Chapter 3 Heavy Rain

The next morning, when Xie Yu got up and washed up, Shen Ci had already left.

Before leaving, he put the props scattered on the floor back in place, took the coat off the sofa, and restored the room to its cleanest state, as if he had not been there last night.

Xie Yu bit his toothbrush and flipped through the hotel's breakfast brochure, and asked casually: "Young Master, don't you ask Shen Ci to stay and have breakfast with you?"

The system said: “The eldest young master can’t get up, and Shen Ci has a morning meeting and needs to go to the laboratory. You can look through the agreement. Their agreement time does not include the morning.”

Xie Yu nodded.

He was not considered a good student when he was in school. He would often skip morning reading and his grades were mediocre. He was a problem teenager who sat in the back row of the class. He even pierced his earrings and rode a motorcycle in his early years. In short, he was not the same kind of person as the serious academic god like Shen Ci.

He flipped through the agreement briefly, then threw the booklet on the sofa and asked the system: "Are there any plans for today?"

"Yes." The system flipped through the novel, "There is a car race today."

The original owner was a top second-generation rich man who played fancy. In addition to various special hobbies that he couldn't express, he also liked to play racing.

Xie Yu nodded: "What is the key mission node?"

"First, you have to bring Chen Ci to the competition, tell your circle that you picked him up, and have... uh, physical contact with him in front of your friends."

As soon as he heard this ambiguous description, Xie Yu knew it was another mosaic content.

But this is where the mosaic can be manipulated.

Xie Yu nodded: "What else?"

"Similarly, you need to make the protagonist feel embarrassed and uneasy. The key points of the task are: asserting sovereignty, verbal teasing, forced physical contact, and insults."

The plot points of stories about abusing the protagonist are always similar. Xie Yu nodded to show that he understood. The car race was scheduled for 2:30 in the afternoon, which was just in time for lunch and within the agreed time.

He called Shen Ci: “Okay, I’ll tell the protagonist.”

*

In the laboratory, Shen Ci took off his gloves and turned on the water valve.

The laboratory gloves are made of rubber and are not breathable. They wrap the skin tightly for several hours. Now when I take them off, there is a thin layer of sweat on the knuckles. When the laboratory lights are turned on, the cold white skin looks like porcelain covered with glaze.

Water flowed over his fingers, and Shen Ci wiped them with a towel. At this moment, the phone in his pocket vibrated slightly, and the screen lit up. Shen Ci paused, but ignored it. Instead, he washed his hands thoroughly, then looked up at Li Yue and Han Yunyun: "Remember to watch the temperature of the incubator, and record the experimental data every 20 minutes. If there is anything wrong, please contact me in time."

These two people are his junior brothers and sisters in the laboratory. They are freshmen who just came in this year and don’t understand many steps. They nodded like chickens pecking at rice: "Okay, Senior Brother Shen."

Shen Ci waved his hand and asked them to do their own things. Han Yunyun took two steps and turned back: “By the way, senior brother, there will be a meeting next week, and the teacher asked you to attend.”

Shen Ci nodded.

Li Yue added: "The instructor said this meeting is very important and asked you to dress nicely."

Shen Ci paused, expressionless: “Yeah.”

He didn't have any nice clothes.

At this time, the phone in her pocket vibrated again, and Han Yunyun pointed at it: "Brother, you have a phone call."

Shen Ci glanced at the caller ID and stopped the moment he saw the name. The fluorescent blue screen of the phone was reflected in his pupils, like a deep cold pond.

Han Yunyun watched from the side, cautiously asking, "Senior Brother?"

Shen Ci turned off his phone, his expression was still cold and expressionless, he just said: "Something happened, I have to go out for a while."

After saying this, without waiting for Han Yunyun to reply, he pushed open the glass door, walked quickly out of the corridor, and disappeared from sight.

Han Yunyun watched him go away and whispered, "Brother, you feel weird today? What's so urgent? Can't you tell us? In the past, when there were activities or meetings in the Student Affairs Department, Brother would always give us a heads up."

