The System is Abstract, Luckily, So Am I
Chapter 341

When You're Out and About, Your Identity Is What You Make It

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"Chen Yuying:"

"Lin Li: Pick up, Class Monitor. I'm all ready."

"The other party declined."

"Chen Yuying: Not picking up! Pervert! Little Bear Flying Kick!"

"Lin Li: Maybe... this isn't perverted tears Sigh..."

"Lin Li: Class Monitor, do you want to hear a story from my childhood that I've buried deep in my heart and never told anyone?"

"Chen Yuying: No."

Lin Li: "?"

His fingers had already started typing out the story. How could she not want to hear it?

Damn, whose girlfriend was this? So cold and heartless.

He'd pretend he hadn't seen that this time. She wasn't allowed to do it again next time.

"Lin Li: When I was little, my family was poor, and we couldn't afford baths.

Every day, when it was time to bathe, all the other kids I had been playing with would go take a bath.

Whenever that happened, my prideful self would always smile and tell them, 'Bye-bye, I'm going home to take a bath too. I bathe every day. Maybe someday we can bathe together.'

But in reality, I had no bath to take at all. Every day, all I could do was follow the prettiest little girls, then when they bathed, lie by their windows and secretly watch them bathe with envy.

Like a little rat in a gutter, I peeped at other people's happy baths.

Sometimes, if I could get my hands on a few drops of leftover bathwater, I'd smear it over myself and imagine that I too was having a happy, joyful bath.

Day after day passed like that, until finally, one day, I was caught peeking.

The little girl called for her parents. After that, every child who had ever played with me learned that I couldn't afford baths. They started mocking me and stopped

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