Chapter 15: Currently… I don't have any thoughts of dating

Shen Li pursed her lips, still shook her head, and said in a cold, calm voice: "My family doesn't allow me to date."

Xu Zhouyuan couldn't help but laugh directly: "Pfft."

Seen fake ones, but never seen one so fake.

Xie Qin curled his lips, his eyes filled with unclear meaning.

Even brought out her parents.

Song Yuewei thought these excuses were just her pretexts: "If you don't have a boyfriend, it just so happens… I can help you introduce one."

"The president of our school's basketball team is quite handsome. Do you want me to recommend him to you?"

"Anyway, you're an adult, and it's not high school… university doesn't care about dating now."

"You guys can try getting along."

Shen Li: "Thank you, no."

"Currently… I don't have any thoughts of dating."

Actually, every time she spoke, Shen Li felt somewhat impatient in her heart, but she still patiently answered her words word by word.

Shen Li was usually a quiet, taciturn person who didn't speak much.

The only way for her to vent in her heart was to do problems.

After being hot-faced and cold-butted again and again, Song Yuewei didn't pull with her anymore; her patience also had a limit.

This thick gunpowder smell, anyone could smell it.

Song Yuewei's purpose for coming was even more obvious.

Declaring sovereignty to Xie Qin, her status had arrived.

And she didn't make the scene too embarrassing, so Song Yuewei could only let it go: "In that case, I'll introduce you to each other when there's a chance."

Shen Li held a ballpoint pen in her left hand and touched her neck with her right hand, blocking the gaze from her side, and responded in a perfunctory tone: "Mm."

When she was a child, she injured her right hand while riding a bicycle, and her left hand also practiced writing.

Xu Zhouyuan, who had swapped seats, couldn't help but laugh: "Sister-in-law Number Twelve, stop making things difficult for our vice class monitor. Her phone, let alone adding friends, even surfing the internet is hard. What era is it, and she's still using an old-fashioned button phone."

"Vice class monitor, take out that phone and let us see it carefully again. It's been hundreds of years, we really haven't seen such an antique for a long time."

Xie Qin: "Xu Zhouyuan…"

Xu Zhouyuan didn't know what the problem was: "Ah? What's wrong, Brother Qin?"

Xie Qin didn't even lift his eyelids. His tone had no emotion, but the air around him

"Our good classmate, does! Not! Play! With! Phones!"

"Good classmate, your hometown must be Beijing Zhoukou, right?"

"How come... oh, right, just came down from the mountains, not used to using a phone?"

Xie Qin was beating around the bush, calling her a savage from the Zhoukou Upper Cave; it was already the 21st century, smartphones were everywhere, yet there was still someone who didn't cling to their phone?

Nowadays, even a dog knows how to scroll through videos and drive.

These words from Xie Qin immediately drew laughter from everyone.

Xu Zhouyuan clutched his stomach and laughed out loud, laughing until tears came out, "Sorry, Brother Qin, I was the one who spoke wrong."

The people in the classroom laughed for quite a while.

Only Shen Li didn't know what they were mocking, nor did she understand where their punchline was; she maintained a cold demeanor throughout, her face expressionless.

Song Yuewei covered her mouth, let out a low laugh, patted Xie Qin, and immediately stepped in to smooth things over, "He's just joking, Classmate Shen Li, don't take it to heart."

Shen Li probably didn't want to offend them further, so she just echoed their laughter and said, "I really do use an ancient, outdated phone, so he's not wrong. I don't usually play with my phone much, which is why I haven't replaced it; I'm used to the old one."

Instead, she even earnestly corrected Xie Qin's words, "I'm not from Zhoukou, my hometown is in Qingcheng."

I only went to Haishi later.

It would have been better if Shen Li hadn't explained; once she did... the people around laughed even louder.

"I've seen pig brains, but I've never seen... such a pig-brained person."

"I've truly seen it today."

While everyone else was laughing, the smile at the corners of Xie Qin's lips faded; watching Shen Li's appearance made his heart feel somewhat irritable.

In fact, the reason the few of them came to school today was to deliberately bring Song Yuewei along to see Shen Li make a fool of herself, to see if someone who put on such airs could keep it up in front of a real top student.

Unexpectedly... they didn't see what they wanted to see, but instead saw...

Shen Li didn't take the bait at all; even when the other side's words carried blatant probing and contempt, she only smiled faintly, with a very good temper.

It actually felt like they were the ones bullying her.

Zhao Zhouyuan had slept quietly for two hours in the dormitory at noon and even washed her hair.

When she returned to the classroom and saw Xie Qin's group there, she hugged her books and walked cautiously to her seat to sit down.

When she saw them bullying Shen Li like that, she turned her body back and looked at Shen Li with heartache; it was too obvious, Xie Qin's group was deliberately there to bully her.

She couldn't help but speak up for Shen Li, "Shen Li really doesn't play with her phone, I can testify; when she gets back to the dorm at night, she reads for a while and then goes to sleep. Stop bullying her all the time, if you do it again, I'm going to tell the teacher."

Even though she was scared, she still spoke up for her.

Yet it drew mockery from the person beside her, "Telling the teacher, you're killing me, are you a primary schooler? Idiot."

"Besides, which eye of yours saw anyone bullying her? Are you sick?" The person who said this even rolled their eyes.

"You're stupid yourself, and you won't let people laugh?"

Shen Li was used to this kind of atmosphere; because she was pretty, some malicious speculation would also fall upon her, and she had grown accustomed to it each time, choosing not to respond.

Once time passed, they wouldn't say anything anymore.

Xie Qin's mood suddenly turned irritable: "If you've laughed enough, then shut up!"

The surrounding atmosphere was instantly suppressed, and one could feel the violent aura emanating from him in the air.

Everyone suddenly went quiet.

Shen Li also felt they were very noisy; she didn't want to sit here anymore.

"Class starts!"

In the last five minutes, the head teacher came to take attendance; seeing the extra people in the class, they didn't say anything and left after finishing. Only half the people had arrived today, which was still not bad.

The last period was an Ideological and Moral Cultivation class; today's topic: What is freedom.

Professor: "Today's topic is very interesting. Which student can answer what freedom really is? The student who can satisfy me will get twenty extra credits."

Someone shouted: "Teacher, having money is freedom; you can go wherever you want, don't have to work, and can just lie at home every day—it couldn't be more comfortable."

"No flaws there." A bunch of people below echoed and cheered.

"It's best if you don't keep catching us for class, so we can stay in the dorm and play games, playing for as long as we want."

Because it was indeed the truth.

Professor: "That statement isn't wrong, but it doesn't count as entirely correct. Are there any other students who want to say something?"

Zhao Zhouyuan turned around and asked Shen Li quietly, "You can get twenty extra credits, Shen Li, are you going to answer?"