The anchor I was supposed to meet turned out to be my student.

But doesn't that subtly criticize my character?

Just as I was in a dilemma, Lu Xiaojun said casually, "Wasn't it Tongtong who just messaged you? So what if she saw it..."

After their previous office rivalry, I feel that Lu Xiaojun has mistaken Bi Antong for a love rival...

Since she's already guessed it, I think it's better to tell the truth to avoid causing a bigger misunderstanding. I should believe the image I have in Lu Xiaojun's eyes.

I took out my phone and showed the message to Lu Xiaojun. After reading it, she looked embarrassed and stammered, "Why...why did she say that..."

"Sigh, it's because I care about you. I must have seen your post on WeChat Moments and was afraid I'd take advantage of you..."

This is the third time Bi Antong has warned me, including this one. Is she genuinely worried about Lu Xiaojun? Or... as Jiang Yan said, is she actually jealous?

I had absolutely no clue, because Bi Antong always kept things to herself and wouldn't say anything. How could I possibly guess? I'm not a mind reader, so how could I possibly figure it out? Even trying to put myself in her shoes as an observer, I genuinely had no idea what her intentions were...

"So she was just worried about me..." Lu Xiaojun said with shame for misunderstanding Bi Antong.

"She's worrying for no reason..."

We've been living together for so long, and I've never been clumsy or inappropriate with you.

My phone vibrated again. Seeing that I hadn't replied to the message, Bi Antong sent another message.

"You keep eating, I'll reply to her."

Bi Antong: Did you even listen to what I said?!

Me: Xiaojun and I are just ordinary friends. How could I possibly do anything inappropriate? Don't wrong me...

Bi Antong: Would ordinary friends take such intimate photos?

Me: We were just in the same frame...

If Bi Antong is just worried about Lu Xiaojun, then she is obviously a very qualified best friend; but if, as Jiang Yan said, she is jealous, then she must also be a very qualified girlfriend, at least when it comes to managing her boyfriend.

Bi Antong: In short, it's no good... You were just being ambiguous with that Luo Yao last night, and now you're off having a romantic time with Lu Xiaojun. You're being so irresponsible!

Me: I'm not talking to you anymore. I've explained it to you, but you won't listen. If you have any complaints, go tell Xiaojun.

I turned off my phone with a sense of helplessness, feeling somewhat dazed. What exactly were we arguing about...?

"Teacher, you don't look too well..." Lu Xiaojun, who had been watching from the side, asked with concern.

I composed myself, waved my hand, and said, "It's okay, let's continue eating."

"Oh, okay." Lu Xiaojun obediently didn't ask any more questions.

After finishing our meal, when it came time to pay the bill, I naturally went to the front desk, and Lu Xiaojun was considerate of my feelings and didn't rush to pay.

As they left Haidilao, Lu Xiaojun took out a black and gold card from her small backpack and said playfully, "Actually, I have a membership card for this restaurant, but I've never used it. I think there's... 10,000 yuan in it."

Cashier, could you please refund the 300 yuan?

"You deposited 10,000 yuan into it yourself?"

"No, it was the owner who forced it on me when Mu Mu and I came here for hot pot last time. He seems to know my dad... Besides this, I also have membership cards for many restaurants and clothing stores here, each worth tens of thousands of yuan. I can't even use them all, so I'll give them all to you, teacher."

As she spoke, Lu Xiaojun took out more than a dozen colorful cards from her small backpack and placed them in front of me.

As I watched her continue rummaging through those so-called "extra" cards, tears of poverty welled up in my eyes. But I couldn't lose face as an ordinary citizen, so I swallowed the tears back...

"But the teacher can't use these cards to treat other girls to meals or buy clothes, otherwise I'll get angry!" Lu Xiaojun pretended to be angry, but it didn't fool me at all; instead, it was kind of cute.

