"Are you packing your luggage?" After packing her camping gear, Li Qingran asked.

"I...I...okay, I should bring a pillow if I'm going camping..."

"I'm going back to your house."

"what..."

"Didn't Xixi say she wasn't going to spend the New Year here?"

"..."

Shen Yanxi tugged at the hem of her dress.

Looking at it this way, Xixi really is a dishonest and shameless girl...

What was said, not done; what was not accomplished.

Li Qingran had said she didn't want Lin Mo to be so tired anymore, so she probably discovered quite early on what Lin Mo was doing for Xi Xi in private.

If Xixi were in her shoes, she would definitely feel terrible... The person she likes, even the person she deeply loves, is secretly doing things for another girl...

It turns out that Qingran's frequent anger lately wasn't just because Lin Mo came home late.

The main concern isn't the late return time, but rather the fear that he might have been exhausted during that time...

Xixi is inexplicably happy right now. She feels sorry for Lin Mo... but mostly she's happy... she's not quite sure...

She was indulging in this fatal sense of dependence.

Will you be angry, Qingran...?

"I'm sorry... Qingran, I..."

"Since you don't want to leave, then stay," Li Qingran said calmly, her tone devoid of emotion, as always.

"Xixi won't embarrass you," Shen Yanxi said firmly.

Li Qingran nodded, though it was unclear whether she had taken it all in. Perhaps the most important thing for her right now was to resolve Lin Mo's somewhat absurd and repressive problem.

"Just don't embarrass Lin Mo."

"okay."

Has taking the first step on a path shrouded in uncertainty already led to self-doubt?

...

Campsite at the top of the back mountain.

"Squad leader, isn't this tent a bit too small for us?"

Chen Yajie counted the number of tents that had just been set up, "There are only five."

"Then I'll just sleep with Lin Mo~ It'll be simple!" Hu Yu'en chuckled as she set up the barbecue grill, her words leaving no room to tell if she was serious.

"Hey, Hu Yu'en, what nonsense are you talking about!" Jiang Wanfeng, who was warming her feet by the campfire, was startled by the question and almost threw a spark at her best friend's face...

The slight melancholy on Chen Yajie's face deepened.

"Is the class monitor joking...?"

"Hmm~ right." Hu Yu'en tapped her forehead and thought to herself, "It doesn't matter, we've all slept together before, haven't we?"

"I wasn't sober that time! It doesn't count!" Jiang Wanfeng scoffed. "Those times when I didn't feel anything don't count."

"Sigh, to make up for the disappointment last time, let's sleep together again tonight. Let's put the three tents together and sleep under the same blanket!" Hu Yu'en suggested.

"No!" X2

Jiang Wanfeng and Chen Yajie said in unison.

After the brief incident, Shen Yanxi and Li Qingran arrived late, followed by Lin Mo carrying large and small bags.

"Phew... Qingran, did you really have to bring so many books?"

"Yes, that's the weight of knowledge."

Two people, each carrying a stack of books, staggered up.

Fortunately, there was a road leading up the mountain, and Lin Mo called a car to take the two women up. Otherwise, just carrying a dozen or so thick, unidentified books would have been exhausting.

The three girls who had already reached the top of the mountain saw this and went forward to help carry the books.

"Qingran, these are the books you'll be studying tonight..." Chen Yajie looked at the towering stacks of books and immediately felt overwhelmed.

The girls couldn't help but turn their attention to the book.

"A parenting manual...what's the point of looking at this...?"

"And also, a million questions about the opposite sex..."

"Three sentences to make a man irresistibly drawn to you..."

"Decoding the underlying twisted logic of bamboo control..."

"How to discipline repressed people? Huh?! Qingran, this book is not meant to be read, is it?!" Chen Yajie exclaimed.

"A disciplined life begins with breaking free from self-comfort..." For some reason, Jiang Wanfeng immediately noticed the book with the somewhat cryptic title and read it aloud.

I kind of want to watch it...

"Wanfeng, what's wrong? Do you want to study too?" Hu Yu'en suddenly picked up the book and moved closer to Jiang Wanfeng.

"No, no... I'm very self-disciplined."

"Really? Let me take a look. Hmm... first page, cough cough..."

"When our brains try to enjoy pleasure, the first thought that comes to mind is 'that kind of thing,' and we can't control it, becoming less interested in other forms of entertainment..."

Hu Yu'en paused, observing Jiang Wanfeng's state. Seeing the latter tilting his head and listening intently, she became even more interested and said loudly:

"And once you stop, you'll feel completely weak! You'll feel tired even without doing anything, your memory will decline, and you'll become irritable. These are signs that you're addicted to 'that kind of thing,' and women are more likely to develop this condition than men..."

