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Chapter 124 Too much ice cream, both icy and sweet
The young author didn't come today; it was just a meal.

As Shen Yuan strolled out of the school gate, he yawned at the opportune moment.

"What's wrong? Didn't you sleep well last night?"

Shen Yuan shook his head: "Yawning doesn't necessarily mean you're sleepy. The intense learning process causes the human nervous system to consume more energy and produce a lot of carbon dioxide. When the carbon dioxide level in the blood is higher than normal, it will stimulate the respiratory center and cause a person to take deep breaths, which is yawning."

After hearing this, Li Zhi tilted his head and asked, "Then why am I not tired?"

"Hey, hey, hey, are you indirectly calling me stupid?!" Shen Yuan warned with a husky-like gesture.

"He's not that stupid."

Shen Yuan blinked, feeling like he had been scolded again.

As they walked down the street, Shen Yuan and Li Zhi naturally attracted the attention of many passersby.

Although it's not uncommon to see men and women walking together on the street, these two are the only ones wearing school uniforms walking together.

Parents are often opposed to campus romances.

After all, the term "puppy love" can be the source of a series of undesirable situations.

The most serious consequence is a decline in academic performance.

However, the school uniforms worn by Shen Yuan and Li Zhi also represented their academic performance.

While it's true that Jiyang Middle School has its share of students with poor grades, perhaps you should first consider how your own child's grades are.

Shen Yuan had already placed the order in advance. When he arrived at the store, the food had already been prepared, but two ice cream sundaes were waiting to be made when he arrived.

As Li Zhi watched the clerk place the freshly made ice cream sundae on the tray, his eyes lit up immediately.

Seeing the girl's impatient look, Shen Yuan shook his head: "I think you really made a plate of dumplings just for a dish of vinegar."

“Got a problem?” Li Zhi raised his chin and took the lead in picking up a spoon to taste the ice cream sundae.

Tucking a stray strand of hair behind her ear, the pretty girl poked the tip of her plastic spoon into the spiral of cream at the top of the ice cream, scooped out the creamy frosting with chocolate sauce, and put it in her mouth.

The moment she tasted the dessert, Li Zhi's eyelashes fluttered and she squinted. When her tongue licked away the snow-white milk stains on the corner of her lips, even the tip of her nose wrinkled slightly.

Li Zhizheng was focused on scooping up the second spoonful of ice cream coated in chocolate sauce. Just as his tongue touched the sweet cream, a soft laugh reached his ears.

She subconsciously looked up and bumped into Shen Yuan, who was resting his chin on his hand, staring intently at her.

The boy's lips curled up slightly, his gaze traveling from her reddened fingertips to the milk stains still on her lips, even taking in the trembling eyelashes she felt from the cold.

"Have you seen enough?" Li Zhi's knuckles tightened around the plastic spoon, her ear tips suddenly burning, but her tone was deliberately barbed.

"If you won't eat the ice cream, give it to me."

Shen Yuan tilted his head and blinked, mimicking her earlier squinting and enjoying herself, and exclaimed dramatically, "Someone eats a sundae like she's in an idol drama, and the audience isn't allowed to comment?"

"Let them say I'm pretentious."

Shen Yuan didn't reply, but picked up the hamburger instead.

"I'm hungry, let's eat."

"Humph!"

Li Zhi snorted and continued eating her ice cream.

As Shen Yuan ate, he glanced at Li Zhi and a thought popped into his mind.

—It's probably because I've eaten too much ice cream that it's both cold and sweet.

Li Zhi knew that Shen Yuan had a large appetite, but she really didn't expect that Shen Yuan's appetite could be this large.

"No, can you still eat it?"

Li Zhi looked at Shen Yuan, who had already eaten two hamburgers, a cup of ice cream, most of a cup of cola, and a bunch of snacks, with disbelief in his eyes.

"What's wrong with young people having a bigger appetite?" Shen Yuan raised his chin slightly.

Li Zhi shook his head: "If you're still hungry, eat these too. I'm almost full."

Shen Yuan glanced at Li Zhi's record and smiled slightly.

"Actually, I only ate one more hamburger and some snacks than you. You ate just as much, Young Master Li."

What's wrong with young people having a bigger appetite?

