Chapter 1253 - 553: Bai Bufan Is a Guy Who Always Talks About Being Laid-Back but Is Softer-Hearted Than Anyone Else

Chapter 1253: Chapter 553: Bai Bufan Is a Guy Who Always Talks About Being Laid-Back but Is Softer-Hearted Than Anyone Else

"Let’s go, Bufan. Let’s go buy those firecrackers you wanted first. Once we’re done, we can pretty much head out."

After their high five, Lin Li glanced at his phone and spoke to Bai Bufan.

"Has Qu Wanqiu messaged yet?"

Bai Bufan nodded, changed direction to lead the way, and asked curiously at the same time.

"Not yet, but knowing her, she’ll definitely speed up the New Year’s Eve dinner on her own, and she’ll also try to avoid making us wait. So if we drive over now it should be just right, at most we’ll wait a few minutes." Lin Li replied casually.

Dealing with Jiejie did take a bit of time, but only a bit.

All in all it was just about ten minutes, so it’s normal that Qu Wanqiu hasn’t finished eating yet.

"Tsk, Lin Li, you’re practically a general-level warm guy." Bai Bufan teased in admiration, then lamented to himself, "If only you could shine on me more too. How does that line go again? I know you’re not my moon, but in that moment, the moonlight really did fall on me~"

"Yue——"

Because that last sentence was said with Bufan pinching his voice, Lin Li first "yue’d" once, but then reached out, wrapping his arm around Bai Bufan’s big pork waist that looked a bit bulky in his coat, and said with deep feeling:

"So... ’yue ma’?"

Bai Bufan: "?"

"How the hell do you keep that expression and suddenly pop out those two words!"

The tiny phrase "yue ma" hit Bai Bufan right in his weak spot. He couldn’t hold it, elbowing Lin Li twice before bursting out laughing and complaining.

But Bufan can switch modes fast. In an instant he slipped back into his earlier self-pitying state and said sadly:

"Sorry, no, Lin Li. Even though you keep going on about monogamy, wanting one husband and one wife, for an aspiring youth whose ambition is to let his ideals take off on New Year’s Eve, that’s still too hard to accept.

We are friends, but we can only be friends."

"Isn’t that just perfect?" Lin Li shot back naturally when he heard that. "Bufan, you’re not unaware of the subtlety of Chinese characters, right?"

"What do you mean?"

"’Hui’ is a mouth inside a mouth, ’qi’ is horse plus ’qi’, ’young girl’ is literally ’wonder’, and ’pengyou’ is moon radical plus moon.

Got it? Girls have their own wonderfulness, and friends have their own code of conduct."

"Hahahaha——"

Bai Bufan couldn’t keep up, he just dissolved into pure laughter.

To be able to say something like "pengyou is moon radical plus moon", Lin Li had already completely stepped out of the category of human and into the realm of gods.

Only Bai Bufan didn’t know...

Humans revere gods—then do gods... revere themselves?

"Lin Li, do you revere yourself?"

"I can do this all day."

"Okay, I’m fine, thank you."

"Y’re welcome."

...

"Qu Wanqiu: @Lin Li @Bai Bufan; I’m done eating over here, you guys can drive over now."

"Lin Li: We’re already downstairs at your place."

"Qu Wanqiu: Huh??? How come you’re here and didn’t say anything?"

"Lin Li: Bai Bufan is actually someone who always has ’sloppy’ on his lips, but in his bones he’s softer than anyone——

This guy, he can’t stand seeing girls cry. If he catches sight of a girl huddling her shoulders against the cold wind while waiting for someone, his brows will furrow without him even noticing.

He’s obviously the type of lazybones who’ll lie down if he can avoid sitting, yet whenever he’s meeting someone he secretly pushes the clock forward a bit, willing to curl up alone in the car at the street corner drinking in the cold wind, rather than let anyone wait one more second in the night.

He calls that ’the basic cultivation of a wandering rogue’, but in places the girl doesn’t know, the streetlights have seen it far too many times——the moment the building entrance door swings open, from beneath that cynical shell of his, there’ll always leak a barely audible sigh, then he’ll stride forward and wrap his still-warm coat around the girl’s thin shoulders."

"Qu Wanqiu: Uuu I’m so moved."

"Chen Yu Ying: That’s so awesome! [flower]"

"Ding Sihan: I’m crying, Bai Bufan is humanity’s best friend [tears]. Later you must let me borrow your coat for a bit @Bai Bufan."

"Bai Bufan: What the fuck?! Lin Li, are you stupid?"

"Bai Bufan withdrew a message."

"Bai Bufan: No one’s allowed to curse Lin Li, Lin Li is my butterfly!"

"Bai Bufan: Kokey, I’m just a romantic wandering rogue, ya know! Wandering rogue ho oh oh oh~ wandering rogue ho oh oh oh~ wandering rogue ho oh oh oh~ wandering rogue ho oh oh oh~"

"Bai Bufan: Ho oh oh oh, old Sun is off~"

"Chen Yu Ying: ?"

"Qu Wanqiu: ?"

"Ding Sihan: I’m laughing myself sick. I suspect Bai Bufan is currently staring at Lin Li violating his phone with tears in his eyes, and the tragic part is he’s powerless to stop it."

"Qu Wanqiu: You could call it offending in front of the husband."

"Bai Bufan: No way ho oh oh oh~ no way ho oh oh oh~ no way ho oh oh oh~"

"Chen Yu Ying: Freeze."

"Bai Bufan: Master, what great magic, my ears and eyes cleared up all at once."

"Bai Bufan: Jiujiu, even though we’re downstairs already, just go at your own pace, don’t rush out with your hair all messy looking like some village girl."

"Qu Wanqiu: You and Bai Bufan can wait till you die [angry][angry]!"

"Bai Bufan: Bai Bufan is actually someone who always has ’sloppy’ on his lips, but in his bones he’s softer than anyone——

This guy, he can’t stand seeing girls cry, if..."

"Ding Sihan: Bai Bufan is actually someone who always has ’sloppy’ on his lips, but in his bones he’s softer than anyone..."

"Qu Wanqiu: Bai Bufan is actually someone who always has ’sloppy’..."

"Chen Yu Ying: Bai Bufan is actually..."

"Lin Li: Bai Bufan is actually..."

It’s hard to imagine that the way the group chat wrapped up in the end was the five of them each sending that little essay Lin Li had first composed in a short time by tapping into a Cultivator’s insight and typing speed.

Ritual.