Chapter 11 The Mysterious Man The man stretched out his big hand and gently pressed it on Bai Ying...

After dinner, Bai Ying took the initiative to clean up the kitchen.

She has good work habits and never procrastinates. She has already cleaned the kitchen while cleaning the live fish and cooking, and only needs to put the dishes in the dishwasher.

She just loved this kitchen so much that she wanted to stay in it for a while longer. She thought her aunt's kitchen was already professional, but she didn't expect it to be even better.

Qin Yonglian's kitchen is like Doraemon's pocket, fully stocked with everything, yet neatly organized and spotless. Everywhere you look, you'll find countless design details.

A person's character and habits can be seen from his kitchen. Bai Ying thought of a few words: active thinking, innovative, and longing for a sense of security.

The man was standing in front of the locker, selecting coffee beans from neatly arranged bottles and jars.

The two people in the kitchen were doing their respective jobs, and in the front yard, Hua Zai and Wei Zai were basking in the sun side by side. There was a picture of peace and tranquility both inside and outside the house. Su Jiahao felt that he was a little redundant for a moment.

Apart from eating and daydreaming, he seemed to have nothing else to do.

During the dinner, they talked about the Speed ​​race yesterday afternoon. Bai Ying discussed the Ferrari GTB's 670 horsepower, which seemed to be the only thing related to Su Jiahao.

The following discussion almost entirely revolved around the topic of food, and Qin Yonglian, who was usually tight-lipped, also made a rare appearance in the discussion.

Su Jiahao looked at Qin Yonglian. This old man was behaving a little abnormally.

In addition, those paparazzi didn't recognize their own license plate at all, they were clearly coming for Qin Yonglian.

He felt a little worried for the old man.

After all, Qin Yonglian's current situation was not optimistic. The media received a lot of negative reports about him. A group of people outside were watching eagerly, waiting to see him "go crazy" to prove that this young master had mental problems.

The Qin family wasn't doing much either. Deng Yuqian, the eldest wife, had always disliked Qin Yonglian, and it just so happened that Qin Yongli had met Qin Yonglian the day of the accident, which inevitably led to gossip. If the cause of the accident wasn't investigated, Qin Yonglian would be blamed.

The second house is also a cause for concern, with fierce infighting. According to the rules, children of the second house are not allowed to engage in business. Now the brother and sister have made it clear that they want to join the Qin family and participate in management.

The above are all gossips that Su Jiahao’s mother heard from the dance teacher.

Deng Yuqian is a dance fanatic. Born into a family of dancers, she graduated from the London Academy of Dance and Dramatic Art, the UK's premier dance academy. Early on, she purchased a building in the city center to house her dance club, employing a world-class ballroom dance champion as her teacher.

The club is very famous among the upper-class wives in Hong Kong. It is no exaggeration to say that many corporate mergers, stock news and wealthy family gossips are first spread from the dance floors and mahjong tables in the wives' circle.

"Bai Ying, do you like bitter or sour coffee?" Qin Yonglian seemed to be aware that he was being stared at by an inquiring gaze on the back of his head, and he moved the can of coffee beans without looking away.

The girl immediately responded, "Sour, with a stronger fruity aroma."

Qin Yonglian: "Okay. Then today we'll choose Pacamara from the Guatemalan Grafting Estate."

"Leon, why don't you ask me?" Su Jiahao retracted his gaze and pretended to be sour, "I want to drink something sour today too."

Qin Yonglian gave his childhood friend a meaningful look, turned around, opened the cabinet, and selected a gold-plated copper Belgian pot from the many coffee pots.

The Belgian pot is a siphon pot that looks like a symmetrical balance. On one side is a kettle and an alcohol lamp, and on the other side is a coffee pot filled with coffee powder. The two sides are connected by a thin tube.

Throughout the whole process, you can very intuitively see the water and coffee liquid spreading in the tube due to the siphon principle, making the process of making handmade coffee quite interesting to watch.

Su Jiahao tutted his words and thought to himself, which report said Qin Yonglian was autistic? This guy is obviously a scheming boy.

As expected, this immediately attracted Bai Ying. The girl rested her elbows on the marble table, her eyes closely following the movements of Qin Yonglian's hands.

The man's hands were slender and beautiful with distinct joints. His sleeves were rolled up two inches, revealing his beautiful wrists. The mellow coffee immediately became lively, as if it had gained a beating life in his hands.

Qin Yonglian remained calm, his lips curled slightly, "I made some brownies this morning, and the acidity of the coffee is just right to help with that. Would you like some?"

"Brownie and black coffee are a perfect match! They taste so good." Bai Ying's heart was pounding. It was so great!

