On an old wooden bed, a pair of fair, smooth feet swayed in rhythm as if on a swing. Her rounded toes tensed, resembling a small string of Tapioca pearls, and looked lovely.
The wooden bed creaked incessantly, looking rather unable to bear the burden. Anyone could tell at a glance that it had been around for quite some time.
After a long while, the wooden bed finally rested and stopped creaking.
“Lei, how could you treat me like this? I agreed to be Li Hu’s girlfriend a few days ago. How am I supposed to explain this to him now?”
Su Wanying lay in Xu Honglei’s arms, hesitation on her face and a complicated expression in her eyes.
Xu Honglei looked unconcerned and said with a grin, “It’s fine. You can continue being Li Hu’s girlfriend. I won’t interfere.”
“Then... then what are we?”
“It means you’re out of luck!”
“What did you say?” Su Wanying picked up an apple from the bedside table and prepared to throw it at him in anger.
Xu Honglei hurriedly snatched the apple from Su Wanying’s hand and corrected himself with a grin. “No, I mean you’re my Ex-girlfriend!”
“But... but I never agreed to be your girlfriend!”
Su Wanying’s face showed helplessness and grievance. With some suspicion, she asked Xu Honglei cautiously, “You... you don’t want to take responsibility for me, do you?”
Xu Honglei raised his head, looked at her seriously, and asked, “Are you willing to let me take responsibility for you?”
As soon as he said this, Su Wanying lowered her head instead and fell silent.
Xu Honglei also said nothing.
He drove the apple in his hand into the hand-cranked peeler. The skin came off in one continuous spiral, leaving the apple smooth and bare, as alluring and tempting as the woman beside him.
Outside, the sun blazed. Inside, the Air Conditioner blew cool air, making the room comfortable. Xu Honglei felt even better.
The Air Conditioner was worth every penny!
Life is meant to be enjoyed. Avoidable suffering is best avoided.
Xu Honglei was a Reborn Person who had returned to 2002, just after finishing the National College Entrance Examination. He was in Huhai City.
He was still an Orphan. The children around him had bullied him since childhood. His Adoptive Father brought him home from the Orphanage, but that changed nothing. Other people calling him a wild child was standard treatment.
Li Hu bullied him more viciously than anyone else.
Li Hu was several years older than Xu Honglei and had a sturdier build. Throughout three years of Junior high school and three years of High school, he either beat Xu Honglei or stopped him to demand money. If Xu Honglei refused, Li Hu beat him again.
Even more infuriatingly, Li Hu’s family was fairly well-off. His parents ran a restaurant and gave him plenty of Pocket Money.
Xu Honglei, on the other hand, had only his Adoptive Father. Their circumstances were worse than those of an ordinary dual-income family, and Xu Honglei had pitifully little Pocket Money.
Yet Li Hu felt that money extorted from Xu Honglei was more satisfying to spend. Having caught this pitiful little lamb, he kept fleecing him without end.
In this life, Xu Honglei swore that he would never let anyone bully him again. He would also take revenge and vent the resentment he had been unable to release in his previous life.
Su Wanying was Li Hu’s Campus Beauty and Childhood Sweetheart. He had fawned over her since childhood and long regarded her as his future wife. In his previous life, they had indeed married.
The harshest revenge Xu Honglei could think of was to Steal someone else’s partner—Su Wanying—from Li Hu before he could marry her.
Of course, the more important reason was that Su Wanying was beautiful and had an excellent Pear-Shaped Figure.
What was a pear-shaped figure?
Narrow shoulders, a small chest, a slender waist, and wide hips.
Of course, that was only relative. A Pear-Shaped Figure normally would not have such a drastic difference between its upper and lower proportions.
If the hips were a D, the fat above them would generally reach a C, rather than jumping to a B or even an A.
If Su Wanying truly wanted him to take responsibility for her, he would marry her. Then he could flaunt her in front of Li Hu for the rest of his life and enrage him.
For Su Wanying, letting him Steal someone else’s partner from Li Hu might not be a bad thing.
In her previous life, after Su Wanying married Li Hu, things were fine at first. Later, however, Li Hu’s true nature revealed itself. He stopped fawning over Su Wanying and spent his days playing cards, drinking, fighting, loafing around, and making their life utterly chaotic.
The family business Li Hu’s parents had left him was also gradually squandered away by him.
Later, for a period of time, Su Wanying would occasionally make an excuse to run to Xu Honglei’s home and complain to him. Unfortunately, the Xu Honglei of his previous life was too dense and genuinely treated her as a friend.
And then... then there was no “then.” Seeing that this fool seemed to have no such intentions, Su Wanying stopped going to him.
Thinking about it now, Xu Honglei regretted it bitterly.
Su Wanying accepted the apple Xu Honglei handed her. After a long silence, she said weakly, “Actually... I quite like you too. You’re much more handsome than Li Hu.
But I’m four years older than you. By the time you’re old enough to marry, I’ll be nearly old myself. Besides, my parents won’t agree to us being together.”
Xu Honglei smiled but said nothing.
To those adults, Xu Honglei was only an eighteen-year-old child. He had no money, no job, and no parental support. All he had were two Old, Run-Down Apartments left by his Adoptive Father, making him the very picture of a child abandoned by Heaven.
Therefore, when Su Wanying said she was only playing around with him, he was neither surprised nor hurt.
After two lifetimes, if he still could not see through something this simple, then he would have wasted his previous life.
Xu Honglei said nothing and showed no sadness. Suspicious, Su Wanying asked, “Lei, tell me honestly. Do you really like me?”
“Wanying, I absolutely like you!”
Xu Honglei spoke with conviction and continued, “To be honest, during my three years of High school, many girls in my class slipped me little notes, but I never accepted any of them.
Yet I liked you from the moment I first saw you, and I want to be with you forever!”
“But I always feel that you don’t like me that much!”
“Why do you say that?”
“The way you look at me differs from the way Li Hu looks at me. It’s as if you want to eat me. I know Li Hu likes me, but your gaze isn’t as heated.”
Xu Honglei laughed. “Li Hu does like you, but don’t misunderstand. That look in his eyes may not mean he truly likes you. Most likely, he’s craving your body!”
“Then do you crave my body?” Su Wanying blushed and looked up into his eyes, her expression full of anticipation.
Xu Honglei nodded without hesitation. “Of course I do. Your figure is amazing. Holding you feels wonderful. If I could hold you in my arms every night, I’d die happy in this lifetime.”
“You’re awful! You’re so bad!”
Su Wanying gave him a light punch, but Xu Honglei seized her hand, pulled her back into his arms, and continued exploring the mysteries of her Pear-Shaped Figure.
This also counted as helping Li Hu. Someone bullying you in the past was no reason to refuse to help others.
One should be decent!