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He moved a chair to one side of the hospital bed and sat down, saying to the two of them, "Come on, tell me what's wrong, let me answer your questions. Who wants to go first?"
These two people each have their own problems, and Gu Ran happens to know exactly what their problems are.
Chu Zihang and Lu Mingfei exchanged a glance, thinking that the person in front of them was indeed the most experienced in love among the three.
He's already proposed.
“Lu Mingfei, you go first!” Gu Ran took out an iPad, opened the Night Watchman website, and handed it to Chu Zihang. “Senior brother, you don’t know yet, do you? Caesar has submitted a report to marry Nono.”
Chu Zihang glanced at the news. Last night, while Fingel was trying to clear his name, he also didn't forget to leak these entertainment gossips. What a dedicated paparazzi.
Lu Mingfei said with a long face, "Actually, I was prepared, but I didn't expect Caesar to propose this year, just like you said last year... I... I'm fine, I just feel like I'm useless because I don't even have a chance."
Actually, he had a chance, which was the three months he had the authority to confess his feelings to girls without being able to refuse them.
"Do you remember the question I asked you to think about last year?" Gu Ran asked Lu Mingfei.
"...Which question?" Lu Mingfei had clearly not taken it to heart.
Gu Ran smiled and said, "In that case, let's change the question. Between someone who likes you and someone you like, which would you choose?"
Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment, then finally remembered what Gu Ran's question was last year.
If a beautiful and innocent girl likes you, what would you do?
At the time, Lu Mingfei didn't take the issue to heart because he didn't think anyone would like him.
Now, Gu Ran has changed the question again: If you like someone, or someone you like, how would you choose?
"Your questions... are all so difficult!" Lu Mingfei rubbed his head. "Is this a required course in dating?"
Gu Ran said, "Love is sometimes that difficult. It's hard to meet someone you like who also likes you."
"But didn't you run into it..."
"I was just lucky, so I seized the opportunity immediately. Do you want to keep trying your luck? Or wait for someone who likes you, and then be together?"
Lu Mingfei fell silent again.
Gu Ran could tell that Lu Mingfei's mind was still on Nuonuo, and it seemed he would continue to hang on to this tree.
He didn't continue to try to persuade him, but instead looked at Chu Zihang: "Senior brother, it's your turn to ask for advice."
Chu Zihang asked directly, "Why do you like Su Xiaoqiang?"
"This question... Susie seems to have asked me the same thing," Gu Ran said. "Well, Xiao Qiang is beautiful, has a great figure, and she loves me and wants to be with me, and I love her too... that's it!"
Gu Ran's answer seemed too vague, and Chu Zihang couldn't reach a conclusion: "So you like her because she's pretty? There's no other reason?"
"Appearance is still very important." Gu Ran looked at Lu Mingfei. "If the person who saved you in the movie theater that day was Ru Hua from 'Hail the Judge,' would you fall for her?"
"No," Lu Mingfei answered decisively.
Gu Ran then asked, "What if it was Liu Miaomiao who saved you?"
"Hmm...maybe." Lu Mingfei was indeed a sucker for good looks.
"Look!" Gu Ran looked at Chu Zihang.
"Besides appearance, what other reasons might you like someone?" Chu Zihang asked seriously.
"There are only two kinds of liking in this world: love at first sight and love that grows over time," Gu Ran said to Chu Zihang. "You can see which one applies to you."
Lu Mingfei's gossip-loving soul kicked in. If we're talking about the stoic senior brother developing feelings over time, then it would be Su Qian. But if it's love at first sight... who would it be? Xia Mi?
"I... it doesn't seem to match up," Chu Zihang said softly.
"Huh? It doesn't match up?" Lu Mingfei looked puzzled. Something couldn't be right. Could there be a third party involved?
“If you can match them up, you might just have forgotten,” Gu Ran said with a smile, without offering any further explanation.
In fact, Chu Zihang had known Xia Mi since elementary school, but later his memories were erased by Xia Mi, who had a split personality.
"Then... under what circumstances would you be certain that you like a girl?" Chu Zihang stared at the two of them, like a top student sitting in the back row of a classroom staring at the teacher giving a lecture.
Gu Ran looked at Lu Mingfei: "You explain to him."
Lu Mingfei looked up at the sky and thought about it seriously for a long time: "When you ask this question, whoever you're thinking of is who you like!"
The three men fell silent for a moment, each thinking of their respective partners' names.
"Sigh, I think I'm the unluckiest one here!" Lu Mingfei thought to himself. Of the three, his chances were the slimmest. How tragic!
Chu Zihang had his answer, so the other two decided not to stay any longer.
Chapter 283 Jormungandr Invades the Ice Cellar
When Gu Ran and Lu Mingfei passed through the hospital corridor, they encountered Xia Mi, who had come to visit them by bringing them white fungus soup.
Xia Mi changed into the Kassel College uniform, her ponytail tied high, and she looked full of energy.
"You always use my kitchen, but you've never treated me to anything. Isn't that a bit much?" Gu Ran said to Xia Mi.
Since enrolling in school, Xia Mi has frequently come to Norton Hall to borrow the kitchen to cook for Chu Zihang.
"Senior Brother Gu, don't be so stingy!" Xia Mi grinned, revealing a pair of small tiger teeth. "Your kitchen is big and easy to work with. How about I make you some pork rib soup in a few days?"
"Okay, I'll be waiting." Gu Ran smiled, thinking that in a few days everyone might not be at school anymore.
