Ke Xue: Xiaolan delivers goods to your door at the beginning

"No. I live there and I'm fine."

"That's good."

The two ate and chatted, and time passed by without them realizing it.

After dinner, the two went home separately.

……

After a day of school activities, Lin Xiaofeng excitedly ran to the teaching preparation room, arriving even before Xiaobaihe.

Xiaobaihe didn't prepare any teaching materials today; instead, she took Lin Xiaofeng home directly.

"There's no teaching today, let's go to my house."

"Huh? So soon, you're already meeting the parents?"

"I rent a place outside, and I live alone!"

Xiao Baihe rolled her eyes. She dared not mention Lin Xiaofeng to her family before he graduated high school; it would be improper.

"So, what do you want to do by taking me home?"

"I just wanted to show you where I live, Xiaofeng. Don't get any funny ideas."

"No, no... Ms. Sayuri, I respect you very much."

Xiaobaihe's home is very close to the station; it's a pretty good apartment. It's twenty years old, eight stories high, with two bedrooms and a living room—very spacious, and quite luxurious for one person.

"Teacher, you live in such a nice apartment all by yourself!"

“I was supposed to live here with my husband after we got married, but then that kind of thing happened…”

Are you still thinking about him?

“No, I don’t think about him anymore…” Xiaobaihe bit her pink lips. Her childhood sweetheart was the worst of the worst, and she hated him terribly. “Now, I have someone else in my heart.”

Without needing to be explicitly stated, Lin Xiaofeng knew that the person Xiaobaihe was referring to was himself; it was just that she was unwilling to reveal the truth due to her status.

"You're talking about someone else, right? It's me."

"Ah."

Little Lily nodded her head slightly, blushing with shyness.

"So, I don't need to treat you as a teacher and obediently listen to you anymore?"

Lin Xiaofeng's hand brazenly rested on Xiao Baihe's fragrant shoulder.

Little Lily's delicate body trembled, and her expression turned serious:

"No, even if we're not at school, you have to behave. I won't hurt you."

What are you going to do to me!?

"Just kidding. Have you ever been obedient? You're clearly very rebellious. Fine, that's precisely why I need to teach you a lesson."

"My rebellious attitude towards teachers is because I haven't met any teachers worthy of respect."

"I see. You didn't have any respectable teachers before you went to high school."

"..."

Her implication was that Lin Xiaofeng had now met a teacher worthy of respect.

Next, Teacher Xiaobaihe invited Lin Xiaofeng to sit down, and then took out her phone to order food.

"What flavor of burger does Xiaofeng want to eat?"

"Want to keep eating hamburgers?"

"Yeah, I feel like hamburgers aren't the junk food they're advertised to be. They taste pretty good, and the 1.4 pound is really satisfying."

"The word 'fleshy' isn't used in this kind of context..."

The teacher probably meant to express "it feels like eating meat in big chunks".

"Ms. Lily, do you rarely come to this kind of store?"

"A vain idiot like me can't even get into a fast food restaurant."

Ms. Lily sighed.

She seemed to think it was foolish of her to create an unapproachable image.

Forget it, if anyone saw that the unapproachable, beautiful teacher was eating at an inexpensive fast-food burger restaurant, they would definitely be shocked.

"Wouldn't a guy's heart flutter if he saw a naive, spoiled young lady eating at a burger joint, looking completely out of place?"

"That's a scene from a novel..."

In real society, when a man encounters a lady from a respectable family, he will simply avoid her.

But this shouldn't be the first time Ms. Sayuri has eaten at this kind of cheap burger joint.

Besides, she wasn't from a respectable family.

177. My belief is in the system.

After dinner, I packed up the trash and lay down comfortably.

Fast food is great, you don't even need to clean up.

"Little Lily, should I go back now?"

"Wait a minute... Xiao Feng, I'll treat you to a good meal, so please look forward to it."

Then, Lin Xiaofeng heard the sound of clothes rubbing together.

Xiaobaihe took off her suit jacket and slowly unzipped her skirt.

The skirt fell to the ground with a thud.

She twisted her waist and pulled down her pantyhose, revealing black panties adorned with sexy embroidery. She unbuttoned her shirt one button at a time, revealing a black bra that encased her soft, rounded breasts. She reached behind her back and unhooked the bra, revealing its softness—

"This...this is going to be..."

"We're going to take a shower together next, so of course I have to dress like this."

"That makes perfect sense..."

"I am entertaining you, entertaining you. In ancient times, people would invite guests to bathe as a way of entertaining them."

