Rebirth: The Fake Young Lady Is A Real Young Lady

ears.
“I’m fine.”

By this time, Guan Lei’s face was no longer as dark as before.
“What happened earlier? You looked so angry,” Shen Xi said.

Guan Lei’s mind drifted to the incident involving the school forums and ground his teeth.
“I’m still angry.
I’ve been with you longer than the two of them, but people are harping left and right to say I don’t stand a chance with you.
How can I not be angry?”

A second of stunned silence gave way to uncontrollable laughter.
“You’re angry because you thought you did not have a chance with me?”

Shen Xi’s apparent frivolity annoyed Guan Lei, and he responded indignantly, “Why shouldn’t I be angry? That person spreading gossip online is so unprofessional! We’ve already kissed, so why can’t we be considered a thing?”

Shen Xi covered Guan Lei’s mouth in shock, looking around like a thief wary of being caught.
“Shush! Lower your voice.
What if someone hears you? That time in the observation room was an accident!”

“And that time at the club?” Guan Lei blurted out.

Shen Xi looked at Guan Lei in shock.
“Weren’t you drunk that day?”

‘Not good, I’ve been exposed!’ Guan Lei thought.
If he said he wasn’t drunk, would Xixi think he was pretending to be drunk to take advantage of her? “I-I was drunk at that time, but I still remember some things,” he said.

Shen Xi had not had the time to test how much Guan Lei remembered their day at the club or the kiss that ensued.
To have it brought up suddenly caught Shen Xi flatfooted, leaving her a blushing mess.

However, when she recalled the incident with Guan Lei and Li Jin, she asked, “Then do you remember what you did to Li Jin? The two of you were so close to each other at the time.
I thought you were…”

Shen Xi did not finish her sentence, but Guan Lei knew what she was about to say.

In his drunken haze, he had smelled a certain fragrance which caused him to return to his senses.

Guan Lei quickly explained, “No, it’s not what you think.
I was a little drunk at that time and lost my balance.
That was why I was so close to Li Jin.
Please don’t misunderstand.”

Shen Xi accepted the explanation with a nod.
“I suppose that incident at the club was also an accident.”

Guan Lei did not know what to say.
How could he explain the distance between himself and Li Jin if he was not drunk? Since he had already said as much, he would contradict himself if he disagreed with Shen Xi’s assessment.

He was caught between a rock and a hard place.
He desperately wanted to take his relationship with Shen Xi to the next level, but why was he always lacking just that little bit?