Chapter 11: Dawn 02
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Nan Xiao felt an indescribable sourness in his heart when he saw Sikong Jing's mocking remark.
Do you think it's more than just jealousy with cells?
He thought to himself.
He probably has a problem with every piece of equipment and creature in the entire laboratory building.
After thinking for a few seconds, he supported his forehead with one hand and replied to Sikong Jing with the other: Why are you so anxious to fight each other? Isn't your Xia Xia still being kicked out by your mother?
Sikong Jing: That's better than the first time Shengsheng came over and broke the precious tea set your mother brought her because she was thinking about the sulfuric acid in the lab.
Nan Xiao: But at least I convinced my mother. It's me who's getting married, not her.
Sikong Jing:.
Nan Xiao: Still showing off?
Sikong Jing: Don’t come to me to complain when you are outshined by cells in the future.
Nan Xiao looked at the phone and laughed, threw it aside, started the car and slowly drove away.
...
After Sikong Sheng was called back by Lynn, he and Lynn leaned over the table and pondered for a long time, their eyes almost blinded, before they finally found the crux of the problem with the culture dish.
At this moment, they were the only two people busying around in the lab. Occasionally, there was the sound of containers gently colliding, and soon it returned to silence. Sikong Sheng was usually very focused when she was working. Lynn always teased her, saying that even if someone was live-broadcasting having sex or square dancing next to her, she could still turn a deaf ear to what was happening outside. She was so arrogant.
After finally finishing the petri dish, it was already completely dark. Lynn leaned against the wall of the lab, shielding her eyes with one hand and pointing weakly at the table with the other, "Shengsheng, quickly take that damn thing away from me! My scalp goes numb every time I see that petri dish."
Sikong Sheng held back his laughter and moved the petri dish to another place. After that, he observed it carefully for a while before he was completely relieved.
"I'm talking to you," Lynn said, taking off her gloves and looking at her with a raised eyebrow. "Forget about a thousand-year-old single monster like me on a weekend, but how can someone like you with a family just come here so easily? Brother Xiao isn't here?"
Except for Lynn, who has no boyfriend and spends long hours in the lab without a break, the other researchers either have families and children or boyfriends and girlfriends. They would never want to come to the lab on weekends - unless the lab is burned down.
When Xiao Ge's name was mentioned, Sikong Sheng realized belatedly that something was wrong. She looked at Lynn blankly for a moment, "I was with him just now..."
"What the hell?!" Lynn was going crazy. "Don't tell me you left Brother Xiao in bed and came here?! Sikong Sheng, do you believe I will strangle you to death?!"
She thought of something that had just happened at home, and her expression suddenly became very embarrassed, "...That's not the case."
"Nothing!" Lynn wanted to slap her head. "Don't I know you? You must have been thinking about this damn petri dish all the time you were with Brother Xiao, and then Brother Xiao saw through it and sent you here. Oh my God, Sikong Sheng, how did you, with your emotional intelligence, get a top-notch guy like Brother Xiao? Did you save the entire galaxy in your past life?"
Sikong Sheng was so angry that he had no power to fight back. He looked at Lynn with a suffocated look on his face.
To be honest, what Lynn said was absolutely right. She had finally managed to meet Nan Xiao today, but her mind was full of thoughts about things in the laboratory. Moreover, she noticed that Nan Xiao was angry, so instead of coaxing him, she asked him to send her to the laboratory quickly.
…Oh my God, was she kicked in the head by a donkey…
"Sikong Sheng," Lynn pressed her solar plexus while trying to suppress her anger. "If I knew you were with Brother Xiao, I would never agree to you coming here now. Even if I was eaten by this petri dish, I wouldn't agree, you know that! Brother Xiao will beat me to death one day... Ugh, can't you just refuse me?!"
She sighed. "I really can't leave this petri dish alone."
"Which is more important, the petri dish or your future husband?"
Sikong Sheng was stunned for a moment, and after a few seconds he said, "Nan Xiao."