Shen Ci really couldn’t tell the two of them.

The weather was gloomy today, and it was foggy as if it was going to rain, but he went all the way outside the yard, and waited until the laboratory window was far behind him and Li Yue and Han Yunyun could no longer hear any sound from here, then he opened his phone.

Two missed calls, both from Xie Yu.

According to Master Xie's temper, it would be a huge sin if he didn't answer the phone when it rang three times in a row.

Shen Ci stood at the door of the experimental building, his lips pursed into a straight line. He didn't want to call back, but when the screen lit up, Xie Yu called again.

"Hello," Master Xie's casual voice came, "Why didn't you answer my call?"

Shen Ci: “…I was doing an experiment, I didn’t hear it.”

Xie Yu laughed: "Are you doing a real experiment or a fake experiment?"

Shen Ci lowered his eyes: "...really do it."

It was certainly not a good excuse to say that he didn't answer the call because he was busy with experiments, but Young Master Xie didn't need such excuses if he wanted to make things difficult for him.

However, he was tense all over, but Xie Yu just asked casually. After a simple greeting, he opened the novel and read the lines to Shen Ci: “I have a car race in the suburbs, you have to go with me, I will pick you up at the laboratory building at two o’clock in the afternoon.”

The original owner behaved like a superior young master. He would not ask Shen Ci if he had time or if it was convenient. He just said that he was coming and Shen Ci had to wait.

Fortunately, there are only routine experiments in the afternoon and no important meetings. If I make good use of my time in the morning, I can finish it before leaving.

During the few seconds he paused, Xie Yu said again: "Reply."

Shen Ci could only say: “Okay.”

The other party hung up the phone.

Shen Ci had no expression. He put away his phone and walked towards the laboratory. When he reached the end of the corridor, separated by a layer of foggy frosted glass, he suddenly slowed down his pace and paused at the door.

On the other side of the wall, Li Yue and Han Yunyun were chatting about gossip.

Both of them are freshmen, full of youthful energy, especially Han Yunyun, who loves to read gossip on the school forum. After two months, she has already gotten to know all the big names on campus. Whenever Shen Ci goes back to the laboratory, you can hear her chatting with Li Yue about which department and class has which handsome guy, which counselor is dating a professor, and so on.

But this time, the protagonist of the gossip is a little special.

Han Yunyun: “By the way, did you see the Bentley that came to pick up Senior Brother Shen Ci that day?”

On the day Xie Yu asked someone to escort Chen to take a physical examination, his men drove a Bentley to the school.

The original owner didn't like old-school business cars like Bentley. He liked colorful luxury sports cars. However, when his subordinates were doing things, they didn't drive the young master's favorite cars, but only drove the Bentley.

Li Yue recognized the brand of the car: "I saw it, it looks like a Bentley Bentayga, a car worth over three million."

He muttered, "But isn't Brother Shen from a poor family, relying entirely on scholarships? He rarely orders meat when he goes to the cafeteria, he's a pure vegetarian. Does he have any friends who drive such a nice car?"

Han Yunyun: "Speaking of this, there is a saying on the forum that the eldest son of the Xie family..."

Gossip spreads the fastest in school, and Xie Yu has always been a flamboyant person. There are quite a few rich second-generation people in Jiangcheng who know his car, and there are also many in A University. Someone has seen the license plate of the Bentley, and based on hearsay, there have been some rumors on the forum.

Han Yunyun said a few words, and Li Yue was startled by something and raised his voice: "No way, Senior Brother Shen is so noble, how could it be possible..."

At this moment, the door lock clicked.

This sound was like a death spell. Both of them shuddered at the same time, and the room fell silent.

Shen Ci pushed the door open and walked in, without even looking at his junior brothers and sisters. He stood in front of the lab table and put on his gloves again. His slender fingers were wrapped in rubber, revealing traces of joints: "Did you record the data just now?"

Han Yunyun was terrified: "Recorded... recorded."

