Quick Wear: Cousin, Come to the Bowl Quickly

"I told you not to invite me to this kind of drinking party."

"Isn't the money I've earned for her over the years enough?"

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"Forget it, this is the last time. I'll catch the earliest flight tomorrow."

"Sister Le, I have already paid back enough of what I owe her. I hope this is the last time."

At the end of the corridor, a slender figure lowered his voice, answered the phone, and paced back and forth impatiently.

After a long time, she seemed to have finally given in and reached a consensus with the person on the other end of the phone. After a long sigh, she hung up the phone. Her shoulders, which had been raised due to anger, drooped instantly. Then, she seemed to have lost all her strength and leaned weakly against the wall with her head lowered.

As soon as Li Xu turned the corner, he heard Lin Xi arguing with the person on the other end of the phone. Listening to what Lin Xi said, he frowned instantly and looked around subconsciously.

After making sure that the surroundings were quiet with only the sound of his own breathing, he breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the slender figure leaning against the wall.

Because Lin Xi lowered her head, Li Xu couldn't see her expression at the moment, but based on the content of her call just now, her expression at the moment should not be much better.

"Are you okay?" Li Xu hesitated for a moment, and finally chose the latter between pretending not to hear to preserve Lin Xi's self-esteem and going forward to comfort her.

Lin Xi, who had just lowered her head, trembled violently when she heard the familiar voice. Then she quickly raised her head and looked in the direction of Li Xu.

After confirming the appearance of the person in front of her, a flash of panic flashed across her eyes, but the next moment, she quickly changed into a fierce expression and asked nervously: "How long have you been standing there!"

"I heard it all." Li Xu naturally did not miss the emotion that flashed across her eyes. He pursed his lips and told the truth.

Hearing what he said, Lin Xi closed her eyes. When she opened them again, her face looked even more fierce, and she started to taunt him in a sarcastic tone, "Sorry? I haven't seen you for a few years, and I didn't even know when you developed a habit of eavesdropping on other people's conversations."

"Sorry..." Li Xu couldn't refute. Although he didn't mean to do it, he did hear Lin Xi's privacy and could only apologize.

He was sincere, but Lin Xi didn't intend to let him go. The fragile and decadent look just now seemed to be an illusion of Li Xu. Lin Xi sneered, stood up suddenly, and crossed his arms, like a frightened hedgehog with spikes all over his body. "If an apology is useful, what do we need the police for?"

"The top students from HKUST wouldn't know the principle of not looking at or listening to anything indecent, right?"

"Why, you must be secretly happy to know that I, a big star who looks so glamorous and has unlimited glory, am actually a woman who relies on drinking to get ahead?"

"'It's a good thing I didn't agree to her confession. How can a woman like this, who has big breasts but no brains, and looks good on the outside but is rotten on the inside, be worthy of a man of my stature?' You must be thinking this in your heart, right?"

Lin Xi's questions were more pointed than the last, but in stark contrast to her tone, her eyes had already turned red to the point of almost dripping blood.

She approached Li Xu step by step, but her words pushed him away step by step, until finally, the distance between them was almost so close that their breathing was entangled, but the look she gave Li Xu was so cold that it almost shot out icy spikes.

Li Xu seemed to have not expected her reaction to be so big. He was nailed to the spot by the grief and anger emanating from her body and forgot to move at all.

By the time he reacted, the two of them were already very close, so close that it seemed that if Li Xu just lowered his head, he could kiss the corners of Lin Xi's tearful eyes.

"I didn't..." Looking at the face so close in front of him, Li Xu suddenly came back to his senses, stammered, and wanted to step back.

But at this moment, Lin Xi raised her face and bloomed a beautiful smile. At the same time, she stretched out her hand in Li Xu's somewhat panicked eyes, as if she wanted to hug Li Xu in front of her.

Watching Lin Xi's actions, Li Xu's heart seemed to be suddenly lifted up to a high point, making a deafening sound in his chest, and he could no longer take a step back as he had originally intended.

However, Lin Xi's hands did not end up around Li Xu's waist, but fell on his chest. Before Li Xu could react, he felt the two hands pressing on his chest exerting force.

The next moment, the defenseless Li Xu was pushed out by Lin Xi's action. In panic, he took several steps back before he could barely steady himself.

"Li Xu, you don't still think that I am the Lin Xi who followed you around and came whenever you called and left whenever you waved, right?"

"Since you rejected me so mercilessly in the first place, don't act like a person who silently cares for me and endures the pain."

"Why, remembering my food taboos is such a big deal? My nutritionist knows a hundred times more than you do."

"If you are a coward who can't even reply to a message, stop being so moved by it."

Seeing that Li Xu was pushed back a few steps by her, Lin Xi's face showed a strong look of sarcasm. She clenched her fists, tensed her body, and spoke again mercilessly. Every word was like a knife, piercing Li Xu.

After saying these heart-wrenching words in one breath, Lin Xi raised her red eyes and stared at Li Xu in front of her, waiting for his reaction of either anger or sadness. No matter which one Li Xu showed, she would roll her eyes at him with disdain and leave in style.

Silence spread between the two for a long time. Just when Lin Xi thought that the person in front of her would turn around and leave without saying a word, Li Xu spoke.

"do not Cry."

Without retorting or getting angry, Li Xu just looked at Lin Xi quietly with a caring look, walked a few steps towards her, then reached out his hand and gently stroked her cheek, wiped away the tears on her cheek, and said in a deep voice.

"do not Cry."

Due to years of practice, the tip of Li Xu's thumb was covered with a thin layer of calluses. When he stroked the delicate skin of Lin Xi's cheek, it caused a tingling sensation.

Lin Xi's body trembled. The long words she had been preparing in her mind were disrupted by his sudden action. She froze in place in embarrassment.

After she realized what was happening, she waved Li Xu's hand away, took two steps back in embarrassment, and said in a cowardly tone, "What are you doing? You don't have to pretend to be kind!"

Li Xu withdrew his hand, and rubbed his fingertips unconsciously. He felt the wet tears on his fingertips as if they were going to penetrate his skin and get into his flesh and blood. He couldn't help but droop his eyelashes.

"Don't cry. If you don't want to see me, I will try not to appear in front of you in the future."

"Please don't say those self-deprecating words anymore. I never thought of it that way."

When he raised his eyes again, Li Xu felt a rough throat and a slightly sour nose. His eyes were like water as he stared at Lin Xi quietly, trying his best to make his tone sound calm.

After that, he took out a pack of tissues from his pocket, walked around Lin Xi, and put it on the windowsill behind her, "Wipe your face, don't let anyone see you."

After doing all this, he took one last look at Lin Xi, then turned and left without any reluctance.

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