They are in their final year of high school and are heavily dependent on me.

It worked very well; Bai Limeng stopped crying immediately and instead asked him if he wanted a mother, saying she could be his mother.

Something's not right. Lin Mo suddenly felt a chill run down his spine.

So, Bai Limeng's tendency to be kept by a sugar daddy was developed from childhood?

So now

Lin Mo pondered for a while. Beautiful girls can actually be considered as similar items. Since Bai Limeng could be comforted by 'self-destruction', Xu Lingxi could also be comforted by combining similar items in the same way.

"Actually," Lin Mo tapped Xu Lingxi's table, his face serious,

"I'm an orphan."

Xu Lingxi froze, sniffed her nose which had just stopped sobbing, and turned to look at him with a somewhat dazed expression.

"Oh, you're quite pitiful." She didn't know what to say. Her first thought was that no wonder Lin Mo could let others make jokes about his parents so easily before.

So it really wasn't true, but why did I suddenly tell her this?

"So, V me fifty." While the girl was thinking, Lin Mo shamelessly stretched out his hand to beg for food.

"I'm out of cash and can't pay my class fees. Please pay them for me."

Xu Lingxi's eyes widened, and for a moment, she didn't even want to cry anymore. She just thought, "How can this person be so shameless!"

"I didn't! I said I would pay you back for the meal." The girl was quite arrogant at first.

But Xu Lingxi's tone softened after realizing that Lin Mo's request for money was reasonable.

My soft and cuddly deskmate is so cute.

Who told you to keep the accounts? Did Wadashi ask you to pay them back? Now look what happened with your fabricated accounts – the boomerang has finally hit you on the head!

"Oh, you don't have any cash on you either?" Lin Mo asked, suppressing a laugh.

Xu Lingxi was about to shake her head, unwilling to be treated like a poor child. But she quickly realized that Lin Mo meant "cash".

It is not "money" as defined in the standard sense.

If you don't have cash on hand, it's actually quite normal and not embarrassing at all.

"Um, I don't have any cash, and I haven't been home lately, so I don't have any." Xu Lingxi said, stealing a glance at his expression. There was no change, so he probably didn't notice her unease about lying.

The sisters burst out laughing.

"Oh—I see—" Lin Mo deliberately dragged out his words, making Xu Lingxi feel uneasy.

The girl couldn't help but glance at him sideways, "Why are you talking like that?"

"It's nothing, I just owe God a phone bill and the voice system just disconnected."

"~~" Xu Lingxi paused for a second, then almost burst out laughing. She quickly covered her face, muttering under her breath:

I didn't laugh.

Okay, okay, I know, I know you didn't laugh.

Don't do that, Teacher Xu, don't do that. You're so cute, it makes me want to punch you and see if you're still cute when you cry.

Just then, a series of crisp footsteps approached. Lin Mo looked up and saw...

Ah, the big spender has arrived.

"Hmm~ Have you prepared your class funds?"

Shen Qingning smiled gently and sweetly.

"We notified the parents in the group chat before, so they should be prepared."

A kind smile.

But after an afternoon of being stalked and subjected to authoritarian control, Lin Mo found Shen Qingning's smile utterly unfriendly.

This is clearly a wolf in sheep's clothing!

In ancient times, Shen Qingning would be the kind of powerful woman in the inner palace, smiling and saying, "Ah, sisters, how have you been lately?", but then she could turn around and have Rong Mama come over and prick her sisters with needles.

Xu Lingxi was a little embarrassed to speak, so she lowered her head and blinked her eyes. However, her little feet under the table were restless, kicking Lin Mo as if trying to get him to talk.

Lin Mo was stunned for a moment after being kicked twice by Xu Lingxi.

Hey sis, you're being a bit ambiguous. Although I have a clear conscience, let me ask you, what is our relationship now?

Good deskmate?

Just because you're my deskmate doesn't mean you can kick me with your beautiful feet!

Then let me ask you, when you kick me, can't you take off your shoes and put on white stockings?

Shrimp Head! I'll keep you in my heart sooner or later.

"Class monitor, well, my family tree is on a separate page now, so I'm not in the parents' group." Lin Mo had no choice but to obey his deskmate's command and spoke to Shen Qingning.

"Hmm? A separate page in the family tree? What do you mean?" The class monitor remained very patient.

Of course, it's possible that he was just putting on an act for their upcoming private meeting.

“My parents flew away, so I don’t know where the family tree is. I just found a Lin surname in the history book when I was a child and recognized my ancestry.”

"Huh?" Shen Qingning's mind went a little blank. "Then who did you acknowledge?"

"Lin Daiyu".

"Goose, goose, goose!" Xu Lingxi couldn't help but laugh out loud, leaning on the table.

"So what do you want to say?" Shen Qingning's gentle smile stiffened, turning into a professional, fake smile.

"I didn't bring any money, class monitor, could you pay for me first?" Lin Mo told the truth.

"Oh, by the way, give me another fifty yuan, I want to eat KFC."

“Okay.” To avoid embarrassment and for the sake of the conversation later, Shen Qingning readily agreed, took out her small wallet from her pocket, and handed him fifty yuan.

Meanwhile, Guo Huowang and Li Yu at the table in front of them were stunned. Damn it, the class monitor has become a money-giving boy?

They hadn't even figured out why Lin Mo had Shen Qingning's switch, yet they were already engaging in power-money transactions?

