Miss Lin is a hunky VTuber today?

"Stop pretending. When Youyue went back, she smelled like a barbecue stall. I don't believe you didn't smell it."

"Haha, of course I asked. Her lips were still shiny with oil at the time, how could I not notice?"

Sister Yan scratched her head and said with a smile.

"Sister Yan, you scared me!"

Xu Youyue immediately took the initiative, turning around and glaring at her with her hands on her hips.

"Who told you to ignore your best friend when you see a handsome guy? You said he's not your type, so why are you so concerned?"

Li Huiyan was equally defiant, pinching Xu Youyue's cheeks and teasing her.

"I was doing that for ESC's sake! Only by building a good relationship with Xu Lin can we mediate the conflict between you!"

Xu Youyue spoke with absolute certainty, but why would a pampered young lady like her, experiencing life, be so concerned about such a troublesome matter...?

We don't know yet (laughs)

"And then what? And then what? Sis, please continue!"

Yuzu interrupted the three's little charade and continued to press for the rest of the story.

"What do you mean 'after'? Haven't we already said everything?"

Xu Lin asked in bewilderment.

"I'm asking you, sis, when did you start having feelings for the young lady?"

Yuzu was so anxious that she kept stamping her feet.

"Ah, you mean this... Is it okay if I tell Yuzu about Yuzuki?"

Xu Lin turned his head and asked another question, but unfortunately, the young lady was busy discussing (and fighting with) the crisis in her sisterly relationship with Sister Yan, and had no time to pay attention to the two of them.

"Tell me quickly!"

Yuzu couldn't wait and shook Xu Lin's arm.

"alright."

. . . . . .

The sign that Xu Lin was attracted to Xu Youyue was probably that, at some point, the usually self-centered Xu Lin began to change himself in order to please her.

Little by little, subtly, it happened so that Xu Lin himself didn't even realize it.

He didn't notice those subtle changes until three months after his debut.

It was early summer this year, and Xu Lin, dressed in black as usual, walked beside the young lady.

"Xu Lin."

"Ok?"

How often do you usually change your clothes?

Xu Youyue lowered her eyes slightly, as if she was having a lot of trouble asking the question.

"I usually wear several winter coats in rotation and wash them all together when I take them off. In summer, I change mine every day. Why is that?"

Xu Lin didn't seem to care much and casually said...?

"Huh!?"

The young lady was very shocked.

"Then why do you always wear the same short-sleeved shirt every time I ask you out?!"

"..."

Xu Lin choked for a moment, his face darkening, and said seriously and earnestly.

“If I remember correctly, since we started wearing short sleeves, including when Li Huiyan was around, we’ve gone out five times. And on those five times, I made a point of not wearing the same outfit every time.”

He paused, then added.

"Including underwear."

"stop!"

Xu Youyue stretched out her palm to stop the guy's strange talk, and rubbed her temples with a pained expression.

"So you have five sets of clothes that are almost identical!?"

She was shocked, utterly shocked.

For a little princess who has been used to dressing herself up beautifully since childhood, Xu Lin's way of dressing, which is so bad that calling him a straight man would be an insult to straight men, is simply incomprehensible.

"Let me correct that."

Xu Lin straightened his expression, and was about to explain the subtle differences in the patterns of these clothes when Xu Youyue interrupted him.

"Don't talk nonsense!"

There are ten sets...

"???"

The young lady typed three question marks in response.

"So what you just said about always making a point of changing your outfit before going out is..."

"If nothing unexpected happens, you'll see the same clothes when you call me out for the eleventh time."

"These clothes of yours look almost identical to me! I thought you only had a few outfits to change into!"

"never mind."

Xu Youyue suddenly sighed, then pulled Xu Lin toward the men's clothing section.

"I'll take you shopping for clothes! We can't let your figure and face go to waste!"

"I don't need any more clothes..."

I don't know where this girl got her strength from, but she actually managed to drag this big man who weighs 150 pounds.

No! You need it!

Xu Youyue was almost driven crazy by this person.

How can a man be so straight?! As Xu Lin's friend, she couldn't accept it, so her goal for shopping today was to give the straight man Xu Lin a complete makeover!

"..."

What else could Xu Lin say?

She followed Xu Youyue as she changed into one outfit after another.

There were bright pink, orange-yellow, dark blue, and pure white outfits; some were casual, some were suits, and some were hip-hop. Finally, Xu Lin, exhausted, sat on a chair in the rest area and sighed as he looked at the petite girl who was still seriously considering his outfit, looking at each piece one by one.

After all, she's a young lady from a wealthy family.

Spoil them... huh?

When did I get used to spoiling this girl?

. . . . .

"There's no special story behind it; that's just how I discovered my feelings."

After leaving the jewelry store, they arrived at the clothing store. Xu Lin, who consciously avoided entering the women's clothing store, waited with Youzi by the handrail at the entrance, and chatted about the past.

"But sister, didn't you say it was because of the young lady's cat-head underwear?"

Yuzu asked curiously.

"That happened a little later, which was an opportunity for me to decide to learn more about the young lady. But looking back, I think the first time I was moved was when I went shopping for clothes."

Xu Lin turned around, leaned on the handrail, and looked out at the diverse crowd in the mall, feeling a pang of emotion.

"You should know what kind of personality I used to have, Yuzu."

"He does things his own way, won't change for anyone, and is always obsessed with saving face."

"But the more I got to know Yuzuki, the more I found myself infected by her energy, or maybe I was just attracted by her hormones."

The white-haired girl smiled softly.

“Since then, I’ve started trying out different styles of clothes at her suggestion and had her take me to get my hair done.”

“We started talking about things outside of the live stream, listening to her gossip about school and chatting about endless, meaningless topics.”

"I looked at the comics she recommended to me, and she listened to the songs I liked. During that time, outside of the live broadcasts, what I looked forward to most was every weekend afternoon, when she would call me to discuss some work-related matters."

"In the end, they talked about unrelated topics until the live stream started."

Finally, Xu Lin looked at Xu Youyue, who had just come out of the store, and walked towards her, leaving behind the last sentence of their conversation.

"That's why I like her."

Chapter 62, Section 253: Those Past Events (First Collaboration of the First Generation)

This was the first time Yuzu had heard Xu Lin openly express his love for the young lady.

Well, it was quite shocking.

Xu Lin's feelings, which he built up little by little over time through small things, were completely different from the liking she usually expressed verbally.

Just like what Aunt Xu said to her before.

"To like someone is to be able to give them your whole heart."

Although after saying that, Xu's mother ran to Xu's father and begged for pocket money.

So at one point, little Yuzu thought that her mother liked Xu's wallet, not his father.

Because no matter how you look at it, Xu's mother doesn't seem like she's given her whole heart to Xu's father.

But there were plenty of men richer than Xu's father, and her mother ultimately chose this scruffy, square-faced lecher.

Maybe this is true love.