I Am iXi!

"It was six-thirty in the evening. No one was home, and Wang Ge was lying on my bed, fast asleep."

Listening to Wang Ge's steady breathing, Chen Yanxi recorded those words in her diary.

She stared quietly at the sentence for a while, feeling that it seemed to carry some ambiguity.

Then, a faint smile curved her lips, and she closed the diary again.

Let it be ambiguous. It doesn't matter. No one else will see it anyway.

She picked up the English original of To Kill a Mockingbird again and began reading it carefully.

By the time Wang Ge woke up, Chen Yanxi had already started doing her homework.

"Why didn't you keep reading?" Wang Ge sat up on the bed, lazily stretched, and asked.

"I finished it," Chen Yanxi replied as she wrote.

"You could've done something else after finishing it. You finally get to relax, and you're wasting the time on homework?"

"I'm working part-time tomorrow, so I won't have time to do my homework," Chen Yanxi replied.

Wang Ge nodded in understanding, then asked curiously, "Your parents don't mind you going out to work part-time?"

"They don't know." Chen Yanxi shook her head. "Tomorrow was supposed to be a full day of cram school, but I explained the situation to my teacher. She agreed to let me skip it and promised to keep it a secret."

"I see."

Wang Ge glanced at the time, climbed out of bed, and sat down on the chair beside Chen Yanxi.

"Your mom should be back soon. I'll sit over here and pretend to be doing something, so she won't catch me if she comes in for a surprise inspection," Wang Ge said cheerfully.

"Okay."

"By the way, your bedroom walls are pretty bare."

Wang Ge looked around a few times and said, "You don't even have any posters of celebrities or anything?"

"I'm not a fan of celebrities, and I don't have time for that either." Chen Yanxi shook her head.

"My parents aren't celebrity fans either, but their room is still covered with posters of handsome young stars."

"Huh?"

"Mostly my mom's doing. She complains every day that my dad's old and greasy, and that he refuses to wash his feet." Wang Ge shrugged.

Chen Yanxi chuckled.

Ever since the fake-girlfriend incident, Chen Yanxi had decided not to keep rejecting Wang Ge, and the two of them had naturally grown much closer.

After that, whenever they studied together at the library in the evenings, Wang Ge would often ramble on like this whenever he got bored. He did most of the talking while she listened, occasionally responding with a few words.

She actually rather liked listening to Wang Ge ramble. They were all trivial but interesting things—things she had never experienced herself—and the conversation was relaxing.

That is, as long as Wang Ge didn't suddenly go off the rails.

"Wait, I just remembered. My room doesn't have any posters either. It's pretty bare too."

After hearing that, Chen Yanxi suddenly had a feeling that Wang Ge was about to go off the rails.

(Note: "going off the rails" describes someone suddenly acting crazy or becoming mentally deranged, abruptly switching to something else while in the middle of doing something.)

Sure enough, the next second, Wang Ge pulled out his phone and took three rapid-fire pictures of her face.

"What are you... doing?"

"I'm getting a few posters for my room." Wang Ge held up his phone and said matter-of-factly, "Come on, Xixi, strike a pose. Give me a heart, or a V-sign works too..."

Chen Yanxi: "..."

Wang Ge continued talking to himself. "I'm going to turn your pictures into posters and put them up on my bedroom wall. Yeah, I'll cover the entire wall!"

"...Won't people think you're a pervert?"

"How would they? I'm a celebrity fan, not a stalker. At most, they'll say I'm a little fanatical. Calling me a pervert would be going too far, wouldn't it?" Wang Ge argued seriously.

"A celebrity fan?"

"That's right!" Wang Ge looked solemn. "Xixi, from today onward, you're my idol, and I'm your fan—the fanatical, brainless kind!"

What idol? What fan...? Chen Yanxi rubbed her temples, feeling a headache coming on.

"A true fan needs a title. Let me think... iXi! That's it. From today onward, I'm iXi!"

Wang Ge clenched his fist. "Fly high, Xixi. IXi will follow you forever!"

Chen Yanxi: "..."

If the person standing before Wang Ge had been Gu Panyan instead of Chen Yanxi, Gu Panyan might have mocked him or cursed at him:

"Have you gotten addicted to role-playing? Just now we were a tutor and student doing after-class tutoring, and now you want to play idol and fan?"

"Are you going to ask me next whether I can stir-fry noodles?"

Unfortunately, Chen Yanxi wasn't nearly as aggressive as Gu Panyan.

She merely pressed her lips together, chose to keep doing her homework, and stopped paying attention to Wang Ge.

Wang Ge laughed, then said nothing more and quietly started playing with his phone.

The room fell silent for a while, leaving only the soft scratching of the pen against the paper.

Chen Yanxi concentrated on her homework while Wang Ge put his phone on silent.

It wasn't because he was being particularly considerate. It was because he was chatting with Gu Panyan.

Don't ask. I was feeling guilty, that's all.

Gu Panyan: [Image]

Gu Panyan: "How do I solve this problem?"

Wang Ge slowly typed out the explanation and sent it to her one sentence at a time.

When he reached the fourth sentence, Gu Panyan seemed to find it too troublesome and started a video call.

"Bzzz~"

Wang Ge had put his phone on silent but had forgotten to turn off the vibration. The buzzing broke the peace in the room, and Wang Ge hurriedly hung up on her.

Although he hadn't officially entered a relationship with either of them, Wang Ge still felt terribly guilty.

Hearing the sound, Chen Yanxi glanced back at him. "Why did you hang up? You can answer it. Don't worry about me."

It was a video call. If I answered, wouldn't that turn into a straight-up battlefield...? Wang Ge grumbled inwardly, then said with a smile, "It's fine. It wasn't anything important, so there was no need."

Chen Yanxi nodded lightly and said nothing more, turning back to continue working on her problems.

At the same time, a message from Gu Panyan arrived on Wang Ge's phone after he hung up:

"Is it inconvenient? What a shame. I was going to give you a little treat."

A treat?

Wang Ge's eyes lit up, and he immediately typed, "What kind of treat?"

Gu Panyan: "After my mom found out that I'd started studying recently, she got a little overexcited and bought me a lot of clothes."

"The clothes she bought seem to be the kind you like—various dresses and things like that. She also got me several different styles of stockings."

"I was going to put them on for you to see. Since it's inconvenient, never mind."

Wang Ge stared fixedly at the messages Gu Panyan had sent on his phone screen for a full minute.

Then he suddenly covered his chest with one hand.

His expression was so pained that it looked as if he had just lost a hundred million yuan.

But then, he narrowed his eyes. Recalling his previous experience of "touching her leg," he grew suspicious.

Is this woman making me another empty promise?

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