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Chapter 80: One Step at a Time

Lu Xiaoxi helped him tidy up his clothes a bit.

Everything that needed to be hung was on the hanger.

Li Mu was wearing boxers, and she was very careful while organizing, only grabbing the edges and corners, not daring to touch the bulging part in the middle.

She definitely didn’t smell it; she wasn’t a perverted girl.

Li Mu’s room wasn’t dirty; it was just a bit messy with clothes, which was perfectly normal for a boy.

Lu Xiaoxi kindly swept the floor for him, mopped it clean, and then opened the window for ventilation, making it nice and tidy.

The room was filled with the damp, musty smell of the freshly mopped floor, and Lu Xiaoxi returned to Li Mu’s bed.

It seemed she really liked Li Mu’s bed; it felt like there was a magical attraction to it, even though it was just a simple combination of a spring mattress and a cooling mat.

She lay on top of the little pig plush toy, playing mobile games, with the volume turned up high, and every time, they could hear the sad little tune of the loser.

In the game, there was an activity where you could share a link with friends, and if they clicked on it, the sharer would get a thousand happiness beans and could play two more rounds.

In front of Li Mu, she took her phone, shared the link, and clicked on it using Li Mu’s account, thus earning a thousand happiness beans.

“Why are you lingering in my room?” After playing games for two hours, Li Mu saw that the little girl still hadn’t left and took off his headphones to ask her.

“I have nothing to do.”

“Go watch a sweet drama.”

“You’re playing games; I want to watch it on the projector.”

“Then after this round, I’ll teach you how to connect to the projector. Anyway, you’re using my account, so you can watch any sweet drama you want when you’re free.”

“No.” Lu Xiaoxi shook her head, “If I watch on my computer, you’ll just be focused on playing games.”

“Okay, okay, I’ll show you after this round. Anyway, I need to take a nap later.”

After staying up until midnight yesterday and getting up early today to buy breakfast for Lu Xiaoxi, he was already feeling like a panda; he had planned to go to bed after one round of games.

But since the little girl was taking her time leaving, he had no choice but to play one round after another; this was already the third round.

“Don’t watch; watch it tonight.”

“Tsk tsk, you’re so troublesome.” Li Mu clicked his tongue.

“Li Mu, I’ll download a game of Landlord for you.”

“Don’t you already have it?”

“My account is out of beans; I want to play on your phone. If we click on activities with two accounts, we can play many more rounds.”

“Go ahead, I’ll enjoy watching you lose every day.”

“Who said that? It’s all because the teammates are bad; even the landlord will play cards when the game is almost over…” Lu Xiaoxi rambled on, explaining to Li Mu why she lost, insisting it was all the teammates’ fault, regardless of whether they were boys or girls; if they lost the game, it definitely wasn’t her problem, it was just that the teammates were too terrible.

“Are you going to take a nap?”

“I’ll sleep in a bit.”

“Just in time, I need to sleep too. I see you’re not leaving.” Li Mu closed his laptop, sat back on the bed, pulled over a pillow, and lay down, looking at her face to face. “You can sleep here.”

“Do you know what you’re saying?” Lu Xiaoxi was shocked.

Did she hear that right? Was Li Mu suggesting they sleep together?!

How bold! Was he out of his mind?!

“I know.”

“Then how can you say that?”

“It’s just a nap; you used to come find me to sleep, and now I’m asking you to sleep with me. Is that a problem?” Li Mu said shamelessly.

If he had to weigh his shamelessness against Lu Xiaoxi, she would definitely crush him with overwhelming weight.

He just wanted to cuddle with the sweet and soft Lu Xiaoxi while sleeping.

“The problem is huge! Do you think it’s still like when we were kids?!” Lu Xiaoxi’s face turned red.

She didn’t know how many shameless things she had done back then; if she had to list them all, she would rather find a hole to hide in.

“I’m not doing anything; if it’s just sleeping, what’s the difference from when we were kids?”

“Um, but, but… anyway, it’s just not okay.” Lu Xiaoxi moved like lightning, quickly jumping off the bed, not caring whether it was her own slippers, putting them on and running out. She paused at the door and, with gritted teeth, muttered, “Pervert, I’m not playing with you anymore!”

She even helped Li Mu close the door.

She was still quite nice.

Li Mu felt embarrassed.

He didn’t know how to comment on Lu Xiaoxi.

He had just said he wanted to take a nap, and since Lu Xiaoxi wasn’t leaving, they could only sleep together.

But as soon as he mentioned sleeping together, she ran away faster than a rabbit; what kind of situation was this?

However, he also understood that it was impossible for the two of them to suddenly return to the same level of intimacy they had in the past.

Sleeping together, even if it was just a nap, meant lying on the same bed and sharing a blanket, which was too intimate.

Everything has a gradual process; it’s impossible to reach the end in one step.

He had made up his mind—

If “complete childhood sweethearts” was the ultimate goal, then sleeping with her was a small goal.

He had to complete countless small goals before achieving the ultimate goal.

The first small goal was to hold hands confidently, which had already been accomplished.

The second small goal was to sleep together, the third small goal was to cuddle face to face, the fourth small goal was to kiss her little lips, and the fifth small goal was… cough cough!

Once he achieved the ultimate goal, he could rightfully bring Lu Xiaoxi home, cuddling and kissing, sweet nothings exchanged…

As he thought about it, Li Mu felt his own face turning red.

Anyway, it was just a process; it had to be done step by step.

Starting with sleeping together.

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