Who says those who retire at the speed of light are not heroes?

She spoke very little, basically answering every sentence Lin Cheng said, as if she was following a set AI command. Lin Cheng's gaze moved from her neck to her slender legs, and he looked down at her long and thick eyelashes. For a moment, his heart began to beat inexplicably.

He had never done anything bad to Grape, except for the prank potion with Lemon the night before...it didn't count.

Although just as Jiang Lingxue said, something would happen between him and Grape one day in the future, Lin Cheng always felt that it shouldn't be now. Grape beside him was like a clockwork doll, obeying him in everything and listening to whatever he said. It was for this reason that Lin Cheng felt... it would be weird if he did anything to her.

Grape fell asleep very quickly, and only opened her eyes slowly half an hour later. She sat up and came back to Lin Cheng's side, staring at his face with her beautiful eyes, and suddenly said, "You haven't taught me what kissing is yet."

"Ok?"

"You promised me last time."

Lin Cheng vaguely recalled this incident, and he gently placed his hand on Grape's shoulder, "Kissing is a proof of love for each other."

"So...what's the point of sticking out your tongue?"

"Because it's very astringent, it feels weird."

"strangeness?"

"Yeah." Lin Cheng slowly moved closer to her cheek. He felt a strange sense of guilt in his heart as if he was coaxing a little girl. Grape's lips were slightly open, and the tip of her pink tongue was already swaying in her mouth. She tried to stick out her tongue. Her pink tongue was so cute.

Gradually, Lin Cheng put his arms around her neck and kissed her lips. There was no one around, and Grape seemed to gradually understand what he meant. She whispered, "It's really... very strange."

Her hands unconsciously hugged Lin Cheng's neck, and she said softly, "But... it's very comfortable."

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At five o'clock in the afternoon, Lin Cheng and Grape went to a light stir-fry restaurant, and then Grape drove him home. Lin Cheng waved at her gently outside the car, but the window slowly rolled down. Grape's head stuck out of the window and looked into his eyes expectantly, "I want to kiss you again."

Lin Cheng bent down slightly and kissed her lips.

After a while, Grape separated contentedly. She looked at Lin Cheng expectantly, "Can we kiss every time we meet in the future?"

Lin Cheng hesitated for a second or two, then nodded, "Yeah, sure."

"Great." She laughed softly.

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

At seven o'clock in the evening, Lin Cheng returned home.

He turned on the computer, lay in the chair and looked at his mobile phone for a while. Speaking of which, he hadn't sent a message to Xu Wanyue for several days. He found that as long as he didn't send a message to Xu Wanyue, Xu Wanyue would not send him a message.

It's really too much.

Lin Cheng opened Xu Wanyue's circle of friends, and didn't even touch the photos. Lin Cheng angrily glanced at the other message records, and suddenly found that Jiang Li had sent him a lot of messages these days.

But the most recent ones are.

Jiang Li: Have you been...busy recently...

Jiang Li: Well, then you just go about your business. I, I just want to share some interesting things with you. Just be busy. It’s okay if you don’t reply to me.

Jiang Li: When you have time, can you...get back to me?

Jiang Li: I always can’t help but have wild thoughts and think about a lot of inexplicable things... I’m sorry.

Lin Cheng indeed didn't reply to any of the messages. Looking at the chat history, he tapped his head and smiled bitterly. He always felt like a jerk for doing this. Looking at these messages, he felt bad if he didn't reply to one or two messages. But if he replied, would the other party misunderstand him?

After all, in this age of information explosion, no matter how busy you are, you will always have time to check the news. It is easy for sensitive people to detect whether a person is perfunctory or not. It is nothing more than knowing or pretending not to know.

Lin Cheng hesitated for five or six seconds, and finally typed to her, "I've been busy with work recently."

In less than a second, Jiang Li sent him a nodding cat emoticon, followed by several more messages.

"Then you are so busy! I just saw some interesting fragments of life and wanted to share them with you to kill time. As long as you don't find me annoying..."

