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Chapter 130: After the Kiss

“I, Li Mu, want to kiss Little Green Plum, right now, immediately, just for a moment.” Little Green Plum agreed to let him kiss her; how could there be any reason not to report it seriously?

It felt like a vow.

Li Mu’s serious yet slightly anxious expression was really funny.

Lu Xiaoxi’s eyes, filled with shyness, had a trace of barely perceptible joy, which she herself did not notice.

“Just to be clear, I am only letting you kiss me for a moment, just a moment. You can only kiss, no sticking out your tongue, definitely no spitting, and also, you can’t bite…”

“Just a peck on the lips.” Li Mu could understand sticking out the tongue, but he couldn’t comprehend spitting; was that some new kind of play?

He thought it was a bit perverted.

“Your face is so red.” Even with Li Mu’s back to the light, Lu Xiaoxi could see his flushed face and ears. She reached out and poked him; her fingertips were hot.

“Isn’t it because you kept dragging it out and wouldn’t let me kiss you? It’s all pent up.”

“You’re a liar.” Lu Xiaoxi’s big, watery eyes were filled with Li Mu, “You are clearly just shy.”

“Tsk tsk, as long as you know, why say it out loud?” Li Mu lowered his head and bumped foreheads with Lu Xiaoxi, his tone gentle, “Can I kiss you now? I’m about to burst.”

“Then, you can kiss me.” Lu Xiaoxi closed her eyes, shy and timid.

Looking at Lu Xiaoxi, who was covered by the quilt with only her eyes showing, Li Mu, with no lips to kiss, fell into deep thought.

He slowly lifted the quilt, revealing Lu Xiaoxi’s rosy little face from her nose to her upper lip, from her upper lip to her lower lip, and then her chin.

Lu Xiaoxi was very nervous, her whole body tense, her eyelashes fluttering.

“I’m not a monster, why are you so…?”

“You’re bullying me.”

“Hehe, that’s true.”

Li Mu chuckled and pressed his lips against Lu Xiaoxi’s tender lips.

Lu Xiaoxi’s lips were softer than he had imagined, with a hint of sweetness. A person’s lips couldn’t possibly be sweet; Li Mu knew it was a psychological effect.

He liked Lu Xiaoxi; to him, she was like a piece of candy, sweet no matter how you looked at it.

The brief contact of their lips lasted only two seconds.

Lu Xiaoxi said just a moment, so he only kissed for a moment; this was a rare gentlemanly side of Li Mu.

He was also afraid that if he kissed for too long, the next day Lu Xiaoxi would realize it and give him the cold shoulder, which would really be a disaster. He didn’t know how long it would take to coax her back.

Li Mu raised his head, propping himself up to look at Lu Xiaoxi, who was still frowning and pursing her lips. He noticed a glistening tear at the corner of her eye, and an inexplicable sense of guilt surged in his heart. The words he wanted to say got stuck in his throat, unable to go up or down. Various emotions collided chaotically, leaving him at a loss, just staring blankly.

Lu Xiaoxi opened one eye, sizing up the silly Li Mu.

“What kind of tears are those?” Li Mu pondered and decided to speak first.

“I don’t know, they just came out for no reason.”

“You can’t be experiencing tear incontinence, can you?”

“Shut up.” Lu Xiaoxi definitely did not have tear incontinence; otherwise, during middle school, being all alone at home, feeling innocent and wronged, and the loneliness of not being able to say a word to her best friend across the room, she didn’t know how many times she had cried.

Every time something happened with Li Mu, she easily shed tears; she didn’t know what kind of phenomenon that was. The only thing she could be sure of was that these tears were not due to feeling wronged.

“How was it?” Li Mu asked her.

“What do you mean how was it?”

“The feeling of being kissed.”

“……Like being nibbled by a pig.” Lu Xiaoxi turned her head, not daring to look at Li Mu anymore.

She rubbed her lips; when Li Mu pressed down, she was so nervous that she didn’t dare to breathe.

What did Li Mu’s lips taste like?

She didn’t know.

She felt flustered, only sensing something warm and soft touching her lips, as for the specific feeling…

It was a bit sweet; Li Mu must have gotten some ice cream on his lips earlier.

“So, what do you think it felt like?” Lu Xiaoxi asked him.

“I felt nothing. Want to kiss again?”

