What's wrong with me?

Old Jia sat at his seat and kept complaining that his arms were numb from sleeping on the table.

When the squad leader saw Qi Xia walking in from outside, he immediately turned his head away and covered his face, as if he still had no intention of paying attention to Qi Xia.

Qi Xia didn't say anything, but he felt that his teasing in the morning was indeed a bit too much and wanted to apologize to the squad leader.

But the squad leader completely ignored him, so he had to wait for a while and apologize to the squad leader when he calmed down.

The afternoon classes were a bit boring, and coupled with the lazy sunshine, it was really hard to get excited.

However, at the end of the second class, the class monitor unexpectedly brought back a message saying that school would be dismissed early today, apparently because Lao Li and other teachers were going to attend some important event.

The class suddenly became lively. Tomorrow is the last day of class before the National Day holiday. This made everyone feel like the holiday was about to start early.

The monitor gave some instructions at the podium, telling them that they still had to arrive at school on time the next morning, and he also assigned them some homework on behalf of Mr. Li.

But Lao Jia's group of boys had already started to form cliques and were ready to go out and have fun, and the monitor really had no choice but to finish his words hastily and let these guys, whose hearts had already flown away, leave.

Qi Xia also started packing his handbag. It was a rare occasion that he got out of school early, so he was planning to go out and play with Lao Jia and the others for a while. Then he received a message from Jiang Xinyao.

"Xiao Xia, we're leaving school early today. Do you want to go out and play for a while?"

"Well, do you want to sit in the milk tea shop for a while? I can treat Xiao Xia to a cake!"

She added a cute emoticon, which made Qi Xia couldn't help but smile.

But unfortunately he had no choice but to refuse. He had already promised Lao Jia and the others to join in the fun. But before that, he could ride his bike to send Xinyao home as agreed.

"Is that so? Well then, Xiao Xia, which internet cafe did you and Jia Shuai and the others plan to go to?"

"Fei Xiang, what's wrong, are you going too?"

"Well! Then I'll wait for you at Feixiang Internet Cafe. Xiaoxia, you should come quickly too!"

Qi Xia was a little surprised. He had been playing with Xinyao for so many years, but he had never been to an Internet cafe with her.

Unlike Qi Xia and a group of boys, my childhood sweetheart is not naturally interested in fighting video games.

Even though many girls in the class have started playing games like Pesticide, Qingmei at home is still like a pure land. The games she plays the most are small games like Nuannuan that are full of girlishness. She simply cannot play with Qi Xia and the others.

What's more, my childhood sweetheart is a very well-behaved and obedient girl. She would of course avoid going to a place like an Internet cafe where all kinds of people gather.

Qi Xia got on his bike and just arrived at the door of the Internet cafe they often went to, he saw his childhood sweetheart standing by the roadside, waving at him happily.

"Xiao Xia, this way!"

"Alright, alright, stop shaking, Yaoyao, Qi Xia can see it."

Qingmei from my family was not alone. Huang Min also came with them.

Hearing Huang Min's words, the girl shyly withdrew her hand, but her beautiful figure swayed, attracting everyone's attention.

Qi Xia parked the bicycle, locked it, and walked towards them.

"Why did you two suddenly think of coming to the Internet cafe? Xinyao, don't you play games? Lao Jia and the others are here to play League of Legends. You probably can't talk to them."

He asked casually, and then Qi Xia regretted it. Looking at Xinyao's eyes that suddenly became watery and sparkling, Qi Xia knew that he had to send it.

"Well, since you were playing, Xiao Xia, I gave it a try. This way, I can play games with Xiao Xia in the future. But I'm not very good at it, so don't laugh at me later, Xiao Xia."

The girl looked at him tenderly, and he felt something was wrong. Being stared at by his childhood sweetheart with those sparkling eyes, he vaguely felt that his Tao heart was about to break.

In fact, he didn't want to fall in love again in the short term, especially now that he and Yue Ran had just been separated for a few days.

Although he is just a stranger far away to Yue Ran now, he still feels guilty for betraying her.

My childhood sweetheart is really nice, cute and sensible. She will even work hard to learn things she is not interested in at all, just like she is doing now, just to play with me.

