Chapter 045: Is the Dog-like Boyfriend Really Not Charming?

Jiang Xiaohan never expected that the task of recruiting Wang Xiao would fall to her. What surprised her even more was that the news—"Jiang Xiaohan will definitely succeed in recruiting Wang Xiao"—had actually been leaked by Wang Xiao himself.

As for the reason?

He simply wanted to clear up a misunderstanding.

But it seemed the other party had absolutely no intention of receiving his signals.

Jiang Xiaohan thought: Not only do I not want to receive your signals, I’d rather knock over your entire signal tower.

"The counselor asked me to tell you that the finance department’s basketball team hopes you’ll join. I’ve delivered the message; whether you want to go or not, you can tell the counselor yourself."

Suppressing her urge to punch someone, Jiang Xiaohan forced a tight-lipped smile as she relayed the message.

"Wait a minute! About last time—"

"What last time? Junior, do we even know each other?"

Blocked by Jiang Xiaohan, Wang Xiao couldn’t even get his apology out. He could only watch as her high ponytail swished away from the basketball court.

"So… does this mean she’s forgiven me or not?" Wang Xiao hugged his ball, turning to his teammates for help.

But seeing their foolish faces, all eager to watch the drama unfold, Wang Xiao decided he’d better figure it out himself.

After pondering all night with the same brain he used for solving math problems, he came to a conclusion:

The way this upperclassman gets ruffled… is actually quite adorable? If he could see her like that every day, life would be a lot more interesting.

So, to make sure he could appear before Jiang Xiaohan daily, he set himself a series of objectives. Step one was agreeing to her suggestion and joining the finance department’s basketball team.

As for step two… On the third day after joining the team, he went to the counselor and asked if Jiang Xiaohan could be their team manager.

Faced with being used as a messenger, the counselor received Jiang Xiaohan’s polite but embarrassed smile and heard her soft reply:

"Teacher, I’m a bit busy with student council work right now. In my spare time, I’d rather focus on my studies and improve my professional skills."

After the counselor left, Jiang Xiaohan dropped the polite act and rolled her eyes:

Ha! As if. Becoming their manager would just make me an easy target for his shooting practice.

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"Hey, hey! What are you thinking about? Did you get drunk on cola or something?"

Seeing that Jiang Xiaohan’s plate of skewers had barely budged, Lin Luyou couldn’t help waving a hand in front of her face.

"So deep in thought? If you’re not eating these, I’ll take them all for myself!"

As her plate was about to be whisked away, Jiang Xiaohan finally snapped back to reality, catching her friend’s mischievous hands.

"If you want more, order it yourself—don’t steal mine!"

With that, Jiang Xiaohan grabbed three skewers at once, stuffing them into her mouth while declaring,

"These are all mine!"

I can’t believe I was just thinking about that jerk Wang Xiao. I must be out of my mind.

I haven’t even settled the score with him for putting me on the confession wall last week, and now he’s gone and "bribed" my former club members.

If I’d known he’d be there, wild horses couldn’t have dragged me to that game… Wait, as captain of the finance department basketball team, how could he not be there? My intelligence must have truly gone to the dogs!

Jiang Xiaohan tore through a skewer with a satisfying crunch, but even that didn’t seem to soothe her anger.

"Boss! Five more meat-and-bone skewers!"

What was that look on Wang Xiao’s face as I left just now? A hint of grievance beneath his well-behaved demeanor?

It almost made me think of a little puppy, and I nearly softened and forgave him on the spot… Thank goodness I ran away fast enough!

Wait, but I’m clearly into bad boys, not puppies!

No, no, what am I thinking? Why should my boyfriend be any kind of dog? Isn’t a good man enough for me?