Middle school

  Even if I'm extremely unwilling, I couldn't continue pretending to sleep in the midst of Liu Xing's excited voice. This kid probably didn't sleep at all last night. The reason is self-evident; I don't think she's losing face like this, but can only sigh that after all, I'm an old man now, and my physical strength can't keep up with these kids.

  Liu Xian reached out and pulled my quilt: "Liu Jia, classmate, it's not good to sleep in!"

  I glared at her with my eyes half-exposed from under the blanket: "Please, big sister... I'm dying of sleepiness. And I'm dizzy."

  She ignored me, walked to the window and pulled open the curtains with great force. The sunlight shone on my face in an instant, I was blinded and couldn't open my eyes, hurriedly pulling over the quilt to cover my head but still remembered to scold her: "You stinky kid, pull up the curtains for me! Do you want to blind me to death?!"

  Liu Xian smiled and walked over, without a hint of fear on her face: "Oh my, what time is it? Get up quickly, you're going to become an old lazybones!"

  I looked at her with a pair of eyes: "Otherwise, I wouldn't have tried to fill the gap between our three-year age difference. I'm an old man anyway. The old man is uncomfortable today and probably can't be your lantern for a day trip with Shen Shaojing."

  A rare blush appeared on her face, and she even forgot how to respond to me.

  She was lost in thought, I was perplexed. The doorbell rang.

  Liu Xing's eyes widened with excitement as she looked at me, and I felt a bit defeated. I was confident that I could fool Liu Xing into thinking I wasn't feeling well, but I really didn't have the confidence to defeat the one outside the door. Liu Xing was so infatuated that she even forgot to open the door, and I didn't dare go open it myself, so I just used my eyes to signal her: "Just say I'm not awake, I'm really feeling unwell and don't want to go."

  She understood what I meant and then reached out to tidy up her slightly disheveled hair from just waking up. Then, with a red face, she ran to open the door.

  As soon as the door opened, I smelled the aroma of food.

  "Are you all awake?" His voice was slightly hoarse, as if he had been ill.

  As expected, Liu Xin also noticed it. She asked anxiously: "Shen Duan, what's wrong with your throat?"

  "Thanks, I'm fine."

  A polite yet distant response, it suddenly reminded me of Jin Tongtong. If a girl were to say this, we would still call her an ice beauty, but if a boy were to say this, it's really a bit awkward and hard to respond to.

  Liu Xin was as silent as I thought she would be.

  "May I go in first?"

  "Ah, ah. Alright, alright, come in."

  I can imagine how helpless and at a loss Lyu Xin must be feeling right now, perhaps she's also secretly regretting her earlier behavior.

  Hearing footsteps, I subconsciously closed my eyes.

  "Isn't she awake yet?"

  "Uh-huh. My sister isn't feeling well, probably won't go today."

  Shen Duan stood beside my bed, not saying another word. After a while, he seemed to turn around and handed the bag in his hand to Liu Xin: "I didn't have breakfast either, I originally wanted to come with you two to eat together. Since your sister is not feeling well, we can't play today, so let's wait until another day when you two are comfortable."

  This guy...

  Now that you mention it, I, this old man, can't bear to pretend to be ill even if my face were thicker than a city wall. Otherwise, I really suspect that after Shen Duan left, Liu Xin would come to me with a big fuss. I thought about it secretly and felt that I couldn't take it.

  "Wow, it's already this late?"

  Xiao Xin saw me get up and was like she had discovered a new continent: "Sis, hurry up and have breakfast!"

  "I brought some snacks from home. Don't know if they suit your taste." Shen Duan looked at Liu Xian "You guys eat first, later we'll go to Wangfujing to have a good meal."

  I didn't expect it to be so delicious.

  That little bun, one bite and the juice is dripping all over, it's so delicious that I almost swallowed my own tongue. Liu Xian thought about her image in front of her crush and ate like a lady. But when I encounter delicious food, I forget everything, left hand spoon right hand chopsticks, eating wildly without any care for my usual ladylike image.

  The small steamed buns brought from home were soon gone, I think the delicious food brought from home is always available but not guaranteed to be had again next time, maybe not even in this lifetime.

  Taking advantage of their inattention, she quietly hoarded several plump and delicate buns into her own bowl.

  Just as I was putting in a lot of effort to hoard, Shen Zhong's laughter came from beside me. Liu Xian looked over along the direction of the laughter, crying and laughing at the same time: "Sister..."

  I embarrassingly replied: "It's too delicious... Next time I eat it again is not necessarily when."

  Liu Xin was helpless, while Shen Duan's eyes became inscrutable.

  It wasn't until later that I found out he had already made up his mind back then. As a result, every time we went back to the Shen family's old house after our marriage, our breakfast would always be steamed buns.

  At that time, Mrs. Shen was eating a small bun on one side and asking the person opposite her: "Did you think I could eat a lot at that time?"

  Someone stood up and kissed her cheek: "I just think you're adorable. Compared to your pretentious sister, you have no idea how cute you are."

  It turns out that this is what they call "overdoing it". So, the love in this world can only be natural and effortless. The more you try to control it, the less likely you are to get true love.