He had also thought that when he could forget Yue Ran, or could live in harmony with the Yue Ran in his memory, he would probably fall in love with his childhood sweetheart again. Unfortunately, he could not expect her to wait until that time.

He was silent for a moment, then changed the subject: "I play more than just League of Legends. I also play other types of games, such as Hearthstone, WT, and WoW."

"Hehe, then Xiao Xia, you can teach me. As long as Xiao Xia wants, I can learn it!"

The sweet words made Qi Xia depressed. Even though he had been in a relationship with Yue Ran for several years, he really felt overwhelmed by the undisguised offensive from his childhood sweetheart.

Fortunately, they are not the only silly childhood sweethearts here.

"Sure enough, I shouldn't have come with you, Yaoyao! Yaoyao, you have such a vicious heart that you actually tricked a dog into coming here and killing it! I'm leaving! I don't want to be here to be fed crazy love by you two dogs!"

"No, no, Xiao Min, you said you would stay here with me today."

"But you didn't say you would be so affectionate with Qi Xia. Do you know how hurtful it is for single people to see you two like this?"

The girls immediately started to make noise. Qi Xia, who was embarrassed, coughed at this time, "You two should stop arguing and go in first. Since Xinyao said she has started playing LOL, let's go in and join in the fun."

As he said that, he walked in front of the two girls and entered the Internet cafe.

However, when Qi Xia turned around, he did not notice that a certain "sensible" childhood friend suddenly gave Huang Min a thumbs up, and Huang Min also winked at the person involved.

Yes, it was the girl's plan to bring Huang Min along. Although she always appears innocent and cute in front of Qi Xia, the girl knows a lot.

She knew that her Xiaoxia was still somewhat distant from her, so she deliberately brought her best friend along. Whenever Xiaoxia felt uncomfortable, Huang Min would intervene, so that she wouldn't have to worry about making the atmosphere between her and Xiaoxia too awkward.

She didn't want Xiao Xia to become wary of her because she couldn't resist the urge to have physical contact with him.

The girl followed the boy closely, biting her lips and gently scratching the newly grown tender skin on her arm with her nails.

Those shy and timid eyes looked at Qi Xia's back, and deep in the pupils, the desire that no one could see seemed to want to swallow him whole.

Chapter 55: Game

Feixiang Internet Cafe is the closest Internet cafe to Qixia School, so Lao Jia and his classmates usually come here for team building.

There were already quite a few people sitting in the Internet cafe, and it seemed that they were all students from Qi Xia's school.

Jiang Xinyao and Huang Min followed Qi Xia upstairs. At the door, the girl poked her head out and took a look inside, as if she was curious about what the Internet cafe that Qi Xia often visited looked like.

It was her first time to come to such a place. Because she wanted to protect Xiao Xia, she usually would not go to Internet cafes and other places where there were all kinds of people.

It was the same today. If she hadn't really wanted to see Xiao Xia and Xiao Xia hadn't promised to accompany her, she would have definitely gone home obediently by herself.

But after taking a look, the girl's impression of the Internet cafe changed a little. The smoke-filled environment she had imagined did not appear. Instead, everything was clean. Although from time to time there would be people yelling because of losing the game, the environment was indeed not too bad.

Of course the girl didn't know that the Internet cafes in the past were actually no different from what she had imagined. They only gradually got better after several rounds of crackdowns. Especially large Internet cafes like these, where smoking and making noises were prohibited, no longer had the smoky environment that Qi Xia had when she was a child.

Qi Xia chatted with her from time to time. Before turning on the computer, he also asked the girl when she started playing these games. After all, in Qi Xia's memory, his childhood sweetheart was not interested in electronic games, and it was not an exaggeration to say that she was a computer novice.

Qingmei said that it started before the New Year, and the reason was, of course, that when she was secretly browsing someone's personal updates, she found that he uploaded a video about lol, and then she started trying to contact him.

In order to have a common language with Qi Xia, she had made great efforts, because there was only one computer at home that Uncle Jiang usually used for work, so she bought a new laptop for this purpose.

But when Qi Xia heard about the price and configuration of the gaming laptop he bought just for practicing, he was overwhelmed with pain.

