"W-what did you just say?" Lu Xin asked, sounding excited. "Were you saying hello to me?"
Little Lin Mo ignored him and took his cup to the water dispenser.
Lu Xin eagerly followed him, grinning. "Friends share the good times and the bad. Look, we already went through trouble together yesterday, so stop shutting yourself away. Whenever I have meat to eat, there'll always be soup for you. I don't have any friends here yet. Let's be friends."
"No." Cup in hand, Little Lin Mo walked straight around Lu Xin.
Lu Xin kept pestering him, following at his heels. "Come on, be my friend. It's not like it'll hurt you. Oh, right, I brought steamed buns. Want one?"
"No."
"Huh? Why not? You definitely haven't had breakfast." Lu Xin took out the three buns he had brought without waiting for an answer. "I can't finish all these. Help me eat one. There's red bean, vegetable, and meat filling. Which one do you want?"
"None."
"Then have the meat one. I've been eating too much greasy food lately, so I want something lighter." As he spoke, Lu Xin set the individually wrapped meat bun on Little Lin Mo's desk.
Little Lin Mo picked up the bun and tossed it back to Lu Xin.
Lu Xin caught it against his chest and blinked at Little Lin Mo, then suddenly burst out laughing.
Little Lin Mo furrowed his brows and asked irritably, "What are you laughing at?"
Lu Xin took out a vegetable bun and bit into it, speaking as he chewed. "You used to throw everything on the floor, and you never cared how I felt. Lin Mo, I'm not giving up."
Little Lin Mo froze for a moment, then said nothing more and picked up his cup to drink.
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