I returned the membership card she handed me and said, "I appreciate your kindness, but I can't accept such a big benefit for no reason. Although it's not money, it's practically the same. If I really accept it, I don't know how I'll get along with you in the future. I hope you can understand me."

That day, Lu Xiaojun said she would try her best to make me like her, so from then until now, she has been trying to win me over. She gave me such a valuable gift without any other intention. Maybe in her eyes, the money is nothing, but she felt that it was a way of showing her kindness to me and wanted me to notice how good she was to me.

I kept smiling, not wanting her to be disappointed because her good intentions were rejected.

Lu Xiaojun pondered my words for a moment, then smiled and said, "I understand. I don't want my teacher to feel awkward around me either."

Once one person owes the other a large favor, there will always be a sense of unequal relationship, because the power dynamic has become unequal. How can the disadvantaged party interact with the other naturally and comfortably, while the dominant party has to cater to the other's feelings...

It would be nice to be able to sit down and rest after dinner, so I thought of watching a movie that wasn't too long or too short. So I asked Lu Xiaojun, "Xiaojun, would you like to watch a movie?"

As soon as I finished speaking, Lu Xiaojun nodded quickly in agreement, as if she had been thinking about watching the movie the whole time.

"I found a new movie yesterday, and it looks pretty good."

Lu Xiaojun searched for the movie title, and I took a look. It seems to be a romance film about a love story fraught with time travel—probably about a 20th-century boy and a 20th-century girl who fall in love because they live together due to a time-traveling anomaly. (How Long Will I Love U is a fantastic movie!)

If it were a typical melodramatic romance movie, I would definitely find it boring, but this novel romance film piqued my interest, so I quickly reached an agreement with Lu Xiaojun.

Following the steps she had taken to find the movie theater in the building, Lu Xiaojun located the cinema in the building.

After a while, Lu Xiaojun said to me somewhat awkwardly, "Today is the first day of the show, and it's completely sold out, except for the couples' theater..."

But these kinds of movies are meant for couples, and the couples' theater wasn't even full. What are the single people in the regular theaters doing here?

"It's up to you. I'm fine with anything, as long as I can watch a movie," I said indifferently.

"Then I'll book the last row of the couples' lounge," Lu Xiaojun said, showing that she didn't mind.

Outside the movie theater, we bought a bucket of popcorn. It was a bucket because Lu Xiaojun said she wanted to buy a super big bucket to share.

Then it was time to enter the couples' lounge. Looking at the rows of red double chairs and the dim lighting, as I climbed the stairs, a certain hormone in my body gradually surged. It's not my fault; blame the particular atmosphere and the beautiful person next to me...

(I finished typing, but I took a nap and didn't wake up, so I'm posting late. Sorry everyone, join the group to chat! Group number: 1082559272)

Chapter 36, Section 91: Demanding a Kiss

We sat in the corner of the last row according to the seat number on our tickets, but since the couples' theater wasn't very big, it didn't affect our movie-watching experience.

"Not buying a ticket for a middle seat?"

"It's full, it's packed! Only the last row is left..."

I glanced at the middle seat; it was empty, probably because no one had taken a seat yet.

However, there are advantages to sitting in the last row...

Lu Xiaojun first sat in the corner, and then I sat to her left.

Generally speaking, the woman can then lean on the man's shoulder, but Lu Xiaojun and I leaned to the left and right respectively, not like a couple at all. Of course, we weren't a couple to begin with, so we couldn't help but feel a little awkward sitting on the couple's seat.

The movie screen is still showing that coconut juice ad featuring a busty woman who says, "I've been drinking this since I was a kid," so I asked Lu Xiaojun, "Do you like that kind of coconut juice?"

Lu Xiaojun didn't understand why I suddenly asked this, but she still shook her head to indicate that she didn't like to drink it.

So I became suspicious of this advertisement, because Lu Xiaojun doesn't drink this stuff and her body is still developing quite well.

