She Has Me in Her Heart (1 / 2)

"Hey, eating like that, aren't you afraid you'll turn into a little fat bunny?"

Su Mo watched Xiao Wu hold candied hawthorn in her left hand and more candied hawthorn in her right, her mouth stuffed full.

"I probably won't, right?" Xiao Wu glanced at the candied hawthorn in her hands, then at her belly.

"Say, Su Mo, do you think I'll really get fat?"

She suddenly grew worried and stopped eating her candied hawthorn.

"No, I have to lose weight."

Su Mo was speechless. "You haven't even gotten fat. What weight are you trying to lose?"

"Besides, wouldn't getting plumper be better? You'd be softer to hold."

"Pfft!" Xiao Wu glared at Su Mo. "Who said you could hold me?"

"Have you considered that you're always the one hugging me at night?" Su Mo said.

"Hmph, Sister Xiao Wu won't stoop to arguing with you." A blush crept onto Xiao Wu's face before she could stop it. She turned and walked ahead.

On the way back to the academy.

Xiao Wu suddenly asked, "Su Mo, you spent so much money today. Doesn't it hurt at all?"

Although Xiao Chenyu had contributed the money, once he gave it to Su Mo, wasn't it Su Mo's money?

So she had still been spending Su Mo's money.

Xiao Chenyu: Yes, yes, exactly!

Thinking back on it now, she really did seem to have spent a little too much.

"It hurts, of course. But if Sister Xiao Wu wants something to eat, I still have to buy it, no matter how much it hurts." Su Mo spread his hands and put on a pained expression.

"Now that's what I like to hear." Xiao Wu was delighted. She leaned close to Su Mo's ear and whispered, "Then, if I want some again next time, will you still buy it for me?"

Su Mo smiled. "Of course. If Sister Xiao Wu wants it, I'll buy it no matter how expensive it is."

"And the time after that?"

"Yes."

"Then... for a lifetime?"

Su Mo froze for a moment, tilting his head to look at Xiao Wu.

Xiao Wu herself froze too. Her face instantly flushed red, and she hurriedly said, "W-well, I meant... I didn't... hey, don't look at me!"

"It's only a lifetime. I can still afford to provide for you." Looking at her thoroughly flushed little face, Su Mo couldn't help smiling.

Xiao Wu lowered her head, not daring to meet Su Mo's eyes. All she could feel was the heat in her cheeks and her racing heart.

She mumbled softly.

"Then... you're not allowed to take it back!"

Her voice was so quiet it was almost inaudible.

Su Mo dug at his ear, looking puzzled. "What did you just say?"

Xiao Wu looked up and glared at him. "Hmph, nothing! I'm leaving. I'm not talking to you anymore!"

With that, Xiao Wu ran straight ahead.

Su Mo watched her retreating figure with a smile. Of course he had heard what she said.

He had only wanted to tease her a little.

Tang San, who had returned to the dorm,

thought about many things.

He kept feeling that something wasn't right.

By all rights, wasn't he the best fighter in Dorm Seven?

He had taken Wang Sheng down on his very first day.

Although he had lost to Su Mo, that was because he hadn't been on guard. In a fight to the death, Su Mo would surely die.

He was confident of that. He was a Tang Sect disciple, after all. Dealing with a little brat would be as easy as reaching out and taking him.

Once he finished making all those hidden weapons, Su Mo couldn't possibly be his match.

He felt that he should be the one everyone in Dorm Seven looked up to.

Especially Xiao Wu.

With his strength, shouldn't Xiao Wu admire him?

So why did she like clinging to that Su Mo instead?

Could it be because he hadn't taken enough initiative?

He recalled his behavior over the past few days. It did seem that he had never taken the initiative to talk to Xiao Wu.

Xiao Wu was a girl, after all. She must have felt too shy to talk to him.

Sure enough, he needed to take more initiative.

When Su Mo and Xiao Wu returned to the dorm,

Tang San spoke first. "Xiao Wu, you're back?"

