Chapter 10 - 8: Past of the School Bully
The two people were silent all the way, and the moment Qingran opened the door, Li Qing Mo's muffled voice came from behind.
"Now are you and Xie Ying'an desk mates?"
Today Qingran's seat was right beside Xie Ying'an, having both her childhood friend and her younger sister in the same class, Li Qing Mo was as familiar with them as visiting his own mother's house.
"Um."
Li Qing Mo was even more sullen: "Xie Ying'an dislikes being desk mates with others the most, why would he want to be desk mates with you?"
During their elementary school years, he distinctly remembers that each school year start he would pester relentlessly to be Xie Ying'an's desk mate, and each time Xie Ying'an's face would darken for two months.
Later, when Xie Ying'an moved to his grandpa's house and changed schools, Li Qing Mo found out that in the years he wasn't badgering him, Xie Ying'an never had any desk mates.
Qingran took out the lemonade prepared by the maid from the fridge, sipping it while responding to the persistent Li Qing Mo: "The teacher always assigns him a desk mate, you know his temperament, probably finds it annoying, so he chose me since we are familiar compared to other classmates."
Li Qing Mo agreed with her explanation. He felt a tingling jealousy as he looked at the lemonade in Qingran's hand and casually took a Coke from the fridge, drank a big gulp, then asked, "What about you? Didn't you always feel Xie Ying'an and I were too high-profile at school and didn't want to get too involved with us? Why did you agree to be his desk mate?"
Qingran shot him a look, her voice filled with grievance: "Think about what a good deed you and Luo Xi did last summer vacation?"
Li Qing Mo: "..."