"Same" and "Different"

In the end, Ophelia really seemed to intend to stay here and not return to Leof Black Academy.

Faced with Ophelia like this, the only thing Fang Li could say was a mockery.

"Didn't you hate me? Why are you still following me around like this?"

In the face of Fang Li's mockery, Ophelia merely remained silent and said nothing.

This only made Fang Li look like he had made a fool of himself.

That said, Fang Li did not chase Ophelia out either.

He did not have much goodwill toward this girl who had abandoned hope and chosen to drift with the current, nor did he feel much sympathy for her miserable past. But Fang Li himself had been the one to provoke her out of curiosity in the first place. Now that she was the one bothering him, he had nothing to complain about.

Perhaps only Fang Li could be so utterly self-willed, doing whatever he wanted whenever he wanted.

For all he knew, he might change his mind tomorrow and throw Ophelia out.

Of course, at least for today, he could tolerate her.

"Call it even."

With that as his conclusion, Fang Li still did not give Ophelia his bed. After taking a bath, he simply lay down on it.

And Ophelia silently lay down as well, sleeping directly beside Fang Li.

If a third party had seen this scene, they would surely have found their claims of hating each other laughable.

If they truly hated each other, if they truly could never coexist, would they be lying in the same bed like this?

Yet neither Fang Li nor Ophelia showed the other any courtesy or restraint. Even lying in the same bed, even though they were of opposite sexes, neither hesitated in the slightest.

Did that