Lin Mo’s gaze drifted toward empty air as the system’s words flashed through his mind. So it turned out that dirt on someone didn’t necessarily come from the future.
“I’m asking you a question.”
The young girl hugged her modest chest, speaking with the air of someone above him.
“Gone mute?”
“Wait. This isn’t the place to talk.” Lin Mo struggled out of his daze and realized that standing together with Bai Limeng was drawing a bit too much attention.
So he grabbed her hand and ran downstairs.
“What are you doing?” Bai Limeng froze. The usual Lin Mo wouldn’t have dared to touch her at all, let alone grab her hand and run. Only then did she realize this guy was actually pretty strong.
The instant their skin touched, her palm began to heat up.
In high school, even the slightest physical contact between boys and girls would be seen as a sign of ambiguity. Being watched at a time like this made her feel a little shy.
Talk about what? Don’t tell me…
A ripple passed over Bai Limeng’s cool little face, and her languid, half-lidded beautiful eyes opened slightly wider.
He wanted her to buy him a tender catgirl?
The two ran all the way out of the school gate and turned into a small alley.
“Huff, huff…”
It was the sweltering heat of August, and even tonight’s wind was not all that noisy. After sprinting the whole way, Bai Limeng couldn’t help but brace herself against the wall and pant.
She wiped the fragrant sweat from her flushed face, pouted her little mouth, and blew upward at the bangs blocking her vision.
That motion was somehow inexplicably cute, making Lin Mo’s train of thought snap for an instant.
“What do you have to say that you had to bring me all the way here?”
“Don’t even think about catgirls or anything. They’re bad for your body. I was just teasing you.”
“?”
Lin Mo didn’t react for a moment. Inwardly, he thought that this woman was not only wicked to the core, but also ridiculously filthy-minded.
Ah, fuck, how is my childhood friend this bad!
“It is not about catgirls,” Lin Mo said solemnly.
“Bai Limeng!”
“What is it?” The girl lifted her chin, her little hands hanging at the sides of her shirt, tilting her head and blinking.
“Quit acting damn cute,” Lin Mo retorted.
“Oh~ So you think I’m cute?” Bai Limeng dropped the act in a second and returned to her languid posture, leaning against the wall.
As she spoke, she bent over, opened her mouth, and made a retching motion.
“I feel a little sick, Lin Heigou.”
Lin Heigou was his nickname. Of course, it was only acknowledged unilaterally by Bai Limeng.
“Ah—” Lin Mo opened his mouth as if waiting to be fed.
The girl’s expression stiffened. “You…”
“It’s exported food from a beautiful girl, after all. Just export turned domestic sale,” Lin Mo explained.
He had once upheld the principle that a good man did not fight with women, keeping a bottom line in both words and deeds.
But now, after discovering that Bai Limeng would ruin his life, he could not endure it at all!
She actually wanted to keep him!
Was he that easy to keep? First bring out a dowry of 388,000 yuan, then they could talk!
To subdue this vile woman, he had to fight filth with filth, violence with violence!
“What ‘you’?”
Taking advantage of her inattention, Lin Mo suddenly leaned closer. Bai Limeng froze for a moment and, pressed against the wall, was forced to stand on tiptoe. Her whole person looked like a soft, squishy rice cake.
Then Lin Mo patted the girl’s little belly.
“Already having morning sickness? How many months is our kid?”
“I—”
“Hey, don’t swear. It wouldn’t be good to disturb the fetal qi.”
Bai Limeng laughed from anger.
“Did you bomb the exam and come take it out on me? You really have learned to be much worse.”
“Too bad you’re still just a little ordinary-class…”
As the girl spoke, she made a gesture that could enrage every single ‘seumnida’ out there.
“Mm…” Lin Mo frowned. Instead of getting so angry he took off, as Bai Limeng had expected, he stroked his chin and began observing her.
He had thought of a sinister revenge plan.
“W-what are you doing?” The girl withdrew her gesture. She realized that in this dark little alley, she was a lamb waiting to be slaughtered. It was better not to provoke Lin Mo too much…
“I have something to say, though I don’t know whether I should say it.” Lin Mo pushed up a pair of nonexistent glasses.
“Say it,” the girl urged, a little nervous as she twisted her small hands.
“I have a friend. He was dealt a blow by the exam, and now he doesn’t want to work hard anymore and just wants to give up. How should I comfort him?”
Bai Limeng was stunned when she heard this. Then, delight inevitably rose in her heart. She thought her childhood friend had finally seen the light.
“Then this friend of yours—is he very trash? Can’t learn anything, can’t do anything right?”
“Eh, how did you know!” Lin Mo pointed at her. “So? Any countermeasures?”
“Yes, yes~” Bai Limeng’s mood visibly brightened.
“Let’s go home first and talk slowly.”
It was time to formally brainwash him, she thought.
“Here, I’ll treat you to a grilled sausage.”
“So generous?”
“This young lady has plenty of money~”
“I still appreciate your unruly and untamed side more. Bai Limeng, you acting like this scares me a little.”
“Relax and take a deep breath. Being scared is normal. Once you get used to it, it’ll feel good.”
The two returned home. Bai Limeng lived right across from him.
“I’ll take a shower first,” Lin Mo said casually, putting down his schoolbag.
“Wash yourself nice and fragrant, baby~” Bai Limeng said with a smile, leaning against the doorframe.
