"I didn't mean to."
Lu Yibei stiffly raised his hands in a French military salute.
Is this considered flirting? I guess so.
To put it bluntly, this is skin-to-skin contact, which in the old days would have been punishable by being drowned in a pig cage.
But he didn't realize it was a small black mole.
So Qingqian had a mole on her neck...
Lu Yibei's gaze was drawn to it again.
Ji Qingqian gently stroked the neck that Lu Yibei had touched with her fingertips, her cheeks slightly flushed.
Seeing Lu Yibei's seemingly resigned and prepared demeanor, she found it rather intriguing. She pursed her lips, paused, and then said:
Do you know what this means?
"ah?"
"You're always peeking at my legs, you don't pay attention to anything else."
Lu Yibei quickly emphasized three points:
"I didn't, I really didn't, absolutely not."
"Then you did it on purpose."
"...No, not exactly."
"Then there's no reasonable explanation?"
“…”
Lu Yibei was speechless.
Ji Qingqian said calmly, "I'll punish you."
Although he felt it was unintentional, Lu Yibei's attitude in admitting his mistake was very sincere:
"Please punish me, Your Excellency."
“Look at me.”
Lu Yibei: ?
"look."
Ji Qingqian emphasized this repeatedly.
Lu Yibei looked up and stared.
Ji Qingqian didn't look at Lu Yibei, but stared straight ahead. Her profile was serene and elegant, and her eyes were cold. As if to let Lu Yibei see her more clearly, she raised her hand and tucked her fallen hair back behind her ear.
Lu Yibei listened to Ji Qingqian's words, focusing only on her cheeks, completely unaware that her ears were flushed pink.
A moment later, Ji Qingqian spoke in a cool voice:
"Remember me."
"…Um."
"Got it?"
"I've got it."
"good."
Ji Qingqian slightly raised her legs and swayed them back and forth, her eyes sparkling with excitement, but she remained silent.
She has always been a woman of few words, so her silence is understandable.
But Lu Yibei felt different. He felt that if he didn't speak at this moment, it would be as if he were staring at her in a daze.
Although I was indeed slightly stunned...
He quickly changed the subject.
"It's been quite hot these past few days."
Talking about the weather...what an old-fashioned topic.
Fortunately, the classic approach still worked, and Ji Qingqian didn't notice the awkward shift in the topic:
"Um."
"The sun is quite strong."
"right."
"You didn't get much of a tan."
"Yeah?"
Ji Qingqian didn't notice the change in skin color and stretched out her arm.
Lu Yibei did the same thing.
The two arms are placed together for comparison.
Lu Yibei wasn't particularly dark-skinned, but compared to staying home during the summer vacation, he had been exposed to more sun since coming to school, and his skin tone had become a bit darker.
Good thing, it proves I'm not superficial. Lu Yibei thought to himself.
Ji Qingqian's skin was even more fair and translucent, like solidified cream, and the fine blue veins extending from the skin of her wrists were clearly visible.
"So fair-skinned," Lu Yibei remarked.
In contrast, the people undergoing military training are just like him.
"I can tolerate being in the sun quite well."
Ji Qingqian didn't think there was anything to be proud of; Lu Yibei's skin tone was quite good-looking too.
The next moment, she seemed to suddenly remember something, her eyebrows narrowed, and she pursed her lips, as if she was... suppressing a laugh?
Lu Yibei had never seen Qingqian, the female knight-errant, like this before, and quickly asked:
"What's wrong?"
"...No, it's nothing." Ji Qingqian looked like she was struggling to hold it in.
"ah?"
"call…"
Ji Qingqian weighed the options for a moment, then took a deep breath and said, "I can withstand the sun... in short, I can withstand being scorched... pfft."
Lu Yibei's eyebrows twitched violently:
"Lady, don't make lewd jokes about yourself!"
Ji Qingqian turned her face away, chuckled twice, and then turned back, her smile much less pronounced.
"This isn't right... I didn't want to say it..."
"And then you think it would be a shame not to tell me such a joke you finally came up with, right?" Lu Yibei's eyebrows were still twitching.
"You know that's good." Ji Qing raised her delicate eyebrows slightly. "Aren't you going to smile?"
Lu Yibei read it off in a monotone voice: "Hahaha."
Then came the rant:
"Not very old, but all she does all day is drive... she's such an old driver."
“I am older than you,” Ji Qingqian said, regaining her composure.
"Don't brag," Lu Yibei said. "You're still pretending to be mature now, but you'll know the advantages of being young when you're over twenty-five."
"You're twenty, right?" Ji Qingqian asked.
"yes."
"I'm also twenty."
"Um?"
“I was born in January, on January 2nd.” Ji Qingqian raised her chin, slightly smug: “You should call me sister.”
Lu Yibei sensed that something was wrong.
They were the same age... or rather, Ji Qingqian was more than half a year older than him. He was a sophomore, while she was only a freshman.
Do you start school a year later where you live?
"No, I repeated a year of high school."
"...?"
Lu Yibei didn't reply; his mouth was slightly open, as if he had been stunned.
"Don't believe me?"
As soon as Ji Qingqian finished speaking, her vision blurred.
She was startled, and by the time she realized what was happening, her chin was already resting on Lu Yibei's shoulder.
Lu Yibei's arms completely encircled her body.
Lu Yibei was holding her tightly.
Ji Qingqian was momentarily stunned, unable to utter a single word.
What's going on?
Once she realized she was being hugged, the boy's hot body quickly made her cheeks heat up.
Ji Qingqian instinctively wanted to push him away, but his embrace... was not impolite at all; on the contrary, it was very proper, with his hands not placed where they should be.
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