Chen Yuan stood beside Zhou Yu, eating his ice cream, waiting for the two of them to plan their next itinerary.

He felt that he couldn't always be with Xin Yu; he occasionally needed to spend time with his classmates.

So he specifically chose today to accompany his former deskmate, Jiao Jiao, and her good buddy, Zhou Yu.

That lyric was right, betrayal... ah, no, companionship is the longest love confession.

He wondered if they had received his confession.

At this moment, he turned his head and found that the two were eating each other's different flavored ice cream.

When Chen Yuan turned his head, they both acted awkwardly.

After a smack of their lips, they started eating their own again.

They didn't even have the mood to show affection.

How could someone be such a third wheel on someone else's date?

Zhou Yu felt that this was the most *ch* thing ever.

"It's okay, he's going back to his hometown in a few days," He Sijiao finally comforted Zhou Yu. "Just bear with him for a little while."

"Such fatherly love," Zhou Yu also admired his own greatness.

"Huh? Why are you suddenly praising me?" Chen Yuan turned his head in confusion.

"..." Zhou Yu had visible [anger] beside his head.

"Then let's go eat hotpot. After all, there aren't many choices in such cold weather," He Sijiao suggested.

"Then let's go to that beef hotpot place?" Zhou Yu also suggested.

"I have four 'no eats'."

At this moment, Chen Yuan suddenly said, "One, don't eat beef, because it's kind..."

"Okay, let's go then."

"Okay, I'll call a car."

He Sijiao and Zhou Yu didn't wait for Chen Yuan to finish his nonsense and immediately decided. The two of them turned around and went to the side of the road to call a car, without even calling Chen Yuan.

After all, they knew that this person didn't need to be called; he would follow.

And so, the three of them waited for the car together on the side of the road.

At this moment, a girl with not-so-good legs and not wearing a school uniform was carefully passing by on the auxiliary road behind them. Seeing Chen Yuan, she quickly raised her hand to greet him: "Senior Chen Yuan!"

Hearing this, all three of them turned their heads together.

Then, Chen Yuan saw the girl and responded, "There shouldn't be makeup classes for the first years. Why are you near the school too?"

"I made an appointment with the senior members of the club to play a murder mystery game," the girl replied with a smile, "It's right around here."

"I see, then be careful where you step when you walk," Chen Yuan said.

When Chen Yuan said this, Zhou Yu and He Sijiao were shocked. They didn't expect him to be so direct, even lacking in EQ.

To a girl with impaired legs, he actually said something like 'watch your step'!

For those with sensitive minds, no, normal people would feel that this was 'discrimination', because it was no different from poking at someone's sore spot.

"It's okay, I'm very careful when I walk..."

Before the girl could finish speaking, her heel stepped on ice, and she slipped. The whole person fell to the ground. Fortunately, she hugged her head at the moment of the fall, and she was wearing thick clothes, so it didn't seem to hurt that much...

No, how many falls would it take to train this kind of instinctive reaction?

He seriously suspected that her legs became like this because of her own falls!

Then, the slightly 'offensive' words just now didn't seem so discriminatory anymore; it was completely a kind-hearted reminder...

"I told you to be careful not to fall; the ground is very..."

Before the word 'slippery' could be uttered, Chen Yuan, who walked over to help her up, slipped like a fox.

Fortunately, he activated time stop.

*Pa cha.*

He fell on his butt.

Time stop couldn't stop himself.

But no one saw this fall.

The moment I paused, it should have been a sliding motion.

Therefore, Chen Yuan adjusted his body like that.

Then, he stretched out a hand and propped himself up with one hand.

Time, continue.

"Damn, another one fell..." As soon as Zhou Yu said this, Chen Yuan elegantly propped himself up to avoid falling, leaving him stunned on the spot. "Damn it, was this also part of your plan?!"

"...Elegant, elegant," He Sijiao clapped and marveled at this person's balance.

Like the Yellow Flash appearing, Chen Yuan slowly got up.

Then, he walked to the girl with impaired legs and, with both hands in her armpits, lifted her straight up from the ground.

"Senior, I'm sorry... I'm so embarrassed." After all, she had confessed to Chen Yuan before. The girl's face turned red, and she said softly, covering her face.

"It's okay, the ground is very slippery. Try to walk slowly," Chen Yuan reminded her.

"Okay, Senior, then I'll go now." The girl waved to Chen Yuan, preparing to leave.

"Your butt... around your hip, it's a little dirty," Chen Yuan stopped her and said politely.

"Ah, this..." The girl turned her head and found that her white down jacket had a layer of water stains on it.

At this moment, He Sijiao took out a tissue and walked behind her to carefully wipe it off for her.

"Thank you, Senior," the girl quickly thanked her.

"Fortunately, you didn't fall into a puddle. It's still pretty easy to wipe off."

He Sijiao helped the girl wipe it clean like this.

Then, she very gratefully bid farewell to the three and went to the murder mystery game store.

