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

She hesitated for a moment, then slowly uttered an "Mmm".

[Mo]: I've had my fortune told. You are my cursed star, destined to take my life, so I've come to take you away.

Li Zhihan paused, not understanding whether it meant she was mean to him.

After thinking for a moment, she tapped the screen.

[Zhihan]: I'm sorry.

[Mo]: It's no use saying sorry. You only talk the talk but don't walk the walk. My life is still going to be ruined by you.

[Mo]: Then let me ask you, why are you afraid to talk to people?

【Zhihan】: Afraid.

[Silent]: Are you really scared? Is it that you don't want to, or are you afraid? If you're scared, aren't I fiercer than that boss from this morning? Are you afraid of me?

[Mo]: But aren't we communicating normally now? Actually, you're already normal. Sending messages via QQ is the most common way to communicate now. You're not afraid, nor are you unable to communicate.

[Mo]: You just don't want to, right?

As Li Zhihan watched, her breathing quickened. Her fingers curled into a tight fist, hovering over the screen, a sense of unease washing over her as if her lie had been exposed.

It felt like she was back in the hospital, with the psychologist surrounding her, looking worried and helpless, asking her questions over and over again. It felt like she was back in the village, surrounded by relatives when she was a child, so noisy and chaotic. It felt like she was back home, with so many people visiting, surrounding her, giving her so many gifts she didn't like at all, and so many people trying to get close to her.

Just then, her phone chimed again, pulling her back to reality.

[Mo]: It's okay, it's fine if you don't want to.

Li Zhihan's breathing stabilized slightly, but she returned to that state of not knowing what to say. Her fingers, which were typing on the keyboard, became stiff.

Fortunately, Lin Mo did not continue to make things difficult for her.

[Mo]: What's in your bento box?

【Zhihan】: Same as yours.

[Mo]: Could you be more specific?

[Zhihan]: Beef, green beans, spinach, chicken leg.

After a brief exchange of pleasantries, the girl's online communication system seemed to have been restored.

Then,

[Mo]: Okay, then from now on, the milk will be free for you, but you have to do me a favor, okay?

[Zhihan]: What's wrong?

[Mo]: I actually have Yu Yu syndrome, autism, severe bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, seasonal affective disorder, no parents, no car, no house, and I can't take care of myself. I live in fear every day.

[Mo]: So, you can talk to me more, just type a few words here and talk to me more, okay?

Upon seeing this, Li Zhihan was stunned.

How come Lin Mo has more illnesses than her?

While lost in thought, the girl pondered many things.

Thinking back to the little dog I had in the village when I was a child, I was terrified of dogs. I would throw a sausage at it just to make it leave.

But the puppy kept following her, and kept following her.

She doesn't like to talk, and the puppy can't talk either. Neither of them can understand each other. When she wants the puppy to leave, it thinks she wants to adopt it.

A misunderstanding, a silent exchange, led her to gain her most loyal dog friend.

But the puppy has been gone for a long time, and she hasn't had any friends for a long time either.

Lin Mo was like a puppy now, not forcing her to speak, not pressuring her, not asking her why, not asking her what he wanted to do with her, unlike anyone else, unlike her father, unlike anyone she had ever met.

He simply rolled over, belly up, and told her that he was just as vulnerable and fearful as she was, so he asked if she could stay with him.

Okay.

Li Zhihan's furrowed brows slowly relaxed. Although she still didn't understand what she was expecting, having a talking puppy that understood her seemed pretty good.

She then tapped the screen.

【Zhihan】: Okay.

As for Lin Mo, he hadn't realized he was being treated like a dog, so he relaxed and happily planned to use his experience chatting with Bai Limeng on QQ to let Li Zhihan experience what a keyboard warrior is.

The two of them, while eating a bite of rice, tapped on the screen.

We talked about very simple and boring things, like how class was today, what the weather was like, how beautiful the moonlight was, and how pretty you are.

They didn't talk about the vague and abstract concept of life, nor about life philosophies that neither of them quite understood, nor about games, nor about things outside their world.

It was just a casual chat about the classroom, her eyes, her mood, and how aloof she seemed.

Before she knew it, Li Zhihan had finished her rice, swallowing the last grain of rice on her spoon.

Her fingers swiped across her phone, dozens or even hundreds of messages, and she felt a strange sense of accomplishment.

Even the girl's perpetually icy lips curved into a shy smile at this moment.

She was so engrossed that she didn't hear the sounds coming from the hallway.

"Lingxi, Lingxi. I didn't catch Lingxi yesterday, and I didn't see Zhihan eating either. Sigh. I absolutely have to get Lingxi's QQ number today, even if the class monitor doesn't help me!"

Huang Yaoyao burst into the classroom, and just as she shouted "Hello!"

She suddenly froze.

Hanhanhanhanhan, there is also a male.

ha?

It's rising too fast; something's not right.

Huang Yaoyao left, changed her posture, and re-entered the classroom. This time it was confirmed.

Wait, why is my Han Shen laughing while playing on her phone? And there are rice grains on her lips!

What happened?!?!?

Don't raise a book cat, it'll die, waaaaah! You have to keep reading!

Chapter 39 Li Zhihan's Menstrual Period

"you mean"

"During lunch break, I saw Zhihan in the classroom eating while playing on her phone, smiling from ear to ear, with rice grains still on her lips?"

There was still some time between lunch break and class break, and students gradually arrived at the classroom.

Several girls gathered around Huang Yaoyao, chatting and laughing.

