Damn it, I'm surrounded by childhood sweethearts

The next day.

It wasn't until the afternoon that Xu Qingfan and Xia Xiaoxiao, who had just woken up, ran into each other in the living room.

"Pfft....."

Seeing the dark circles under each other's eyes, they couldn't help but laugh simultaneously.

"What's so funny, move aside!" Xia Xiaoxiao complained as she glared at Xu Qingfan and stepped past him into the kitchen.

Xu Qingfan followed her into the kitchen.

The rice cooker was warming up the rice that they were supposed to eat for lunch, but since Xu Qingfan and Xia Xiaoxiao hadn't gotten up until noon, the three adults had already eaten without them.

"You grab the bowls and chopsticks, I'll carry the rice cooker out whole," Xu Qingfan said as he picked up the rice cooker and spoke to the girl.

Xia Xiaoxiao obediently did as told, taking two bowls and chopsticks from the disinfection cabinet, and then pulling out two bottles of juice from the fridge before she used her elbow to close the fridge door and leave.

Xu Qingfan set the rice cooker down on the coffee table and started searching for a suitable show to watch while eating.

It had been a while since the premiere of the second season of "Love Apartment," and several satellite channels had started rebroadcasting it for the second and third rounds.

After a long search, Xu Qingfan couldn't find the program he wanted to watch, so he settled for "Love Apartment" again.

He put down the remote when Xia Xiaoxiao had already taken out the dishes from the rice cooker and prepared two bowls of rice.

Xu Qingfan picked up one of the bowls and started eating, and Xia Xiaoxiao also began eating while watching TV.

Regarding the incident of being stood up last night, both tacitly agreed not to mention it.

"Hahaha...."

When the host asked Zeng Xiaoxian if he played online games, Zeng Xiaoxian cheekily answered that he played "Connect"; despite having watched the scene before, both couldn't help but burst into laughter.

"When is the third season coming out?" Xia Xiaoxiao suddenly turned to ask Xu Qingfan.

"Next year, I think, I can't remember which month," Xu Qingfan replied uncertainly after recalling for a while.

He only remembered that when the third season of "Love Apartment" was released in his previous life, someone in the dormitory had downloaded it to their MP4 player and brought it to watch in the dorm.

[It seems like it was during my second year of high school...]

"Next year, did the producers tell you that?" Xia Xiaoxiao suddenly became curious.

"Er.... no, I saw it on Weibo somewhere, maybe some marketing account said it's been scheduled, probably next year," Xu Qingfan answered vaguely.

Knowing that this show was going to be a hit, Xu Qingfan naturally had Zhang Chunxue buy some advertising slots in advance, so this version of "Love Apartment" had quite a few elements related to Good Taste.

However, Xu Qingfan and the five girls weren't fans of celebrities, so they didn't take advantage of any sponsor's privileges.

"Oh." Xia Xiaoxiao resumed her indifferent demeanor.

"Mm." Seeing this, Xu Qingfan also nodded in relief.

The TV show soon reached its conclusion. After a session of nostalgia by Zeng Xiaoxian, the scene shifted back to "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," with the final question: choose B or D?

"Are they going to choose B? I logged onto that site a few days ago, the voting had ended, and most people had chosen B," Xia Xiaoxiao said after finishing her last bite of rice, looking at Xu Qingfan as she put down her chopsticks.

"Should I give Zeng Xiaoxian a call to ask for you?" Xu Qingfan said exasperatedly as he looked at her.

With a dispirited expression, Xia Xiaoxiao picked up the bowls and chopsticks from the coffee table and stood up to go back to the kitchen: "You take the rice cooker back yourself, and remember to wipe the table!"

"Like you need to teach me!"

As Xu Qingfan watched her retreating figure, a faint smile spread across his face.

...

There was no one else at home, and they spent the whole afternoon in the living room watching movies.

Xia Xiaoxiao said she was cold, so Xu Qingfan pulled out a blanket from the drawer.

One blanket for two people, they slowly huddled together.

Sometime later, Xia Xiaoxiao's legs ended up on Xu Qingfan's lap, and after some more time, she was sitting in his lap.

Therefore.

From thirty-five minutes into the movie, they remembered nothing of the plot, absorbed in what was an oblivious workout.

At five in the evening, after a two and a half hour movie with no breaks, Xia Xiaoxiao gently closed her eyes and feebly lay in Xu Qingfan's arms.

Xu Qingfan gently brushed her bangs aside and kissed her forehead, damp with sweat.

Xia Xiaoxiao gave him a reproachful look, reached behind to refasten a button, and adjusted the position again until it no longer felt uncomfortable against her skin.

"Let this slide this time, but if you do this again next time, I.... I will tell Auntie about it!"

Her cheeks heating up again, Xia Xiaoxiao hurriedly got off his lap, picked up a few tissues from the floor, and ran upstairs.

Xu Qingfan remained motionless on the sofa, the tingling sensation, like a dream, soaring into the clouds, slowly fading; at this moment, he merely wanted to lie there forever.

The scoundrel admitted, it was indeed his initiative today; in broad daylight, in front of everyone, he "forced" Xia Xiaoxiao to take the helm for a while.

Although his skills weren't as smooth as Yu, Wanning, or Yiyi, Xia Xiaoxiao's unpleasant face, her reluctance and obligation still thrilled him immensely.

It felt quite fulfilling.

Cough, that's a bit off track...

Xu Qingfan silently recited the core values of socialism in his mind before opening his eyes again.

He checked carefully once more and confirmed that apart from a corner of the blanket being a bit dirty, everything else was still clean.

In just that short amount of time, a breeze made his thighs start to feel chilly.

The scoundrel wrapped the blanket around himself and soon headed upstairs as well.

...

Half an hour later.