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

After Lin Cheng returned home, he turned on his computer, found an account and played games with Lu Xiaoxiao.

Love is about two people wasting time together and then giving meaning to that time. They had a great time playing games for an entire afternoon. After the game, Lin Cheng lazily lay on the bed and looked at the ceiling. He was always so idle and confused.

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Lu Xiaoxiao was applying lipstick carefully in front of the mirror.

Most of the time she goes without makeup or wears light makeup. After all, there are almost no occasions that require her to dress up. In some ways, she and Lin Cheng are quite similar. They almost always prefer to be alone, but it turns out that the person who changes first becomes afraid of loneliness.

Lu Lingling had finished a day's work and returned home. At this moment, Lu Xiaoxiao was holding two dresses and looked at Lu Lingling, "Which one looks better?"

"That depends on who you're going to see."

"To meet my love rival." Lu Xiaoxiao did not hide it at all.

"Then let's go with the black one on the right, it's more stable." Lu Lingling said with a smile and didn't ask any further questions.

Lu Xiaoxiao put on the dress and looked at herself in the mirror. The gorgeous black dress made her temperament completely different from usual, but the coldness was still there. When Lu Lingling came to see her, she was holding a pair of shiny silver high heels in her hand, "High heels are the sharpest weapon for women."

After putting on the shoes, Lu Lingling helped Lu Xiaoxiao to perm her hair. Until the woman in front of the mirror made Lu Xiaoxiao feel a little unfamiliar. She always felt that she seemed to be a little sharper, like a thorny bush.

"Shall I drive you? Where to?"

Lu Xiaoxiao and Jiang Lingxue made an appointment to meet in a very quiet bar. She got off the car alone, held up an umbrella and walked into the bar. Passersby on the roadside looked at her sideways. The skirt of her dress was very long, and the slit at the calf made her smooth, milky white calf skin faintly visible. She sat down at the reserved seat, and Jiang Lingxue was already waiting there.

Jiang Lingxue sat there quietly, wearing a simple sweatshirt and jeans, with no makeup on, and her long red hair loose. The candlelight on the table flickered. Jiang Lingxue glanced at Lu Xiaoxiao from top to bottom, with a barely perceptible smile of contempt at the corner of her mouth.

…It seems like she’s under a lot of pressure.

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188 You're crazy!

The rain outside the window has not stopped for a long time.

The candles on the table flickered. The meeting place was chosen by Lu Xiaoxiao. It was not difficult to get Jiang Lingxue's contact information. She got it from Xia Ning. After seeing the friend request, Jiang Lingxue easily accepted the request.

So this meeting tonight took place.

Lu Xiaoxiao is not a fan of idols. For her, fan-chasing is itself an artificial illusion, a magical behavior similar to religious worship. But she has listened to Jiang Lingxue's songs in the past. After all, this woman has a really nice voice, cold and aloof, and her voice is obviously gentle, but it seems out of tune with the world.

She chose to attend the event in formal attire, but Jiang Lingxue went alone.

Her expression was as calm as if she was just attending an afternoon tea party. Her long eyelashes trembled only when she looked directly at her. At other times, the light and shadow of her eyelashes did not move at all.

Although Lu Xiaoxiao was reluctant to admit it, she had already lost half of the momentum. The basic rule of negotiation was that the more you care, the less confident you are. But could this be considered a negotiation? What were the bargaining chips they had?

"I seem to have heard Lin Cheng say that you can't drink much." This was Jiang Lingxue's opening remark tonight.

"It's really not good. I'll get drunk after one or two drinks."

Lu Xiaoxiao took the wine list from the waiter and ordered a special cocktail similar to a sparkling drink with a very low alcohol content. If she had already lost half the battle in terms of momentum, she had to at least make up for it in terms of reason. If her head became dizzy due to drinking too much, she would inevitably look a little embarrassed.

"So why did you suddenly ask me out?" Jiang Lingxue tilted her head.

Of course, she was asking this question knowing the answer, and Lu Xiaoxiao knew it, so she couldn't say something like "I hope you can leave Lin Cheng as soon as possible", so her answer became...

"I always heard Lin Cheng talk about you, so I wanted to meet you."

"Really? Then what did he say about me?" Jiang Lingxue's lips curled up into a beautiful arc.

