to trouble you tomorrow. We'll head back now," Aunt Lan said.

"It's alright, Sister Lan. Just bring Xiaoyu over at nine o'clock tomorrow morning, and we'll take both children to school then."

"Okay, Xiaoyu, say goodbye to Aunt Yang, Uncle Li and Xiaobai."

"Goodbye, Aunt Yang, Uncle Li, Li Mubai." Lan Shiyu lowered her head slightly.

Li's mother gently patted Li Mubai's back, and he responded:

"goodbye."

This little episode, pieced together by his parents' relationship, has finally come to a temporary end. Li Mubai feels relieved, but being in a room with a strange girl makes him feel uncomfortable.

"Xiaobai, this is from your Aunt Lan." Li's mother took out a red envelope and gave it to him. Was this his belated New Year's money? Li Mubai took it and opened it without hesitation. There were seven red bills inside.

He thought to himself, "I'm happy now; it can make up for yesterday's losses."

"When you take Lan Shiyu back to school tomorrow, return it to her," Li's mother added.

……

"Can something that's been given away be returned?" Li Mubai asked, puzzled.

"Xiaobai, you're still a child, you don't understand yet. This is a gift for you, and our family will have to pay back 700 to the recipient later," Li's mother explained.

"This 700 is for Li Mubai, representing that he will score 700 points in the college entrance examination. It's not good to return it. We'll make another one for Lan Shiyu tomorrow," said Li's father, who was usually silent.

"I love you, Dad," Li Mubai silently supports his father's point of view.

"That's fine too." After thinking for a moment, Li's mother finally agreed, then looked at Li Mubai, "Let's get Xiaobai a bank card, and save this seven hundred for when he goes to college."

"It's good to get a bank card. I need to get one," Li Mubai nodded. He hadn't had a bank card before, and all the money he had saved was in cash. He could only make payments in cash, which made him feel out of place in modern times.

"Okay, there's an Agricultural Bank nearby, I'll take Li Mubai to open an account," said Li's father.

……

Inside the room, Li Mubai was quite excited as he examined his first bank card. His parents had given it to him, telling him not to spend money recklessly, as there was still seven hundred yuan in it. He wasn't foolish enough to take out his savings and deposit it in front of his father.

Ding dong.

Solitudo invites you to join the group chat [We are a loving family].

What is that?!

Li Mubai was startled. He opened WeChat with trembling hands. Since there was no setting that required the user's consent to join a group, he was directly added to the group chat.

He clicked into the group, and there were only three people: himself, Xie Shu, and someone whose group name was "Sister Xie Shu".

What?! Did Xie Shu's family find out he went out on Friday? Are they going to punish him?

He didn't say anything; to be precise, he was completely dumbfounded.

Sister Xie Shu: "@Li Bubai, is it you who kidnapped my Shu Bao on Friday?"

Li Mubai suppressed his panic, thought for a moment, and then sent a message on his phone.

Li Bubai: "Hello, sister. On Friday, the class monitor and I went to get a vaccine for a stray cat on campus. Another classmate was supposed to come with us, but she had something come up and couldn't make it, so it was just the class monitor and me."

Sister Xie Shu: "I forgot the beginning, I forgot the middle, but anyway, who gave you permission to take Shu Bao everywhere!"

Li Mubai was at his wit's end to find such an unreasonable person.

Solitudo: "Let's get down to business, Qiuhe. You should also change your group name back."

Grandma's Chen Qiuhe, how dare she play me like this! And what kind of thunderous group name is that? Anyone who didn't know better would think it was some kind of family group.

Li Bubai: "@Qinghe [fist]".

Qinghe: "Hehe."