Lu Mingfei: Hogwarts repeater

Chapter 26 If you have money, you can do whatever you want
  Lu Mingfei finally chose to slow down his pace and walk with Ling on the cobbled riverside path. He looked forward and back, taking one step at a time.

He walked this road every day after school, but this was the first time he blamed the municipal government for not spending more money to make this road longer. It's not to spend more time with Zero...well, that's almost the same in disguise, but the more real reason is that he wants to think of a solution to this matter before the journey is over.

But why?

Why did it suddenly become like this?
  A doubt ran through his mind like lightning, and Lu Mingfei's footsteps suddenly stopped.

That kind of doubt is called strangeness.

This strangeness is not to the surrounding environment nor to zero, but to oneself.

Lu Mingfei suddenly found a stone pier along the river and sat down, staring blankly at the honeycomb-shaped riverside created by the municipal planning and the willow branches that almost reached the river surface.

Zero also sat down next to him.

"I wouldn't have been like this before." Lu Mingfei said after being silent for a long time.

Zero is not a good communicator because she doesn't respond, but she is good at listening and just listens quietly...or maybe she is just too lazy to talk.

Lu Mingfei said to himself.

"In the past, if I met a beautiful girl of your level as my roommate, I would probably wake up from my dreams with laughter for three days, and maybe even fantasize about a bunch of exciting twists and turns in bed..."

"Even if I know that you are clearly coming for me and you may have bad intentions, you will still think about it like 'What is this bitch of mine worth?' or something like that, or you may be scared at first and then refuse to welcome... ...If I were still the same person at that time, I would have gone to a hotel or your home with you by now."

Lu Mingfei calmly told the story about himself from a bystander's perspective, and then became confused.

"But now I didn't feel particularly happy at first, I was just surprised, and then I became wary and refused. I didn't even think about the direction after agreeing, and felt extremely natural about it, as if it was supposed to be me. It was the same thing...until I suddenly realized it.”

There was another silence, and Lu Mingfei suddenly woke up in the evening breeze. What was he doing, talking openly about life with a beautiful girl he had just known for less than a day?
  "Ha, I'm just saying it casually. It's stupid to have this kind of heart-to-heart talk that is criticized in comics suddenly happen to me. I don't know why I told you suddenly. It's probably because I just saw you today. There is always an inexplicable feeling of familiarity..." Lu Mingfei scratched his head awkwardly, preparing to move the topic to another direction.

"Number Zero." Zero suddenly spoke.

"What?" Lu Mingfei was stunned.

"Zero is not a name, but a number."

Ling turned around and said seriously, it was the first time Lu Mingfei looked into a girl's eyes at such a close distance. Her eyes were as blue as the sky, reflecting the afterglow of the sunset on the river.

"My name is Renata."

Time seemed to have stopped. Something, to be precise, a cocoon was growing. It seemed to be about to burst, leaving only a thin layer, the thickness of a layer of paper. Lu Mingfei had never felt this way before, as if someone An irreversible change will occur. "So... Renata is your name? Then why do you tell everyone that your name is Zero? Do I want to call you Renata from now on?" Lu Mingfei spoke instinctively. After saying that, he felt much more comfortable. The inexplicable feeling was gone.

"Call me Zero and don't tell anyone else the name Renata."

Zero suddenly lowered her eyes. Her long eyelashes blocked the reflected waves in her eyes. The inexplicable cocoon seemed to have sunk again. Waiting for the next moment to break open, she suddenly stood up and said, "It's time for us to set off."

"Keeping secrets is my strong point... Wait, it seems I haven't agreed to go with you yet!" Lu Mingfei felt a little confused.

"My family wants me to find a friend," Zero said, "Will you be my friend?"

"It sounds like a conversation between kindergarten kids making friends, but..." Lu Mingfei scratched his head, "Okay, I would never want to be friends with a beautiful woman like you."

He really couldn't refuse. There was no fluctuation in Zero's sky-blue eyes, but he couldn't help but feel pity for her, just like he would a porcelain doll that could easily break.

Ling suddenly laughed, as if his evil plot had succeeded. Lu Mingfei looked at this scene in shock. He had never thought about what Ling would look like when he smiled, as if he took it for granted that she was a building with hundreds of degrees below zero. It is normal for ice sculptures to have no expression on their faces.

But now the ice sculpture is smiling, as beautiful as a flower that suddenly blooms on the ice field.

"There should be some expressions between good friends, right?" Zero said.

"Although, I don't have much money," Lu Mingfei was still in a shocked mood. He answered subconsciously and then suddenly realized, "You don't want to use this to..."

"Get in the car." Zero's smile flashed away, and returned to the expressionless expression of two hundred degrees below zero, almost making Lu Mingfei feel that what he just saw was just an illusion.

"Hey, hey, let me tell you, it's wrong to use your status as a friend to blackmail you! I'm a decent man and I won't be coerced by you!" Lu Mingfei followed him while saying bad things.

The two of them climbed from the cobblestone path along the river, along the stone steps, across the grass slope, and onto the road along the river. The more Lu Mingfei said, the stronger his will became. He decided that today he must make classmate Ling realize that his friend Doesn’t this identity mean you can do whatever you want!
  Then he saw a Rolls-Royce Phantom slowly parked in front of Zero.

Lu Mingfei didn't know much about cars, but the golden figure on the front of the car and the domineering car model were enough to remind him of the scene when his uncle was drooling over car magazines at home. He still remembered the official guide price he saw at that time. It seems like... 1888.0 million?
  Lu Mingfei swallowed and saw the driver's door open. The driver in a suit and white gloves got out of the car, jogged to the back seat, opened the door for Zero, and bowed to invite him. Everything was like a movie. The plot inside was just happening in front of his eyes at this moment.

Ling, who was invited, did not get in the car. He just turned around and looked at Lu Mingfei.

Lu Mingfei walked over with stiff steps, saying "Okay, I'll let you intimidate me once today", and followed Ling into the car obediently.

She is so rich, let her do whatever she wants.

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