NOVPUB"Woof woof~!"
Upon arriving at Lin Wanning’s doorstep, the first one to spot him and greet him was still Little White.
"What are you barking for, everyone is taking a nap." Xu Qingfan lifted his hand and made a big fuss.
"Awooo~"
"Brother Qing Fan!" The next second, an adorable Wanning sprinted towards him at a hundred-meter dash pace and then clung to him perfectly.
Xu Qingfan was nearly conditioned into a reflexive action by the girl, his eyes hadn’t even shifted over and his hands had already lifted, steadying her in his embrace.
"Stop it~ quickly get down from me, it would be bad if uncle and auntie saw." He looked around guiltily towards the living room, thankfully no one was there.
Adolescent girls change drastically every day, such intimate actions that would have been no problem half a year ago were now more concerning as the person in front of him was almost as tall as his eyes and her small chest had begun to show its curves, she was already a young lady.
"Dad and mom aren’t home, duckie, Brother Qing Fan, carry me back inside, the air conditioning is turned on, if we don’t go back now all the cool air will escape." Lin Wanning was unyielding, ignoring Xu Qingfan’s attempt to shake her off, she wrapped her arms around his neck, refusing to let go.
But he only shook her a few times before he stopped, feeling more and more that this action in this position was inappropriate.
Fortunately, it was naptime and the sun was fierce outside, so no one in the yard witnessed this scene.
Anxious that someone might suddenly come out, Xu Qingfan quickly carried Lin Wanning into the house.
After closing the door with his feet, the girl obediently hopped down from him: "Brother Qing Fan, do you want to drink Sprite or Coke?"
"I’ll just have some ice water, I just finished a plate of stir-fried beef ho fun and feel a bit greasy." He fanned his collar, having broken out into a light sweat just being away from the air conditioning for a moment.
After directly facing the air conditioner in Lin Wanning’s house for a while, Xu Qingfan felt much more comfortable.
It wasn’t long before the girl came out of the kitchen, holding cut fruits and ice water in her hands, "Ice water coming right up~"
Xu Qingfan was truly thirsty. He took the glass and "gulped" down almost three hundred milliliters of ice water in one go.
"Ah~" He let out a comfortable sigh, holding the glass in his hand, "Much better, thank you, Wanning."
"Brother Qing Fan, eat some watermelon." Lin Wanning kept blinking at him, and after Xu Qingfan finished drinking the water, she forked a piece of watermelon and delivered it to his mouth.
The girl had picked the sweetest part from the center of the watermelon; biting into it made Xu Qingfan felt as if he was tasting a burst of sweet watermelon-flavored slush, incredibly delicious.
"So sweet." He mumbled unclearly as he chewed.
"And this piece too." As Xu Qingfan was almost finished, Lin Wanning forked another chunk of premium watermelon.
Without a second thought, he bit into it, but as he chewed, he realized something was off.
[I’m supposed to be here to teach Lin Wanning sex education, what’s with all this intimacy!]
"Lin Wanning!"
The sudden stern expression from Brother Qing Fan startled the girl, a shiver ran through her, but fortunately, she held the glass bowl steadily, preventing it from falling to the floor.
"What’s wrong, Brother Qing Fan, is the watermelon not good?" Lin Wanning didn’t know what she had done wrong, looking at him with a pitiful expression.
[Here we go again...]
Even though it had happened many times and he knew the girl was just being her true self, every time he saw that look in her eyes, he felt his heart melting. 𝓃ℴ𝓋𝓹𝓊𝓫.𝒸𝓸𝓂
"Do you know where you went wrong?" He resisted the urge to pet Ning and continued with a serious face to question her.
"Eh? I... I... I’m sorry, Brother Qing Fan." The girl thought left and right but couldn’t come up with what she did wrong, but since Brother Qing Fan wouldn’t lie, she decided to apologize directly.
"Why are you apologizing? You haven’t even said what you did wrong." Xu Qingfan suddenly felt like he was one of those unreasonable girlfriends on the internet.
"I... I... I... If Brother Qing Fan says I did wrong, then I did wrong." Lin Wanning ’I I I’d’ for quite a while, and finally decided to candidly spill out her thoughts.
Xu Qingfan really didn’t know what to say at the moment, he felt he deserved to die.
