Xin An’an: “…”

Shen Siyan ignored him and looked at the other two. “What do you want to eat?”

Xu Zhilu pursed her lips, “I’ll order for myself. I don’t need you to order.”

Shen Siyan frowned but didn’t say anything.

After ordering, Xu Zhilu and Xin An’an huddled together, whispering.

The two boys, on the other hand, ate ravenously.

Of course, only Cheng Song could be described that way. Shen Siyan couldn’t be.

Xu Zhilu glanced up unintentionally and saw how he ate.

He ate quickly but wasn’t messy, and he didn’t stuff himself, maintaining a refined and elegant demeanor, like a noble gentleman.

Xu Zhilu glanced briefly and quickly looked away.

She must be crazy.

How could this bad-tempered young master be considered a noble gentleman?

After Xu Zhilu and Xin An’an finished breakfast, the bill was already paid.

As the four of them left the shop, Xu Zhilu glanced at Shen Siyan, “I’ll transfer the money for breakfast to you later.”

Shen Siyan looked at her, “No need.”

Xu Zhilu ignored him and turned to Xin An’an, “Let’s go, let’s go, or we’ll be late.”

Xin An’an blinked and looked at Shen Siyan. “Shen Siyan, are you back at school?”

Shen Siyan was about to speak when Xu Zhilu laughed, “An’an, you don’t understand.”

“What?”

“This idle young master likes to get up early, exercise, and come to school for breakfast.”

She smiled sweetly, looking innocent. “But he can’t attend classes yet.”

As soon as she finished, Cheng Song was the first to laugh.

He reached out and hooked his arm around Shen Siyan’s shoulder. “Brother Yan, don’t be sad. I’ll think of you at school.”

Shen Siyan gave him a cold look.

Xin An’an also laughed, “Then we’ll go now. Zhilu will transfer the breakfast money to you later.”

Shen Siyan didn’t respond.

Xu Zhilu didn’t care about him, pushed her bike, and left straight away.

Watching the two girls leave, Cheng Song sighed. “Brother Yan, I’m going too.”

Shen Siyan: “…”

After a while, the school bell rang, and many students hurriedly ran in.

In a few minutes, the street outside the school returned to silence.

Shen Siyan stood alone at the street corner opposite the school for a long time. When the noise died down, he turned and left.

In the early morning, there was only a shadow on the road that was getting shorter.

–

When Xu Zhilu entered the classroom, the first thing she did was transfer the breakfast money to Shen Siyan.

She could consider last night’s fruit a gift from Auntie Shen, but breakfast was different.

As soon as she transferred it, Shen Siyan returned it.

Xu Zhilu transferred it again, and he returned it again.

After several rounds, Xu Zhilu couldn’t take it anymore and sent a message: Didn’t you say not to eat food offered by others so casually? Did you forget your own words?

Shen Siyan: Am I someone else?

Xu Zhilu: Aren’t you?

After sending this message, there was no response from Shen Siyan for a long time.

Xu Zhilu stared at her phone for a few seconds, pursed her lips, then turned off the phone and threw it into the drawer.

—

Out of sight, out of mind.

When she turned her phone back on during the lunch break, there was still no reply to Xu Zhilu’s question.

She lay on the desk, spinning her phone, looking listless.

Xin An’an returned from the bathroom and saw her like this.

Raising her eyebrows, she whispered, “Zhilu, what are you doing?”

“Nothing.”

Xu Zhilu said, “Just think.”

“Thinking about what?”

Xu Zhilu rested her chin in her hand and stared at her, then thought for a moment and asked, “Why would someone suddenly have a drastic change in personality?”

Xin An’an blinked, staring at her for a while. “Like you?”

“?”

Xu Zhilu looked at her without speaking.

Xin An’an avoided her gaze and stammered, “…You’ve also had quite a drastic change in personality lately.”

Xu Zhilu said nothing: “I just had a sudden realization and decided not to hang myself on one tree but to look for an entire forest instead. That’s not a drastic change.”

Xin An’an seemed to half-understand: “Oh.”

She thought seriously for a moment and blurted out, “Are you looking for a forest in our school?”

Xu Zhilu: “…”

Talking to herself, she said, “I don’t think it’s worth it.”

Xu Zhilu’s eyelids twitched. “Why?”

Although Xin An’an didn’t have a great impression of Shen Siyan either, she had to admit that in their school, no large forest could compare to that one exceptional tree.

Thinking about it, she turned to Xu Zhilu and said seriously, “I think that if you look in our school’s forest, you’d have to wear a green hat all year round. It’s better to just stick to one tree; changing back and forth still means one hat, right?”

Xu Zhilu: “…”

Seeing her speechless expression, Xin An’an emphasized, “I mean, the whole forest in our school doesn’t compare to Shen Siyan alone.”

Xu Zhilu rolled her eyes: “How come I never noticed you like Shen Siyan, An’an?”

Hearing this, Xin An’an looked horrified. “Don’t talk nonsense, I don’t like Shen Siyan. I’d rather like Cheng Song than him.”

As soon as she finished speaking, a familiar voice came from behind: “Heh.”

They turned around to see Shen Siyan standing behind them.