In front of Lu Xing were two trees.

One was the dazed Li Dachun, the other was the red-hot Hu Zhongzhong.

Wei Qingyu's legend was passed down from generation to generation at the school.

Beautiful, taciturn, cold, smart, and rich.

When someone questioned if these adjectives were too exaggerated, after seeing Wei Qingyu in person, they would suddenly realize they weren't enough.

These adjectives weren't enough!

The flower on a high mountain, the one and only.

Wei Qingyu equally ignored everyone, which made everyone feel a strange sense of comfort.

After all.

One's own failure is certainly terrible, but another's success is even more disheartening!

Before, people who liked Wei Qingyu could comfort themselves like this: Although she doesn't look at me, she doesn't look at you either!

But now.

Wei Qingyu, this beam of moonlight that had never favored anyone, gently fell on Lu Xing's shoulder, as heavy as a mountain.

Lu Xing was very certain.

The butler not far from the school gate had seen him. In fact, he was specifically looking at him.

Lu Xing sighed and asked Wei Qingyu, "Do you need something?"

Wei Qingyu was taken aback for a moment, then shook her head.

"No."

"But yesterday was Xia Yeshuang's birthday. You didn't come, so she's in a bad mood."

"I'm sorry. I wanted to make her happy, but I didn't succeed."

Lu Xing was full of question marks.

No.

You failed to make Xia Yeshuang happy. Why are you apologizing to me? What the hell are you telling me for!

Lu Xing's gaze fell on Wei Qingyu's chest again.

That star-shaped brooch made him feel a little uncontrollably annoyed.

Lu Xing wanted to reiterate that he didn't like Wei Qingyu.

But.

He glanced around. Besides Hu Zhongzhong and Li Dachun, there were many other students secretly casting glances.

He believed that if he said that sentence now...

Wei Qingyu would definitely say: "I know."

That way.

In less than a day, Lu Xing could successfully wash away his previous reputation as a simp and be able to label Wei Qingyu as a simp.

People are keen on creating gods, and even keener on pulling them down from their pedestals.

Lu Xing sighed.

He had never wanted to make this flower on a high mountain, Wei Qingyu, fall from her pedestal and be laughed at by everyone.

Never.

The blockhead was just a little dazed. She shouldn't have to suffer these rumors.

Lu Xing remembered again the reason Old Man Wei had hired him.

Because Wei Qingyu was being slandered.

A person like her, even if she was slandered, wouldn't complain to her family, nor would she try to defend herself. She would just silently do her own thing.

Lu Xing didn't want this.

Although Wei Qingyu was like an AI, she had a human's body temperature, a human's heartbeat, had smelled the fragrance of flowers, could see the color of the sky, and had also shed tears.

She was a person, a person who could cry and laugh.

Lu Xing took a deep breath and smiled slightly. "If there's nothing else, we'll be leaving first. Goodbye."

Wei Qingyu paused for a moment, swallowing the words of wanting to go with him.

She nodded.

"Okay, goodbye."

Lu Xing turned and left. Li Dachun also quickly pulled the reluctant Hu Zhongzhong along.

Wei Qingyu stared blankly at Lu Xing's departing back.

After a moment of thought.

Wei Qingyu took off the brooch from her chest.

She caressed the star shape on the brooch, then carefully put it in her pocket and said sullenly.

"I'm sorry."

"You are very beautiful, but he doesn't like you."

Lu Xing frowned when he saw the brooch.

...

One whole morning!

Lu Xing kept looking back at Xia Yeshuang's desk, only to find that she hadn't come at all.

"Whatever, I'll go to the piano room to check."

Ring ring ring—

The bell for the end of the morning classes rang. Lu Xing picked up his schoolbag, intending to slip away.

The next second.

A second bloom of the plum blossom.

He was grabbed by Hu Zhongzhong again.

Hu Zhongzhong placed his own schoolbag on Lu Xing's desk and then stood up straight, nervous.

Like a fresh university graduate facing an HR for the first time, his whole body was trembling slightly.

Lu Xing lifted the schoolbag with confusion. Inside was a large stack of red banknotes.

Lu Xing: ???

"Are you bribing me?"

Hu Zhongzhong got anxious. "No, no!"

"This is all my new year's money from all these years, scholarships, and the living expenses I've saved. It's all here!"