"I’m sorry, Brother Qing Fan, I didn’t mean to make you angry." Seeing that Xu Qingfan remained silent for a long time, she thought he was truly angry, the girl carefully tugged at his clothes, nearly on the verge of crying.
"Would you like to eat some watermelon?" Despite that, she still didn’t forget to offer him the last best piece of watermelon.
"Alright~, what I wanted to talk about was the incident just now at the front door, I wasn’t angry with our Wanning," he said, raising his hand to rub the girl’s head.
"I’m sorry, Brother Qing Fan, every time you say you’re coming, I always wait for you in the living room, and then I get too excited when I see Brother Qing Fan," she explained. Turns out it was the same old issue of men and women not touching hands when giving or receiving things; Lin Wanning was relieved, thinking she might have done something unknowingly to upset Brother Qing Fan.
"How many times have I told you, we are now middle school students, middle school students need to act like middle school students, and we can’t behave like we did when we were kids anymore!" He flicked the girl’s forehead helplessly and pulled her wrist to sit down on the sofa.
"Hehe~ Brother Qing Fan, eat some watermelon." With the misunderstanding cleared up, Lin Wanning happily offered the watermelon to his mouth again.
"If Brother Qing Fan doesn’t like it then I won’t do it outside anymore, okay? I’ll wait until Brother Qing Fan is inside the house before doing it," she said while stuffing a piece of watermelon into her own mouth, her words muffled by the fruit.
"That’s a good... What the heck, you can’t do that inside the house either!!!"
"There’s no one else inside the house to see, so why not!" Regarding hugging Brother Qing Fan, Lin Wanning was very firm in her stance, she was fighting for her rights!
"How can there be no one else, are Wanning’s dad and mom not people?"
"Dad and mom are not at home," the girl said with a hint of grievance.
"It’s still not okay even if they are not home, no means no," Xu Qingfan insisted, grabbing her small hand and playfully slapping it three times as if to punish her.
"Brother Qing Fan is a bully!" Lin Wanning, holding the watermelon, twisted her body to the side with her lips pouting in genuine anger.
Xu Qingfan knew she wasn’t truly angry, so he poked her shoulder with his finger.
"Humph~" She still refused to turn back, rotating even further away.
"Wanning has already grown up now, and so have I. Those intimate actions are only... only bad kids do those," Xu Qingfan stumbled over his words for a moment.
"Brother Qing Fan used to lead us to skip classes when we were kids, and the teacher said all kids who skip classes are bad kids, so we were already bad kids," Lin Wanning expressed her disregard defiantly.
"Also, Brother Qing Fan said that not getting caught meant not skipping, so if nobody saw me hugging Brother Qing Fan, then that means we didn’t hug!" This was her way of pulling a fast one, Lin Wanning could argue a twisted logic as well as anyone.
Xu Qingfan brought his hand to his forehead, letting out a helpless sigh, not expecting the bullets fired in youth to ricochet back at him this way.
"Alright, alright, if no one is around, then you can still do it like when we were kids, happy now?" He was really at his wit’s end with the girl in front of him, so he surrendered.
"Yay!!!" On hearing this, Lin Wanning flung herself into Xu Qingfan’s arms.
"I wasn’t finished speaking yet!" he helplessly pushed her head away from his chest.
"Hehe~ Go on, Brother Qing Fan," she giggled.
"But!" Xu Qingfan paused for emphasis, "you really can’t keep crawling into my bed in the middle of the night anymore, do you understand?!
"Can’t I do it even when there’s nobody around?" the girl pouted, feeling somewhat aggrieved; the Brother Qing Fan branded warmer was really comfortable.
"You still can’t, even when there’s nobody around!" Xu Qingfan asserted with a serious look.
Lin Wanning still wanted to argue, murmuring, "I won’t let Xiao Xiao find out."
Xu Qingfan’s face instantly registered speechlessness, "It’s not about Xia Xiaoxiao, this is a boundary, if you keep sneaking into my bed, then like just now, hugging is also off the table!"
"Okay then~ I won’t sleep there if you say so. But can we still hug, Brother Qing Fan?!" To preserve this last privilege, Lin Wanning had no choice but to nod in agreement.
"It’s just not as nice growing up; being kids was way better!"
Feeling the sensation against his chest, Xu Qingfan didn’t speak any further...
