3: Chapter 3: No kiss is too little, no kiss is too much!

It was already past eleven when Xiao Ran returned to school.

The cafeteria had already started serving lunch.

He turned his grief into motivation, tearfully downing two large bowls of rice!

"Lin Yaner is settled, now it's time for the next victim... ah, ptooey!"

After eating his fill,

Xiao Ran pulled out his phone and clicked on a husky avatar named "Yi Ya Yi Ya."

Lu Yiyi,

was the beautiful girl who had just gotten off the bus at the back door.

This girl was Lin Yaner's best friend, the really close kind!

An ex-girlfriend's best friend... morally, this was extremely stimulating and despicable.

If Lin Yaner found out he was messing around with her best friend, he wondered how furious she would be.

: "Xiao Ran Gege, how do you like my new clothes?"

: [Image]

: "Don't be late tomorrow!"

: ...Xiao Ran clicked on the image and looked at it, then said with a critical tone: "I prefer something a bit more revealing."

"Second Brother! What are you doing here? Didn't you say your grandpa died and you took leave to go home?"

Suddenly, a rough voice came from behind him.

Xiao Ran gave the newcomer a rude gesture.

This was one of his roommates, named Zhang Yide, the oldest in the dorm.

This guy was tall and burly, looked a bit like Jie Ge, and his face was even darker than Gu Tianle's.

He wondered if his parents named him Zhang Yide because of this.

"Old Black, you skipped class again?"

"Nah, you know how it is, that old hag's class is like a hypnosis session. I snuck out the back door when she wasn't looking."

Zhang Yide said nonchalantly, picking up the menu and flipping through it again and again, finally settling on the simple beef ramen.

"Boss, one bowl of beef noodles, triple beef, triple noodles, less soup, extra spicy!"

"Alright, Old Black, just a moment!"

"Second Brother, why are you holding a broken box? Who did you dump this time?"

Zhang Yide asked curiously.

As soon as he entered, he saw the broken insulated box on Second Brother's table, and knew at a glance it belonged to a girl.

"Get lost! I'm heading back first."

Xiao Ran couldn't be bothered with him, lest this guy's big mouth spread rumors everywhere.

If the Class Monitor found out, it would be troublesome!

Because!

The Class Monitor was also Xiao Ran's girlfriend!

As a Golden Core expert, one girlfriend was certainly not enough for cultivation.

Juggling multiple relationships was common.

It was just that his face hurt a bit a few times when he got slapped.

He relied on this bit of good looks to extend his life... On the way back to the dorm, Xiao Ran specifically bought a bottle of 502 glue, planning to fix the insulated box.

Lin Yaner's cooking was excellent; every day he visited her, he could drink the beautiful girl's nourishing old-fashioned soup that single dogs couldn't get.

It was served in this insulated box, which carried too many memories.

Now their relationship was broken, and the insulated box was also broken.

But it still held sentimental value.

Xiao Ran returned to the dorm and tried his best to fit the fragments back onto the insulated box.

"Ding-dong."

One of his WeChat alt accounts chimed.

Xiao Ran picked up his phone.

The avatar was a kitten, and the contact was noted as Little Yu Rou.

This was his girlfriend Gu Yu Rou from the accounting department of the same school, the daughter of local big entrepreneur Gu Weiming, a proper little rich girl.

Hmm.

This was the fourth relationship.

Small fry.

~: "Darling, Little Yu Rou got out of class early! /playful/"

Xiao Ran's lips curved slightly upward.

A mischievous girl appeared in his mind, with a soft, round face that felt very tender and comfortable to pinch.

: "Little Yu Rou, do you have class this afternoon? /confused/"

She replied instantly.

~: "No class, I wonder if anyone will invite me out to play /pouting/"

~: "Someone better invite me to East Third Street /pouting/"

Xiao Ran pondered slightly.

East Third Street was a famous food street in University Town.

Every day at five in the afternoon, it became a paradise for students and couples.

Clearly.

The little glutton wanted to drag him there for a big meal again.

Of course, for him, it was also a very dangerous place; one careless moment and he might be seen by someone he knew, and then the news would spread to his other 'boats,' and then the relationship 'boat' would capsize.

_: "I also really wish someone would invite me, but no one ever has /grinning/"

~: "If a certain someone played along a bit, maybe someone would invite him out (˵ ¯ ͒ ¯ ͒ ˵)"

_: "What does 'playing along' mean? /confused/"

~: "Kisses are never too few, and pecks are never too many (◦ `~´ ◦)"

_: "(*￣3￣)╭ ♡"

Xiao Ran sent a text kiss directly; that should be sincere enough!

~: "Too perfunctory, doesn't count! /bomb/"

_: "I can't do anything with you! [takes off glasses.jpg]"

-: "(｡-_-｡) ε･｀*)"

_: "Is that good enough?"

~: "♪(*´з)(ε｀*) Mwah~♪ Received!"

~: "See you at four in the afternoon, don't be late!"

Xiao Ran's face showed an auntie-like smile, but it only appeared for a second before vanishing.

It was too early to smile now.

Staying alive was the most important thing!

_: "Yu Rou, I still have something to do here, I'll take care of it first. See you this afternoon, mwah ٩(๛˘³˘)۶"

~: "You're mean! You want to ignore me again!"

Xiao Ran didn't reply again.

Flirting a bit was enough; distance makes the heart grow fonder.

Being too clingy during the honeymoon phase was uncomfortable.

"Counting it up, today is the 28th day of dating Little Yu Rou, and there are 2 more days until it's time to 'slay'!"

Xiao Ran rested his chin on his hand, deep in thought.

"It's that troublesome time again!"

Breaking up was an art; you couldn't just send a text saying: 'Let's break up.'

Nor could you suddenly cut off contact as a breakup.

According to his summary,

Generally, when breaking up in person, the more miserably the girl cried, the greater the reward.

Those superficial breakup methods would reduce the reward to some extent.

But sometimes, a silent departure was also a good method.

After all... breaking up in person might get him stabbed!

"I need to think of a new excuse. Since we're from the same school, it wouldn't be good if they saw me acting like a couple with another girl after we break up."

Xiao Ran rubbed his forehead.

Whenever he thought, the tumor would ache faintly.

Fortunately, with the system's suppression, he was spared the pain worse than death.

"If all else fails, I'll continue to use the 'cancer breakup' excuse."

Xiao Ran murmured.

Putting away his phone, the glue on the insulated box had also dried.

After washing it with dish soap,

Xiao Ran pulled out a large wooden box from under the table.

He opened its lid, and inside lay a dazzling array of various spoils of war.

White hair clips engraved with letters, a limited edition Kamen Rider belt, hair ties, earrings, rings, bracelets, a half-eaten chocolate... and some other less proper items.

But each item represented a relationship.

He really had no peculiar fetishes; those strange things were all forced upon him as breakup gifts!

He tidied the box slightly, placing the insulated box neatly in a prominent corner.

"Sigh~~"

Xiao Ran sighed in his heart.

"Bang!"

He closed the lid, lest the sight of the objects bring back memories...