Chapter 565 The rest of my life

The music in the living room flows slowly.

The candlelight on the dining table is soft and warm, adding a dreamy halo to this moment.

The moment Xu Youyu saw Li Luo take out the ring from his red socks, his pupils shrank slightly and his breathing paused for a moment.

Although she had guessed whether Li Luo would prepare a little surprise for her, she never expected it to be something like this.

Although it wasn't a diamond ring and there wasn't any grand ceremony, she just watched Li Luo take her hand and slowly put the ring on her ring finger.

But even so, Xu Youyu felt a tingling sensation on his fingers, like an electric current running straight to his brain.

Her eyelashes trembled slightly, and the corners of her mouth unconsciously curled up, but then she tried hard to purse them.

Until Li Luo put the ring on her completely, Xu Youyu looked down at it, her eyes moving around, as if there was some huge suction that made her unable to look away.

Only when the throbbing in his heart eased a little did Xu Youyu look up at Li Luo.

Seeing him looking at her with a smile on his face, Xu Youyu pursed his lips and asked softly, "Where did you hide just now? Was it really in your socks?"

"No." Li Luo blinked and laughed, "There was nothing in the socks, but when I reached in and touched it, I had it in my hand."

Xu Youyu: "...There are quite a lot of little tricks."

"Is there any fisherman sister who doesn't like it?"

"I like it." Xu Youyu stood on tiptoe, put her arms around his neck and kissed him, "But when I think about how Xixi also has one, I guess Zhusheng will have one too, right?"

"Don't say anything to spoil the mood at such a romantic moment." Li Luo said with a cough.

"Hmph~" Xu Youyu kissed Li Luo's lips hard. After a long while, he asked again, "Where did you get this ring?"

"I made it myself in the workshop last time."

"No wonder." Xu Youyu showed a surprised expression.

After the two separated, Xu Youyu sat on the sofa, raised his right hand, and admired it carefully, and found that this ring was not simple.

Not only are the words "Xu Youyu & Li Luo" engraved on it, but after taking off the ring, the inner circle is also engraved with the pen names "Early to Bed Will Make You Grow Taller & Rekindle".

"Is there anything engraved on the inside of Xixi's ring?"

"No." Li Luo shook his head and said with a smile, "I just took into consideration that you were afraid of social failure, so I carved your pen name in the inner circle so that others could not see it."

"Then I have to thank you for your thoughtfulness?"

"Is this considered thoughtful? I have a more thoughtful approach."

"...Where are you touching?"

……

After Christmas, Xu Youyu went to school on Monday.

After lunch, they went to the dormitory to rest. Zhao Letian asked curiously, "Youyu, I see there is a ring on your finger. Is it a gift from Li Luo?"

"Yes." Xu Youyu smiled when he heard his roommate's question. He couldn't help but want to share. "I gave it to him yesterday as a Christmas gift."

While sharing yesterday's date experience with his roommate, Xu Youyu showed the ring to Zhao Letian.

"There are words engraved on it, wow." Zhao Letian lowered his head and admired it carefully.

Xie Xiuying also took a curious look and felt a little envious.

However, Jiang Feiya, who was putting on makeup at the table, asked, "This ring is not a diamond ring. It's very cheap, right?"

"He did it himself." Xu Youyu said.

"That's even more thoughtful." Zhao Letian said with emotion, "Li Luo is so good to you."

"If Song Yu gave me something like this, I wouldn't want it." Jiang Feiya muttered softly, but she didn't say it too loudly, so no one else could hear it clearly.

Then Jiang Feiya said, "In the future, you have to give a diamond ring when you propose. This is just the beginning."

"The diamond ring doesn't matter." Xu Youyu just smiled when he heard this. "The important thing about proposing is the sense of ceremony, not the props."

"The diamond ring is part of the sense of ritual." Jiang Feiya retorted.

"That's your sense of ritual, not mine."

"Okay, okay, I'm going to take a nap." Zhao Letian saw the two of them arguing again and immediately climbed onto the bed, "Stop talking, be quiet."

Xu Youyu didn't want to argue with someone like Jiang Feiya, so he immediately shut up and didn't bother to say anything more to her.

In Xu Youyu's opinion, it is better to have a few more good meals than to spend the money on buying a diamond ring to cheat others.

When her parents got married, they didn't ask for diamond rings or anything like that. They just went to a jewelry store to get a pair of gold rings made and worn.

This thing at least maintains its value.

What about diamonds?
For a diamond ring worth one hundred thousand, probably ninety-nine thousand is the added value of marketing.

