Chapter 20 Strategy: The Best Luxury Car to Drive on Day 20...

How could Xiang Di possibly be afraid that he would eat her?

...To put it bluntly, Xiang Di couldn't be happier if he could eat him up.

Of course, it's not actually eating like you would eat solid food; it's a different kind of eating, like sucking on a mouth, sucking on milk, or sucking on something like that...

She was clearly distracted, and it was unclear what she was thinking, which annoyed Bai Jiangxin.

The inexplicable withdrawal symptoms made him very uncomfortable. He even suspected that she had drugged him. Anxiety slowly crept onto his brow. He lowered his voice and said impatiently, "I'm talking to you. What are you thinking about?"

Xiang Di suddenly snapped back to reality.

No! Now is not the time to think about such things!

I've been getting a bit too carried away these past few days, indulging in fantasies regardless of the situation. This habit is unacceptable and needs to be corrected.

"No, no," Xiang Di chuckled dryly. "You've misunderstood. I wasn't avoiding you."

Bai Jiangxin looked at her quietly, without saying anything, but took another step closer to her.

Xiang Di subconsciously took another step back.

Bai Jiangxin almost laughed in anger: "You call this dodging?"

Does he have a plague or a virus that she needs to avoid so much?

"No, no." She tends to use reduplicated words when she's nervous, especially in front of Bai Jiangxin. "It's not that I'm avoiding you, but don't you... dislike physical contact with people?"

It's obvious that she's liked Bai Jiangxin for so long and has been secretly watching him for just as long.

Bai Jiangxin hated all physical contact, whether with men or women. Even Ye Minjia, who was his closest friend, had been seen by Xiang Di several times trying to put her arm around his shoulder, only to be ruthlessly pushed away by him.

Fearing that she would offend him, she naturally dared not get close to him.

Although she harbored improper thoughts about him, Xiang Di was cowardly and only dared to think about it in her heart. If she were to actually act like a hooligan towards Bai Jiangxin, she wouldn't dare to kill her.

Xiang Di's answer left Bai Jiangxin momentarily stunned.

Because of a genetic disease, he really dislikes physical contact, even with blood relatives. At first, he used his obsessive-compulsive disorder as an excuse to avoid a lot of trouble. Over the years, he has actually developed the habit of being an obsessive-compulsive.

Sometimes, if someone accidentally touches him, it might be a fleeting touch, and he might not even have a chance to hear what the other person is thinking. Yet, his first reaction is still resistance and dislike.

Then why was he angry just now, and why was Xiang Di afraid to get close to him?

He clearly hated Xiang Di using him as a sexual fantasy object and endlessly indulging in fantasies about him, but now that he couldn't hear what she was thinking, he wasn't relieved; instead, he was actually angry at her for saying one thing and meaning another.

She was clearly being respectful to him, so what was there for him to be angry about?

In that instant, Bai Jiangxin was rendered speechless by his own contradictions and affectation.

He rubbed his temples, his Adam's apple bobbing a few times with difficulty, and finally said in a deep voice, "I'm sorry. You're not wrong, it's my problem."

Xiang Di looked at him with a completely blank expression.

Last week, he asked to change seats, saying it was his own problem, but what exactly is wrong with him?

Xiang Di couldn't understand it. All she knew was that Bai Jiangxin had apologized to her, and she hadn't been angry with him in the first place. She shook her head and said, "It's okay. Shall we still go find the teacher?"

"..."

Bai Jiangxin's eyes were filled with complex emotions. He frowned, his dark eyes looking at her with a mixture of feelings.

Xiang Di looked at him blankly.

You can't hear her true feelings. In reality, she's just a pretty and quiet girl. She's simple, well-behaved, considerate, quiet, and has a good temper. It's hard to find any reason to dislike her.

They could have continued to be deskmates, but Bai Jiangxin quickly dismissed this sudden thought.

This was very wrong. He had realized that his defenses against her were gradually weakening, and were even in danger of disappearing.

He needs time to calm down; they still need to sit separately.

Bai Jiangxin nodded.

Xiang Di lowered her eyes, her long, straight eyelashes falling onto her eyelids. As long as she lowered her expectations, she wouldn't be disappointed. It didn't matter whether they were deskmates or not, as long as he didn't dislike her.

She quickly raised her eyes again, hummed in agreement, and then said cheerfully, "Let's go then."

-

When they arrived at the teachers' office, Chen Jinghua was not there.

