The anime club took subway line 1 back to school.

With time to spare, many students planned to go to i77 in groups of two or three to browse around.

Many of them are freshmen who joined the club this semester and came from other places.

They had long heard that Hangzhou was known as the "City of Pain," but almost a semester had passed and they still hadn't grasped the intricacies of it. That's when the second-oldest salamander needed to guide them.

Although many of the otaku in the anime club are not good at socializing, they still generously offer their advice in this situation.

"Jiaojiao, shall we come together?"

Ma Jiaojiao's friend from the anime club called her.

Ma Jiaojiao was always quite enthusiastic and was about to agree when she noticed Han Lihua standing next to her friend.

He will probably come along.

Ma Jiaojiao glanced sideways at Zhao Sun, who was talking to the club president, Tang Jike, on the other side.

Don Quixote: "It's not too late, shall we go together?"

Zhao Xun: "You want to freeze into a grandson, but I want to be a grandfather... I'm not going."

As he spoke, he glanced behind him out of the corner of his eye.

Their eyes met.

Zhao Xun withdrew his gaze, slightly shrank his neck, and put his hands back into his pockets:

"...They've withdrawn."

He said to Don Quixote.

Zhao Sun didn't have any close friends in the anime club, and most of them had expressed a desire to join i77.

So he continued to mind his own business as usual.

—As for this little Ma classmate who previously told Lao Bei to be careful and to take good care of him.

It seems like everything is fine.

Everything tastes delicious and everything is so satisfying at the barbecue restaurant.

He... mainly from the north, seems to be worrying for nothing.

Besides, she has friends in the company who are more effective than him.

“…Let’s go back and make some Ovaltine,” Zhao Sun muttered.

The air was just cold a few days ago, but it's freezing these past few days.

He really didn't want to go out.

Every breath he exhaled was white steam.

Zhao Xun, who has always preferred to be alone, walks very fast by keeping pace with others.

But then, following the sound of footsteps behind him, a person walked alongside him.

Zhao Xun, who had put on a black hood, glanced to the side, somewhat surprised, but his expression remained unchanged:

Aren't you coming with me?

She's a big girl.

"Um."

"…What's wrong?"

This gave Zhao Sun a headache.

He originally thought that after Ma Jiaojiao was alright, he could simply wash his hands of the matter.

But this guy actually did something that didn't go as he expected—could it be Zheng... something again? Anyway, the appearance of that Zong Sang ruined Big Girl's mood, making her unwilling to go shopping.

"Oh, Han Lihua went too."

Ma Jiaojiao said with a smile, "I always felt that he still had some misunderstanding about me... Afterwards, I talked to a friend who is close to him."

Zhao Sun: ...

"and."

Zhao Xun realized she had misunderstood. Ma Jiaojiao seemed to be in a good mood; the corners of her eyes were curved, not drooping with sadness. She wanted to say something more, but after glancing at Zhao Xun, she smiled and shook her head: "It's nothing."

Zhao Sun: "...Oh."

I thought it was related to his previous mention of her chatting with Han Lihua…

Fortunately, it's nothing serious.

As Zhao Xun was thinking this, Ma Jiaojiao sighed and spoke again:

"I can't let some petty seniors make things difficult for me!"

Zhao Sun: ...

“We were just chatting casually for a couple of minutes, and they made such a big deal out of it,” Ma Jiaojiao added.

Zhao Sun: !!

"You fucking—"

Zhao Sun retorted angrily, "Didn't you say 'it's nothing'? Tell me, what the hell does 'it's nothing' mean?!"

He was relieved.

It turned out to be a waste of money!

"And what I said was, 'I wasn't ignoring you at the time; you were chatting, and I didn't need to come looking for you'—it has absolutely nothing to do with that Han something-hua—"

Zhao Sun gritted his teeth and explained.

Halfway through his speech, he asked himself again, "Why bother explaining all this?"

It's boring.

So, he shut up and continued to hide his mouth under the collar of his clothes.

It's really not worth it to have to inhale so much cold air just to talk, which makes my throat uncomfortable.

"Then let me talk about something else," Ma Jiaojiao said.

“…”

Zhao Xun didn't speak. He activated the AT stance, automatically blocking out the big girl.

He didn't bother to answer anything the big girl said after that.

Did they think she was being disrespectful?!

"Senior Zhao Xun, is it true that all you can say to Jingyi is 'goodbye'?" Ma Jiaojiao asked with a smile.

Zhao Sun immediately:

"You son of a bitch! You have a mouth, so stop spouting nonsense!"

"But you didn't say goodbye to me just now."

Ma Jiaojiao said, "Didn't you think I went to i77 with you?"

Zhao Xun sneered, drew a card, and then activated Invincible:

"You didn't say anything, so why should I say it?"

What makes this card so remarkable is that Chen Jingyi proactively offered to say goodbye.

It's just a farewell; it doesn't really mean anything.

But Ma Jiaojiao's inexplicable concern stirred up Zhao Sun's inexplicable competitive spirit.

Just like losing a game if you can't give a reasonable explanation.

Fortunately, "Flawless" is really useful.

Zhao Xun thus turned the tide of the battle.

Zhao Xun's explanation left Ma Jiaojiao speechless, and she could only nod in agreement.

The two walked for a while and passed by a cat cafe.

Ma Jiaojiao suggested going inside to take a look.

Zhao Sun thought that since this shop happened to sell hot cocoa, she didn't refuse.

This time is after dinner, when it's usually crowded.

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