Xu Youyu is not very interested in this kind of thing and prefers something more practical.

However, it is precisely because of her personality and values ​​that she can write online novels for men without making readers feel uncomfortable.

Generally speaking, female authors who can achieve success in writing online novels for men, unless there are special circumstances, have quite normal values. At least, they rarely have the fairy-like thinking of Jiang Feiya.

……

While Xu Youyu was returning to the dormitory to rest, Li Luo and others at the Affiliated No. 1 Middle School were also taking a lunch break.

"Why do you keep staring at me?"

Li Luo leaned on the pillow and tilted his head to look at Yan Zhusheng beside him. Seeing that she was lying on the pillow without sleeping and kept looking at him with her eyes open, Li Luo couldn't help but ask.

"No reason." Yan Zhusheng blinked his eyes and spoke calmly, and no one knew what he was thinking.

But the next second, Li Luo saw her stretch out a little hand and put it in front of him without moving.

Li Luo: “…What are you going to do?”

As he said this, Li Luo also reached out, took her small hand into his palm, and gently kneaded and played with it for a few times.

As a result, Yan Zhusheng was a little dissatisfied. She immediately retracted her little hand, turned her head and pointed it at Li Luo. She seemed to be in a bad mood.

In the next few days, Yan Zhusheng would stare at Li Luo from time to time.

When she was at home, her eyes would also wander over the fingers of Ying Chanxi and Xu Youyu, and then she would purse her lips silently.

Xixi's ring was given to her last Wednesday, while the senior's ring only appeared on her hand over the weekend.

Yan Zhusheng's clever little brain told her that Li Luo must have prepared his own share as well, but she didn't know when he would give it to her.

This always made her feel itchy. Whenever Li Luo looked at her, Yan Zhusheng would always wonder in her heart whether Li Luo was going to give her a ring?

As a result, for several days in a row, Li Luo's surprise did not come.

Until the day when the No. 1 Affiliated Middle School held its New Year’s Eve party.

"Let Hua Xiuxiu and the others take care of this class activity." Li Luo said to Ying Chanxi and Yan Zhusheng, "Let's go shopping."

On the day of the New Year's Eve party of the No.16 Middle School, each class prepared a small game in the morning. After completing each game, you can get a stamp. After collecting the stamps of classes, you can go downstairs to draw a lottery.

In the afternoon, there are club activities. You can visit other clubs and participate in the mini-games set up by each club.

And at night, there is the official New Year’s Day bonfire party.

Classes, clubs or individuals take turns to perform on stage.

This year, the class game prepared by Class 8 of Grade 3 is "Fishing for the Moon in the Bottom of the Sea", which actually involves fishing marbles out of a prepared basin of water using special tools.

You pass the level if you catch 5 or more within the specified time.

Li Luo and Yan Zhusheng's fingers were relatively flexible, so they cleared the level in one go.

Ying Chanxi was a little nervous and failed twice before he finally passed.

"Your hands are too small to hold the spoon?" Li Luo took Ying Chanxi's hand, compared it with his own palm, and said with a smile, "Your fingertips are just above the base of my fingers."

"Your hands are too big." Ying Chanxi snorted, "Also, the spoons they prepared are too soft and bounce, so it's not easy to scoop up the marbles."

"You just need to practice more."

"If you have the ability, you can beat me in the exam."

Li Luo: "...You are waiting for this day, it will come sooner or later."

"When I get first place in the school, you still have to satisfy me with one thing."

"Let me think about what I should ask you to do."

Seeing that he was really fantasizing, Ying Chanxi snorted, "Don't think about it. That day will never come."

"We can let Xixi go back to her own bedroom to sleep at night." Yan Zhusheng suggested.

"Zhu Sheng?!" Ying Chanxi looked at Yan Zhu Sheng with wide eyes. She didn't expect to hear such cold words from her good sister.

"It's still a bit crowded for four people to sleep." Yan Zhusheng explained seriously.

"It's better to squeeze in." Li Luo laughed, "Let's go to the next classroom."

The three of them did not rush to draw the lottery early, but slowly played the small games in various classrooms and enjoyed the process.

So it was almost noon when the three of them collected sixteen stamps and went downstairs to draw the lottery.

Because their ranking is already outside the top 100, each person only has one chance to draw the lottery.

The last three people all received a thank you for participating award and a consolation gift, a White Rabbit milk candy.

"Here." Li Luo held three White Rabbit milk candies in his hand. He peeled two and stuffed them into Ying Chanxi and Yan Zhusheng's mouths.

