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Chapter 74: His Childhood Was Here

It was somewhat magical.

A few days ago, Lu Xiaoxi had been shy all night after he held her finger for a moment.

Now, he could openly hold Lu Xiaoxi’s two fingers.

Lu Xiaoxi lowered her head like a little ostrich and hardly spoke along the way.

As she moved, her hair swayed back and forth, revealing her flushed earlobes, which were even pink.

Her shy appearance was truly adorable.

Li Mu touched his own face, feeling a bit warm as well.

He held Lu Xiaoxi’s index and middle fingers, rubbing them while feeling her delicate skin.

Suddenly feeling unsatisfied, he skillfully held Lu Xiaoxi’s ring finger as well.

“……” Lu Xiaoxi frowned, opening her mouth to say something, but was interrupted by Li Mu.

“Half of five fingers is two point five fingers, rounded up it’s three fingers.”

“Your brain is full of nonsense.”

“You’re not much better.” Li Mu held the three slender fingers together, enjoying the moment.

“Just hold hands, don’t keep touching around.”

“It’s nice to touch.”

“Then don’t hold my hand.” Lu Xiaoxi wanted to pull her hand back; being squeezed like this by Li Mu would embarrass her to death.

“Wait, wait, I won’t touch anymore.”

“You better mean what you say.” Lu Xiaoxi huffed, allowing him to hold her hand.

If he dared to touch her again, she would pull her hand back and wouldn’t let him hold it today.

By the time they reached the subway station, Li Mu was really honest, not touching her and just holding her hand.

But he wasn’t that honest; originally, he could only hold three fingers, but as they held hands, it turned into four.

When Lu Xiaoxi noticed, her whole hand was being held by him.

Li Mu’s hand was warm and comfortable.

Lu Xiaoxi looked down at her small hand completely wrapped by Li Mu; if it could be like this in winter, her fingers wouldn’t be frozen and red.

It was the weekend, not a holiday, so there were fewer office workers and students, making the subway seats much more available.

Li Mu was busy scrolling through his phone on the subway.

He couldn’t openly show affection in the subway like those videos; Lu Xiaoxi definitely couldn’t either.

Due to inertia and the smooth seats, every time the subway stopped, Lu Xiaoxi would slide over and bump into him.

After each bump, Lu Xiaoxi would pull back a fist’s distance, and then when the next stop came, she would bump into him again.

Lu Xiaoxi finally understood why Li Mu liked to bump into her; it turned out that bumping into people was so much fun.

After getting off the subway, they walked for a few minutes and arrived at the zoo.

The zoo had discounts on weekends, making tickets much cheaper.

After buying tickets, the two of them went to a nearby milk tea shop and bought two cups of kumquat lemonade before entering the zoo.

“Don’t walk so fast, can’t we take our time to look?” Li Mu quickly followed the excited Lu Xiaoxi, naturally holding her whole hand.

“I’ve never been to a zoo before.” Lu Xiaoxi’s excitement was evident as she looked around, carefully examining every sign on the road.

A leaf fell on her head, and Li Mu helped her take it off, laughing, “Haven’t you seen a circus before?”

“That was ages ago, and I’ve only seen it once.”

“Hmm, it seems like circuses have disappeared?”

In the past, circuses would set up tents and cages in certain open spaces, performing animal shows for a few days before moving to another location.

The first time he and Lu Xiaoxi saw large animals was at the circus.

Even behind the cage, Lu Xiaoxi was very scared; even with her parents beside her, she would hide behind him, shrinking her body while peeking to look.

Perhaps for safety reasons, or for the sake of the animals’ survival, for whatever reason, those traveling circuses had disappeared from his view.

“I don’t know, what’s wrong?”

“The circus has left along with our childhood.”

“Can you not be suddenly so sad? Besides, I’m still here, right?”

“Hehe, let’s go see the tigers.” As Li Mu spoke, he rubbed Lu Xiaoxi’s face with his knuckles.

Lu Xiaoxi wasn’t wrong; his childhood was indeed here.

Ever since that thin layer of window paper was poked through by Li Mu.

Lu Xiaoxi had become less resistant to being touched on the face and holding hands by Li Mu.

She and he were childhood friends, so doing these things was completely fine.

The zoo was very novel for both Li Mu and Lu Xiaoxi.

They were both seeing sea turtles in real life for the first time, and they didn’t expect the sea turtles to be so large.

They were bigger than when they spread their arms.

“Li Mu, take a picture of me!”

Lu Xiaoxi handed her phone to Li Mu and ran to the glass in front of the sea turtle pool, making a peace sign.

The phone hadn’t been unlocked yet, but Li Mu simply entered Lu Xiaoxi’s birthday to unlock it.

In the album, the last photo of Lu Xiaoxi was of the meal she made yesterday; most girls have a habit of letting their phones “eat” first when they see a feast, and Lu Xiaoxi was no exception.

In one motion, Li Mu took many pictures of Lu Xiaoxi, and then took a couple of selfies.

“Done.”

“Let me see.” Lu Xiaoxi excitedly ran over and saw Li Mu’s two selfies.

She guessed Li Mu would do this, so she directly ignored it and looked at the photos of the sea turtles he took.

“You took such ugly pictures.”

“Is it possible that you’re the ugly one?”

“Stop talking nonsense.” Lu Xiaoxi flicked her hair.

She had always been very pretty and cute, okay?

Li Mu’s Adam’s apple rolled up and down, feeling that Lu Xiaoxi had a bit of a pink filter on her, making her look very sweet.

“You go take a picture too; I’ll take it for you, hurry up.”

“I don’t know how to pose.”

“You’re silly; just learn to make a peace sign like me.”

“Then you have to send it to me after you take it.” Li Mu walked to the sea turtle glass and made a peace sign.

Lu Xiaoxi seized the opportunity and took several pictures when the sea turtle swam over, the flash going off wildly.

Li Mu couldn’t help but smile; he always said to turn off the flash, but he kept forgetting, and it seemed Lu Xiaoxi was the same.

It seemed that he and Lu Xiaoxi weren’t so incompatible in some aspects.

“Look, you’re also ugly.” Lu Xiaoxi showed him the photo, pointing at his face and laughing.

“When did you edit this?”

Li Mu looked at the photo where a pig nose sticker was edited onto his face, falling into deep thought.

“It’s not edited; you look like this originally.” Lu Xiaoxi laughed so hard she bent over, finally covering her stomach and wiping the tears from the corners of her eyes.

“Didn’t you say you don’t like taking pictures?”

“Yeah.”

“Then why did you let me take pictures of you?”

Lu Xiaoxi thought for a moment, unsure how to answer him, “You’re different.”

“What’s different?”

“You’re Little Pig Lu; your pictures don’t count.”

Li Mu: “……”

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