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

Han Shen's student ID is easy to fool; a carton of milk is all it takes to get it.

However, what's a little strange is that after he went to get the cake after school, he saw Xu Lingxi leaving the school gate, and he followed her for a while.

Garlic bird, so be it. At least you stood up for her. The two heads together cancel out the good deeds.

"Um..." Xu Lingxi accepted the small cake and pineapple he had cut, controlling her urge to eat.

Suddenly, the feelings of grievance, disappointment, and loneliness were all relieved, and the girl's thinking returned to normal.

Like a Christian's prayer before a meal, the girl blinked and whispered:

"sorry."

Then take a big bite of pineapple and pretend nothing happened.

"?"

Seriously? You were that fast? It only took you a fraction of a second to tell me I made a mistake?

"Sorry for what?"

"I've been rude to you these past two days."

"Oh."

"..." Xu Lingxi heard him only give a faint reply, and suddenly she couldn't swallow the pineapple, feeling uncomfortable all over.

"It's alright, actually," Lin Mo said again.

“You were always lukewarm in the regular class before.”

Xu Lingxi's eyes widened when she heard this. Wasn't he chasing after her back then? What did he mean by that?

Could it be that she used to ignore him, and that's why she does now?

“Yeah, we weren’t exactly good deskmates before.” Lin Mo patted her shoulder knowingly. “I used to be a bit of a jerk.”

"so."

Xu Lingxi gave a forced smile and timidly nodded her chin.

"Why are you so good to me?" But as soon as she asked the question, the girl regretted it, blushed, took another bite of her cake, and immediately changed the subject:

"Hmm, how much is this cake?"

"Several hundred thousand."

"what?"

"Pay it back? Then how about a few million? Can you afford it?" Lin Mo pointed at her.

Xu Lingxi was stunned by the astronomical figures, and the little cake in her mouth suddenly lost its flavor.

"Can't afford it? If you can't afford it, why do you dare to eat it?" Lin Mo pressed aggressively.

"Is it very expensive?" Xu Lingxi belatedly realized, and her already impoverished heart was further burdened.

"Anyway, you won't be able to pay it back in ten days or half a month," Lin Mo said.

"I spent all my allowance on it."

"I'll find a way to pay it back," Xu Lingxi said, her face flushing slightly. Suddenly, she sped up her eating of the small cakes, her cheeks puffed out and her pink lips covered in cream.

The young woman thought to herself, "Since I'm already so desperate to sell myself, I might as well eat as much as I can and enjoy myself."

This kind of last meal makes you want to cry more and more as you eat it.

Lin Mo laughed.

Wait, wasn't Xu Lingxi eating a small cake? Why is it the small cake eating the small cake?

"I want to ask, I treat you as a friend, but what do you treat me as?" Lin Mo felt it was necessary to give Xu Lingxi a lesson in the love of being a good deskmate.

“Good deskmate,” Xu Lingxi said sullenly.

"Is a good deskmate a friend?"

"Um"

"Then why are you calculating so meticulously? You're nitpicking over something as small as having breakfast and receiving a birthday cake?"

"I don't want to owe..."

“What you owe your buddies isn’t really an obligation.” Lin Mo gave an example: “Look at me, I take Li Zhihan’s bread rolls, and I don’t feel guilty at all. I take them every day.”

"So you two are very close...?"

You're focusing on the wrong thing, baby. Don't be so jealous.

"To give you an example, imagine, my relationship with her is so-so, but we're barely friends, so it doesn't really matter what kind of bread it is."

Lin Mo coaxed, "Then is our relationship unusual?"

"Yes, really?"

“No, isn’t that right?” Lin Mo asked back, mimicking her tone.

Xu Lingxi blushed under his gaze and murmured a response.

"If the relationship is better, then of course there's less need to care about these things."

Lin Mo suddenly reached out and stole a piece of pineapple from the girl's hand.

"Look, I'm eating your food, do you even care?"

"That piece looks like I took a bite out of it."

"No, no, no, that's not the point. The point is, do you mind if I eat your food?"

"Don't you care..." Xu Lingxi felt something was wrong... but her head was spinning and her cheeks were burning, and she couldn't figure it out.

In short... eating his food doesn't count as eating... drinking his beverages doesn't count as drinking? He treats Li Zhihan the same way... so why can't he treat her the same way?

Even though she was his deskmate, she seemed to have a perfectly reasonable argument.

