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Chapter 63: Bought You for a Day

This side was also an old community.

After a night of settling, there were many fallen leaves under the tree roots in the community.

Since the weather had slowly started to cool down, the withered yellow leaves had increased, and the cleaning lady had just swept, but soon more leaves would fall.

Li Mu stepped on the leaves, making a crisp sound.

Passing by the green belt, he could still see the jumping grasshoppers.

These were all secondary; his goal was the breakfast shop outside the community.

Li Mu, with dark circles under his eyes, bought four meat buns, four shaomai, a serving of dumplings, a corn, and two cups of soy milk from outside.

His portion only had one meat bun, one shaomai, and one cup of soy milk.

The rest were all for Lu Xiaoxi.

If he couldn’t finish it, he would save it for snacks at school.

Just consider it an apology to the little girl.

Last night…

Once Lu Xiaoxi started sulking and not talking, she was definitely angry; she had always been like this since childhood, holding everything in.

It seemed he really had upset Lu Xiaoxi.

Perhaps his reckless act of holding her small hand had crossed a line.

Good friends were still good friends; the boundaries that should exist still needed to be observed.

Li Mu felt he needed to restrain himself a bit recently.

He didn’t want the relationship that had finally improved to revert back to how it was before, just greeting each other and ending the conversation.

In short.

First, let Lu Xiaoxi cool off.

Lu Xiaoxi’s door opened.

She didn’t notice someone beside her, lazily stretching and revealing her fair and slender waist.

Li Mu: “??!!”

Lu Xiaoxi caught a glimpse of the figure by the door, her small body trembled, and she stared blankly at Li Mu, clearly startled.

“You woke up so early.” The little girl noticed someone’s dark circles.

“Bought breakfast.”

“You bought so much.” Lu Xiaoxi pointed out; this meal would probably cost over twenty.

“Mm.”

Li Mu no longer dared to argue with her.

He didn’t know if the little girl had calmed down.

“Did you take the wrong medicine?” Lu Xiaoxi felt something was off.

Today’s Li Mu was not quite right.

After brushing her teeth and washing her face.

The two of them went out carrying the same computer bag, and the girl had a pink shoulder bag in front of her small abdomen, filled with the breakfast Li Mu had bought for her.

Perhaps feeling the weight of the computer, after walking a short distance, Lu Xiaoxi wanted to switch hands.

Finally arriving at the bus stop, she placed the computer on the seat and relaxed her grip.

Li Mu didn’t say a word, which was not like him at all.

So much so that Lu Xiaoxi felt bored.

She sat with her legs together on the stainless steel seat waiting for the bus, while Li Mu stood beside her, scrolling through his phone.

It was currently working hours, and perhaps due to the last bus having just left, there weren’t many people at the bus stop.

She occasionally stole glances at Li Mu, not realizing he was secretly looking at her.

Lu Xiaoxi bit her lip, took out her phone, hesitated, and sent Li Mu 24 yuan.

“What for?” Li Mu finally spoke.

“I bought you for today; you said it was one yuan for an hour yesterday.” Lu Xiaoxi lowered her head, her voice as soft as a mosquito’s buzz.

“…… Are you giving me a way out?”

“What?” Lu Xiaoxi was confused by the question.

What way out? What happened last night? She had no idea.

“Uh, I mean, um… sorry, that… you’re not angry anymore?” Li Mu didn’t know how to say it, after thinking for a while, he just said it directly; beating around the bush wasn’t like him.

A question mark appeared above Lu Xiaoxi’s head.

Hehe, this idiot Li Mu must think she was angry.

After realizing it, the little girl’s heart filled with joy.

“I’m still angry.” Lu Xiaoxi pretended to be furious, frowning.

Since Li Mu thought she was angry, then she would really be angry, because being shy and not daring to face someone was completely nonexistent; it was all fake.

She was indeed angry, which was why she wasn’t talking to him; really, really!

Lu Xiaoxi felt she was so clever, her small chest unconsciously puffing up.

“You are no longer angry.” Li Mu stated.

“I’m going to be driven crazy by you!”

“……” Li Mu looked her up and down, capturing her expression changes.

Lu Xiaoxi, feeling wronged and angry, had always kept it to herself, silently digesting it alone.

Just like yesterday, she kept her head down and didn’t talk to him; that was what being angry looked like.

Now… being able to talk to him like this definitely meant she wasn’t angry.

He understood Lu Xiaoxi the best.

But he didn’t say anything.

After all, Lu Xiaoxi had really been angry last night.

Girls got angry quickly and calmed down just as fast.

“So what does this 24 yuan mean, a number joke?” Li Mu hadn’t forgotten that the little girl had used a number joke to scold him last time.

“It means, it means I bought you for a day; you said it was one yuan for an hour yesterday.”

Lu Xiaoxi’s voice grew softer, her heart feeling more and more timid, desperately convincing herself that she had really been angry yesterday, very angry!

“I was talking about holding hands back then, not selling myself.”

“Right, I bought your hand for a day; you help me carry the computer.”

“That was what I said yesterday; the me from then is not the me from now.” Li Mu countered her using Lu Xiaoxi’s own sophistry.

“I don’t care; anyway, I’ve already sent the money.” Lu Xiaoxi turned her face away, not caring about so much; anyway, today Li Mu’s hand was hers.

She had already written ‘double standards’ on her face.

“Okay, okay, I’ll take it, I’ll take it.” Li Mu wanted to say a thousand words, but in the end, only two shallow smiles remained.

One hand carried a computer bag.

When buying the computer, Li Mu had already reminded her that this one was relatively heavy; he had long guessed that the girl didn’t want to carry it; this little weight was nothing to him.

Although he looked average, he was actually quite capable; what was it he said?

“Clothes off, muscles show.”

There was no helping it; he would just reluctantly help a bit.

They took the bus to the school gate.

There were relatively few students attending morning classes at the university, and entering the campus wouldn’t be crowded, nor would it be like middle school where students lined up to check if they had brought their classmates’ phones and power banks back to charge.

The corridors were mostly filled with students heading to class with books, and there were also young people who had no classes in the morning, running with headphones on.

Li Mu believed he couldn’t do that.

Lu Xiaoxi, on the other hand, could wake up early to study, even if there were no classes; exercise had to be put on hold, after all, Lu Xiaoxi’s lumbar disc herniation hadn’t healed yet.

He turned his head to look at Lu Xiaoxi.

Lu Xiaoxi was bowing her head to eat; after finishing the ends of the corn, she used her fingers to hold the bitten corn cob, gnawing at the middle, her small mouth opening and closing like a little hamster eating.

Lu Xiaoxi also glanced at him, perhaps feeling it was not very elegant; her action of eating corn gradually came to a stop.

There were still bits of corn stuck at the corner of her mouth.

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