"Besides psychological issues, another reason for addiction is a lack of self-control... Wanfeng, how good is your self-control?"

Jiang Wanfeng blushed and glanced sideways at Lin Mo, who had just climbed up.

“It’s…it’s OK.”

"Oh~ then you probably won't get addicted."

"Class monitor! Don't read that kind of content out loud!" Chen Yajie was so embarrassed that she wanted to cover her eyes and plug her ears.

"No, she did the right thing." Contrary to her usual self, Li Qingran stood on the side of evil.

"We must confront negative knowledge to solve Lin Mo's problem. We cannot avoid it because of shyness; we must discuss it calmly."

"How can I calm down like this..." Chen Yajie was about to faint, collapsing onto the picnic blanket, feeling like the world had gone mad...

He could only cast a pleading look at Lin Mo, but the latter had already silently begun grilling meat on the grill, like a barbecue master isolated from the world...

She nudged Shen Yanxi, who was still silent, thinking, "Can't Yanxi be a little more normal?"

But they found that Shen Yanxi was already engrossed in reading a book.

"From falling in love to dating to falling in love again..." Chen Yajie gasped upon seeing the book title.

"What's wrong?" Shen Yanxi looked at her curiously.

"Xixi...is this book serious?"

"After all, Qingran spent a long time choosing, and I only looked at a little bit...it seems okay."

"Is that so? It's just that the title is a bit unconventional..."

"It doesn't matter~ Look how seriously even Wanfeng is watching, and Qingran said from the beginning that she's watching these to help Lin Mo solve his problem~"

"Just bear with the minor details."

"so..."

Chen Yajie took a deep breath to calm herself down.

It's all for Lin Mo...it's all to solve his terrible hobby...

At least we can't let him touch girls' feet anymore...

"do you have any requests?"

"Qingran said that it would be good to study one or two books and then give Lin Mo advice."

...

The campsite, where the two groups had just met, quickly fell silent.

Only the sizzling sound of Lin Mo grilling meat, the splashing of the campfire, Hu Yu'en's occasional exclamations, Jiang Wanfeng's curses, and Chen Yajie's suppressed sobs remained; Li Qingran was silent...

Shen Yanxi took a breath.

"Love is a responsibility, but love formed out of responsibility is distorted."

The inspirational stories in the book resonated with her for a long time.

I've been stuck on this page for a long time; I can't look any further.

It's just an act; they don't want anyone to suspect anything.

Did Lin Mo make himself clear?

Should I take responsibility for her? Or have I told her I like her? Neither...

But Xixi can't leave now. Even if she goes back to her hometown on her own, her greedy relatives will just send her back to Lin Mo's arms...

"We've grilled some skewers, three per person, let's start eating."

While pondering, Lin Mo carried the plate to the center of the girls.

"Okay~" Hu Yu'en was the first to respond, "Do you have a feeding service?"

"Hu Yu'en! How many times has this happened today? I'm going to get angry!" Jiang Wanfeng breathed on her best friend, thinking the fox was just playing a prank.

"Thank you, Lin Mo~ You've worked hard."

Each person gets their own portion, and they're all different. Who likes beef, who likes lamb, who prefers leaner cuts, who prefers fatty cuts, who likes spicy or non-spicy—everything is neatly divided up...

Shen Yanxi could tell because she had interacted with each of the girls and even been deeply involved in the process of their relationships with Lin Mo, thus perceiving Lin Mo's subtle intentions.

Every girl thinks she's different from others, that she's the one who gets special treatment...

"Stop daydreaming, it's yours." Once it was in front of her, Shen Yanxi quickly flipped through a few pages of the book, pretending she wasn't daydreaming...

"oh oh..."

Hers was cumin beef skewers, but Xixi prefers lamb and chili.

She let out a small, heavy sigh.

Lin Mo didn't know what she liked to eat... Plain flavors were definitely the best.

But when you compare them like this, it's a little bit uncomfortable.

So this is what it's like to step into their roles and experience the saccharine, cloying feeling of love firsthand... And Xixi even had the audacity to offer her opinions...

Lin Mo, who has always tried to take care of every girl's feelings, must be even more exhausted.

Do you want to cause him more trouble?

Be brave...

Yes, Xixi has always been brave. She bravely told Lin Mo many times that she would never like him, bravely rejecting him unilaterally countless times... calling him a big jerk...

You stupid pig, Xixi!

I really want to travel back in time and give myself a big slapstick!

Forget it... Eat your fill and think it through...

Think it through.

Is Lin Mo also giving her time to make a choice?

Think about it quickly...

He bit into the empty space.

The moment her mouth touched the meat skewer, Lin Mo, carrying a strong smoky smell, suddenly arrived, making her nose sting and her eyes redden.

"You took the wrong one. The one you're holding is mine, this one is yours."

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