"Isn't that right?" Xia Kening looked puzzled. "Your deskmate said everyone in your class knew about it."
"Why does the whole class know?!" Song Yunshen went pale with shock, then couldn't help cursing. "Fat Dragon told them, didn't he? I'm going to file a complaint against him! Can an information broker even sell fake news?!"
"Uh..." Xia Kening scratched her head. "It's really no big deal, though. Xia Yunuo is so pretty, it'd be perfectly normal for you to like her."
"I told you, it's not true." Song Yunshen looked speechless as he explained, "I borrowed her English homework once, so I just treated her to lunch a few days ago. It's nowhere near as dramatic as they think."
"Really?" Xia Kening was only half convinced. After all, she was quite confident in her own sister's charms.
And now that she was in Song Yunshen's body, Xia Kening had to admit when she looked in the mirror that, in terms of looks alone, Song Yunshen was more than a match for her second sister.
Besides, although her second sister had turned down her offer to treat her today, she had still taken the initiative to say they could eat together.
That meant her second sister was actually a little fond of Song Yunshen too, right?
At least she didn't dislike him.
As far as Xia Kening could remember, her second sister had never given boys the time of day.
Song Yunshen was the sole exception.
Come to think of it, if her second sister really did end up with Song Yunshen, that wouldn't be such a bad thing, would it?
After swapping souls with Song Yunshen, Xia Kening could tell from the way he handled things that he wasn't a bad person.
On the contrary, he was pretty nice.
Though he sometimes spoke in an unserious way, at other times he seemed very mature, far better than those childish boys in her own class.
Besides, Song Yunshen's family was rich!
If her second sister really married Song Yunshen, wouldn't life get better for their whole family too?
But... if Song Yunshen became her future brother-in-law...
Xia Kening instinctively glanced down, then blushed and grew a little embarrassed.
Wasn't it a little inappropriate that she had seen every inch of her brother-in-law's body even before her second sister had?
But she couldn't help it!
It wasn't as if she could stop going to the bathroom.
She had done her best to go in when there were no boys in the restroom, and at first she had even nearly walked into the girls' restroom by mistake.
At that thought, she suddenly realized that if Song Yunshen used her body to go to the bathroom, wouldn't he walk into the girls' restroom?
But she was too embarrassed to ask about that sort of thing, so she kept it bottled up.
"What are you thinking about?" Song Yunshen held his forehead and sighed. "Anyway, it really isn't like that. There's nothing between Xia Yunuo and me, and I'm not pursuing her."
"All right." Xia Kening nodded and continued, "The afternoon was just the usual exams. Afterward, I went to eat with your deskmate."
"Oh, right, I made a bet with your deskmate about what meat dishes the cafeteria would have today. I won, and even earned you the price of a meal."
"Speaking of which, can I get reimbursed for that meal?"
"You call that reimbursement?" Song Yunshen's mouth twitched. "It's up to you. It's only a few yuan anyway. Just use my WeChat to transfer it to yourself."
"Really? You don't mind?" Xia Kening blinked, a little tempted.
"What's there to mind?" Song Yunshen chuckled. "You won the bet in the first place. Besides, didn't I use your meal card to eat today?"
"Then I won't hold back." Xia Kening grinned and immediately used Song Yunshen's WeChat to transfer eight yuan to herself. Song Yunshen, sitting across from her, promptly tapped accept.
"One more thing." Xia Kening suddenly remembered something, and her expression dimmed again. She couldn't help asking, "Sec... does Xia Yunuo usually eat that little? I saw her order just one vegetable dish today."
"That's how she usually eats, I think." Hearing this, Song Yunshen also sighed. "Her family isn't very well-off, so that's all she can usually eat. That's one of the reasons I chose to treat her to a meal before."
"Apparently, she only orders a meat dish once in a while. The rest of the time, it's just like you said."
"I did tell her I could treat her to a meal every day, as long as she was willing to lend me her English homework to copy. Unfortunately, she didn't agree."
Xia Kening fell silent, unsure what she was feeling.
But afraid that Song Yunshen would notice something was amiss, she spoke again. "And you say you're not pursuing her? How does that not count?"
