Oh no, the aloof school beauty has been reborn too!

After leaving the household goods store, the two strolled around the mall for a while longer.

Shen Qingyi held the small glass vase, still walking very carefully.

The light-colored wrapping paper originally used to wrap the flowers was folded and placed on the outside of the vase by the shop assistant.

A transparent film was wrapped around the bottle opening to prevent water from spilling out, leaving only the camellia branches and leaves peeking out from it.

This is much more convenient than before.

"What time is the movie again?"

Lu Xing raised his hand and glanced at the time on his phone.

Shen Qingyi thought for a moment.

"The next one is at midnight, right..."

"Going there now would be just right."

As they talked, the two walked towards the movie theater.

The commercial street was exceptionally lively at this moment.

The shops along the roadside were all open, and the various signs and decorative lights were lit up together, making it a bit dazzling.

When passing by a jewelry store, Shen Qingyi went in and took a look.

She picked up a few hair clips and compared them, but didn't buy any.

After walking a distance, her pace slowed down.

Lu Xing followed her gaze again and saw a small handicraft shop.

Several strings of brightly colored decorations hang at the entrance of the shop, while a number of works made of Perler beads are displayed in the transparent glass cabinet.

There are cartoon characters, as well as small animals and pixel-style flowers.

One of the little rabbits was made into a keychain and hung in the most conspicuous place.

The rabbit was holding a carrot in its arms, looking round and chubby...

So, Shen Qingyi stared at it for several seconds.

Lu Xing then stopped as well.

"Want to go in and take a look?"

"Well……"

Shen Qingyi withdrew her gaze, seemingly conflicted.

"But the movie seems to be starting soon."

"really."

Lu Xing nodded.

"Let's go then."

"Um."

Shen Qingyi responded softly and was about to continue walking forward when Lu Xing suddenly grabbed her free hand.

The next second, Lu Xing had already turned her around and walked straight into the Perler bead shop.

Shen Qingyi was stunned for a moment.

"Weren't we going to see a movie?"

"You can watch movies anytime."

Lu Xing turned to look at her, his tone matter-of-fact.

"Since you want to play with Perler beads, let's come in and take a look."

Shen Qingyi could no longer hide her smile.

She held the small vase in her arms and let the boy lead her into the store.

"So you're not going to see the movie?"

"I'm not watching anymore."

Lu Xing shook their clasped hands.

"I'll do whatever you want today, whatever you decide."

Shen Qingyi gazed at his profile, a smile curving her lips.

"Hehe, that's great."

After saying that, she took Lu Xing's arm and followed him into the store.

The shop appears more spacious inside than it does from the outside.

A row of transparent cabinets is placed against the wall, containing plastic beans of various colors, categorized by type.

Red, blue, light yellow, dark green...

In the middle of the shop, there are several long tables, each equipped with a bean-making board, tweezers, and a small box for bean paste.

There is also a whole wall of blueprints next to it.

Guests can either follow the pattern on the drawing or design their own.

There weren't many customers in the store at that time.

Two girls were sitting by the window, assembling a cartoon dog.

The shop assistant came over and briefly explained the price and preparation method to the two of them.

Shen Qingyi listened very attentively.

After the shop assistant finished speaking, Shen Qingyi led Lu Xing to the wall of blueprints.

"What kind of lottery ticket do you want to play?"

Lu Xing looked around and, with great self-awareness, said:

"Shall we pick something simpler?"

Upon hearing this, Shen Qingyi's lips immediately curved into a smile.

"We should definitely choose something simpler."

"It's best not to use too many colors, and the outlines shouldn't be too complicated."

"Or else..."

"What it will ultimately spell out is uncertain."

Lu Xing turned his head to look at her.

Are you underestimating me?

No~

Shen Qingyi blinked, looking completely innocent.

"I was just making things easier for Lu."

"...Thank you."

"You're welcome."

Shen Qingyi suppressed a laugh and continued:

"However, Perler beads should be simpler than drawing, right?"

Lu Xing paused for a moment, a hint of suspicion creeping into his eyes.

"Wait a moment."

How do you know I'm bad at drawing?

Shen Qingyi naturally raised her eyes and looked at him with a smile.

What do you think?

"..."

Lu Xing coughed lightly.

Oh, I forgot, the person in front of me is my future wife.

Shen Qingyi turned around and took down two not-too-complex blueprints from the blueprint wall.

One of them is a white bunny.

The other one is a little yellow duck.

"These two are both very simple, right?"

She handed the blueprints to Lu Xing, a faint smile playing on her lips.

Lu Xing looked at the round little duck.

The outline is simple, and there aren't many colors.

There seems to be no possibility of failure!

"rest assured."

He reached out and took the blueprints of the duckling, his tone full of confidence.

"If I can still misspell this, I'll never touch anything related to art again."

Shen Qingyi blinked gently, but didn't say anything more.

The two of them took the blueprints and chose a seat at the back.

Shen Qingyi carefully placed the camellia on the table.

After making sure the vase wouldn't be knocked over, she turned her attention to the Perler beads in front of her.

