Chapter 108 First Kiss
"Whose clothes are you wearing? They don't smell like ours!" Li Xiuyu raised his head fiercely.

"Hey... this belongs to Lin Yuehua... It's nothing serious, my clothes were torn by a nail on the wall and I can't wear them anymore, so Lin Yuehua lent me her freshly washed coat."

Li Zhuangsheng's mind was spinning rapidly. He was becoming more and more skilled at lying, and writing novels had a lot to do with it. Unless he was caught in the act or it was a particularly urgent matter, it was really not easy to be discovered.

Li Xiuyu curled his lips: "Tsk, why do you have to wear someone else's clothes? Can't you just ride back?"

"You're wearing this late at night? Do you want to freeze me to death?" Li Zhuang angrily unzipped his shirt, revealing his short-sleeved shirt, and poked Li Xiuyu's head, "Do you still have a conscience?"

"You deserve to be frozen to death. It's not you who insisted on sending people back..."

Li Xiu Yu chuckled, quickly jumped back onto the bed, and gently covered his bare legs with the quilt.

"Can we let her run back?" Li Zhuangsheng spread his hands, "I'm leaving, I'll wash it and give it back to her tomorrow."

"Oh, there's one more thing." Li Xiuyu said softly, "Did you and Lin Yuehua kiss today?"

"That's called a bump..." Li Zhuangsheng laughed dryly at first, then he counterattacked fiercely, "It's because you bumped into me suddenly that my mouth was broken and my nose still hurts!"

"What was Lin Yuehua's reaction?"

"What kind of reaction can I have? I didn't bother with you because of my face, but you still treated her harshly!"

Li Xiuyu said sarcastically: "This can't be your first kiss, right? You should thank me, the person you kissed is pretty good-looking!"

Li Zhuangsheng was helpless: "I already told you it was just an accident. Don't tell anyone at school. Girls have to maintain their reputations... Besides, wasn't my first kiss with you?"

Li Xiuyu's face was in a panic and turned red: "You, you..."

Li Zhuangsheng frowned speechlessly: "When I was in kindergarten, I wanted to watch Ultraman but you wouldn't let me. Have you forgotten?"

Oh, now I feel embarrassed!

Li Xiuyu was stunned and secretly breathed a sigh of relief: "You still remember...how long ago!"

I wanted to forget it, but didn’t you remind me some time ago?

You haven't forgotten any of our dark history. You remember everything that happened over the past 20 years so clearly!
"Why do I feel like you're always startled lately?"

"It's not because of you!"

Li Xiuyu is resentful, and it’s all because of you that you always say things that cause people to misunderstand!
"Don't put all the blame on me. What have I done to you?"

"I'm too lazy to tell you... Will Lin Yuehua like you?"

Li Zhuangsheng was startled. Li Xiuyu's gaze pierced through his heart.

"I... don't know, maybe in the future." Li Zhuangsheng lowered his eyes, smiled bitterly and sighed.

"What are you going to do if she likes you?" Li Xiu Yu asked softly.

Li Zhuangsheng was silent for a moment, then sat down beside Li Xiuyu's bed and asked, "What do you think of me, your brother?"

Li Xiuyu raised his eyebrows: "What's going on?"

"Do you think I'm attractive as a boy?"

"Uh..." Li Xiuyu didn't know how to answer.

"You don't have to save face for me. I know very well that normally, I will never be the first choice of girls. Normal girls like tall and handsome guys with eight-pack abs, or guys who are humorous and have high emotional intelligence... They will never want to date a blockhead like me. At most, they want to settle down and get married and find me to take over. As a taker, I am quite popular..."

"Why...why are you saying that about yourself?"

Someone once asked, how active can a girl be? Ordinary boys naturally can't experience this, but you can get a glimpse of it by looking at the comments under those handsome guys' Douyin.

“I’m not saying this about myself, but I have a clear understanding of myself.”

Looking back over the past twenty years, Li Zhuangsheng really has no luck with women. His only wife was obtained through flattery, and his sister-in-law's confession of love was just a suspension bridge effect. None of the blind dates he had met before took the initiative to ask about his well-being.

"Who told you these things? It's all nonsense!" Li Xiuyu's eyes were filled with anger.

"Lin Yuehua may have a good impression of me in the future, because I usually always treat her to meals, because she has never really interacted with other boys. And I treat her to meals out of pity, a kind of self-satisfaction from top to bottom... The most important thing is that her academic performance is so good, she will either be admitted to a 985 or 211 university in the future, and she will probably start as a graduate student, and the level of contact she will have is different. She will meet boys who are more suitable for her in college, their values ​​are more compatible, and they have many common topics that I cannot participate in. So, as a friend, I will help her solve the current troubles and let her find her own future."

