“!!!”
Lin Xueling’s face flashed with a hint of panic upon hearing Xia Xi’s words.
“I’m not going! I don’t want to be treated like a pervert.”
If she, a girl, followed another boy into the boys’ restroom and someone saw them, what kind of gossip would spread?
Shock! A boy and a girl doing that in the school bathroom!
Maybe it was because Xia Xi had stood up a bit too abruptly, or maybe Lin Xueling’s voice was a little too loud, but quite a few classmates’ attention was drawn to the two of them.
“Oh, my dear Class President Lin, could you keep it down? Great, now everyone’s looking over here.”
What was just a matter between the two of them would now definitely attract some busybodies.
Sure enough, someone who seemed to have a crush on Lin Xueling immediately stepped forward.
See, beauty is a real curse. Someone as pure, pretty, and gentle as Lin Xueling was bound to have lots of admirers in university.
But generally, classmates knew that the person Class President Lin liked was Xia Xi, so no one had ever tried to steal her away.
Now, though, the situation was different. Class President Lin was now Xia Xi’s right hand. How could anyone date their own hand?
You can’t exactly spend your whole life with “Lady Thumb,” right~
So, under these circumstances, one of Lin Xueling’s admirers was willing to stand up for her.
“Xia Xi, where are you trying to take Class President Lin? Can’t you see she doesn’t want to go?”
Xia Xi looked at the newcomer. It was a tall, skinny guy wearing black, thin-framed glasses. Let’s just call him “Glasses” for now.
“What business is it of yours where I take her?”
Xia Xi usually kept to himself and wasn’t very familiar with his classmates anyway, so he didn’t care about saving face and just snapped back directly.
“You!”
Glasses was choked up by Xia Xi’s retort. He sneakily glanced at Lin Xueling from behind his frames, then seemed to muster up his courage and pointed his index finger at Xia Xi.
“I don’t care! As long as Class President Lin doesn’t want to go, you can’t take her anywhere else!”
He said this very loudly, as if speaking louder made him more confident and braver. Little did he know, Xia Xi was looking at him like he was a clown.
“Hey, I said, you’re really something else.”
Xia Xi looked Glasses up and down a few times. This poor guy had finally mustered up the courage to try and play the hero rescuing the damsel.
“What business is it of yours where I take my right hand? What, is it a part of your body or a part of my body?”
“You… I…”
Glasses really didn’t seem like the particularly bold type. After being mocked by Xia Xi, his posture immediately wilted.
“Oh~ I get it. You like my right hand?”
Xia Xi stepped forward and gently patted Glasses’ face with his own left hand.
“Come on, buddy. I know my hand is pretty, but you don’t have to like a grown man’s hand, do you? What are you, some kind of hand-pervert with a weird fetish?”
To be honest, liking pretty hands is normal. Just like guys generally like nice-looking feet and legs, there are plenty of people who like hands. But since Xia Xi was trying to pick a fight, he was naturally going to frame the other guy as a pervert.
“No… that’s not it… I don’t like your hand…”
Glasses was visibly starting to panic.
“If you don’t like my hand, then why are you stopping me? Why are you so eager to stir up trouble?”
Maybe feeling that Glasses looked a bit too pitiful, Lin Xueling gently tugged on Xia Xi’s pant leg.
Truth be told, Xia Xi also felt he had gone a little too far. After all, they were classmates who would see each other often. There was no need to be so absolute.
Besides, the guy hadn’t really done anything wrong. He just wanted to play the hero for once.
“I… I like… I like Class President Lin!”
“Huh?”
The classmates’ ears perked up towards Xia Xi. They instinctively smelled gossip.
“Well, that’s still liking my hand.”
Xia Xi shrugged, didn’t bother bickering with the classmate any further, and walked out of the classroom with Lin Xueling.
That Glasses guy was feeling pretty confused by then. He liked Lin Xueling as a person, but Lin Xueling was also Xia Xi’s right hand. That meant he essentially liked Xia Xi’s hand.
Oh no…
Glasses started to wonder if he really had some weird fetish he didn’t even know about…
“Fatty, do you think I’m really some kind of pervert who likes a guy’s hand?”
He looked dejectedly at his chubby roommate beside him.
“Of course not! Class President Lin is so pretty, it’s totally normal for everyone to like her. It’s just that she happens to be Xia Xi’s hand. Look around, whose hand is as pretty as his?”
Fatty patted Glasses on the shoulder, telling him not to overthink it.
Glasses felt a bit better after that.
That’s right. Who in the world has a hand as good as Xia Xi’s, comparable to a beautiful girl’s?
The person he liked was still a beautiful girl. It’s just that this beautiful girl happened to be Xia Xi’s hand!
…
Outside the boys’ restroom.
“Xia Xi… do we really have to go in?”
Lin Xueling squinted her eyes, not daring to look inside the restroom for fear of seeing something she shouldn’t.
“Of course. As my hand, if you don’t follow me, how can I go in? I don’t want to cut my own hand off.”
Although it was quite outrageous to bring Lin Xueling into the boys’ restroom while everyone else’s common sense was altered, Xia Xi had no choice. A man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do. He couldn’t hold it in all morning, could he?
He could only blame this system for coming up with such ridiculous tasks.
“O… okay…”
Unable to find an argument against Xia Xi, Lin Xueling resigned herself to her fate and obediently followed him into the restroom.
“What the hell!”
“What the hell!”
“WHAT THE HELL!!!”
As soon as Xia Xi and Lin Xueling entered, several male classmates who had been happily whistling while using the urinals instantly turned red-faced and scrambled to pull up their pants.
They never imagined that in broad daylight, a girl would actually walk into the boys’ restroom!!!
“What are you looking at? Haven’t you ever seen a guy go to the bathroom?”
Xia Xi snorted coldly and led Lin Xueling into a stall, locking the door behind them.
The guys who got yelled at by Xia Xi were completely dumbfounded.
Bringing his right hand to the bathroom seemed pretty reasonable. After all, a person couldn’t just chop off their own arm just to pee, right?
But…
Why did this guy’s right hand have to be a beautiful girl!!! Dang… I want a beautiful girl arm too!!!
One guy looked at his own palm with frustration.
“Transform!”
But alas, his trusty “Lady Thumb,” who worked hard for him every day, wasn’t about to transform~
…
Inside the stall.
“Ahem, Xiao Xue, let’s just say… is there any chance you could turn sideways and not stare at me the whole time?”
