CHAPTER 181: CHAPTER 181: DO YOU LIKE ME NOW?

"No way." Lu Xingzhi softly refused.

"I wasn’t asking you, I was just telling you."

Lu Xingzhi: "..."

Then why did you even bother telling me, just don’t say it!

Huo Jincheng didn’t give her much time to think.

...

"I’m going to read now, don’t bother me." Lu Xingzhi pushed Huo Jincheng away, picked up a French original book, and sat on the sofa to flip through it.

But she couldn’t really concentrate, all because of Huo Jincheng.

If she had known, she wouldn’t have come to find him.

This man is too bad.

The sound of flipping pages was a bit loud, you could tell she was a bit annoyed.

Huo Jincheng pressed his fist against his lips to hide a smile, "Zhi Zhi, not in a good mood?"

That’s right, he was asking on purpose.

"No, I’m in a great mood." She originally was.

"Oh! I’m not feeling great, how about you tell me a joke to cheer me up?" Huo Jincheng propped his chin with one hand and held the mouse with the other, his eyes on Lu Xingzhi.

"What did you say? You want me to tell you a joke?" Lu Xingzhi was almost defeated by him.

She must have heard wrong!

"That’s right. Tell me one, let’s hear it."

Lu Xingzhi: "..."

Turns out she really didn’t hear wrong.

"I think I’m a joke myself, go ahead and laugh!" Lu Xingzhi put the book down since she couldn’t focus on it anyway.

Might as well play on her phone.

"How can you be a joke! You’re more like an encyclopedia." The more you explore, the more interesting it becomes, with many sides, slowly revealing themselves.

Lu Xingzhi didn’t know what he meant, nor did she want to ask.

"Zhi Zhi, are you ready to tell me a joke?" Huo Jincheng teased her without any psychological burden.

He was sure Lu Xingzhi wouldn’t be able to tell a joke.

"Fine, I’ll say one." Lu Xingzhi put down her phone, remembering a joke she read in a storybook when she was young.

She hadn’t read many storybooks, so this was all she could think of.

She leisurely said, "Do you know why a medium-rare steak and a medium-well steak meet but don’t greet each other?"

Huo Jincheng cooperatively replied, "Why?"

Lu Xingzhi explained to him seriously, "Because they’re not well acquainted."

"Haha... you are so cute!" Huo Jincheng couldn’t help but laugh, not because the joke was funny, but because her face was so serious while telling it, like a teacher in class.

He was just amused by her.

"You really are a treasure." Huo Jincheng walked over and sat beside her.

"I’m not." If she were a treasure, she’d have dug herself up a long time ago.

"Then what are you? A little goblin?"

"Stop it, I’m going back to my room." Lu Xingzhi stood up, trying to leave, her face flushed.

Both shy and annoyed.

Huo Jincheng actually loved her like this but still gently coaxed her, "Be good, don’t be mad! It’s all my fault, I misspoke. You’re not a little goblin; you’re a little fairy."

"I’m not that either." Lu Xingzhi said stubbornly.

"Why are you so cute!" Huo Jincheng’s mischievous eyes were full of laughter, "You were looking at me for so long, what did you see?"

"You’re good-looking." Otherwise, she wouldn’t have been looking.

"Besides being good-looking?"

"Didn’t see anything else. I was just staring at your face."

"So do you like me now?" Huo Jincheng asked again, looking expectantly with gentle eyes.