After Xu Qingfan left, only Xia Xiaoxiao and Zhang Yiyi were left at home, slumping to the floor together.
"Phew~ Brother Qingfan is so mean," Lin Wanning lazily leaned against the wall, listlessly patting the dog's head.
Zhang Yiyi rested her head on the girl's shoulder, still squinting as she savored the lingering feelings.
"Heeheehee..." The two put their heads together and giggled simultaneously.
"Yiyi, do you... do you feel that way too?" Lin Wanning suddenly asked shyly.
Zhang Yiyi hadn't understood at first, but when she saw the bashful expression on her face, she instantly got it.
"Hmm." She nodded shyly, "Brother is really bad!"
Thinking of the last few times, when Xu Qingfan seemed like he wanted to devour her, Lin Wanning crinkled her nose and nodded in agreement.
"Brother Qingfan is the worst!"
Remembering the girl's usual catchphrase, Zhang Yiyi couldn't help but burst out laughing: "Hehehe...."
"Yiyi, what are you laughing at?"
"Brother Qingfan is the best, Brother Qingfan is the worst haha..." Zhang Yiyi whispered in her ear.
"Ow, ow, Yiyi, you're not allowed to laugh!" Lin Wanning felt embarrassed, and instantly looked very annoyed.
"Hahaha!" Zhang Yiyi burst into hearty laughter.
"Yiyi is the worst too!"
"Wanning is the best haha!"
The two teased and played, with Little White also thumping his front paws in accompaniment.
After a while, when they had calmed down a bit, Lin Wanning and Zhang Yiyi finally went upstairs to take a bath.
"Phew~ This feels nice," Lin Wanning leaned on the edge of the bathtub, a rubber duck perched on her head.
Zhang Yiyi gazed at the two pairs of underwear soaking in the water, the ones they had just changed out of.
She recalled an incident from last week, and thinking that she wouldn't have to wash the sheets today, she couldn't help but smile knowingly.
"Hmm?" Lin Wanning turned her head to look at her, the rubber duck falling back into the bathtub.
Zhang Yiyi's face flushed, and she timidly said, "That.... Did you help Brother with 'that'?"
"What?" Lin Wanning blinked blankly.
But soon, her face also flushed red, because Zhang Yiyi was making slow motions with her left and right hands.
"No... nope." She said bashfully.
Lin Wanning's mind went blank for a few seconds: "Hmm."
The two girls lay at the edge of the bathtub, spacing out, and the bathroom fell silent for a moment.
After a quiet moment, Zhang Yiyi finally spoke again, "I read online that holding it in for too long isn't good, but doing it too frequently isn't good either."
"I don't understand," Lin Wanning shook her head like a bobblehead.
If it hadn't been for Xu Qingfan holding her hand last time, Lin Wanning wouldn't have dared at all.
"It should be okay," Zhang Yiyi reassured herself.
"It's okay," Lin Wanning echoed her words.
"Hmm," Zhang Yiyi nodded.
"Hmm!" Lin Wanning nodded as well.
Obviously, having just ended their awkward moment, neither of them had much brainpower to spare.
So it's no wonder they're love-struck, in front of the person they like, just looking at him takes all their energy, leaving none for thinking.
The water in the bathtub slowly cooled down, and Zhang Yiyi's IQ reclaimed the high ground. She analyzed, "Brother not refusing or resisting just now, at least proves one thing!"
"What?" Lin Wanning perked up her ears to listen to the strategist's lecture.
"That is, Brother is a greedy ghost, he wants to be with both of us at the same time, but he's afraid of being discovered by us!"
Lin Wanning's eyes lit up, "Exactly, Brother Qing Fan likes Wanning and Yiyi!"
"But he might also like Xiaoxiao, like Yu, like Ruan Wen, and that senior sister!" Zhang Yiyi patted the girl's head, throwing cold water on her thoughts.
"How could Brother Qing Fan do this!" Lin Wanning immediately pouted aggrievedly.
"Because Brother is a greedy ghost, so our next step in the plan should be ..." she whispered into the girl's ear.
Lin Wanning's eyes shone brighter and brighter as she listened, and finally.
"Brother Qing Fan will definitely be ours!"
"Brother will be ours!"
After Xu Qingfan returned to Donghui City, he didn't go upstairs immediately.
He wandered around the neighboring square for a while, waiting for his anger to dissipate, before he slowly headed home.
At a young age, holding it in occasionally was no big deal, after all, he wasn't really made of iron, nothing like those unreliable novels where they describe it as never falling.
Upon arriving home, the door opened to the aroma of food. Xia Xiaoxiao was playing with her phone in the living room, and through the kitchen glass, Lin Jing and Yao Jiping could be seen busily cooking.
Xia Xiaoxiao glanced at him indifferently, "You know how to come back."
Xu Qingfan naturally couldn't respond, he certainly couldn't say he had been walking around downstairs before coming up.
"Xiao Fan is back, wash your hands and get ready to eat," Lin Jing said, bringing out a pot of nourishing soup, having completely forgotten about the afternoon's events.
"Okay!" Xu Qingfan responded with a smile.
"Hmm~" Xia Xiaoxiao glared at him and then got up to help.
Soon, Xu Aiguo from the air force also came home, and the two families watched TV while having dinner.
"As our neighbors may have noticed, there is a group of people in red clothes bustling through the city's streets and alleys. They are not firefighters, not sanitation workers, and not couriers. They are a new emerging group—food delivery riders!"
At exactly seven in the evening, Pearl River TV timely broadcasted the dinner helper "DV Scene."
"Why is this scholarship of special significance? Let's hear from the frontline reporter," the TV show shifted scenes, soon appearing at the entrance of Licheng Middle School.