Chapter 158: A Difficult Life

The next morning.

When Li Luo walked to the second floor, he saw Xin Fu still focused on painting on the balcony. Remembering how this guy had locked the door on him last night, he walked up with a dark expression.

This guy looks like a dullard, but he's actually a devious one.

He walked up to Xin Fu, preparing to stand on the moral high ground and reprimand him, but then he suddenly saw that the painting on the board wasn't of little chicks, but a scene resembling a refining room.

In that scene, there were two figures outlined in rough strokes. Li Luo stared at these two figures for a long time, his face showing signs of deep contemplation.

While Li Luo was deep in thought, Xin Fu said quite happily, "Captain, how is this painting? I got the inspiration from you and Mengmeng in the refining room last night. I call it 'Sprouting'."

Li Luo looked at the drawing board in shock, as if struck by lightning. Damn it, that's enough! It was one thing for you to lock the door on me last night, but you're actually going to paint it?!

And you call it "Sprouting"? Do you believe I'll knock your teeth out?!

And most importantly, how terrible is your painting skill? You're telling me these two stick figures are me and Bai Meng?

Who could even tell?!

Although it was unrecognizable, Li Luo felt that this kind of wicked trend could not be encouraged. So, he patted Xin Fu on the shoulder and said, "Student Xin Fu, it seems I need to have a good sparring session with you during training later."

Xin Fu hesitated slightly and said, "If the Captain wants to spar, I dare not refuse. But I'm the type who talks nonsense when beaten, and I'm afraid I'll run to Bai Doudou and tell her you spent the night in the refining room with Bai Meng last night."

Li Luo widened his eyes and pointed his finger at Xin Fu. I really couldn't tell, I really couldn't tell—this dull guy usually doesn't have much presence, but he's a ruthless one too.

Although he hadn't spent the night in the refining room with Bai Meng, they had indeed stayed there for quite a while as a lone man and woman. If that "little sister protector" Bai Doudou found out, she would inevitably get emotional and stir up trouble, and his head would truly swell twice its size.

This Xin Fu hit the nail right on the head; he really is cut out to be an assassin.

However, backing down wasn't Li Luo's style, so he immediately said, "It seems I need to have Mengmeng take over your three meals a day from now on."

The brush in Xin Fu's hand froze. He looked at Li Luo in shock, truly unable to imagine how he could come up with such a vicious tactic.

Xin Fu's expression was complex. After a long moment, he finally said heavily, "Fine, Captain, you win."

"I'll wipe this painting off later!"

Li Luo revealed a satisfied smile, put his arm around Xin Fu's shoulder, and walked downstairs: "No rush, let's eat first."

Downstairs, as expected, he saw Bai Meng busy at work. The young girl's slender, petite figure was as elegant as a butterfly; just watching her was a pleasure.

However, Li Luo and Xin Fu exchanged a glance and sighed softly, then sat at the table with a sense of resignation.

Bai Meng smiled at the two with her eyes curved, then served two portions of breakfast. The two took one look and were surprised, as it was clearly not made by Bai Meng.

"I just bought these from the academy cafeteria," Bai Meng explained, seeing their confusion.

"The meals I make... since I don't know what they taste like, I felt you might not like them very much," Bai Meng said softly.

Seeing the girl like this, Li Luo and Xin Fu immediately felt a sense of guilt. They quickly shook their heads and comforted her: "Mengmeng, we like the breakfast you make very much."

"Really?" Surprise appeared on Bai Meng's small face.

Li Luo and Xin Fu nodded with smiles.

But soon they couldn't smile anymore, because Bai Meng immediately took two portions of breakfast she had already prepared from the kitchen and said, "If you like them, I've prepared some for you too."

Li Luo and Xin Fu stared at the breakfast on the table that had been quickly swapped out. They were silent for a few seconds, suddenly having the urge to slap themselves. Why did they have to have such cheap mouths?

This hellish life was just about to end, and they had pulled it back with a single sentence?

Xin Fu sighed softly and whispered in a voice only the two of them could hear: "Damn it all to hell."

