Chapter 132: Chapter 115: To Write About Love, You Can’t Just Write About Love
With the help of Kegel exercises, the morning passed quickly.
Time flew, and in the blink of an eye, it was lunchtime.
Shen Yuan didn’t hesitate to follow Li Zhi to the cafeteria for lunch.
"I already treated you to a piece of candy, so you should treat me to a meal, right?" Shen Yuan said, his expression making it seem like the most natural thing in the world.
Hearing this, the corner of Li Zhi’s mouth twitched. "Have some goddamn shame, will you?" she retorted irritably. "How much is one piece of candy worth? I could buy a whole bag of your candies for the price of one meal."
However, Shen Yuan just shook his head dismissively and began to explain, his tone full of self-righteous justification:
"Oh, but they’re not the same. I put a lot of thought and effort into giving you that candy."
Shen Yuan started listing his efforts: "It started with me carefully selecting it at the supermarket, then waiting in line to check out, then meticulously transporting it back, and finally, personally unwrapping it and putting it in your mouth."
"Every single one of those steps was filled with my blood, sweat, and tears! Each one was part of my meticulous plan!"
After listening to his speech, Li Zhi’s mouth twitched again. She couldn’t help but retort, "And after all that searching, you just had to pick the stickiest candy for me, huh?"
The corner of Shen Yuan’s mouth twitched.
White Rabbit candy—the number one choice for stickiness.
Anyone with fillings should probably avoid it, or it’ll pull them all out!
"Doesn’t that just prove it’s even more delicious!" Shen Yuan argued, still sounding perfectly justified.
Seeing this, Li Zhi rolled her eyes helplessly and decided to drop the subject, lest she get even more annoyed by Shen Yuan’s absurd logic.
Off to the side, however, Zhuo Peipei and He Zhiyu blinked, then exchanged a glance. They could both see the confusion in each other’s eyes.
’Wait, when did those two share candy?’
’Why didn’t we see it?’
Instantly, all sorts of scenarios of Li Zhi and Shen Yuan "sharing candy" flashed through Zhuo Peipei’s mind.
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Damn it!
Zhuo Peipei was floored.
’Those two... why is it that whenever they have a sweet moment, she and He Zhiyu always manage to miss the crucial part?’
’They’re feeding us cheap table sugar while they go hide and feast on artisanal acacia honey!’
’Hate, hate, hate!’
’Doesn’t our Kissing Association deserve to witness such pure, natural, high-grade sweetness?’
’Is this the world’s punishment for the Kissing Association?’
’When the world has an excess of sweetness, the creators of that sweetness must themselves consume less of it.’
’It’s the Law of Conservation of Sweetness!’
Zhuo Peipei stared at Li Zhi and Shen Yuan’s departing backs, vowing to get a taste of that pure, natural, premium acacia honey from those two!
Today’s sweetness levels have to go off the charts!!
Cafeteria No. 1, Second Floor.
Their arrival here meant one thing without a doubt: just like always, Li Zhi was getting the beef rice bowl today.
For Li Zhi, making choices was generally a bit of a hassle,
and the beef rice bowl perfectly met all her requirements for a school cafeteria lunch—it was quick, simple, tasted decent, and was reasonably priced.
For a busy high school senior, it was the perfect lunch option.
After all, high school seniors didn’t have much time to spend slowly picking out their food in the cafeteria.
Those guys in the liberal arts class next door were more extreme; some of them even brought little notebooks full of notes to lunch, memorizing facts while they ate.
But Shen Yuan couldn’t stand people like that. He felt that kind of behavior completely disrupted the natural rhythm of life.
When you eat, you should just focus on eating. If you’re trying to memorize things while you eat, you’ll eat slowly and learn slowly.
What’s more, these people would be reading even while waiting in line. They’d have their heads buried in a book, and by the time they got to the front, they still wouldn’t have decided what to eat. They’d just stand at the counter going "Uhh..." for ages before ordering. Anyone who didn’t know better would think they were doing vocal warm-ups.
That kind of thing just held up everyone else in line behind them.
’Can’t they just finish their meal first and then hurry back to the classroom to study? Wouldn’t that be more efficient?’
Just then, Shen Yuan heard Li Zhi ask him:
"What are you getting?"
Without a second thought, he immediately replied, "A beef rice bowl."
’What was there to think about? It was easiest to just get the same thing.’
’That way, if Li Zhi wanted more beef later, she could take some from his bowl.’
’As for Shen Yuan, he wasn’t picky... Oh, right, no, he was easy to please.’
’But what was the most important part?’
’My dudes, I’m getting another free meal! WAHHHH—’
Lunch didn’t take long.
A summer breeze carrying the chirp of cicadas swept past the cafeteria entrance. As Li Zhi stepped off the stairs, she glanced toward the supermarket.
Shen Yuan, walking diagonally behind her with one hand in his pocket, suddenly leaned in and blocked her line of sight. "Craving some ice cream?"
Seeing Shen Yuan’s smug grin, Li Zhi turned her face away.
Li Zhi averted her head, flustered, and said stubbornly, "As if I’d want any."
But Shen Yuan wouldn’t let it go. He started walking backward in front of her, chanting:
"On Sunday, when we went to the movies, I personally saw an ice cream wrapper in the trash can. And who was it that insisted on eating ice cream during the typhoon last week? And last Monday, who, just to eat an ice cream bar, was willing to..."
Before he could finish, Shen Yuan felt a sharp pain in his foot. Li Zhi had stomped hard on the tip of his shoe.
"You’re so noisy!" Li Zhi snapped, her face taut, though the tips of her ears were red.
Nearby, He Zhiyu and Zhuo Peipei keenly picked up on the crucial detail in their conversation.
’A movie on Sunday.’
’Those two went to the movies on their day off on Sunday?!!’
’So they really did sneak off to eat acacia honey behind our backs?’
’Hate, hate, hate!’
’Why didn’t we follow them to the movies that day!!’
While the two Kissing Association sugar fiends were in a state of indescribable agony, Shen Yuan suddenly pulled out his meal card in front of Li Zhi and dangled it gently, as if showing it off.
