Why are you always thinking about dating me?

"I saw you talking to a really pretty girl outside the classroom just now. Who is she to you?"

"Ex-girlfriend".

"Ex-girlfriend? Huh?"

"It's none of your business."

"Oh...oh," Xiao Chacha replied timidly.

Lin An felt that this girl was like a different person again, completely different from her unreasonable and arrogant appearance just now. This contrast inexplicably softened his heart, so he took out the school uniform and made her put it on inside out.

Xiao Chacha obediently opened her arms, which Lin An helped her put on. She lay there and continued to sip warm water. Lin An then gave her a capsule.

Then Lin An suddenly realized something... Sometimes, giving people a bad impression first and then acting harmless can create a strange contrast that can sometimes bring unexpected goodwill. Could Xiao Chacha be using this trick?

Lin An glanced at her, looking at her timid, rabbit-like eyes, and thought for a moment, it shouldn't be that bad.

That guy doesn't have that kind of brain.

Chapter Sixty-Four: Kiss

Xiao Chacha lay on the table for an entire afternoon, but eventually became lively again. She took off one of Lin An's earphones, put it in her ear, and then watched videos with him.

Lin An wasn't particularly bothered by it. After school ended in the afternoon, Lin An took off the earphones from her ears, put them back in the earphone case, and stood up. He didn't have a schoolbag.

But Lin An wasn't in a hurry to leave. The classroom was still a bit crowded, so he let those who were in a hurry go first. He wasn't in a rush; he always did that.

The classroom was empty. Lin An walked to the classroom door, where Su Yuejin was waiting for him.

Xiao Chacha followed behind Lin An like a clingy puppy.

"Where are you going?" she asked, winking at Su Yuejin.

"Let's go to the bubble tea shop," Su Yuejin answered Xiao Chacha, then glared at her fiercely. "Do you want to come along?"

"Yes, I want it!"

Xiao Chacha seemed oblivious to the threatening glint in Su Yuejin's eyes, but at that moment, Lin An also glanced at Xiao Chacha and said softly, "If you're not feeling well, go back and rest early."

"I want to drink milk tea." Xiao Chacha looked at Lin An's face.

“You must listen to me,” he said.

"You have to be obedient, Lin An. You have secrets that Su Yuejin doesn't know about. I might just..."

Lin An tilted his head and looked into her eyes. Although his smile was gentle and his voice was warm, his eyes were cold.

Most of the time, only the emotions expressed in the eyes are genuine.

"Are you threatening me?" That's all he said.

The confident and smug expression on Xiao Chacha's face slowly disappeared, because she realized that no matter what she said, even if she revealed that Lin An had slept with her, would Su Yuejin really care?

This guy is clearly caught in a blind vortex of love and can't get out of it. As long as Lin An doesn't do anything too extreme, Su Yuejin, who is blinded, will eventually choose to forgive him, right?

So what secret did her words hold? In the end, all she knew that Lin An didn't was that Qin Xueming, the woman, seemed to have a deep obsession with him, but that was meaningless.

She stared at Lin An for three seconds, then said, "Okay... I won't drink it."

She looked aggrieved, but this did not move Lin An and Su Yuejin in the slightest. Both of them had already seen through her true nature, so Lin An gently took Su Yuejin's hand.

"Well then, I'm leaving."

He and Su Yuejin walked side by side down the teaching building and headed towards the milk tea shop outside the school.

........................

On an autumn afternoon, the air wasn't hot, so the air conditioning wasn't turned on in the milk tea shop.

Lin An sat opposite Su Yuejin. She took off her black denim jacket, revealing a slightly short, tight-fitting T-shirt underneath that hugged the girl's chest. Although no skin was exposed, it was quite revealing.

So Lin An glanced at her a couple more times. Su Yuejin didn't seem to have any desire to hide it at all. On the contrary, looking at him, she inexplicably puffed out her chest slightly, looking like she was enjoying it.

This shy and inexperienced young girl.

"Xiao Chacha just said that there's some secret between you and her...?"

