“Beixing~~”

“You’re still reading that English book? Didn’t you say you’d come chat with me in class at noon? It’s almost class time, and you stood me up again, didn’t you?!”

Lu Yu, whose name had just been called, paused halfway through putting on his earphones.

At some point, a strange girl had slipped around behind him.

She complained as she spoke, then suddenly went limp and softly flopped against Lu Yu’s back.

Lu Yu: “...”

Even though he didn’t know this girl at all.

After that little sneak attack, the girl huffed and circled around to stand in front of Lu Yu.

She had neat short hair, a purple bow hairpin clipped on her head, and a blue long dress that looked very breezy.

She was especially petite, probably only a little over 150 centimeters tall. So when she puffed out her cheeks in anger, she looked kind of cute.

“Did you go dumb?!”

She raised a hand and waved it in front of Lu Yu’s face.

Lu Yu froze for a moment, then quickly reacted.

Judging from how she treated Lin Beixing, and how intimate her actions were, the two should be very close.

Probably the kind of “besties” girls talked about.

“Why are you looking at me like you don’t know me?!”

She angrily reached out and pinched “Lin Beixing” on the cheek.

“Lin Beixing’s” delicate face reddened the moment it was pinched.

Covering half his face, he said in a soft, delicate voice,

“You’re so mean... Xiaolan...”

“Hmph hmph, I thought you’d gone stupid from reading too much~”

The girl gave a light snort, casually pulled over a chair, and sat down across from “Lin Beixing.”

Lu Yu secretly let out a breath of relief.

Good thing he guessed right.

Back on the rooftop, Lu Yu had glanced at Lin Beixing’s phone screen once.

At the time, he saw a girl avatar named “Xiaolan” sending Lin Beixing a whole pile of messages.

Lin Beixing had hidden it like she was covering up some secret, refusing to let him look any longer.

Lu Yu didn’t know what girls talked about with their best friends.

But he could roughly guess those messages were the kind of stuff not meant for public viewing.

Basically the same logic as the “study folder” on a guy’s computer.

“So? You saw the messages I sent you, right?”

“Mm... not yet...”

“Lin Beixing” shook his head.

After all, he really hadn’t seen anything, so Lu Yu didn’t dare casually pick up that topic.

After answering, he added another question with some curiosity.

“...What did you send?”

There wasn’t really any trick to imitating how girls talked.

You just used more soft filler words, then made your voice gentler.

In just two short hours, Lu Yu had already been forced to master that skill.

“Oh, nothing much. I was just trying to cheer you up. Sent you some funny videos...”

“Don’t push yourself so hard. Go out and have some fun once in a while, get some air. Don’t sit at your desk reading all day. Are you trying to study the rest of us to death?”

The girl held “Lin Beixing’s” soft, delicate hand, and her tone suddenly turned gentle.

“Seriously... I got your message at noon after class, and then out of nowhere you said, ‘I’m so tired.’ I was worried sick... I even went to your classroom to look for you, but you were nowhere to be found.”

She spoke quietly, her eyes studying “Lin Beixing’s” expression.

At that moment, “Lin Beixing” was looking at an English textbook he couldn’t understand at all. Aside from seeming a little sleepy, there wasn’t any unhappiness in his eyes.

“Lin Beixing” nodded lightly.

“I’m fine...”

“It’s good that you’re fine. If something’s wrong, tell me.”

The girl patted “Lin Beixing” on the shoulder and stood up.

Seeing that “Lin Beixing” seemed okay, she finally relaxed.

“The bell’s about to ring, so I’m heading out first. Wait for me after school~~”

With that, she slipped a milk candy into “Lin Beixing’s” palm and hurried off.

Lu Yu watched her leaving figure, unwrapped the candy, and popped it into his mouth.

He couldn’t help linking what the girl had just said with the Lin Beixing who had shown up on the rooftop at noon.

So what exactly had that girl gone up to the rooftop for in the middle of the day?

No way she really went to a place like that just to enjoy the view...

As Xiaolan was leaving, she happened to brush past “Lu Yu” at the doorway.

“Lu Yu” was shaking his freshly washed hands dry. When she saw the girl leaving, she blanked out for a second, then hurried over at top speed.

The tips of her ears were a little red, and her watery eyes looked like she’d suffered some huge grievance.

The first thing out of her mouth wasn’t asking what Lu Yu had talked about.

Instead, she suddenly said,

“I’m not clean anymore.”

To keep the people around them from hearing, Lin Beixing could only speak to Lu Yu in the quietest voice possible.

Lu Yu looked at her with a half-smile.

“It’s not that serious.”

One sat, one stood.

“Which hand did you use?” Lu Yu asked curiously.

Lin Beixing held it in for a while before finally answering in a tone full of embarrassed anger.

“I didn’t use my hand, okay? I squatted down!”

Actually, Lin Beixing was usually very good at managing her emotions in class. A faint smile was always hanging on her fair, clean face.

She handled her relationships with everyone skillfully, and that was one reason she had so many friends.

But this time, maybe she really was embarrassed and annoyed. Or maybe because it was Lu Yu’s body, she simply didn’t bother restraining herself at all.

“I squatted down, closed my eyes, and got up after I was done!” she said, raising her voice.

The smile on Lu Yu’s face became even more obvious.

“Then why are you saying you’re not clean anymore?”

Grinding her teeth, Lin Beixing forced out two words from between them:

“The zipper...”

Actually, this kind of thing wasn’t a big deal. Lin Beixing had only seen what teachers covered in health class textbooks.

Before they found a way to switch their bodies back, Lin Beixing would probably have to suffer through this kind of “torment” many more times.

“Well, you saw it, so you saw it. If we can’t switch back for a long time, I’m still counting on you to help me bathe.”

Lu Yu had always had a pretty good mentality.

This was an uncontrollable situation. Resisting was useless, so he’d already chosen to lie flat and accept it.

“You...”

Lin Beixing stopped halfway.

What he said wasn’t without reason.

She looked at Lu Yu’s chewing lips, then at the milk candy wrapper on the desk, and suddenly realized something.

“You ate my candy!”

“My bestie gave that to me.”

Lu Yu ate it with complete peace of mind.

The milk candy was pretty good, just too sweet. Lu Yu wasn’t really into the kind of sugary snacks girls liked.

There were still two minutes before the bell rang. Lin Beixing didn’t bother arguing with Lu Yu over that anymore and asked him,

“What did you talk about with Xiaolan?”

“She said you stood her up, so she came to check on you.” Lu Yu shrugged.

“You didn’t expose yourself, right?”

“No.” Lu Yu shook his head.

“That’s good... Here, this is for you.”

With that, Lin Beixing slapped a thick stack of papers onto Lu Yu’s desk.

At a glance, they looked like math worksheets.

A slow “?” appeared on Lu Yu’s face.

“Do two sheets a day. When you’re done, hand them to Teacher Zhang.”

“I don’t know how.”

“Then learn. My handwriting is completely different from yours, so figure it out yourself. I’m going back to my seat.”

After saying that, Lin Beixing turned and left, not giving Lu Yu any room to refuse.

Lu Yu looked at the thick stack of papers in front of him. After thinking for a moment, he piled them up and set them in the corner of the desk.

Welp. Time to rot.