Bai Jiangxin guessed that the homeroom teacher was still in the principal's office, and asked Di, "Shall we wait here for the teacher to come back?"

The bell was about to ring for the first class, and Bai Jiangxin said, "Let's go back to class first, and we'll talk about it after class."

Xiang Di nodded, and the two returned to the classroom.

Liang Qianqian had already bought Xiang Di some pork floss bread from the convenience store. Xiang Di said she would send her a red envelope and took out her phone from her bag.

Liang Qianqian was a little surprised: "You brought your phone to school today?"

Xiang Di: "Yeah, I think it's more convenient to have a cell phone, otherwise I'll always have to borrow yours."

Even Bai Jiangxin, who is first in the grade, brings her phone to school. Why should she obediently be the honest one? In this smart age, what's the difference between not having a phone and being a caveman? Besides, with a phone, it's not only convenient to search for questions, but it's also nice to listen to music and relax when you're tired of studying.

After sending Liang Qianqian a red envelope, Xiang Di looked at the family group chat that she had pinned to the top and suddenly remembered something.

She opened her chat with her older brother, Xiang Sheng, and sent a message: 【Are you awake yet?】

There was no reply, so she sent another message: 【Don't forget to buy me cream puffs!】

I'm torn between making a voice call to Xiang Sheng, but I'm also afraid that if I wake her up, she'll block me and I won't get any food.

With less than two minutes until the bell rang for class, Liang Qianqian seized the opportunity to chat with her: "I have something to tell you. When you went to the convenience store, you passed by the area near our school parking lot, and guess what I saw?"

Xiang Di asked absentmindedly, "Huh?"

“Bentley!” Liang Qianqian said, “The logo on that car shines in the sun, it’s so cool, you know? It’s incredible that someone in our ordinary school can drive a Bentley.”

Xiang Di looked up and asked, "What kind of car is a Bentley?"

Liang Qianqian choked, and Ye Minjia next to her suddenly burst into laughter.

Xiang Di looked at Ye Minjia with a puzzled expression.

"You don't even know the standard features of a domineering CEO?" Ye Minjia sighed. "Go home, kid, go home."

Xiang Di could tell that the class monitor was laughing at her for not recognizing a Bentley, so she pouted slightly.

Liang Qianqian explained to her, "It's a luxury car brand called Bentley. You should know it if you read novels."

Xiang Di nodded. She had read quite a few novels, but who would bother to remember car names when reading a novel? Anyway, her purpose in reading novels was very simple and straightforward: she only read them because of the sex scenes between the male and female protagonists.

She likes to look at those kinds of cars, not real cars.

Xiang Di tried to save face by tilting her head up and saying, "I may not know Bentley, but I do know Rolls-Royce."

In novels, nine out of ten domineering CEOs drive Rolls-Royces, and a driver and a starry sky roof are standard features. In the erotic novels that Xiang Di reads, the male protagonist likes to pin the female protagonist down in the car, and then the female protagonist, while looking dizzily at the starry sky roof, is being... you know.

Of course, she couldn't say this out loud.

When it comes to Rolls-Royce, Ye Minjia has more to say, and he patted Bai Jiangxin on the shoulder.

"Rolls-Royce is nothing, my brother has one too!"

Bai Jiangxin could actually hear what they were talking about the whole time, but he was never interested in boring topics, so he simply pretended not to hear until Ye Minjia called him, at which point he turned around and asked, "What?"

“I visited your home last National Day holiday, and your dad happened to be back. Was your dad’s car a Rolls-Royce? I remember the logo was two Rs.”

Bai Jiangxin had long forgotten about last year's National Day. Although he didn't know exactly which car Ye Minjia had seen, his father did own several Rolls-Royces.

He gave a faint "hmm".

Liang Qianqian suddenly opened her eyes wide and looked at Bai Jiangxin: "You..."

Damn, she was just shocked by a Bentley, and it turns out the real young master was right next to her.

Xiang Di's eyes widened, but she wasn't shocked by Bai Jiangxin's wealth.

Yan No. 14 Middle School is a public key high school. From school leaders to teachers to parents, most of them are tenured staff. They drive relatively low-key cars. Most of the students come from well-off or middle-class families. There are also some from wealthy families, but they are relatively few.

Xiang Di's family is a little above middle-class, not rich but not poor either. Her parents are both civil servants. Although civil servants can't get rich, they have a secure job with good benefits and stable salaries. They also don't have any loans. Such a family can easily support two children.

