Chapter 289 Face to Face
"What's in your pocket? Did your mom secretly give you something good?"

Li Xiuyu looked at the bulge in the pocket of Li Zhuangsheng's down jacket.

"Nothing, you won't need it anyway." Li Zhuangsheng said, "What do you want to eat tonight?"

"casual."

"Then let's have tomato beef noodles. We just happened to have finished the instant noodles at home today." Li Zhuangsheng said.

He has been feeling rather depressed lately and doesn't really want to cook any elaborate meals.

Li Xiuyu said he didn't care. He just stared at Li Zhuangsheng's pocket and muttered, "She gave it to you but not to me. Who is her biological child?"

Speaking of which, Li Minghua prefers Li Xiu Yu, while Chen Lanying prefers Li Zhuangsheng... The parents should have a tacit understanding, and this is the best way to get along.

Li Zhuangsheng returned to his bedroom and secretly hid the protective gear given by Chen Lanying. Although he had just teased Li Xiuyu that he didn't need it, he actually didn't need it either.

He had no intention of doing that kind of thing with Zhu Zhixue, at least not in high school, at least not before he had sorted out his complicated emotions, at least not before she was the only one in his eyes.

He wants to respect his girlfriend and he wants to treat others the way he doesn't want others to treat him.

School starts tomorrow. Li Zhuangsheng packed his schoolbag and read quietly.

He is really not a studious person. If he had been a little more studious, he wouldn't have been able to barely pass the undergraduate entrance exam.

When he was young, he relied on his cleverness to get into No. 1 Middle School easily. However, his grades declined rapidly after he entered junior high school. He failed to get into the county middle school by ten points in the senior high school entrance examination and could only study in Xingpeng's Sunshine Class.

Even so, he still had a very high self-esteem. Li Minghua wanted to find a connection for him to get into the county middle school, but he stubbornly refused. He felt ashamed of "using the back door" and felt that since he did not pass the exam, the "county middle school" quota should not be his.

If it's not his, he shouldn't take it.

So he finally got into Xingpeng and was ranked 300th on the list, which was barely considered the top student...but he still couldn't get rid of his lazy habits, and his grades kept getting lower and lower.

At first, Li Xiuyu scored only one point higher than him in the high school entrance examination, but later the gap opened up quite a lot. Li Xiuyu could freely choose most schools and majors in the second-tier universities, while Li Zhuangsheng could only barely study in the third-tier universities. However, later, Li Zhuangsheng's school worked hard and was promoted to the second-tier university before graduation.

Judging from the results, it seems to be similar.

When Li Xiuyu heard the news, he was dejected at Li Zhuangsheng's luck and forced him to treat him to the amusement park. Li Zhuangsheng proudly said that luck is also part of strength.

Li Zhuangsheng was indeed lucky. By chance he made some achievements in writing novels while in college, thus avoiding the employment difficulties. He could then calmly prepare for the civil service examination at home.

If not, he really didn't know what he could do after graduation with his academic qualifications and major, which were so popular... Or, he could just ask his parents to arrange a job in the county town with a monthly salary of a few thousand yuan.

In short, Li Zhuangsheng is a person with a casual personality. When he was a child, he spent the whole day in the book section of the supermarket. When he grew up, he played with his mobile phone and computer all day. He can do anything except studying and writing.

However, from now on, there will be no one to spur him on.

You can only rely on yourself to study.

"Studying?" Li Xiuyu walked in. "Yeah." Li Zhuangsheng nodded casually.

"Tsk tsk, I've never seen you so studious before!" Li Xiuyu said with a click of his tongue, glancing at Li Zhuangsheng's book. "This isn't your notebook, it's so neat, it looks like Lin Yuehua's handwriting."

"It's hers. She gave it to me."

"I guarantee you, she absolutely loves you!"

"What do you mean by like or not? She and I have a revolutionary friendship and a master-disciple relationship." Li Zhuangsheng raised his head and glared at Li Xiuyu, "Don't gossip about whether a man or a woman likes you every day!"

"During the National Day, I felt that she was interested in you... You must be interested in her too, otherwise why were you running around when her grandmother was in the hospital a few days ago? I think Lin Yuehua is a good match for you. She has good grades and can motivate you to improve together!" Li Xiuyu patted Li Zhuangsheng's shoulder seriously.

Li Zhuangsheng raised his eyebrows, sighed silently, and pretended not to hear. This girl really had bad intentions. Before he started dating Zhu Zhixue, he had never seen Li Xiuyu so enthusiastic about who he was suitable to date.

Now that she sees that he is with Zhu Zhixue, she becomes teasing and mentions Hu Mengdie or Lin Yuehua all day long, and even mentions Han Miaoyan, asking Li Zhuangsheng if he is interested in a teacher-student relationship.

"Alright, alright, I'm devoted to Zhu Zhixue, stop trying to sow discord between us every day."

Li Zhuangsheng was unhappy and thought to himself that if I really got together with Lin Yuehua, then Zhu Zhixue would probably immediately become my soulmate.

"I'm trying to sow discord?" Li Xiuyu punched him in anger, "Who do you think I am? Would I be that kind of person? I'm speaking from the heart! I really think you and Zhu Zhixue are not suitable for each other!"

"What's inappropriate about that?" Li Zhuangsheng didn't care.

"Because being with her will definitely affect your studies!"

"That's too arbitrary. Why do you think so?"

"Haha, you just like her big breasts that look like those in the 2D world. So you two definitely don't want to do good things together, you will definitely do something dirty!"

Li Xiuyu's decisive words made Li Zhuangsheng's mouth twitch slightly. He wanted to refute, but after thinking about it, it seemed to be true. When the two were alone together, Zhu Zhixue either kissed or rubbed, and even tempted him to touch her. Li Zhuangsheng found it difficult to resist the temptation.

Seeing Li Zhuangsheng's silence, Li Xiuyu sneered, pinched Li Zhuangsheng's arm hard, and gritted his teeth: "Did you kiss and touch each other again? You did this in high school, eh, too perverted! Beast!"

Li Zhuangsheng was speechless after being accused and could only complain in his heart, "How can you be more feudal than me? If you have the ability, don't copy films from my computer every now and then!"
"Don't worry, I won't affect your studies!" Li Zhuangsheng said, "Besides, we are usually in school, what improper things can we do?"

"If you were with Lin Yuehua or Hu Mengdie, you would say the same thing, but I don't believe it if you're with Zhu Zhixue!"

"What's the reason?"

"You are with Lin Yuehua, she will definitely urge you to study all day long... You haven't watched any ACG recently, and you have become so studious. It must be the influence of Lin Yuehua, right?" Li Xiuyu sneered, "Lin Yuehua is your motivation for studying, right?"

Li Zhuangsheng was slightly stunned. Although Lin Yuehua was not the fundamental reason why he did not watch anime, it seemed to be true in general. There was nothing wrong with it. He always joked with Lin Yuehua that he studied for her, but both of them thought it was just a joke. But if it was not the case, how could he, who was so lazy, suddenly become eager to learn and put it into action?

In essence, he wanted to meet Lin Yuehua's expectations of him, he wanted to fulfill that lifelong promise, he wanted to make up for the regret of the interruption that year, he wanted to study with Lin Yuehua... In fact, he didn't have to study so hard now, and he could live a happy and relaxed life.

(End of this chapter)