"I'm just helping a classmate in need," Song Yunshen said calmly. "Don't make it sound like every good deed has to be labeled as romantic."
"All right..." Seeing how innocent Song Yunshen looked, Xia Kening actually believed him a little. "Then I misunderstood you."
"It's fine." Song Yunshen smiled, then asked, "I had one meat dish and one vegetable dish for lunch today. That's okay, right? I saw you had quite a bit of money on your meal card."
"Mm..." Hearing this, Xia Kening forced a smile, the ache in her heart growing stronger. "It's... it's fine. That's what I usually eat too."
She didn't want Song Yunshen to know about her relationship with her two sisters for the time being, so she said no more about the meal money.
"After dinner in the evening, your deskmate asked me to play ball, but I'm not very good, so I politely declined," Xia Kening continued her account. "I played five-in-a-row with your deskmate during evening self-study, then went home after school."
"Huh? You two played five-in-a-row too?"
"What? Did you play too?"
"Yeah," Song Yunshen said with a smile. "I played with your deskmate at noon and during evening self-study today."
"Don't do anything bad to Kong Xi," Xia Kening couldn't help saying. "She's too softhearted. People can bully her however they like, and she doesn't dare talk back."
"Am I that kind of person?" Song Yunshen looked speechless. "You've seriously misjudged my character."
"I'm just taking precautions," Xia Kening said, puffing out her cheeks.
"Don't puff out your cheeks!" Song Yunshen said crossly. "You're in my body right now. It's really hard to keep a straight face watching myself make that expression!"
"But it's a habit." Xia Kening huffed. "Besides, I held back at school."
"I hope so." Song Yunshen sighed. "Then it's my turn now."
"Hey, I'm not finished yet," Xia Kening said hurriedly.
"What else is there?"
"There is something." Xia Kening continued, "After school, your deskmate told me, um... a girl named Xia Jinshu wrote you a love letter?"
"Oh, that. I was just joking with him," Song Yunshen said, shaking his head. "Our school has an English Club. Members can drop letters in the mailbox there, and other people can take them out to read and write replies."
"So you two are just writing letters to each other?" Xia Kening asked curiously.
"Yeah." Song Yunshen nodded, without going into the matter of Xia Jinshu looking for a tutor. After all, that was her private business. "It's English practice. My English grades aren't very good."
"I see." Xia Kening nodded, finally reassured, then patted her chest and said, "Aren't you taking the English exam tomorrow? I'll earn you some extra points! They definitely won't make up for the points I lost in the science subjects, but at least your total score won't look too bad."
"Really? Isn't high school English a little different from middle school English?" Song Yunshen was skeptical.
"There's not much difference. It's just a gap in vocabulary." Xia Kening waved a hand. "I started building up my high school vocabulary a long time ago. I always score above 115 on my middle school English exams."
"Then why are you only ranked seventieth or eightieth in your grade?"
"Because I'm not very good at the science subjects!" Xia Kening puffed out her cheeks.
"Don't puff out your cheeks!"
"I will, I will!"
"Fuck you! Then I'm taking my clothes off."
"No!" Xia Kening panicked. "You pervert! You were just saying you had good character!"
"Then just stop puffing out your cheeks." Song Yunshen was only trying to scare her; he couldn't really take them off.
The two of them nearly got worked up arguing. To anyone watching, it would have looked like a boy insisting on puffing out his cheeks while a girl threatened to take her clothes off. No matter how you looked at it, the scene was bizarre.
"Fine, I won't puff out my cheeks anymore."
"And stop adding that cutesy 'fine' to the end of your sentences. Why talk so cutely?"
"Hmph, none of your business." Xia Kening nearly puffed out her cheeks again, but held back in the end. "Now it's your turn. Did anything happen to you today?"
"Me..." As soon as Song Yunshen started talking about it, his expression turned melancholy. "Something big really did happen."
"Huh? What?" Xia Kening grew a little nervous. "Didn't you say there weren't any problems?"
"The problem isn't that big, but..." Song Yunshen's expression grew solemn, as though he had suffered some great calamity in life. In a sorrowful voice, he said, "A boy confessed to me today."
Hearing this, Xia Kening didn't look surprised. She merely tilted her head and frowned impatiently. "...Again?"