"Who is she?" He Sijiao asked in confusion. "How do you know a first-year girl?"

"I met her playing badminton," Chen Yuan replied.

"I see... wait, her legs are like that, and you play badminton with her?" Zhou Yu was stunned.

"How could that be? That would be too *ch*."

"Indeed, even you wouldn't..."

"I had her pick up the balls for me."

"That's even more *ch*!"

Chen Yuan didn't mention the fact that she confessed to him, just like he wouldn't talk about Li Youyou's gossip.

Confession is a very courageous action.

Since someone has already done this, the person involved keeping the matter quietly in their heart is the greatest respect.

Chen Yuan had passed the age where he would be complacent because he seemed so popular.

No.

I'm not popular at all.

Tang Jian and the others don't call him when they drink, Zhou Fu and Tang Siwen don't call him when they are being lesbians, and these two don't want to bring him either...

Being a person to the extent of being a lonely old Chen Yuan, this superpower is not needed.

"You guys, do you dislike me?" Chen Yuan asked sadly while waiting for the car.

The two were stunned and fell into a subtle self-condemnation.

At this moment, the ride-hailing car came.

And Chen Yuan directly opened the back door and sat in the back row.

He Sijiao: "..."

"Sometimes when you are disliked, shouldn't you reflect on yourself?" Zhou Yu said half angrily.

"I examine myself three times a day..." Chen Yuan fell into reflection and then concluded, "I have no problems."

"Sigh!" He Sijiao tugged at him. "Chen Yuan, you sit in the front..."

"I like sitting in the back."

"Tsk, you!"

There was no choice but for the three of them to sit in the back row together.

Chen Yuan knew that although these two said so, they were purely being tsundere.

They were very happy to hang out with him.

Although the murderous expressions were a bit scary...

...

"Then Chen Yuan, didn't he hang out with his friends?" Qian Duo'er asked curiously while eating barbecue.

"Are you worried about him being lonely?" Yu Xin Yue laughed and said, "He has so many friends, even Shi Yi from our school. He definitely won't be lonely."

"That's true." Xia Xin Yu also said sourly, "In class, in the grade, even in other schools, First High and Fourth High, he has friends. On the contrary, I'm the lonely one."

"Xin Yu isn't exactly lonely. She's obviously very cheerful, but it seems like she doesn't socialize that much," Qian Duo'er said.

"If she socialized and played well with every circle, where would she find the time to be with us?" Yu Xin Yue complained.

"Indeed." Thinking of how she had taken the initiative to ask them out today, Qian Duo'er was a little touched. "I didn't expect Xin Yu to still remember us, putting down Chen Yuan and making an appointment with us. I won't say you value men over friends anymore."

"Hehe, it's good that you know."

Xia Xin Yu didn't expect that her initiative to ask them out would garner so much praise.

Chen Yuan was indeed very strong in interpersonal relationships, taking care of her friendships so well for her.

"Then this time, you're going home with him for the New Year. Are you nervous?" Qian Duo'er asked.

Xia Xin Yu only responded with two heavy nods and a pair of timid eyes.

"Chen Yuan should be with you the whole time. Don't be too scared." When Yu Xin Yue comforted her, she thought of another point, so she said with a smile, "I think you can treat it like an adventure after you go; it will definitely be very fun."

"Adventure?" Xia Xin Yu showed a puzzled expression.

"That's where Chen Yuan lives, where he grew up. You're going to meet a lot of people, and you might be able to learn about another side of him that you've never seen before, that he himself is unwilling to talk about."

"Oh!" Hearing this, Xia Xin Yu's eyes lit up, and she suddenly found it very interesting.

"Just think about it. If you meet Chen Yuan as a child, what would you want to do most?" Yu Xin Yue asked.

"Xin Yu definitely wants to steal his first kiss!" Qian Duo'er said definitively in a mischievous tone.

"Hehe." To this, Xia Xin Yu smiled and confidently made a peace sign. "No need, I already stole it."

"So sweet, so sweet!" Qian Duo'er was already a little high from shipping them.

"But if you really meet Chen Yuan as a child..."

Xia Xin Yu imagined the scene.

If the seventeen-year-old her met the less than four-foot-tall, not-even-ten-year-old Chen Yuan, with a slightly chubby face, but acting like a pretentious adult since he was a child, she would definitely walk up to him, bend down, and pinch his cheeks hard.

No, that seems a little 'weird sister'-like...

Then she would dress beautifully and take him out to play for a day, establishing a correct aesthetic in his heart.

That way, he would never look at those milf skirt, borderline female streamers again...

Thinking like this, she gradually found that she was not so nervous and scared about going to Hexiang for the New Year.

After all, there she would meet many people who knew his past, including that cousin, Yang Qiqi, whom she was jealous of.

That's right.

Since she had already decided to go with him, why not have a good attitude and take a gossip-eating attitude?

And also confirm whether she was his first love.

...

He Sijiao was eating hotpot with two boys sitting across from her.

