Chapter 161 is heart-beating.

Xiao Shulan and Li Yanli stood at the stairs, one at the door, the other at the door. The atmosphere was strangely quiet. After staring at each other for three seconds, Xiao Shulan said, "I'm hungry. I'm going out to buy something to eat."

She thought that Li Yanli, the nosy one, might ask her where she was going again, so she spoke first.

Li Yanli's eyes lit up slightly, a smile lingering on his face. That was just how he was, always putting on a smile before speaking to someone he liked. "Do you want me to go with you?"

Little Shu Lan walked down the stairs: "I didn't say that."

Li Yanli took the room card and followed. Xiao Shulan glanced at him: "I didn't ask you to accompany me."

Li Yanli said, "I'm hungry too."

"oh."

Li Yanli's other memories were all fragments that flashed by quickly, but after meeting Xiao Shulan, it was as if the memories were in slow motion.

They walked side by side to the 24-hour convenience store on the corner of the street. Xiao Shulan glanced at the oden from time to time, and finally bought only a bucket of instant noodles and mineral water.

Li Yanli’s inner voice: She wants to eat oden.

He ordered two skewers of each dish and sat beside her in front of the window. He pushed the cup filled with bamboo sticks next to her bucket of instant noodles and said, "Let's eat together."

Little Shulan held the instant noodles in her hands and looked at him warily, like a stray puppy with bared teeth. She said fiercely, "What are you doing? Are you pitying me?"

Li Yanli nodded: "Yes, I'm curious about you and want to get to know you."

The straight ball caught Xiao Shulan off guard. She opened her eyes wide, turned her head again, and her long black hair fell down to cover her face. She snorted softly, "You just saw that I'm pretty and you were tempted by me."

After saying that, she honestly reached out and took a bunch of fish balls that she was so greedy for, stuffed them into her mouth, and explained her behavior: "It would be a waste if I don't eat them."

Li Yanli smiled again: "Yes, I've already paid, it would be a waste if I don't eat it."

Shu Lan thought, come on, it’s okay to be soft-spoken.

As expected, little Shu Lan was no longer so wary of Li Yanli and basically answered everything she asked.

"Are you a runaway?"

Shu Lan's mouth was full, and her words were slurred. "No, my parents are divorced and don't care about me anymore. The only one who cared about me is dead."

"That KTV is very unethical. They even accept minors. If you report them, they will be shut down."

Xiao Shulan said, "Don't report me, I used a fake ID."

“No wonder.”

The instant noodles were ready. Xiao Shulan opened the lid, hesitated for a moment, and pushed them in front of Li Yanli: "I'll give you a couple of bites. We'll even out our debt."

Li Yanli thought: He wanted to laugh again, how come every move she made was so cute.

"Let me eat it in two bites and I'll be done."

Xiao Shulan said, "That's just bragging, impossible."

"Okay, you don't believe it, right?"

Li Yanli took the instant noodles, rolled it up into a big circle with a fork, blew it to cool it down in front of her eyes that were wide open with heartache and shock, stuffed it into her mouth, and raised her index finger to make the number "1".

After chewing and swallowing quickly, he rolled up the remaining noodles in the same way. After eating, he pushed the soup with a few noodles floating in front of her, raised his middle finger and made a "2" gesture, which was also a "yeah" gesture, as if to provoke her.

Little Shu Lan gnashed her teeth and called him by his nickname: "Big Pear!"

After she finished shouting, she remembered that it was her own words that had come out, and resigned herself to her fate by lowering her voice: "You are quite capable."

Li Yanli, feeling a bit choked, went to buy a bottle of water and brought back a new bucket of instant noodles. "Hey, I'm just kidding. I don't steal food from children."

Little Shu Lan smiled, but soon her face turned stern again, and she retorted awkwardly: "I'm not a child, I'll be an adult soon."

His stubborn look is exactly like Shu Maomao's.

Li Yanli asked, "You guys call two years fast?"

"I think it's pretty quick anyway. What about you? How old are you?"

Li Yanli said, "Twenty, call me brother."

"If you don't want to be called that, I'll just call you Big Pear. Do you want to eat the carrot?"

