Damn it, I'm surrounded by childhood sweethearts-Chapter 693 - 477. Xu Qingfan: I’m just like you
After finishing the work at hand, Xu Qingfan hooked his phone from the charger.
After entering the password, he didn't open WeChat or QQ first, instead, he clicked into the voice recorder app.
Soon, the conversation with Xia Xiaoxiao echoed in the room.
"Xia Xiaoxiao, you're not planning to date in high school or college, right?"
"Huh?"
"Of... of course!"
The jerk replayed the recording on his phone over and over again, thoroughly enjoying himself.
He hadn't yet figured out how to use this recording, but at least from now on, when fooling Xia Xiao Xiao, he would have a guide.
"Poor Xia Xiaoxiao, completely at my mercy," Xu Qingfan spread his right hand and propped his legs on the computer desk.
Just as he was about to play the recording again, the sound of a door opening suddenly came from behind him, startling him enough to drop the phone onto his thigh.
"Xu Qingfan!"
The person, of course, was Xia Xiaoxiao.
However, after loudly calling his name once, the girl just stood at the door without moving.
Xu Qingfan carefully picked up the phone, exited the recording app, and, not feeling assured, he put the phone to sleep before swiveling around in his computer chair by one hundred and eighty degrees.
"What are you doing standing there..." The jerk felt guilty seeing Xia Xiaoxiao appear in front of him.
Before he could finish speaking, his attention was involuntarily drawn to the transparent object in Xia Xiaoxiao's hand.
[No, what is she doing with that thing?]
Xia Xiaoxiao followed his gaze to look down, only then realizing he was looking at the bottle of dirty stuff (lubricant).
"I... I came to return this to you!" She stretched out her small hand, taking steps forward.
Xu Qingfan thought to himself: [As long as it's not to reward me, it's fine.]
The jerk, now successfully abstaining from lust for six days, had terrifyingly strong willpower.
"You could have just thrown it away after using it, why bring it back?" He waved his hand, turning back again.
"I..." Xia Xiaoxiao was at a loss for words.
She wanted to say: That's not what I meant; I came to talk to you about the dating thing!
But at the final moment, Xia Xiaoxiao chickened out.
She couldn't utter a single word of the speech she had rehearsed.
"Xu Qingfan, I..." Xia Xiaoxiao, innately proud and haughty, found herself stuck between a rock and a hard place.
"If you have something to say, say it. Are we playing a game or not?" He kicked on the computer next to him and shifted over to make room for Xia Xiaoxiao to sit down.
"Not... I... Eh... let's play," Xia Xiaoxiao found herself at a loss for words and carelessly tossed the bottle of lubricant onto the jerk's bed before sitting down next to him.
On Friday night, when Xu Qingfan logged into the Ionian server, the game predictably had a queue of 100,000+.
"Let's enter voice chat later." Seeing that the jerk wanted to start a group chat, Xia Xiaoxiao quickly stopped him.
Xu Qingfan glanced at her, blinked, then turned his attention back to his screen.
Xia Xiaoxiao felt as though he could see right through her, a sensation like curling her toes on the floor.
"It's a bit hot... didn't you turn on the air conditioning?" She fanned herself with her hand, frantically clicking refresh on her mouse, pretending to be busy.
"Hot?"
"It's 19 degrees today, if you're hot, I can turn on the air at sixteen degrees."
Xu Qingfan gave Xia Xiaoxiao another look, reached over her to pick up the remote on the other side.
Xia Xiaoxiao held her breath, eyes unblinking, and only when Xu Qingfan disappeared from her view did she slowly start to breathe again.
After the air conditioning was on for a while,
Xu Qingfan had already started scrolling through QQ Space, while Xia Xiaoxiao's computer was still refreshing.
"You can keep refreshing by holding down E," Xu Qingfan mentioned.
"Ah... I... didn't..." It was only then that Xia Xiaoxiao realized she'd been refreshing the computer constantly, and right at that moment, a pop-up appeared in the bottom right corner, which she hastily clicked to browse.
Never before had she so appreciated the beauty of pop-up ads.
"What are you spacing out for, log into the game already," Xu Qingfan leant over and took her hand, guiding her to click the page icon for an easy login to the game.