It was unclear who exactly he was cursing.

Li Luo shook his head. I know life is hard, but damn, I didn't think it was this hard.

The two were speechless and lowered their heads to eat.

They hadn't been eating for long when a knock on the door broke the heavy atmosphere of the meal.

Bai Meng ran to open the door, and then a sound of surprise came. Li Luo looked over and was also surprised, because the two figures standing at the door were Yu Lang and Lu Qinger.

Yu Lang looked at Bai Meng, who had opened the door, his face immediately filled with smiles, while Lu Qinger wore a faint smile, her eyes looking at the pure and lovely girl before her with a meaningful glint.

"Good morning, I'm Yu Lang, Li Luo's sworn brother and close friend." Yu Lang extended his hand to Bai Meng and introduced himself.

"My name is Lu Qinger. We are both friends of Li Luo, here to check on him." Lu Qinger smiled at Bai Meng, while also extending a slender hand covered by an ice-silk glove.

Bai Meng hurriedly reached out and shook hands with Lu Qinger, saying softly, "Sister Qinger's hands are so beautiful."

Lu Qinger's eyes flickered slightly. This Bai Meng was indeed too pure and cute; this pitiful appearance was, for many men, simply a soul-snatching blade.

"Mengmeng, what about me?" Yu Lang shook his hand, looking forward to shaking hands with Bai Meng.

Bai Meng looked at him and whispered, "I know you. My sister told me not to have any contact with you, otherwise I would be infected with a foul disease."

Yu Lang nearly spat out a mouthful of blood. Bai Doudou, what kind of bad things have you been saying about me behind my back!

"Come on in." Li Luo's voice came from behind, and Bai Meng hurriedly welcomed them both in.

As soon as Lu Qinger and Yu Lang entered the room, they saw Li Luo and Xin Fu eating. Yu Lang let out a strange cry and said indignantly, "This breakfast isn't made by Mengmeng for you, is it?!"

Li Luo and Xin Fu nodded calmly.

Yu Lang's eyes turned red with jealousy. He immediately sat down next to Li Luo, grabbed the cutlery, and shouted, "I want to eat the breakfast Mengmeng made too!"

A mouthful of food entered his mouth.

The noisy atmosphere seemed to freeze for a few seconds.

Gulp.

The excitement on Yu Lang's face faded at a speed visible to the naked eye. He swallowed the food in his mouth with great difficulty, put the cutlery back, pointed at Li Luo, and laughed: "Almost forgot, I already ate breakfast before coming here."

Li Luo said indifferently, "It's fine, eating a couple more bites won't kill you."

He looked at Yu Lang with eyes full of disdain. That's it? You want to pursue Bai Meng? Who was it that said they could eat three big bowls of shit earlier?!

Heh, hypocrite.

It's a good thing you didn't spit out that mouthful of food just now, otherwise, when you go back, Bai Doudou might just beat the shit out of you.

Yu Lang gave Li Luo a "you're ruthless" look, then smiled: "What a pity, Qinger even went out of her way to buy you breakfast, but you've already eaten here."

Li Luo was stunned and looked at Lu Qinger's hand; sure enough, she was carrying a meal.

Lu Qinger smiled slightly, her beautiful and moving face showing no dissatisfaction as she said, "It doesn't matter. After all, this is breakfast Mengmeng made with care, while the one I bought from the cafeteria has no appeal."

"If no one eats it, I'll just throw it in the lake to feed the fish later."

Li Luo vaguely felt that the meaning behind her words wasn't quite right, but since she had bought it specifically for him, it would be quite rude not to eat it.

So he smiled and said, "It's fine, I have a big appetite. Give it all to me, I'll eat it all."

"Really?" Lu Qinger's beautiful eyes rippled, and she said with slight joy.

Li Luo nodded with a smile, took the meal box, and started eating.

At this moment, Xin Fu, who was on the side, watched silently and said softly, "The Captain is truly blessed, having someone bring you breakfast every day."

Hearing this, Li Luo's mouth twitched. Little brother, you really are looking for trouble for me at every turn!

Are you trying to rebel?!