You are all bad women! Don't come over!

After lunch, Xiao Xingshuang went to wash the dishes and then returned to her room to study Roman. Xia Qingrou asked if she wanted to play Monopoly together, but she was also rejected.

She was always like this, keeping to herself. Xia Qingrou had prepared herself for rejection before she invited Xiao Xingshuang, so she wasn't upset.

"Shuangshuang is really such a cool person..." In Shen Mochen's room, Xia Qingrou lay in Shen Mochen's arms, playing with her phone, "Why does she have to go to Roman? Is it just to earn a bit more money? I don't think she's that kind of person!"

"What kind of person is she not like? Who doesn't want to earn more money, except for Caiyu who's a real nutcase!"

"I think it's fine though; there's no need to go to Roman or Huaqi!"

"Because your family is not short of money; both your parents are executives at big companies, you would have been fine even if you hadn't come to Buque..."

"Nonsense, if I hadn't come to Buque, life would have been impossible; I couldn't have gotten into National University! As for studying abroad, I wouldn't feel comfortable with it either. My family wouldn't let me go abroad for university either, at least not until graduate studies..."

Shen Mochen lightly flicked Xia Qingrou's forehead: "So, you're also a young lady who has never experienced hardships. To you, a life without entering the top universities in the country is completely bleak, but how many people in the country can actually get into National University? Real poor people work eighteen hours straight in factories every day, earning just a little bit each month. Not to mention those who scavenge, beg, or have disabilities; they not only can't afford meat, fruits, medical care, or movies, but they also have to worry about being beaten and bullied by others..."

Xia Qingrou touched her forehead where Shen Mochen had flicked her, staring at him: "Did you also come from such circumstances?"

"I'm from the north, in Yu Huai City, the north is all slums, what do you think?" Shen Mochen said with a grin, "Why, you despise me..."

Before he could finish speaking, Xia Qingrou held Shen Mochen's head and gently kissed his lips. The kiss was full of tenderness, with a hint of citrus sweetness.

"That's all in the past, right?" Xia Qingrou's eyes were gentle, radiating encouragement.

"Yeah, it's all in the past." Shen Mochen also kissed Xia Qingrou on the cheek.

He was no longer that little beggar, and even if he didn't mention the billions left to him by Yin Caiyu, his current salary was enough to place him in the relatively well-off middle class.

"Yeah, let's not talk about this anymore." Xia Qingrou touched Shen Mochen's hair, feeling like she was petting a big dog.

"Alright, I won't bring it up anymore." Shen Mochen changed the topic, "By the way, have you ever met Xiao Xingshuang's parents?"

Xia Qingrou shook her head: "Nope, why?"

Shen Mochen smiled: "I'm just curious, what kind of family could raise someone as peculiar as Xiao Xingshuang."

"She's not that strange!" Xia Qingrou laughed, playfully punching Shen Mochen, and also felt a little puzzled, "But it is indeed a bit strange, I've met Yanyan's family, but never Shuangshuang's... Still, I sometimes hear her on the phone with her family, so they must be a normal family."

"That's so..."

"Why are you so interested in her, got a crush on her?" Xia Qingrou teased, "After all, you've seen her body; she has a good figure, doesn't she? Do you want to see it again?"

"You... you're good in every way, just a bit too jealous... Oh, but you do look pretty cute when you're jealous."

Shen Mochen pinched Xia Qingrou's nose.

Xia Qingrou's face turned red, she pouted: "Cut it out, why would I be jealous, Shuangshuang probably wouldn't fancy you!"

Shen Mochen laughed and nodded, "Yep, yep, I'm so ugly, only Xia 'Senior' wouldn't mind me."

Xia Qingrou giggled: "Good that you know, only a weirdo like you wouldn't be fancied by anyone!"

"You're lucky you're a girl. If you were a guy, wouldn't you definitely be gaslighting me?" Shen Mochen thought to himself.

"By the way, I'm thinking of getting a new hairstyle and growing my hair out a bit." Xia Qingrou suddenly said.

Her hairstyle was still the small wavy perm she got the last time she met Xia Yusi, with side-parted, light golden brown short hair. Just a month had passed, and now her hair had grown a bit, with black roots showing at the scalp.

She still kept the same hairstyle, but sometimes, for convenience, she would just tie it into a small ponytail that looked like a fishtail.

"Go ahead and change it; I think you look good with long hair too," Shen Mochen said nonchalantly.

That wasn't a lie. Shen Mochen really believed that. With a face as heavenly as Xia Qingrou's, not to have long, straight black hair was simply a waste.

Xia Qingrou tilted her head: "Like Yanyan's, or like Xuexue's, or like Shuangshuang's long ponytail?"

"I think this is another death-trap question. No matter which one I answer, you'll accuse me of having ulterior motives toward someone!"

"Pfft... You figured me out!"

"Entrapment, huh!"

Shen Mochen, frustrated, tickled Xia Qingrou until she rolled around on the bed, crying and laughing while begging for mercy, before he finally stopped.

After fooling around for a while, Shen Mochen said, "If you want to grow your hair, do you want me to help you?"

Xia Qingrou lay on Shen Mochen, panting slightly: "You mean using your superpower, right? No, I want to grow it myself!"

"Is there a difference?"

"I'm just a bit scared to use it directly on my head, feels like it might age my face too!"

Shen Mochen shrugged: "Then it's up to you."

Xia Qingrou turned over and lay on Shen Mochen's legs, after a long while: "… Yanyan mentioned going to a society lady's coming of age party, the foreign society lady we met that day, right?"

Shen Mochen paused, his eyelids drooping: "I don't know, maybe."

Xia Qingrou affirmed: "It must be her; who else could it be!"

"Oh, if it is, then it is," Shen Mochen said.

"Did she not invite you to go too?" Xia Qingrou gazed at the ceiling but was glancing at Shen Mochen's face out of the corner of her eye.

"No, those are all aristocrats; I don't have the qualifications." Shen Mochen laughed, "I haven't been in contact with her for a long time, don't overthink it."

"She must like you, right? Otherwise, why would she send flowers to your sister's hospital room every day, and they're so expensive…"

"People like her are super-rich; they don't care about that small amount of money. Sending flowers might just be a matter of etiquette, you know how aristocrats are."

Xia Qingrou was silent for a long while: "You don't want to go?"

Shen Mochen sighed: "I don't want to go. You are my girlfriend; why would I need to attend another woman's birthday party? Plus, it seems her coming of age also involves some engagement, don't worry, no one is going to steal your man."