Chapter 653: The Embodiment of the Collapse of Rites and the Decay of Music

That little "interlude" of Nazha crashing the scene — the girls really wanted to pinch their noses, grit their teeth, and claim it hadn't affected them at all.

But in reality, the effect was already right there in front of them. Just look at Li Xin — she got put in her place in one wave, that face wearing a slightly fawning look, looking just like a little simp. Well, the other two were cackling about it in their hearts anyway.

But precisely because of this, the mere mention of Nazha's name somehow forcibly smoothed out, at least on the surface, the seemingly "irreconcilable" conflicts between these three look-alike girls.

One can only say, worthy of the famous New Jiang Twin Beauties!

Nazha only had to toss out her name, and she could suppress this bizarre shuraba from afar.

And at this moment, it was unclear whether it was to lighten the atmosphere or because she felt it was her turn to take the initiative.

Bai Lu: Finally, it's my turn!

The "chicken sisters" ahead each took turns being show-offs, and ended up making the scene fall apart like this — wasn't this exactly her chance to shine?

What a coincidence!

She just happened to have a little surprise to deliver today~

Bai Lu sneakily shot a wink at her bestie. The unspoken understanding built up from years together meant the two of them could understand what the other wanted to do without a word.

Her bestie immediately brought up the box she'd been holding earlier~

Bai Lu: Ask! Why isn't anyone asking? Hurry up and ask!

The evil little kitty saw right through what she was trying to do, but deliberately didn't take the bait, pretending she was blind and hadn't seen it.

However, Li Xin, whose mind had been shaken a bit by all this, "took the bait," and casually asked: "What's this?"

Hey!

The corners of Bai Lu's mouth curled up slightly. "This? It's something good, Teacher Bai. You open it~"

"For me?" Bai Liang asked knowingly.

He was genuinely well-versed in this whole gift-receiving routine — he'd been through similar scenes more than once.

"You'll know once you open it!" Bai Lu urged.

Bai Liang didn't dawdle. He opened it and, sure enough, found a brand-new tea set inside.

Although he didn't particularly know much about this kind of thing, seeing some of the maker's marks inside, he guessed that even if this set wasn't some antique, it absolutely belonged to the category of high-end goods from a master's hand.

After Bai Liang had been admiring it for a little while, Bai Lu couldn't hold back any longer and was about to start showing off!

This six-figure tea set was actually just a small token. The real surprise was the skill she'd secretly been practicing~

Although the time hadn't been long, relying on the "battle record" of who knows how many broken tea lids, she really had managed to learn something. After all, what Bai Liang taught her wasn't anything that required much skill to operate.

Now Li Xin and Li Yitong were also drawn in, wondering what this little girl was up to.

A tea master?

Never heard that Bai Liang was into this sort of thing.

Of course, Bai Liang's hobbies were just too many — it was quite normal for them not to know them all well enough.

Besides, some of his hobbies had thresholds that were really hard to describe.

Generally, the girls who were closer to him, even if they wanted to align themselves with some of his hobbies, would at most pick one.

For example, Chen Yao still quite liked riding motorcycles now, and had even collected a few herself.

After Reba gave Bai Liang an entire expensive Go set, she herself had also been secretly studying the thing on the down-low. The threshold could be said to be quite high — without a few years of work, you couldn't really study anything out of it. But she herself wasn't in a hurry; what she wanted was for it to have a threshold, otherwise if anyone could come and freeload, it would seem too cheap.

Doudou classmate plays games with Bai Liang. Logically speaking, with her entertainment career getting more and more popular, the time she spent gaming definitely wasn't as long as before, and her game level would most likely have dropped. But the truth was completely the opposite — Doudou classmate's game level was now even higher than before! All so she could easily keep up with Bai Liang, and the two of them could happily duo-queue.

Originally, she wasn't the only one who took this hobby route, but she was the only one who stuck with it.

Although gaming itself didn't have a high threshold, pulling it up to a level that could be called "competitive" was extremely difficult.

And among these girls trying to cultivate the same hobbies as Bai Liang, Nazha was the most special one.

On one hand, she was a bit slow, taking forever to learn many things; on the other hand, she didn't tend to overthink things.

But she pulled off a move that basically no other girl could replicate — she tied herself to Bai Liang and jumped out of a plane together.

That line, "Across ten thousand rivers and a thousand mountains, I'm willing to go see them with you" — others wouldn't even get the chance to say it.

It remained the favorite slogan of their CP fans to this day.

And now, watching Bai Lu over there eagerly preparing to show off, Li Xin and Li Yitong narrowed their eyes. Oh-ho, this one's not bad!

Tea-making as a hobby was just perfect for girls like them!

Not fussy, the threshold wasn't particularly hard, and it was elegant.

Learn it!

Tea-making must be learned!

The evil little kitty, whose brain worked even faster, was already mulling over variants — brewing coffee, latte art... even cocktail mixing.

Inspired like this, she felt she could also pick up "a little skill related to hobbies"~

No choice — the "competition" was just too cutthroat!

Although Bai Lu hadn't officially started yet and was still in preparation, the other party had genuinely taught her a lesson — she really hadn't thought about these things before.

However, five minutes later, both Li Xin and Li Yitong could barely hold it in.

The process itself wasn't really a problem — the scraping foam, rubbing tea, shaking fragrance, pouring into the sea, butterfly dance, unfurling leaves, falling butterfly, returning to one — it looked pretty impressive, like she really knew her stuff.

It's just that... no offense, but why does your tea taste so weird?

Tsk tsk, I never really understood what "practicing the Nine Yin Manual backward" meant before, but today I finally got to witness it!

Bai Lu had indeed learned how to brew tea, but it gave off a vibe of being very versed in manners but not polite.

Maybe it was because she was too eager for quick success, only practicing the hand techniques, while things like temperament and expression management hadn't kept up at all.

How to put it... drunkards aren't rare, but tea drunks really are a first!

Brewing tea somehow gave off the feeling of shaking dice.

Although she didn't want to get into any education discrimination, her performance really did live up to the title of vocational high school graduate.

"The tea's not bad~" Li Xin said, sipping the tea while pressing her lips together to hold back laughter.

"Your technique is quite impressive too." Li Yitong offered her own review as well, her crescent-moon eyes brimming with pure mischief.

Bai Lu herself hadn't realized anything was off, and looked toward Bai Liang with anticipation.

Bai Liang:.

What a thoroughly exhilarating performance!

His tea leaves were actually quite expensive, okay, so it couldn't really count as a waste—at the very least, the tea-brewing flourish didn't affect the taste.

"Pretty good~ You learn pretty fast."

"Right!"

Bai Lu was still very happy, but she could now control her smile so it wouldn't look overly exaggerated, like she was about to eat someone~

Just as she was happy, that wicked little kitty suddenly chimed in, "Hey, aren't you gonna film this and post it on Douyin?"

When it came to that wicked little kitty, Bai Lu was on her guard! She'd long since decided this one was the worst of the bunch!

But this suggestion was actually pretty good!

A newly learned skill—who wouldn't want to show it off?