As the movie was about to start, more people entered the theater, but there was still one empty seat in the middle. Did Xiaojun not see the empty seat, or was that person just not here yet...?

At this moment, two people sat down in the couple's seats to my left. To my surprise, they were both boys. They probably had no choice but to come here because the regular hall was full. They glanced at Xiaojun and me, and seemed a little embarrassed. They probably originally wanted to sit in the last row to avoid embarrassment, but they didn't expect Xiaojun and me to have booked seats in the last row.

"teacher……"

Lu Xiaojun called my name, and I looked over. She was holding a popcorn bucket that was bigger than her head and handed it to me, leaning her body a little closer to me.

"Aren't you going to eat?" she asked.

"I'm still a bit full after lunch, you can eat first."

"I can't finish such a big bucket, so please just have a little bit, teacher~"

As she spoke, Lu Xiaojun moved closer to me, picked up two pieces of popcorn, and held them to my mouth. But I had just eaten a lot of meat and had no appetite for fried food, so I quickly waved my hand and refused.

"Is it because my hand touched it that the teacher doesn't dare to eat it?" Lu Xiaojun pouted.

"No, it's just that I'm getting a little tired of it..."

"It's just one bite..."

Lu Xiaojun moved to be right next to me and stuffed popcorn into my mouth. I had no choice but to open my mouth and eat it under the ambiguous gazes of the two men next to me. My lips seemed to touch her cool fingers...

"Hehe, is it delicious?"

"Not bad." Surprisingly, it wasn't as greasy as I had imagined; it was quite appetizing.

So I reached out to take a few more, but Lu Xiaojun stopped me.

"Let me feed the teacher~"

So, naturally, Lu Xiaojun sat next to me, and we started to look like a couple.

But while enjoying Lu Xiaojun's diligent feeding, I also felt the envious gazes from the two men next to me. They also had popcorn, a big bucket for each of them, so they had to fend for themselves.

This feeling of torturing dogs... is so satisfying!

The movie had already started when Lu Xiaojun complained to me, "It's so unfair that I'm the only one feeding the teacher..."

I don't think I asked you to feed me...

So I picked up a few popcorn kernels and held them to Lu Xiaojun's lips. She glanced at me sideways and then slightly opened her cherry-like lips to suck them in.

"Wait a moment."

Lu Xiaojun told me to stop feeding her, and I lifted my right arm and placed it on her waist. She then leaned against my shoulder.

"This will make me more comfortable... Teacher, you don't mind, do you?"

Although Lu Xiaojun's tone was still shy, her behavior was indeed much bolder, perhaps because the dark environment gave her more courage.

"I don't mind, as long as you're comfortable..."

It's just a pity that my right hand has nowhere to go. Although it's very comfortable to hold Lu Xiaojun in my arms, my right hand has to hang there because I can't find a suitable place to put it.

After hesitating for a while, I made a decision. Since Xiaojun likes me, it shouldn't be a big problem if I cross the line a little, right?

I placed my hand on her skirt above her thigh, and Lu Xiaojun's body trembled slightly, seemingly startled by my action. I quickly raised my hand again and said, "I'm sorry, I..."

Unexpectedly, Lu Xiaojun grabbed my hand again and placed it on her thigh.

“It’s okay, because it’s you…” Lu Xiaojun’s voice was tinged with shyness.

I have to say that those words had a huge impact on me, making me much bolder. My right hand gradually rubbed against her skirt, which felt really nice to the touch.

Lu Xiaojun did not protest my behavior, so we watched the movie in this ambiguous position.

But as I looked, I felt something strange in my abdomen. I looked down and saw that it was Lu Xiaojun's left hand that was doing this, gently touching my abdomen and making me feel itchy.

I remembered the last time she helped me put on my cosplay bandages, she took the opportunity to grope me. I suspect she's a muscle fetishist...

I didn't want to call her out directly, so I gently poked her side with my right hand to remind her to watch the movie carefully.