Chapter 51.2: Jealous.

At the Ning family, the sunflowers received Ning Yi’s favor as expected, even Le Baiqiu praised that they were pretty and went to choose a vase on the spot, saying they had to be properly cared for.

And the taro balls that Lu Xu Nan carried the whole way and put on the coffee table were immediately forgotten.

Le Baiqiu was worried that the children would feel restricted with her presence and specially arranged the refreshments to be in the garden. She herself pretended she had matters to attend to after greeting them and went upstairs. Before she left, she told Ning Yi and Lu Xu Nan to properly entertain their classmates together.

Lu Xu Nan’s bad mood because of Xu Xing Ji sending flowers dispersed a lot, the gaze with which he looked at the latter held plenty of undisguised aggression.

But Xu Xing Ji wasn’t afraid at all. His relationship with Ju Meng and Mu Wanqing was good to begin with, and he was generous and witty. Compared to the icy Lu Xu Nan, he was even more like a fish in water.

He poured tea and gave pastries to the girls from time to time and could discuss Olympiad questions together with Ning Yi and Mu Wanqing, and very quickly took the lead.

Clearly they were sitting around the same table, but Fang Ci felt as if the two of them were in a different world than the other four.

He knew that it was definitely impossible for Lu Xu Nan to bring up a topic for discussion and that they, as bad students, had no way of integrating into their top students’ world. Thus, he thought for a bit, knocked on the table to attract everyone’s attention, and proposed, “We finally finished testing, don’t only care about studying,, okay? How about let’s play some games?”

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Ju Meng shouted, “Aiya, spare me, you guys. How is this playing games, it’s simply a punishment!”

Fang Ci also immediately put his hands up and surrendered, breaking into a run to catch up with Lu Xu Nan.

“Brother Nan, the enemy’s level is very high! We must bring back the Little Strawberry Plan that we put aside before!”

Lu Xu Nan was very annoyed in his heart, he asked, “What do we do?”

Fang Ci suddenly became the commanding officer but couldn’t bring up anything significant. He choked for half a day before spitting out four words: “Consider things at length.”

Lu Xu Nan: …

The two of them entered the house and just happened to run into Le Baiqiu. Lu Xu Nan took on the responsibility of calling people to the meal and headed in the direction of the garden pavilion.

On the way, he met Ju Meng and Mu Wanqing going to the bathroom together, arm in arm. Lu Xu Nan thought that Xu Xing Ji and Ning Yi were left alone together at this time and was immediately sour and irritable. He simply said dinner was almost ready and left.

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Taking a break from discussing problems for the time being, Ning Yi held a cup of fruit tea, enjoying the cozy evening breeze at dusk. Her eyes narrowed as she looked at the climbing Japanese rose on the beam when she suddenly heard the person beside her speak.

“Yiyi, the title that you said yesterday, how about deleting the three words in the middle?”

Ning Yi hadn’t reacted, “En? What title?”

Xu Xing Ji smiled, sunny and bright. “The title you gave me.”

Ning Yi was dazzled by his smile. She only recalled what he was talking about after a while.

Future · fake · one week boyfriend.

Deleting the three words in the middle, it would be future boyfriend.

Ning Yi turned her head to say “stop joking”, but meeting the other person’s smiling eyes, she saw them full of seriousness.

She opened her mouth, unable to make a sound for a moment.

Was this confessing to her?!

Ning Yi was shocked and helpless, this was the first time someone confessed to her! In Xu Xing Ji’s burning bright eyes, red slowly creeped up her cheeks.

Xu Xing Ji propped his elbow on the table, leaned in Ning Yi’s direction, stretched out his hand, and talked through one by one, “First, you see, my appearance is pretty good, right? 1.79 meters is not considered short, and I’m only seventeen. You can safely predict that I can grow three or four more centimeters. Moreover, my grades are pretty good. Although they’re a little worse than yours, there’s definitely no problem testing into the same university in the future. No need to worry that we won’t have things in common to talk about. Lastly, the two of us can transmigrate into the same novel, and even become friends, this is simply a matter with a small probability within a small probability. Don’t you think it’s simply destiny bestowed by heaven?”

Xu Xing Ji’s voice got closer and closer, in the end becoming almost an enticing murmur. He looked into Ning Yi’s eyes, saying, “Perhaps, this time you transmigrated, is the heaven’s doing in order to meet each other?”

A bird’s call from somewhere unknown pulled Ning Yi back to her senses. She lifted her eyes to look at Xu Xing Ji’s face that was close within reach, and shook with fright. The small teacup in her hand slipped, tumbled down, and shattered beside her feet with a bang.

Tea was spilled on Ning Yi. She stood up in a panic to avoid it, but her heel kicked the chair and she tripped instead.

“Be careful!” Xu Xing Ji reacted very quickly. He was originally close. Although he couldn’t get up in time, he could clasp Ning Yi’s waist and hug her back with a stretch of his hand, preventing her from falling down.

But when his hand was about to touch Ning Yi’s waist, Ning Yi suddenly twisted her lower body, just missing his palm, then fell onto the ground with a thump.

