—"Lin Xiaolu! I like you! Can you be my girlfriend?"
Sunset Middle School, outside the track field, beside the stands.
By mid-November, the weather had gradually turned cooler. Even at noon, with the blazing sun high overhead, it did not feel unbearably hot.
Since it was lunchtime, there were not many students on the field. Only a few energetic students were playing soccer on the grass. Their attention was focused on the game before them, and no one noticed the corner by the stands.
It was in a place like this that Lin Xiaolu received a confession from a boy in her class.
This was also the first confession she had received from the opposite sex since entering middle school.
She had originally wondered why this boy had suddenly asked her to come to the field. She had not expected that, after meeting up and following him for only two steps, she would hear something so bombshell-like.
His incredibly direct and blatant declaration made Lin Xiaolu's heart race uncontrollably.
Not from embarrassment, but from shock.
"Wh-what are you talking about? Wh-what do you mean, your girlf-f-f... Aren't you embarrassed to say something like that?"
She took two flustered steps back and questioned him loudly at first. Then she realized that this was probably not something suitable to say out loud, so she lowered her voice slightly. "This is puppy love! It's not allowed!"
"...Puppy love?"
The boy had not expected Lin Xiaolu's answer to be that. He had been rather nervous, but now he asked blankly, "But we're middle school students already, aren't we?"
"The teachers said so. Dating at our age is too early!"
Lin Xiaolu shook her head repeatedly. "No! I can't date this early!"
"Ah, well..."
Before confessing, the boy had considered what he should do if