A rich woman is a rich woman. The configuration of the laptops she buys is better than the desktop she uses.

Qi Xia casually turned on three machines, charged two hours of internet for each, and brought Xinyao, who was still looking around like a curious baby, to the three connected machines that were unattended. Qi Xia took off his coat and spread it on the gaming chair.

He knew that his childhood sweetheart loved cleanliness. The clothes she wore today were still a little white dress that was not resistant to dirt. Although there were people responsible for cleaning the Internet cafe every day, there was no guarantee that there would not be some dirt on the chairs.

"Xinyao, just sit here." He pulled out a chair and let the girl, whose eyes were shining again, sit on it. Then he opened the client, logged into his account, and asked, "How about playing a game first? Xinyao, what are you and Huang Min good at?"

Qi Xia’s account is in Black Rose. Although he has been playing lol with Lao Jia and others for almost three years, he is still a gold level.

And this rank was brought up by the big boss Your Cat. If he came by himself, he would be a silver at best, maybe even worse. It can be said that he is a synonym for a badass.

Huang Min said that it was fine with her, as she was just a foil anyway.

"Xia likes to play adc, right? Then I will be responsible for assisting you."

However, Jiang Xinyao said shyly after sending a friend request to Qi Xia.

She picked Luo in seconds. I don't know how many times she practiced to have such fast hands. Then she stared at Qi Xia with her eyes that could speak. Seeing that she couldn't persuade him, Qi Xia had to cooperate and picked Xia.

Seeing Xiao Xia reluctantly but still cooperating with her, the light in the girl's eyes became even brighter. As expected, Xiao Xia was still so soft-hearted...

The two rounds of the game ended very quickly. Qi Xia was a bad player and there were two novices around him, so he suffered two consecutive defeats. However, Jiang Xinyao, as the support, did her best to fulfill her responsibilities. She protected Qi Xia even at the cost of her own death.

But Qi Xia felt uncomfortable no matter how he sat there. It was clearly a game for three people, but Qi Xia felt as if Huang Min had disappeared and they hardly said a few words from beginning to end.

And his childhood sweetheart had almost moved her chair towards Qi Xia without him noticing. When Qi Xia turned his head, he could see his childhood sweetheart's watery eyes staring at him fiercely.

If it were only that, it would be fine. Every time Qi Xia took advantage of someone or killed someone, Xin Yao would clap and cheer in surprise. If someone didn't know better, they would think he had done something great, which made him feel a little embarrassed.

Qi Xia thought so, but the people around him didn't think so. For these LOL players, who wouldn't want to have such a pretty little fan girl behind them to cheer for them?

He tried desperately and performed several brilliant moves in a row, trying to attract the girl's attention. However, who would have thought that the girl didn't even glance at him from beginning to end. It was as if her eyes were fixed on Qi Xia, which made people feel discouraged.

He finally understood that the other person was not here to play League of Legends, but just to see the pretty boy next to him.

Qi Xia got up. After two games, he felt thirsty, so he planned to get up and buy a bottle of water. When he came back, he saw Jiang Xinyao playing with a strange-looking pendant in her hand.

"Xiao Xia, when did you buy a pendant with such a strange appearance?" Jiang Xinyao shook her head, as if curious about why Qi Xia bought such a strange thing.

"That's not mine, it's Xia Xinran's."

Qi Xia took a look and found that the pendant was indeed not his. It was dropped there by Xia Xinran at noon. He wanted to find an opportunity to return it to her, but when he went to her class after school, he found that she had already gone home.

"Xia Xinran? Is she the girl from the class next to yours? Qi Xia, you are not going to mess with another girl behind Yaoyao's back? This is the behavior of a scumbag."

When Huang Min heard Qi Xia say another girl's name, as Jiang Xinyao's loyal wingman, she immediately began to question it.

"What are you thinking about? She dropped it at noon and I just happened to pick it up. By the way, Huang Min, do you and Xinyao know Xia Xinran? If so, please help me return it to her." Qi Xia didn't know why, but when he saw his childhood sweetheart showing an uneasy expression on her face, he panicked and hurriedly explained.

"So that's how it is. But I'm afraid you'll be disappointed, Qi Xia. Xia Xinran is cold to everyone. Yaoyao and I haven't even had a chance to talk to her."