Although Xiang Di's parents couldn't provide their daughter with a princess-like life or buy her luxury goods worth thousands or tens of thousands of yuan, they still did their best to raise her in luxury until she turned eighteen.

Xiang Di grew up in an economically comfortable environment and made friends from families with similar financial circumstances. Whenever she saw wealthy people, she would at most sigh, "Wow, they're so rich!" But she didn't feel anything else. She had no worries about food or clothing, and she was spiritually rich. Her parents were willing to spend money on her, and her older brother would occasionally give her some pocket money. She was very satisfied with her current life.

So when she learned that Bai Jiangxin's family owned a Rolls-Royce, her first reaction wasn't to feel inferior because she was just an ordinary person while Bai Jiangxin was a wealthy young master, or to feel that the gap between them had widened even further.

Instead, she envied that he actually had a luxury car at home that was perfect for making love.

Having grown up in different environments, Bai Jiangxin didn't find anything shocking about a Rolls-Royce, especially since it was his father's car, not his own.

But seeing Xiang Di's wide-open eyes, he suddenly felt that his father's car did have its merits.

Bai Jiangxin pursed her lips. So she wasn't just a lecher, she was also a money-grubber.

Liang Qianqian had just finished marveling that the young master was right beside her, and before she could inquire further, the bell rang for class, and the teacher walked in with the test papers in hand.

The teacher said, "Everyone, take out the test paper I assigned last week. We'll go over the test paper in this class."

Bai Jiangxin was searching for the test paper in his desk when he suddenly heard a cautious voice beside him.

"that……"

Bai Jiangxin turned his head to look at her.

Xiang Di: "Does your dad really own a Rolls-Royce?"

Bai Jiangxin: "What?"

"Oh, aren't we about to have a parent-teacher conference?" Xiang Di grinned, looking rather embarrassed. "Will your dad come? When he comes to the parent-teacher conference, will he drive that Rolls-Royce? I've only ever seen Rolls-Royces on the street before, I've never touched one. I wonder what the seats of a Rolls-Royce feel like."

The second bed of the novel's male and female protagonists. Although she would never be able to experience the feeling of making love on it in this lifetime, she really wanted to touch it to see if it was really that comfortable.

Bai Jiangxin was the only person she knew whose family owned a Rolls-Royce, so she had to muster up the courage to ask him.

Bai Jiangxin frowned, not because he thought Xiang Di's request was unreasonable, but because he himself didn't even know who would be attending the parent-teacher conference for him.

No one knew who came, and no one knew who the car was either.

However, seeing her anxious yet expectant eyes, Bai Jiangxin's Adam's apple bobbed, and he said calmly, "I'll ask him."

To her surprise, he actually agreed, and Xiang Di's eyes lit up immediately: "Really? Thank you."

Now I can finally touch the second bed of the male and female protagonists in the novel, making reading erotic novels even more enjoyable and immersive.

Motivated by the little yellow text, Xiang Di excitedly took out his test paper and began to listen attentively to the lesson.

Her joy was palpable; Bai Jiangxin could tell without even needing to read her mind.

He thought girls were usually only interested in clothes and jewelry, but he didn't expect her to be interested in luxury cars as well.

Although this hobby is rather vulgar, it's better for a girl to like cars than to be lustful.

Acceptable.

-

After being unable to hear each other's thoughts, Xiang Di was indeed a very worry-free deskmate. She listened to the lectures quietly and took careful notes. In short, she was much quieter than Ye Minjia.

Bai Jiangxin was somewhat confused, wondering whether he should go to the homeroom teacher to change seats.

As soon as the teacher left after the first class, Xiang Di said to him, "Shall we go find the teacher?"

If she had shown even the slightest reluctance to change seats at this moment, Bai Jiangxin might have changed his mind.

But no, she seemed very much looking forward to changing seats.

Since she was so eager to change seats, what was there for him to hesitate about? Just like she said, it would be a win-win situation.

Bai Jiangxin said in a calm tone, "Let's go."

The two had barely left the classroom when Ye Minjia quickly pulled Liang Qianqian along.

"There's something going on. Let's go, let's follow them and see."

Without waiting for Liang Qianqian's reply, he grabbed her school uniform and followed her out of the classroom.

To everyone's great disappointment, Bai Jiangxin and Xiang Di did not go to the grove on campus for a rendezvous, but went straight to the office.

