Chapter 510: If you aren't being tortured, then you must be enjoying it

"Chen Tianming: Lin Li, have you arrived at the school?"

Lin Li was still chatting with Chen Yuying when he noticed a private message from Chen Tianming pop up on his phone out of the corner of his eye.

It was already past eleven o'clock; calculating the time, the Nansang Academy bus should indeed have arrived by now.

He raised his hand to check and replied to the message.

"Lin Li: Arrived."

"Chen Tianming: Where are you?"

"Lin Li: By the artificial lake inside Pingjiang School."

"Chen Tianming: Are you with the class monitor? Would you mind an extra third wheel?"

"Lin Li: It doesn't matter to me if you come, but did Qiaoqiao really abandon you, the lovely Fan Rou?"

"Chen Tianming: No way, she has me in her heart. She picked a back seat on the bus, and she's sitting with me and her classmates, hehe."

Oh no, this time she really does have him in her heart.

I should find a way to forward this to Qin Zeyu.

"Chen Tianming: But, she just brought her collection of wrong answers and is heading straight to the exam hall now; she wants to keep reviewing in the remaining time."

"Chen Tianming: I'm not really here for the competition, and I don't think I can win any awards. I'd be thanking the heavens just to make it to the semi-finals. I don't want to stay in the exam hall at all, so I'm asking you—if you two are being all lovey-dovey, I won't bother you and will just wander around the school by myself."

"Lin Li: 【Location】 — Then come on over, the class monitor and I don't mind."

"Lin Li: By the way, doesn't our class still have 'Prisoner Wang'? Why abandon him? You two could have been companions."

"Chen Tianming: Haha, I am the Brahmin of simps, and he is the Dalit of simps."

"Lin Li: Fine."

Just as Chen Yuying never avoided Lin Li watching when she was chatting, she naturally leaned over after seeing Lin Li using his phone, her chin almost touching his shoulder.

Consequently, when Lin Li looked up after replying, he "caught" the young girl's gaze from point-blank range.

Alright, it was premeditated.

The distance was so close that he could clearly see the fine fuzz on her fair cheeks, her clear and bright eyes reflecting his own image, and the shimmering ripples of the lake behind her.

This is exactly what I wanted to see.

"Chen Tianming and Yao Qiaoqiao, has their relationship moved a step forward?"

No one can resist gossip. She had actually been curious on the bus, but because her mother was present, she couldn't ask. Now, looking at the chat history with only the two of them, Chen Yuying asked curiously.

However, receiving no answer, Chen Yuying instinctively looked up and met Lin Li's direct, unblinking gaze.

The distance was close, but since they weren't just starting out, Chen Yuying only blinked instinctively, carrying a trace of confusion and a tiny, tiny bit of shyness, tilting her head in bewilderment:

"What's wrong? Why aren't you talking?"

Lin Li didn't answer her question immediately, his gaze still locked firmly on her face. After a moment, the corners of his mouth lifted slightly, and he spoke in a very soft voice, filled with pure admiration:

"Your eyes are really beautiful."

Again?

The young girl, who had been shy the entire way here, had a shyness threshold—at least for today—that had risen significantly. Therefore, upon hearing this, she just pulled back a little, the corners of her mouth curving into a helpless and doting arc. She nodded like a chick pecking at rice, said "Mm-mm" twice, her tone slightly perfunctory:

"Mm-mm, I think so too, but thanks for the compliment anyway. I'll work harder next time to make my eyes even more beautiful~"

"No, no, no, no, no. You think I'm complimenting you, baby, but you're just my stepping stone. I feel from the bottom of my heart that my eyes are even more beautiful than yours."

Lin Li shook his head, waving his index finger back and forth in front of him.

"Mm-mm-mm, super beautiful." Chen Yuying just went along with his words, nodding perfunctorily as if coaxing a child.

"Perfunctory!"

"I am not."

"It seems I must let you experience it properly."

As Lin Li finished speaking, he used one hand to pinch Chen Yuying's cheek, gently pulling her head over to lock eyes with him at close range again.

Chen Yuying's lips moved, and she instinctively closed her eyes.

"Why are you closing your eyes? Look at me."

Chen Yuying then opened her eyes in a slight panic.

"Did you see? My eyes are more beautiful than yours." After maintaining this eye contact for a few seconds, Lin Li chuckled and gave his conclusion, "Because I can see you in my eyes, but you can't in yours."

Chen Yuying indeed saw a tiny, slightly flustered version of herself in those pupils just inches away.

The breeze by the artificial lake seemed to turn gentle, carrying the scent of water and early spring vegetation.

But... alas, the shyness threshold was already too high today!

Although the girl's face rippled with a blush like a lake surface disturbed by a pebble, it only lasted for a second.

The next second, shy and withdrawn? On the contrary—

Chen Yuying quickly broke free from Lin Li's hand and raised her hand to strike his arm, not too hard and not too soft:

"You are not allowed to say any more today!"

"How can there be so many... so many... genuine love words!!"

"Save them for later!!"

Lin Li: "Class monitor, I've discovered that you can be quite excessive sometimes, but I'm also very excessive. So, someone might ask, where is it excessive? Haha, of course, it's that you are excessively beautiful, and I am excessively obsessed~"

Lin Li: "Class monitor, do you know what kind of meat I like to eat most? Of course, it's you, the meat on my heart, baby~"

Lin Li: "Class monitor, do you know 'Qinghua'? Of course, I'm not talking about Tsinghua University, but—oh baby, say more about Qinghua~ If you miss me, look at me more~ Take a little more action~ Let me really see it~"

Watching Lin Li, who had started singing to himself while making heart shapes with his hands, Chen Yuying felt comfortable.

Say it together, thank you Lin Li.

The shyness and emotion were gone just like that~

Watching Chen Yuying, who had relaxed, Lin Li's singing stopped abruptly. He suddenly leaned in closer and asked softly:

"Class monitor, one last question. Did your lips move just now? And you closed your eyes, hmm? Did you think I was going to kiss you? And did you tacitly accept it?"

"Hmm?"

"No!"

Chen Yuying immediately denied it, her voice involuntarily rising an octave, carrying obvious guilt, and her cheeks, which had just cooled down, turned red with shyness again.

"Yes!" Lin Li wouldn't budge, "I saw you purse your lips! Still want to deny it?"

"This is at another school, Yingying! My Yingying! You are shameless!"

"I said no! You saw it wrong!"

Chen Yuying, having been saddled with such a "black pot," was now somewhat angry and embarrassed, and began to strike her boyfriend heavily.

Chen Yuying had once been extremely angry for an entire afternoon in a state of extreme anger; it was very terrifying.

Unfortunately, Lin Li's defense was known as "Little Zhou Baowei"; she couldn't even break his defense.

"But since you want to, actually I—"

"I didn't want to!" Chen Yuying moved a step to the side, increasing the distance from Lin Li, and at the same time, seeing a savior, she immediately lifted her chin behind Lin Li: "And you are not allowed to say any more, Chen Tianming is here!" ===== CHAPTER 511 =====