Huh? Qin Yonglian can also make desserts?

She seemed to have made a valuable friend. "Leon, would you like to join our Knights? As the leader, I solemnly invite you."

Su Jiahao became interested when he heard this. "What knight? Is there a medal? I want to join too. Is that okay?"

Bai Ying smiled and nodded, "Of course no problem."

The kitchen was soon filled with the aroma of coffee.

Qin Yonglian's eyes gradually darkened, and he lowered his head to carefully adjust the siphon heat transfer tube. It was impossible to tell his emotions just by looking at his calm face.

Bai Ying was just about to make another formal invitation as the group leader, but the treasure man had already perfectly diverted her attention with a cup of fragrant coffee.

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When the ferry headed for the city, Bai Ying remembered the topic that had just been interrupted while drinking coffee, and thought to herself that she must formally invite Qin Yonglian again.

Asked: "By the way, when are you moving to my aunt's place?"

"We?" Su Jiahao hummed. "Bai Ying, that house is actually where Leon lives. It's inconvenient for him to come in person, so he rented it in my name. I only like pretty girls."

Eh???

It turns out that Qin Yonglian and Su Jiahao are not a couple. Bai Ying scratched his head, feeling a little embarrassed, but also mixed with some inexplicable happiness.

After dealing with her several times, Su Jiahao had a good impression of Bai Ying and did not hide anything from her.

"Leon's family is very strict, and now that he's working in a company, it's inconvenient for him to commute to South Cowes Island every day. Helicopter travel is possible, but his father disagrees because he's afraid he'll run away."

Escape? That's a strange word to use.

Bai Ying didn't think much about it: "Oh..."

"But I also want to thank you. If the paparazzi had photographed him yesterday, I don't know what kind of person they would have portrayed him as." Su Jiahao couldn't help but sigh and let out a soft sigh.

Then he counted on his fingers: "He seems cold and abstinent on the surface, but in reality... he is kind and innocent, uninhibited and loves freedom."

Bai Ying again: "......"

"Eh? Have I told you too much? Just pretend you didn't hear it. Our Leon is just a mysterious man." Su Jiahao spread out his hands with an innocent expression.

Bai Ying held her forehead: "Okay..."

*** ***

Once again, it was time for the weekly financial analysis class. Bai Ying entered the classroom and this time sat down next to Qin Yonglian.

Although she could still feel his subtle physical restraint, after their contact on South Cowes Island, Bai Ying felt that they had become friends.

As friends, we understand and tolerate each other, and what's more, we can talk to each other quite well.

After class, Zhong Qiu and Huang Kaiwen had to leave early to work part-time jobs. The group, whose goal has always been to "study hard and make progress every day", hurriedly spent three minutes to finish the discussion and quickly assigned homework tasks.

Bai Ying packed her schoolbag and prepared to go to the library. Before leaving, she asked Qin Yonglian, "Leon, do you want to go to the library to study together?"

Qin Yonglian's mind suddenly flashed with what his father had said to him, and his hands paused for a moment.

"The library is going to be expanded above the third floor, so we should go to the basement early to reserve a spot." Bai Ying automatically assumed that Qin Yonglian agreed.

Qin Yonglian had never been to the college library. His home was a library, and he didn't know why he listened to Bai Ying's words.

The girl's words seemed to carry a mysterious magic, a power that was irresistible.

"Hey! Actually, I have always had a question. There are so many books on the second floor of your house. Have you finished reading them all?" Bai Ying asked.

The man pointed to his head and said half-jokingly, "It's all here."

Bai Ying didn't inherit her family's academic prowess. Under Bai Xuan's guidance, she took her studies very seriously from a young age. In her own words, "The slow bird flies faster."

The two of them found a corner to sit down, and flew from afternoon to night, except that during that time, they went to Qizai with Qin Yonglian to buy a curry fish ball for a simple dinner.

Bai Ying took two more courses than others this semester and had to write more midterm papers.

"Are you planning to stay in the library tonight?" Qin Yonglian asked after checking the time.

Bai Ying showed off some glucose drinks and Hershey's chocolate bars for energy. "Well, the library is the most convenient. I plan to stay up all night researching, and it's a better place to study."

The soundproofing of the place where she lived was too poor. The wife of her doctoral neighbor came to Hong Kong from the mainland with her baby. The child was only three years old and full of energy. Through the thin wall, it seemed as if the child was running around in her ears.

Qin Yonglian found it a little strange, "All night?" After sitting in the library for an entire afternoon, he had heard several classmates say they wanted to stay up all night.

This word was very familiar to him, but in the context of the library, it was fresh.