Su Mo was taken aback. Wait, had Tang San taken the wrong medicine today?

Since Xiao Wu was in a good mood, and since she was the boss of Dorm Seven, she giggled and nodded in reply. "That's right, Sister Xiao Wu is back!"

Watching Xiao Wu smile at him, Tang San immediately fell under an illusion. She has me in her heart.

In reality, Xiao Wu was addressing everyone in the dorm.

"Come on, everyone! Sister Xiao Wu brought you some tasty treats."

"Wow! Thank you, Sister Xiao Wu!"

"Wow, candied hawthorn! I've never had it before. I've heard people say it's really delicious."

"There are meat skewers too! Sister Xiao Wu, you're the best!"

"Line up properly and come one at a time. There's some for everyone." Xiao Wu planted her hands on her hips and directed them.

Then everyone lined up.

"Wang Sheng, this is yours."

"Thank you, Sister Xiao Wu!"

Wang Sheng promptly bowed a full ninety degrees.

Soon, it was Tang San's turn.

"Tang San, this is yours." Xiao Wu handed Tang San a skewer of candied hawthorn.

Tang San nodded. "Thank you, Xiao Wu."

Seeing Xiao Wu smile at him, he felt that he really did need to take the initiative.

See? Xiao Wu is smiling at me now. She must have me in her heart.

For once, Dorm Seven was especially harmonious that night.

Even Wang Sheng, who normally couldn't stand Tang San, said nothing.

Early the next morning.

The academy cafeteria.

Tang San seemed to have turned into a fawning lapdog.

"Xiao Wu, I'll get your food for you."

He put on what he considered a very friendly smile.

After all, he had deliberately come to the cafeteria with Su Mo and Xiao Wu today.

He had even tidied his hair.

Xiao Wu glanced at Tang San, looking utterly bewildered. She blinked. "No need. Su Mo's already gone to get it."

The smile on Tang San's face instantly froze. "H-has he?"

He felt terribly awkward and had no idea what to say for a moment.

He glanced at Su Mo's retreating figure, a cold glint flashing in his eyes. But when he turned back to Xiao Wu, that friendly smile returned.

"That's fine. Then I'll save you a seat."

Xiao Wu didn't look at Tang San. Instead, she looked at Su Mo, who was walking over. "No need. Su Mo and I are going to eat over there."

With that, she ran toward Su Mo.

Tang San stood rooted to the spot.

"Phew. It must be because Xiao Wu doesn't know me well enough yet."

Over the next few days.

Tang San tried practically every possible way of engineering a chance encounter.

When Xiao Wu basked in the sun on the sports field, he pretended to go there to exercise.

"Xiao Wu, you're here too..."

But before he could finish, Xiao Wu had run off, calling, "Su Mo, you promised you'd go buy sweets with me!"

When Xiao Wu went to the library to read-though, of course, she wasn't really reading, since she always fell asleep within ten minutes of opening a book.

She only went along because Su Mo was going.

At such times, Tang San would also come over and sit down with a copy of Martial Soul Theory.

He would even make a show of reading it.

As though he were a top student who absolutely loved studying.

Then Xiao Wu rubbed her eyes and looked at Su Mo beside her. "You rotten Su Mo, you didn't even wake me when I fell asleep. Come on, let's go back and sleep."

As she spoke, she pulled Su Mo toward the library exit.

Tang San couldn't help asking, "Didn't you just wake up?"

Xiao Wu answered with complete conviction, "Of course it's because sleeping in bed is more comfortable!"

Tang San was speechless and could only follow them back.

Tang San even tried showing off his hidden weapons.

He deliberately stood along the route Xiao Wu had to take back to the dorm, holding a Sleeve Arrow and pretending to practice against a tree.

The way he imagined it, when a young girl saw another young girl deftly handling hidden weapons in the setting sun, cutting a dashing figure,

she ought to be at least a little curious, right?

After all, that was how all those storybooks described it.

And that was indeed the case.

But the result was different from what he had imagined.

"Tang San, are you doing acrobatics?"