Although Cheng Lele looked endearing and cute, she had never possessed a friendship that transcended the passage of long years. Strangely enough, at each stage of her life, she made friends with those nearby. Generally, the people she got along with best were classmates whose seats were within a one-meter radius. Then when the next stage arrived, feelings with that previous group naturally faded and were replaced by new neighborhood friends. But now that Chen An was busy on his own, Cheng Lele felt lonely, empty, and cold. She started scrolling through her QQ contact list, silently resenting that her social circle was truly too unremarkable and lacking.

Just as Cheng Lele was thinking about mending the fold after the sheep were lost but didn’t know which classmate to pick for an awkward chat, Chen Xiaomu contacted her.

Chen Xiaomu hadn’t gotten into Tai High School and went to a vocational technical school to study beauty and hairdressing. The main educational goal of this technical school was to prevent students from running into society and causing trouble. The entire school implemented closed management, requiring approval reports to enter or exit the campus gates. As the saying goes, where there is oppression, there is resistance. Originally they were all a group of hormonal adolescent boys and girls with nowhere to place their energy. Not confining them would have been fine, but once confined, all the school’s students gathered together to research how to “break out of prison.” Chen Xiaomu also followed the upperclassmen in climbing the wall to “break out.”

But once she “broke out,” she was momentarily dazed.

So, what should she do now that she was out?

Standing amid the flowing traffic, she also started scrolling through her QQ contact list. At that moment, she remembered that both Cheng Lele and Chen An were at Tai High School. Originally she had liked Chen An, but the girl’s enthusiasm had been extinguished without a trace after repeated setbacks. Chen An was friendly and courteous to everyone, but that friendliness was like it had a layer of plastic wrap sealed inside, making it impossible to truly get close. She felt she had no chance, so she gave up. However, this crush that ended without fruition left behind a byproduct. Back then, when she was in the throes of adolescent romance and tried to get close to Chen An by befriending Cheng Lele, she unexpectedly discovered that Cheng Lele was quite to her taste.

Cheng Lele was a pure, naive sweetheart who wore all her emotions on her face. She had no scheming and no ulterior motives—clearly an orchid that had grown up in a greenhouse from childhood. Chen Xiaomu felt comfortable and relaxed making friends with Cheng Lele. Her technical school wasn’t too far from Tai High School, so she decided to go find Cheng Lele to catch up on old times.

Previously, Cheng Lele had only regarded Chen Xiaomu as an ordinary classmate with whom she had a relatively good relationship. When she heard that Chen Xiaomu had actually openly “broken out of prison” just to see her, she suddenly realized that her social circle wasn’t so full of holes after all. It turned out that in the eyes of friends other than Chen An, she was also quite precious. She couldn’t help but feel moved by this.

She deeply felt obligated to receive Chen Xiaomu well, and thus worked very hard to please her.

Chen Xiaomu was very satisfied with the arrangements for this external visit.

The friendship between the two inexplicably heated up just like that.