She secretly looked at Shen Ci's face, and seeing that he was calm and everything was normal, she plucked up her courage and asked, "Master... Senior Brother? When did you come back?"

Shen Ci looked indifferent: “Just now.”

He did not continue the topic, took out the reagents to be used and classified them, and said, "I have to go out at two o'clock in the afternoon. I will finish the work in the morning. You can watch in the afternoon."

"Ah?" Li Yue hesitated: "Finished in the morning?"

Han Yunyun also said: "This workload is a bit heavy, isn't it? Senior brother, aren't you going to have lunch?"

Shen Ci didn’t even raise his head: “Yeah.”

The atmosphere suddenly became dull and no one spoke anymore.

After lunch, Han Yunyun and Li Yue left one after another. Shen Ci rushed to finish the experiment on time. When he looked at the watch, there were still ten minutes to two o'clock.

The sky was gloomy at this time. Through the glass window, a dark area could be seen in the distance. The air was filled with the smell of moisture, making the experiment feel stuffy. Looking at the sky, it looked like it was going to rain heavily.

Shen Ci pressed his swollen forehead. He felt a little dizzy due to not having eaten lunch and having low blood sugar. But if he fainted in front of Xie Yu, he didn't want to know what would happen.

After hesitating for a moment, he went to the school's small supermarket and bought a bar of cheap chocolate.

It was just past lunchtime, and students went together to buy snacks. There were a lot of people checking out, and by the time he finished paying and came out, there were still three minutes left.

Xie Yu's text message came at the right time: "I'm here, downstairs from you."

For Xie Yu, arriving at the agreed destination three minutes early is basic courtesy. If he was not afraid of violating his personal character, he would usually arrive ten minutes early. But for Shen Ci, this is more like a signal that the young master is dissatisfied.

He held the small piece of chocolate in his palm and took a small path back. This path was rarely traveled and passed through the birch forest of the school. When he was halfway there, a strong wind suddenly blew and the birch trees rustled.

The weather changes especially quickly in autumn, often sunny in the morning and rainy in the afternoon. The dark clouds above our heads had gathered for so long that they were split apart by a silver-white lightning. The next second, before Shen Ci could react, the rainstorm arrived as expected.

It's late summer and early autumn, and the rain is quite cold.

He had no umbrella and nowhere to hide, so he was soaked from head to toe. The rain rolled down his shirt and the fabric stuck to his body.

The phone vibrated again, and Xie Yu asked: "It's raining, where are you?"

Shen Ci didn't have time to think about it, and hurried to the laboratory building. Sure enough, he saw a silver-gray Bentley parked downstairs, with a vertical waterfall grille, two rows of matrix headlights, and a small window. Master Xie was sitting in the driver's seat, supporting his forehead with one hand, with a lollipop in his mouth, scanning the passers-by through the glass, and seemed to be waiting impatiently.

The original owner smokes, but Xie Yu doesn’t. He holds a lollipop in his mouth to create his character.

It was exactly two o'clock, and it was time for students to return to the laboratory. People were coming and going in the building. Li Yue and Han Yunyun came over from the dormitory and recognized Shen Ci from afar. Han Yunyun was stunned when she saw Shen Ci's embarrassed look: "Brother, don't you have an umbrella?"

Before he finished speaking, the door of the Bentley was unlocked and Xie Yuban rolled down the window.

Shen Ci was sandwiched between them, his whole body stiff and cold.

Xie Yu didn't know Li Yue and Han Yunyun: "Why are you standing there? Aren't you cold? Come up."

Shen Ci pursed his lips, did not respond to Li Yue and Han Yunyun, and got into the car in front of them.

After he came in, Xie Yu closed the car window, leaving a gap for air to enter, and asked, "What's going on?"

Shen Ci was soaked all over, his face was pale and his lips were blue, the rain was running down his hair, his clothes were all stuck to his body, and he looked very pitiful.

Xie Yu only glanced at him and then looked away.

