No, I don't want us to be friends

Yi Chen who was tucking in his shirt didn't immediately respond. If he said the real reason this might be the last time he could casually chat with Zi Han like this so he took a moment to come up with a plausible reason. With his back turned to Zi Han he straightened his jacket thoughts unknown.

Zi Han tilted his head to the side trying to get a good look at Yi Chen's face. "You know that our families are barely amicable plus my mother keeps warning me to stay away from you yet here you are being nice to me. Isn't it good to just stay out of each other's lives and treat each other as unfamiliar classmates?"

The words unfamiliar classmates didn't settle well with Yi Chen. He didn't want that at all. Since Zi Han had strolled into his heart he wouldn't let him go. Thus he turned around and said, "Conflicts of the previous generation have nothing to do with us..."