Chapter 18
“Qi Lin, y-you… do you like me?”
Lan Yuxi’s beautiful eyes sparkled with tiny points of light as she stared directly at Qi Lin.
She knew that her only advantage right now was her beauty.
Whether she could get out of this safely would depend on whether she could confuse Qi Lin.
She was the most beautiful school beauty at Huashi No.1 High School, receiving countless love letters every day.
Since Qi Lin said he wanted to kiss her, Lan Yuxi guessed that he must like her as well.
If she used the same methods she normally used to deal with her admirers on Qi Lin, would it work too?
“Like you? No, no, no. I don’t like you.”
After hearing Lan Yuxi’s words, Qi Lin looked slightly stunned.
Then he immediately shook his head, his face full of disdain.
This attitude completely caught Lan Yuxi off guard.
“You don’t like me, then why are you still…?”
Lan Yuxi’s pretty face was full of speechless disbelief.
“You’re arrogant and always look down on people.”
“You seem easy to talk to, but in reality you keep everyone at arm’s length.”
“In private, you act all ambiguous with Wang Cheng and even get involved in early dating.”
“You’ve got a bad temper.”
“And now you’re even stealing answers and cheating.”
“In your eyes, I’m just a useless rich second-generation.”
“But in my eyes, you’re even worse than me—completely hypocritical.”
“Do you think I would like a girl with such a bad record?”
“As for why I want to kiss you, that’s because I’m lustful. You’re so pretty—if I kiss you once, I’m definitely the one taking advantage. I’m not asking you to be my girlfriend. Kiss you and then run away—wouldn’t that be exciting?”
Qi Lin smiled as he raised his fingers and listed Lan Yuxi’s shortcomings one by one.
He knew very well that if you wanted to destroy a girl’s self-esteem, you had to belittle her until she was worthless, shatter her pride, and make her fall from a fairy in the heavens down to an ordinary village girl.
Qi Lin’s strategy was very effective.
Hearing him list her flaws one after another, Lan Yuxi’s face turned from red to pale, and then red again.
“Qi Lin, what nonsense are you talking about? When did I ever act ambiguous with Wang Cheng?”
What Lan Yuxi couldn’t stand the most was how Qi Lin knew about the private agreement between her and Wang Cheng.
That was a secret only the two of them knew.
C-could it be that Wang Cheng had a big mouth and bragged about it to others?
Thinking of this, Lan Yuxi felt extremely irritated.
“Huh? I was just guessing randomly. You reacted so strongly—does that mean I guessed right?”
Qi Lin looked at Lan Yuxi with a surprised expression.
“Pff!”
At this moment, Lan Yuxi really wanted to spit out blood. She was about to be driven mad by Qi Lin.
This bastard had tricked her into revealing it, and she had practically confessed it herself.
And why could this guy be so shameless?
Not to mention she wasn’t as terrible as he described.
But if she was really that terrible, then he shouldn’t want to kiss her!
Yet he kept saying that her only advantage was being pretty, that he never planned to make her his girlfriend, and only wanted to take advantage and run.
How shameless did someone have to be to say something like that?
“Hey, Lan Yuxi, are you going to let me kiss you or not? If not, I’ll just take this note and give it to the homeroom teacher.”
Seeing Lan Yuxi glaring at him with her big beautiful eyes, her chest rising and falling without saying a word, Qi Lin lazily reminded her.
“No! No! Absolutely not!”
“After saying all that about me, today I’d rather we both lose!”
“Go ahead and tell the teacher I cheated! I’ll also tell the teacher you broke into the girls’ restroom and tried to bully me!”
Lan Yuxi stood with her hands on her slim waist, puffing her cheeks in anger.
Clearly, Qi Lin’s barrage of trash talk had shattered her composure, and her intelligence was gradually slipping away.
When a person loses their rationality, it becomes the best moment to break through their psychological defenses.
“Sigh, it’s just a kiss. You’re acting like I’m trying to kill you.”
“Since you don’t want me to kiss you, I’ll take a step back. As long as you kiss my cheek once, I’ll give this note back to you.”
Qi Lin seemed to compromise under Lan Yuxi’s persistence and waved his hand.
The same trick—effective every time.
If he had asked Lan Yuxi to kiss his cheek from the beginning, with her germophobic personality, she would definitely have refused to the death.
But if he first set a condition that Lan Yuxi could never accept, and then later greatly reduced the difficulty of that condition, her psychological defenses would inevitably loosen.
Just like when Qi Lin once tricked Wang Siling.
“Just a kiss on the cheek?”
Sure enough, when she heard it was only a cheek kiss and Qi Lin would return the note, Lan Yuxi began to hesitate.
If it wasn’t absolutely necessary, she didn’t want her cheating to be exposed and discovered by her parents.
“Damn it… I’ll just pretend I kissed a piece of dirty cloth.”
Looking at Qi Lin’s lazy expression, Lan Yuxi felt extremely frustrated.
Fortunately, Qi Lin was handsome—a very handsome guy.
If it had been some boy with a face full of acne and a sloppy appearance, Lan Yuxi would rather die today than agree.
“Let’s make it clear. As long as I kiss you once, you’ll give the note back to me. Don’t try any tricks, or I’ll fight you to the end.”
Lan Yuxi’s pretty face blushed slightly. Perhaps to make herself look more imposing, she spoke in a fierce tone.
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