Sunday afternoon meant competition tutoring as usual.
As soon as Lin Li entered through the school gates, he spotted the pretty girl standing beside the fountain, which nowadays did not even bother pretending to have running water. She spotted him too and gently waved, making it clear she had been waiting for him.
Lin Li quickened his pace.
It was not like they were so clingy that they had to meet up before heading to the Lecture Hall together, unable to even bear being apart for such a short stretch of road. Their arrival times just happened to be close today.
When Chen Yuying had been dropped off at the school gates, Lin Li had been about to arrive as well. Upon learning that, Chen Yuying had chosen to wait. She had only been waiting for a few dozen seconds.
"My Ying Bao, I lost every round of rock-paper-scissors yesterday. So annoying. It's all your fault."
The smile that instinctively appeared on his face faded deliberately as he approached. Walking side by side toward the Lecture Hall, Lin Li complained in a low voice.
"Why is it my fault?"
Chen Yuying blinked and asked in a bright, "confused" tone.
"Because you're my rock and paper. When you're not by my side, I can only throw scissors. Once the other side discovered that weakness, I had no way to fight back. Sigh, tell me, isn't it all your fault?"
Lin Li raised his eyebrows with a grin.
"Then, I'm sorry~"
Chen Yuying smiled and bent forward thirty degrees toward Lin Li, which probably counted as her sincere apology.
"Haha—" Watching the girl actually apologize to him, Lin Li smiled as wildly and arrogantly as a villain. "Since you're apologizing so sincerely, I'll forgive you."
After all, he was not a petty