“Get away.” Lu Xiaoxi paused, her eyes curving into a smile, and added, “You need to write me a five-hundred-word reflection on the kiss tonight.”

“Pfft, do you want to hear what you’re saying?” Li Mu smiled without humor.

Kissing someone and dreaming of middle school again?

“Six hundred words.”

“Is this how we’re playing?”

“Seven hundred words.”

“Okay, okay, I’ll write it, I’ll send it to you in a bit, no, right now!” Li Mu grinned; he could write seven thousand words if he had to.

Who told him that the one collecting the homework was his own little Green Plum?

“Why does it feel like collecting homework in middle school, Class Leader?”

“You’re so cheesy.”

“Cheesy is fine; you’ve seen it before.” Li Mu lay down, rolling around with the little Green Plum.

He had been propping himself up for so long that his arms were sore.

Before kissing Lu Xiaoxi, he had already had a physiological reaction; he had been holding it in, just waiting for the reaction to subside. Now that he was back to normal, he could openly and confidently hold the little Green Plum.

The girl let out a surprised cry, feeling dizzy as she lay on Li Mu. She huffed a couple of times, pretending to be annoyed, and turned her face to rest against Li Mu’s chest.

Through the thin short sleeves, she could hear Li Mu’s heartbeat, full of life, as if it was beating in sync with her own.

She looked up at Li Mu; from this angle, he wasn’t exactly ugly, but he wasn’t as handsome as from the front. She could even see the dark nostrils with hairs wanting to peek out.

“Why don’t you have a beard?”

“Who said I don’t? I just shaved it clean.”

“I actually wanted to see what you looked like with a scruffy beard.”

“What’s so good about that? Then I’ll start growing a beard from today.”

“No way, you’d look like an old man; you look better now.”

Li Mu chuckled a couple of times, his heartbeat gradually calming down, perhaps due to the lingering scent of the little Green Plum at the tip of his nose.

“Let’s sleep together tonight.”

“No, I want to go back to sleep.”

“No one will warm your bed for you; you might as well come sleep with me.”

“I’m planning to buy a hand warmer, one that charges; I’ll use it to warm my bed before sleeping.”

Li Mu’s expression turned serious, “That thing is dangerous. I saw a news report before about a hand warmer exploding while charging, flooding the whole room. You can’t buy it, got it?”

A mere hand warmer dared to challenge his position as Lu Xiaoxi’s bed warmer?

Impossible, absolutely impossible!

Lu Xiaoxi smiled sweetly; Li Mu was even comparing hand warmers, what a big fool.

“I know, I know, just hurry up and write the reflection. It’s already 11:20 PM. If you finish tonight, I’ll sleep with you for half the night.”

“What about the other half?”

“I’ll sleep with you for the second half if I’m satisfied with the reflection.”

“Get off, you’re in the way. Don’t you know I need to write the reflection?” Li Mu acted like a scumbag.

He couldn’t handle Lu Xiaoxi anymore.

Tonight, the room was filled with the sound of rapid typing on the keyboard, with Li Mu’s fingers flying across the keys.

While writing the reflection, Lu Xiaoxi sat beside him, watching what kind of nonsense he was writing.

Just as she thought, Li Mu was crazily praising her in the reflection.

How cute her eyebrows were, how cute her eyes were, how cute her nose was, and how good her mouth was to kiss, making it hard to stop.

He was about to praise her into a fairy that could make fish sink and birds fall.

She was very satisfied and very happy; she was all about this kind of flattery.

“Li Mu, Li Mu.”

“Almost done, wait a moment.”

“Not waiting.”

“You say.” Li Mu didn’t even turn his head, his fingers moving quickly.

“You have to read it to me later.”

“…… You want me to die of embarrassment?!” Li Mu glanced at her, his eyes wide with disbelief.

What a malicious little Green Plum!

“Dare to kiss, dare to write, but not dare to read?” Lu Xiaoxi smiled lightly, poking his face and scratching his neck, distracting him from typing.

“I dared to kiss; you didn’t refuse at all.”

“Nonsense, I refused!”

“You refused what? You refused, and I wouldn’t dare to kiss you. I see you were just too shy.” Li Mu chuckled.

“Ah, ah, ah, don’t say anymore!” Lu Xiaoxi shyly covered his mouth from behind.

If this continued, she would be so embarrassed she would steam up!

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