There must be something Lin Mo has on the class monitor. Thinking of this, the two men's expressions turned serious.

Lin Mo, on the other hand, also felt heavy-hearted.

After all, the class monitor is going to drag me out on a date later, and I don't know how she's going to torture me, so I need to demoralize her first.

If the class monitor asks, "Oh dear, Lin Mo, don't you miss Zhihan either?"

Well, then he can die with some dignity.

"Here."

When Shen Qingning handed over the money, she specifically put a sticky note underneath it.

Lin Mo raised an eyebrow and tore it off without making a sound, guessing it was some kind of threat, something about making him go to the playground to talk to her.

"And Lingxi, what about you?" Shen Qingning, having finished dealing with Lin Mo's matter, turned to look at Xu Lingxi.

But before she could finish speaking, and before Xu Lingxi could even nervously raise her head, Lin Mo suddenly interrupted her:

"She said she would pay later, because she left the money in her dorm and would have to go back to get it after class."

"Okay, Lingxi, you don't need to rush. Just hand it in before evening self-study," Shen Qingning said with a smile.

Xu Lingxi's mind went blank, and she couldn't say a word; she just nodded blankly.

The bell rang just then.

The sounds of ringing bells, voices, laughter, and noise all clamored in a chaotic cacophony around the girl's ears.

Her mind was still blank; the jumbled sounds, when gathered together, turned into a ringing in her ears.

By the time she came to her senses, most of the students had already left the classroom. She took a deep breath, held it in her chest, and couldn't exhale.

A fifty-yuan note lay quietly beneath her hand.

Lin Mo used a method that didn't damage her reputation at all to cover up this hasty lie.

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Chapter 33 Kid

Evening, the playground, the running track, the lawn.

The sunset was neither too bright nor too pale; the setting sun and the new moon appeared together on the horizon.

Shi'an Middle School is built beside a municipal river, where it always feels pleasantly cool in the evenings.

It was August, and other grades hadn't started school yet; the playground was unusually quiet after school.

Many high school seniors, who had just been freed from the entrance exams, also stole half a day of leisure to come to the playground to run or walk, eat their meals to digest, and prepare for the intense study sessions in the evening.

Aside from a group of abstract male high school students playing soccer on the playground.

"Take this virgin slide tackle!"

"Your horse's gone! You idiot Guo Huowang, wearing spiked shoes to tackle people?"

Qiu Wuqi grumbled as he got up from the ground, ready to curse Guo Huowang's ancestors for eighteen generations.

"Shh, be quiet!" Guo Huowang, unusually, abandoned his abstract demeanor and suddenly moistened his hair with saliva.

Just then, a pair of beautiful girls suddenly passed by them.

Guo Huowang's voice suddenly rose again, "Hey, Qiu Wuqi! How can you be so rude? How can you just swear at people like that!"

The two beautiful girls were drawn by his voice and turned to look at him simultaneously.

Guo Huowang grinned and quickly tackled Li Yu, who was juggling the ball next to him, while also showing off a violent shot that went completely astray!

"Learn from me! I get good grades and I'm great at soccer! Hey! How did you know I'm in the honors class?"

However, before Guo Huowang could finish speaking, he was surrounded by several boys and subjected to a brutal beating, followed by a series of desperate screams from the male high school students.

"Damn it, this guy's got a problem with the fence, carry him over to the soccer hoop, and put the soccer ball between his legs, Aruba!" Qiu Wuqi spat.

"No way, that's my football. If it's stuck between his legs, wouldn't it get marinated? Don't you know how cunning Guo Huowang is?" Li Yu retorted.

"Don't fucking stab my soccer ball right now."

"Hey! I brought Eight Degrees Space. Let Wangzi wear the 'Fence Bar' outfit. Five yuan a pack." Xie Oubao stepped forward and grinned wickedly, his eyes showing no pity for his brother, only a thirst for money.

"Fat pig Xie Oubao! What the hell were you born for?!" Guo Huowang roared in impotent rage as Qiu Wuqi pinned him to the lawn.

Then, several people carried the screaming Guo Huowang and slammed him hard against the soccer hoop, creating a truly spectacular scene.

Of course, it's only because only senior high school students are on campus right now that a few of them would be so shameless as to do something so abstract. Normally, if there were younger students around...

Well, that scene would be even more spectacular, and Xie Oubao would even put a bowl on the ground to accept tips.

But as the group approached Aruba, the two beautiful young women who had been strolling earlier happened to pass by the soccer hoop again.

"Li Meng, what are they doing?"

"Uh, Mengmeng, you have to understand that not everyone is born complete like us. Some people are always missing something."

"Oh, I know, this kind of person is brainless."

"Hey, you were speaking too loudly," Bai Limeng said, suppressing a laugh, and quickly pulled Hu Meng away.

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Upon hearing this, Li Yu was the first to stop, and the others followed suit.

Everyone looked at Guo Huowang, who was lying limp on the ground, feeling worse than dead, and their expressions turned solemn.

"Bro, I suddenly feel a little empty."

"Sigh, I used to be a normal person too," Han Zhiheng sighed, looking up at the sky. "Why did it turn out like this?"

"I have a plan. We'll tie Wangzi to the goalpost and take turns shooting at his magic ball with a soccer ball," Qiu Wuqi suddenly said.

Upon hearing this, everyone immediately understood. It wasn't that the abstract concepts were meaningless; it was just that the brothers hadn't suffered enough.

How many times should it be hammered?