Lin Cheng didn't know what to reply again, so he decided to pretend to be dead. He took another look and found that he still had several unread messages from Xia Ning. It was really strange, why would she send him a message?

159 You are safe

Xia Ning: My head hurts. How much did I drink last night?

Xia Ning: Not awake yet?

Xia Ning: Are you dead? You didn’t even reply to my messages?

Xia Ning: My head finally stops hurting. What are you doing? It's not like it's 4pm and you're still awake, right?

Xia Ning: I've thought it through. I've decided that I don't like Jiang Lingxue anymore, and I won't compete with you for her anymore.

Xia Ning: It’s seven o’clock. Are you really dead?

These messages were sent one or two hours apart. Lin Cheng glanced at them. Why didn't he feel any guilt for not replying to her message? After hesitating for a while, Lin Cheng thought about deleting her. It was not good to be pestered by an ignorant girl.

Lin Cheng did what he said and deleted her as a friend.

Ten minutes later, Lin Cheng received a new friend request. "I don't need to reply, why did you delete me?!"

"What do you mean?!"

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!!"

Lin Cheng didn't accept, but seeing her look like she was going crazy made him inexplicably happy. He replied to her friend request, "Why keep her as a friend?"

"Let's chat."

"Is there anything we can talk about?"

"Don't I look good?"

"You are not missing."

"They are all queens, I am a girl!"

“Don’t control this.”

After Lin Cheng finished speaking, he blocked her.

Lin Cheng felt inexplicably happy when he thought that the girl behind the screen might be going crazy. He threw his phone aside, opened the game and played for a while. When he got his phone back, he received a friend request from an unfamiliar person. Lin Cheng was stunned for a moment and accepted the request. However, a voice message popped up the next second and he hung up without hesitation.

The other party typed, "Why did you hang up on me?"

"I have social phobia and I don't talk to strangers."

"I'm Xia Ning."

"I know, I'm really unfamiliar with it."

Lin Cheng's hand was on the delete key. After a moment, a photo of white and tender calves suddenly came into his sight. The background of the photo should be in the bathtub. The girl's white and tender calves were raised from the water surface of the bathtub. Each toe was painted with smoky black nail polish. Her feet were so white.

"Do your new nail polish look good?"

"Take a picture from the front."

"Dirty lower-headed man."

The next second, Lin Cheng deleted her friend again.

Three minutes later, Lin Cheng received another friend request, this time from a new account. Lin Cheng accepted it and saw her smugly send a message, "Didn't you accept it again?"

Lin Cheng deleted and blocked her in one go.

Ten minutes later, Xia Ning registered a new account, and Lin Cheng accepted it again. Seeing the message she sent, he said, "Can't you chat with me first?! ! ! You will die if you don't delete me as a friend, right?! ! ! !!"

Delete and block, all in one go.

Fifteen minutes later.

Lin Cheng really wondered where she got so many small accounts. After passing it again, Xia Ning did not send a text this time, but a frontal photo in front of the mirror, but only showing the upper body, and the soft chest was deliberately covered by the other hand. Although a little bit of the northern and southern hemispheres were exposed, the collarbone was wet, and the slender neck seemed to have water beads. Lin Cheng looked at it silently for three seconds to show the most basic respect, and then typed, "Okay, now you have a chance to say five sentences."

"Asshole! Pervert! Psychopath! Dog man! Narcissist!"

After exactly five words, Lin Cheng deleted her as a friend again.

Fifteen minutes later, a new friend request came in again, "I still have four sentences to say!"

"Isn't that the end?"

"You are being unreasonable."

"Look at the tongue."

"abnormal!"

But surprisingly, before Lin Cheng deleted her as a friend, Xia Ning took another photo of him with her lips open and tongue sticking out. Her eyes were slightly rolled up. Hmm, it seems she understands a lot.

"Would you like to come out for a drink?" This time it was Lin Cheng who took the initiative to type.

"You want to get me drunk and do something bad to me?"