Although Chen Yuan joined abruptly, he was her former deskmate, and he was also a good friend of Zhou Yu, so it wasn't too awkward.

Plus, the two of them didn't say they wanted to be all lovey-dovey today, so this little thing being here...

It's okay, I guess.

"Jiao-jie, eat duck palm."

Chen Yuan picked up a duck palm from the tomato broth and put it in her bowl in front of Zhou Yu.

Zhou Yu, who watched Chen Yuan 'offend his wife in front of him', mechanically turned his head and used a husky finger point at Chen Yuan: "You you..."

"Forget it, forget it. Be generous, guys," He Sijiao said, smiling to comfort Zhou Yu.

"Yu-zi, I'll dip a 'kiss sausage' for you."

"Don't be gay!"

He Sijiao, who was just smiling, suddenly became angry.

Flirting with me is forgivable, but being gay with Zhou Yu is unforgivable.

The Jiao-Yu couple is so troublesome...

Chen Yuan couldn't help but complain inwardly.

Then, he looked at his phone again.

It was almost time for Yu-zi to finish eating, and these two were of no use anymore.

Let's leave after eating.

And so, after eating hotpot, when the three were shopping in the mall, Chen Yuan didn't stick to them anymore and played with his phone instead.

Chen Yuan: Xin Bao, which mall are you eating at?

After a while, the other party replied.

Xin Bao: Wanda near Seventeenth High.

Huh?

Isn't that the same place?!

Chen Yuan: I'm here too.

Xin Bao: Why? Who are you dating?

I'm on a date with He Sijiao and Zhou Yu.

Chen Yuan: Let's not talk about that now. Where are you? I need to see you ASAP!

Chen Yuan was extremely aggrieved now.

When he saw Xia Xin Yu, he wanted to hug her and cry, saying that he was so lonely and was disliked by the two ungrateful *ch*s, Jiao Yu.

Xia Xin Yu: I'm on the second floor. There's something really fun here. Come quickly.

Chen Yuan: Okay, I'm coming.

And so, Chen Yuan directly quickened his pace and walked over there.

Jiao Yu, who was left behind, looked puzzled.

"What's wrong? Where did he go?" He Sijiao asked.

"He seems to be in a hurry, and he didn't tell us either," Zhou Yu was also confused.

"Could it be that we've been talking about him, and he's unhappy?" He Sijiao asked.

"Did we talk about him?" Zhou Yu didn't feel like they did.

"I feel like we did, and we were also very disgusted with him, and the words were a bit harsh later on."

After thinking about it, He Sijiao found that it was indeed a bit too much. Although it was in the nature of a joke, Chen Yuan was, after all, a decent person, and being treated like this was more or less uncomfortable.

"Hiss..." Zhou Yu also fell into thought and then said reflectively, "He's also helping us with tutoring; otherwise, we wouldn't have been dragged out so late."

Chen Yuan's abnormal behavior made both of them feel guilty.

Although this person was a bit of a sword salesman, a bit naughty, liked to take advantage of people, and do NTR stuff, he was, after all, a good friend of humanity.

Without him, Jiao Yu wouldn't have been able to get together smoothly.

Referring to the barbecue restaurant incident that day.

And so, the two of them quickened their pace and followed behind.

They went down the escalator.

Then, at the corner, they saw Chen Yuan.

This six-foot-tall guy was actually burying his head in a girl's bosom, looking particularly aggrieved.

He was confiding in Xin Yu!

He Sijiao heard it.

Then, she walked over very nervously, wanting to hear how she had neglected him, and then she heard:

"I originally wanted to go home, but Jiao Yu insisted on taking me to eat hotpot. After I went, halfway through the meal, He Sijiao suddenly said that I was an eyesore and asked if I could just go home..."

You're lying!

He Sijiao was furious.

Chen Yuan, this little thing, looked so refreshing, how could he be so cunning and treacherous behind his back?!

Xin Yu, don't believe him.

Would I say those things?

Could I be that unkind of a person?!

He Sijiao, who was standing on the side, stopped Zhou Yu and carefully observed the two.

Chen Yuan, who was in a hurry to find her, hugged her as soon as he came up, expressing his loneliness...

And Xia Xin Yu gently stroked Chen Yuan's head, smiling softly to comfort him: "So mean, He Sijiao is bad, Zhou Yu is bad. It's okay, I'll take you to play."

Jiao Yu: "???"

"Mmm-hmm."

Chen Yuan replied aggrievedly.

Then, he raised his head.

Without knowing when, Qian Duo'er and Yu Xin Yue, holding milk tea, were standing behind them.

And Xia Xin Yu, who had said bad things about Jiao Yu, also found that Jiao Yu was behind Chen Yuan.

And so, Xin Yuan's face showed shame simultaneously.

Moreover, Qian Duo'er, the war correspondent, was pointing the camera of her phone at them...

Hey, playing is playing, but don't take pictures of a man being a baby!

(End of chapter)