Damn it, I'm surrounded by childhood sweethearts

"Isn't it funny? Colonel chicken nuggets, oh, ketchup, oh."

"Chicken nuggets, ketchup!"

"Pfft... hahaha, what an idiot you are!"

"Hahahaha!"

Xu Qingfan kept raising his eyebrows and making faces, and ultimately, the five women couldn't help but burst out laughing.

...

After the dessert gathering ended, everyone went their separate ways. Wu Lingyu had already been back to Hong Kong last week, so she stayed in Li City this weekend.

When the three of them went to the convenience store downstairs as usual, the cashier they used to see every week was gone, replaced by a middle-aged woman in her forties.

"Look at what you've done, scaring the poor girl into quitting," Xia Xiaoxiao said, giving him a glance after they left the store.

"What's it got to do with me? Open the door, you think they can refuse to do business with me?" Xu Qingfan shrugged, unconcerned. If he could be blamed for this, then they might as well blame him if the Earth stopped spinning.

Wu Lingyu quietly slapped Xu Qingfan, still disapproving of Brother Fan's behavior. It was like showing off in front of others Versailles-style.

But it was also that female clerk who, without any proof, wronged someone in the first place. Well, actually, it wasn't exactly slander...

The three of them didn't continue the topic.

"My parents aren't home this week, so do you think we should cook at home tomorrow or go out to eat?"

Autumn is the best season for traveling, so taking advantage of the last bit of autumn, Xu Aiguo and Yao Jinping went on a trip to Turpan in the Western Regions.

"Whatever."

"Let's buy groceries and cook at home together, Auntie Lin is also here." Wu Lingyu replied without thinking too hard.

"I'm going to invent a dish called 'Whatever', and whenever you say 'whatever', I'll serve you the same dish every day," Xu Qingfan said with his hands in his pockets and a content smile on his face.

"Then I'll eat what you like," Xia Xiaoxiao gave him a look.

"What I like, you know what I like to eat," Xu Qingfan returned with a lecherous look.

Xia Xiaoxiao instantly understood and felt dirty.

"I, what do I know? I don't know anything!" Xia Xiaoxiao tossed her ponytail and quickly walked away, blushing.

Only Wu Lingyu was left confused, pondering what was the food that Xu Qingfan particularly liked to eat?

[Brother Fan isn't picky about food, if Xiaoxiao knows it, how come I don't know?]

...

It was just after six in the evening when Lin Jing got off from work after a meeting and arrived home.

Upon hearing the door, Xu Qingfan ran to open it, took the document bag from Lin Jing's hand, and smiled, "Auntie, have you had your dinner? I'll make you... give you some noodles to eat."

"I've eaten outside before I came back, thank you, Xiao Fan." Lin Jing smiled warmly, nodding at him before closing the door and coming in.

"Xiaoxiao and Yu are upstairs taking a bath, have a seat, Auntie, I'll cut some fruit for you." Xu Qingfan rushed into the kitchen to busy himself, treating it as if he were in his own Aunt Lin's home.

"Did you have a good time at the sports meet, Xiao Fan? You must have won some prizes again," Lin Jing said, sitting on the sofa, waiting for him to come back out.

"Hey, I'm a guaranteed prize-winner, first place in both the 100m and 200m. If it weren't for the rule that one person can only enter two events, I could have taken all the first places," Xu Qingfan boasted to Lin Jing cheerfully.

The two of them chatted and watched TV, when Wu Lingyu and Xia Xiaoxiao quickly finished their baths and came downstairs.

"Mom? When did you get back?" Xia Xiaoxiao came downstairs wearing only her pajamas, her half-dry hair draped over her right shoulder, with two bumps faintly visible.

"Hello, Auntie!" Wu Lingyu also wore her pajamas, which were much more conservative in style.

"I just got back not long ago. After your bath, make sure to blow dry your hair quickly, it's almost winter and you can easily catch a cold," Lin Jing nodded to them and advised.

"It's not cold at home, it should be fine," Xia Xiaoxiao said casually, sitting down and wrapping her arms around her mother's waist.

Wu Lingyu obediently sat next to Xu Qingfan. Her hair was also wet, and like Xiaoxiao, she had come down intending to find Brother Fan to help dry her hair.

"It's okay, Auntie, let me help them blow-dry it," Xu Qingfan said, skillfully bending down to get the hairdryer from the drawer.

Lin Jing nearly burst out laughing. She could clearly see that her daughter and Yu had come down to have Xu Qingfan dry their hair.