He posted a screenshot of Xia Xiaoxiao's queue into the group chat before returning to his own computer.
Xia Xiaoxiao looked at the hand he had just held, hesitating, hesitating, and finally, she spoke up.
"That Xu Qingfan..."
"Go on," Xu Qingfan tilted his head to look at her.
"You should visit fewer unhealthy websites, I saw it last time I used your computer," Xia Xiaoxiao blurted out unexpectedly.
Xu Qingfan: ???
"No way, when did I browse unhealthy websites? Xia Xiaoxiao, don't slander me!"
"Look at you, show me, where are these unhealthy websites!"
Xu Qingfan opened the browser and then his browsing history, scrolling down from today's to show to her.
Xia Xiaoxiao did not look, but recounted the dates like a list memorized by heart: "August 16th, August 21st, September 15th, October 3rd, and this one, October 29th!"
The more Xia Xiaoxiao talked, the more her spirits soared, she simply leaned over and took the mouse from his hand.
When she scrolled to October 29th, Xia Xiaoxiao's mouse hovered over three browsing records: Yosuga no Sora, Manyuu Hikenchou, and The Qwaser of Stigmata 2.
Xu Qingfan: ...
"What if I say all these are wholesome, pure love anime from the island nation, would you believe me?" Xu Qingfan diverted his gaze from the screen, looking at her slowly.
"Don't believe it."
"I've criticized them all already, they're all unhealthy anime, I'll tell Ruan Wen and the others later, so they know what kind of person you really are!"
Xia Xiaoxiao raised her head with haughty pride, not looking at him.
"So, isn't Sora cute?" Xu Qingfan nudged her with his elbow.
Images related to the enigmatic scenes flashed through Xia Xiaoxiao's mind and, her cheeks flushing, she defended herself, "I don't know what you're talking about, I scrolled upwards, I closed it as soon as I saw anything unhealthy, disgusting!"
"Shallow."
"What does that kind of scene prove? How many Hollywood blockbusters have exposed bits; once nudity becomes art, it's the purest thing!"
That said, it didn't stop Xu Qingfan from casually clearing the browser history, just a quick action.
Xia Xiaoxiao watched him do it, her face showing disdain.
Suddenly, she remembered Xu Qingfan calling her earlier in the restroom to dye her hair, first suggesting red, then saying white hair would look good too.
In light of what that smelly dog just said, isn't Sora cute?
[Big pervert!]
"Cough... well, I've given it some thought, and I probably won't start dating in high school; as for college, it depends, if it feels right I'll date, if not, then I won't."
After hemming and hawing for a while and now having transferred her embarrassment over to Xu Qingfan, Xia Xiaoxiao hurriedly said what she intended to say.
[You smug little thing, you must be thrilled!]
"Did you get that?"
Seeing Xu Qingfan didn't respond for a while, Xia Xiaoxiao's lips curled into a smug smile as she spoke authoritatively.
"Understood... understood."
Xu Qingfan could never have expected that Xia Xiaoxiao came over to tell him this, and now it was his turn to be emo.
Xia Xiaoxiao stole glances at him out of the corner of her eye and saw him continuously refreshing the computer, she couldn't help but purse her lips and giggle quietly.
[Look at that silly face, isn't it just because I'm prepared to date in college? Is he that happy about it?]
[No way, how come you're considering it again for college? Hope it's not suitable, can college romances ever be right? Definitely not suitable!] fгeewёbnoѵel.cσm
Both were thinking their own thoughts, with Xia Xiaoxiao believing they were on the same wavelength when in reality, they were.
"Hey, Xu Qingfan." Xia Xiaoxiao nudged him with her elbow.
"Huh? What?" Xu Qingfan looked at her, his eyes hazy.
"So... what about you?" asked Xia Xiaoxiao, and after the question, she immediately looked down shyly, holding her breath and not daring to look at him.
"Me?"
"I'm like you," Xu Qingfan sighed and had no choice but to say so.
Xia Xiaoxiao: !!!
[Is this a confession?!]
[Yeah, 'just like Xia Xiaoxiao' isn't wrong, it's just that she's not included among the people I'd consider dating. ]
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