Following the blueprints, Lu Xing picked up the tweezers.

"Just put them on one by one like that?"

"Right..."

Shen Qingyi looked down and studied it for a moment.

"It will be easier to piece together the edges first."

"That makes sense..."

The two quickly began to fight.

At first, Lu Xing didn't think that Perler beads were as difficult as he had imagined.

It's simply a matter of placing the beans in the corresponding positions according to their different colors!

But it wasn't long before he realized that things weren't so simple.

The grid on the Perler bead board is very dense...

If you're not careful, the beans will be placed in the wrong spot.

He had just finished assembling one row when he looked back at the diagram and realized he had put in two extra yellow beans.

After finally managing to remove those two beans, the tweezers knocked over another batch of beans that had been arranged nearby.

Lu Xing remained silent.

The thing he's pieced together doesn't look like a duck at all.

Instead, it resembled a yellow, unidentified object with a mouth.

Lu Xing turned his head and glanced to the side.

Shen Qingyi was much faster than him.

The girl kept her head down, one hand gently supporting the board, the other holding tweezers, her movements steady and deliberate.

The beans of different colors were placed in order, and the outline of the little rabbit slowly emerged.

She didn't even follow the colors on the drawing exactly.

The original design used a regular pink, but Shen Qingyi chose a lighter shade of bean and added a touch of pale yellow to the rabbit ears.

Even though it was just a minor change, the final result looked much better.

Lu Xing looked down at his work again.

Ok……

Or we could just cobble together this whole dissertation and present it!

Shen Qingyi noticed his gaze and looked up.

"What's wrong?"

"N-nothing."

Lu Xing gently covered his Perler bead board with his hand.

"You do your thing."

Shen Qingyi raised an eyebrow.

"Why won't you let me see it?"

"It's not... done yet."

"But I want to see it!"

As Shen Qingyi spoke, she leaned forward slightly.

She was silent for two seconds.

Lu Xing looked at her pursed lips and sighed.

"Just laugh if you want to; it's not good to hold it in."

"I didn't mean to laugh."

Shen Qingyi tried her best to make her expression look serious.

"I think it's great."

"Then tell me, what am I spelling?"

"..."

Shen Qingyi stared at the yellow, unidentified object and remained silent for a moment.

"It's a..."

She drawled out her words and thought about it seriously for a moment.

"A very special little duck."

"What's so special about it?"

"It's special because it's different from everyone else's."

Lu Xing laughed in exasperation.

"You might as well just say you don't recognize him."

"You can recognize it."

Shen Qingyi quickly tried to salvage his dignity.

"Look, it's yellow, and it has a mouth."

"so what?"

"So... it's a little duck."

Lu Xing finally covered his face.

"I'll eat anything that touches art again."

Shen Qingyi couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Okay~

She moved her chair a little closer to Lu Xing.

Let me take a look.

Shen Qingyi leaned closer and carefully compared the drawings.

"There seems to be one extra here?"

"Two are missing here."

"And this green one..."

She used tweezers to pick up the particularly conspicuous green bean.

"Why is it placed here?"

"Maybe... it sneaked in on its own."

Lu Xing remained unfazed.

"I didn't notice."

"And what about these dark yellow ones?"

"Unicolor accents."

"To make the whole duck more layered."

Shen Qingyi could no longer hold back.

She lowered her head, her shoulders trembling slightly.

Lu Xing looked at her helplessly.

"Is it really that funny?"

No.

Shen Qingyi raised her face, a smile still in her eyes.

"I just think it's cute."

"Cute again?"

Lu Xing became somewhat wary.

"The little ducklings are cute."

Shen Qingyi naturally took over the conversation.

"I wasn't talking about you~"

After saying that, she took the tweezers and began to adjust the pattern for him.

Shen Qingyi did not dismantle all the parts that Lu Xing had assembled. She only took a few beans that were obviously misplaced and then filled in the crooked outline.

With her help, the yellow, unidentified object gradually took on the shape of a duckling.

"Look."

Shen Qingyi pointed to the beanbag toy board.

"Isn't this much better?"

"That's true."

Lu Xing commented seriously:

"They've gone from abstract art to realism."

"It's not that exaggerated!"

Shen Qingyi returned the tweezers to him.

"You can piece the rest together yourself."

"All right."

Lu Xing lowered his head again and continued to struggle with the duck in front of him.

Shen Qingyi also picked up the tweezers and continued assembling the little rabbit.

The music in the store was very soft.

Occasionally, the soft sound of beans falling into a plastic box could be heard from the surroundings.

Following the instructions, Lu Xing placed an orange bean into the duck's beak.

He was about to take another one when he caught a glimpse of a somewhat familiar figure out of the corner of his eye.

Lu Xing subconsciously raised his head.

A boy was standing in front of the wall of blueprints, holding two blueprints in his hand, with a short-haired girl beside him.

Lu Xing stared at the man for two seconds.

I rely on...

Isn't this Zhao Xiu?

Perhaps sensing that someone was watching him, Zhao Xiu turned his head.

