By the time the bus was about to reach its destination...

Wei Qingyu silently reached out her hand, enduring the numbness in her shoulder, wanting to move Lu Xing away.

At this moment.

Click–

Hu Zhongzhong panicked instantly.

Holy f*ck!

I forgot to turn off the flash when I took the picture!

"What are you doing?" Wei Qingyu's calm voice revealed a hint of coldness.

Hu Zhongzhong was so embarrassed his toes could have dug out a three-bedroom apartment.

Could he say that he wanted to take a picture and then show it to Master Lu after he woke up?

"Hehe, nothing, nothing."

Hu Zhongzhong's head poked out from between the car seats as he said awkwardly.

"I just thought the two of you looked so beautiful together, so I took a picture to commemorate it!"

"So sorry, so sorry. I'll delete it right away. I'll delete it immediately! Really, I'll even empty the recycle bin, leaving absolutely no trace. You can be one hundred percent..."

"Please send it to me," Wei Qingyu said seriously.

Huh?

Hu Zhongzhong was dumbfounded, his head buzzing.

No.

You're not even angry?

According to the street rumors, Wei Qingyu hated having her picture taken. Before, people who took her picture without her consent basically had no good end.

"Please send it to me, thank you." Wei Qingyu repeated it again.

Hu Zhongzhong, as if waking from a dream, said, "Oh, oh, okay, okay."

Even after the picture was successfully sent, Hu Zhongzhong still hadn't reacted.

He watched with his own eyes as Wei Qingyu set this photo, with its terrible composition and lighting, as her wallpaper, and then asked a soul-searching question.

"Why don't you set this photo as your lock screen?"

"That way, Master Lu can easily see this lock screen, and he'll be able to feel your sincerity, and in turn, have a good impression of you."

Wei Qingyu asked with confusion, "Why should I let him see it?"

Hu Zhongzhong was stunned.

That's right!

Why must Lu Xing see it?

In Hu Zhongzhong's subconscious, as long as he did something, he had to take credit for it, and the person involved had to know.

Only then would what he did be meaningful.

But–

Now Wei Qingyu asked, why must the person involved know?

Hu Zhongzhong fell silent. He couldn't give any answer. Wei Qingyu's brain operated in a completely different way from his.

He was a loyal supporter of utilitarianism and result-oriented approaches.

If it were him, he would set the photo as his lock screen precisely to achieve the result of letting Lu Xing see it.

But Wei Qingyu was different.

She set the photo as her wallpaper simply because she wanted to.

She didn't expect, and had never even thought about letting Lu Xing discover this, and then gaining his favor from it.

Even a privateer like Hu Zhongzhong, from the experience he had gained from watching anime, knew that a person like Wei Qingyu was simply...

"You know, approaching love like that is just setting yourself up for a lot of pain. It's almost impossible to find true love when you think that way."

Wei Qingyu looked down blankly at Lu Xing's handsome and slender face, then gently moved his head away and asked in a low voice.

"Why must I find true love?"

"I just want him to be happy."

Although she was slow, she could still sense Lu Xing's resistance when she confessed.

Since Lu Xing resisted her confession, then she wouldn't say it.

When Lu Xing was awake, she had already been abiding by the principle of being loving and caring good classmates.

But now Lu Xing was asleep. Could she indulge herself for a little while? Just a little while.

"You, you, you!"

Hu Zhongzhong looked at Wei Qingyu with astonishment. He simply couldn't understand the logic of this flower on a high mountain.

Why!

Why didn't she want to possess Master Lu!

The gate of Haicheng University was getting closer and closer. Lu Xing had also returned to his previous sleeping posture of leaning against the car window, his fingers twitching slightly.

Wei Qingyu looked deeply at Lu Xing's face and said slowly.

"‘Has Crown Prince Lu Gone to the Crematorium to Chase His Wife Today?’ The logic, plot, and characters of this novel are relatively weak. But, there is a sentence in it."

Hu Zhongzhong: "What?"

"Love is a restraint."

Wei Qingyu withdrew her gaze, returning to her calm state. She reached out her hand and gently rubbed her numb shoulder.

If her liking him was a trouble for Lu Xing, then she was willing to be that loving and caring good classmate.

Hu Zhongzhong was numb.

Holy f*ck!

Master Lu, you really deserve to die!

Seeing the flower on a high mountain love you so much, this is more painful than killing me, boo-hoo-hoo!

...

"Students, wake up. We've arrived at our stop!"

The leading teacher clapped his hands and loudly woke everyone on the bus.

Lu Xing opened his eyes, stretched his arms, and felt his bones crackle.

"Sigh, sixty-year-old men walk as fast as if they're flying, while twenty-year-old young men are deaf and blind. What are you doing, old man heaven!"

Hu Zhongzhong chuckled and said with a laugh.

"That's so true. My mom goes hiking for several kilometers every day, and her body is in great shape. But I get dizzy just from getting up too fast. They all say we're 'brittle-skinned university students’. How have I degenerated into a 'brittle-skinned high school student'?"

Lu Xing glanced around. Wei Qingyu and the other students were almost all gone. Only then did he look at Hu Zhongzhong with a teasing smile.

"If you read less hentai and play fewer gal games, your body would have been fine long ago."

He suspected that the one-million-percent possibility of Hu Zhongzhong being as thin as a bamboo pole was because of his essence leaking out.

Hu Zhongzhong rolled his eyes and slung his bag over his shoulder.

"No way. I am irreconcilable with gambling and drugs! My wives are all waiting for me in the anime!"

He wanted to tell Lu Xing what had just happened, but he didn't know how to say it.

Lu Xing glanced at Hu Zhongzhong's conflicted expression and said with a smile.

"Let's go."

"Alright."

Hu Zhongzhong simply didn't say it. Mainly because he didn't know how to.

Besides, to be honest, he still preferred someone with a passionate personality like Xia Yeshuang.

A quiet person like Wei Qingyu, who always did things silently and didn't like to express herself...

Besides a capitalist boss who wants an old ox of an employee, who else would like this kind of personality?

As Lu Xing turned to walk towards the car door, he touched his neck.

Mm.

His neck wasn't sore or painful. The pillow was indeed quite useful.

Out of personal morality, he would not embarrass others in public.

...

About a few dozen high school students had come.

After the leading teacher had communicated with the teacher sent by Haicheng University, they began to lead the students to tour the school together.

From the library, to the auditorium, to the cafeteria, classrooms, study rooms, dormitories, etc., after a tour, Lu Xing was quite satisfied with the environment here.

The school's academic atmosphere was also okay. In the teaching building and the library, he saw many students preparing for postgraduate entrance exams and civil service exams, their resentment deeper than a ghost's.

The only drawback was... too studious.

In the library, a student said angrily.

"Holy f*ck! I just went to the restroom. Which bastard did my CET-6 practice questions? Who was it!!!"

The leading teacher paused for a moment, then quickly led the students to escape the library and move on to the next place.

Hu Zhongzhong was overjoyed.

"Master Lu, we're almost liberated. Then we can experience how good university life is!"

Lu Xing glanced at him, hearing the hidden meaning in this dog's words, and commented slowly.

"Otaku are truly disgusting."

(TL: An internet slang, ‘four nerds steam a goose's heart’ sounds like dead otaku are truly disgusting.)

Hu Zhongzhong snorted.

"Master Lu, when you curse, it's like you're pouting (￣3￣)."

Lu Xing: Σ(っ°Д°;)っ

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