"It's not all night. I usually go home at four in the morning." Another neighbor who rented the house also happened to finish work and go home at that time. He calculated the time to go back so that she would not be woken up just when she fell asleep.

Qin Yonglian's eyes darkened, as if he was thinking about something.

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The main library closes at 10 p.m. every night, and all personnel must leave at that time.

Students who need to stay in the library overnight can re-enter the library through the side door on the basement floor after the main library closes.

Only the underground level of the college library is open 24 hours a day.

The reminder bell rang at 10 o'clock in the evening, and the students went out one after another. Those who went home went home, and those who wanted to stay overnight went towards the side door.

Bai Ying saw Qin Yonglian queuing with her on the underground first floor, "Huh? Why don't you go back?"

Since arriving at the library, the man hadn't looked for information for his homework. Instead, he took out a few books on "Contemporary Marine Biology Research" and "Mycology" and read them with great interest.

"I just happened to have some information I needed to look up," Qin Yonglian naturally took the laptop from Bai Ying's arms, freeing her hands to focus on carrying the bag of books. "Actually... I'll tell you a secret."

Tan Yonglian leaned close to Bai Ying and whispered in her ear, "Crossing that long footbridge in Hung Hom and that flower-wreathed street alone at night is really scary."

Bai Ying couldn't help but chuckle. The mysterious man Su Jiahao was talking about turned out to be the tall guy who was afraid of walking alone at night?

There are several funeral homes near the PolyU, and cremation work will not be carried out until the early morning. Several times when she returned home in the middle of the night, she could see wisps of smoke rising from those buildings.

"Aren't you afraid?" Qin Yonglian looked into her eyes seriously, trying to find a trace of fear in them.

"I haven't done anything wrong, so what should I be afraid of?"

"Something that's a guilty conscience?"

"It means something bad." Bai Ying wrinkled his nose and finally thought of a synonym.

Qin Yonglian caught the girl's vivid expression and raised the corners of his lips slightly, "So, you say you are a good person?"

"Yes, you can understand it that way." Bai Ying blinked.

Qin Yonglian fell silent, his phone vibrating in his pocket. Qin Yuan called him several times, asking about his situation, but he only replied with one message:

[The library is open all night, please do not disturb.]

Qin Yuan had the expression of an old man on the subway looking at his phone, carefully checking the horizontal and vertical strokes of the words on the screen.

The young master seemed to have completely changed since he went to college. I thought he would reject campus, but he actually went to the library? His collection of books on South Cowes Island was no less than the library's.

If that incident hadn't happened, he wouldn't have stopped studying after the high school entrance examination.

With Qin Yonglian's reading volume and memory, university courses are just child's play for him.

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It was still dark at four in the morning and there were few people on the road.

Bai Ying and Tan Yonglian walked on the nearly several kilometers long pedestrian bridge in Hung Hom and walked into the hazy night together.

The sky in the distance is like an inky blue curtain, and a few wisps of green smoke can be vaguely seen.

Bai Ying remembered what Qin Yonglian had said, and took the initiative to change seats with him so that the man would not see the direction of the smoke when talking to her.

"Leon, are you worried about me walking alone at night, so you stay with me until this hour?"

Bai Ying wanted to find a light-hearted topic to talk about, otherwise this environment would easily lead to people thinking of ghost stories. Boys care about their reputation, so she decided not to expose him.

After a long silence, Qin Yonglian hummed as a response.

Eh???

Bai Ying looked up at him, and met Qin Yonglian's gaze. She tilted her head and asked curiously, "Leon? Why are you looking back?"

"I always feel like someone is following us." The man leaned slightly towards her and deliberately lowered his voice.

Bai Ying felt a cold wind blowing across her back, her neck felt chilly, and she subconsciously tensed her body.

"I was just kidding." The man who succeeded was smiling.

"Qin! Yong! Lian! Look to your right, there is smoke in the sky!" Bai Ying also wanted to scare him and save her face.

The girl had a delicate oval face with soft lines on her cheeks. Her almond-shaped eyes were deliberately wide open and her brows were slightly wrinkled, like the wind blowing through a small pond, causing ripples.

The man stretched out his big palm and gently pressed it on Bai Ying's head.

The girl seemed to be under a spell of immobilization. The angry kitten quickly calmed down and two red clouds appeared on her cheeks. What happened?

It seemed that the two of them had become much closer, but Bai Ying felt that her heart was swaying in the air like a kite, unable to land.

Qin Yonglian was also stunned by his involuntary action. After being distracted for a while, he withdrew his hand as if nothing had happened.

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Qin Yonglian: Snoring head, dear.

Bai Ying: well behaved.jpg