Chapter 351 Enemy
"What did you say? Is 176cm not short? Is that very tall?" Xie Jiangqing was visibly anxious. Her face flushed red and she pinched Li Zhuangsheng's waist hard.

But Li Zhuangsheng was prepared and dodged sideways. He suffered a lot from Xie Jiangqing's tricks in elementary school, and was often pinched and bruised.

"Ha, childish."

Li Zhuangsheng grinned proudly. It was indeed an old trick. No one would really fall for the same trick, right?
"Oh-"

Suddenly, Li Zhuangsheng cried out in pain and stamped his feet lightly.

I forgot that she could step on toes, which was a mistake. After all, it has been… fifteen or sixteen years. Even if we had a good relationship at the time, there are many things that I can no longer remember.

"You are 176? You didn't lie, did you?" After the sneak attack was successful, Xie Jiangqing showed a bit of smugness and playfulness on his face, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised and his tone unconvinced.

"176cm is just my naked height, it doesn't even include my height with shoes on."

Li Zhuangsheng puffed out his chest, although he felt that there was nothing to be proud of, after all, girls like men who are over 1.8 meters tall, as if 1.8 meters tall is a boy's human rights card. But what is a girl's human rights card... Oh, I forgot that they are the ancient gods of Cthulhu, indescribable and undefinable.

As he was talking, Li Zhuangsheng thought of a stupid thing he did when he was a child, which was also related to Xie Jiangqing. He was short in elementary school and was often ridiculed by Xie Jiangqing. So every time he went to buy shoes from Chen Lanying, he would secretly use his hands to test the thickness of the soles before choosing shoes... Later, Chen Lanying found out and teased him.

However, the height increase provided by ordinary shoes was limited. Although Li Zhuangsheng would confidently challenge Xie Jiangqing every time after putting on new shoes, he would always end up adding a shameful chapter to his history of defeat.

What a dark history that I cannot bear to recall. I was so naive back then!

"Really? I don't believe you are 176cm tall!" Xie Jiangqing snorted, still not believing it.

"Shall we measure it?"

Li Zhuangsheng held his head high. He was no longer the same person he was before. A mere Xie Jiangqing could easily suppress him with a single move!

"Row!"

Xie Jiangqing walked in front of Li Zhuangsheng, almost touching him. A faint scent of perfumed powder hit his face, and Li Zhuangsheng subconsciously took a step back.

The two of them did compare their heights like this when they were in elementary school. At that time, Xie Jiangqing would touch the top of his head with her hand and then move it parallel to her face.

Thinking about it now, the distance between the two of them was too ambiguous, almost face to face.

However, Li Zhuangsheng was still young at the time, and he was very slow to "wake up". He just felt a little shy at the beginning, and then he was overwhelmed by the strong desire to win and the "sense of revenge".

"That's it!" Li Zhuangsheng slightly distanced himself from Xie Jiangqing, then stretched out his hand to press the top of Xie Jiangqing's head, moving it parallel to his eyebrows a little bit, with a smug look on his face, "Dwarf, do you have anything else to say?"

"You moved your hand downwards!" Xie Jiangqing looked indignant.

"You should admit that you are short. It doesn't matter, I won't look down on you!" Li Zhuangsheng's nose was up in the air, and he kept repeating Xie Jiangqing's lines.

Xie Jiangqing's face flushed, and he gritted his teeth: "You are a grown man, how can you compare height with a girl?"

“You’re so nice.”

Xie Jiangqing was about to step on his foot again, but this time Li Zhuangsheng dodged it.

"What are you talking about? You look so happy!" Yao Xingyu's voice faintly entered Li Zhuangsheng's ears.

Li Zhuangsheng looked back and saw that Zhu Zhixue and Yao Xingyu had finished their private conversation. "She was my elementary school classmate." Li Zhuangsheng raised his head and smiled at Zhu Zhixue, "We were deskmates in grade six!"

"Oh..." Zhu Zhixue was stunned for a moment, then smiled, "What a coincidence."

"You two have a good relationship, I didn't realize it before!"

Hu Mengdie and Li Xiuyu stood together, smiling.

"Ah, no... We are just ordinary friends! But I had excellent grades back then, so I taught her!"

Without waiting for Xie Jiangqing to deny, Li Zhuangsheng spoke first.

So, the atmosphere between the two of them is indeed pretty good. Before the rebirth, they were just nodding acquaintances when they met, and there was no time for chatting and joking like now. This may be because of Hu Mengdie, and she deliberately kept a certain distance. Or maybe it was because of time.

After all, at this moment, in Xie Jiangqing's eyes, only five years had passed, and the original friendship should still be there...unlike in the future, more than ten years had passed, and they had grown from children to strangers of each other.

The two had a good relationship in elementary school. When Hu Mengdie introduced her best friend to him, Li Zhuangsheng was quite surprised. He secretly hoped that Xie Jiangqing could say something good about him. However, Xie Jiangqing was quite cold to him, at least Li Zhuangsheng had never heard it from her.

Of course, the other party might have said something good about him behind his back... She would, right? She did it because he had worked so hard for her and served as her lackey for several months.

But these are all things of the past, and it doesn’t matter now!

"Bullshit, I'm only good at math, but my English is terrible!" Xie Jiangqing ruthlessly exposed Li Zhuangsheng's bragging.

Hu Mengdie looked at the two of them with a smile, without saying a word. Li Xiuyu blinked, thinking back to the elementary school days. Yao Xingyu frowned slightly, wanting to say something but stopping. Zhu Zhixue gently held Li Zhuangsheng's hand, as if silently declaring her sovereignty.

"Is there one person missing, Xiu Yu? When will your friend arrive?" Li Zhuangsheng asked.

"It will be soon. I called her before and she said it would be soon." Li Xiuyu's eyes flickered and he smiled. "Hello, Xie Jiangqing, do you still remember me?"

Li Xiuyu and Li Zhuangsheng were classmates in elementary school, so naturally they also knew Xie Jiangqing. Back then, because Xie Jiangqing ordered Li Zhuangsheng around, Li Xiuyu and Xie Jiangqing had quarreled many times.

The phrase "quarreled a lot" may not be accurate. Strictly speaking, they were "enemies of each other" and "irreconcilable". They had a small quarrel every three days and a big quarrel every five days. If Li Zhuangsheng had not been there to hold them back, they would have fought each other in person long ago.

"Of course I remember my old classmate!" Xie Jiangqing said with a smile, "After so many years, you have become more and more beautiful!"

"No, no, you are getting more and more beautiful!" Li Xiuyu smiled and waved his hands.

"So, you two know each other too?" Yi Yunshui inserted himself between the two of them and smiled.

Xie Jiangqing smiled and said, "Haha, we were classmates in elementary school. We had a very good relationship back then! Right?"

Li Xiuyu nodded: "Yes, we are all good friends!"

No... Can you two stop being so hypocritical? Li Zhuangsheng complained silently in his heart. He even felt that the relationship between Li Xiuyu and Xie Jiangqing might not be as good as that between Zhu Zhixue and Hu Mengdie before.

After all, the latter had only fought behind Li Zhuangsheng's back, while Li Zhuangsheng was present when Li Xiuyu and Xie Jiangqing were swearing at each other and quarreling until their faces turned red and they wished they could kill each other.

(End of this chapter)