100: Single-handedly challenge the gangsters

After hearing this, Chen Xiangbei gave him a thumbs up, then put his arm around his shoulder and walked in.

Li An wasn't short either, standing about 1.78 meters.

Before, when Chen Xiangbei was 1.8 meters tall, putting his arm around Li An's shoulder looked quite normal.

But now that he had grown to 1.85 meters, putting his arm around Li An's shoulder looked a bit comical, like he was putting his arm around a younger brother's shoulder.

After the two returned to their seats, Chen Xiangbei poured a cup of tea for all three of them, then started ordering.

After ordering the dishes he liked, he handed the menu to the two girls and said.

"Come on, see what you like to eat. Feel free to order without considering my feelings."

Li An muttered after hearing this, "Of course you don't need to consider your feelings, I'm the one treating and paying!"

The two girls pursed their lips and smiled.

This made Li An lose his composure a bit.

How could he miss such an opportunity? Chen Xiangbei nudged Li An with his elbow and pretended to whisper.

"Hey, hey, look at that pig-like expression on your face, your eyeballs are practically popping out. Can't you be a bit more reserved like me!"

These few consecutive remarks amused the two girls so much they couldn't hold back their laughter, covering their mouths to stifle it, as if suppressing their smiles was harder than suppressing an AK's recoil.

Only then did Li An realize that perhaps he had been tormented so much by his father over the past two months that he hadn't seen many women.

So, upon seeing the two class beauties, he temporarily lost control of his facial expressions.

Li An wasn't bad-looking; to be precise, his dorm mates weren't bad-looking either, some were even quite handsome.

Otherwise, it would have been impossible to win the friendship of several great beauties at the school.

In fact, not only were Li Yueling and Huang Xiaoqing beauties, but Yin Yueyao and Zhao Yixi, who shared a dorm with them, were also great beauties.

Yin Yueyao was the campus belle, Zhao Yixi was the department belle, and adding at least two more was enough to make a table for mahjong.

It also seemed to be because of their appearance that they were all left without roommates when dorms were assigned; they were from 4 different classes in the Finance Department.

They became good friends through the photography club; because of their outstanding looks, they all joined the club's model group.

They often paired up to take various promotional photos together, and over time, they became very good friends.

The two girls were not polite, flipping through the menu, finally ordering a few dishes they liked, and then handed the menu to Li An.

Chen Xiangbei spoke again, asking, "Two great beauties are out early in the morning, it shouldn't be just for breakfast, right?"

Huang Xiaoqing seemed a little scared of him; her head was almost buried under the table.

Only Li Yueling answered his question generously.

"We don't have anything else to do today, so we thought we'd come out for breakfast and then go shopping."

"We're flying out tonight, you see, and we haven't prepared the things we need yet."

"We happened to bump into Li An on the way, and he said he'd treat us to breakfast, so we followed him over."

"Actually, it was Xiao Qing; she heard you were here and suggested coming to take a look."

Chen Xiangbei was overjoyed upon hearing this and said to Huang Xiaoqing with a mischievous smile.

"Oh~ So our great beauty Xiao Qing misses me that much! She heard I was here and wanted to come see me. It's true, you must have been missing me so much you couldn't sleep at night, right?"

After hearing this, Huang Xiaoqing frantically raised her hands and waved them, her clear big eyes wide open, stammering out a denial.

"N-no, I... I... I didn't... didn't miss you."

"I... I just... felt like it's been a long time, and I... I kind of... missed everyone."

Chen Xiangbei looked at her face, which was turning as red as a monkey's backside, smiled and said, "You're still saying you don't miss me? Missing everyone is the same as missing me!"

With his teasing, Huang Xiaoqing was almost in tears, constantly fiddling with the hem of her clothes, looking very flustered and uneasy.

Li Yueling patted her hand comfortingly and said, "Xiao Qing, let's ignore him, he's a hooligan, a scumbag. Come, have a char siu bao."

Huang Xiaoqing looked at Li Yueling with her innocent big eyes and whispered, "Yueling, he's just a bitshameless (rascal), but he's a very good person. Can you please not scold him?"

"Alright, alright, I won't scold him! You, you, you just know how to protect him. I'm helping you so much and you're still complaining about me!"

"No, no! Yueling, I'm not complaining about you, I just don't want others to speak ill of him."

Looking at Huang Xiaoqing, who was about to cry, Li Yueling quickly said, "Alright, alright, I won't say anymore, I won't say anymore. Let's just eat properly!"

Only then was Huang Xiaoqing comforted.

Seeing Huang Xiaoqing still defending Chen Xiangbei like this, she could actually understand; it involved an incident from back then.

When they were in university, Huang Xiaoqing was targeted by some thugs from outside the school. It was Chen Xiangbei who brought a few good brothers with him and protected her for a while.

Whenever those thugs tried to bully her, Chen Xiangbei was the first to rush forward and chase them away.

Once, because the other side had more people, and he only had two people with him, he was injured on the forehead while helping her.

After his injury healed, he was still angry, so he went alone to the place where those thugs often hung out and waited.

After several days, he finally figured out the home address of every thug, then he waited at each house, catching one and beating one.

Someone who had done farm work since childhood had a lot of strength, coupled with his tall and sturdy build, how could ordinary people beat him?

Eventually, the thugs' boss was beaten into submission, and later, they never dared to harass Huang Xiaoqing again.

Later, this incident spread throughout the campus, and for a time, gossip about the two of them was everywhere.

In fact, there was no special relationship between them; they were just good friends. Chen Xiangbei did this out of protection for a friend.

But it was this incident that made Huang Xiaoqing always feel grateful to him. As for whether there were other feelings, only she herself knew!

The few of them ate and chatted, and time passed quickly.

After eating for over an hour, they decided to go shopping together, as their objectives were the same anyway.

When they were in school, these friends often went out together, shopping, eating, and so on.

It could be said that they spent almost their entire university life together. These four years had allowed them to accumulate deep friendship, and some other unspeakable emotions.

Shopping, the ultimate innate skill of girls.

If the sport of triathlon were held in the form of shopping, then there would be no place for boys!

They could shop from day to night without even catching their breath!

If Chen Xiangbei hadn't been keeping track of time and urging them to hurry up and buy what they needed, they definitely would have been late.

Because they hadn't packed their luggage or anything, Chen Xiangbei had set aside 4 hours to go home and pack.

From just past eight in the morning, they shopped until past two in the afternoon before the few of them prepared to go home.