Damn it, I'm surrounded by childhood sweethearts-Chapter 546: What a coincidence!

After the club competition ended, the following days passed by quite peacefully.

Several girls found their high school meal buddies in succession. Aside from Xiao Ruawen and Xia Xiaoxiao who often accompanied him for meals, unless there was an intentional encounter, he could only see everyone during lunch and after school in the evening.

He studied diligently during the day, went home to nap at noon, daydreamed through two afternoon classes, kicked a ball around or went for a run with classmates in the evening, and then ended the three periods of self-study at night with five beautiful high school girls accompanying him home, living a carefree and comfortable life.

Of course, Xu Qingfan didn't always have company for meals. For instance, today Xiao Ruawen and Xia Xiaoxiao had to attend a yoga club event, so he had to dine alone.

"Brother Fan, I'm off. When I become the president one day, I'll invite you to see us doing yoga!" Xiao Ruawen patted Xu Qingfan on the head. As soon as the school bell rang, she left with Wang Xuan and Chen Qi.

The yoga club didn't allow male students to observe, but if there ever came a day, Xu Qingfan would still be willing to honor the invitation.

"What about you guys—are you playing ball or eating?" He looked at Lai Chenglang and Wu Shichong. Without the beauty meal buddies, reluctantly eating with these two goofballs was also okay.

"We won't find a court if we go now, and I'm not hungry yet. I think I'll go back for a shower first," Lai Chenglang said, as if he was thinking, hesitating for a moment before speaking.

"Then I'll go back to the dorm for a shower too, Brother Fan, what about you?" Wu Shichong also said.

"I'll just go to the sports field for a couple of laps then, bye," Xu Qingfan capped his pen and stood up, ready to leave.

"Oh right, Brother Fan, which cafeteria will you go to for dinner later? We can come to find you after we finish our showers, maybe just in time."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, we shower quickly. We'll come find you later!"

Wu Shichong and Lai Chenglang exchanged looks and then revealed a sleazy grin, clearly not up to anything good.

However, Xu Qingfan didn't think much of it: "Second cafeteria I guess, I'm kind of craving for some saury."

"All right, all right, then bye Brother Fan!"

"The flavor of the saury~"

The two goofballs left together, laughing and joking.

Xu Qingfan shook his head. The time he had spent talking had caused most of his classmates to leave; only two or three partnerless students were still at their desks, studying hard.

To this day, he still didn't remember the names of these people. They had mediocre grades, average looks, and no special skills. Such individuals are actually most common in society, but they are also the quickest to be forgotten.

The campus's song broadcast for the day started playing overhead. Listening to Jay Chou's "Milelong Fragrance," Xu Qingfan somehow found the tune of "Waiting for you to finish class" popping into his mind.

A song that was not released until 2018, its very first line delivered an emo blow to her, who was at the lowest point of her life at that time.

"High school three years, why, oh why didn't I study hard, to get into the same university as you," Xu Qingfan murmured to himself, marveling at how fast time had flown.

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He suddenly wished he had heard this song in high school, a tune that should have been part of his college life.

[Make time to write it down for Ruan Wen to sing.]

With a decision made in his heart, Xu Qingfan did not dwell further and strolled leisurely to the school's sports field.

Perhaps because the next day was Friday, the day to go home for the weekend, there were especially many students at the sports field taking a walk this evening.

After finishing his warm-up, he began to run laps at a steady pace on the field.

He hadn't been running long when he heard a panting sound constantly following him. Even though the breathing became increasingly rapid, there was no sign of stopping.

He thought he had been chosen as someone's running target. When running like this, one only needs to focus on keeping up with the person in front, which won't feel tiring.

He ran up to the tenth lap, and the sound was still persisting. Although he hadn't turned his head to see who it was, Xu Qingfan was already admiring their perseverance.

He finished a leisurely four kilometers and started to slow down.

"Ah!"

The person behind him didn't react in time and was still persevering, crashing straight into Xu Qingfan's back.

Xu Qingfan staggered a few steps, fortunate that his footing was solid enough that he didn't fall.

After regaining his balance, he turned around and saw a familiar girl who had fallen on her bottom on the ground.

"Hey there~ junior, we meet again," Chen Mengmeng, despite the pain in her backside, said breathlessly, waving at him.

Xu Qingfan's mouth twitched, unsure whether to stay or to go.

Regardless, he felt guiltless and, after thinking for a bit, stretched out his hand.

"So careless."

"Hehe, thank you, junior," Chen Mengmeng's eyes lit up, and she immediately extended her hand.

"You're welcome, bye senior, I'm off to eat," Xu Qingfan quickly withdrew his hand. He didn't want to interact too much with the girl before him, so he promptly made his goodbyes.

Chen Mengmeng didn't come up with a cliche like "What a coincidence, I'm going to eat too," but waved goodbye: "Then bye junior, I need to stretch a bit longer, or my legs won't feel like mine tomorrow."

She pointed at the nearby horizontal bar and playfully stuck her tongue out at Xu Qingfan.

It was just a minor incident. Xu Qingfan merely nodded, acknowledging he knew, and quickly left.

Chen Mengmeng made a silly face at his retreating figure: "Don't think you can escape me!"

