Chapter 72: All Love at First Sight Is Just About Looks
To be honest, Li Mu wasn’t stingy or obsessed with money.
But he was broke, getting a free meal from someone rich wasn’t a big deal! Wang Chen could totally afford it.
After school in the evening, he happily followed Wang Chen out of the school gate and into a restaurant in the nearby urban village.
This place was pretty popular among students, but the dishes were expensive. Even a plate of vegetables started at ten yuan, and meat dishes were twenty or thirty. So, most of the customers after school were actually teachers.
When Li Mu and Wang Chen arrived, they saw their homeroom teacher, Yang Ye, was also eating dinner there.
“What a coincidence.” Yang Ye spotted them, then came right over and sat down next to Li Mu, smiling as he patted his shoulder.
Lately, Li Mu had been getting along better with his classmates.
Before, he only talked to Yu Fan. But now, he had a new friend too, that was a good sign.
At least now Yang Ye didn’t need to worry too much about Li Mu’s mental health. After all, when a student has no friends, it’s something a homeroom teacher worries about.
Especially since there had been a student who jumped off a building at school not long ago.
Facing his teacher, Li Mu stayed cool and quiet, just nodding a little.
“What are you two up to?” Yang Ye asked.
Wang Chen didn’t hide anything. “I’m treating Li Mu to dinner, and asking for his sister’s phone number.”
“His sister?” Yang Ye thought about the photo shared in the class group chat over the weekend. “Isn’t that Yu Fan’s girlfriend?”
“No, Yu Fan’s just chasing after her,” Wang Chen said, then turned to Li Mu. “Right?”
You're paying for dinner, so whatever you say is right.
Li Mu nodded without hesitation.
He didn’t use his WeChat much anyway. After giving it to Wang Chen, he could just pretend to be his "sister" and turn him down later.
Free meal secured.
There were already rumors about Li Mu’s “sister” going around the class. Since people had already seen his photo in girl’s clothes, he figured he might as well use that to his advantage and get something out of it. At least that made him feel a little better.
After ordering two meat dishes and one veggie, Li Mu focused on his phone and read a novel, not bothering to chat with the teacher or Wang Chen.
But Wang Chen wasn’t done, he wanted more info about the “sister.”
“What’s your sister’s name?”
“Li...” Li Mu made up a name on the spot. “Li Juan.”
Yang Ye gave Li Mu a suspicious look. Sitting right next to him, he could tell Li Mu had paused and thought for a second before answering.
Besides, when collecting student info, he had never heard that Li Mu had a sister.
But Wang Chen was excited. “What does she like? Is she a student at our school?”
“She goes to the school next door,” Li Mu replied casually.
“The one a few bus stops away?”
“Yeah. She likes me a lot,” Li Mu added, smirking. “Bit of a brother-obsessed type.”
“......” Yang Ye suddenly felt like something wasn’t right.
Who says their own sister is crazy about them and spoils them too much?
But Wang Chen didn’t notice anything strange. He took out his phone, opened the class group chat, and sent Li Mu a friend-adding QR code through a temporary message. Then he looked at him with hope in his eyes.
“Let her add me when she has time.”
"Okay, I’ll tell her to add you." Li Mu pretended to type on his phone. A moment later, he looked up and said, "She said she’s not adding you. She’s not interested."
Yang Ye could clearly see that Li Mu was just randomly tapping on his phone, he didn’t even open WeChat.
But Wang Chen started to get a little anxious. "Hey, I bought you dinner. The least you can do is ask her to add me as a friend!"
"But she said she doesn’t want to date anyone," Li Mu shook his head with a fake look of regret.
"Maybe it’s because Yu Fan is chasing her now, and she’s a little interested?"
"Didn’t you say your sister and Yu Fan weren’t that close?"
"Yeah, but isn’t Yu Fan better-looking than you?"
Just then, the food arrived. Li Mu picked up his chopsticks and helped himself to a piece of pork rib while mocking him, "Yu Fan treated me to dinner every day for two weeks. My sister saw he was taking good care of me, so she said she’d give him a chance."
"And let’s be real, he’s good-looking, has a nice personality, and he’s generous. How can you compete with that?"
Li Mu continued with a straight face, stabbing right where it hurt. "Look at you, average looks, bad temper, always ready to fight someone."
Wang Chen twitched his lips, but didn’t know how to fight back.
Yang Ye finally figured it out, Li Mu was just messing with Wang Chen.
He also vaguely remembered hearing from other students that the two of them had gotten into a fight earlier this semester, though he didn’t know the details.
He leaned slightly and whispered in Li Mu’s ear, "Don’t go too far."
For some reason, when he got close, he could smell a strange but pleasant scent coming from Li Mu.
Li Mu glanced at him and gave a tiny nod, then turned back to Wang Chen and said, "How about you send me a selfie, and I’ll show it to my sister? See if she likes your type?"
Wang Chen’s eyes lit up. He quickly sent over a selfie and proudly said, "Yu Fan looks soft and gentle, but girls prefer guys like me, strong and tough!"
Yeah... looks like the muscles have reached his brain.
This guy was in the school fitness club. When he wasn’t in class or sleeping in the dorm, he was working out. To be fair, he had some solid results, his biceps were almost as thick as Li Mu’s legs.
Li Mu looked down at the photo Wang Chen sent. It was a mirror selfie, shirtless, doing a bodybuilding pose.
All those bulging veins and muscles... it really wasn’t a pleasant sight.
"My sister said... she doesn’t like fitness guys," Li Mu looked up again and said. "So she doesn’t want to add you."
Wang Chen got more anxious, "What’s there not to like?"
"She said she prefers gentle, quiet guys," Li Mu said while eyeing him up and down, "Guys who speak politely, have calm tempers, the chubbier the better, and ideally... they should have some musical talent too."
"Chubby?"
"Yeah, she says she likes soft, round guys, they look cute." Li Mu explained with a straight face.
Then he lowered his head, his shoulders shaking as he tried not to laugh.
Free meal and a chance to completely roast Wang Chen, who he already had beef with?
That felt amazing!
Wang Chen still hadn’t figured it out, acting like a hopeless simp. That just made it even funnier.
"I’m full. Let’s split the bill, okay?" After taking a few bites of each dish, Li Mu made a show of looking helpless. "Can’t help it. If my sister says no, I can’t force her, right?"
Wang Chen was about to agree to splitting the bill when something Li Mu said earlier came back to him...
A sister who spoils her brother?
He suddenly connected the dots and quickly shook his head. "It’s fine. You eat. If you can’t finish it, take it home for a late-night snack!"
...Was that really necessary?
Yang Ye couldn’t take it anymore. "How much do you like Li Mu’s sister, anyway? I’ve seen that photo, you can find many girls like that elsewhere."
Looks like the homeroom teacher didn’t care much for the “cool big sister” type.
"The moment I saw that photo, it was love at first sight!" Wang Chen said seriously.
"There’s no such thing as love at first sight," Yang Ye scoffed. "All love at first sight is just being thirsty for someone’s looks."