CHAPTER 183: CHAPTER 41: THE OFFENSE AND DEFENSE REVERSE AGAIN, THE TENSE RONG XIYI

Wednesday afternoon was still filled with classes.

Xu Lin sat at the back of the middle row in the classroom.

Almost at the time for class, Rong Xiyi walked in and then sat next to Xu Lin.

"Did you take a shower at noon?"

Xu Lin caught a whiff of shower gel.

"Isn’t it normal to shower when the weather’s hot?"

Rong Xiyi sat there, flipping her long hair. "I washed my hair too!"

As she said this, Rong Xiyi glared at Xu Lin. "Some of your dirty stuff from last night got on my hair, it’s disgusting!"

Xu Lin was at a loss for words, it was indeed the case.

Actually, it was on his face and body too.

"Accompany me out this afternoon!"

"For what?"

"To eat! Keep me company to eat!"

Rong Xiyi emphasized.

"Alright, I’ll accompany you to eat."

"Xu Lin, are you unwilling?"

"Not really."

"You sound so perfunctory!"

"Actually, some juniors invited me to play basketball, so I have to do it a bit later."

"Then skip basketball, and eat with me!"

"Play basketball."

"Eat with me, I don’t care, you have to accompany me!"

Rong Xiyi insisted relentlessly.

"Are you silly? They invited me first, and I agreed. The team is already formed, would it make sense for me to back out now? Will they want to bring me along next time? Basketball first!"

Xu Lin retorted with a curse.

"Then I’ll wait for you to finish basketball."

Rong Xiyi felt a bit wronged and took Xu Lin’s left hand in hers, "Xu Lin, was I being a bit unreasonable earlier?"

"Not really."

Xu Lin didn’t expect her to give in so easily.

After school in the afternoon, Xu Lin took Rong Xiyi to the basketball court, passing by the second cafeteria, and stopped by a convenience store to buy a big bottle of mineral water and also bought an ice cream cone for Rong Xiyi.

For this, Rong Xiyi was quite happy, following behind Xu Lin, pleasantly eating the ice cream cone.

Around 5:50, Xu Lin was playing basketball on the court with a group of junior sophomores and juniors.

While Rong Xiyi was waiting outside the court.

The basketball game lasted over an hour, a little past seven in the evening, before Xu Lin and Rong Xiyi left the school.

"What do we eat tonight?"

Xu Lin asked her.

"I’ll follow your lead!"

"Then shall we eat noodles?"

Xu Lin didn’t really feel like eating rice today.

"Alright, noodles it is!"

"Okay."

"Xu Lin, you sweated a lot."

Rong Xiyi touched Xu Lin’s clothes; almost the entire shirt was soaked, and he had finished that two-liter bottle of mineral water.

"It’s normal to sweat from playing basketball."

Xu Lin found a beef noodle shop nearby, ordering four Liang for himself and two for Rong Xiyi.

However, halfway through, Rong Xiyi couldn’t finish her portion, while Xu Lin had eaten all of his, even drinking more than half of the soup.

Feeling unsatisfied.

The taste of this beef noodle was really good, not comparable to those crappy beef noodles.

"Can’t finish it?"

Xu Lin looked at Rong Xiyi.

"Mm-hm, can’t finish..."

Rong Xiyi nodded.

"That’s too wasteful, if you’re not eating, I will."

"Go ahead then!"

Rong Xiyi watched as Xu Lin finished her leftover beef noodles.

Additionally, Xu Lin drank all the soup, without a hint of disdain.

Because of this, Rong Xiyi felt quite moved. At noon, she saw Xu Lin finish Ning Yuhuan’s leftover rice noodles, feeling jealous and uncomfortable at the time, not expecting Xu Lin to treat her the same way.

So, Rong Xiyi felt a surge of emotion.

In fact, Rong Xiyi was overthinking it; Xu Lin needed a lot of energy now, eating more than usual, and one serving wasn’t enough to satisfy him.

However, for girls like Ning Yuhuan and Rong Xiyi, who had a close relationship with him, Xu Lin would finish what they didn’t eat.

"Finally full!"

Xu Lin burped.

He sent a message to Ning Yuhuan: "Where are you, senior?"

Ning Yuhuan: "Library!"

"Let’s head back, I’m going to the library."

Xu Lin got up to pay the bill, and after he settled it, Rong Xiyi asked, "Why do you need to go to the library?"

"My senior is at the library, and I’ll go there to read a book as well."

"Can you stop always mentioning ’my senior’?"

Rong Xiyi frowned; she was now annoyed by the words ’senior.’

"Then what should I say?"

Xu Lin put his arm around her shoulder, "You’re jealous again?"

"Who’s jealous? Am I that bored? Let’s go back to school!"

Rong Xiyi shook off Xu Lin’s hand and walked away, with Xu Lin following behind her back to school.

And as Rong Xiyi walked in front, she became more and more upset. She was angry, but Xu Lin didn’t catch up to comfort her.

Rong Xiyi thought, if only Xu Lin came over to comfort her a little, she’d do anything for him tonight, whatever Xu Lin wanted.

But Xu Lin didn’t comfort her all the way back to school.

"I’m heading to the library, just message me if you need anything."

Xu Lin said goodbye to her.

"I’m fine, and I don’t want to message you!"

Rong Xiyi retorted with a cold face.

Xu Lin added, "Then I’m off to the library."

Rong Xiyi said nothing, watching him enter the library. Then, she turned and left, heading back to her dorm.

She was steaming with anger, thinking that Xu Lin didn’t comfort her; she’d already done so much for Xu Lin except the final step. Last night, she did whatever Xu Lin asked.

Even swallowed that disgusting stuff twice.

But Xu Lin still went on and on about his senior, making Rong Xiyi quite upset.

Finally, Rong Xiyi went back to her dorm and started playing games alone.

Xia Xiyao was busy tonight, saying she had dance practice for the freshman party.

Xia Xiyao studies music, she also dances, and is a member of the Music College’s dance club.

On the other side, Xu Lin had already reached the library and was sitting with Ning Yuhuan.

They were both there, with Ning Yuhuan working on an excel spreadsheet on her laptop, while Xu Lin was reading a book.