He froze awkwardly. Damn it, how did her face change so fast? Then what did all her past sneering and sarcasm toward him count as?
Lin Mo pondered it. Bai Limeng’s idea was to make him into a useless bum who could only live off a woman, so before this, she had gone all out to suppress him.
She wanted him to suffer a double blow in studies and love, fall into despair, want to give up, and then finally step in to take him in.
Now that Lin Mo had given the tiniest signal, she was preparing to draw in the net.
Sinister! The most poisonous thing was a woman’s heart!
Not long after Lin Mo finished washing up, there was a knock on the door.
“Are you done washing~?”
“Stop forcing that cutesy voice. It’s painful to hear.”
“I’m not forcing it. This is just how my voice is.”
Bai Limeng directly took out a key and opened the door. The two of them each had keys to the other’s place, so they could look after each other in an emergency.
There was no helping it. Bai Limeng was a left-behind child, and he was even more so—his parents had been sacrificed to the heavens since he was young, leaving him only this apartment. To this day, he lived off that bit of inheritance, occasionally putting a bowl out on the street to earn extra money.
However, although Bai Limeng was a left-behind child, her parents were only busy with work, not wage slaves. They were extremely well-off. They had originally wanted to take her to the provincial capital for school, but she refused no matter what.
In the past, her grandmother had also taken care of her, and the old lady had treated him very well too. But these past two years, her grandmother had fallen ill and been hospitalized, leaving only Bai Limeng at home.
“That friend of yours… really thinks that way?”
As soon as she entered and saw his bare upper body, the girl couldn’t help covering her eyes, her voice getting stuck.
She was only bold with her mouth.
“Yeah. He’s in terrible pain. Today’s math exam nearly tortured him to death, and recently he even fell out of love. At such a young age, he’s even thinking of latching onto a rich woman.” Lin Mo put on his shirt and said casually.
“~~”
The girl pursed her lips and smiled silently, then nodded with a serious expression.
“This friend of yours has quite a bit of foresight.”
“Who knows? It might just be a momentary thought. Maybe he was joking?”
“That’s not something you can joke about!” Bai Limeng hurriedly said.
“Oh?”
The girl blushed and turned her head aside.
“I mean, with this sort of thing, since he’s considered it, right, it’s like planting a seed in his heart. He’ll always think of it again in the future.”
“You’re still young now, so it can indeed be treated as a joke. But think carefully. If he can’t even withstand this bit of pressure, won’t it be even harder for him to accept society later? He might as well plan early.”
She was not someone eager for quick results either.
“For example… mm, finding a rich girlfriend and living off her or something. Maybe there’s one at school? The girls at school are pretty easy to fool.”
Indeed. You’re pretty easy to fool too.
“It might be hard to find one within a year or two, but if he starts planning early and learns some techniques to please girls, he’ll run into one eventually. Especially while he’s still young…”
Bai Limeng spoke meaningfully and sat down on the sofa.
The girl had also just showered. Droplets of water hung on her hair, and whenever they fell onto her skin, they made her tremble slightly.
Her long legs were somewhat awkwardly pressed together, fair and tender. The water droplets did not linger on her legs, only sliding downward with a slick little trail.
Was it really that smooth?
“Why are you so practiced at this?” Lin Mo deliberately asked suspiciously.
“Uh…” Bai Limeng hesitated, unable to answer for a moment.
“Don’t tell me…” Lin Mo sat down beside her.
“Bai Limeng, you couldn’t be…”
His little childhood friend nervously swallowed, her two small feet pressed together.
“You couldn’t be thinking of latching onto some rich guy too, could you?” Lin Mo said.
“Tch. This young lady has so much money. Why would I latch onto some rich guy?” While Bai Limeng let out a breath of relief, she immediately retorted.
“That’s true. You hate boys so much.” Lin Mo nodded. “You’ve always looked down on me.”
“I don’t hate them that much…” She pouted and said softly.
For some reason, when he said it so seriously, she felt a little guilty. Had her jokes in the past been that excessive…
Forget it.
Bai Limeng glanced at Lin Mo and temporarily stopped thinking about anything else. There was something more important.
“Right, how did you do on today’s exam?”
“Don’t even mention it. I did terribly. I didn’t study the whole summer…”
“What a pity. This was the last chance to move up classes. After this, the courses will be fixed, so you’ll have no choice but to stay in the ordinary class,” Bai Limeng said expressionlessly.
“No wonder you were acting so strangely right after school.”
“My life is ruined.” Lin Mo slumped on the sofa. “I have failed my parents’ spirits in heaven!”
“Hey, Old Bai…” With an obviously theatrical salted-fish flip, he patted the girl on the shoulder.
“How about you support me?”
“.”
The girl’s breathing paused. Her beautiful eyes couldn’t stop blinking rapidly, like fluttering butterfly wings.
She glanced sideways and held her breath for a moment.
“I’m going to sleep. Unlike you, I can’t just not care about studying badly. There’s still an exam tomorrow.”
After saying that, she quickly got up and walked to the door. She searched for her key for a long time, and after finding it, failed to hold it steady and dropped it to the floor. In the end, while picking up the key, she looked back again.
“Um… I’ll think about it.”
“What?”
“.”
“Nothing.”
The door closed.
The sunken sponge of the sofa slowly rebounded, but it could not bounce away the fragrance she had left behind.