Chapter One Hundred

  "Lotus, don't you have anything to do?"

  Xiao Su looked at me with a worried expression on her face.

  I forced a smile, shook my head slowly and said: "If you hadn't mentioned it, I would have almost forgotten. Thanks for reminding me. Although I'm not very fond of that fox, after all, we live under the same roof, sometimes I forget myself, forgetting that the fox doesn't actually belong to our world, treating him like a normal person. Now that you've said this, I think I'll keep a proper distance from him in the future. I don't want to be too concerned about him now, or else when he's about to leave, I'll feel sad again."

  Xiao Su said to me, "Then don't treat him like a normal person either. Just raise him as a pet fox instead. It doesn't matter about the emotional attachment; it'll pass after a while. If you really treat him like an ordinary boy and interact with him, I'm afraid that one day you'll unknowingly fall deeply in love with him, and by then, I won't know how to save you."

  "Haha, how is this possible? He only knows how to bully me every day and has never had a proper conversation with me. A despicable monster like him, how could I possibly fall in love with him? If I really did, then I must have gone crazy."

  I smiled at her awkwardly, not daring to look straight into her eyes.

  I don't know why, but although I was very sure of this answer in my heart, once I said it out loud, I didn't have any confidence at all.

  "Alright."

  Xiao Su sighed, pulled my arm, and the two of us started walking slowly towards the center of the street. After a while, we looked around, but this young lady didn't seem to like any of the small shops either.

  "Good grief, it's so hard to find a place to eat, what bad luck."

  Xiao Su stopped in her tracks and began to slap her knees, muttering under her breath.

  I smiled and said to her: "This is an industrial street, walking all the way here, are you still looking for a place to eat?"

  She stood up straight, looked up and seemed to have just realized, with a hint of regret on her face: "Just now I was too busy talking to you, I didn't pay much attention to the road either. I thought you were watching the road, but it turns out you weren't paying much attention either."

  "Heh heh, no need to look at the road anyway. There are some small food stalls here, but I don't know if they're good enough for a rich family's young lady like you."

  "It's probably hopeless."

  Xiao Su said with a worried expression: "This is the sorrow of being rich, having money doesn't necessarily mean you can eat well. Being in this chaotic industrial area, it's really hard to find a place that serves delicious food."

  "You're too good at leaving."

  I couldn't help but laugh.

  She gave me a white eye, "How dare you say that, knowing that I'm not good at recognizing roads. Why don't you remember the way?"

  "Hehe...... I was so caught up in listening to you talk, who made you speak so nicely, that I unknowingly listened and forgot to remember the way."

  Xiao Su seemed uncertain whether what I said was good or bad, and looked at me with a questioning expression.

  "However, Xia Qinghe, your mouth is getting sharper and sharper, isn't it that the fox in your family taught you?"

  I smiled and said: "What do you think?"

  "That's it."

  Xiao Su nodded affirmatively, then suddenly asked: "This strange name Xia Ben Zun is unlikely to be the real name of that fox spirit. Qing He, do you know what his real name is?"

  "I don't know, from the time I met him until now, he has never proactively told me his name. Grandfather also hasn't dared to ask his name because he has always revered him as Hu Xian."

  "What about you?" Xiao Su asked me: "You haven't asked him either, have you?"

  Nothing.

  I shook my head and said, "It's already good if I don't quarrel with him every day, I'm not even able to avoid him, where would I have the guts to go provoke him?"

  Xiao Su chuckled and reached out to poke my forehead, laughing: "It seems that as soon as he frowns, you start trembling all over, haha, are you really afraid of that fox?"

  "Right."

  I nodded and said to her: "Afraid of him is nothing shameful, in our class or even in our school, I think it's hard to find someone who doesn't fear him."

  So I was brave enough to admit in front of her that I was afraid of that smelly fox.

  "Yes."

  Xiao Su hastily said.

  "Who? If this person really exists, I'd like to meet them."

  "Hehe, Tang Renjie."

  She smiled slyly and said: "From my observations over the past few days, it seems that Xia Benzun and Tang Renjie's relationship is not very good, to the point where they can't get along at all."

  "You really have nothing better to do."

  I couldn't help but despise him.

  "Hehe..."

  She smiled and said, "I think the biggest problem with them getting along is that their personalities are just too different. Look at Xia Ben's usual behavior, he talks a lot and always has this smug, self-loving smile on his face. Whenever there's a pretty girl who comes to chat him up, he's more than happy to oblige, never knowing when to hold back, always welcoming anyone who approaches him, regardless of whether they're good-looking or not. He can maintain this smiling face with so much effort, as if he's facing a beauty, his face is almost smiling into a flower. I don't know, after all that smiling, does his face cramp up?"

  I glanced at her and said, "He did that completely for his own good image, where is the gentlemanly demeanor? Those girls who ran over to ask him if he was cold and gave him delicious food, I reckon he doesn't remember a single one of them, maybe from head to toe, he didn't even look at them once."

  "No way." Xiao Su's face was full of surprise, "That Tang Renjie is not much better than him either."

  Hearing her say that, I laughed and said: "Wow, I really didn't expect you to say that about Tang Renjie. From my observation at the time, when Tang Renjie first came to our class, Xiao Su was so excited that she almost jumped onto the table to welcome him."

  Xiao Su looked unimpressed, "In our class, which girl wouldn't be excited? Seeing a handsome guy come in and screaming loudly is the natural reaction of girls in their youth. Except for you, Xia Qinghe, whose heart has already aged and doesn't know what love is, and those stinky boys in our class, everyone else was excitedly shouting."

  "So you'd better tell me, what's Tang Renjie like in your eyes?"

  I smiled and asked her.

  She stroked her chin thoughtfully and pondered for a moment, "From my observation, that Tang Renjie is probably not human. Even if he were human, he must be no ordinary person."