Huang Yaoyao was utterly shocked, describing the scene as if she had lost her soul. She was absolutely certain that she hadn't misread it; she was 100% sure that the Li Zhihan she saw back then looked exactly like that.

At that moment, she was first shocked, then excited, and then felt her heart melt from Li Zhihan's smile. Suddenly, a warm stream flowed through her nose, she started bleeding, and she also felt an urgent urge to urinate.

She had no choice but to go to the toilet to quench her thirsty girlish heart. When she tidied up and returned to the classroom, Li Zhihan was nowhere to be found.

Now when I tell my friends, none of them believe me, not even the class monitor!

"Oh, Yao Yao, when will you ever get better from this hysterical condition of yours?"

A quiet, pretty girl with delicate features and wearing wire-rimmed glasses was helplessly trying to comfort Huang Yaoyao.

The girl's name is Zhang Xinyi.

She's the class's academic representative, arts and culture representative, psychology representative, and a whole bunch of other miscellaneous representatives.

In short, everyone in the class goes to her first for anything; only things she can't handle are submitted to the homeroom teacher. She's practically the executive vice-class monitor.

So here's the problem: what if even the homeroom teacher can't solve it?

Find class monitor Shen Qingning.

Hey, what if Shen Qingning can't solve it?

Although this hasn't happened yet, if you ask the students in Class 2, they will almost all answer that they need to find the deity Han, which requires a ritual to invoke the deity.

Zhang Xinyi comes and goes, Shen Qingning remains constant, Lao Ni is utterly useless, and Li Zhihan is unapproachable – this is the class politics and rigid power hierarchy of Class Two.

"I'm telling the truth! I dragged you all along at noon, but nobody came with me! Now you won't believe me no matter what I say!"

Huang Yaoyao shouted angrily, and in her anger, her nose started bleeding again. Zhang Xinyi quickly plugged it for her.

Just then, Qiu Wuqi, Guo Huowang, and the others returned from taking a break for water and stumbled into the classroom, only to witness this comical scene.

Huang Yaoyao, due to her changeable sexual orientation and strong attraction to good looks, actually gets along quite well with both boys and girls, and there's not much ambiguity between them.

So much so that even a nobody like Guo Huowang from Chu Nan could tease her when he saw her:

"Yao Huanghuang, why is your nose getting its period?"

"Get lost, Guo Huowang! Stop calling my name randomly!"

"Isn't the name wrong?" Guo Huowang pointed at her.

"Aren't you the most lewd in this class? Your sexual orientation changes immediately, and your sexuality is even more bizarre than Li Kongxu's. At least you're single-minded and only like tentacles."

"Stupid!"

"Haha, you're amazing! You actually believed your fantasy. I never expected that."

Guo Huowang despised both women and men of the Puxin clan the most in his life.

In his view, a woman like Huang Yaoyao, who could be playing on her phone and laughing in a daze, was no different from a teddy bear that roams around a fire hydrant.

Pah! Shrimp head!

How could Han Shen possibly be playing on his phone? Aren't I more fun than a phone? Why doesn't Han Shen play with me?

Disgusting guy!

As for whether Li Zhihan smiles or not, that's utter nonsense. The odds are even smaller than winning the lottery. I've heard that Old Man Li has hardly ever seen Li Zhihan smile.

"Hehe, believe it or not, I've already seen it~~"

Huang Yaoyao sneered, "Oh, right, Lin Mo was there at noon too. Why don't you ask him?"

Upon hearing this, Guo Huowang was about to mock Xiao Chunu for her involvement with the Daoguan Xiangxiangli Haiting Fengfu. But then he reconsidered.

How come everything related to Han Shen has Lin Mo involved?

He started to panic.

Dead memories suddenly struck, as if I had returned to the scene yesterday where I saw Han Shen secretly watching Lin Mo.

Guo Huowang hurriedly sat down in his seat, turned around and stared at Lin Mo.

"Wang, what's wrong with you again?" Lin Mo asked calmly.

Were you in the classroom at noon?

"Sleep here, I don't have a dorm room."

Is Han Shen here?

"I think it was there, but I didn't notice. It disappeared in a moment," Lin Mo said with a laugh. "But it was definitely incredibly fun."

After being caught by Huang Yaoyao at noon, he took Li Zhihan directly to the library for a lunch break.

Li Zhihan even has a VIP box in the library for resting.

However, neither of them rested; they just sat in the library chatting on QQ. To be fair, the socially awkward cat has the potential to be a homebody.

In real life, she couldn't say a word, but online, Lin Mo only had to guide her a little, and the girl was like a floodgate had been opened, she just couldn't stop talking.

The things she posts are mostly niche; for example, she's counted the number of fingerprints, uses Safeguard soap for showering, wears stockings at home in the summer because they're cool, wears a C-cup bra, and her period is around the 8th or 9th of each month.

The bank password is...

Well, Lin Mo swears he didn't deliberately try to get her to say these things; it's all because she's exceptionally gifted and dares to say anything.

Lin Mo was the only upright person who pretended not to see what he shouldn't know, fearing that if he knew too much, Old Man Li would come and kill him.

"Biyang, you really got to enjoy yourself! How come you had the chance to be alone in a room with Han Shen?!"

Guo Huowang was extremely jealous, and he grinned from ear to ear.

Xu Lingxi, who had been silently pretending to be an expert, had actually been listening intently for quite some time. Upon hearing this, she couldn't help but purse her lips.