Seeing that he didn't eat it himself, Yan Zhusheng couldn't help but ask, "There's another one you don't want to eat?"

"It's time for lunch. No snacks before lunch."

Li Luo stuffed the last White Rabbit candy into his pocket, then took the two girls to the cafeteria to have lunch.

In the afternoon, the three senior high school students who had already left the club went to take a look at the clubs they used to be in.

The literature club was still the same, and there was nothing new in the activities on New Year's Day, so the three of them strolled over to the rock club.

Thanks to the glory that Yan Zhusheng and Li Luo once created when they led the Rock Club, the number of new members in the Rock Club has increased significantly in the past two years.

Now there are more than ten members in the club, and basically there are more than two candidates for each position, so there is no need to worry about lack of people.

For this New Year's Eve party, they also specially prepared "The Sky Has No Limits", the song that Yan Zhusheng has sung the most times before.

It feels like this song is almost becoming a special song within the rock club.

"It's a pity that you two won't be performing at the New Year's Eve party." Ying Chanxi followed the two out of the rock club and said.

"No less." Yan Zhusheng blinked, "Li Luo and I will still play this year."

"Eh?" Ying Chanxi was stunned for a moment when he heard this. "Really? But didn't the people from the Rock Club just say that they have decided on the performers for the stage?"

"I'm not going to perform on stage with the Rock Club." Yan Zhusheng shook his head and pointed at Li Luo. "Li Luo and I are going up alone. Oh, no, there's also Teacher Kong."

"Why didn't I know this before?" Ying Chanxi frowned, a little dissatisfied, "Why are you hiding this from me?"

"Teacher Kong asked for confidentiality." Li Luo rubbed her head. "He wanted to give Teacher Ding a surprise, so he didn't tell her about it."

"Then what are you going to sing?" Ying Chanxi nodded to show his understanding, and then asked curiously.

"It's a new song. You'll know it tonight." Li Luo smiled. "It's just that Teacher Kong will sing, and we will just be the accompaniment."

……

After the afternoon free time ended and dinner was over, everyone returned to their respective classrooms.

When the assembly music sounded, the students of Affiliated No. 1 Middle School stood up, moved their chairs, lined up in the corridor, and walked towards the concrete floor of the basketball court.

The senior high school teaching building is closest to the basketball court and can enter the venue the earliest, so the seats are arranged at the westernmost position.

After taking their seats, Ying Chanxi stood up and took Zhu Yufei, Zhang Guohuang and others to the backstage to prepare for the skit performance.

Li Luo sat next to Kong Junxiang and winked at him.

Kong Junxiang pursed his lips, glanced nervously at Dingxiang on the other side, and then nodded implicitly to Li Luo.

Li Luo smiled and looked towards the stage.

As the sophomores and freshmen entered the court one after another, the bonfire in front was lit and the basketball court suddenly became warm.

The principal came to the stage and delivered a speech, announcing the official start of the New Year's Day bonfire party, followed by performances one after another.

By the fifth program, it was finally the turn of the skit of Class 3-8 of Senior High School.

The name of the sketch is "Class 8 of Senior 3". Li Luo imitated several sketches with campus backgrounds that he had seen in his previous life, and then incorporated Zhu Yufei, Zhang Guohuang and other funny people into the content.

At this time, looking at them making funny faces on the stage and making the students below laugh, the effect can be said to have been achieved.

In particular, many of the jokes were based on real things that happened in the class, and the students in Class 8 laughed so hard after watching them.

Even Dingxiang next to her started laughing until she was shaking.

But Kong Junxiang clenched his hands nervously, rubbed them vigorously from time to time, and laughed twice in response.

As time went by, "Class 8 of Senior Grade 3" came to a successful conclusion, and subsequent programs were also staged one by one.

Finally, it is Kong Junxiang's turn.

At the reminder of the student union members, he stood up, greeted Ding Xiang, and took Li Luo and Yan Zhusheng with him to go backstage to wait.

"Come on." Ding Xiang also encouraged Kong Junxiang, "I'll go on stage and give you flowers later~"

Kong Junxiang turned his head and smiled, then hurried backstage.

Li Luo and Yan Zhusheng followed behind, and after the members of the rock club finished performing "The Sky Has No Limits", they grabbed the guitar and keyboard and accompanied Kong Junxiang on stage.

"Next, Mr. Kong, the head teacher of Class 8 of Senior Grade 3, along with Li Luo and Yan Zhusheng, will perform a song, "The Rest of My Life". Please come on stage!"

(End of this chapter)