Chapter 27: The Kettle Filled with Milk Tea

Upon thinking that the boring days still had to last for another half month, Lu Xiaoxi sighed.

It was even harder than being sick.

Sick people could still chat with some acquaintances.

But she could only sit in the corner and daze.

Occasionally, when she heard the class giving orders and the laughter of others, she would look up to see.

She looked at the kettle beside her.

She poured her cup of milk tea into it as well.

The kettle was filled with milk tea.

This was her kettle; why should she let Li Mu drink from it?

Thinking this, she picked up the kettle and began to sip the milk tea through the straw.

She wanted to spit in it so that when Li Mu came over to grab a drink, it would disgust him, humph.

But she didn’t dare to do that; she felt a bit disgusted herself.

Moreover.

What if Li Mu, with his thick skin, really drank it?

Such shameless things were definitely something Li Mu would do, and he would even use it to tease her, like saying, “Did you spit in this? You must want me to drink your saliva; do you have a crush on me?” and so on.

She understood Li Mu the best.

She took a big sip of milk tea before putting the lid back on the kettle.

Considering how hard Li Mu worked during military training, she decided to leave this for him.

On the playground.

“The flag-guard team, take a break for a while; I’ll be back to continue training,” the instructor said before turning to leave.

The entire team instantly relaxed.

That’s how military training was; once the instructor left, everyone reverted to their original state.

“Brother Mu, where did you run off to during the morning break? I wanted to chat with you about games,” Lin Sheng nudged Li Mu with his shoulder.

“I went to find a place to sleep.”

“Tsk, why didn’t you come sleep at my place?”

“I don’t know your roommate.” Li Mu twitched the corner of his mouth.

He was sleeping soundly in the sacred place of napping.

Lu Xiaoxi didn’t train or sweat, she smelled nice, and she could always smell it while sleeping.

With a fragrant girl sleeping beside him, who would want to lie on the same bed as a big guy?

“Brother Mu, do you have a girlfriend?”

“Why? I don’t have any special preferences,” Li Mu said, moving a bit further away, feeling that Lin Sheng’s gaze was off.

“I didn’t mean it that way; it’s just that a few girls in class asked. They saw that you and I were chatting well and sent me to find out.”

“Just give them my WeChat.”

“Bro, why don’t we change your WeChat profile picture? That anime idol look is too pure…”

Lin Sheng really wanted to complain about Li Mu’s WeChat profile picture and name.

He wouldn’t have such a sentimental name like “Nothing Compares to Her?” if he hadn’t been through a dozen breakups.

Too pure.

When playing games with Li Mu, he didn’t even dare to tell others that this was his friend.

If he had Li Mu’s looks, he would have double-digit girlfriends.

“Change it? This profile picture and name were carefully chosen by me,” Li Mu chuckled.

It was just a secondary account; it didn’t matter.

Even if someone messaged him, he wouldn’t necessarily reply.

His secondary account often had a page full of red notifications, with classmates from middle school asking to borrow money and middle school classmates organizing reunions. He didn’t even bother to click on them; he had muted the middle school class group.

When someone asked him why he didn’t reply, he would just say he wasn’t in the habit of checking WeChat.

“Alright, alright, then what kind of girl do you like?”

“I like pretty ones.”

Li Mu thought for a moment; this question was worth pondering.

“I think you’re just a lecher.”

“Are you not a lecher?” Li Mu retorted.

“Ahem, I, Lin Sheng, am a gentleman…”

“Do you even believe that yourself?”

Li Mu ignored Lin Sheng.

The instructor quickly returned and, for some unknown reason, directly disbanded the flag-guard team.

Li Mu, after washing up, went straight to the sick bay.

He was still thinking about Lu Xiaoxi’s milk tea.

At the bottom of the teaching building.

Due to extreme boredom, unable to find small branches to draw with, Lu Xiaoxi had already started to doze off, her little head bobbing like a small bird, which was quite adorable.

Li Mu gently sat down beside Lu Xiaoxi, tilting his head to watch her dozing off.

Lu Xiaoxi seemed to sense something, slowly lifting her eyelids and letting out a small mewl like a kitten.

“Did you sleep well?”

“Wow, when did you come over!” Lu Xiaoxi was clearly startled, exclaiming, then immediately lowering her voice.

She had just dozed off; didn’t that mean Li Mu saw her?

So embarrassing!

“Just now.”

“You… you didn’t take a picture of me, did you?”

“Oops, I forgot. Why didn’t you say so earlier?” Li Mu felt like he had missed out on a fortune.

“I was asleep; how could I say anything? And you’re not allowed to take pictures!” Lu Xiaoxi had just woken up, her speech still a bit lazy and dazed, her tone soft and lingering.

Such a cute voice couldn’t be faked.

A strand of hair was stuck at the corner of her mouth, and she was unaware.

“What are you doing?!” Lu Xiaoxi hurriedly closed her eyes.

“You got hair in your mouth.” Li Mu helped her tuck the hair back behind her ear, “When do you finish class?”

Lu Xiaoxi let out a sigh of relief; she thought Li Mu was reaching out to touch her face, and her heart almost jumped out.

“I still have half an hour until class ends; should I go back first?”

“Don’t you have training?”

“Yeah, the flag-guard team doesn’t have that much training content; just doing the right steps is enough. The instructor’s requirements aren’t high; as long as we don’t mess up, we were dismissed early, so I can go back now.”

“You wait for me; class will end soon.” Lu Xiaoxi pitifully grabbed Li Mu’s sleeve.

She was already bored enough; if Li Mu left, she wouldn’t have anyone to ride with, and she would feel even worse.

“Okay.”

Li Mu crossed his legs, resting his hands on his knees, sitting up straight like he was practicing martial arts in a movie.

“Are you practicing the ‘Sunflower Manual’?”

“No, I’m afraid of getting a herniated disc like you.”

“Go die.”

Li Mu suddenly pulled out a pair of Bluetooth headphones from his pocket, putting one in his ear and handing the other to Lu Xiaoxi, “No earwax.”

“I’m shocked; why are you still wearing headphones?”

“They go with my phone. Nowadays, not many young people go out without headphones.”

Thinking about it, it seemed like there were many people wearing Bluetooth headphones on the bus.

“Don’t play any horror music!”

“Okay, you have to be careful wearing them; don’t let the passing instructors see. Cover it with your hand like this, yes, yes…”

Military training doesn’t allow playing on phones; even the sick bay team could only sit and wait for class to end.

Lu Xiaoxi was extremely scared right now.

She prayed in her heart that no instructor would pass by and see her.

Li Mu was playing pure music.

This was his playlist for writing, calming the restless mind.

Lu Xiaoxi’s heartbeat gradually calmed down, and she wasn’t so nervous anymore.

Suddenly, she felt that military training wasn’t so bad.

The premise was that Li Mu could spare time every day to accompany her in the sick bay, not having to sneakily listen to music, just sitting beside her would be enough…

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