Chapter 29: What Does a Period Mean

Li Mu pinched his chin and asked, “Lin Sheng, have you ever been in a relationship?”

Lin Sheng shrugged his shoulders and replied, “No, I’ve been single for 19 years since birth.”

“After talking for so long, it turns out you are just a theoretical person…” He realized he shouldn’t have discussed these things with Lin Sheng.

“If I had your looks, I would already be surrounded by admirers…”

“I didn’t expect you to be such a scumbag.”

After some casual chatting, the group gradually quieted down.

Many people had been bitten by mosquitoes and were cursing the ancestors of mosquitoes for generations.

Amidst the wails, only one person was spared from disaster, and that was Li Mu, who had applied floral water.

The military training in the evening was much shorter compared to the afternoon.

When school was over.

Lu Xiaoxi was already waiting for him at the school gate.

“Why are you so early?”

“The sick squad can leave early.”

“That’s not fair.”

“You could also have a herniated disc or sprain your ankle and join the sick squad,” Lu Xiaoxi rolled her eyes beautifully.

“I suddenly feel it’s quite fair.”

The night bus was still quite interesting.

At this time, only a few buses were running, and there happened to be one that went directly to their neighborhood.

He habitually greeted Uncle Zhang.

Li Mu let Lu Xiaoxi go upstairs first while he went to the delivery station to pick up the package he had bought last time.

When he returned to the lobby, he didn’t see Lu Xiaoxi.

He could vaguely hear familiar laughter in the corridor; next door was Sister Xia’s home.

At that moment, the door next door also opened, and Lu Xiaoxi was holding Xia Yuanyuan’s hand, playfully pretending to be a little monster.

“How cute,” Li Mu thought to himself, which he said out loud, referring to both Xia Yuanyuan and a certain little pig.

“Right? Yuanyuan, give a kiss,” Lu Xiaoxi pecked Xia Yuanyuan’s cheek, which bounced like jelly, leaving a faint red mark.

“Don’t make Yuanyuan’s face swollen.”

“How could that be? Can I take Yuanyuan back to play for a while? Sister Xia has to work late tonight, and it’s not good for Yuanyuan to be alone over there.”

“Do as you wish.” Li Mu left that sentence and went to take a shower.

After washing off the stinky sweat, Li Mu felt completely comfortable. He didn’t even dare to smell the clothes he took off; he soaked them in water before putting them in the washing machine.

Today, he specifically used facial cleanser to wash his face, taking longer than usual. He had sweated during training, and his face was quite dirty. Moreover, Lu Xiaoxi’s facial cleanser had a whitening effect, which was necessary since getting tanned during military training was inevitable; the facial cleanser could alleviate it to some extent.

Coming back from military training, he was darker than if he had gone to Africa to mine coal, and he would definitely be laughed at by his dad.

He was wearing a short-sleeved shirt and shorts, sitting on the sofa unpacking the delivery when he suddenly felt a pain in his calf, only to realize that Xia Yuanyuan had pulled out a hair from his leg.

“Ouch, don’t be naughty.” Li Mu rubbed Xia Yuanyuan’s hair; the little girl was adorably fun.

“Brother Mu, what is this?” Xia Yuanyuan, completely unreserved, pointed at the projector in Li Mu’s hand, her big eyes filled with curiosity, as if a question mark had popped up above her head.

“It’s a projector, used for watching TV, the same one you use in school.”

“Our classroom uses a computer screen.”

Li Mu was taken aback, feeling the gap between cities.

Although educational resources are abundant in today’s society, some marginal cities still use outdated teaching tools; their middle schools were still using unclear projectors for classes.

“Quick, try it out to see if it’s good,” Lu Xiaoxi changed into a rabbit onesie and sat on the other side of Xia Yuanyuan, curiously examining the projector just like Xia Yuanyuan.

For a girl who had never seen a movie, the projector was a novel item, just like Bluetooth headphones; she had only heard of them but never used them, and the school’s old equipment didn’t count.

After adjusting the parameters, Li Mu connected the computer and projected the image onto the already cleared wall.

Turning off the lights, the image instantly became clear.

Both Lu Xiaoxi and Xia Yuanyuan gasped in amazement.

“What do you want to watch? I have VIP access to all major platforms,” Li Mu said proudly.

“I’ll find something…”

Lu Xiaoxi searched for a currently popular historical drama that she was also watching, prepared a plate of fruit, and began to eat while watching.

In the dimly lit room, only the light from the projector illuminated the space.

During this time, Lu Xiaoxi kept feeding Xia Yuanyuan fruit, occasionally hugging her and pinching her cheeks.

Li Mu hardly watched TV dramas; at most, he would watch a domineering CEO drama at home with his mom when he was bored, so he wisely sat down next to them and played on his phone.

He could skip watching TV, but he couldn’t do without it. The appearance of the projector added a familiar feeling to the room.

At eleven o’clock at night, Sister Xia took Xia Yuanyuan back next door.

Before leaving, Xia Yuanyuan waved goodbye to them.

“When does your tutoring start?” Li Mu returned to his original seat, sitting very close to Lu Xiaoxi.

“After military training, I can only come back at night, and by the time I want to teach Yuanyuan, it’s already very late.”

“Are you still watching? I’m sleepy.”

“I’m sleepy too. I’ll hang the clothes out to dry and then go back to my room.”

After hanging the clothes.

Both of them returned to their respective rooms.

He logged into the writer’s backend, having not checked for a few days, to see if any readers had caused him any trouble.

As he expected, after the novel ended, he received a wave of traffic from the conclusion, and the exposure of his work increased again. Although the results were just okay, the completion of the novel also brought him considerable income.

Aside from the basic income from the novel, the biggest gain was the readers’ rewards; in just two days, he received over three thousand gifts.

He scrolled down page by page and indeed saw the name “Xiaoxi Swallows the Sea.”

“Xiaoxi Swallows the Sea” had been rewarding him a dollar every ten minutes or so. Based on this reward timing, it was easy to deduce that it was a dollar per chapter. With over two hundred chapters in Li Mu’s novel, it was a significant amount, not just for Lu Xiaoxi but for him as well.

Adding this wave of completion manuscript fees.

His little savings account had nearly seventeen thousand yuan.

Once his living expenses were issued next month, he would reach twenty thousand, achieving financial freedom and surpassing 99% of college students nationwide.

He planned to start preparing a new book after military training ended, gearing up for a new writing career.

He received a WeChat message from “Little Pig Lu”…

Little Pig Lu: .

…Li Mu really wanted to complain about this period.

Lu Xiaoxi sent him this every night; what on earth did it mean?

The more he looked at the period, the more displeased he became, so he simply replied with a sweating soy bean emoji.

Before going to sleep, he sent “Little Pig Lu” another ‘.’

The other party also replied with a ‘.’

But the person next door was destined not to receive a reply, as the sound of snoring slowly filled the room.

Lu Xiaoxi also put down her phone and fell asleep under her little blanket.

She had a dream.

In the dream, her relationship with Li Mu had always been very good.

They had been inseparable since childhood.

Then.

They became a legal couple.

Got married and had children.

Halfway through the dream, she woke up.

Without having time to savor it, she quickly closed her eyes to continue the dream.

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