Chapter 62: Reminders Before Returning to School
[Zhang Hao: @Study Maniac, are you and Brother Mo coming back to school or not? Our 4-person dorm is turning into a 2-person dorm.]
[Li Bin: Don’t say that… living here with fewer people actually feels great.]
[Li Bin: By the way, I heard that tomorrow during the flag-raising ceremony, the whole school will publicly criticize Gu Jiusheng. Brother Mo should come to see it, right?]
[Zhang Hao: I bet this whole thing was set up by Brother Mo in the first place.]
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Lying on the bed, Lin Muxi looked at the dorm chat messages and couldn’t help but feel delighted.
Even now, when she thought about her fight with Gu Jiusheng, she was still very angry.
Especially since that guy had even thrown a book at her injured head. That was just going too far.
But now, things looked good, once Gu Jiusheng was criticized on stage tomorrow, his reputation would basically be ruined. That was karma.
Thinking of this, Lin Muxi was already looking forward to tomorrow, imagining the look on Gu Jiusheng’s face when he saw her at school.
“Hahaha, thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river, don’t bully a poor girl!”
[Study Maniac: @Zhang Hao @Li Bin, Mo Ziyang and I will both return to school tomorrow.]
After quickly typing her reply, Lin Muxi turned off her phone.
With nothing else to do, she rolled over and began watching her good bro, who was sitting at the desk.
She had to admit, Mo Ziyang was really handsome.
His sharp, well-defined features and those deep eyes, paired with his cool and distant vibe, made him look exactly like the CEO characters in novels.
Lying there watching her good bro’s side profile, Lin Muxi found herself a little lost in thought.
But of course, Mo Ziyang immediately noticed her staring.
“Why are you looking at me like that?”
Without warning, while scrolling through the forum, his eyes suddenly shifted, and met Lin Muxi’s dazed gaze.
“Ah? Cough cough… no, nothing.”
Realizing she had been caught, Lin Muxi panicked, quickly turning her head away and pretending to be deep in thought, while praying that her good bro wouldn’t pull her over for another round of questioning.
She definitely didn’t want to end up on Mo Ziyang’s lap again, getting teased endlessly.
But no matter how good her acting was, her red cheeks gave her away.
This silly girl…
Mo Ziyang smiled faintly. From the direction of her gaze, it wasn’t hard to tell that this little fool had been staring at his side profile. Combined with that shy look…
Clearly, this silly girl was probably having a little crush moment.
But knowing that if he pointed it out she would just get upset, he didn’t say anything. Instead, he closed the school forum, slowly stood up, and reminded her.
“Tomorrow at school, be careful. Gu Jiusheng isn’t someone easy to deal with.”
“Huh… what do you mean?”
Seeing her good bro suddenly turn serious, Lin Muxi sat up quickly, her little eyes full of curiosity.
“Gu Jiusheng might not be from a super-rich family, but they are still wealthy. You could say she’s a young lady from a well-off family. If I’m not there, you have to be careful of her trying to get revenge on you.” Mo Ziyang explained slowly, seeing her curiosity.
Hearing this, Lin Muxi’s expression immediately grew serious too.
Even though she didn’t know as much as her good bro, she had heard plenty of bad stories about Gu Jiusheng. She also knew that Gu was very skilled at bullying people at school.
Not only that, Gu Jiusheng had her own group of followers, and it wasn’t a small group either.
And now Mo Ziyang was telling her that Gu Jiusheng’s family background was also strong.
“Hiss…”
Thinking about it this way, if she didn’t have Mo Ziyang, this big boss, protecting her, then in front of Gu Jiusheng she wouldn’t stand a chance at all.
If not completely crushed, she would at least be beaten badly.
Realizing the truth, Lin Muxi stayed quiet for a few minutes.
Then suddenly she threw herself into her good bro’s arms, staring up with watery eyes and hugging Mo Ziyang tightly.
“Brother Mo… you’ll definitely protect me, right?”
