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When Su Jiang and An Rou got home, it was already dusk.
They had been shopping all day and had eaten two bowls of spicy hotpot on the street.
Halfway through their meal, they remembered that they hadn’t fed Fugui (the cat) his cat food.
But this wasn’t a big deal. Fugui was used to it.
He was already a well-trained little cat.
He could find the cat food and eat it on his own.
“Silly cat, why did you spill the cat food all over the floor?” Su Jiang said helplessly, looking at the scattered cat food.
Fugui, who was lying on the floor licking the cat food, looked at Su Jiang with a sullen expression as soon as he heard this.
His eyes were full of reproach.
You forgot to feed me cat food all day.
Now you’re blaming me?
You deserve to fail your driving test.
Fugui sighed, ignored Su Jiang, and continued to eat.
“Su Jiang, catch this!”
An Rou handed Su Jiang the things she bought, then grabbed a shopping bag and quickly slipped into the room.
She was afraid that Su Jiang would see what she had bought.
Su Jiang glanced at her, not paying attention.
He threw the several large bags of things onto the living room floor and then cleaned up the cat food that Fugui had spilled.
He sat down on the sofa, took out his phone, and scrolled through it for a while. He found a familiar name and smiled.
“Beep…”
“Yo? Su Jiang?”
After waiting for half a minute, the phone was finally answered. A young man’s voice came from the phone, sounding playful.
“We haven’t seen each other since high school graduation. Why did you think of calling me?”
Hearing the familiar voice, Su Jiang chuckled. The person on the other end of the phone was his high school classmate, Xie Guci.
“You’re also in the National High Math Competition, right?” Su Jiang asked calmly. “With your math skills, don’t tell me you didn’t even pass the preliminary round.”
“Who do you think you’re looking down on? Of course I got in.” Xie Guci paused, then continued, “It’s really strange. You’re actually participating in this kind of competition. I remember you weren’t interested in these things before.”
“I can’t help it. I met a mentor who insisted I compete. But enough about that, I’m going to Xizhou in a couple of days.”
“Coming to my place? Sure, I’ll pick you up?”
“Okay, but I’m not coming alone.”
“Who else? Your mentor?”
“And…” Su Jiang glanced towards An Rou’s room and whispered, “My girlfriend.”
On the other end of the phone, Xie Guci fell silent.
“You… are you kidding me?”
“No.”
“Su Jiang, you jerk!”
Xie Guci couldn’t hold it in anymore. “We agreed to be single together for life. How did you end up dating?”
“Hey, old Xie, I can’t help it. She saw how handsome and charming I am and insisted on being with me. I couldn’t refuse, could I?”
“You? I don’t believe it. I’d rather die than believe it!”
Su Jiang raised an eyebrow. Why was this kid so unwilling to face reality?
He was still too young and couldn’t keep his composure.
Just then, An Rou came out of the room, dressed and ready.
Seeing Su Jiang on the phone, An Rou asked curiously, “Su Jiang, who are you talking to?”
“Uh… a friend, he lives in Xizhou, his name is Xie Guci.”
Their conversation was heard word for word by Xie Guci.
Especially An Rou’s voice.
At that moment, Xie Guci, far away in Xizhou, widened his eyes and looked at the time on his phone screen.
Ten o’clock at night.
“Su… Su Jiang, where are you now?” Xie Guci asked with trembling lips.
“At home.”
Upon receiving this answer, Xie Guci gritted his teeth and clenched his fists.
Ten o’clock at night, with his girlfriend, at home.
Isn’t that living together?
You bastard, Su Jiang.
This kid… is really making me envious.
Thinking about his own love life, Xie Guci felt like he’d rather be dead.
“Hey, hey, hey, why isn’t old Xie talking anymore?” Su Jiang guessed Xie Guci’s current mood and couldn’t help but chuckle. “Don’t forget to pick us up then.”
Su Jiang deliberately emphasized the word “us.”
“Pick you up, my foot. Don’t come looking for me when you get to Xizhou!”
After shouting, Xie Guci hung up the phone directly.
His mental state had collapsed.
Ever since high school, he and Su Jiang had been constantly competing with each other.
Especially in math, they were both gifted students, the apple of their math teacher’s eye.
Because of this, their relationship in high school was exceptionally good. They understood each other.
After the college entrance exam, Xie Guci went to Xizhou and entered Xizhou University due to family reasons.
Su Jiang, on the other hand, stayed in Jiangdu.
“If you think about it, it’s been almost a year since we last saw each other,” Su Jiang told An Rou.
He also told her about his story with Xie Guci.
Of course, he hid his dark history from high school.
“Wow, I didn’t know you had a friend like that in high school.”
An Rou stroked her cat and leaned against Su Jiang’s shoulder with a contented sigh.
A fragrant scent wafted over, and Su Jiang sniffed lightly, looking at An Rou with a bit of surprise.
Did she change her shampoo?
No, the shampoo didn’t have such a strong smell.
This was… perfume?
“Did you put on perfume?”
“… Huh?”
An Rou panicked. Was it that obvious?
The perfume was a gift from Qiuna today. She usually doesn’t wear perfume.
She had sprayed a little bit while changing clothes.
But she really only sprayed a tiny bit, An Rou herself couldn’t even smell it.
Did Su Jiang have a dog’s nose?
An Rou’s eyes darted around, and she suddenly smiled, “Yeah, do you like it?”
“It’s a bit strong…”
An Rou covered her face. She wouldn’t wear it again.
She thought that using this perfume might make Su Jiang more proactive.
It seemed she was overthinking it.
But soon, An Rou noticed that Su Jiang’s gaze kept drifting towards her legs.
Huh?
Didn’t Su Jiang say her legs were very white before?
Thinking about this, An Rou deliberately pulled her pajama pants up a bit, revealing her long, slender legs.
Now, Su Jiang’s gaze was completely fixed on An Rou’s legs, without any pretense.
Seeing this, An Rou secretly chuckled.
So this guy likes this, huh?
Let’s see how I can manipulate you.
“Su Jiang, why are you staring at my legs like that?” An Rou asked in feigned surprise.
Su Jiang frowned, looking at An Rou’s legs and said, “This doesn’t make sense.”
“Huh?” An Rou was taken aback. “What doesn’t make sense?”
“Why don’t you have any bites on your legs?”
Su Jiang rolled up his pants, revealing his legs, covered in numerous bites.
All from mosquitoes.
All living things in the world have a reason to exist, except mosquitoes.
He didn’t understand. “Why do mosquitoes only bite me and not you?”
An Rou blinked, her mind completely blank.
“You… you’ve been staring at my legs for so long, because of this?”
“Yeah, what else could it be?”
“Nothing else?”
“No, that’s it,” Su Jiang scratched his head. “What did you think?”
An Rou fell silent.
She was so stupid, really.
Knowing that Su Jiang’s brain wasn’t like normal people, she still treated him with normal people’s logic.
“Thwap!”
A pillow slammed into Su Jiang. An Rou went back to her room, puffing with anger.
“Bang!”
The door slammed shut, leaving one bewildered man and one cat.
Of course, the cat was innocent.
Fugui glanced at Su Jiang, then shook its head in a very human-like way and sighed as it walked away.
Su Jiang took the pillow off his face, blinked, and was baffled.
What was wrong?