NOVPUB[Even if she’s a mermaid, could you accept Bo Niu?]
Hearing the sea goddess question Sosuke, Xu Qingfan thought: Why does it excite me even more?
Lin Wanning’s small hand gripped his clothes tightly, forgetting even to eat the chips that had been opened for a long time.
[Whether Bo Niu is a fish, a mermaid, or a human, it’s all the same to me. I like her no matter what!]
After hearing Sosuke’s unabashed declaration of love, she turned her gaze to Xu Qingfan, hoping that he too would say to her just like in the movie, "Whether Wanning is a fish, a mermaid, or a human, I like you no matter what!"
As she thought about it, a silly smile couldn’t help but spread across the girl’s face. She rested her head on Xu Qingfan’s shoulder and continued to watch the movie.
Xia Xiaoxiao wasn’t filled with such odd thoughts, as she hadn’t been able to focus on the movie at all for its entire duration.
Having not had those embarrassing dreams for over a week, the girl wondered if she could revert to her old relationship with Xu Qingfan.
That was why she hesitated before finally sitting down next to him, ostensibly as a means of desensitization training.
But the moment her skin made direct contact with his, the overwhelming sensations returned. Inhaling the unique hormonal scent from a male, Xia Xiaoxiao felt her face heating up again, even forgetting to change her numb legs to a more comfortable position.
She persevered with great willpower until the end of the movie, although she could hardly recall what the film was about. 𝘯𝑜𝑣𝑝𝑢𝘣.𝑐𝑜𝑚
"Ha~" The movie ended, and Xu Qingfan stood up, stretching his back from sitting too long, and said, "Let’s go, it’s about time for lunch and karaoke at twelve o’clock."
"Let’s go, let’s go, what are we having for lunch?" Xiao Ruawen was eager to stand up and respond.
Wu Lingyu bent down to collect the empty glasses from the coffee table onto a tray. Noticing that Xia Xiaoxiao was still motionless, she asked with concern, "Xiao Xiao, are you feeling unwell?"
"No... just my legs are numb from sitting too long," Xia Xiaoxiao said, her gaze flickering.
"Let me massage them for you." Setting down the tray, Wu Lingyu sat beside Xia Xiaoxiao and began to gently massage her thighs.
"Mmm..." Feeling guilty, she glanced at Xu Qingfan, who had taken the tray to wash dishes in the kitchen, and remained silent.
After securing the doors and windows and getting ready to go, the six of them soon arrived at Gualv Square.
"The movie Ponyo on the Cliff is so healing. I’m going to change my QQ profile picture to Bo Niu!" Xiao Ruawen walked arm in arm with Xia Xiaoxiao, enthusiastically sharing her views on the animation with her.
"Hmm."
"I really love the scene where they hold hands entering the tunnel. Which scene is your favorite, Xiao Xiao?" Xiao Ruawen seemed oblivious to the other’s awkwardness and kept probing.
"Uhm... paddling."
"Exactly, exactly, the part where they row the boat is super healing too!"
"Hmm..."
Behind them, Lin Wanning was also chatting with Xu Qingfan: "Brother Qingfan, I heard that every scene of Ponyo was drawn by hand. Do you think if we start drawing now, we could make a movie by the time we’re eighteen, too?"
"What are you thinking, not going to study anymore?" Xu Qingfan flicked her forehead, annoyed, "Miyazaki had a team, okay? With tens of thousands of frames in an animation, if you and Yiyi each draw one frame a day, that would also take... over a hundred years!"
"Huh?" Lin Wanning’s mouth hung open wide enough to fit an entire egg, "So what should we do then?"
Zhang Yiyi also cocked her head to look at him, and Xu Qingfan said with a smile, "Why not just start our own animation company after graduating from high school? By then, you two can be your own bosses like Aunt Zhang, ordering around your minions!"
"What about brother?"
"Yeah, Brother Qingfan, what about you?"
"Me?" Xu Qingfan pointed at himself, laughing, "The doctor says I have a weak stomach, so by then I can only cling to your coattails and be a kept man!"
"When did you go to the doctor, Brother Fan; are you okay?" Wu Lingyu, who wasn’t much into online surfing, was unaware of the joke and asked with concern after hearing the first part of Xu Qingfan’s statement.
Because her father was ill, the girl had a natural fear of hospitals and wouldn’t consider someone might joke about their health.
At first puzzled, the three of them then began to laugh and point at Wu Lingyu.
"Haha~ Yu, you are so cute!"
"Clueless cutie!"
"What? What’s happening?" Xiao Ruawen and Xia Xiaoxiao, leading the group, turned around upon hearing the commotion behind them, asking what was going on.
Lin Wanning immediately told the two of them the joke that Xu Qingfan had just made, and then recounted how Wu Lingyu didn’t understand it, turning the laughter from three people into five.
Wu Lingyu scratched the back of her head, feeling a bit embarrassed and unable to see what was so funny about her remark.
Once the relationship reaches a certain depth, these kinds of jokes become insignificant and instead enrich the friendship in daily life.
"Oh my gosh, Yu, how can you be so cute!" Xiao Ruawen embraced Wu Lingyu, rubbing her face against hers as if petting a cat.
Xu Qingfan swallowed, unable to deny his envy.
Lin Wanning, Zhang Yiyi, and Wu Lingyu had not yet begun to develop, and he looked at them just as he did when they were kids, void of any inappropriate thoughts. After all, he, Mr. Xu, was not a pervert.
But Xia Xiaoxiao and Xiao Ruawen’s current figures were truly comparable to many high school seniors, and the girls from the south naturally tended to be graceful, saying that more than 80% of female college students from the south were that way wouldn’t be an exaggeration.
