“Alright, stop cosplaying as a rabbit here. She’s my ex-client.”

Seeing the senior sister wanting to speak but hesitating, and then wanting to speak again, Lu Xing didn’t plan to hide it and just laid it out.

Ex-client?

Liu Qingqing’s heart was filled with jealousy, but she also felt that showing it directly would be too unreasonable, so she crossed her arms in front of her chest and snorted.

Lu Xing glanced at the senior sister’s arms crossed over her chest, thinking to himself why human genes were so unfair.

“Don’t look around!”

The senior sister noticed where Lu Xing’s gaze was landing. Her face turned red, and she pushed his shoulder.

Lu Xing took the opportunity to grab her wrist, put it in his own pants pocket, and said with a smile.

“We’ve already lain down together. Why can’t I look?”

“Pervert!”

Liu Qingqing cursed in a low voice, but without any force. However, her hand did not pull out of Lu Xing’s pants.

Lu Xing bent down slightly, met the senior sister’s gaze, and said with a smile.

“That’s a good curse. Curse me a couple more times.”

“Don’t call me a pervert. Call me a psycho. It’s best if you use Rie Kugimiya’s tone.”

(TL: A famous VA known for “tsundere” roles. Man, I loved the old Tsundere animes she dubbed like: Zero no Tsukaima, Hiddan no Aria, Toradora!, Shakugan no Shana and many more. I haven’t heard her voice in quite a while, so many memories.)

Senior sister: ???

It’s over!

That junior schoolgirl from the student council really didn’t analyze wrong. Lu Xing is really a psycho!!!

Liu Qingqing wanted to open her mouth to curse at Lu Xing for being a psycho, but she was afraid he would enjoy it.

After “you, you, you”-ing for a long time, she was finally silenced.

Seeing the senior sister go quiet, Lu Xing laughed out loud.

‘Aren’t you not angry anymore?’

If you really want to get along with a girl, there are two words: thick-skinned and meticulous. Oh, sorry, that’s four words. My math skills are average.

According to the long-term social environment, most girls are still quite shy, reserved, and sensible. They are actually quite easy to coax.

And Lu Xing did feel that he was wrong. He shouldn’t have answered someone else’s phone call when he was with the senior sister.

But this Wei Qingyu person’s personality is a saw-mouthed gourd.

For her to be so anxious as to call directly, it must be something particularly important or urgent.

To put it bluntly.

What if Wei Qingyu was in a life-or-death situation and called him for help?

He’s older now. He doesn’t like to watch fighting and killing. He just likes to watch some daily happy endings.

If he hadn’t answered the phone and then Wei Qingyu had died, then it would have become some kind of “beautiful tragedy” aesthetic.

Alright.

Even if he was letting his imagination run a bit wild, Lu Xing was certain of one thing: Wei Qingyu’s father was not a good man.

It all made sense now.

No wonder that old bastard had written a clause into the contract forbidding Lu Xing from telling Wei Qingyu about their arrangement.

He had planned this from the start. He wanted to ensure that when the truth eventually came out, all the blame would fall squarely on Lu Xing.

Some people were just born rotten!

“If you’re unhappy about anything, you can tell me.”

Lu Xing squeezed the senior sister’s soft little hand and promised.

“I will listen seriously.”

Teasing her and cooling her temper didn’t mean the matter was settled. You still had to follow up with a serious promise.

If you always laugh and joke your way out of problems, then when it finally explodes, it will be a superimposed bringing up of old scores.

Hearing Lu Xing’s words, Liu Qingqing was silent for a moment, then gently hugged his arm and asked seriously.

“Then if you’re unhappy about anything, can you also tell me?”

Lu Xing was taken aback for a moment, then nodded.

“Of course.”

‘When I’m ready.’

“Actually, I’m not angry.”

Liu Qingqing moved a little closer to Lu Xing.

“I’m just a little scared.”

Hmm?

The moment the word “scared” came out, Lu Xing understood and immediately said.

“It won’t happen. My contract with her has long since ended. My contracts with everyone will end before June tenth.”

Liu Qingqing rubbed against Lu Xing’s arm and asked sullenly.

“Then what if they want to sign another contract with you?”

From the first time she had met Lu Xing, she knew that his luck with women must be very good.

The country is vast and has abundant resources. It’s very normal for some particularly, particularly, particularly good-looking men and women to appear among ordinary people.

Even if it’s a one-in-a-million look, the country can still pick out more than a hundred thousand people.

Especially in university.

They are all young people of the same age, with no pressure to survive. Plus, their hormones are overflowing. It’s basically a peacock spreading its tail.

So Liu Qingqing had seen many good-looking men and women at school.

But after a few casual chats with these people, she wished they were mute.

Besides true fools, people who are particularly good-looking are aware that they are good-looking and have also enjoyed many benefits from their looks as they grew up.

