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Chapter 23 No Money (▼皿▼＃)
"...Is this how you are going to treat me?"
After staring at the fried noodles placed in front of her for a moment in silence, Lin Xiaoyi raised her head quite speechlessly.
"You think I would treat you to a nice meal in a fancy restaurant?" Rolling his eyes, Bai Zhi picked up a pair of chopsticks from the table.
"Please, I'm a poor man. The food in the restaurant is too expensive. How can it be as affordable as the roadside stall?"
"But the sun is too hot here..."
Looking at the bright sun outside, Lin Xiaoyi looked very troubled.
"Let's go to that small restaurant, shall we? It's air-conditioned."
"Oh, you can leave at any time."
Leaving such a sentence, Bai Zhi started eating on his own.
Lin Xiaoyi: "..."
This lunch was extremely difficult for her to eat. Lin Xiaoyi could guarantee that since childhood, there has never been a lunch like today that she would never be able to forget for a long time.
She had changed into new clothes, put on light makeup, and happily came to invite him to have a meal together. But after eating lunch, not only did the relationship between them not improve much, but she was sweating profusely. And the most hateful thing was that the other party hadn't even looked at her directly once...
Because the other party's behavior was so hateful that after returning to the dormitory, Lin Xiaoyi drank three bottles of mineral water immediately in one breath.
Since childhood, there were only others chasing her. She has never actively pursued others. Originally, she thought that chasing Bai Zhi was as easy as a piece of cake, but she never thought that she would run into a wall again and again, and before her relationship with Bai Zhi even started, it was already over.
——Compared with the time when he pestered her before, this guy now was ridiculously dense.
"Ah… This is not going to work at all..."
Lying on the bed and burying her face in the pillow, our school belle looked very depressed.
"After solving the anomaly that haunted me, he just completely ignores me. Is it necessary to be so cold-hearted? If you don't have money, I will have money..."
Involuntarily recalling the previous lunch scene, Lin Xiaoyi's face couldn't help but turn dark.
At this moment, the door of the dormitory was pushed open. Wearing a sun hat on her head and her long hair tied in a ponytail behind her back, Xia Wen walked in from the door with a blank expression. As she was walking, she kept murmuring, "one million, one million…"
"Mhm? What's wrong with you, Xiaowen?"
It was obvious that her roommate was abnormal. Raising her head from the bed, Lin Xiaoyi asked the other party a little strangely.
"Where did you go?"
"Xiaoyi, I was wrong."
Turning her head to look at the school belle on the bed, and sitting down on the chair in front of the desk, Xia Wen sighed in her mouth.
"What you said before is very likely to be true."
"Eh? What?"
Sitting up, Lin Xiaoyi suddenly became more curious.
"Didn't you say you were going to have dinner with that Bai Zhi? As your best friend, I naturally couldn't watch you being hypnotized by him and walking into the abyss of depravity."
Xia Wen sighed again in her mouth.
"According to the information I have learned before, that guy Bai Zhi is completely a poor guy, the reason why he is looking for girlfriends is just for their money, and he is completely living by eating soft food. Now that he's going after you, I thought he's definitely going after your money. There are often such descriptions in books that after a scumbag gets his girlfriend pregnant, he will openly steal his girlfriend's property. In order to wake you up from hypnosis, I followed him at the risk of being hypnotized by him... Xiaoyi, look at how good I am to you!!"
With her head held high, Xia Wen looked proud.
"Would you please read less of those books in the future, you perv."
Lin Xiaoyi's face turned black.
"What do you mean perv!? Those books are art! And they are worthy of studying! As the famous scientist Mr. Lu Xun once said, the closer we get to the origin of things, the things will become less interesting to us. Don't use your dirty thoughts to speculate on my great belief in pursuing art!!"
With a wave of her hand, Xia Wen's expression was righteous.
"...Lu Xun didn't say this sentence, this sentence was said by Nietzsche."
"Eh? Is that so? I always thought it was Mr. Lu Xun who said it?"
"Yes."
Looking at Xia Wen who had a surprised expression in front of her, Lin Xiaoyi replied with a twitching mouth. At the same time, in order to prevent herself from being tricked by the other party, she decisively changed the subject.
"By the way, you haven't finished what you said before. You secretly followed Bai Zhi, and then what? What did you see?"
"Oh, I was sitting in an air-conditioned restaurant on the side of the street eating lunch while watching the two fools across the road eating fried noodles."
Xia Wen nodded with a serious face.
"The cold air of the air conditioner made me feel very comfortable and relaxed, and the sense of happiness is really comparable."
"..."
Lin Xiaoyi silently picked up the rabbit pillow on her bed, and then slowly and firmly rolled it into a ball...
"Cough cough... And then, I put on my hat and secretly followed behind that guy, trying to secretly take some pictures of him as evidence that he was cheating both your feelings and your money."
Seeing that she was about to be hit, Xia Wen coughed a few times in her mouth, and then continued to speak.
"Then it just happened that he was going to go to the bank to withdraw money, so, in the face of this golden opportunity, I will never back down and give up..."
"And then?"
Seeing that Xia Wen stopped talking when she said this, Lin Xiaoyi couldn't help but urged her to speak.
"Before that, I have a question to double-check."
Extending a finger in front of her, Xia Wen's face was serious.
"Xiaoyi, you didn't give that guy a dime, did you?"
"Well duh! If I had given him money, do you think he and I would've eaten at that kind of roadside stall at noon?"
When it comes to this matter, school Belle's words still contained considerable resentment.
"I wanted to give him some money, but I couldn't find any excuses. After all, even eating in a small restaurant is better than eating fried noodles at a roadside stall in that hot weather? He said he doesn't have money……"
"No money?"
Weirdly, Xia Wen pulled out a photo in the gallery and handed it to Lin Xiaoyi.
"Mhm, he really has no money. He's so poor that there is only one million left in his bank account..."
Lin Xiaoyi: "???"
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