The girl in overalls lifted her face again.

She looked ready to cry.

“No.” The girl’s shoulders trembled, and her lips quivered. “That didn’t happen either. I still have my first kiss, too.”

As she spoke, she shivered and pressed a hand to her chest.

“He hasn’t even felt me up.”

Black engine oil had stained the bib of her overalls a filthy, ugly color.

“Big Sis, tell me… tell me, is it really impossible for any guy to ever like me…?”

“No, no, that’s not true. It’s not that bad.”

Diona’s heart was breaking.

She’d expected this girl to get fooled by some jerk. But she’d never imagined someone so innocent and carefree could be deceived and humiliated to this extent!

“That’s way too much.”

Her anger even overshadowed Diona’s current infatuation with Lin Mo. Right now, all she wanted was to get as much justice as she could for her little sis.

“You can’t keep letting them bully you.”

Diona made as if to climb out the window. “Is he still around here? Come on! Let’s go beat him and his women up!”

“Ah! N-no, you can’t!!”

The girl in overalls pressed both hands against the window in a panic.

She did everything she could to stop Diona from getting justice for her:

“E-even if nothing much has happened, he did let me hold his hand last time. S-so that’s a huge step forward for me. Big Sis! You absolutely can’t make him angry! If you really do that, all my effort over the past six months will have been for nothing…”

“……” Diona’s expression twisted.

She stared at her little sis as if she were looking at something completely unbelievable.

“If… if you really insist on putting it that way, I can still lend you the money.”

After taking a deep breath, she managed to hold back her anger for the moment.

Then she raised her index finger.

“But we have to make a deal. If you’ve spent all three thousand yuan and still haven’t kissed him—then I’m going to make him pay me back.”

“N-no, no, no, you can’t! Big Sis, I’m the one borrowing money from you. Don’t go after him!” The girl in overalls looked even more frightened.

“That’s enough, Su Qia!!”

Diona snapped, “This is my business. I don’t care what happens to you, but you don’t get to tell me what to do!!”

“Then how about I don’t lend you the money?”

The girl in overalls, who was called Su Qia, still seemed timid.

But Diona couldn’t be bothered to say another word. She turned, went down the hallway into the living room, then headed to her own room to get some money. When she came back, she shoved it straight into the front of the silly girl’s undershirt.

“Remember! I’ve lent you the money now!”

Diona scolded her in exasperation. “Honestly, you! You’re one of my girls, running with me, Diona. How can you be such a disappointment?”

“Once this is over, I’ll find you a boyfriend. There… that’s that. No need to thank me!”

Clang—

Without waiting for Su Qia to explain further, Diona slammed the window shut.

There were still black smudges from the other girl’s hands along the edge of the window. But Diona couldn’t care less about something so trivial!

“Damn it, this is so frustrating…”

“What’s wrong with men these days? Every last one of them is a hopeless, rotten bastard!”

As she cursed, Diona thought: At least Xiao Mo isn’t like them.

Even though she couldn’t read minds, she could still tell at a glance from Lin Mo’s clear, alluring gaze that he was nothing like those other men. He was a decent guy.

By comparison, the eyes of most men in this world held nothing but the murky colors of greed for money, hunger for power, and admiration for strength. And yet they loved spouting shameless, hypocritical nonsense! They even had the gall to call that kind of behavior “love.” Ugh—just thinking about it made her sick.

…She was just so angry.

Still, even after all that time, the food in the pot hadn’t burned.

Next, Diona dished out the food she’d cooked and boiled some extra noodles.

(Xiao Mo doesn’t seem to have much of an appetite.)

(But he got so excited when he heard there was canned meat.)

With a relaxed smile tugging at her lips, Diona finished cooking the noodles and poured some of the stew broth over them.

“Sigh, I wish I could eat from the same bowl as you…”

Muttering to herself, Diona had no choice but to dish out another serving for her own dinner.

“Xiao Mo—the food’s ready~~”

Beaming with delight, she carried the food into the living room with a light, happy step.

……

Lin Mo was still watching TV.

He turned around and saw Diona.

“Sis, who were you talking to just now?”

“A friend.” After setting out the low table and floor cushions, Diona sat cross-legged on the floor.

“Come on.”

She opened her arms wide.

“The movie isn’t over yet, right? Let’s eat while we watch.”

“The evil spirit still has a few people left to kill. Eating while we watch turns out to be surprisingly appetizing.” Lin Mo sat up on the sofa.

He slipped on his slippers and strolled over. “What were you talking about just now? You seemed pretty angry. Can you tell me?”

“It was nothing.”

Diona couldn’t exactly tell Lin Mo what had happened.

After all, men and women were different. Something many women found infuriating might look different to guys.

And vice versa.

“It’s just that a friend of mine has been having a hard time with relationship stuff lately. The situation’s kind of complicated, so I got mad along with her.”

Diona pushed the noodles toward Lin Mo. “It’s nothing serious. It’s all over now.”

“Oh…”

Lin Mo knew she was hiding something from him.

But it had nothing to do with him, so he didn’t really mind.

Besides, the meal was what really whetted his appetite. The noodles and stew didn’t look especially pretty, but they were absolutely tempting. Just the delicious smell of the meat and the sound of the stew bubbling had nearly made him lose control!

“You haven’t had meat in ages, have you? Here, you can have all of this.” Diona lifted the stew and added even more chunks of meat to Lin Mo’s noodles.

Canned meat, soaked in sauce and radiating irresistible appeal…

Only now, after enduring so much hunger, did Lin Mo begin to understand the uncontrollable urge and enthusiasm the women of this world felt when faced with a handsome man.

Before he could even refuse, he hurriedly picked up his bowl of noodles.

Slurp, slurp.

Slurp, slurp.

Chewy yet tender noodles, paired with the rich, savory stew sauce, then topped off with delicious chunks of meat and vegetables.

For once, Lin Mo enjoyed an incredibly satisfying dinner.

Once again, he truly felt that he was incredibly lucky to have met a girl like Diona after his friends died.