In Lu Xiaoxiao's memory, Lin Cheng did mention Jiang Lingxue quite a few times, but it seemed that most of the time, Lin Cheng was in childish mode, saying things like she was a little fool, a little lunatic, a little psychopath, etc. These words were not good words. These words sounded like a quarrel between children who were spoiled, so Lu Xiaoxiao hesitated for a moment and said, "He said you are very cute."

"Really?" Jiang Lingxue smiled and didn't ask any more questions. She just said, "Then do you want to know what she said about you in front of me?"

"What's wrong?" Lu Xiaoxiao started to get nervous for no reason.

"It also means that you are very cute." Jiang Lingxue also said something completely irrelevant.

The two girls looked at each other. Lu Xiaoxiao always felt as if she had already lost a few points in momentum. Of course, she had heard about his past with Jiang Lingxue from Lin Cheng a long time ago. That was why she was always uneasy. They had lived together for more than a year before. Even though they had a quarrel and separated and didn't contact each other for half a year out of spite, the misunderstanding was resolved now...so who came first?

She met Lin Cheng during the time when Lin Cheng and Jiang Lingxue were in a cold war, so it is unclear who came first. If she is not right, Jiang Lingxue may not be right either.

So the atmosphere seemed to become a little awkward again.

Compared to Lu Xiaoxiao's uneasiness, Jiang Lingxue looked very calm. She even had the mind to play with her hair. Her slender white fingertips curled the red hair in the night, and her nails were jade white.

"I think it's better to be honest about some things. You must have a purpose for asking me to meet you, right?" Jiang Lingxue finally smiled, her voice gentle.

Although the two people's goals seem to be the same, the person who said it out loud will suffer a lot, because the one who said it out loud is the one who started trouble first. When the quarrel gets to Lin Cheng, the one who started trouble first will definitely be the one who suffers.

Although I haven’t watched many episodes of palace fighting dramas, it seems that palace fighting is a natural skill.

Lu Xiaoxiao was not a fool, so she asked back, "What do you think I can say to you?"

"I guess you wouldn't declare to me that Lin Cheng is yours alone... so you probably want to test my strengths and weaknesses, and then try to figure out whether I am more important to him, or you are?" Jiang Lingxue answered calmly, and took a sip of the wine on the table, and then answered in an innocent tone, "But unfortunately, I can tell you clearly that even if you ask him this question in person, he won't have the answer, because he cares so much, so you don't have to care."

The smile on Jiang Lingxue's face was genuine. "You've known him for a long time. There's no point in us fighting over it because he hates trouble the most. If he feels it's troublesome, he'll run away. If you ask him to choose one of them, he'll just throw them all away. Hurting both is the same as not hurting them at all."

Jiang Lingxue finally revealed her real intention at this time, "If you understand this, we can continue our conversation."

Lu Xiaoxiao thought seriously for a minute and said, "Go on."

Jiang Lingxue lowered her head and played with her nails. "You haven't known him for long, so you don't know a lot of things. I can tell you briefly. Grape will be by his side for the rest of his life. You can think of Grape and me as the puppies he picked up. We have nowhere else to go except by his side. We are like sticky candy that can't be thrown away. As for Litchi... he owes Litchi something. The extent of his debt is that if Litchi seriously told him that it was annoying to have so many women around him, he would even say goodbye to all the women around him the next second. But luckily Litchi won't say it."

"As for the girl named Xu Wanyue, she's a little scheming... but not much, she's a nice person. Maybe boys like gentle girls? I see that he seems to be very enthusiastic recently, and I don't know how things will develop in the future..."

"So seriously, with all the internal and external troubles, if we quarrel, it's nothing more than hugging each other and blowing ourselves up. I don't want to blow myself up with you. I just recently eased the relationship with him."

Lu Xiaoxiao suddenly felt a little frustrated.

She admitted that she couldn't think as well as Jiang Lingxue, and she didn't know as much about Lin Cheng as Jiang Lingxue did, so it seemed that she could only be led by Jiang Lingxue. But what Jiang Lingxue said was indeed reasonable, but she said so much... Lu Xiaoxiao's nose twitched slightly, looking at Jiang Lingxue in front of her, "So what is your purpose in coming to see me?"

"I want to make this clear to you. I won't argue with you, and you don't have to try to provoke me. I just want to ask if there is any possibility of cooperation with you."

"cooperate?"

"Yes."

Jiang Lingxue's eyes were innocent at the moment, just like a little girl. "If only two people eat a piece of cake, it can barely fill them up, but if many people want to share a piece in the future, they won't be full. As far as I know, you and I are the only ones who have done it... It's because we've done it that the guy feels concerned, so we can use this to tie him down and not allow him to do it with other women. As long as we agree with each other... and don't give a third woman the chance to get involved, then the cake can be ours for a long time."

