Li Xian looked at the all-too-familiar pale green cufflink and instantly realized that the Green-Dressed Girl-Xie Zhi, as Deng Hanyu called her-had found them!
He quietly turned to glance at Deng Hanyu, who merely lowered his head and looked at the ground. His expression remained perfectly normal, making it impossible to tell whether he had noticed the hand suddenly reaching out from beneath the bench.
Li Xian pretended to adjust his posture, but in reality, he shifted his foot slightly away from the hand.
Throughout the entire process, Li Xian never took his eyes off the hand beneath him.
Xie Zhi waved her hand twice, then suddenly grabbed in one direction-
Deng Hanyu, who had been sitting quietly on the bench, suddenly stood up, his foot landing squarely on the outstretched hand!
"Urgh-aaah!!"
A pained wail came from beneath the bench.
Deng Hanyu seemed completely oblivious to it as he casually extended a hand to Li Xian.
"Getting tired of sitting here, right? Let's walk around for a while."
As he spoke, he continued pressing down with his foot, mercilessly grinding the hand beneath it.
Li Xian silently took Deng Hanyu's hand, then let go as soon as he rose from the bench, nodding in agreement.
The two quietly moved away from the bench behind them. After a few steps, Deng Hanyu glanced back at where they had been sitting, while Li Xian silently watched his expression. He remained composed, though a faint trace of disgust appeared on his smiling face.
As they wandered aimlessly around the field, Li Xian suddenly asked:
"How do you know so much about all this?"
Of course Deng Hanyu knew-he was also a student in Class 32. But Li Xian had never seen him in the dorms or their small-group classes, so what he