Assistant Li asked with concern, "Boss, what's wrong?"
Gu Xingze seemed to awaken from a dream, his pupils gradually focusing. "What?"
Assistant Li pointed to her eyes with a mixture of hesitation and surprise. "Didn't you sleep well? You look very tired."
He has very noticeable dark circles under his eyes, making it hard to miss.
Assistant Li stammered, "And also, boss, aren't you hot?"
Gu Xingze was wearing a turtleneck sweater, which accentuated his figure and made him very pleasing to the eye.
Assistant Li looked out the window at the high-hanging sun, but today it was a 32-degree Celsius day!
Gu Xingze coughed twice and reached out to tug at his collar, revealing abrasions that had not yet healed.
"It's okay, it's not hot."
Assistant Li clearly didn't believe him, and her gaze shifted to his forehead, which was covered in sweat.
It's not hot yet; the only thing that's hard is my mouth.
"Okay, boss, you must take care of your health."
Assistant Li solemnly left those words behind and turned to leave the office.
Although he often wished for his boss to die, if his boss really died, where would he find another high-paying job?
So Assistant Li made a new vow: the boss absolutely cannot die before he resigns.
...
Su Jin had lost her patience. The chicken pecked at the corn kernels she had peeled off by hand a couple of times and then spat them out.
"Hook, hook, hook... Eat up, you dead chicken!"
The chicken stared with its round eyes, its neck twisting back and forth.
Enraged, she scattered a handful of corn kernels on the ground.
The chicken then twisted its rear end backwards to eat the scattered corn kernels on the ground.
Su Jin calmed down, "Why would I talk to a chicken..."
Lin Shi came out to find her, "He's cooked dinner, come and eat."
Noticing the chicken on the ground with its rear end sticking out as it ate, she let out a shout, squatted down, and patted the chicken's back.
"Your butt is quite perky."
Su Jin suddenly spoke up, "My back is also quite perky."
What exactly is a "back arch"?
"Hunchback".
I'm speechless! Hahahaha!
You never know what she'll say next.
Everyone laughs at you, but you're the funniest ones.
Lin Shi suddenly recalled the past, "I still remember that the teacher scolded you more than once because of your hunchback. Ah, I miss that time when my body was not stiff at all."
"Bending over backwards and doing somersaults are all a piece of cake."
Lin Shi rubbed her lower back, "Hehe, I can even strain my back just getting out of bed to pour a glass of water now."
Most dancers have some kind of back problem, including Su Jin, but not as severe as hers.
"After studying for so many years, I've gained nearsighted eyes, a scoliosis, a dead butt, and a weak stomach, and in return, I've got a job that pays three thousand. Haha."
A remarkably poignant truth.
Holy crap, I can see the end of my life from the very beginning.
[My dead butt, waaaaaah, my butt, I'm so sorry!]
[That's incredibly accurate. My butt is completely worn out from years of sitting.]
Shen Yanxiu opened the door a crack and asked them, "Why aren't you coming in? I've been waiting for so long..."
He hesitated to ask her if she didn't want to eat the food he had cooked, which was why she was deliberately not coming in.
Su Jin slapped Lin Shi's bottom, "It's all your fault for keeping me talking, I forgot for a moment."
"Sorry, sorry, come and eat right away."
Sitting down at the table, Su Jin couldn't wait to pick up her chopsticks and take out a pumpkin pancake.
It was sweet and oily, and her eyes lit up as she praised it without reservation, "It's so delicious! You're amazing!"
Lin Shi also picked up a piece and put it in her mouth, praising as she ate, "Delicious! Teacher Shen is so virtuous. Whoever marries you in the future will be very lucky."
Shen Yanxiu rubbed his nose. "It's alright. I've always cooked for myself, so I know a little bit of home-style cooking. If I don't know something, I'll learn it."
He was secretly pleased; her friends all praised her for being virtuous, which greatly increased his chances.
Expectant gazes were cast toward Su Jin, but she seemed completely oblivious to what was happening there, focusing intently on finishing her breakfast.
The bowl of pumpkin and millet porridge in front of her disappeared at a visible speed in no time.
It seems she's set up automatic food dispensing.
Whenever Su Jin sees food, she feels that everything else is irrelevant. Her mind is consumed solely by the thought of eating.
[A completely instinctive, guzzling gulp.]
She suppressed a burp, and once she had filled her stomach, Su Jin would give everyone a friendly look.
She smiled, a rare occurrence for her, and said, "Thank you, Teacher Shen, it's delicious."
"Ding! Affection +3!"
Su Jin's attention was drawn away, and she naturally didn't notice that Shen Yanxiu in front of her had secretly blushed.
That's wonderful, she even smiled at herself after being praised like that.
Su Jin was pondering why this favorability had increased. Judging from this, it must be because she had eaten his meal.
Her heart felt as if it were wrapped in a thin layer of cotton, a strange sensation.
This person is too easily satisfied!
Just because I ate his meal?
Three years of unsuccessful attempts led her to believe it was an impossible task.
"Do you want more? I'll make a few more."
Shen Yanxiu's tone was filled with undisguised excitement. Although he spoke in a questioning tone, he had already started cutting the pumpkin again.
Bathed in the morning sun, his figure truly exuded a sense of virtuous husbandliness.
Unlike Gu Xingze, who deliberately showed off his muscles when he dressed, he wore his clothes meticulously, with the top button fastened.
He was tall and slender, with a light-colored shirt clinging to his body. There was no excess skin exposed, except for a small section of his arm where the sleeves were rolled up, which was very white.
The bulging blue veins stretched to the deepest part, as if enticing her to look inside.
"Tsk..."
Realizing what she was thinking, Su Jin felt like a complete scoundrel and secretly despised herself.
Shen Yanxiu sensitively caught the very slight sound of dissatisfaction, "W-what's wrong?"
Did I do something wrong?
Su Jin could only pretend to suddenly realize something, "Ah, I just remembered that I'm on a diet recently, so I guess I won't eat it. Teacher Shen, please sit down and have breakfast too."
Lin Shi lowered her head and secretly watched her poor acting.
Oh well, she's my best friend, I'll just have to put up with it.
If even Lin Shi could see it, how could Shen Yanxiu not?
He turned his back, grunted in response, ladled out a bowl of porridge, and took it outside to eat.
The culprit, Su Jin, asked the person next to her in a daze, "What happened to him?"
Lin Shi calmly wiped her mouth. "A man's heart is like a needle at the bottom of the sea; I can't understand it."
[Who understands! That moment when Brother Shen exuded a husbandly aura!]
[This is the kind of stuff we women should be watching! Watching this gives us the energy to make a living! Isn't what we strive for our whole lives all about—a warm meal and a man to keep us cozy in bed?]
I really have this urge to marry Chen Ge, even if he doesn't want to.
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