There’s no such thing as taking off glasses and lifting bangs to turn from a shockingly ugly person into a world-class beauty.

This kind of “center of the universe” benefit can easily turn a person into a fool.

The card of looks, paired with any advantage, is a royal flush. But when it’s just looks alone, it will turn a person into a plump prey.

Some people are particularly handsome, but after three sentences with them, you feel like you’re talking to a retard. It’s simply a headache.

But when Liu Qingqing had a deep exchange with Lu Xing on some three-view concepts, she did not find this problem. In fact, Lu Xing’s mind was far more mature than his peers.

This is too rare.

Therefore, after falling for Lu Xing and knowing his profession, Liu Qingqing knew that there would be a constant stream of wild bees and butterflies surrounding him.

If she had to question Lu Xing every time someone came, wouldn’t she be exhausted?

Liu Qingqing gripped Lu Xing’s hand.

As long as he is by her side now.

“It won’t happen.”

Lu Xing was a little regretful now.

He shouldn’t have held the senior sister’s hand and put it in his pants pocket to show intimacy and comfort.

Now the senior sister’s hand is within inches of his…

Lu Xing nonchalantly withdrew his hand and put it around the senior sister’s shoulder, letting out a sigh of relief.

“I have never signed with a client twice. In other words, I don’t take repeat customers.”

“Besides, I’m about to wash my hands of it all!”

Liu Qingqing stared up at Lu Xing’s eyes in a daze.

“You… don’t accept a client’s second contract renewal?”

Lu Xing nodded.

He had nothing to hide about his work. In fact, the clearer the senior sister was about his work, the more at ease he was.

He didn’t want the senior sister to have any illusions about his profession and then think he was a good person.

If two people want to get along better, then they have to be honest with each other. He has to make the content of his profession clear to the senior sister.

“The first time we sign, everyone is in a relatively unfamiliar state. I fulfill the contract, and the client accepts.”

“But when the client wants to sign a second time, besides having tasted the sweetness, what other thoughts can there be?”

Lu Xing laid bare his principles to the senior sister.

“I’m in this line of work just because I’m short of money. I just want to make money. I don’t want to get involved in any feelings with my clients.”

“Most of the people who come to me for emotional value have suffered a heavy blow in their past experiences. Who would spend this money if they weren’t sick?”

Liu Qingqing’s expression stiffened.

‘What to do?’

She feels like she’s being cursed at.

‘Not sure, I’ll observe a bit more.’

Lu Xing, meanwhile, was beginning to regret their trip to the water park. His forehead felt hot and his head had begun to spin. But he still continued to say.

“I sympathize with their experiences. I sometimes feel they are very pitiful, but I can’t do anything about it.”

“Even blood brothers have to settle accounts clearly. Once you get involved in emotional problems with a client, it’s endless and too troublesome.”

“So from the very beginning, I set a principle for myself: not to develop feelings with clients, and not to take repeat customers.”

“Only make money, don’t talk about love.”

“I am diligent and responsible within the scope of the contract. I have a clear conscience.”

“Applause for that!” Liu Qingqing gently clapped for him while she couldn’t help but ask.

“Then is it because you are too dedicated that they like you so much?”

The air conditioning in the concert hall was turned on very low. Lu Xing gritted his teeth and endured a shiver, answering.

“If I’m not dedicated, then why should they pay me?”

“They are all rich ladies, not a garbage collection station. If they buy a defective product, will they really swallow their anger?”

“I have controlled my emotions within the scope of the contract. It’s their business that they can’t control their feelings.”

“They trade with me with money, yet they want me not to care about the money and be sincere to them. Don’t you think that’s ridiculous?”

“When they like me, they can say they don’t care about this, they just want to be with me.”

“Then what about after a long time? After a long time, the novelty has faded, and they point at my nose and curse me for being a whore. On what grounds can I give them a long face?”

A normal relationship will also have this kind of scene, let alone a relationship like his where the two people are already misplaced.

He already doesn’t care much about his dignity and face, but he still doesn’t want to face this kind of scene.

Liu Qingqing stared at Lu Xing in a daze.

She had been with Lu Xing for this period of time and could feel that he hated trouble very much.

But… she hadn’t expected his principles to be so strong.

Not developing feelings with clients?

Liu Qingqing’s heart trembled.

Does that mean that if she had told Lu Xing her real name back then, she wouldn’t even have had the chance to get close to him?

It was an impossible dilemma.

If she confessed her real name now, she would lose any chance of being with him. But if she kept it hidden, she would live with a sword hanging over her head.

It was a choice between a fast-acting toxin and a chronic poison, and the truth would only kill her faster.

This was the first time she had heard Lu Xing reveal his inner thoughts, sharp and realistic.

Because he fears the end, he cuts off all beginnings.

Liu Qingqing reached out and touched Lu Xing’s face, her eyes filled with an inexplicable emotion. She said softly.

“So hard.”

So heartless.

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