The system watched her show off silently, without saying a word.

Anyway, she has to go today, whether she wants to or not.

Gu Luoqi poured herself a cup and also brought one for Qi Sheng.

She knocked on Qi Sheng's door once again.

Qi Sheng opened the door very quickly this time.

"I brought you a cup of fruit tea." Gu Luoqi smiled obsequiously.

Qi Sheng could tell at a glance that she wanted something from him, but he didn't want to spell it out. "Thank you," he said, and then took his glass.

And then that was it.

Gu Luoxi was getting anxious. Couldn't this guy see it?

The two remained silent in a stalemate until Gu Luoqi couldn't help but stammer, "Um..."

Qi Sheng frowned slightly. "Get to the point." Why are you stammering?

"Well... actually, I just wanted to exchange learning experiences with you." Gu Luoqi seemed unsure how to begin.

"Hmm?" Qi Sheng raised his eyes slightly, looking eager to hear more.

"I've been hitting a roadblock lately, you know. I'm a senior in high school now, and I can't keep doing useless work, so... I wanted to ask you..."

"Host, you're here to exchange learning experiences! So let's be firm and let him know your determination. I believe he won't have the heart to refuse you." The system looked down on Gu Luoqi's stammering.

It's not like we're doing anything illegal, so what's there to be guilty about?

"Shut up!" Gu Luoqi snapped.

Theoretical knowledge is one thing, but putting it into practice is another.

"I seem to remember telling you this last time." Qi Sheng's lips curled up slightly, forming a charming smile.

"I just felt I benefited a lot and planned to come back to learn more." Gu Luoqi lied with a smile on her face, without any pressure at all.

Some things are better learned the first time.

Upon hearing this, Qi Sheng almost lost his composure.

I benefited greatly from it?

Was she mocking him?

Seeing that he didn't quite believe her, Gu Luoxi didn't know what to do. "You have a notebook for correcting mistakes, right?" She thought that a top student's collection of wrong answers was still very valuable.

But Qi Sheng might disappoint her, "It seems not."

"No?" Gu Luoqi clearly didn't believe it.

"Host, maybe they didn't even make a mistake." The system felt that she was being too narrow-minded.

“That makes sense.” Gu Luoqi was a little confused.

The perspective of top students is naturally different from hers.

"Then what do you think could help me? Please support me." Gu Luoqi looked at Qi Sheng expectantly, her eyes sparkling.

Qi Sheng felt reluctant to refuse her because of her attentive gaze.

"You wait." His expression remained unchanged.

After saying that, he turned around and went back to his room.

This time, Gu Luoqi didn't crane her neck like she had the previous times. She obediently waited for Qi Sheng to return without overstepping any boundaries.

Her gaze fell upon the canvas she had seen earlier.

The painting above looks finished, but it hasn't been taken down.

It vaguely looks like a small building.

However, the color scheme was exceptionally gloomy.

"Here, take this." Qi Sheng returned to Gu Luoqi with a black notebook.

"What is this?" Gu Luoqi asked, puzzled.

What kind of 'martial arts manual' is this?

"Homework," Qi Sheng said in a calm tone.

This is something the teacher asked us to organize not long ago. Since we don't need it now, we might as well give it to her.

Gu Luoqi quickly took it, eagerly flipped through it, and found it contained a summary of mathematical formulas.

Qi Sheng's calligraphy is exceptionally beautiful, just like him, and is far more striking than Gu Luoqi's cursive script.

"Thank you." She was overjoyed.

Holding the object, her attention returned to the painting. "You finished painting it?" She couldn't understand it, but she couldn't resist her curiosity.

"Hmm." A fleeting hint of sadness crossed Qi Sheng's eyes, so quick that Gu Luoxi couldn't catch it.

"What did you draw?" she blinked.

Qi Sheng's eyes held emotions that others couldn't decipher. He didn't speak, but simply turned around and retrieved the painting. "Here, take it from me." His tone was completely unwavering.

"Ah...oh, thank you." His reaction left Gu Luoqi at a loss for words.

"You don't want it?" Qi Sheng's eyes curved into a beautiful arc, revealing no emotion.

"Yes, yes, of course I want it!" Gu Luoqi quickly protected the painting, as if afraid that Qi Sheng would snatch it back.

Why wouldn't you want something that's free?

After confirming that Qi Sheng didn't intend to take it back, she glanced at it briefly and muttered, "This place is so strange."

The place depicted in the painting looks like an empty apartment building from a horror movie.

"This is my home." Qi Sheng smiled slightly, but there was a chill in that smile.

For a moment, Gu Luoxi didn't know what to say.

She knew that the home he was talking about was definitely not their home, but the home he lived in when he was a child.

In that sense, she still knew too little about him.

All she knew was that his parents were gone; she knew nothing else.

Including where he used to live.

If he lived in this haunted apartment building, his childhood must have been incredibly miserable.

"Surprised?" Qi Sheng saw the pity deep in her eyes and asked as if possessed.

"Um... how should I put it, a little bit." Gu Luoqi didn't know how to describe her indescribable emotions.

Qi Sheng suppressed the shimmering light in his eyes, as if speaking to her, or perhaps talking to himself, "I've lived here for many years."

His words left Gu Luoxi at a loss for words; her intuition told her that the atmosphere was somewhat heavy.

She looked at him and realized that he hadn't really expected her to reply.

After a brief farewell, Gu Luoqi returned to her room with a notebook and a painting.

Even after hearing the system notification that the task was completed, she remained silent for a long time.

The system sensed something was wrong with her. "Host, what's wrong?"

Gu Luoxi remained silent upon hearing this, until the system thought she wouldn't answer it, at which point her voice finally broke through, "I feel that Qi Sheng seems a little sad." The atmosphere just now was too heavy, making her unable to resist running away, and she did just that, practically fleeing in panic.

"Hmm?" The system was a little confused about what she meant.

"I can't explain it either." Gu Luoqi didn't know how to describe that infectious sadness.

"I don't understand either, you guys are really strange." The system didn't understand these inexplicable human emotions.

Gu Luoqi did not immediately check the notebook Qi Sheng had given her, but instead focused her attention on the painting.

Her intuition told her that Qi Sheng's inexplicable emotions were related to this painting.

She unfolded the painting, and her gaze naturally fell upon it.

Looking at the gloomy residential building, she still couldn't quite believe that such a place really existed.

Actually, the composition of the whole painting is quite strange. If the purpose of the painting was to depict a residential building, the focus should have been on the building itself.