"You wouldn't entertain someone, would you?"

"Of course not." Little Lily pointed at Lin Xiaofeng's nose. "I only mentioned that your tutoring courses included being completely honest with each other."

"..."

Xiao Baihe pushed Lin Xiaofeng's back, guiding him into the bathroom.

"Come on, Lin, let me help you get clean. Ah, I've always wanted to help you take a bath. My dream has come true!"

"Your dream is so meaningless..."

……

Early Sunday morning, Lin Xiaofeng got into Xiaobaihe's car.

Xiaobaihe was wearing a floral maxi dress and blue size 17 flat sandals, a stark contrast to her usual dignified teacher uniform, making her seem very approachable.

"Little Lily, where are you taking me today?"

"I've thought about many places, and I'm planning to go to Nanfangzong."

Lin Xiaofeng nodded, sat in the passenger seat, and fastened his seatbelt. He didn't know the place Xiaobaihe mentioned, so it didn't matter where it was.

After starting the car, it headed onto the highway. First, it headed towards Kisarazu. The entire route to Futatsu was on the highway.

"It's so nice that the weather has cleared up."

"By the way, we'll be walking quite a lot today, Xiao Feng, are you okay?"

"No problem, I'm in excellent physical condition, as you probably already know, Sayuri."

"Um……"

The car left the Tateyama roadway via the Futsu-Kanaya Interchange. Then it headed south on National Route 127, entering the Kikiyama mountain roadway. Driving up the winding road, it arrived at Nihonji Temple on the mountainside of Kikiyama.

"I think this is my first time visiting Saw Mountain."

Lin Xiaofeng toured around with great interest the hundred-foot-tall Guanyin statue and various Buddha statues and large Buddhas carved in the old quarry, unexpectedly revealing a childlike expression.

"That's wonderful. I was worried about temples or Buddha statues, you wouldn't be uninterested, would you?"

"I'm fine. Teacher, are you a Buddhist?"

"Yes. After all, half of the Japanese are Buddhists."

"Having faith is always a good thing."

"And you, Xiaofeng?"

Lin Xiaofeng thought for a moment whether he had any religious beliefs.

"Hmm...yes, I have a faith system."

"What kind of belief is that?"

Xiaobaihe thought about it carefully, and indeed it was the first time she had ever heard of it.

"A new kind of belief, not worth mentioning."

"Ok."

Xiaobaihe nodded, no longer dwelling on it. Faith is a matter of freedom, and there's nothing strange about not having heard of it before.

Lin Xiaofeng took out his phone and snapped a picture of the moment Teacher Xiaobaihe turned around.

The background is the mountain path leading to the Hundred-Foot Guanyin statue, surrounded by vertical stone walls on both sides, a place where one can feel coolness.

The shadows cast by the trees also create a great atmosphere, almost like a scene from a famous Studio Ghibli film.

"Why did you do this? You took pictures without any prior notice?"

Little Lily pouted as if she was dissatisfied.

"Yes. Are you angry?"

"I'm just worried that it wouldn't be good if our relationship were exposed at school now."

"I'll keep it a secret until I graduate."

"Hmm..." Although she still looked dissatisfied, Ms. Sayuri didn't continue speaking.

Continue upwards until you reach "Hell's Watchtower".

The rocky terrain here bulges outward in the shape of a hat brim, with a vertical rock wall about 100 meters high standing below it.

"Hell's Watchtower is supposed to be a place where you look down from that tip."

Hearing me say that, Sayuri looked worried.

"I... don't really like being in very high places..."

"But we've come all this way, it would be such a waste not to go and see it, wouldn't it?"

"Let's go together. I'll hold Lily's hand."

Little Lily shyly and silently stretched out her hand:

"Let me make this clear first, the 'suspension bridge effect' doesn't apply to me."

Despite saying those words, Ms. Lily, who was cautiously making her way to the end of the rocky area, still held Lin Xiaofeng's hand tightly. We proceeded along the fence to the protruding end of the rocky area.

"Looking down is like looking out over hell."

As Lin Xiaofeng said this, he also looked down. Being placed in an empty space like this, with nothing under one's feet, does indeed give one the feeling of weak legs.

"If an earthquake were to happen now, we might be doomed. If this protruding rock collapsed entirely, we would fall headfirst down."

"Hey, don't jinx it!"

"Sorry, I was just kidding."

"I can't stand it!"

"But if that situation really happens, I will definitely go to save Sayuri."