Xu Xing Ji froze for two seconds, then immediately crouched to check her situation. Seeing that she hadn’t fallen on the fragments of the cup from before, he was relieved.

He was about to pull her up, but recalling the matter just now, he didn’t directly touch her, only stretched out a hand and asked, “Are you okay? I’ll help you up?”

Ning Yi noticed his movements and immediately felt a little embarrassed.

She knew Xu Xing Ji purely wanted to pull her to prevent her from falling before, but maybe his prior confession made her mind in her heart, her dodging the other person’s hand just now was an entirely instinctive reaction.

This time, if she avoided him again, it would definitely be awkward. Ning Yi placed her hand in the other person’s hand and borrowed his strength to stand up.

In the process, the leg of her pants rubbed against her skin, making her hiss from the pain.

Xu Xing Ji increased the strength in the hand holding hers, in case she fell again, and asked, “What is it? Where did you get hurt?”

Ning Yi pulled the pants leg, and lifting her head to look at him, she guessed, “The skin on my knee is probably scraped…”

When Lu Xu Nan hurried to the pavilion, he saw a scene of two people “hand in hand” standing by the table, and Xu Xing Ji was bending over as if to kiss Ning Yi.

A burst of anger directly rushed to his head, basically instinctual. Lu Xu Nan rushed into the pavilion in a few large strides. One arm embracing Ning Yi’s waist, pulling her toward himself with a yank, the other hand grabbed Xu Xing Ji’s little finger and ring finger and pulled them downward while his elbow turned inward. He actually straightforwardly adapted a small capturing hold and directly pushed the person out.

“What are you doing?!” Lu Xu Nan’s gaze sharply stared at Xu Xing Ji, his tone of voice cold and low, like a lion whose territory was trespassed.

Xu Xing Ji was not prepared, he was pushed by him and stumbled back two steps before standing firm. Anger also emerged on his always smiling face.

Ning Yi came back to her senses from her astonishment and hurriedly pulled Lu Xu Nan’s hand, anxiously saying, “Stop!”

Lu Xu Nan didn’t say anything, suddenly lowering his head to look at her.

Ning Yi was scared by the boiling anger in his eyes and momentarily forgot to continue being angry. Stuttering, she asked, “What, what are you doing?”

Lu Xu Nan asked her back a bit furiously, “What are you guys doing?”

Ning Yi felt inexplicable at his questioning.

What are we doing? I fell, Xu Xing Ji is just pulling me up!

Hearing her thoughts, Lu Xu Nan involuntarily froze. He immediately realized his reaction was extreme, and raised his head to look at Xu Xing Ji in embarrassment.

The other person had a rare cold face, rubbing the fingers that were just hurt by him, looking at him with a raised eyebrow.

Lu Xu Nan knew that he hadn’t held back much just now. His lips moved and he said in a tiny voice, “Sorry, I thought…”

Xu Xing Ji coldly humphed and cut him off, “You thought what? Thought I was doing something to Yiyi?”

Reminded by him, Ning Yi then reacted as to what Lu Xu Nan was asking just now and was instantly angry. Her elbow struck the soft flesh under his ribs. She frowned, lifting her head to glare at him, and asked with a bad tone, “Is there water in your head?”

Lu Xu Nan let out a muffled groan, looking away in embarrassment.

Xu Xing Ji coldly glanced at him, saw that he was still half hugging Ning Yi and the latter seemed to still be unaware of it for the time being, and said, “Just who is taking the opportunity to get…”

Suddenly, the action of rubbing his fingers paused, a sharp light suddenly burst from his gentle looking eyes.

Xu Xing Ji concealed his emotions with the help of the blinking movement of his eyelids. His gaze very quickly swept across the two people in front of him, and landed on Lu Xu Nan.

That feeling just now was…he’s trying to read my conscience? How…

Lu Xu Nan saw that he didn’t continue talking and awkwardly apologized again.

Xu Xing Ji raised his hand to rub his temples that were still slightly aching. Lowering his eyes to hide his state of mind, he thought in his heart: Interesting.

At this time, Le Baiqiu’s voice came from afar.

“Yiyi, Xiao Nan! The dishes are on the table, come eat together with your classmates!”

Ning Yi turned back and answered, then discovered that Lu Xu Nan was half hugging her. She twisted her body and backed away from his arm at once, then without so much as a glance at him, called Xu Xing Ji and returned to the house together.

Xu Xing Ji had already recovered his normal state at this moment. He asked with concern, “How is your leg? Can you walk?”

Lu Xu Nan heard and instantly looked anxiously at Ning Yi: “Your leg got hurt? Are you okay?”

Ning Yi glared at him in displeasure, and still neglected him, only speaking to Xu Xing Ji, “No problem, I can walk. Let’s hurry up, Mengmeng and the others are probably waiting for us!”

Xu Xing Ji didn’t continue asking.

And Lu Xu Nan knew he was in the wrong and didn’t dare catch up, lagging a few steps behind the two of them, following in Ning Yi’s footsteps as they headed back together…