Liang Qianqian was speechless: "Is this what you mean by having an affair? Going on dates in the teacher's office?"

Ye Minjia was speechless for a moment, and then argued illogically: "This is called the most dangerous place is often the safest place, you know? Don't you understand the principle of 'the darkest place is under the lamp'?"

Liang Qianqian: "..."

She didn't understand the principle of "the darkest place is under the lamp," but she certainly understood the fact that the class monitor had a problem with his brain.

"I can't be bothered with you, I'm going back to the classroom."

Liang Qianqian rolled her eyes and turned to leave, but Ye Minjia stopped her again, saying, "You promised to help your best friend salvage her reputation as a scumbag? Giving up so quickly, are you still Xiang Di's best friend?"

Liang Qianqian argued vehemently: "Precisely because I am her best friend, I cannot eavesdrop on my best friend's private affairs or pry into her privacy."

The two started arguing in the hallway. It was during break time, and the hallway was usually quite noisy, filled with chatter. But the area near the stairs suddenly fell silent, followed by a chorus of "Wow!"s.

Liang Qianqian turned her head to look over, and when she saw the stairs clearly, she froze.

When Ye Minjia saw that she had suddenly stopped arguing, she followed her gaze and was also stunned.

Holy crap.

This is like a prince from Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales coming to life.

Even from a distance, you can tell that he is at least 186 cm tall. Even in the northern regions where the average height is relatively high, this height is quite intimidating, especially for girls.

Although Chinese people are generally reserved, the impact of such striking features is undeniable. If someone had a purely foreign appearance, they might not be so stunning, but this prince is clearly of mixed race.

Mixed-race people are like angels fallen to earth. This face is such a perfect blend of features. He has the straight nose and thin lips of the West and the sword-like eyebrows and bright eyes of the East. He has fluffy chestnut hair, clear olive eyes, and thick, deep eyebrows. When the prince came over and his appearance was fully revealed, Liang Qianqian was so impressed by his handsomeness that she gasped.

Ye Minjia usually practically has 185cm etched on her forehead to show off, but this is the first time she's felt so short.

The two men blocked the passageway leading to the office. The prince smiled at them and spoke in perfect Mandarin.

"Excuse me, could you move aside?"

The two people quickly moved aside.

The prince said thank you and went straight into the office.

Once she could no longer see anyone, Liang Qianqian snapped out of her daze and said blankly, "...Well, I think you're right. I'm Xiang Di's best friend, so I should go to the office to check on her."

Ye Minjia: "..."

Were you going there for your best friend? Or were you going for the fairytale prince? You're such a womanizer, I don't even want to call you out on that.

Meanwhile, Xiang Di and Bai Jiangxin were standing in the office, having just asked their homeroom teacher to let them know they wanted to change seats.

Chen Jinghua looked at them with suspicion, feeling even more that these two kids must have some untold stories behind their backs.

He was about to ask a question when a cheerful and sunny voice from the doorway, "Teacher Chen Jinghua!", interrupted his speech.

Chen Jinghua asked in surprise, "Why did you come here by yourself?"

Xiang Di and Bai Jiangxin turned around at the same time, wondering who had come looking for the homeroom teacher.

While beauty is in the eye of the beholder, human aesthetics are actually quite unified when it comes to absolute good looks. For example, Bai Jiangxin has a cool and aloof look with excellent bone structure, reminiscent of a traditional Chinese ink painting. And then there's this mixed-race guy in front of us.

This isn't an international school, so seeing mixed-race faces at No. 14 Middle School is indeed a rare occurrence.

It wasn't that he hadn't seen foreigners before, but Bai Jiangxin was slightly taken aback by the sight of a mixed-race person at their school. He quickly looked away, but then inadvertently caught a glimpse of Xiang Di's current expression.

He was stunned, his eyes wide open, and his mouth slightly agape.

Oh.

He didn't even need to listen to her thoughts to know what this little lecher was thinking. It was nothing more than "So handsome, so handsome." She was just like this when he could hear her thoughts before. She would say he was handsome eight hundred times a day.

I just don't know who she thinks is better, him or this mixed-race guy.

If she really thinks this mixed-race guy is more handsome than him, wouldn't she change her sexual fantasy object?

Bai Jiangxin frowned subconsciously, his tongue circling around in his mouth in dissatisfaction, then he clicked his tongue softly.

It's a bit annoying. Just when he wants to know what she's thinking, he can't hear her thoughts at all.