"Hey!"

The two glared at each other briefly, then burst into laughter at the same time.

"Let's go, let's go back for a nap. After our nap, we can start preparing for the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday." Shen Yuan finished the rest of his cola in one gulp, and then the two of them got up and went back to school.

"Finish your homework before the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday begins."

"I think our school is absolutely inhumane! They've already assigned five test papers for just one day of vacation. Is this how you prepare for a holiday? You can't give exams this many times in a row!"

Shen Yuan couldn't help but complain.

"Make one at school before the holiday, one after school in the afternoon, one in the evening, and then one each in the morning, noon, and evening tomorrow. That's roughly how I'm going to arrange it for you."

Li Zhi let out a breath: "From this perspective, it really is inhuman."

"Right, right? With all these exam papers being thrown at us, what's the difference between giving us a break and not giving us one?" Shen Yuan quickly reaffirmed his point of view.

"You can copy the homework."

"Hey! What are you saying? I've been doing all my homework myself lately, okay?"

Li Zhi scoffed, "It's like you used to copy homework all the time."

"The past is the past, and the present is the present. Can you please stop bringing up things from the past?"

Shen Yuan turned to look at Li Zhi and asked, "Didn't you used to follow me around calling me Shen Yuan...?"

Before Shen Yuan could finish speaking, Li Zhi covered his mouth.

"Shen! Yuan!" The girl squeezed out the two words through gritted teeth, her hair trembling as her shoulders swayed violently.

"Let's not bring up old stories again!"

The beautiful girl stared at Shen Yuan, but her voice trembled slightly at the end, and even her neck turned slightly red.

Shen Yuan nodded repeatedly, raising his hands in a gesture of surrender.

"Humph!"

Seeing Shen Yuan's expression, Li Zhicai finally let go of his hand.

The moment she let go, the warmth of the boy's lips still lingered on her palm. Li Zhi pretended to be disgusted and grabbed Shen Yuan's school uniform collar to wipe her palm.

"You're disgusting! Don't you know how to wipe your mouth after eating?!"

Li Zhi's hurried movements revealed her inner panic.

The beautiful girl couldn't wait to put this matter behind her.

Shen Yuan looked at Li Zhi's slightly flushed face and smiled.

Seeing that Shen Yuan did not react, Li Zhi raised his head and met the other's smiling gaze the instant he looked up.

The boy's eyes, slightly upturned at the corners, seemed to be dipped in honey, and his pupils reflected her flustered appearance. Even the body heat faintly seeping through the fabric of his school uniform seemed to burn up from his fingertips.

She caught a glimpse of the boy's Adam's apple bobbing as he let out a soft, breathy laugh, and suddenly her neck felt like it was steaming.

If He Zhiyu and Zhuo Peipei knew about this scene, they would definitely exclaim that they had missed a great opportunity!
This is simply divine intervention!
Why do we need to eat in the cafeteria?

Do you think you're short of two KFC dollars?!

But in any case, it's too late to say all this now.

"What are you looking at!"

The beautiful girl slapped Shen Yuan hard, her voice trembling with tension, her eyelashes fluttering like butterflies in Shen Yuan's gaze.

That feigned fierce glare seemed utterly intimidating to Shen Yuan.

Her hair flew wildly over her shoulders as she turned around quickly.

Li Zhi walked briskly toward the school gate, her pale red ear tips gleaming like amber in the afternoon sunlight.

The hem of the school uniform was ruffled by hurried steps.

The beautiful girl's slender neck hung low, and the faint traces of lingering blush could be seen in the wisps of hair at the back of her neck. Her clenched fingers left crescent-shaped dents on the cuffs of her school uniform.

The girl's shoes made a soft, crisp sound as they stepped on the leaves, as if she wanted to crush the flutter in her heart from their earlier eye contact.

Her drooping ponytail swayed frantically with the rhythm of her steps, the ends of her hair drawing hurried arcs in the air, even her shadow seemed to be tinged with lingering heat.

As Shen Yuan watched Li Zhi's departing figure, a smile gradually spread across his lips.

"She's even shy now."

　If I can't control the pacing of a 5k-word chapter, I'll just leave it at that and write it as it comes.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)