"Hmm? Do you think so?" Lin An didn't answer directly, but instead looked at Su Yuejin's face with a smile.

Su Yuejin was stumped by Lin An's question.

On one hand, it's possible that Xiao Chacha just wanted them to argue, stirring things up completely, but Lin An then said to Xiao Chacha, "You threatened me," as if there really was some secret between them.

"You tell me, I'll listen to you. If you say it's there, it's there; if you say it's not, it's not." That's how Su Yuejin answered Lin An.

"You're being too obedient." Lin An looked into her eyes, both amused and exasperated.

"Because I trust you... Besides, even if it really is, what could it be? I know you're a bad person."

"Then why are you still drinking milk tea with me here?"

"Because I like you."

Why could she always so easily, frankly, and purely say the word "like"? Lin An couldn't understand, but it didn't seem like something he should be thinking about. His answer to Su Yuejin was, "There are some little secrets, but it doesn't seem to matter if you don't know them."

"So you don't want to tell me?" Su Yuejin pouted slightly, but she had no desire to ask any further. She took a sip of the jasmine milk tea in front of her and then frowned slightly. "The taste is alright, but even five-tenths sugar is a bit too sweet."

Lin An also took a sip. It was alright; he wasn't picky about food. Milk tea was twelve yuan a cup, and cola was three yuan a bottle. A real man knows what to choose.

"Tell me, what do you want to see me wear at the anime convention?" Su Yuejin's eyes held a hint of anticipation.

"Ah...? Whatever you want, it's fine as long as you like it, you don't need to consider me."

"But I want to wear what you like."

"I'll like what you like, don't worry." Lin An gently pinched her cheek. Su Yuejin's skin was soft and smooth, and it felt very comfortable to pinch.

Su Yuejin sipped her milk tea, watching the ice slowly melt. Suddenly, something occurred to her, and she asked, "Lin An, how much do you know about Xiao Chacha?"

"Ah...not much, just chatting on WeChat for a while. We played games together for a few nights before, talking about all sorts of things. I roughly know that she liked girls before, and that she liked you, and things like that?"

“But she says now… she likes boys again,” Su Yuejin said.

Were you good friends before?

"Yes...we were really good friends, but we fell out later. Now, things are probably a bit better, but we still can't be like before. We've gone in different directions. Chacha isn't a bad person at heart, but she's different from me. She prefers to control the other person, prefers the other person to revolve around her, but she's also willing to put in effort for them. She wants to occupy the other person's entire world, while the other person also exists in her world."

"Go around," Lin An replied with a single sentence.

"Yes... but I don't know what Chacha is like now. Sigh, I hope she can get better."

"You haven't even taken care of yourself, yet you're starting to take care of others."

"No way, I'm much better now. Look... I don't go to bars anymore, I don't smoke anymore, and I have things to do at night, so I don't feel so empty and lonely anymore."

What are you doing tonight?

"Just flirting with you, hehe."

"..." Lin An glanced at her helplessly.

Su Yuejin has seemed to be in a good mood lately, and her complexion is excellent. This is probably because she has been nourished by so-called love. But love is inherently ephemeral; it's just that she's in a good mood.

Because Lin An has recently become too lazy to try to distance himself from her again and again, and since he said from the beginning that he would leave one day, and Su Yuejin has already accepted this fact, there is no need to say it again.

That's how it is. Autumn is gentle and warm, but winter will always come. After hibernation, there will be new life.

Speaking of which, Su Yuejin is indeed a girl with a high profile in the school, because of her unconventional fashion sense and the number of times she has rejected confessions of love.

Su Yuejin had rejected many people's confessions. Lin An had recently seen this on the school forum when he was bored, so he thought about it and suddenly asked her, "Hey, tell me... how would an ordinary boy confess to you in a way that would make you like him?"

"Hmm? Are you going to confess your feelings to me?" Su Yuejin tilted her head, even though she knew it was impossible.

"No, I just suddenly became curious."

