Lan Qingyue sensed a subtle threat in those two short words. Qi Yu was getting impatient. If she didn't go over, would he just rush over?

Very likely.

This is right at the school gate! Lan Qingyue can't afford to lose face like this!

"Yueyue! Yueyue!"

Someone called Lan Qingyue's name. Before she could turn around, the person had already run to her side. It was Yi Tangtang, whom she had known since elementary school. "Yueyue, do you want to go straight home or go shopping? Let's go together."

Lan Qingyue: "..."

She thought Yitangtang had already left with her roommates.

"I……"

Lan Qingyue thought for a moment. Yi Tangtang was used to shopping for snacks. It was still early, so she would definitely go to the supermarket. "I think I'll go straight home."

Yitangtang smiled and replied, "That's perfect, let's go back together."

Lan Qingyue: "..."

This is not what she expected.

Lan Qingyue asked, "Aren't you going shopping?"

“I’m not going. My dad said he can’t make it back for a relative’s happy occasion, so he asked me to attend instead. We can go to the supermarket together on Sunday.”

“Okay.” Lan Qingyue agreed, and she sent Qi Yu a message, “My classmate wants to ride home with me.”

Qi Yu replied instantly: "You said you were going shopping."

Go shopping my foot!

Lan Qingyue's fingers nimbly typed on the screen, "No, what if she wants to come too? She's from the same hometown as me, and we're going the same way."

Anyway, Qi Yu couldn't hear their conversation.

How will Qi Yu respond?

Lan Qingyue gripped her phone tightly, the metal digging painfully into her palm. Her heart was pounding faster and faster; several times, she felt it leap into her throat, as if it would jump out the moment she opened her mouth.

Qi Yu called directly. Because it was sunny outside, Lan Qingyue was worried that she wouldn't be able to see the words on her phone screen, so she turned the brightness up to the maximum. At this moment, she and Yi Tangtang were standing in the shade waiting for the bus, and the words "big pig's trotter" in her phone were displayed in big letters. Luckily, Yi Tangtang saw it.

"Big pig's trotter?" A look of confusion suddenly appeared on her face: "Yueyue, who is that?"

"There's a jerk!" Lan Qingyue nervously turned off her phone, her gaze unfocused and her face tense, as if her secret had been exposed and laid bare in the sunlight.

"I thought you had a boyfriend."

"How is that possible?" Lan Qingyue exclaimed excitedly.

"Too."

Lan Qingyue was a well-known good girl in her class. While her classmates had several boyfriends, she had never even had her first love. Her classmates would often say, half worried and half teasingly, "You don't even have a relationship. What will you do when you enter society? You have to be careful when you meet someone of the opposite sex if you have no dating experience."

Yi Tangtang pinched Lan Qingyue's cheek and stared intently at her, "But why is this nickname for you a little sweet?"

Big pig's trotter!

sweet?!

Sweet my foot!

"Ugh," Lan Qingyue said with a look of annoyance, "This is my junior high school classmate. We're pretty close, but she likes to fool me, so I saved her as such."

Yitangtang asked, "Shouldn't you have noted 'pickled chicken feet' in the contact details?"

Lan Qingyue: "..."

Is that the point? Isn't the point that you're going home for a wedding banquet?

Aren't you in a hurry?

"If you go home now, I'll come find you tonight~~~"

Qi Yu sent another message, followed by three flamboyant wavy lines.