The Jing family runs a five-star chain hotel, while the Li family supplies hotel supplies. The hotel orders from the southern region, which accounted for 60% of their company’s total revenue, were mainly from the Jing family.

Jing’s mother and Li’s mother were close friends since their university days, so the Jing family and the Li family have always had a cooperative relationship. To please the Jing family, Li’s father even encouraged Li Xueqing to spend more time with Jing Ran. When they were children, Jing Ran had a mushroom-shaped haircut and wore black-framed glasses, giving him a somewhat foolish appearance. The reason Li Xueqing played with Jing Ran was that his family was wealthy, he was an only child, and his parents would buy him anything. Many of his toys and snacks were imported, and he would often give them to Li Xueqing voluntarily.

Later on, Jing Ran went to a prestigious school, and Li’s father arranged for Li Xueqing to be placed in the same class as Jing Ran. After starting elementary school, everyone laughed at Jing Ran for being unsophisticated, and they threatened that anyone who played with Jing Ran would be considered stupid. Li Xueqing, being concerned about her reputation, naturally didn’t tell anyone that she knew Jing Ran. She even joined a group of girls who would frequently bully Jing Ran. Eventually, Jing Ran’s parents discovered that he was being bullied at school. Li Xueqing was afraid that he would expose their connection and feared that Jing Ran’s parents and her own parents would hold her accountable. Fortunately, Jing Ran was foolish enough not to reveal anyone’s involvement.

Not long after, Jing Ran transferred to another school. Li’s father initially wanted Li Xueqing to transfer to Jing Ran’s new school as well, but it turned out to be an ordinary public school. However, since Li Xueqing had already paid a significant amount in school establishment fees for the prestigious school, Li’s father had no choice but to give up on the idea.

Later on, Li Xueqing went a long time without seeing Jing Ran. Every time her parents took her to visit the Jing family, Jing Ran was never home. She heard from his parents that he was at his grandfather’s house. It wasn’t until they both entered J University that she found out he also got accepted there, and he even achieved the top score in the college entrance examination. However, after all these years, his taste remained poor, and Li Xueqing didn’t want to tell anyone that she knew someone with such poor taste.

Because they reached the age of marriage, this year Li’s father proposed to Jing Ran’s parents that Li Xueqing and Jing Ran should spend time together and get married after graduating from university. Li Xueqing was taken aback and before she could refuse, Jing Ran beat her to it and said, “I don’t like Li Xueqing.”

Li’s father no longer insisted, and while Li Xueqing was relieved, she was also very angry. Why should she let an ugly jerk reject her? If there was going to be a refusal, she should have been the one to initiate it!

When the new semester began, Li Xueqing discovered at school that Jing Ran had a girlfriend, who happened to be the campus beauty of their management department. It seems Jing Li was also a girl who loved to dress up and take care of her appearance, so why would she have such poor taste and be willing to be with Jing Ran? Later, she thought that perhaps Jing Ran’s wealthy family was the reason this girl chose to be with him, so she viewed Jing Li with colored glasses.

However, Jing Ran’s changes are really significant. If she had noticed Jing Ran’s potential back then, then…

“Ranran, let’s go.”
Jing Li linked arms with Jing Ran and left Li Xueqing’s side. Jing Li looked at Li Xueqing, who was looking at Jing Ran with a tangled expression, feeling a bit proud: Look, my little prince is so beautiful, dazzling your eyes!

*
The prize money for the debate competition is 1000 yuan, divided equally among the 4 team members, which is 250 yuan per person. After deducting the cost of the POLO shirts during the competition, each person receives 150 yuan. Jing Li took the money back to the dormitory for Jing Ran and handed 150 yuan to Li Ruihua.

In April, the weather gradually became hot, and G City had entered early summer. I don’t know who mentioned that the weather was too hot and how they wanted to go to the beach. Then, one thing led to another, and it turned into a discussion about dormitory activities, going to the beach on the weekend.

Jing Li also wanted to go to the beach, but if she went on the weekend, she couldn’t go to her grandma’s house with Jing Ran.

Should she go to the beach with her roommates or stay home with her little prince?

It’s a difficult choice.

The other people in the dormitory all agreed, leaving Jing Li silent.

Cheng Xue asked, “Jing Li, aren’t you going?”

Jing Li was a bit troubled, “I want to go, but I have to accompany my boyfriend!”

Yin Hailing teased, “You’re together every day, and you still have to be together on weekends? You two are like conjoined twins, never apart.”

Jing Li sighed, “Ah, you guys don’t understand…”

She had made an agreement with her little prince that they could only be affectionate at home. If she left her little prince behind and went to play on the weekend, her little prince would definitely accuse her of breaking her promise.

Li Ruihua suggested, “Why don’t you invite him to come along? Since a few of us girls are going to the beach overnight, it would be safer to have a guy with us.”

Cheng Xue placed her hands on Li Ruihua’s shoulders and excitedly said to Jing Li, “Yes, yes, invite your top student to come with us. It will be pleasing to the eye and he can also act as a bodyguard.”

“Let me ask him.” After saying that, Jing Li took out her phone and sent a WeChat message to Jing Ran.

Jasmine : [Ranran, this weekend our dorm is organizing a trip to the beach. Do you want to come with us?]

