CHAPTER 450: CHAPTER 284: WELL, MAKE YOUR CHOICE_3

The only thing remaining on his forehead was a smudge of cream in his messy hair, recording everything that just happened.

"Alright, Lin Li, you should head home quickly."

As Xue Jian heard the car door close, he turned back to confirm that Chen Yu Ying had also gotten into the car. He then looked through the rear window and reminded Lin Li before starting the vehicle, taking the four of them away.

Leaving Lin Li standing under the street lamp, watching the car drive off.

Until it disappeared at the intersection.

Only then did Lin Li slowly raise his hand and touch his left earlobe.

Slightly warm, as if retaining the warmth of that fiery breath.

The streetlamp elongated Lin Li’s shadow, and after a while, Lin Li shrugged his shoulders and walked towards the community.

The street echoed with his regretful murmurs—

"I thought they were going to kiss me, I even thought of a name for our child just now."

...

Lin Li returned home.

He didn’t deal with the trash on the floor but instead walked towards the bear that had taken his gift.

He unpacked the inflated plastic bag and removed the scarf.

Whether from a distance or up close, the craftsmanship was indeed not exquisite, but Lin Li initially thought it was just a decoration the bear came with, so the roughness seemed normal.

Now it seemed that was not the case.

One end of the scarf was embroidered with the letters LL in uppercase. Initially, this side faced the bear, so it was hard to notice.

Unfortunately, the other end didn’t have CYY.

He brought it to his nose for a sniff, and a faint fragrance wafted over.

Lin Li hadn’t had the habit of wearing scarves in the winter before.

But now he did.

It feels like spring and autumn could use some scarves too, as for summer... well, summer is still debatable.

"Is it your scarf that you can wear it? You even want to sleep with me, damn it, if you steal my stuff again, I’ll make you fly."

Lin Li removed the deep blue woven bracelet from the bear’s round arm while harshly speaking to it.

The deep blue woven rope glinted with a cold luster, woven with a fine eight-strand braid, the knot featured a weathered silver buckle, with a white jade stone in the middle, also hollowed with "LL".

The end of the adjustable chain dangled with a steel ring engraved with uneven vertical lines, like an unmarked measuring scale.

Counting them carefully, there were exactly eighteen lines.

"Still stealing from me? Is it even yours! I’m asking you? Is it yours? Hmm? Speak! Thief! Speak!"

Lin Li looked coldly at the bear, slapping it with every sentence.

Bear: "?"

——Feed me peanuts! Feed me peanuts TAT!

The bear didn’t speak and played dumb, making Lin Li very unhappy.

Of course, if the bear did speak, Lin Li would be even more unhappy.

"Playing hard to get, are we? Wait on the bed for me, you’re in for it tonight, I tell you." Lin Li patted the bear’s butt, walked to the bedroom door, and tossed it onto the bed.

He then continued to unpack the gifts from Ding Sihan and Qu Wanqiu.

He ripped out the package and opened Qu Wanqiu’s box, and saw everything black before him.

The box was filled with many individually wrapped black cloth pieces.

"What is this?"

Lin Li casually picked up a few and read out the texts on the packaging.

"15D black, what is this?"

"Pure desire letter-style stockings for women, spring and autumn... hmm?"

Lin Li: "(;☉_☉)?"

What on earth did I just read?

Lin Li looked closely at it and damn, they really were black stockings.

"This one too? This one too!"

Lin Li dumped the box out until nothing else was left but a dozen packs of black stockings.

"..."

It’s widely known that gifting black stockings is quite an ambiguous gesture.

But for girls to give black stockings to a guy, it seems to lose that ambiguity.

A little perverted instead.

"Little Qiuqiu you..."

No wonder she said if sold secondhand, it should display a college girl’s picture. When I refuted that and said to use my photo instead, Qu Wanqiu looked so strange.

Nansang isn’t Chengdu, using my photo makes it hard to sell.

"Damn, the black stockings I like are the ones worn by someone, what’s the use of giving me standalone ones, if Sister Min finds out, it’d be hard to explain." Lin Li thought it was both funny and exasperating.

But he kept them anyway.

Maybe they’ll come in handy one day.

Next, Lin Li unpacked the gift from Ding Sihan, expecting some surprises as well, but found it was just an ordinary notebook after unwrapping it.

It even had signs of use, with no plastic cover, making Lin Li suspect Ding Sihan was reusing old stuff.

However, Lin Li didn’t mind at all.

Lin Li opened to the first page and, ha, there was writing inside.

"Ying Bao’s period: mid-month, October is 11th to the 13th... eh?"

Lin Li: "(;☉_☉)?"

What did I just read aloud this time?

"Current private information that can be shared with you."

"Ying Bao’s favorite doll image: Likes all cute dolls, most favored are bears, there are two in the dorm, and more at home, I heard."

"Most disliked animals: Frogs and toads."

"Favorite songs..."

"(Note: Not sure) Favorite clothing style..."

"..."

Lin Li looked and found every line in the notebook contained information about Chen Yu Ying.

"I just picked a notebook, at least you’ll definitely find it useful."

The words echoed in his mind.

Xiaodingding, you...

Lin Li flipped through it, finding it filled with four or five pages, covering a wide range of preferences, with all sorts of likes documented and objective facts separated from subjective guesses.

On the last page of the notes.

"These are all the things I think Yu Ying wouldn’t be mad about even if she knew I shared them with you. But be aware, she would definitely be unhappy if shared with others, so don’t let anyone else see! No sharing! No sharing! No sharing!"

"I also know a lot of things not suitable to write in this book. If you want to know, be good to your mom, maybe I’ll tell you when I’m in a good mood, got it?"

"Got it!" Lin Li nodded heavily, taking out his phone.

Even though Ding Sihan’s request was odd, Lin Li decided to do just that—

"Lin Li: Mom, from now on, I’ll definitely treat you well."

"Wu Min: ?"

"Wu Min: Did you already spend the eighteen hundred?"

"Wu Min: Where did it go? Let me see the breakdown, this is too quick, just a day has passed."

"Lin Li: No, my classmate told me to treat you well."

"Wu Min: ?"

"Wu Min: Are you sick?"

"Lin Li: Maybe it’s my classmate who’s sick."

"Wu Min: No, you’re definitely the one who’s sick, Lin Li, don’t make me scold you on your birthday."

"Lin Li: Goodnight ’Rose’ ’Rose’ ’Rose’"

Done, over the weekend, I’ll screenshot this message to Ding Sihan, then I’ll probably get those messages.

Plan accomplished.

Brushing off Wu Min, Lin Li looked around at the slightly messy and lonely apartment, taking a deep breath.

My friends, Lin Li now has many things to do.

A: Clean up the garbage on the ground (with cream stepped on it, the longer it stays, the harder it is to clean; urgent)

B: Take a shower and wash his hair (there’s still cream on his face and head, sticky and uncomfortable; urgent)

C: Study the textbooks brought home (part of the original study plan, any delay will mess up everything; urgent)

D: Have a ’break’ first (it’s normal, urgent)

E: Look at this notebook (can be viewed anytime, no rush)

It truly is a dilemma, but a choice must be made!

Lin Li smiled slightly.

EEEEEEEEEEE!

To heck with it, I’m charging ahead!!!

When [Strong Memory] activated, in almost photographic memory mode, these contents were all etched in Lin Li’s mind within a few minutes.

He had already memorized the notebook front to back.

——Recording proficiency.

Lin Li, still unsatisfied, clicked his tongue and complained with a hint of grievance:

"Damn Ding Sihan, only wrote so little, saying it to others would make it seem like I’m underestimated. Why not write some more?"

"How about another page!"