The boys in the class were all fighting over food and even writing IOUs for it. Was that too conservative of them?

Perhaps we should be more radical.

Be a little more aggressive.

however,

The change in her thinking was slow. Xu Lingxi's actions of eating small cakes when she was extremely hungry also became smaller and smaller as she calmed down and thought things through carefully.

The cake was delicious, and the pineapple was delicious.

But isn't she enjoying life prematurely and mortgaging her future?

Lin Mo told her not to worry about it, but he probably knew her background and that maintaining a respectable facade was already difficult for her.

Thinking of this, the girl unconsciously shifted her legs to the side, not wanting him to see her knock-off shoes.

The closer they are, the more distant they become.

The more self-respecting one is, the more insecure one feels.

Xu Lingxi is that kind of person; she thinks a lot about her self-esteem and dignity. She thinks:

Why are you so good to me? The better you treat me, the more afraid I am that I am not worthy of your kindness. Can this kindness be summed up with just a simple "good deskmate"?

she.

"Let me show you something funny, I bought a counterfeit of these shoes." Lin Mo suddenly pointed to his shoes and joked.

"I bought Adidas King, damn it! All three stripes can be peeled off. I might as well stick on a few more and it'll be Adidas Plus Pro."

Xu Lingxi was stunned for a moment, then found it amusing, and felt a sense of relief at having experienced the same thing.

"It's so easy to buy counterfeit shoes," she murmured.

"Many big brands are pirated in China; even AV can be sold as Air Jordans."

"Oh," Xu Lingxi said, resting her chin on her hand and supporting herself on her knees as she watched him fiddle with his shoes.

Suddenly, I had this strange feeling that this boy hadn't grown up yet.

Perhaps he simply wants to befriend me and be kind to me. Does such childishness really exist?

Must we use worldly views to bind her relationship with Lin Mo?

Rabbit didn't know that this was how she had always thought.

But even this immature person could take care of her in every way.

"You're pretty awesome, actually," Lin Mo teased, tearing off the tag from his shoe.

"A fifty-dollar survival challenge? I'm totally dumbfounded. What kind of legendary hunger-resistant king is this?"

Xu Lingxi was slightly taken aback upon hearing this; so he had seen her little notebook.

“Remember what I said before, I don’t have parents,” he added.

"I remember," the girl nodded, her expression forlorn.

"I don't have a father either."

After hearing this, Lin Mo glanced at her.

Okay, just speak your mind. I'm afraid you'll keep things to yourself, otherwise he'll waste his time.

“But I’m a little better off than you. I have quite a lot of inheritance, and although I’ve spent most of it, I can still barely make a living.”

Lin Mo took out the broken phone he had previously taken from the girl.

"I don't know the specifics of your family situation, and I don't care."

"Being rich or poor is temporary. The only reason I'm doing better than you right now is because I still have family wealth to squander."

"I actually don't have many friends, and it's hard for me to make some true friends. First of all, my status as an orphan makes it easy for people to pity me from the outset."

"You can't make true friends that way."

“That’s why I never tell anyone,” Lin Mo said.

"Just like you never tell anyone that you often go hungry."

"."

"Am I right?"

Xu Lingxi hesitated for a moment, her slender fingers clenching and unclenching repeatedly.

Finally, the girl covered her face with cake and let out a soft moan in the cream, which was her way of replying to him.

"Like I said, making friends is really hard."

I think you're great.

"That's great." Xu Lingxi was a little stunned by the praise. "The phone is..."

"It's fixed, take it and use it."

Xu Lingxi remained silent, putting down the cake plate that was covering her flushed face.

Surprisingly, the fact that her phone was repaired didn't bring her any particular surprise.

Because her heart was warmed by someone's nonsensical words, and the blood in her body seemed to be heated by this gentle and straightforward emotion, making her waist feel numb and weak.

This kind of heartfelt gesture is a more delightful surprise than any external gift.

original,

She and Lin Mo are the same kind of people.

He didn't want to be pitied, and she didn't want to be looked down upon.

Was this his mindset when he approached her from the very beginning?

The little rabbit was afraid of exposing her most vulnerable point.

In the end, the other person was just a passing puppy, also injured, but he was more frank and sincere than she was wary.

The rabbit and the dog are certainly not in a strict master-servant relationship.

If he helps her a little more now, she can help him a little more in the future.

They were simply huddled together for warmth and licked each other's wounds in this thicket of thorns.