"Those who write love letters are immediately passed over; those with unattractive features are immediately passed over; those who are sloppy are immediately passed over; those who are inexperienced are immediately passed over; those from overly poor families are immediately passed over; those who have had more than two relationships are immediately passed over; those who treat me badly are immediately passed over; those who are arrogant are immediately passed over; those who speak too loudly are immediately passed over; those who look too innocent are immediately passed over; those who dare not make eye contact with me are immediately passed over; and those who spend more than two-thirds of the time they look at me looking at my chest and legs are immediately passed over."

Lin An was dumbfounded by her string of self-righteous words, and laughed awkwardly twice, "Heh... well, I'm really sorry for stepping on so many landmines."

Su Yuejin dropped her arrogant and self-righteous demeanor. She moved closer to Lin An, then reached out and cupped his face in her hands, turning him around.

"Those were just my past assumptions, because I didn't believe in love at all. I thought it was something ethereal and unreal. Most people just needed someone to rely on when they were lonely, or they needed someone to hug when they slept at night so they wouldn't be so alone."

"But... after meeting you, I believe in love again."

"..."

"Do you know, Lin An?" Her pink lips moved slightly, her eyes seemed to sparkle like stars, and her light pink lips seemed to gleam with an alluring luster, moist and translucent, making one want to take a bite.

"When I discovered that some of the traits I used to hate, when those traits happened to you, I couldn't hate them at all, but instead felt that it was a good thing, I knew... I couldn't escape."

As she said this, she closed her eyes, like a little girl who had finished reciting a prayer and was asking for candy.

"Ah...this."

Lin An admitted that he felt a little flirted the moment she said those words, but the flutter in his heart quickly disappeared. The girl in front of him had trembling eyelashes and delicate, bright, open lips.

As they got closer, Lin An caught a whiff of her perfume; it smelled wonderful.

He lowered his head slightly and finally kissed her, but he found that he couldn't control his heartbeat. He was overwhelmed by an irrepressible throbbing. He suddenly felt a little scared, so he tried to back away after a brief kiss. But in an instant, Su Yuejin reached out and grabbed his back tightly, like a spider hunting its prey.

"You've already come so close... how can you run away so easily, Lin An?" she said, moving closer once again.

She closed her eyes, and Lin An opened them.

Chapter Sixty-Five: Waiting for You

Lin An and Su Yuejin went home together.

Oh, this only refers to the route the two of them took home from school. It doesn't mean Lin An went to Su Yuejin's house, at least Lin An didn't agree to that. But he walked Su Yuejin to her building before turning around and leaving.

After Su Yuejin arrived home, she took off her denim jacket, drew the curtains, and opened them. The light from outside streamed in, adding a touch of warmth and sunshine.

Then she went back to her own little house, turned on her computer, and opened Taobao.

She was trying to figure out what kind of costume he would like to buy. She knew that no matter what she wore, Lin An probably wouldn't have much of a reaction, but she just wanted to find the one he would love most from all the information Lin An had given her so far.

Su Yuejin thought about it for a long time, browsing the webpage for ages, and finally settled on a maid dress for Qiong Mei. It was from a relatively high-end store. After entering her body size and paying extra, the store said it would definitely be delivered after October 3rd.

But Su Yuejin's shopping desires hadn't stopped. Instead, she started searching for all sorts of random things, like sexy lingerie, or very short ice silk camisoles? Knee-high socks that increase attack speed? And fanservice backless sweaters. She ordered them all in one go and then waited for the courier to deliver them.

He'll find someone he likes eventually, Su Yuejin thought, her fingertips gently touching the delicate skin of her thigh. She looked down and, with a touch of narcissism, reached out and gently stroked it.

Besides her face, this is her most prized asset, because her legs are beautiful and long, so he has no reason to refuse, definitely no reason.

Although that guy was acting strangely, Su Yuejin could vaguely guess the core of Lin An's actions.

The reason he doesn't touch her isn't because, as he claims, he's afraid he'll become depraved and try to take advantage of her for money; what he's truly afraid of is... falling in love with her.