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Chapter 84: Prioritizing Romance Over Friendship

At noon, the two people took a nap in the sacred place of rest.

In the afternoon, it was another long professional class.

Dinner was resolved in the cafeteria.

With a long time left before evening self-study began, in the past, Li Mu and Lu Xiaoxi would return to the sacred place of rest, but this time, the two went to the tiered seats on the playground.

Of course, they were not there to exercise, but to watch college students exercise.

Watching hundreds of students running around the campus, Lu Xiaoxi had an inexplicable expression, her legs together, supporting her face with her hands, just watching.

Because she had proof of a herniated disc, she had long obtained the qualification for exemption from physical education; but Li Mu could not, he still had to complete the 50-kilometer running mission each semester, otherwise he would not earn credits.

“I will start running too.” Li Mu sat next to the girl, his computer bag leaning against his other side.

“When will you start?”

“Tonight, I will run every day from now on.”

Not long ago, Li Mu had been going home with Lu Xiaoxi, and had never run the so-called campus run.

Now he could not procrastinate; if he delayed for another seven or eight days, he would not complete the mission and would not earn credits.

“You will wait for me, right?” Li Mu pulled the small girl’s hand over, helping her loosen her fingers, massaging her skin, both of them feeling comfortable.

There were not many people in the tiered seats, most students were there to run, finishing their run and leaving, more students would hand their phones to the dormitory elder to run for them, needing to scan their faces when necessary.

For most college students, running two kilometers in twenty minutes was still quite challenging.

Those college students without help from the elder would start to pant and take a break after running two laps.

“You will definitely be all sweaty after running, and you can’t squeeze me then.”

“I won’t squeeze.”

“And you can’t touch my hand.”

“Classmate Mu Zhu, you are going too far.” Li Mu’s smiling face suddenly became serious; there was no room for retreat on the matter of touching hands.

“Classmate Little Pig Lu, this is my hand.” Lu Xiaoxi pulled her hand back, waving it in front of him.

“What do you mean yours? It’s my little green plum’s.”

Li Mu pressed Lu Xiaoxi’s hand back on his leg, from the middle of her wrist to her fingertips, the soft and smooth touch made him unable to let go.

“You speak with a smell of chives and eggs.”

“I just had dinner, it will be fine soon.”

“Then why don’t I have it?”

“Why don’t you look at what you ate? You had sweet and sour pork and cabbage, what smell could that have?” Li Mu paused, then said, “Don’t you have gum? Give me a piece.”

“I won’t.”

“Then let it stink, I can’t smell it anyway.”

“Ugh—” Lu Xiaoxi pretended to gag exaggeratedly, took out a piece of gum from her small bag, unwrapped it, and fed it to someone’s mouth.

Just as someone was about to bite it, she quickly ate it herself, then laughed at someone’s expression, her laughter like silver bells, charming and delightful.

Evening self-study.

The two arrived early, securing the feng shui treasure spot by the window in the back row.

Lu Xiaoxi brought both laptops to her side, planning to scroll through her phone during evening self-study.

After a day of classes, even Lu Xiaoxi could not continue to be studious during evening self-study, and there was no need to be.

The two wore one earphone each, listening to Li Mu’s English love song playlist, feeling quite happy.

Li Mu, feeling bored, blew bubbles, making them bigger and bigger, he patted Lu Xiaoxi’s shoulder, showing her his great masterpiece.

“Childish.” Saying this, Lu Xiaoxi also started to blow bubbles, no matter how hard she tried, she could only blow a very small bubble.

“You are too lame.” Li Mu, who had eaten three pieces of gum, mocked her.

“Hey, Brother Mu came so early? Playing games, what else can we do during evening self-study?!” Lin Sheng and Old Yang were chatting about something, laughing heartily, walking into the classroom one after the other, suddenly spotting Li Mu in the back row, they greeted him first.

“Play games after class.”

“Hey, Lu Xiaoxi is here too.”

Lu Xiaoxi nodded.

She knew these two, they were the two boys who often sat in the back row with Li Mu.

“Lin Sheng, let’s sit over here.” Seeing Lin Sheng about to sit next to Li Mu, Old Yang pushed up his shining glasses and pulled Lin Sheng to sit in the middle.

Li Mu gave Old Yang a thumbs up and continued to whisper to Lu Xiaoxi.

Once more people arrived, it would be inconvenient to do anything else.

More students gradually came in.

“Qiaoqiao, do you want some gum?” Lu Xiaoxi, listening to the love song, was almost falling asleep, saw Liu Qiaoqiao entering through the back door, and hurriedly waved to her.

“Thanks.” Liu Qiaoqiao looked at the two sitting next to each other, saw their matching single earphones, suddenly realized, concluded their relationship in her heart, but said nothing.

The two girls chatted for a while, Li Mu felt a bit awkward being sandwiched in the middle, he could only open some apps and pretend to be busy.

As they chatted, Lu Xiaoxi let him go sit with his good buddies.

Liu Qiaoqiao sat in his original spot.

Kicked out by his little green plum, Li Mu’s mouth twitched; he couldn’t take advantage of the situation, but instead had to sit with two boys, who could he complain to?

“Log in, log in.” Li Mu actively bumped into his two friends beside him.

“I’m in the promotion match, Brother Mu, Dad Mu!” Lin Sheng pleaded desperately.

“Get lost, I don’t have a son like you.”

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“Why aren’t you sitting with Li Mu?” Liu Qiaoqiao asked in confusion.

“Is it not okay to want to sit with you?”

Lu Xiaoxi’s eyes curved, she had plenty of time with Li Mu, they could stay together for a whole day without getting tired, what difference did it make to have one more or one less evening self-study?

“Oh~~” Liu Qiaoqiao’s eyes were quite teasing, she joked, “Others prioritize romance over friendship, but you prioritize friendship over romance.”

“Talking nonsense.”

“Isn’t it? Then you prioritize romance over friendship?”

“Hey, can your brain hold something normal…”

The classroom was noisy, the two girls didn’t know what they were chatting about, so happily.

Mobile games were mostly used to pass the time, and the 90-minute evening self-study passed in the blink of an eye.

Li Mu, Lin Sheng, and Old Yang exchanged glances, tacitly choosing to remain silent about the recent unfortunate turn of events in their gaming.

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