Chapter 357: Love that cannot stay (4000 words)
On a very ordinary afternoon, he and Chen Wenwen were the only two people in the corridor leading to the senior grade teaching building. Chen Wenwen was wearing two ponytails, a white cotton jacket, and velvet short boots. She had her hands behind her back, and her beautiful bookish eyes were looking at him with a look that was raised from her head.

Snowflakes fell quietly between the two of them like scattered dandelions, and a stream-like cold wind blew in from afar. Chen Wenwen spoke softly, her voice as weak as a mimosa, as if it would shrink back immediately if touched, but shyly, boldly threw the question back to Lu Mingfei.

"Do you want me to remember?"

Without asking any more questions, judging from Chen Wenwen's behavior, Lu Mingfei knew that she probably didn't think that the experience that afternoon was a dream.

In fact, misleading Chen Wenwen that it was a dream was a bad idea, and Chen Wenwen was not a stupid girl. In the final analysis, he had to blame himself. He had already planned to attack Chen Wenwen at night after she fell asleep.

Just looking at Chen Wenwen's extremely depressed and tearful appearance, Lu Mingfei couldn't think of a good topic to comfort Chen Wenwen. When he heard Chen Wenwen say "I'm afraid I'll become ugly and won't meet someone who likes me in the future", he suddenly had an idea. He lifted Chen Wenwen's chin and leaned forward, giving Chen Wenwen an unforgettable first experience with a deep French kiss.

He did something that he had the opportunity to do before, but he didn't do it in the end. It was only after he kissed her that he realized what a big deal he had done. Then he could only go along with Chen Wenwen's words and trick her into thinking she was dreaming.

But you have to bear the consequences of your actions. Now the owner has not been fooled by you and has come to your door. It seems that you have to give a reasonable explanation and you may even be held responsible.

Of course, you can also be irresponsible. If Lu Mingze was around at this time, his advice to Lu Mingfei would be to either include Chen Wenwen in the harem, or to talk to you about power and authority, saying that if you don't want to take responsibility, you can just ignore Chen Wenwen. He is a devil, and he always speaks and acts in a devilish, cold-blooded tone.

"..."

Lu Mingfei would never do such a scumbag behavior as to abandon her. Otherwise, he would be no different from Zhao Menghua. As for whether to give a reasonable explanation or let him take responsibility, that would be a question for the future. Anyway, he had to answer Chen Wenwen's question first.

After a few seconds he was sure of the answer. When he was about to prove his reply, Chen Wenwen suddenly winked and smiled, sticking out her tongue playfully and said.

"I lied to you! I actually don't even remember what you said about that evening, Lu Mingfei." When she said this, her eyes slightly turned away, and the peach blossom mist on her face gradually dissipated, "So don't think too much, we are still good friends."

The friend card is actually a very tactful way of rejecting someone, and is essentially the same as the nice guy card. However, Chen Wenwen's friend card didn't seem to be directed at Lu Mingfei, because Lu Mingfei hadn't said anything yet.

The crisp sound was like snowflakes falling to the ground. Chen Wenwen walked back to Lu Mingfei in the snow, tilted her head and smiled: "Let's go home? We have been out for a long time. If we don't go back, we will be criticized by the teacher."

After saying this, she took a step forward with light steps.

But before she could run two steps away, Lu Mingfei turned around and grabbed her wrist.

Lu Mingfei felt that he was very professional in this kind of thing. As long as a girl ran away from him crying, he would be able to hold the girl's hand 100%.

However, Chen Wenwen did not cry. Her beautiful eyes, which were shining brightly, turned towards her subconsciously, and she just looked at Lu Mingfei in a daze as he suddenly pulled her hand away.

It was not his style to give an answer after thinking for a long time. Lu Mingfei looked at Chen Wenwen's face and immediately said:
"First of all, I want to sincerely apologize to you. You must have been scared when I kissed you so suddenly, right?
Lu Mingfei said whatever he thought, while Chen Wenwen, whose hand he was holding, just listened in a daze.

"I didn't mean to evade responsibility, but there were some special reasons why I suddenly kissed you. I just couldn't explain it to you. I wanted you to think it was a dream because I was afraid it would affect our relationship. But I was too naive. I did something bad to you, Chen Wenwen, so how could it not have an impact?"

As Lu Mingfei spoke, his eyes met Chen Wenwen's watery gaze:
"I don't know whether you want to forget or not. Maybe you want to forget, after all, it's not a very good memory. But since you didn't treat it as a dream in the end..."