"I'm full, you can eat it all. I need to give you a nickname, Shu Lan... I really can't think of one."

Little Shulan smiled smugly: "Hehehe, think about it slowly, you big pressure."

The next day, Li Yanli, who was about to have morning training, knocked on the door next door at six o'clock. Little Shulan opened it sleepily and said fiercely, "You'd better be okay, otherwise I'm going to start scolding you."

Li Yanli laughed again: "I forgot to ask for your phone number last night. I have to go back to school."

"I'll reply to yours."

"Tell me the phone number, or I'll keep calling."

"Oh, I'm so annoyed by you, 139..."

She quickly read out a string of numbers and slammed the door in front of Li Yanli.

Li Yanli saved the number in her phone, noting it as Shu Lan. She bought a breakfast at the breakfast shop on her way downstairs, hung it on her doorknob, and called the number she had saved.

A cheerful cell phone ringtone rang out from the poorly soundproofed door: "Live a good and prosperous life~~"

Fixed ringtone for elderly phones.

The ringtone ended, and then a sleepy and vague female voice rang out from Li Yanli's phone receiver: "Hello?"

Li Yanli turned and left: "Breakfast is hanging on your door, remember to take it."

"...I'm so sleepy, I don't want to eat it, you take it away."

The phone was hung up mercilessly, and Li Yanli did not call again. He continued walking forward, and suddenly the sound of a door opening was heard behind him.

Little Shu Lan poked her head out of the door and met Li Yanli's eyes as she stood at the stairs and looked back. Just like last night, the two switched positions and postures, and there was another eerie silence for a few seconds.

It was little Shu Lan who spoke first. She glanced down at the steaming steamed buns and soy milk hanging on the door handle and explained, "I was afraid someone would take mine."

Li Yanli's eyes flickered with a smile again, like ripples on the lake surface caused by the spring breeze.

"Yeah, I went to school."

"Bye-Bye."

Little Shulan took off her breakfast and retreated like a rabbit returning to its hole.

She is so cute.

This is Li Yanli’s inner voice.

Boom boom boom…

This is Xiao Shulan's accelerated heartbeat.

Shu Lan, who has a God's perspective and can understand the thoughts of the two protagonists, feels very complicated.

So far, there are many people of the opposite sex who are attentive to her or provide her with help.

Only Li Yanli, with just the right sense of propriety and goodwill within her acceptable range, was able to quickly break through her defenses and gain her highest favor.

In order to avoid being a persistent pervert, Li Yanli even endured for a few days before calling Xiao Shulan again. However, the answer she received was a robotic female voice: "Sorry, the number you dialed has been disconnected due to unpaid bills..."

Li Yanli looked at her phone and thought for a while, then topped up 100 yuan on her number and called again, and the call went through successfully.

Xiao Shulan said cheerfully, "Big Pear, you paid my phone bill?"

"It seems like you haven't been doing well recently. Have you completely spent all your money?"

Xiao Shulan said, "No, I found a new job the next day. No one would call me except salespeople, so it would be a waste to pay for the phone calls. I won't pay you back, but you wanted to find me, so you should be the one to pay for the calls."

"Hmm, that makes sense. Where are you working this time?"

"There's an ice cream truck in Spring Square. I'm standing inside. If you come over, I'll treat you to Rainbow Mountain."

"What is Rainbow Mountain?"

“It’s just scoops of all the flavors of ice cream piled together.”

Li Yanli said, "I have a competition tomorrow. I'll come find you after I'm done."

"Competition, what competition?"

"Badminton, I'm a sports player, do you want to come and watch?"

"No, I have to go to work."

Li Yanli asked curiously, "So you sleep in a hotel every day?"

"No, a friend of my grandma's who I also call grandma took pity on me and rented me her old house for a very low price, two hundred yuan a month."

The date on Li Yanli's phone was June 16th, and it had been a week since Shu Lan had the accident in the KTV.

In other words, if she had entered Li Yanli's box before picking up the bottle and smashing it, she would have been fired and would have had a more reliable job and residence, and would not have had to leave her hometown out of fear.

Even though she had promised Shu Maomao not to cry, Shu Lan felt the urge to cry in her dream because she felt sorry for herself.