Their eyes met.

Lu Xing didn't think much of it and raised his hand to greet him.

"Yo."

Upon hearing the sound, Shen Qingyi also raised her head.

She turned around and looked in the direction Lu Xing was looking.

Zhao Xiugang was preparing to respond.

"This isn't Lu..."

He managed to utter only three words before they got stuck in his throat.

His gaze fell on Shen Qingyi, who was standing next to Lu Xing.

The girl sat in a chair, her long, smooth hair draped over her shoulders.

Perhaps not expecting to meet Lu Xing's friend, Shen Qingyi's eyes held a hint of doubt.

However, she quickly gave Zhao Xiu a polite smile.

Zhao Xiu froze on the spot.

Lu Xing had indeed told him before that he was already in a relationship.

At the time, he just thought that this guy was probably incredibly lucky to have a girl willing to take him on.

Only now, seeing it with his own eyes, did he realize...

Lu Xing's girlfriend is actually this kind of person?

Zhao Xiu glanced at Shen Qingyi again, then incredulously shifted his gaze back to Lu Xing.

Not a buddy...

Zhao Xiu stood there, speechless for a long time.

The girl beside him glanced at Shen Qingyi, then at him, her eyes slightly narrowed.

The next second, she reached out and pinched Zhao Xiu's waist hard.

"hiss……!"

Zhao Xiu snapped out of his daze and quickly dodged to the side.

Why are you pinching me?

The girl looked at him with a half-smile.

"Is it pretty?"

"no……"

Zhao Xiu panicked slightly and quickly lowered his voice to explain:

It's not what you think.

"What is it?"

"I'm looking at Lu Xing."

Zhao Xiu pointed at Lu Xing.

"He's my high school classmate. I haven't seen him in so long, I'm a little surprised."

The girl glanced in the direction he was pointing.

"Look at your high school classmate, but your eyes are glued to his girlfriend!"

"That was..."

Zhao Xiu was speechless for a moment.

After a brief silence, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and explain:

"I just never expected him to find such a beautiful girlfriend."

As soon as she finished speaking, the smile on the girl's face became even more dangerous.

Zhao Xiu immediately realized that he had said the wrong thing.

"no……"

"I mean, Lu Xing isn't worthy..."

"Oh, no, not exactly."

"What I mean is..."

The girl chuckled.

"Take your time to think about it."

Zhao Xiu opened his mouth, but finally walked to Lu Xing's side, his face showing a mixture of annoyance and amusement.

"You're something else."

"When you told me you were in a relationship, I thought you were just bragging."

Lu Xing felt somewhat helpless.

"What's so great about something like this?"

"Don't just talk about me, aren't you here on a date too?"

Zhao Xiu paused in his speech.

His previously confident expression suddenly became somewhat unnatural.

He glanced at the girl beside him and coughed lightly.

"Um."

"It was only confirmed not long ago."

Lu Xing raised an eyebrow slightly.

"Is it the one you mentioned before?"

Zhao Xiu nodded.

"right."

The girl next to him heard this and turned to look at him.

"You've mentioned me to others?"

"I've only said it once or twice."

Zhao Xiu quickly explained.

"It's not that I'm saying anything bad, it's just..."

Lu Xing glanced at him and said with a smile:

"Zhao Xiu doesn't know how to pursue girls, he's probably asked a lot of people."

The short-haired girl paused for a moment, then turned her head and gave a soft hum.

Knowing his girlfriend's somewhat temperamental nature, Zhao Xiu took the opportunity to introduce her:

"This is my girlfriend."

After he finished speaking the girl's name, he raised his hand and pointed at Lu Xing.

"Lu Xing, my high school classmate, the kind of guy I'm really close to."

Then, his gaze fell on Shen Qingyi.

Lu Xing then took the opportunity to introduce:

"Shen Qingyi, my girlfriend."

"Hello there."

Shen Qingyi smiled gently at the two of them.

Zhao Xiu quickly greeted him, then looked down at the little duck in front of Lu Xing.

"Did you piece this together?"

"Um."

Lu Xing readily admitted it.

Zhao Xiu stared at the crooked duck for a while, and finally a familiar expression appeared on his face.

"That's right."

Lu Xing frowned.

"What do you mean by 'that's right'?"

"It's still the Lu Xing I know."

Lu Xing looked at him expressionlessly.

"If you can't speak, you don't have to."

Zhao Xiu suppressed a laugh and waved the blueprints in his hand.

"Alright, I won't bother you anymore."

"Let's sit over there, and we can talk again another time."

"it is good."

Lu Xing nodded.

Zhao Xiu took his girlfriend to a location a little further away.

Perhaps worried that he might say something wrong again, he behaved exceptionally well for the rest of the journey.

Not only did he pull out a chair for the girl, but he also diligently brought over all the bean boxes she had chosen.

The girl appeared to be only slightly angry, but she secretly glanced at Shen Qingyi several times.

Shen Qingyi looked away and finally couldn't help but laugh.

Hearing the laughter, Lu Xing looked up in confusion.

"What's wrong?"