"Junior sister, what's your zodiac sign?" Lu Mingfei asked.
"I'm an Aquarius!" Xia Mi walked away without turning her head.
Gu Ran thought to herself, "What your zodiac sign is is up to you. Your birth date is fake."
Xia Mi brought some white fungus soup for Chu Zihang, and the young master Chu, with great taste, said that it should be made more delicious with some osmanthus sugar.
That look was like Jia Baoyu criticizing Qingwen's embroidery for being too rough, and Xia Mi grumbling and saying, "Servant, you're such a troublesome young master!"
Since being hospitalized, Xia Mi has come to Chu Zihang's place every day to sit for a while. Sometimes they read books, sometimes they discuss homework together, and sometimes they do their own things.
In short, she stayed here with them.
Chu Zihang thought to himself, "Shouldn't this be considered a case of feelings developing over time?"
But what does she mean? Does she also like it?
Chu Zihang was lost in thought when he unconsciously thought of Lu Mingfei again, thinking that he must be having a very sad day.
Xia Mi saw his serious expression and assumed he was worried about the hearing.
So the two of them started talking about Lu Mingfei.
When chatting with Xia Mi, her topics always take unexpected turns.
"Senior brother, if you like someone, you must tell her!" Xia Mi smiled, revealing a pair of small tiger teeth. "Some things only count if they are said out loud, otherwise, once the person is gone, there will be no chance."
Chu Zihang didn't understand what she meant.
"Have you forgotten? I actually attended the junior high school section of Shilan Middle School." She gave Chu Zihang a hint.
Chu Zihang was stunned. No wonder he always felt that Xia Mi was familiar. That aura seemed to be an indelible mark in his mind, which he could not forget for a long time.
*……*……*
The feeling of being in love is complicated. Some people say that you should drink when you are heartbroken, but does losing your crush count as heartbreak? There are different opinions in academia.
In short, Lu Mingfei has started to drown his sorrows in alcohol, but he has no money, so he borrows money from Fingel to buy alcohol.
Gu Ran had given him a lottery ticket before, and he paid off his credit card debt, leaving him with some money. However, he was always extravagant with his spending, often skipped classes and didn't submit papers, and even failed his exams. So Norma had recently suspended his credit card.
Fingel said he was worried about the money, but he didn't really care. He had recently made a fortune at the Lionheart Club. He used to mooch off Lu Mingfei for late-night snacks, so he wouldn't mind drinking a few bottles of wine now. He considered it paying off his debt.
However, Lu Mingfei couldn't hold his liquor, and he fell asleep after only a short while.
Feeling sorry for him, Fingel went to EVA, hoping she could help temporarily refuse Caesar's marriage proposal.
EVA agreed.
But a moment later, EVA sounded an alarm: someone was heading towards the 'Well of Oblivion' deep within the ice cellar.
Because Fingel previously disabled some of EVA's permissions to prevent the Gattuso family from accessing the database using the white card, Norma's defenses are now flawed.
“Looks like I have to go.” Fingel stood up, his broad shoulders and thick waist a far cry from the listless, good-for-nothing senior brother he had been before.
EVA cautioned, "Be careful. Although your Word of Power 'Bronze Throne' can be used under 'Discipline,' don't overexert your power!"
"I know, how come I ended up having my mom as my girlfriend!" Fingel waved his hand with his back to the EVA projection and walked deeper into the ice cellar.
Within the Well of Oblivion lies a meticulously crafted domain set up by the Night's Watch. Even Xia Mi, or rather Jormungandr, couldn't help but marvel upon seeing this alchemical domain.
Inside the Well of Oblivion were many precious artifacts that Angers had carefully collected, many of which were alchemical objects. Jormungandr merely glanced at them and gave them a dismissive evaluation.
"It's all garbage."
With her own blood, she broke the alchemical barrier set up by the Night's Watch. As soon as the barrier broke, the alchemical artifacts with living spirits began to jubilate.
The power of Jormungandr was also unleashed.
"Shut up!" she commanded the creatures to shut up, leaving only one music box to continue playing.
Jormungandr came to Constantine's Dragon Bone Cross and began to remember the blood oath they made years ago, and then tried to resurrect Constantine with her blood.
"Rise, Constantine!" Jormungandr roared, but the Dragonbone Cross lay still, motionless.
Only then did she realize that Constantine was indeed dead.
"Perhaps it is not a dream, but a wanderer chasing after illusions." Mai Shutoku, who had been waiting here for a long time, sang a line of waka poetry. She was wearing a black bodysuit, and her pair of incomparably long legs stood straight.
Jormungandr frowned slightly, not expecting that someone had ambushed him.
She recognized Shude Mai, but she wasn't wary of her, because the Dragon King had his own pride and didn't need to be wary of a little mixed-race person.
"What are you doing here?" Jormungandr asked.
“As a mouse, of course it comes in to steal things!” Mai Shude turned her head to the side. “Look over here, another little mouse is coming.”
"We're short one player for a mahjong game," Jormungandr laughed. "That's almost enough for a whole table of mahjong players."
"Here comes the mahjong partner!" Fingel, wearing a KFC paper bag headgear, made his grand entrance, making Mai Shude laugh out loud.
Finger didn't mind the laughter and introduced Mr. Passy, who appeared in a light gray suit.
“I’m the only one here who isn’t a thief. After all, school property belongs to the Board of Trustees, and I represent the Board,” Percy said politely to everyone present.
However, the mud on his leather shoes said it all; he hadn't gotten in through legitimate channels either.
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