"So you are still a child. In the adult world, things like this should be tacitly understood."

"You're dreaming!"

Lin Cheng deleted her as a friend.

Another fifteen minutes passed, and new friend requests came in one after another. "I don't have any other smurf accounts. If I delete them again, there really won't be any more! I... can have a drink, just one drink."

Lin Cheng had never intended to invite her out for a drink. He just wanted to tease her. It was like throwing a frisbee to a puppy. Oh, was it a bit too much to think this way?

"Okay, then go take a shower. I want to see Baisi."

"Why don't you just die?!"

Lin Cheng sent her an address, "Thirty minutes, if you're not here I'll go make an appointment with another sister."

There was no reply from Xia Ning.

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An hour later, Lin Cheng slowly arrived at the agreed location, walked into the bar and looked around, and saw Xia Ning sitting in the corner.

She was wearing a one-shoulder white lace top and a sky blue hip skirt. Under the skirt were slightly transparent white silk calf socks. She was wearing white sneakers and her jet-black hair was tied into two buns. She was really cute, but she was wearing a mask.

She was typing frantically on her cell phone at this moment, and no one knew who she was sending messages to. However, Lin Cheng's phone was not even on vibrate mode. He came and sat down opposite Xia Ning. Xia Ning raised her head, and her dark eyes were about to spit fire.

"You're a full thirty-two minutes late!"

"Doesn't this show my respect for this date? I even specially picked out a suitable outfit and washed my hair." Lin Cheng spread his hands innocently.

"I curled my hair, put on makeup, wore a skirt, and wore daily contact lenses. It takes you so long to wash your hair?"

"It was mainly because the game had just started when I sent you a message." Lin Cheng scratched his head, "It took me 15 minutes to complete it. Wouldn't it take me some time to ride my bike here?"

Xia Ning was so angry that she jumped up and down, taking a deep breath, "I really don't know what the point of me asking you to come out and meet me is... I'm such a jerk!"

“Why should meeting be meaningful?”

Lin Cheng took out a green potion from his ear clip and pushed it in front of Xia Ning.

"What is that?" Xia Ning was alert.

"A potion that can slightly reduce my presence. I don't want to be surrounded and tortured by your fans later."

Xia Ning opened the potion doubtfully, "There is such a potion?"

"There is a creature in the abyss that releases pheromones to make other creatures ignore it in order to survive. The potion is made for this purpose." Lin Cheng was too lazy to explain too much, but Xia Ning still had some doubts, "Will you fall into a deep sleep after drinking it?"

Lin Cheng sneered, "That won't happen. Maybe you'll get hot all over after drinking it."

His eyes were full of provocation, and Xia Ning's cheeks flushed red. After several seconds, she opened the potion and gulped it down. She took off her mask, hesitated for a moment, and looked around. The people around her didn't seem to notice her, and even if they saw her for a moment, they would quickly pass by her sight.

"How amazing." Xia Ning couldn't help but exclaim, "Are there any more potions like this? I want to buy some."

"One million per dose, and the effect lasts for four hours each time." Lin Cheng answered without even raising his head.

"Why don't you go and rob it?" Xia Ning looked at him unhappily. The playfulness in Lin Cheng's tone was too obvious. He was clearly making fun of her. In an instant, Lin Cheng asked, "Why do you want to be an idol?"

The sudden change of topic made Xia Ning stunned for a moment. She thought seriously for a few seconds and said, "Because after the abyss was closed, everyone was worried about the future. At this time, someone was needed to convey beauty and hope."

She raised her little face slightly, her eyes bright.

"Oh." Lin Cheng nodded.

"Why do you ask this suddenly?"

"I thought it was because I wanted to be noticed, or... to extend my own value by giving others hope."

Xia Ning's breathing suddenly stopped for a moment.

She quickly avoided Lin Cheng's gaze in panic, and said with gritted teeth, "Do you really think of me as a puppy who needs love?"

"Ah, this kind of thing is not important at all..."