Ranran: [Sure, why not!]

Jing Li told her roommates, “He said he’ll come.”
“That’s great!”

The next moment, Jing Ran sent another WeChat message.

Ranran: [My roommate also wants to go. Is it okay?]

“He says his roommate also wants to go, is it okay?” Jing Li asked for everyone’s opinion.

“That’s fine!”

And just like that, the decision to go to the beach on the weekend was made happily.

*
After returning to school for a few days, Jing Li was going crazy!

There were some girls at school who were constantly trying to compete with Jing Li. They always took advantage of the times when she wasn’t with Jing Ran and would pull him away.

Jing Ran had already had his clothes “accidentally” dirtied by girls in the cafeteria numerous times, as a way to get his attention. Later, Jing Li asked Jing Ran to find a seat while she went to get food.

Jing Li wanted to eat rice noodle rolls, so she bought two portions and walked towards Jing Ran’s seat. She saw a girl intentionally spill some sauce on Jing Ran’s back while carrying a tray. Jing Ran turned around and the girl apologized to him.

Jing Li recognized the girl. Last night, she had also dirtied Jing Ran’s clothes during dinner. Seeing the whole process with her own eyes, Jing Li became angry and impatient.

Damn, Jing Ran’s clothes are all expensive. How can this troublesome girl keep dirtying them again and again?

Jing Li hurriedly walked up to them and overheard the girl saying, “I feel guilty. Let me wash your clothes for you, okay?”
“Feel guilty, huh?” Jing Li said, and then poured one plate of rice noodle rolls on the girl, splashing soy sauce all over her clothes. Jing Li put on an angry face and said, “Now we’re even. No one owes anyone anything!”

The girl gritted her teeth and pointed at Jing Li, “How could you do this?”

Being publicly splashed with soy sauce was embarrassing for the girl, especially with other students looking over, as if they were expecting a good show.

“Senior, how can she do this? It’s not like she did it on purpose!” The girl, with a pitiful look, coquettishly complained to Jing Ran, hoping to seek justice. She believed that this handsome senior would be fair.

Jing Ran seemed to not take her seriously at all and said seriously, “Junior, there’s no need to feel guilty. We’ve already settled the score.”

The junior girl looked confused. Was this senior sent by the heavens to be a clown?

Jing Li angrily warned the girl, “Let me tell you, if you dare to intentionally dirty my boyfriend’s clothes again, I’ll pour a bowl of hot soup on your face!”

Jing Li put down the other plate of rice noodle rolls on the table and pulled Jing Ran away.

It was the first time Jing Ran saw Jing Li angry and didn’t know what to do. However, as they walked out of the cafeteria, Jing Li returned to her usual self, taking a deep breath and saying, “You scared me, what should we do?”

Jing Ran didn’t understand what she meant and asked, “Huh?”

“What if others think I’m a domineering and difficult person to get along with? Oh no! Will someone have recorded what happened just now and post it on the school forum, accusing me of bullying the junior girl…” Jing Li rattled off a long speech.

Finally, Jing Ran said, “Lili, you are a kind-hearted person.”

Since Jing Ran first learned about Jing Li’s existence, he had always thought of her that way, and it hadn’t changed now.

“Really?” Jing Li was happy to hear that Jing Ran thought of her that way.

Jing Ran nodded affirmatively.

Jing Li held Jing Ran’s hand and said, “Ranran, let’s go outside the school to have a meal. It’s my treat.”

“Okay.” Jing Ran nodded and walked towards the school gate with Jing Li. They chatted along the way, “Lili, recently I’ve noticed that some girls in our school are so silly!”

“How so?”

“These past few days, I keep seeing some girls walking and then suddenly falling down. And then they all look at me as if I pushed them or something.”

“So, did you help them up?”

Jing Ran said seriously, “No, why should I help them up? They’re not old ladies. If they fall, they can get up on their own!”

Jing Li chuckled.

The top student didn’t understand those little bitch’s tricks.

“And also, there are a few girls who were holding some things, claiming that I dropped them. I told them it wasn’t mine, but they insisted that they saw me drop them and kept forcing them onto me. Don’t you think there’s something wrong with their eyes?”

“And did you accept them?”

“Well, they handed them to me, and then I just threw them in the trash can. They asked me why I threw them away, and I said they weren’t mine. Just some small things, even the lost and found wouldn’t take them.”

Jing Li asked, “What did they give you?”

“Chocolate, a hat, a thermos… They all seemed new…”

Jing Li silently thought to herself: Actually, it’s okay for you to accept them. Don’t be so wasteful. You can give them to me too, since they’re free anyway.

*
On Thursday afternoon, Jing Ran didn’t have any classes, but Jing Li did. They had planned to go to the city after school to buy some beach equipment for their trip to J City’s seaside on Friday night.

After school, Jing Li packed up her things and handed her textbooks to Li Ruihua to take back to the dormitory. She picked up her small handbag and left the teaching building to find Jing Ran.

Jing Ran was leaning against a lush tree near the school gate, wearing Bluetooth earphones and watching a video. Jing Li thought he was studying, but when she got closer, she saw that the video showed a couple engaging in explicit activities.

This… This… Isn’t this the legendary adult film?