Volume 1 Chapter 48: I Want to Be Friends with Lin Lin!

In the dark night, the boy and girl stayed in a strange position, moving up… and down… with the shaking bed.

The atmosphere suddenly became very awkward and intimate. They could only hear each other’s breathing getting heavier, and then—

“Waaahhh—!”

The girl panicked and quickly pushed Gao Liang away. Gao Liang also hurried to reach out and turn off the bed’s shaking button.

The clanking sound stopped. All that was left was a girl with a bright red face, and… Gao Liang kneeling on the blanket.

Good thing there was a blanket.

Ahem…

Gao Liang quickly got off the bed and helped untie the towel blanket around her. When the blanket was pulled away, the girl was finally free.

Lin Lin sat up and looked at Gao Liang with a very wronged expression, like an innocent girl who had been bullied. Gao Liang coughed awkwardly a few times.

Ah… maybe I really went too far.

But honestly, the way Lin Lin acted just now was so teasing that he couldn’t help wanting to mess with her a little.

No, this won’t do. I need to change the topic and ease the awkward mood.

“Well, um…” Gao Liang turned his head toward the wall. “This hotel’s soundproofing isn’t very good…”

Hearing the faint but exciting sounds coming from the next room, Lin Lin felt her face getting hotter and hotter. She lowered her head and quietly said,

“Let’s go.”

“Huh?”

Her voice was too soft, so Gao Liang didn’t hear clearly. But to her, it sounded like he did it on purpose. She raised her head, embarrassed and annoyed, and shouted,

“Go! I want to go home! Tutoring is done anyway! It’s over!”

“Oh…”

Seeing that she was clearly unhappy, Gao Liang felt guilty. He nodded, realizing he might have upset her. He didn’t say anything, packed his bag, and the two of them left the room one after the other.

At the elevator, the girl still had a gloomy face. Gao Liang hesitated, wanting to apologize, but the elevator arrived suddenly. She quickly walked in, and Gao Liang had no choice but to follow.

He pressed the button for the first floor. They stood a bit apart, and behind them was an adult couple, watching them with interest.

Uh…

Feeling the woman’s curious gaze behind her, Lin Lin quickly lowered her head, feeling embarrassed.

This…

Why does this feel like…

Relief?

After a while, the elevator stopped at the first floor. All four walked out. Lin Lin felt so stared at that even her movements became stiff. The couple walked ahead, leaving behind soft voices with teasing laughter.

“Looks like high school students. Kids these days grow up so fast~ Seems like they had a little fight too. Maybe their first experience didn’t go so well, hehe~”

“Well, didn’t we do it in the woods back then? That wasn’t great either~”

“Hey, don’t say that…”

Uh…

Lin Lin stood there, watching the couple walk away. Her heart filled with mixed feelings she couldn’t explain.

She was… misunderstood as having gone to a hotel with her rival to do that kind of thing.

She lowered her head sadly. She didn’t even know why she felt upset. She just looked up and shot Gao Liang an annoyed glance.

Gao Liang shook his head helplessly and said awkwardly,

“We got misunderstood as a couple, huh…”

“You actually wanted to see something like that happen, didn’t you?”

The girl puffed out her cheeks and walked forward proudly. Gao Liang quickly followed her and began to explain.

“No, no. This time, I really didn’t think it through properly. Lin Lin, I should apologize to you.”

“No need…” The girl shook her head. “After all… I was the one who asked you to help me with tutoring. I left all the arrangements to you, so I don’t really have any complaints. Anyway… not many people know.”

“Mm…”

Hearing her words, Gao Liang suddenly felt uneasy.

Why does it feel like Lin Lin is about to run away?

No… don’t.

“Lin Lin, do you know why I agreed to tutor you?”

He suddenly asked this out of nowhere. Lin Lin froze for a moment, then remembered all the “things” she went through during tutoring. Her face turned red as she turned her head away.

“Hmph… it was to enjoy bullying me, right?! You pervert! I’ve totally seen through you this time!”

“Ahem… no, it’s not like that.”

Gao Liang waved his hands nervously and quickly explained.

“Actually… it’s because you’re usually very quiet in class and always by yourself. You look kind of lonely. I wanted to talk to you, but I didn’t know how to get close to you. Haha… those little jokes were just me trying to interact with you more.”

“Mm…”

Hearing this, Lin Lin couldn’t help remembering how she once desperately asked people for help in class. Then she looked at Gao Liang again. Other than those strange requests, he was always very serious and careful when teaching her.

Her heart softened a little.

Even so, she refused to give in easily.

“Hmph… do you think the police would believe such nonsense? Yeah right!”

“Heh. Anyway…” Gao Liang smiled at the conflicted girl. “I want to be friends with you, Lin Lin. Is that okay?”

“Mm…”

B-being friends…

But this guy is my sworn enemy.

But he really helped me a lot this time.

Ugh, so annoying. I planned to completely cut ties with him after tutoring, but now…

In the end, the girl lifted her head and spoke with a complicated expression.

“Th-then… fine. But just normal friends, okay!”

“Yeah, normal friends!”

“Normal friends my foot!”

Just then, a boy suddenly jumped out from the bushes near the hotel entrance. He rushed over, pulled Lin Lin behind him, stood between the two, pointed at Gao Liang, and stammered.

“Y-y-y-you…”

Lin Lin froze. When she finally recognized him, she shouted, “Little brother?!”

Gao Liang stared blankly at Lin Yu’s finger. Then Lin Yu yelled,

“You know you broke the law?! My sister’s IQ is only single digits! She has no ability to make decisions on her own!”

Then he turned to Lin Lin with a pained look and shouted,

“You too! If you needed money, you could’ve told Mom and Dad! Did you really need to—”

“I’ll beat you up!” Lin Lin kicked her brother away. “You idiot! Why were you hiding here?!”

“W-well, you were acting strange, so I followed you. Then I saw you two go into the hotel. If I knew which room you were in, I would’ve rushed in already…”

Her brother squatted on the ground, looking wronged. Lin Lin slapped her forehead and shouted helplessly.

“We were just studying! Studying!”

“Uh… Lin Lin is right. We were studying math…”

Gao Liang awkwardly took out the 5-3 practice book and showed it to him. Lin Yu held his stomach and stared at it blankly.

“Are there even props like this now? Fake exam books? What kind of weird thing is this…”

“You…” Lin Lin sighed. “And by the way, my IQ is at least over 20, okay? Enough embarrassing me. Let’s go home!”

Lin Yu stood up awkwardly and leaned closer to Lin Lin, speaking earnestly.

“No matter what, you still can’t just go to a hotel with a guy. It’s too dangerous—hey, wait for me!”

Holding his car keys, Gao Liang smiled helplessly and watched the girl walk away.

Well… I should head home too.

…………

But none of them noticed.