Unfortunately, Xia Li has quite a few connections.
Even without Fu Chi, she had other acquaintances and was trying to find another way.
Li Si gave a weak smile:
"I think I'll go back first. My fever hasn't reached 38 degrees Celsius yet, so I feel fine. I'll check again tomorrow; it'll probably be around 39 degrees at most... Yeah, it'll be alright. Cough cough—"
Xia Li glanced resentfully at Li Si, then looked at Lu Yibei on the other side.
Lu Yibei: ...
No, why are you all looking at me?
Is it wrong for me to be just a background character?
"Okay, okay, you can sleep in my room."
Xia Li agreed, then added, "But if you say my room is bad here or bad there, I'll kick you out!!"
She bared her teeth menacingly.
Her appearance was both charming and fierce, which made Li Si smile slightly, then he clenched his fist and lightly covered his mouth:
"Cough, cough... I... I think I'll go back. It'll be alright..."
"Even in this state, you're still thinking about going back—be careful you don't get into trouble with Brother Bei on the way," Xia Li said, glancing longingly at Li Si who was standing there.
He told him to sit back down on the sofa: "You should stay here. I'll go tidy up the room—don't come in now! I'll come out and call you when you can."
Li Si looked at Xia Li: "Isn't this a bad idea?"
Xia Li put her hands on her hips and said imperiously, "If I say it's okay, then it's okay!"
Li Si sighed: "Alright then, I'll leave it to you... and Auntie."
Xia's mother smiled and said repeatedly, "No trouble at all, no trouble at all. Here, cover yourself with the blanket."
Li Si nodded.
Seeing the fox obediently cover herself with the blanket again, she finally agreed to stay after her reasoned argument.
Xia Li smiled with satisfaction.
—She won this argument again.
—The fox obeyed her instructions once again.
—Wait, something's not right?
"Then we'll be going now." Lu Yibei picked up his coat from the sofa.
The family of three is happy and content.
He and his girlfriend shouldn't get involved here.
"Xia Li, let's go!" he shouted.
Xia Li's loud voice came from the room:
"Hey! Be careful on your way home, Brother Bei! I won't see you off!"
Although Xia Li is not being given away.
But Xia's mother still escorted the two of them downstairs to the door.
Lu Yibei had initially smiled and told her not to see him off, saying it was only a few steps away.
As it turned out, Xia's mother also said that it was only a few steps away.
The two stopped arguing.
Lu Yibei had already walked outside, but Xia's mother was still waiting for him at the door.
"Yibei, come visit often in the future!"
"Okay." Lu Yibei smiled.
Xia's mother thought for a moment.
Seeing that she seemed to have more to say, Lu Yibei did not rush to leave, but waited quietly.
Xia's mother suddenly smiled and said:
"Xia Li and I haven't seen each other much since you started high school, and I always thought you two had a falling out. She even told me that you only considered her a friend, and that you didn't stop contacting her out of pity... To be honest, I didn't really believe it. But it's so great to see you come to visit again. Even though so many years have passed, you and Xia Li haven't changed much at all. I'm so happy. Whether before or now, you've always been there to help Xia Li when she has something important to do... She probably won't say thank you... but I still wanted to say hello..."
"Aunt Xia."
Lu Yibei suddenly interrupted, pointing his thumb at his girlfriend: "Qingqian really likes the cakes you make. Make some and have Xia Li bring them over."
Ji Qingqian nodded seriously: "Yes, it's delicious."
Xia's mother was taken aback.
Lu Yibei laughed again:
“I didn’t hang out with Xia Li just to help her. Xia Li is very interesting, and your cakes are delicious. To be honest, we’re just friends—it’s a bit much for you to come here specifically to thank me for that.”
Xia's mother smiled and agreed.
"Okay, Xia Li will bring it to you then."
“We’ll be going now, but we’ll come back to see you when we have time,” Lu Yibei said.
"Okay, be careful on the road."
Xia's mother watched Lu Yibei and Ji Qingqian's departing figures for a while.
She didn't go back upstairs until the two disappeared into the night.
Sometimes, Xia's mother felt that her daughter was a bit unreliable.
Xia Li is indeed a good daughter. She is considerate of her, helps out at the store, and even considers developing new products and milk tea for the family business.
But because of Lao Xia, she rarely brings friends to the store.
"Oh? So your father... passed away..."
"How pitiful."
Xia Li had encountered similar situations before, but she didn't want to garner sympathy, so she simply avoided mentioning her family matters to others.
Therefore, Xia's mother only knew what Xia Li, as her "daughter," was like.
But I wonder how she will behave in front of her peers.
But now it seems...
Although my daughter hasn't become an outstanding adult, at least she's grown up healthy.
Not only do they have good friends like Yi Bei, Qing Qian, and Xiao Fu.
She now has a boyfriend.
—Old Xia, you saw that, right?
Xia's mother was very pleased.
Xia Li came out of the room after tidying up and urged:
"Alright, alright, let's go inside."
Li Si, sitting on the sofa, glanced at her and said, "...cough, cough cough."
"I'll help you up—I'm truly impressed."
Xia Li turned to her mother and asked, "Mom, do we still have any cold medicine at home?"
“We have ibuprofen,” Xia’s mother said.
“It’s not good to eat when you have a low-grade fever. The pharmacy should still be open at this hour, I’ll go check it out later,” Xia Li said.
Li Si was helped into the room by the young maid. He looked around and then chuckled as he repeated what she had said before the meal:
"Miss Xia Li's Boudoir Revealed?"
Xia Li: ...
She felt inexplicably embarrassed and annoyed, as if her privacy had been invaded.
It was a completely different feeling from when Brother Bei and Qingqian visited.
"—Lie down and don't move!"
She gritted her teeth slightly: "Otherwise, I'll make you get out."
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