I'm In Love With the Guy I Grew Up With
Chapter 189: I Don’t Mind Making the Fake Play Real With You

Chapter 189: Chapter 189: I Don’t Mind Making the Fake Play Real With You

Watching her own childhood sweetheart act all cute and foolish, Ji Yebai’s lips slightly curled into an imperceptible smile.

This little dummy...

She blurts everything out and then tells people "not to listen"?

He raised an eyebrow: "Since you like me so much, I don’t mind turning our pretend play into the real deal."

What?

Ning Xixi took a few steps back as if she had been startled, her shock, questioning, and unease hiding a tiny bit of joy.

But that joy felt so unreal to her, before the bubbles of happiness could rise, she slapped them down herself.

"I’m sorry, the like I was talking about is the like for a friend, for childhood friends, you didn’t misunderstand me, right?" Ning Xixi explained bashfully, her gaze flitting about.

Her face was tinged pink as she poked her fingertips together, inching awkwardly toward Ji Yebai and asked timidly, "You’re not mad, are you?"

"Do you want me to be mad?" Ji Yebai retorted haughtily.

In an instant, Ning Xixi shook her head fiercely, her cuteness melting Ji Yebai’s heart completely.

"Dummy." He muttered under his breath, which startled Ning Xixi. She licked her lips and stretched out a pale little paw, "Make peace!"

Ji Yebai’s gaze lingered on her blushing lips, dark with astonishment. He took a deep breath before nonchalantly shaking her small hand, "We’re all grown up now, still making peace with a handshake? Are you a pig or what?"

"Yeah yeah, you’re the pig!" Ning Xixi nodded her head.

Ji Yebai: "..."

Realizing what she’d said, Ning Xixi hurriedly corrected herself, "No, I’m a pig? Ah no, that’s wrong, we are the pigs? Wuwuwu..."

Watching her self-deprecate and even drag him into it, Ji Yebai’s forehead spectacularly streaked with several black lines.

Ning Xixi covered her face, feeling mortified. She picked up her schoolbag and scampered away.

"Ji bro, you’re not going after her?"

"My piggy has short legs, she can’t run far. Let her stroll on her own." After all, he had people watching over Ning Xixi in the shadows.

Xiao Xichen, unexpectedly showered with a face full of show: "..."

"How could you guys hurt me like this! I’m still an innocent and cute baby!"

Ji Yebai glanced at him, "What baby are you? A giant baby?"

"..."

"Ah, I forgot, you’re not a baby, you’re a single dog."

Xiao Xichen with tears streaming down his face: "Woof woof woof..."

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Cheng Family.

Cheng Youran, sitting on the floor, her eyes sparkled as Ning Xixi finished recounting the day’s events, "Xixi, Young Master Ji is so cool! He even deliberately lowered his stance to see Qin Jinyu get slapped in the face. I bet a packet of spicy sticks, he definitely likes you! Qiaoqiao, you think so too, right?"

Qiao Nancheng, who was temporarily caught and dragged to act as a lady (strike that) "friend of a girlfriend," blinked his wet eyes innocently, "Huh?"

"Pfft, were you not listening?"

Ning Xixi gave him a glare: "Put down my chips!"

Qiao Nancheng pursed his lips and put the chips he just picked up back into the bag, looking wronged.

"How embarrassing, I don’t even know how to face Ji Yebai now," Ning Xixi lamented.

Cheng Youran didn’t understand, "It’s just saying the wrong thing, what about it? You two have been friends for so many years."

"Umm..."

Watching Ning Xixi’s troubled expression, Cheng Youran suddenly covered her mouth, "Don’t tell me, you’ve fallen for Ji Yebai?"

"I’ve never disliked him, I do like him a bit as a childhood friend."

"Ptui! Not the liking of childhood friends, but the liking of a woman for a man!"