Huang Min also breathed a sigh of relief. She thought Qi Xia really had something to do with that rich girl. If he had a new lover, then what was the point of her being Yaoyao's wingman? It would be better to just find some black material and judge this scumbag who abandoned his wife and daughter in public!

"But Xia Xinran's preferences are really weird. She actually bought such a weird pendant."

The girl said in a tender voice, bending her slender waist. She glanced at Qi Xia, then looked at the pendant in her hand, which seemed to be very old and the paint on the surface had been worn off a little. She frowned slightly.

For some reason, she just inexplicably hated this strange-shaped pendant.

Chapter 56 Disappointment

Listening to the soft words of his childhood sweetheart, Qi Xia couldn't help but want to laugh.

He really wanted to tell her, you can't actually make fun of others, haven't you always treated an ugly raccoon as a treasure, so what's wrong with others having a strange pendant?

But when he thought that the raccoon was a gift from him to her, he couldn't laugh anymore. He took the pendant from Jiang Xinyao and gestured with it in his hand.

"Of course it looks strange, because this kind of pendant looks good only when it is put together. If I remember correctly, there are two other pendants that are a set with this one. When they are put together, it should be a flower with a special shape, and there is a big blue stone in the middle."

Qi Xia touched the seemingly strange gaps, which were actually mortise and tenon-like structures, and explained.

Jiang Xinyao blinked, took a closer look, and found that it seemed to be combined with other things as Xiao Xia said.

"That's right, but how did you know that, Xiao Xia? I looked at it for a long time but couldn't figure it out."

The girl pouted her pink lips, revealing a hint of girlish innocence. Qi Xia took a glance at her and turned his head away.

How did he know? Of course, it was because he had a similar one before. If he remembered correctly, it was from a nearby playmate when he was in elementary school, before he was handed over to his aunt's care.

"I had one before. I remember when I was in elementary school, this kind of pendant was quite popular for a while."

The girl nodded and put the matter of the pendant behind her. She had more important things to do. It was so hard to get the chance to hang out with Xiao Xia, she couldn't waste her time on these unimportant things.

She suddenly blinked, looked at Qi Xia's face, and whispered, "Xiao Xia, I'm thirsty."

Qi Xia wanted to say, "Then I'll go buy you another bottle of water. What flavor do you want?" But when he saw his childhood sweetheart's face covered in rosy pink and her eyes fixed on the bottle of water in his hand, he was stunned.

He knew what the girl was trying to express, because she had always done this before. She said she was thirsty, but in fact she just wanted to drink from the same bottle of water with Qi Xia. Even for milk tea, she would drink it with him through the same straw.

That was one of the little habits of girls when he and Xinyao were in love in the first year of high school, but the past was only the past after all, so he nodded and said, "Then I'll buy you another bottle."

Seeing that Qi Xia did not continue the conversation, Jiang Xinyao showed a little disappointment on her face, but this disappointment only lasted for a few seconds, and she quickly cheered up.

After all, she and Xiao Xia have been separated for two years, so it is normal to be rejected. As long as she tries harder, she and Xiao Xia will sooner or later return to their previous relationship.

She knew that Xiao Xia was very distant from her now, but no matter what, even if she was pestered or pestered, she would never let go. She had already lost her once and would never lose her again.

She understood Xiao Xia, even better than she understood herself. She believed that with Xiao Xia's soft-hearted personality, it wouldn't be long before she could hold his hand and sit in his arms like before.

She comforted herself.

"Well, let's not drink it. I'm not too thirsty yet. Let's drink it after we finish the game. Xiaoxia, let's play two more games. Play well in the next game and make sure to win."

They played two more games together, and then the time was up, but in the end Qi Xia and his friends didn't win a single game.

After saying hello to Lao Jia and the others who were still in high spirits, Qi Xia went out with Jiang Xinyao and Huang Min to find a restaurant for dinner.

He told his aunt that he would go home early after school today, and also said that they would eat out in the evening, but he did not say that he was with Xinyao and the others.

He just said that he was having dinner outside with Lao Jia and a few other classmates. Although my aunt was a little reluctant, she still agreed.