“Little Fei, what are you doing?!”
Le Zhengchu nearly let out a shout unlike anything he would normally make, grabbing Chang Fei and pulling him away from Shude’s side.
Chang Fei smiled nonchalantly. “I don’t think this boy is as bad as I imagined—so fragile, everyone’s ganging up on him, he looks really pitiful.”
“Xiao Fei! You need to change that attitude. Not everyone deserves your sympathy. You can’t just approach someone because you feel sorry for them. What if they actually have bad intentions, or are using their weak appearance to deceive you?”
Le Zhengchu seriously lectured his younger brother, as if warning him not to get tricked.
“Relax. I believe that if someone truly likes another person, they wouldn’t switch feelings so easily. Can’t you all stop holding so many prejudices against homosexuals? Love doesn’t care about borders, gender, or age, right?”
Chang Fei rubbed his nose.
After Le Zhengchu’s words, he felt his nose itch a bit, and his knees hurt—wasn’t he the one pretending to be weak to trick others…?
“Xiao Fei, are you actually…”
A girl glanced at Chang Fei suspiciously, trying to ask, but she froze under Le Zhengchu’s cold stare and didn’t dare continue.
Chang Fei gave the girl a faint, inscrutable smile.
“Don’t worry, I’m a normal heterosexual. Besides, my personality isn’t that complicated. If I really liked someone, I’d say it outright. I wouldn’t hide it. Love is free, even if you’re young. If you truly like someone, just say it. Don’t let pride cause you to miss out on someone you like. Because once it’s gone, regret can’t fix it.”
He looked meaningfully at Shude, whose body suddenly went tense with fear.
Judging by Chang Fei’s expression, he didn’t seem like some kind of pervert.
Still, Chang Fei’s words made several people subconsciously glance at their own crushes, blushing awkwardly.
Xu Yiqing glanced at Chang Fei, then at Le Zhengchu, feeling an unprecedented complexity in her heart.
She felt she liked Le Zhengchu, but for Chang Fei, she genuinely wanted to care for him.
Chang Fei not only looked exactly like her benefactor, but his personality was strikingly similar too.
Xu Yiqing had wondered whether these so-called Qiren projected their appearance onto others, causing people to look alike.
When Chang Fei spoke such grand truths, Xu Yiqing found herself missing that mysterious girl Qiren even more.
Chang Fei scanned the class roughly and was surprised by how many were already involved in early romances.
He felt a little excited.
If these guys got together with their crushes, wouldn’t his own experience shoot up dramatically?
It seemed like that was indeed possible.
“Xiao Fei! Teachers and Parents said no early love—it affects your studies!”
Le Zhengchu was one of the few present who took it seriously.
As a top student, such things were absolutely forbidden to impact their grades.
“Students should focus entirely on studies. Love should wait until after graduation.”
“After graduation, you’re even less likely to think about true love, right? Then it’s all about matching family backgrounds or meeting certain life and relationship conditions. So many constraints, and what was originally a simple feeling ends up smelling like money.”
Le Zhengchu frowned, unable to understand his brother’s views.
“Why do you think that? Does liking someone now change anything in the future? Won’t social factors always be there as you grow up? Liking someone now is just an idealized view of love. When you grow up, won’t you give up some things as your understanding matures? Early love causes many irreparable mistakes later, doesn’t it? After growing up, doesn’t it just lead to casual, reckless relationships? Even your attitude toward love becomes indifferent, without that yearning or pursuit. Choosing a life partner will have so many problems, possibly even Third Party situations…”
Le Zhengchu’s voice trailed off as he thought of his mother, who was ruined by a Third Party.
He closed his eyes, furrowing his brows, then looked seriously at Chang Fei again.
“I don’t support early love because it easily affects your studies and your views on love. If you think I’m conservative and stubborn, I won’t argue. But I won’t allow you to fall in love early, and I won’t either. Love takes time to mature before you can know if this person is truly your lifelong partner. If it’s just a teenage crush, that’s not love. No matter what, I’d only find that kind of feeling ridiculous. Even if someone liked me, I’d think their feelings are naive and immature.”
Chang Fei listened and fell into thought.
Le Zhengchu’s attitude toward love was clearly serious, conservative, and almost sacred.
It made Chang Fei admire him while also giving him a headache.
Then he caught sight of Xu Yiqing, whose cheeks had already turned red.
Don’t look at Le Zhengchu with such a lovestruck expression! Everyone will see through it immediately! Everyone will know you like him!
Chang Fei felt a pang of bitterness and wanted to cover Xu Yiqing’s eyes—so embarrassing!
But with Le Zhengchu’s solemn stance on love, what about the girl who was seen lingering near him recently? And the time he was driving with a girl?
Chang Fei wanted to ask if Le Zhengchu’s thoughts and actions matched, or if he was just using some new kind of flirting technique.
If it was a new flirting technique…
“Le Zhengchu, you say all this, but wasn’t there a girl following you recently?”
A boy sneered mockingly, asking the question Chang Fei wanted to.
“That girl wanted to follow me. I don’t intend to do anything to her. If she wants to tag along, she can.”
Le Zhengchu answered without hiding, a faint smile on his face.
“So you don’t have anyone you like?”
Chang Fei was a little stubborn.
The eldest son of the Le family was far too conservative.
How on earth did that scumbag father raise such a fossil?
Even if it was right, wasn’t this driving him crazy?
The Moon Elder’s booklet only lasts a month!
He was doomed!