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Chapter 156: The Little Heater and the Little Ice Cube

Li Mu stood in front of his door, taking out his keys, and looked back at Lu Xiaoxi across the street.

Lu Xiaoxi had already opened her front door and was changing her shoes on the shoe rack.

After taking off her cloth shoes, her delicate little short socks wrapped around her cute feet. Lu Xiaoxi hooked one foot out of the sock and took a pair of pink slippers with cat ears from the shoe rack, slowly putting them on.

Perhaps someone’s gaze was too intense, Lu Xiaoxi turned her head to glance at him, “What are you looking at? Didn’t you bring your keys?”

“It’s been a long time since I’ve seen your place; I wanted to come in and take a look.”

“Didn’t you come to deliver mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival? You’re here to see Little Fei again.”

“That was ages ago; I haven’t been in this year.”

“Today is only the fifth…”

“Just say yes or no.”

“…If you want to come in, then come in; there’s nothing much to see.” Lu Xiaoxi ignored him, finished changing her shoes, and went to wash her hands. She turned on the power switch and pulled open the balcony curtains.

The dim room instantly became bright.

The front door was still open, naturally left for Li Mu.

Li Mu returned to his home, changed into slippers, pushed his luggage against his door without organizing it, quickly washed his feet, and ran towards Lu Xiaoxi.

The last time he came was during the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day, which was over two months ago. Rounding up, that was four months; four months rounded up is half a year, and if you round again, it’s been a year since he last came.

Yes, that’s how it was.

He scanned the room; the furniture hadn’t changed, and the folk decorations on the walls were untouched. The home was still the same home, just as he remembered from his childhood.

He hadn’t been able to properly explore this little house he hadn’t visited in a long time last time, and now he was going to enter openly as a childhood friend.

“Li Mu, can you turn on the TV?” Lu Xiaoxi came out of the bathroom, her hands still wet.

“Sure.”

Li Mu found the remote control on the coffee table, pressed a button, and the TV turned on, the sound of an advertisement filling the air. The little home that had been quiet for two months finally began to have a lively atmosphere.

“Feel free to look around; I need to clean up a bit.”

“I’ll help you clean.” Li Mu didn’t like watching TV, so he directly clicked on a movie on the recommended page that he didn’t even know the name of.

He familiarized himself with the storage room and picked up the mop.

The mop had hardened from not being used for so long, its long handle resembling a spear. Li Mu’s playful spirit ignited, and he walked over to Lu Xiaoxi, swinging it, “I am Zhao Zimu from Changshan; you should quickly state your name!”

Lu Xiaoxi: “…”

Is this what they call a man dying young?

It felt silly.

“Hey, how boring.” Li Mu suddenly felt bored, waving the mop like a spear into the bathroom to wet it, making “whoosh whoosh whoosh” sounds with his mouth.

With the mop wet, he felt like a great general in the world.

With someone helping, the cleaning work became much simpler. After about twenty minutes of busy work, Lu Xiaoxi’s home was tidied up.

“Do you need to mop your room?” Li Mu asked her; he hadn’t been in Lu Xiaoxi’s room for five or six years.

He still remembered the layout of the room, wondering if there had been any changes over the years.

The only thing he could be sure of was that the sunny doll he had given her was no longer by the window, as Lu Xiaoxi had taken it to Cangnan, and he didn’t know if she had brought it back.

“No need, I’ll just sweep it myself in a bit.” Lu Xiaoxi came out after washing her hands, dried them with a paper towel, and tossed the paper ball into the trash can like a basketball, missing the shot. She then ran to pick it up.

“Alright then.”

“…” Lu Xiaoxi looked at him for a few seconds before speaking, “Aren’t you going back?”

“Did I just help you clean, and now you want me to leave?”

Li Mu clutched his chest, as if he had been seriously injured, stumbling onto the sofa, heartbroken.

His hat had been pushed down, making him look very comical and funny, and he didn’t even realize it.

“Then, should I get you a bottle of water?”

“I want a reward.”

Lu Xiaoxi had long guessed his little thoughts but had never exposed him.

Now his true colors were revealed.

She understood Li Mu the best.

She tried hard to suppress a laugh and said lightly, “So what do you want?”

“Let me think… how about I owe you first, and I’ll tell you once I’ve decided.”

“You have until tomorrow to think it over; no extensions!”

Li Mu felt a sense of déjà vu; it seemed that during the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day, Lu Xiaoxi had said something similar.

He had also made such requests of Lu Xiaoxi before.

“Then I need to think carefully; can it be any kind of reward?”

“Not that kind!” Lu Xiaoxi certainly knew what kind Li Mu was thinking of, and her face immediately turned red as she stomped her foot angrily.

She was getting bolder, daring to say such things in her home!

“Hmm, I’ll think about it and tell you tonight. Are we going to the market now?”

“Let’s go; wait for me to change my shoes…”

As soon as Lu Xiaoxi finished speaking, her phone rang.

“Hello, Mom?” Lu Xiaoxi walked to the balcony to answer the call, her eyes fixed on Li Mu without blinking, frowning, signaling him to be quiet.

Li Mu wisely kept silent, feeling disdainful in his heart.

It was clearly just a normal visit; why was it so mysterious? Visiting each other’s homes wasn’t anything strange.

Joking aside, he was the man who had swung a little elephant trunk in Lu Xiaoxi’s room.

Cough, from childhood.

Back then, Lu Xiaoxi was quite mischievous, often tugging at his loose pants, pulling them down along with his underwear.

He rested his chin on the sofa, staring blankly at Lu Xiaoxi talking on the phone.

The light outside seemed to cast a faint glow on Lu Xiaoxi, her hair shimmering with brightness, and when the wind blew, it scattered like flowers.

The girl was chatting happily, and when she looked at him with a light smile, Li Mu’s heart skipped a beat, then gradually quickened, and his face began to warm up.

Lu Xiaoxi was very beautiful.

During the time they had been estranged, he felt that Lu Xiaoxi wasn’t as ethereal as he had thought. Now that their relationship had improved, the perfect image he had in his heart was slowly being replaced by Lu Xiaoxi…

Or rather, it was becoming Lu Xiaoxi again.

The perfect image in his heart had always been Lu Xiaoxi; it had only been hidden and never changed.

“It’s so cold, so cold.” After finishing the call, Lu Xiaoxi shivered and ran back from the balcony, pulling down the balcony window and instinctively sitting next to Li Mu to warm up.

“Let me help you warm up.” Li Mu wrapped his arm around her shoulders, letting her lean against him.

“Hehe, from now on, I’ll call you Little Heater classmate.” Lu Xiaoxi obediently leaned against him, secretly inhaling his fragrant scent, the faint masculine fragrance making her feel giddy.

The little girl also had her little fantasies, imagining Li Mu naked on the bed while she sniffed him, who could blame Li Mu for being so pleasant to smell?

Li Mu must have fantasized like this too.

No, no, if it were Li Mu, it definitely wouldn’t just be sniffing.

It must be something very naughty!

“Then should I call you Little Ice Cube?” Li Mu paused, revealing a mischievous smile, “Little Ice Cube are meant to be melted by Little Heater!”

So Li Mu held her even tighter.

He pressed her into his body, using his warmth to melt her.

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