"...What the hell did you mean by hesitating for a few seconds??"
She stuck out her tongue.
Lynn stared at her for a while, then suddenly said seriously, "Don't say I didn't warn you, Shengsheng. Nan Xiao really loves you very much. I've never seen a man so handsome and outstanding who is so blindly infatuated. But don't always take his love for you for granted and waste his feelings and expectations. If one day he really gets tired of you, you won't even be able to cry and jump off the building!"
She was stunned again by what Lynn said, and even fell into confusion for a moment - because she didn't quite understand.
To be honest, Lynn was right to criticize her before. Many times she didn't understand how Nan Xiao could fall in love with a girl like her who had no emotional intelligence and no love brain.
She was indeed a good student, with a widely acknowledged high IQ. However, her emotional intelligence was significantly inversely proportional to her IQ, and her sole interest was research. She forced herself to become the most popular girl in her dorm room, circling the classroom, lab, and dorm. When she took a group photo for her senior year graduation, she surprised a large group of boys in the school—"There's such a cute girl in our school?!" And she's even the cousin of entertainment superstar Sikong Jing!!"
And then... it was a pity that this dormitory flower didn't even give others a chance to take another look at it. From then on, it took root in the laboratory and became an experimental flower.
Later, her parents could no longer tolerate their beautiful daughter continuing to work so hard in the laboratory, and finally forced her to accept a blind date. Although she didn't like this approach, given that there were no single men around her, and her parents repeatedly told her that it was just a one-time meeting and it didn't matter if it didn't work out, she had no choice but to go in the end.
That was her first meeting with Nan Xiao.
Before she passed away, her parents had said, "This young man is the son of a long-time friend of yours. He's incredibly handsome and a major in the army at a young age. He's a talented man with both military and civil skills, and he's incredibly upright. He's the best of the best."
On the way to the appointment, Sikong Sheng pondered this question: If he's such a gem, why is he single? And why has he even been forced to go on blind dates? He's not that young anymore, so could he be attracted to men? Could it be that he's been forced to marry a woman because he can't be with his true love? How pitiful!
She was a person who couldn't hide her thoughts, so when she sat down in front of Nan Xiao in the restaurant, there was a hint of subtlety in her eyes when she looked at him.
It was the kind of look that carried sympathy, sadness, regret, surprise, helplessness, curiosity... in short, it was a very subtle look.
Nan Xiao, who was sitting opposite her and being looked at like this by her: ...
After greeting, Nan Xiao smiled slightly, "If it's not my illusion, why do I feel that the way you look at me is a little strange?"
She then hurriedly covered it up, "No, no..."
He looked at her for a few seconds and smiled, "Let me guess, do you think that I like men and was forced to go on a blind date with you?"
Sikong Sheng, who was shot in the head: ...
Nan Xiao was not angry. He looked at her flushed face and poured her a cup of tea. "I'm straight."
"Yes, I'm sorry..."
"It's okay," he said, his features sparkling with handsomeness, making him stand out from the crowd. Many people around him were looking at him. "After all, you might think I'd already have two children at my age."
Sikong Sheng, whose every sentence had been finished before him, could only drink tea in big gulps.
"Before we start our meal, there are a few things I want to say first, so that you don't have any biased ideas that will affect the future developments," he said lightly, holding his chin and smiling at her.
Although this person always appeared to be smiling, she always felt that there was a sharp edge in his bones, but this sharp edge was covered up by his usual gentleness.
Later, facts indeed proved that our rare sixth sense about Miss Sikong Sheng, who had zero observation ability in interpersonal relationships, was correct.
"I've been single for so many years. There's no special reason. It's just that I'm too busy in the army. I don't have time to go home, let alone think about love and marriage."
"I don't like being arranged on blind dates. This is my first blind date and it will also be my last."
"I came here on purpose to see you. It was me who took the initiative to ask you out on a blind date."
"I've known you a long time ago, Sikong Sheng."
…
Four precise bursts of shots killed Sikong Sheng on the spot.
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