Lin Baici, Adding You as a Friend Is Harder Than Tang Sanzang's Journey to the West!

July on campus was sweltering, and the melancholy of graduation season hung in the air like a spring, soaking the seniors in their final year and leaving them sad from the inside out.

"An old friend from your hometown?"

Lin Baici was a little surprised. He asked tentatively, "A girl?"

If it were a guy, Li Wei had no reason to hide it from him. He'd only be embarrassed to say something if it was a girl.

"Uh!"

Li Wei scratched his head and explained sheepishly, "I found her phone while I was cleaning classrooms at night for my work-study job. That's how we met!"

"Do you like her?"

Lin Baici asked bluntly.

"Huh?"

Li Wei froze, then shook his head and hurriedly denied it. "No! No!"

"So you're interested in her, then?"

Lin Baici laughed. "What's there to be embarrassed about?"

Li Wei felt awkward. He didn't know how to bring it up with Lin Baici. They'd agreed to go home together, but now someone else was coming along—and she was a girl. He was worried Lin Baici would be put out, since he knew his childhood friend was rather aloof and didn't like socializing.

There was another thing, too: Li Wei did have a bit of a crush on that girl.

He knew how charming Lin Baici was. What if they went home together and Su Yiwen fell for Lin Baici?

So the best thing would be to tell Lin Baici how he felt in advance. But that would make him seem far too calculating.

After all, it was up to the girl who she liked. And if Lin Baici liked Su Yiwen too, then as his childhood friend, Li Wei shouldn't get in the way...

Caught up in all these tangled feelings, Li Wei kept putting it