The first word in Chapter 229 is unlucky!
Yan Xi: [Don't bring the second notebook from the left. The teacher won't cover that class tomorrow.]
Li Chen paused.
How does she even know this?
He quickly remembered.
He showed her a picture of the desktop last night.
Half of the notebook was visible.
Li Chen took out the second book and put it back on the bookshelf.
It's been put back.
Yan Xi: [Don't put your scarf on the back of the chair. It will deform.]
Li Chen turned his head.
The scarf was indeed draped over the back of the chair.
He paused for two seconds, picked up the scarf, folded it, and placed it beside his pillow.
Zhao Zixuan turned his head and saw this scene.
"Am I being remotely commanded again?"
Li Chen: "Mm."
Zhao Zixuan clicked his tongue.
"You two are dating like a two-person work system."
Li Chen ignored him.
Two minutes to eleven, Yan Xi sent a message.
Put your phone down.
Li Chen replied.
【Good night.】
Yan Xi: [Goodnight.]
Li Chen stared at those two words for ten seconds.
Then, quite consciously, he put his phone away.
He wanted to take another look at her WeChat Moments.
But the gentle touch on my chin is still there.
Yan Xi said, "We don't need to watch the old stuff tonight."
I'll watch something new tomorrow.
Li Chen turned off the lights.
Under the bed, Wang Qiang muttered to himself.
"Abandon, give up."
Zhao Zixuan laughed in the darkness.
"Your first word is unlucky."
Wang Qiang immediately turned the page.
"I won't carry it."
Chen Mo spoke softly.
"Avoiding high-frequency words is not advisable."
Wang Qiang lowered his voice.
"Can't I at least avoid going to the second floor tomorrow? Can't I even avoid a single word?"
Li Chen closed his eyes, unable to suppress his smile.
The next morning, Wang Qiang executed the plan better than anyone had imagined.
He did not go to the second floor.
They even avoided the route Lin Duo usually took.
At lunchtime, Wang Qiang sat in a corner of the No. 3 canteen with his tray, looking like he had been exiled.
Zhao Zixuan picked up a piece of meat for him.
"Eat up, missing person."
Wang Qiang had no appetite.
She didn't contact me.
Li Chen looked at his phone.
Yan Xi issued the instructions this morning.
No initiative allowed.
He showed these four words to Wang Qiang.
Wang Qiang gritted his teeth and ate.
"I'll endure it."
Chen Mo glanced at the time.
"It has been more than fourteen hours since the last message last night. For Wang Qiang, this is an effective withdrawal."
Zhao Zixuan: "Could you please stop making your brother sound like a lab rat?"
Chen Mo: "The sample value is very high."
Just as Wang Qiang was about to retort, his phone lit up.
He froze.
Li Chen looked down.
Lin Duo sent a message.
You really didn't come to the second floor today.
Wang Qiang's chopsticks fell onto the plate.
Yan Xi's message popped up almost simultaneously.
Tell him to stop pretending.
Li Chen stared at the screen, and suddenly felt a little admiration for Yan Xi.
She made Wang Qiang disappear for half a day.
It's not because it's cold.
It was so that Lin Duo would discover—
This person is not here.
Wang Qiang lowered his voice.
"Then how should I reply?"
Li Chen looked at the new message Yan Xi had sent.
[Reply: Yes, I was afraid of disturbing your meal.]
Wang Qiang followed suit.
Before he could speak, Li Chen pressed down on his hand.
"Think about it yourself."
Wang Qiang was stunned.
Li Chen said, "The meaning can be the same, but the way you put it has to sound like you."
Wang Qiang looked down at it for a long time, then deleted it and retyped it.
【Yeah, I didn't go today. I was afraid of running into you too often, and you'd find me annoying.】
After he finished sending it, he leaned back.
"Oh no, am I too straight?"
Li Chen didn't speak.
Because Lin Duo replied very quickly.
No worries.
Wang Qiang sat up abruptly.
The next second, Lin Duo sent another message.
I just thought you would come.
Wang Qiang's mouth was open, but he couldn't utter a single word.