The shirt was so wet and stuck to her body that it just happened to outline her waistline. The curve of the waist was smooth and beautiful, very suitable for being held in the palm of the hand and played with. The material of the clothes was also transparent, a thin layer that revealed just enough to reveal a little, giving off a sexy vibe. Xie Yu took a look and saw everything he should and shouldn't see.

He coughed: "How did you get yourself into this state?"

Shen Ci: “It just happened to rain.”

He looked out of the window through a layer of glass. Li Yue and Han Yunyun were still standing in front of the experimental building. They were hesitating whether to come up and ask a question.

Xie Yu groaned, raised his hand to open the front locker, and said, "Your shirt is soaked, take it off first."

Last night, Chen Ci was so cold that he coughed even when the air conditioner was on. If he has to wrap himself in wet clothes all the way, Xie Yu doesn't have to go to watch the race. Just send him to the hospital directly.

As soon as he finished speaking, Shen Ci paused and looked over in disbelief. His body was tense, his nails almost digging into the flesh, and he just looked at Xie Yu without moving for a long time.

Xie Yu continued to search: "What's wrong?"

Shen Ci said awkwardly: "Here?"

"Ah?" His voice was too soft, and Xie Yu didn't stop talking. He continued to rummage through the storage box, as if he was reaching for something deep inside.

Shen Ci paused for a long time, then raised his eyes hastily.

Through a thin layer of glass, people were coming and going outside the experimental building. Young men and women were walking around the campus, talking and laughing. It seemed like two different worlds compared to the inside of the car.

Shen Ci looked out the window in a daze. Li Yue and Han Yunyun were still under the eaves. Han Yunyun was holding an umbrella. Li Yue took out the towel he had prepared for playing ball in the afternoon and seemed to want to give it to him.

The glass is one-way, but there is a gap in the rear window for ventilation. If the two people change the angle, they can see inside the car.

Shen Ci lowered his eyes.

The car was as silent as death, with the only sound being the sound of Xie Yu rummaging through things.

In the silent stalemate, Shen Ci seemed to have thought of something. His face turned pale and his fingers trembled uncontrollably. After a moment, seeing that Xie Yu had no intention of letting go, he silently reached out for the buttons, one, two... His cold white skin was exposed to the air, and a layer of fine goose bumps appeared.

When he peeled the last few, his shirt clung to his body precariously, and Shen Ci closed his eyes completely.

But the next moment, something soft, thick and heavy, came down on him completely.

Shen Ci was stunned, and subconsciously reached out to touch it, grabbing a ball of fluff.

It's a thick blanket.

Xie Yu turned the air conditioner to the maximum, pulled out a blanket from the storage compartment, and covered Shen Ci's head with it, saying, "Hurry up and wipe it off. How can I take you out to meet people if you are like this?"

This is the original owner's tone.

Shen Ci didn't say anything, as if he didn't react. His wet hair stuck to his ears, and his eyes peeked out from the fur, staring at him intently, a little dazed.

Xie Yu: "Why are you standing there? Wipe it?"

The medical examination report he gave to Shen Ci was scary enough. It was no exaggeration to say that with Shen Ci's physique, a cold could quickly develop into pneumonia, and then he would be hospitalized and in the ICU. If it was more serious, he would be directly in the crematorium. Xie Yu was still acting in the plot marked parts. He didn't dare to freeze the protagonist in the parts that the novel didn't mention.

Seeing that Shen Ci didn't move, Xie Yu simply took the blanket and rubbed it on his wet hair.

Outside the window, Han Yunyun walked into the laboratory. When she turned around, she happened to be facing the gap and caught a glimpse of the scene in the car.

On the wide car seat, their senior brother was sitting on the front passenger seat, tightly wrapped in a thick blanket with only half of his head exposed. On the main driver's seat was a tall and handsome young man, with a Patek Philippe watch with a deep blue dial on his wrist, which looked very valuable. At this moment, he casually put the watch on his wrist, holding a blanket in both hands, leaning over to rub the senior brother's head and wipe his hair. His brown pupils refracted tiny spots of light and his pair of peach blossom eyes were filled with smiles.

Looks quite gentle.

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