Lu Xiaoxiao's head was a little dizzy, "Why can you accept this kind of thing?"

"Why?" Jiang Lingxue repeated Lu Xiaoxiao's words, but she found them a little funny. "Because I was picked up by him, and I didn't want to go anywhere else except to stay with him. But I couldn't make him love only me, so I was forced to compromise. Everything I have now was given to me by him. Do you know how much money he spent on me and how much time he spent curing my bad temper?"

Jiang Lingxue sighed softly, "But when you like someone, how can you not have a desire to monopolize them? I can't do it alone, maybe I can just drag you in... If dragging you in doesn't work, then I'll just be forced to accept it. Of course, I'll take as much as I can now."

"Your relationship with him... seems stranger than I thought." Lu Xiaoxiao muttered softly.

"Because I can't change his mind, so either let go or compromise. I won't let go, so I can only compromise. You are different. You still have the opportunity to choose. As long as he doesn't abandon me, I will stay with him. If you think this is awkward, from an objective point of view, I suggest you let go as soon as possible. It is better to suffer a short pain than a long one."

Lu Xiaoxiao inexplicably began to doubt whether there was something wrong with her view on love. She was silent for a long time and wanted to refuse with dignity, but Jiang Lingxue just waited calmly for her to speak.

"I don't want to... share..." Her tone revealed some hesitation.

"It's okay." Jiang Lingxue's smile was still gentle. "Whatever you decide or think is up to you. I'm just making a suggestion. It's okay if you refuse, but you can't tell him what we talked about."

"Of course, I won't tell you."

"That's good." Jiang Lingxue stood up and tied her long red hair into a ponytail. "It's a bit regrettable. I thought I could become friends with you."

"We couldn't possibly be friends from the beginning, right?"

"I remember Xu Wanyue said that she and you are very good friends, right?" Jiang Lingxue successfully made Lu Xiaoxiao speechless. She had already walked to the bar to pay the bill. Lu Xiaoxiao followed her and went downstairs with her. She brought an umbrella when she came, but Jiang Lingxue did not. She held up the umbrella and stood in the rain with Jiang Lingxue. After all, she couldn't help asking, "If you share it with others, wouldn't you feel lost?"

"My desire for love is greater than my loss. Puppies are easy to raise. All they need is a little love."

"Why do you love him so much?"

"Because he is my god." Jiang Lingxue's tone suddenly became serious. "Although he doesn't like being called master or puppy, to me, he is the god who suddenly landed in front of me to save me when my world was so dark that it was about to collapse. And my dear god even has a good temper and can cook and coax little girls. He can easily fulfill all the little girl's wishes. That's why the little girl is obsessed with and worships her Kami-sama. The little girl's life wish is to just be a puppy wagging its tail. But my god wants me to stand up and play the love game between humans with him. Obviously, I just want to bark, but I have to listen to him obediently... Is there any problem?"

"I now admit that Lin Cheng said that you are a lunatic." Lu Xiaoxiao's eyes trembled slightly, and for a moment she didn't know where to start complaining.

...Before, when Lin Cheng said that Jiang Lingxue was mentally ill, she thought that Lin Cheng was just complaining childishly. Is she really not a mental patient?

Instead, Jiang Lingxue tilted her head and looked at her with some confusion, then her smile became playful again.

"It seems that you still don't know...what kind of guy you like."

"What do you mean?"

"You'll know sooner or later." Jiang Lingxue left Lu Xiaoxiao's umbrella. Lu Xiaoxiao wanted to catch up and hold the umbrella for her, but Jiang Lingxue's pace gradually quickened. She shouted, "Where are you going? I'll take you there."

"I'm going to warm the bed of my Lord God. I don't need you to send me off." Jiang Lingxue hummed softly. The raindrops above her head avoided her and fell, but the pedestrians on the side of the road didn't notice her at all.

Lu Xiaoxiao always felt that Jiang Lingxue's footsteps were as brisk as a little girl who couldn't wait to go home to see her family after school. How could she look like a cold and aloof idol?

“What is this…” Lu Xiaoxiao couldn’t help but rub her hair, making her carefully groomed hair messy.

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ps: I just got home and there will be an update this afternoon!

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When the door opened, Lin Cheng was still lying on the bed with a half-eaten bucket of popcorn in his arms.