Li Chen's phone vibrated.
Yan Xi only said one sentence.
[You can return his phone to him in ten minutes tonight.]
Wang Qiang stared at the words "I just thought you would come," his ears turning noticeably red.
Zhao Zixuan leaned over to take a look and clicked his tongue.
"Qiangzi."
Wang Qiang did not respond.
Zhao Zixuan raised his hand and waved it in front of his eyes.
"Where is the soul?"
Wang Qiang slowly turned his head.
She thought I would come.
Chen Mo typed the sentence into the spreadsheet.
"Preliminary expectations for the relationship have been formed."
Wang Qiang didn't scold him this time.
He was still looking at his phone.
It's as if I'm afraid those words will just disappear on their own.
Li Chen took his phone.
Wang Qiang immediately looked up.
"Brother Chen?"
"Yan Xi said, ten minutes tonight."
"Isn't it possible now?"
"no."
Wang Qiang's lips moved, and finally he managed to utter a sentence.
"My sister-in-law is really ruthless."
Li Chen tampered with the phone.
"She's trying to help you."
Wang Qiang lowered his head and ate his rice.
"I know."
Of course he knew.
If you ask him to reply now, he will most likely express all his joy in his words.
One "Really?", one "Then I'll go tomorrow", plus three emojis.
Li Chenguang felt it was dangerous just thinking about it.
Yan Xi is right.
Wang Qiang couldn't hide it.
But the inability to hide it is not a problem.
The problem is that you can't unleash all your emotions on someone else at once.
Lin Duo is not Yan Xi.
Yan Xi can handle all of Li Chen's bluntness, and even turn the tables on him.
Lin Duo is not necessarily right.
At 1:50 PM, Li Chen arrived at the entrance of the teaching building.
Yan Xi was already standing there.
She held a thin booklet in one hand and Li Chen's new thermos in the other.
Li Chen's first glance fell on her wrist.
The red string is still there.
He only looked up after he finished reading.
Yan Xi was also looking at him.
"be late?"
Li Chen checked the time.
1:49.
"I arrived a minute early."
Yan Xi handed him the thermos.
"I've been here for five minutes."
Li Chen took the cup and touched the rim of it with his fingers.
Warm.
He asked instinctively, "Sixty degrees?"
"Sixty-one," Yan Xi said. "You didn't talk much this morning, so your throat wasn't as dry."
Li Chen couldn't help but lower his head and laugh.
Yan Xi glanced at him.
"What are you laughing at?"
"They laugh at me for being so precisely controlled."
"Any objections?"
"no."
Li Chen unscrewed the lid and took a sip.
The temperature is just right.
The more he drank from the cup, the more comfortable he felt with it.
He hadn't put the cup holder in yet; he had tucked it inside his backpack.
Yan Xi's cup holder with his name engraved on it should also be with her.
The two of them weren't wearing rings, but it was as if they had already exchanged something very formal.
Just as Li Chen's mind went blank for a moment, Yan Xi reached out and pressed down on his wrist.
"Eighty-four."
Li Chen snapped out of his daze.
"You've been testing too frequently lately."
"Because you've been overthinking lately."
Li Chen had no way to refute it.
He was definitely overthinking things.
Yan Xi handed him the booklet.
"Come with me to the library this afternoon."
"Check this?"
Li Chen glanced down at the cover.
It's not a building.
It contains competition materials related to computer science.
Li Chen was stunned.
"mine?"
Yan Xi hummed in agreement.
"You mentioned last time that the teacher brought up a school-level project. You didn't sign up."
Li Chen remembered.
That happened before the end of the semester.
He only mentioned it casually.
He was busy reviewing at the time and didn't look at it carefully.
Why are you looking into this?
Yan Xi walked forward.
"You're a good fit."
Li Chen followed.
"Didn't you say I was suited for scientific research?"
"Project experience doesn't conflict," Yan Xi said. "You're a freshman now, so you can start trying things out earlier."
Li Chen looked at her profile.
She spoke in a very flat tone, as if she had just casually looked up some information.