A true hero can bend or stretch, survival comes first, nothing shameful about that.
“Of course. Do you even know who your good bro is?”
Seeing her pitiful look, Mo Ziyang patted her head to reassure her. Then, from a bag nearby, he pulled out a maid outfit he had “carefully prepared” for her.
When she saw it, Lin Muxi’s eyes darkened.
“Are you kidding me?”
The maid outfit looked almost exactly the same as the one she had worn to the anime convention the other day. The only difference was that the skirt now had a big, obvious “Mo” word printed on it.
She could more or less guess Mo Ziyang’s intention… but wasn’t this way too embarrassing?
Wearing it to a convention was one thing… but now he wanted her to wear it at school?!
But Lin Muxi was no longer the silly girl she used to be. She understood her good bro’s wish to protect her, but she had gotten smarter too, so she immediately exposed Mo Ziyang’s real motive.
“Actually, it’s just because you want to see me wear it, right…” Lin Muxi said, a little speechless.
Not that she absolutely couldn’t accept it. At this point, she had reluctantly gotten used to Mo Ziyang’s dress-up games.
But his roundabout, sly tricks always caught her off guard.
What she didn’t expect was that Mo Ziyang would admit it so directly, without even blushing.
“I won’t deny that I thought about it.” Looking at the silly girl in front of him, Mo Ziyang knew what her eyes meant, so this time he didn’t bother lying.
“You…” Lin Muxi was once again surprised at her good bro.
Clearly, not only had his whole personality changed, but he was also getting more and more shameless.
“You can choose not to wear it. I won’t force you.” With a hint of regret, Mo Ziyang folded up the maid outfit again, ready to put it back.
“W-wait… it’s not that I won’t wear it…”
Seeing her good bro looking a little disappointed, Lin Muxi quickly got out of bed and grabbed his hand, as if she understood something.
“It’s just… if you want to see, just say it. Don’t always tease me in such a roundabout way, okay?”
Feeling embarrassed and ashamed, Lin Muxi snatched the maid outfit from Mo Ziyang’s hands, then with a red face buried herself into the bed, refusing to look at him.
And Mo Ziyang… gave a sly smile of success. Clearly, all of this had been an act just to trick Lin Muxi into wearing the outfit.
But looking at her reaction, it seemed that this silly girl was also starting to get smarter.
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As time passed, it became late at night.
After her shower, since Lin Muxi hadn’t brought pajamas, she had no choice but to wear the maid dress Mo Ziyang prepared for her. She lay on the bed, scrolling through short videos.
By the time Mo Ziyang finished his own shower, her phone had already slipped to the side, and she was lying there with her head tilted back, fast asleep.
“Sigh, really makes people worry.”
Drying his damp hair a little, Mo Ziyang walked over, picked up her phone, and put it away.
Then he carefully took off her watch, adjusted her messy sleeping position, and gently pulled the blanket over her before returning to the bathroom to finish up.
In the end, without even bothering to dry his hair fully, he came back to bed and lay down next to Lin Muxi.
Seeing how peacefully this little girl was sleeping, Mo Ziyang didn’t have the heart to disturb her, so he simply gave up on blow-drying his hair.
But strangely, even though his movements were already very light, when he pulled up her blanket, the silly girl beside him still woke up.
“Sorry… did I wake—” Mo Ziyang had just started to apologize, but was interrupted by sleepy Lin Muxi.
“Hug me… can’t sleep without it…”
Half-awake, she stretched out her little hands from under the blanket, her face full of longing for her good bro’s embrace.
Clearly, after a week of living together, Lin Muxi had gotten used to only falling asleep in Mo Ziyang’s arms.
“Sigh…”
Having no choice, Mo Ziyang pulled the silly girl into his arms, gently stroking her head like he was petting a little kitten.
Once she was in his arms, Lin Muxi naturally wrapped both her arms and legs around him, finally settling down and falling into a peaceful sleep.