The boy touched the girl’s forehead and asked worriedly, “What’s wrong? Are you feeling sick?”
The girl slapped his hand away. “Don’t touch me!”
The boy’s expression changed at once. “What’s wrong with you? Did I do something?”
The girl tossed her head and said smugly, “Nothing. I just don’t like you anymore. I’ve fallen for someone else, so stay away from me from now on. I can’t stand looking at you. Got it?”
As she spoke, she jabbed a finger against the boy’s shoulder. The swaggering expression on her face made her look like a completely different person.
The boy saw her wicked grin and suddenly understood. Fighting back laughter, he pinched her cheek. “You’re messing with me, aren’t you, you little brat?”
“Get your pig trotter off me. Who has time to mess with you? The person I like is a thousand times better than you.” The girl snorted, her eyes full of disdain.
“Who?” The boy still seemed unconvinced. He narrowed his eyes and studied her with interest.
“Chen Youzai!”
Two seconds later, wild laughter exploded across the parking lot. The boy could not control himself and doubled over laughing right in front of his girlfriend.
“Hahaha… If you’re going to lie to me, at least pick someone believable! Chen Youzai? Who could possibly like him besides a blind person or an animal? Hahaha…”
A barrage of punches came flying at him. The boy apparently took it as playful flirting. With a little force, he pulled the girl into his arms and kissed her.
The “girl” froze in shock. For a moment, Chen Youzai could not even process what was happening. When the kiss deepened, he abruptly came back to his senses.
The body belonged to someone else, but the sensation was his own. His first kiss had just been taken by a boy, and by his love rival at that. Humiliation and disgust were the only words his mind could produce.
“Aaaaaah!” The girl shoved the boy away and screamed again and again, her face full of despair and outrage, fury blazing in her eyes.
Chen Youzai pulled out the coin. His vision blurred for an instant, and the girl was suddenly standing obediently in front of him again. She looked completely different from the girl who had been glaring at him moments earlier, leaving him torn between fondness and resentment.
The girl felt as though she had briefly lost track of herself. When she came back to her senses, the boy in front of her was wearing an oddly suggestive grin.
“What’s wrong?” She waved a hand in front of him, looking worriedly at the person she liked.
“Nothing!” A sly smile tugged at the boy’s lips. “I just want to hug you.”
The girl flushed. She neither agreed nor refused. Taking her silence as permission, the boy quickly pulled her into his arms. A few seconds later, however, all his earlier confidence vanished. He became visibly nervous and helpless, his heart pounding so hard it felt ready to leap into his throat.
“Um… well…” The boy stumbled over his words. His hands shook badly, and sweat beaded across his forehead.
“I really like you, Li Linfan.”
At the sound of that familiar name, the boy jolted. The excitement and happiness he had felt moments earlier vanished at once. It was as though a basin of cold water had been poured over him, even the sweat on his forehead turning cold.