Lu Mingfei paused and said, "Then don't think of it as a dream."

When he said this, even Lu Mingfei felt like a jerk. Zhao Menghua was simply not worthy of him. You made people remember that you took their first kiss, but you couldn't take responsibility for them, and you couldn't even give them a reasonable explanation.

Lu Mingfei didn't know if it was the white moonlight complex in his heart that was causing the trouble. Lu Mingze always said that he was soft-hearted, but in fact, he was not soft-hearted at all, but sentimental. When he liked Nuonuo, he still cared about Chen Wenwen. Now when he likes Liu Miaomiao, he also likes Su Xiaoqiang at the same time, and he is still entangled with Xia Mi.

But no matter whether he was a scumbag, soft-hearted, or had a white moonlight complex, at the moment of kissing Chen Wenwen, he did feel the heart-pounding feeling of rekindled love.

That's why he was a bit overbearing, just like what Lu Mingze said, using a way of holding power and authority, he grabbed Chen Wenwen's wrist and unreasonably asked Chen Wenwen to remember this incident like he did.

Sure enough, after listening to Lu Mingfei's speech, Chen Wenwen also said blankly: "Mingfei, you...what you said is a bit scumbag. Is there any special reason that makes you..."

She wanted to say, "Is there any special reason that you must kiss me?", but she choked up and blushed, then changed the subject: "...Do you have to do that? And you won't let me forget it."

She pursed her lips, lowered her head, sighed softly, and continued: "And you are also a scumbag. You already have Miaomiao and Qiangqiang, and you still did that to me."

Lu Mingfei's heart moved slightly. As expected, Chen Wenwen had already known about the fact that he, the little goddess Liu Miaomiao and the three of them were in love.

"But I still accept your apology. You've been thinking too much. This is not a feudal society anymore. You can't be held responsible for kissing someone. As long as you..."

Chen Wenwen looked up at Lu Mingfei and swallowed the rest of her words: "Forget it, it's nothing. As I said before, don't worry, we are still good friends. Let's go back."

……

"I am back."

The first thing he does when he gets home is to say hello. Lu Mingfei has unknowingly developed this habit, and he doesn’t know if it is a good habit or not.

The only difference was that the expected greeting did not come back. Lu Mingfei raised his head and looked around. The living room was bright and spacious, but he did not see the figure of the little dragon girl lying lazily on the sofa in the living room.

Has Xia Mi not returned home yet? But that is not right, because he saw Xia Mi's boots placed at the door, and the lights in the living room were on.

Lu Mingfei walked along the entrance into the living room, intending to see if Xia Mi was in her room. However, as soon as he walked out of the entrance, he heard some banging noises coming from the open kitchen nearby.

Turning his head, he met Xia Mi's eyes in the kitchen.

She was wearing an apron with an Rilakkuma logo and a neat ponytail, with her bangs combed back, revealing her smooth forehead drenched in sweat. There was a layer of smoke between her pretty face and Lu Mingfei, making her look like a capable little cook.

She was stunned for a moment when her eyes met Lu Mingfei's, then Xia Mi smiled brightly and greeted Lu Mingfei with joy: "Brother, you are finally back. You are back just in time, it is almost time to eat! Put everything down quickly... Oh, by the way, remember to wash your hands!" After that, without waiting for Lu Mingfei to reply, she continued to lower her head and waved the spatula to fight with the ingredients in the pot. Her expression was surprisingly serious, as if the ingredients in the pot were not ingredients, but some dragon king; and the spatula in her hand was not a spatula, but an alchemical weapon, the Seven Deadly Sins.

When Lu Mingfei returned to the room and put down his things, the dishes had already been served on the table. Xia Mi took off her apron and told Lu Mingfei to come and eat.

Lu Mingfei washed his hands in the kitchen and sat down at the table. He realized that it was not the simple omelette rice he had before, but three dishes and a soup. For the two of them alone at home, this was already quite a feast.

"Why are you cooking suddenly?" Lu Mingfei asked while holding up the bowl.

"Brother, you are complaining that I have never cooked for you."

Xia Mi also held the bowl, tapped the edge of the bowl with chopsticks, and said with a pout, "Here, Junior Sister will cook for you today. I went to the supermarket outside the community to buy vegetables right after school, and I made the dish while you, Senior Brother, accompanied Liu Miaomiao to the music classroom for practice. Don't say I don't cook anymore!"

Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment. In fact, he was just watching Xia Mi making brown sugar ginger tea for Nuo Nuo, so he just complained casually, not seriously. Unexpectedly, Xia Mi actually kept it in mind.

"Brother, why are you always staring at me?" Xia Mi's face was red from the heat of the cooking or something, and she quickly waved her hand and said, "Try it quickly and see how it tastes."

Even without eating it, Lu Mingfei knew that the dish must taste good. After all, he had tasted Xia Mi's cooking a long time ago. But when he actually picked up a piece of food with chopsticks and tasted it, Lu Mingfei couldn't help but exclaimed: "...delicious."

He didn't expect that Xia Mi's cooking skills were even better than he thought. They were just a few simple home-cooked dishes, but they perfectly met all your imaginations of the taste of these dishes.

"As long as it tastes good." Xia Mi giggled.

"You're such a good cook, why didn't you cook earlier? I've been eating takeout for months."

"Blame me. Brother, you never asked me if I can cook." Xia Mi stuck out her tongue and lifted the lid of the clay pot used for cooking soup: "Brother, try this, stewing black-bone chicken with dandelion and angelica, I heard it can make you plump..."

Xia Mi was halfway through her speech when the smile on her face suddenly froze.

Lu Mingfei frowned in confusion: "Feng...?"

"...Yes, it's used to treat colds! Hasn't the temperature dropped recently? I was afraid that you would catch a cold, so I specially made this pot of soup for you to get rid of the cold." Xia Mi changed the subject and said hurriedly.

Although it seemed that what Xia Mi wanted to say before was definitely not to treat the cold, Lu Mingfei did not intend to ask further. He scooped up a spoonful of soup and soaked it in the rice, looking at the dried dandelions in the soup, and suddenly his mind moved, and he didn't know what he remembered.

“Can dandelions be used to make soup?”

"Of course, dandelion is a traditional Chinese medicine."

Lu Mingfei thought, how come you even know that dandelions are Chinese medicine? Aren't you the Dragon King? Do you dragons also take Chinese medicine to treat your illness?

Xia Mi watched Lu Mingfei stir the rice with chopsticks without saying a word. Suddenly, she cautiously asked, "Are you thinking of Chen Wenwen?"

Lu Mingfei paused and raised his head: "What does this have to do with Chen Wenwen?"

"Brother, weren't you and Chen Wenwen arguing with each other under the teaching building at noon? I saw it all." Xia Mi shrugged: "And you were leisurely and elegantly accompanying Chen Wenwen to look for dandelions before. Your unhappiness is written all over your face."

So it's not good to have an invisible monitor on your body. Xia Mi can know everything you do. Lu Mingfei must try to see if Xia Mi can feel double sensations when helping Liu Miaomiao strengthen her bloodline someday.

“How can I be unhappy?” Lu Mingfei curled his lips and refused to admit it: “I just… don’t know how to face Chen Wenwen.”

Although Chen Wenwen said that they were still friends, Lu Mingfei felt that the "friend card" was not so much sent by Chen Wenwen to Lu Mingfei as it was sent by her to herself. She was trying to persuade Lu Mingfei to get along with her as a friend.

I don't know when her feelings for me went beyond friendship and moved towards a more ambiguous direction.

It's impossible that Chen Wenwen will fall in love with him just by kissing her, right? Although Lu Mingfei is quite confident in his perfect kissing skills, he is not a prince in a fairy tale who can make the princess fall in love with him just by kissing her.

Even if the princess really wants to marry him...the prince already has a family.

"What's so hard about that? How about dating Chen Wenwen? Four of us."

Xia Mi said with a wicked smile, showing her sharp fangs: "Since you already have two girlfriends, this one won't make a difference, right? Su Xiaoqiang will definitely not object. As for Liu Miaomiao, you already have experience in seduce her. As long as Chen Wenwen agrees, won't everyone be happy?"

Lu Mingfei rolled his eyes and did not comment on Xia Mi's suggestion.

"Brother, do you know what the flower language of dandelion is?" Xia Mi suddenly asked.

Lu Mingfei was stunned: "Flower language?"

"Ah."

"What is it?"

Xia Mi picked up the chopsticks, drew a circle in the air, and then said in a long voice: "It's 'love that cannot stay'. Isn't it a coincidence? It's exactly the same as the relationship between you and Chen Wenwen..."

……

(End of this chapter)