Becoming a life winner from infancy

"Ahhh You You, how can you do this! Wait for me!"

A group of kids were chasing each other, laughing and talking on their way back from the park. They said goodbye to Ayu halfway, and then the three of them walked together towards the neighborhood.

"That means, Ling Nai only has one week left."

Xia Nuo thought for a moment, "Ayu's dad seems to be returning next week too, I wonder if Ling Nai will have the chance to meet Ayu's dad."

"But, Ayu really can't keep calling You You 'Dad' forever. Her real dad would be very sad if he found out."

Asai Reina, generous and forbearing, wouldn't hold a grudge against Xia Nuo and the others for the smell incident, "So you guys really should persuade Ayu not to continue calling You You 'Dad', at least not in front of Ayu's dad."

"But, Ayu's dad never comes to spend time with her, isn't it pitiful for her to have no father around?"

Clasping Fang You's arm, Xia Nuo said, "Although I don't need my dad's company now, I still have many happy memories of playing with him. But after Ayu started senior kindergarten, she rarely saw her dad; it's always been me and You You keeping her company."

"Hmm... adults have their own business to attend to, we're just kids but we have to be sensible too..."

"You sound very mature, Ling Nai!"

"Of course... after all, I have the responsibility of being an older sister."

"But if you are so sensible, how come you don't have any friends at school?"

"Pfft..."

Asai Reina covered her chest, displaying an almost choked on blood expression.

"Anyway... it's not like the more friends, the better! If I don't have any at school, then I don't have any; I'm very happy just playing with you guys."

As she spoke, Asai Reina stretched herself, "Although Nuo Nuo sometimes says really annoying things, I know you don't mean any harm, so... yeah, Ling Nai likes you quite a lot."

Ku ku ku, of course You You is still my favorite!

But if You You would really take the time to smell Ling Nai's scent, Ling Nai would like him even more...

While Asai Reina was lost in her thoughts, Xia Nuo, hands on hips, started to protest:

"Huh? How could I possibly mean to harm Ling Nai!" Explore more at empire

Xia Nuo looked utterly confused, "You're like my thirty-second best friend!"

"I can accept being behind You You and Ayu, but why are there 29 other people in front of me!"

"So, what number best friend am I to Ling Nai?"

Xia Nuo let go of Fang You's arm, bouncing around Asai Reina while Fang You took this chance to move to the front of the group.

"Did you put You You ahead of me? Huh?"

"I... um..."

If You You weren't here, she would have said it directly, but now she couldn't.

"Then tell me, why am I ranked so low?"

Asai Reina was very concerned about this, to the buzzing in her brain kind of concerned.

"Because if you don't keep in touch, your fondness will fade, like Ayu and her dad's relationship."

Xia Nuo said, "If you stick together with me and You You, our feelings will never fade."

"It's not that easy."

"That's why we need to work on maintaining good friendships."

Xia Nuo continued, "Actually, you already dropped to being my 108th friend, but because you've been sleeping over with me recently, you've made it this far up the list."

"Do you really have 108 friends? Name them, let me hear!"

Asai Reina remembered Xia Nuo had a knack for reading messages without replying properly, so she figured Xia Nuo must be spouting nonsense.

How could one person have so much time to make friends, Ling Nai would be content having a single You You until the end of time!

Just when Asai Reina was sure that Xia Nuo was blabbering baselessly, Xia Nuo actually started to count on her fingers:

"Wu Yule, Deng Feifei, Wu Yishu, Li Siqi, and..."

"You can really count them all? You You, look, look how mean Nuo Nuo is—always bullying Ling Nai, wuwu..."

"You You was just bullying you too, why didn't you cry then?"

"You You is You You, Nuo Nuo is Nuo Nuo, okay!"

"Tsk tsk, looks like I have a very special place and importance in your heart, almost on par with You You, who you want to date the most."

"You're totally missing the point!"

Asai Reina quickly covered Xia Nuo's mouth, "Don't, don't say it out loud, okay? You You could hear it."

Fang You, in fact, had heard it quite clearly.

But this kind of conversation about ranking friendships was beyond the scope of knowledge Fang You possessed, so he hadn't figured out how to join in.

Although it was a childish act, Fang You found it somehow interesting.

Because like Ling Nai, he actually wasn't very good at making friends, whether in his past life or this current life. In Fang You's memories, people had always been around him wanting to please him, wanting to be liked by him—men.

And women.

But Fang You knew well that everyone was just conquered by his charismatic personality and talent, not truly wanting to be his friend, often with a touch of unnaturalness—although that unnaturalness couldn't be entirely termed as "ulterior motives."

Once Fang You sensed that unnaturalness, he would be resistant to further interaction with the person, leaving an impression of being difficult to get along with.

But Nuo Nuo was indeed different.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

She too enjoyed her achievements, liked the feeling of standing out.

But even without those, Fang You still felt that he could talk a lot with her.