Li Zhuangsheng scratched his face, smiling inexplicably and bitterly. He couldn't say these words to anyone, but he could say them in front of Li Xiuyu in the form of self-deprecation. He had a vague feeling about the ambiguity between the two in their previous lives, especially the agreement between the two books... Li Zhuangsheng was not a wooden man after all, and Lin Yuehua at that time might really have liked him a little.

But now Li Zhuangsheng is 26 years old, thinking further than the average high school student, or more cautious. If he took advantage of Lin Yuehua's innocence and kindness to possess her at this time, it would be irresponsible to her, like asking for a favor, like deception.

Maybe she won't meet her true love in her ivory tower, but there is no need for Li Zhuangsheng to kill this possibility in advance.

Moreover, after the incident with Hu Mengdie, he had no confidence that he could become a perfect partner who could meet his partner's expectations. He himself did not know how long it would take for him to completely let go of his feelings for his ex-wife.

Li Xiuyu looked Li Zhuangsheng up and down in a daze, and felt that the other party suddenly became a little strange, not like a high school student.

"I think..." Li Xiuyu was shocked. He opened his mouth and then fell silent, his eyes flickering. "Hiss... do you like her?"

"As a human being, I definitely like it." Li Zhuangsheng scratched his head.

As for whether there is an element of "love"... even Li Zhuangsheng couldn't figure out something as abstract as love!

At least in Li Zhuangsheng's scale, Lin Yuehua is definitely not as good as Li Xiuyu. And he loved Hu Mengdie, whose weight was once almost the same as Li Xiuyu... So can he love Lin Yuehua?
But now think about it, does he really love Hu Mengdie that much?

Or is it out of responsibility as a husband?

"I think I understand!" Li Xiuyu sighed, stood up and hugged the depressed-looking Li Zhuangsheng, patted his head and comforted him gently, "Don't underestimate yourself, you are not bad, as far as I know, there are still many beautiful girls who like you!"

Don't look like a wounded puppy. How can I bear not to comfort you?
"Who likes me, little star!"

Li Zhuangsheng pushed Li Xiuyu away gently and unnaturally. It was not because he felt shy to be comforted by his sixteen-year-old sister, but because Li Xiuyu was not wearing any underwear at the moment... It was okay to do this at home, but don't be so careless outside!
"Go to hell!" Li Xiuyu patted Li Zhuangsheng on the shoulder angrily.

"Little Star" was the pseudonym Li Xiuyu used when she wrote love letters to Li Zhuangsheng in junior high school.

During that time, she occasionally learned a secret that she could not tell anyone. She was extremely depressed and relied on writing love letters to Li Zhuangsheng to relieve her stress.

She poured out her heart in the letter like a madman. After she finished writing, the depression in her heart would be less, and when she looked at the reply written by Li Zhuangsheng, she could not help but grin.

Unfortunately, he was caught by him not long after!

"Are you going to pick up Lin Yuehua tomorrow morning?"

"Yes, by the way, please treat me to breakfast."

"Then I'll go with you!"

"You should get some more sleep..."

"Have you forgotten that you have to work like a slave for me during this holiday? You have no right to refuse!" Li Xiuyu paused, then smiled helplessly, "I'll go and apologize to them again!"

"Okay then, I won't set the alarm. Call me at half past six!"

After the two of them agreed, Li Zhuangsheng returned to his bedroom and prepared to finish the remaining history homework he had written during the day.

"Hey, where is my pen..." Li Zhuangsheng scratched his head and searched for a long time but couldn't find the pen he used during the day.

But Li Zhuangsheng didn't care, as he still had several in his pencil case.

It was like this during my student days. Some pens would always disappear for a day or two inexplicably, and then reappear again inexplicably.

After finishing his history homework in half an hour, the extremely exhausted Li Zhuangsheng climbed onto the bed and fell asleep without any hesitation.

Thanks to Li Xiuyu, a human alarm clock with zero error, he slept very peacefully the next day.

……

The morning sun shone into the room through the gaps in the curtains, and the dust in the air danced in the beams of light. Li Xiuyu walked into Li Zhuangsheng's room quietly and put the pen back into his stationery bag.

Suddenly, there was a slight change in Li Zhuangsheng's breathing. Li Xiuyu knew that he was about to wake up, so he took off his socks, took a deep breath, covered his mouth and nose, and shook him:
"Wake up, lazy pig!"

If God also thinks that this is not allowed, then just punish me alone.

　Another chapter today, sorry, because my grandparents were recently hospitalized due to flu and heart failure. I have to go see them during the day. They are both in their eighties, and I don’t know if they can make it this time.

　　I counted and found that I owe five chapters this month. I will start paying them back tomorrow...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)