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Chapter 543: Unintentionally hurting someone’s feelings

Chapter 543: Unintentionally hurting someone’s feelings

However, Leng Xuan hadn’t anticipated that his actions would deeply sadden Zhou Li. In truth, Zhou Li wasn’t actually planning to dine out with friends. She assumed that Leng Xuan had no feelings for her and that his past closeness was simply to toy with her, but later, due to her brother’s intervention, he had ceased such intentions. Thus, he had also stopped keeping in touch with her.

For this reason, Zhou Li had also been deliberately avoiding any interactions with Leng Xuan.

After hesitating a moment, Leng Xuan intended to send her a message, but he couldn’t think of what to say and finally gave up.

After school that evening, Leng Xuan went alone to Zhou Jingpeng’s house. Zhou Jingpeng’s leg had fully recovered. When he saw Leng Xuan, he was visibly excited, opening his arms and giving him a bear hug. Then, as something apparently dawned on him, he asked somewhat perplexedly, "Are you by yourself? Why didn’t I see my little sister?"

Leng Xuan gave a wry smile and said, "She mentioned she’s dining out with some classmates tonight and won’t be back for dinner."

"And she didn’t even tell me? Really..." Zhou Jingpeng laughed, but sighed silently in his heart. As her brother, how could he not notice the recent changes in Zhou Li? Whenever he asked if she had had a falling out with Leng Xuan, she would verbally deny it. However, every time Zhou Jingpeng asked, her face would look awful, and her temper would flare up. For this reason, Zhou Jingpeng guessed there must have been some issue between his sister and Leng Xuan. He had invited Leng Xuan for dinner intending to mediate between them, but to his surprise, his sister decided not to come home for the meal, presumably to avoid meeting Leng Xuan. Shaking his head, he said, "Well, have a seat for now. I’ll go cook."

Leng Xuan nodded and sat down without saying much, turning on the TV in the living room. Soon, Zhou Jingpeng had whipped up four dishes and a soup, and the two of them started eating.

Zhou Jingpeng poured a cup of wine for Leng Xuan and said, "My little sister seems to have changed quite a bit recently, she doesn’t talk much anymore. Heh, did you guys... have an argument?"

Leng Xuan was taken aback and countered, "Argue about what?"

"No?"" Zhou Jingpeng was also surprised and asked, "Then, what stage has your relationship reached?"

"..." Faced with this question, Leng Xuan found it difficult to respond. After a while, he said, "Actually, I guess your sister and I are merely acquaintances."

"Just acquaintances?" Zhou Jingpeng was slightly stunned and couldn’t help asking, "You don’t like her?"

"Ha!" Although Leng Xuan felt somewhat bitter inside, he feigned irritation and said, "Your sister is still so young, and you’re already hoping for her to date someone?"

"Heh heh!" Zhou Jingpeng had always regarded Leng Xuan as the Boss, and was quite open in his presence, saying, "If it were someone else, I naturally wouldn’t approve. But if it’s you, you have my full support."

Leng Xuan shook his head; this topic was difficult for him to continue, and he sighed, "Alright, let’s drop this, shall we? I came today because there’s something I wanted to discuss with you."

Seeing that Leng Xuan didn’t want to discuss his sister, Zhou Jingpeng did not press the issue. He decided to wait for his sister’s return and then have a serious talk with her to find out what had happened between them. So he said, "Oh, what’s there to discuss?"