Back to my parents when I was seventeen

The moment the words fell, Xu Chu Ning froze. She slowly turned her head to look at the person who came and quickly breathed a sigh of relief, "...Xi Tong, why are you here?"

Deng Xitong stared at her with eyes wide open. "I was just about to ask you, what are you doing standing here alone? Aren't you afraid of running into those hooligans?"

The hooligans Deng Xitong was talking about were a group of uneducated and unskilled hooligans who often hung around the school and blackmailed classmates all day long.

Xu Chu Ning was too poor, so she was not the target of that group of people. Therefore, she had never encountered them once.

But she knew that many classmates in the school had encountered this situation, and teachers and students had also called the police, but that group of people were like loaches and could not be caught.

Some were caught and imprisoned for a period of time and then released to continue committing crimes.

Hearing what Deng Xitong said, Xu Chuning was stunned for a moment. When she met her clear eyes, she pursed her lips in astonishment and secretly breathed a sigh of relief, "No, I'm ready to go."

Deng Xitong probably didn't see Shen Yubai, otherwise she wouldn't have reacted like this.

Realizing this, Xu Chu Ning relaxed a lot, "Why are you walking through this alley?"

"I think class is about to start." Deng Xitong said, "I'm afraid of being late."

Xu Chuning: “Ah?”

Deng Xitong: "Did you not check the time?"

Xu Chu Ning really didn't pay attention to the time. When he heard what Deng Xitong said, the two looked at each other and ran away quickly.

When I ran to the classroom door, the bell for class rang.

Xu Chuning and Deng Xitong entered the classroom one after the other. After sitting in their seats, they looked at each other and laughed inexplicably, "I'm so tired."

Deng Xitong said.

Xu Chuning bent his lower lip and said, "Drink some water and relax."

Deng Xitong hummed.

Neither of them mentioned what happened in the alley again. Xu Chuning put down her schoolbag, took out some books from it, and then stuffed the mobile phone that Shen Yubai handed to her into the bag.

The morning time passed quickly. Xu Chuning always studied hard in class. She listened carefully to the lectures on Chinese, mathematics, history and politics.

At lunch time, it was still the threesome.

After eating in the cafeteria, Deng Xitong said she wanted to go to the canteen to buy something, so the two went with her.

"Is there anything you want to buy?" Xu Chuning asked Shen Sinian.

Shen Sinian glanced inside and shook his head, "No."

His mother has no money, and he can't spend her money.

As if she could see what he was thinking, Xu Chuning smiled and said, "Shen Sinian, don't underestimate me."

Shen Sinian: “…I don’t have any.”

He denies it.

Xu Chu Ning glanced at him and walked into the store.

There are quite a lot of snacks in the canteen, ranging from 10 cents to 20 cents to 50 cents to one cent.

Xu Chu Ning looked around and recalled what the boys in the class liked to eat and drink, and found that his mind was blank.

She seemed to have never paid attention to the preferences of the boys in her class.

Deng Xitong came around from the other side and asked, "What are you thinking about?"

Xu Chu Ning raised his eyes to look at her, "What do boys generally like?"

Deng Xitong: “?”

She exclaimed in surprise, then realized, "You want to buy something for Shen Sinian?"

Xu Chuning nodded.

Deng Xitong stared at her profile and couldn't help but ask, "Why are you so nice to Shen Sinian?"

She couldn't help but ask, "Are you two...in love?"

"..." Xu Chu Ning was speechless and picked up a box of chewing gum from the shelf. "Do you think we look alike?"

Deng Xitong was very honest, "No."

It was precisely because they didn't look alike that she found it strange.

"So you two are just friends?" Deng Xitong asked.

Xu Chuning tilted his head and stared at her, "You don't like Shen Sinian, do you?"

When she asked this, Deng Xitong choked and said, "How is it possible?"

Xu Chuning: "Really?"

Deng Xitong glanced at her and said stubbornly, "If he's not in a relationship with you and you don't have any feelings for him, I can still like him, right?"

"...You really can't like him." Xu Chu Ning said.

Deng Xitong's eyes widened: "Why?"

Xu Chuning put the gum in his hand back and said with a headache, "I don't know how to explain it to you for now."

After all, the fewer people who know about Shen Sinian's arrival from the future, the better.

If word gets out and someone thinks he's a strange man and wants to capture him for research, or force him to interrogate some future events he doesn't even know about, then he's doomed.

Hearing this, Deng Xitong's face turned ugly, "...You are too unreasonable."

"Xitong," Xu Chuning called her name seriously, "I'm not such a mean person. I say this for a reason, but I can't tell you that reason for now. I hope you can understand."

Deng Xitong rarely saw her like this and was a little stunned for a moment.

Xu Chuning looked into her eyes and said, "I won't hurt you."

First of all, regardless of the age difference between Deng Xitong and the future Shen Sinian, just the fact that Shen Sinian might return to the future one day and they will stay here means that the two are not suitable for any development.

Xu Chuning didn't want Deng Xitong to fall into endless sadness at that time, so she needed to stop the loss in time.

"Why are you so serious?" Deng Xitong came back to her senses, "Actually, I just think Shen Sinian is handsome and has a good personality, so I have a good impression of him."

Her feelings for Shen Sinian have not yet reached the point of love.

"That's good," Xu Chuning breathed a sigh of relief.

Deng Xitong looked at her, "What about you? You really don't have that kind of feeling for him?"

Xu Chuning hummed: "No."

Deng Xitong nodded, not quite understanding, "Okay."

"You can think of us as relatives," Xu Chuning said suddenly with an idea.

Deng Xitong was slightly speechless, "It's not impossible."

Xu Chu Ning chuckled, "Have you made your choice? If you have, let's go."

She wandered around the store and finally only bought a bottle of carbonated drink for Shen Sinian.

Shen Sinian took it and asked, "What is this?"

He didn't drink.

Xu Chu Ning looked at the bottle of carbonated drink and thought about it. Maybe this thing will disappear in a certain year in the future. It is normal for him not to know. "Drink, try it and see if you like it."

Shen Sinian: "Then I definitely like it."

Deng Xitong: "You haven't even drunk yet."

Shen Sinian: "Ningning likes everything she buys."

Deng Xitong: “…”

She looked at Xu Chuning and talked to her with her eyes - you still said that you two were not flirting.

Xu Chuning: "Really not."

Shen Sinian unscrewed the bottle cap and took a sip. When he heard her words, he asked, "What's missing?"

Xu Chuning: "Nothing."

Shen Sinian: “…”

The three of them returned to the classroom from the canteen. Xu Chuning thought about it and decided to tell Shen Sinian about Shen Yubai giving her the phone.

After listening, Shen Sinian said, "I know."

Xu Chuning looked at him.

Shen Sinian whispered to her, "He wanted me to give it to you, but I refused. I said whoever bought it should give it to you."

Xu Chu Ning looked at him with a smile, "Do you think you did the right thing?"

Shen Sinian: “Isn’t that right?”

He was a little confused.

Xu Chu Ning looked at the person in front of him who had a very innocent face but a very innocent mind, and felt a little helpless, "Do you know how much the phone cost?"

Shen Sinian: "What do you mean? You want to give him money?"

Xu Chuning: "Of course."

Shen Sinian was silent for a moment, then asked in a low voice: "Won't he be angry with you?"

Xu Chuning: "What are you angry about?"

"..."

Shen Sinian looked at her speechlessly, and after a moment he said, "My dad is really a bit miserable. How can you be such a straight girl?"

Xu Chuning: “…”