Lu Xing picked up a one-yuan coin from the schoolbag.

It seemed Hu Zhongzhong had really emptied his pockets. His entire fortune was in this schoolbag.

Lu Xing thought for a moment and understood.

"You like Wei Qingyu, so you want to ask me for advice?"

Amazing!

Hu Zhongzhong excitedly gripped Lu Xing's hand. "Master, can you teach me?"

Lu Xing tossed the coin in his hand.

Ding.

The coin landed.

Lu Xing said with a smile, "A coin has two sides. You only see one side. Why don't you look at the other?"

Hu Zhongzhong was taken aback for a moment. "What?"

Lu Xing lowered his gaze. "Her father can crush your father with a single move. Why do you think you can pursue her?"

Hu Zhongzhong was dumbfounded.

Lu Xing continued, "Then let's not talk about family factors. Let me ask you, what do you like about her?"

"She's good-looking and has good grades."

Lu Xing smiled and asked him.

"Then if someone who is better-looking and has better grades appears now, will you immediately fall for someone else?"

Hu Zhongzhong couldn't answer.

Lu Xing patted his shoulder, was silent for a moment, and said.

"Love a specific person, not an abstract person."

"You say you love her, but you ignore the exit of her soul."

Just simply labeling people with this and that tag, and developing feelings out of them.

But at the end of the day, these tags...

Do they represent Wei Qingyu, or the Wei Qingyu in everyone's eyes?

She is a living person. She is not a TikTok video that you can casually add tags to.

If love can last, it must be the collision of two souls.

But what if...

That soul is not what you imagined?

Hu Zhongzhong fell silent.

"Thank you."

Hmm?

Lu Xing turned his head. Wei Qingyu was standing silently behind him. Her usually calm and emotionless eyes were now slightly red.

Lu Xing was speechless.

So cliché.

She even heard this.

Lu Xing nodded and said politely, slinging his schoolbag over his shoulder.

"It's nothing."

Then he picked up the coin from the ground, placed it in Hu Zhongzhong's hand, and turned to leave.

Watching Lu Xing's departing back, Wei Qingyu's eyes stung, but she let out a rare, low laugh.

"Thank you."

Thank you for being able to see through all the labels and touch the real me.

...

Comprehensive Building

Creak.

Lu Xing carefully pushed open the door of the piano room but did not see Xia Yeshuang's figure.

"Huh? She's not here?"

Lu Xing, ever helpful, in order to prevent any stinky birds from flying into the piano room and pooping on Xia Yeshuang's expensive piano...

He walked to the window, intending to close it.

He passed by the piano.

Lu Xing was a little confused. "Why has this piano been changed?"

It wasn't this piano last week. Could it have been damaged?

Whatever.

Probably a rich person's quirk.

Lu Xing walked to the window and pulled the handle to close it.

The next second

A figure quickly approached and slammed Lu Xing against the wall with a thump.

Lu Xing: ???

He looked straight ahead and saw no one. He lowered his head and only then met Xia Yeshuang's gaze.

Uh...

Xia Yeshuang didn't seem to have slept well.

Because she was too fair, the dark circles under her eyes were even more obvious.

But paired with this head of golden hair, it gave her the feeling of a sickly girl from an anime.

"Sister Xia?"

Lu Xing didn't speak, and Xia Yeshuang didn't speak either, just stubbornly staring at Lu Xing.

Heh.

How could she take the initiative to ask Lu Xing for a birthday gift?

Xia Yeshuang blinked her big eyes, trying to make this stupid guy figure it out himself.

At this moment, Lu Xing was being kabedon-ed against the wall by Xia Yeshuang.

He glanced at Xia Yeshuang's serious expression, then at her effortful tiptoeing. He forced himself not to laugh out loud.

Xia Yeshuang noticed Lu Xing's gaze.

She was furious.

Mockery!

This is direct mockery!

Just because you're taller!

Xia Yeshuang immediately reached out her hand to properly warn Lu Xing.

The next second.

Lu Xing directly bent down and slipped out from under Xia Yeshuang's arm.

Xia Yeshuang: ???

She suddenly lost her support and went straight towards the wall.

Fuck!

Xia Yeshuang closed her eyes, preparing to meet the cold wall.

A few seconds later.

She opened her eyes. A soft hand was between her forehead and the wall.

...

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