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Chapter 169 Luo Xiaobei, are you jealous?
During evening self-study, Xu Hui's intelligence network, known as the "Three Phantom Gods," learned that Li Min had left the school.

This is a welfare bureau that hasn't been around for a long time.

As long as Li Min isn't around, there's no need to worry about the front door and back window.

Especially in some students' seats, the fluorescent lights cause glare from the small windows at the back door, leading to serious problems.

Zhang Chi suffered greatly from this once.

He was initially quite calm, but his sixth sense told him there was movement at the back door.

But because of the glare, he twisted and turned, finally managing to avoid the reflection, only to see Li Min staring intently at him from outside the door.

It's all painful to talk about.

On the other hand, in this welfare bureau, Luo Xiaobei also sacrificed her good friend Du Zihan to Guan Ren's seat after a long time.

Then they replaced their childhood sweetheart with him.

"Beibei, I feel like I'm your summoned beast."

"Renren, remove the word 'like'."

"hehe."

Guan Ren sneered:

"Speak, why did you summon me?"

Actually, she'd do anything; Luo Xiaobei just wanted to be with him.

However, since he asked so sincerely, Luo Xiaobei answered him sincerely as well:

"I'm here to warn you on behalf of justice. Can you please stop harassing Gu Youli?"

"Harassment?"

Guan Ren was upright and fearless, even if he was hanging crookedly.
"Guan is upright and honest; the word 'harassment' doesn't exist in my dictionary."

"Nonsense, you don't even have a dictionary."

Luo Xiaobei ignored his nonsense:

"Gu Youli studies hard every day, but you always go and bother her during the long break, playing chess and reading magazines. What are you trying to do?"

"This is harassment? She's my deskmate..."

Guan Ren scratched his head:

"Isn't that how it is between deskmates? You and Du Zihan even study horoscopes and gossip.

"But...but..."

Luo Xiaobei opened her mouth, lost in thought.

So... this pig-headed guy was actually observing my movements all along...

"But Gu Youli is just your ex, she's not your deskmate now."

"That's a bad word."

Guan Ren shook his head and gave an example:
"Beibei, look, we're childhood sweethearts, right?"

"correct."

"And then we played together every day since we were little, even slept together, right?"

"Yes."

"Okay, now that we're all grown up, we can't sleep together every day anymore. Does that mean we're no longer childhood sweethearts? Are you now my ex-childhood sweetheart?"

"Eh…?"

Luo Xiaobei was stunned.

That won't do!
Childhood sweethearts are for life! How can the concept of a "former childhood sweetheart" even exist!
Luo Xiaobei felt that the person who invented this word deserved to be struck by lightning!

"So you see, although Sister Gu and I are nominally former deskmates, in reality, we are just deskmates who no longer sit together."

"..."

Luo Xiaobei fell silent.

Then she quickly pursed her lips and bit her lower lip with one of her little tiger teeth.

I managed to hold back the hot feeling that was welling up in my eyes.

"Oh." Finally, her face remained expressionless as she lowered her head and started scrolling through her phone.
"Then keep bothering her every day, preferably in the next class."

"Next class? What will you do then?"

"What? What should I do?"

"Didn't you summon me here?"

"I'm just a fleeting childhood friend, it doesn't matter. Go find your loyal deskmate."

Guan Ren thought for a moment, then nodded and muttered to himself:

"That makes sense..."

"?"

He actually admitted it!
Luo Xiaobei bit her lip even harder.

"After all, you drooled a lot on my pillow before, you really are a very drooling childhood sweetheart."

"???"

Luo Xiaobei suddenly looked up, staring at Guan Ren's smiling face, her expression quickly changing from stiff to a beautiful pink.

Especially as the person involved, the thought that it wasn't actually "saliva" made Luo Xiaobei feel her earlobes burning. She raised her hand to punch Guan Ren, but he pulled her hand first and gently pinched her fingers.

"Luo Xiaobei."

He called her softly, his voice suddenly becoming unusually gentle, which left Luo Xiaobei momentarily stunned.

Guan Ren looked very intently into her eyes:

"There's a question I've wanted to ask before."

Luo Xiaobei felt a sudden pang of panic:
"Wh...what...?"

"Are you a little jealous of Gu Youli?"

This sudden question made Luo Xiaobei feel a tightness in her throat.

She quickly assessed the type and meaning of Guan Ren's "jealousy," then raised an eyebrow, snorted, and turned her face away.
"Hilarious! If you want to harass Gu Youli, then go ahead and harass her. I'm just concerned about my classmate and worried that you'll corrupt her and make her a bad student. Why would I be jealous? Hey hey hey—!"

Guan Ren reached out and gently turned the boy's soft, round face towards him:
"Let me tell you, actually, let alone classmates and childhood sweethearts, even good brothers or sisters sometimes feel jealous because of the involvement of a third party. This is a normal human emotional reaction."

"Brothers?"

Upon hearing this, Luo Xiaobei recalled the gossip surrounding some small cliques in the class and couldn't help but ask in surprise:
"That guy from before, it seems he actually had a falling out with his best friend because she got close to a girl from the next class. So you guys have this kind of thing too?"

"Yes, but they don't show it easily, and it usually doesn't last long. Sometimes, when everyone plays a game together, they're all good brothers... So it's normal for people with deep feelings to be jealous."

Guan Ren paused:
"Hmm... Actually, if you weren't jealous because of Sister Gu, I might have been jealous too, because I would have felt that you didn't value our relationship."

"???"

That despicable Guan Ren! He actually tried to turn the tables on us!
Luo Xiaobei stared straight at him and commented with a single word:

"cheap!"

"Human nature is inherently base."

Guan Ren pouted:

"This is a complex emotional response, which is why humans are the most advanced animals."

"..."

Luo Xiaobei discovered that this pig-headed guy always became less of a pig-headed person in areas where he was not good at something, and would spout all sorts of seemingly convincing heresies.

But ironically, Luo Xiaobei always felt that it made a lot of sense.

"Anyway, whether you're jealous or not, and whether you continue to be jealous or not, I just want to emphasize one thing..."

Guan Ren spoke slowly, quietly taking Luo Xiaobei's hand from under the desk, then lowering his head to gently kiss the back of her delicate hand before slowly separating it a second later:

"...There will be many more days in school, and after high school there will be university. During this time, I may have many more deskmates, but no matter what, I may have many deskmates, but my childhood sweetheart will always be you, Luo Xiaobei."

……

Much later, when Luo Xiaobei recalled that night, she realized that amidst the mingling of many emotions, she hadn't actually remembered clearly what the light kiss on the back of her hand felt like.

But she willingly remembered his last words, those seemingly sweet words that were actually incredibly cunning, for a very long time.

(End of this chapter)