It seemed that he didn't need to ask who came, because only Jiang Lingxue could come in so easily. Jiang Lingxue came to the door of his room and opened it. Lin Cheng's eyes met hers from a distance, still chewing popcorn in his mouth.

"watching movie?"

Lin Cheng was looking at the projection on the wall. He was watching a classic old horror movie. He nodded. Jiang Lingxue took off the hair band and said, "I'm going to take a shower."

After a while, she wrapped herself in a bath towel and crawled into Lin Cheng's quilt. There was a pleasant lemon scent on her body, which was the smell of the shower gel in Lin Cheng's home. She moved closer to Lin Cheng, and Lin Cheng hugged her in his arms and grabbed a piece of popcorn and stuffed it into her mouth.

Jiang Lingxue bit off the popcorn, and after a while she began to lick his fingers gently. This guy really couldn't stay still for even a second.

But her tongue was soft and, although a little strange, it seemed to feel pretty good.

"I was just about to go to bed."

"Then let's sleep together." Jiang Lingxue hugged his arms.

"Hey, you really like to act like a spoiled child lately."

"How could that be?" Jiang Lingxue blinked innocently. Lin Cheng looked into her eyes, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

After a while, the movie ended and the two of them huddled under the quilt. Jiang Lingxue also leaned into Lin Cheng's arms. Lin Cheng's fingertips gently stroked her hair. After a while, he asked, "What did you say to Lu Xiaoxiao?"

"how do you know?"

"Xia Ning told me that Lu Xiaoxiao asked for your contact information, and then you didn't come back at night. She asked me if she was with me. You couldn't have gone anywhere else, so you must have gone to see Lu Xiaoxiao."

"I didn't quarrel with her."

"I know you won't quarrel with her."

"So you know everything, hehe, you scheming man."

"So what did you guys say?"

"I just chatted with her, just as if we were getting to know each other. Maybe we'll see each other often in the future." Jiang Lingxue raised her head slightly, "Don't you want to trick her into coming over to have sex with you?"

"…It's obviously you who have all these dirty thoughts in your head, okay?"

"Hehe, you play the gentleman, then I will play the bad woman." Jiang Lingxue hummed softly, "Just like when you were with Lu Xiaoxiao, you must have bullied her more, right?"

“……” It seems to be true when you say it.

"Okay, okay, then I won't ask anymore. Just go to sleep." Lin Cheng lowered his head and kissed Jiang Lingxue gently on the forehead. Jiang Lingxue closed her eyes contentedly.

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Jiang Lingxue stayed at Lin Cheng's house for another day before leaving obediently.

There really isn't anything to be busy with recently. Even the small abyss rifts that appear once a month on average haven't come down. People in the alliance have started their vacations one after another. When Lin Cheng plays games at home, he will ask Lu Xiaoxiao to join him. When he gets tired of playing, he will chat with Jiang Li. Sometimes Lin Cheng doesn't know what the point of chatting is. Maybe it's just to kill time, and it doesn't seem to need to be given any meaning.

On the contrary, he has had less contact with Xu Wanyue these days. It's not that he is deliberately ignoring her, but it seems that there is really nothing to talk about. Lin Cheng even seldom posts about Bai Si anymore. Well, after all, maybe there will be some refreshing photos to see if he teases Jiang Li every day. Lin Cheng also finds it very interesting when he thinks of Jiang Li's rosy cheeks when taking pictures.

Occasionally, when he rolled around in bed, he would suddenly wonder if he had really become a bit of a bastard, as if he didn't care about anyone but also seemed to have only a three-minute enthusiasm for everyone.

We can wake up Xu Wanyue’s sister tomorrow, so let’s go find her tonight.

Thinking so, he took a shower, put on a clean white shirt and black trousers, and when passing by a street flower shop, he bought a bouquet of white roses. Today's sunset was pink. Lin Cheng brought the flowers to the door of Xu Wanyue's small apartment and opened the door.

He already knew the door code to Xu Wanyue's house, so he didn't even knock on the door. After opening the door, he saw Xu Wanyue sitting on a small stool on the balcony. She was wearing a loose home nightgown, with her elbows resting on her legs, and she was staring at the pink sunset outside the window in a daze.

She turned around and saw Lin Cheng holding the flowers. Her confused eyes suddenly showed a hint of joy. She stood up and trotted towards Lin Cheng, her hands unconsciously behind her back, looking at him, "Why are you here?"