Xu Qingfan took out his phone, intending to report the incident on the field to the five girls, but halfway through, he deleted it.

[It's not a big deal. Why report it? It might blow up into something more if I do.]

Soon he arrived at the second cafeteria. After scanning the first-floor hall and not spotting the five girls, he shrugged and headed to the counter to get food.

He held up three fingers, signaling he wanted a portion of three liang of rice, then pointed to the lettuce, saury fish, and braised eggplant, one by one. His hand was steady, but the auntie, who wasn't very good at math, quickly got his meal ready.

When it was time to swipe his card to pay, Xu Qingfan first glanced at the amount displayed. He didn't move, nor did the auntie.

After a moment, the auntie changed the price from 8.6 yuan to 6.6 yuan, and then Xu Qingfan swiped his card to pay.

"You should buy a calculator, auntie," said Xu Qingfan, taking his tray with a speechless expression.

The auntie who was serving the meals hesitated several times before finally muttering resentfully, "My calculations are just fine. I'll remember you, kid!" once Xu Qingfan had turned away.

He went up to the second floor of the cafeteria to eat, where the five girls, as well as the two restless boys, Lai Chenglang and Wu Shichong, were nowhere to be seen.

Xu Qingfan found a corner seat by the window and ate while watching two sparrows fighting on the tree.

However, he had not been eating long when he suddenly noticed the light in front of him was blocked by someone.

Looking up, he saw Chen Mengmeng standing in front of him with her tray of food, seemingly having appeared out of nowhere.

"Hello there, junior! What a coincidence to bump into you again!" she said.

Xu Qingfan was inwardly speechless, now realizing why Lai Chenglang and Wu Shichong were asking him all sorts of questions in class before; turn out, they were acting as little spies.

"Haha... Sure is a coincidence," he said awkwardly, waving his hand and nodding in agreement.

Fortunately, Chen Mengmeng didn't presume to sit right across from him but instead chose a diagonal seat one spot away. This way, others wouldn't assume they were together, yet it didn't impede their conversation.

"I'm really sorry about the other day, junior. I've been wanting to apologize, but our classes are too far apart. I came to look for you several times before night self-study, and you were never there," said Chen Mengmeng, sitting down and immediately starting with an apology, hinting that she had tried to find him multiple times.

"It's fine; it's not your fault, senior. I'm aware of the situation with Du Haitao, and I trust the school won't let him get away with it," Xu Qingfan continued eating without looking up. He decided that once he got back, he definitely needed to give Lai Chenglang and Wu Shichong a good beating for their stupidity.

"But junior, you might not realize, Du Haitao's parents are both teachers at the school. Many teachers, out of consideration for his parents, might be inclined to side with him. He could really do what he says he will!" Chen Mengmeng, fearing he was not taking it seriously, said with emotional urgency.

"Even if his parents were the directors of the education bureau, I believe the school wouldn't let him do whatever he wants," Xu Qingfan replied, remaining unbothered, and indeed, he had the capacity not to be concerned.

"But..."

Seeing the girl wanted to say more, Xu Qingfan gestured with his hand to stop her, "Okay, I got it, thanks for the heads-up, senior. Let's eat, or the food will get cold."

"Alright then..." Chen Mengmeng trailed off, realizing the conversation was not going to continue. After a quiet moment, she tried another approach: "Junior, why don't you join the Magic Club? Tomorrow is the last day for registration, and it's really fun. Du Haitao won't be the president anymore since he's a senior this year."

As if trying to lure Xu Qingfan's attention, she took out a coin from her pocket and started rolling it between her fingers like Kaito Kid, the shiny coin gleaming as it moved.

You have to admit, it was really cool.

But before long.

"This, this, this..."

Watching Xu Qingfan take out three one-yuan coins from his wallet and start performing magic tricks in front of her, Chen Mengmeng's expression froze in astonishment.

The coin she had produced was specially made for magic tricks, while the coins Xu Qingfan used were the most ordinary one-yuan coins—and there were three of them!

"It's not that difficult," Xu Qingfan said arrogantly after finishing his trick and continued to eat his meal calmly.

[Indeed, he's the man I've set my sights on. I like him even more now!]

After another period of silence, Chen Mengmeng launched her third offensive: "Junior, let's add each other on QQ. My grades are pretty good, so if you have any questions about the natural sciences or math, you can ask me."

Xu Qingfan blinked for a moment, then lifted his head in amazement.

"What... What's the matter?" Chen Mengmeng became nervous seeing him stare at her.

"Haven't Wu Shichong and Lai Chenglang told you about my entrance exam scores?"

"Ah? No, they didn't... I mean, I didn't... I, I..." The girl began to stammer, realizing she had said something amiss, and then fell silent.

Seeing that she had finally stopped talking, Xu Qingfan thought he could finally enjoy his meal in peace.

However.

"Huh? Is that Brother Qing Fan over there?"

"It's Brother Fan!"

"Wow, what a coincidence, running into everyone and Brother Fan too!"

"Brother Qing Fan!"

"Brother Fan!"

Xu Qingfan's heart skipped a beat as an odd sensation of being caught in the act by a legitimate wife crept over him.

He slowly turned around and saw the five girls approaching him with mischievous expressions.

[Danger!]

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