"Xiao Fan, you help Yu dry hers. I have some things to discuss with Xiaoxiao," she said.

"Discuss what? Can't we just talk here?" Seeing her mother getting up to leave, Xia Xiaoxiao was puzzled but obediently stood up and followed her.

The front door opened and then closed again.

Soon, only Xu Qingfan and Wu Lingyu were left looking at each other in the living room.

The next second.

"Ah~ Brother Fan, what are you doing?!"

Xu Qingfan suddenly pushed Yu down onto the sofa, almost hungrily leaning over her.

All things considered, the damn man had abstained from sex for over thirty days since laying down the military order, any onlooker would have to praise him as a true man.

"Yu, you smell so good."

Xu Qingfan's infatuation caused him to squint his eyes, but aside from sniffing Yu, he didn't take any further action.

"Cough... Brother Fan, you're crushing me." Wu Lingyu struggled to catch a breath and said.

After all, Xu Qingfan was no teddy bear. Hearing this, he quickly got up from Yu's body and instead lifted her to sit on his lap.

Wu Lingyu was quite satisfied that Brother Fan hadn't broken his word, so despite a bit of discomfort on her behind, she obediently settled on Xu Qingfan's lap and wrapped her arms around his neck.

Just as Xu Qingfan was enamored by her scent, for Yu, Brother Fan was nothing less than catnip.

She buried her head in Xu Qingfan's neck, her cool lips leaving a mark on his skin, soon raising a patch of red bumps.

In the living room, neither of them spoke. The sound from the TV seemed to fade, and all they could hear was each other's heartbeat.

After quietly savoring each other's presence for a few minutes, Xu Qingfan was the first to speak.

"Yu...."

His voice was like a pebble dropped on the still surface of a lake, ripples slowly spreading out.

Forehead, eyebrows, eyes, nose, and at last, the lips.

"Mm~"

Five minutes later, Wu Lingyu made a soft moan as her lips parted.

A translucent thread stretched out slowly and finally snapped in midair, disappearing without a trace as if it had never existed.

Xu Qingfan pressed his forehead against Wu Lingyu's, their breaths heavy as if they had just finished running a 1500-meter race at the school sports meeting.

Xu Qingfan gently wiped away the saliva from the corner of Yu's mouth with his thumb, then laid down with the girl in his arms on the couch.

"I've been performing well lately, right? Keeping my promise to Yu, said and done." He caressed the girl's back as he spoke.

"Hmph, you didn't keep it just now... Ah~" Wu Lingyu puffed up her cheeks, affectionately leaning on his chest.

"How did I not keep it, wasn't it Yu who agreed just now?"

The damn man's idle left hand slapped Yu's ample behind.

"It, was, not!"

"Brother Fan forced me!"

After saying that, Wu Lingyu buried her head, a little afraid to see Brother Fan's expression at that moment.

"Ah~"

"Hehehe... Brother Fan, I was wrong... Don't!"

"Was it still me forcing you?"

"Haha... No... Aaah, it was my own choice."

Under Xu Qingfan's tickling technique, Wu Lingyu could no longer resist.

"So, have I been performing really well lately?" Xu Qingfan didn't stop and continued to ask.

"Hahaha... Yes... Brother Fan's performance... good."

Xu Qingfan curled his lips into a mischievous smile, increasing the power output: "So since I've performed so well, does Yu have to reward me?"

"No reward!"

"Wuhaha... Give it... Brother Fan, don't tickle haha... stop tickling... I'll give cough!"

Wu Lingyu was on the verge of crying from laughter, and after signing the unequal treaty, Xu Qingfan finally stopped his mischief.

She rested in Brother Fan's arms for a few minutes, regaining her mobility, then took the moment he was distracted to quickly make her escape.

"Where do you think you're going?"

Alas, her reaction was no match for his; Xu Qingfan easily caught her again.

"I... I need to go to the bathroom." Wu Lingyu said with a guilty expression, looking down and suddenly discovering Brother Fan's big secret.

Having known him for so long, Xu Qingfan could easily see through Yu's lie.

And having known him for equally long, Wu Lingyu could guess that the reward was surely up to no good, perhaps the bad Brother Fan would even propose some Jing Kun treatment.

As the stalemate between them persisted, Xia Xiaoxiao suddenly entered quietly without a sound.

"What are you two doing standing here?"

Xu Qingfan: Danger!

...