Don't be angry.
Xiang Zhixing fainted in the secret room that day and was taken to the hospital by Shen Muwei. Not long after that, Zhou Chengming arrived.
Xiang Zhixing was genuinely grateful to Shen Muwei for saving him and wanted to introduce her to his roommates and discuss having a meal together sometime to express his gratitude.
As a result, she ran away in a flash.
After she ran away, Zhou Chengming asked him, "Why are you with Shen Muwei?"
He thought about it carefully. Oh, the other person's name is Shen Muwei. Otherwise, why would he have called out her name a second before he fainted? How did he faint?
Suddenly, Jiang Chao excitedly patted Zhou Chengming on the shoulder: "Is this Shen Muwei you're talking about the one who threw you over his shoulder and onto the ground during military training?"
Zhou Chengming's lips twitched unconsciously as painful memories flooded his mind.
One evening during freshman military training, the weather was fine. Two instructors who knew each other discussed having several squads sit together and put on a talent show, intending to help them relax.
Some of the bolder ones volunteered to dance to K-pop group songs, while the less daring ones sang two songs.
Zhou Chengming told his roommates that they would go back and play games together later.
Then he saw the instructor point to a girl next to him and ask her to perform a talent show.
He remembered the girl; she was tall and always stood at the front of the line, and the instructors would even ask her to hold up signs and such.
The girl was poised and unpretentious. She took off her hat, revealing short hair that reached her chin. When she smiled, her eyes curved like crescent moons, sweet and charming, instantly drawing his attention.
I thought she was going to perform a dance or a song, after all, she has a good figure and is tall. But to my surprise, she suddenly assumed a horse stance and performed a set of Tai Chi for everyone.
Zhou Chengming was amused by her and laughed. He turned his head and found that Xiang Zhixing also had a faint smile on his lips.
After she finished her punches, she wanted to leave, but the instructor wouldn't let her, saying she had some skills and insisting that she perform one more.
She said, "I can throw people over my shoulder."
The instructor didn't believe her and asked her to demonstrate. So, in the vast sea of people, she spotted Zhou Chengming grinning foolishly.
The girl ran towards Zhou Chengming, smiling, and said, "Please help me, okay?"
Zhou Chengming nodded immediately and followed the girl to the open space in the middle.
The girl grabbed his hand and put it on his shoulder. He was a little embarrassed and covered his mouth with one hand while laughing. The next second, everything spun around and he was flipped to the ground.
The students watching the spectacle shouted "Bravo! Bravo!" and thunderous applause erupted.
Zhou Chengming scrambled to his feet, straightened his clothes, and said to the girl, "Excuse me, let's try again. I lost my balance just now."
"No problem."
Then came another over-the-shoulder throw.
Zhou Chengming lay on the ground, having lost face for the first time since entering university. He was quite certain that he had stood firm and had stood very firmly at that moment.
He thought he would remember it for the rest of his life.
This is something Zhou Chengming least wants to recall.
Xiang Zhixing also remembered this incident.
When Jiang Chao mentioned the key words of this old story, he quickly remembered them.
Zhou Chengming didn't know how he fainted in the secret room, but he was very curious as to why Shen Muwei was the one who brought him to the hospital, so he asked him where he had fainted.
Xiang Zhixing thought for a moment and said, "I just remember it was in a secret room."
"Then why is Shen Muwei there?"
Xiang Zhixing said matter-of-factly, "She's a player, so I just sent her over. Is that so hard to understand?"
Zhou Chengming: "Wow, bro, this is just the four of us playing, how could there be other players in the room!"
The four people present were stunned. Zhou Chengming then said, "She wouldn't be working there, would she?"
Xiang Zhixing probably found this a bit funny, and suddenly chuckled, but then his smile froze as he realized something.
Zhou Chengming found it strange and continued to ask, "Tell me, how did you run into her? Don't you have any recollection of it at all?"
“Yes, I remember it very well,” Xiang Zhixing said fiercely.
The mere thought of Shen Muwei chasing after him and him fainting from fright filled him with a strange sense of humiliation that gripped his heart.
The "revenge" plan was devised by Xiang Zhixing, who was also the one who carried it out. He said that he needed to gain Shen Muwei's trust first, because he could see that Shen Muwei still had a trace of guilt.
The doctor came again later and told him that there was nothing wrong and he could be discharged at any time.
He immediately sprang to his feet, asked Zhou Chengming for information about Shen Muwei's dormitory building, and headed straight there.
Xiang Zhixing's initial plan was naive and simple: he wanted to scare Shen Muwei back in the same way she had scared him, giving her a taste of her own medicine.
He participated in a volunteer tutoring program at the school a while ago and got the contact information of a student who lived in an old residential building near the old alley.
When he came to check the terrain, he found that this place was really good and very suitable for giving Shen Mu a decisive blow.
He proactively contacted the student and offered to give him two more free tutoring sessions.
Tonight, a student couldn't help but ask him, "Teacher Xiang, are you in a good mood?"
Xiang Zhixing curled the corners of his mouth, his voice rising at the end: "Hmm?"
"You kept smiling, even when you were explaining the problem to me. I made a very simple mistake, and you would have scolded me before, but you didn't scold me today. You even smiled and explained the problem to me."
He replied good-naturedly, "Oh, it's okay. If we make a mistake, we can just do it again. It's no big deal."
This gave the students goosebumps.
Xiang Zhixing felt like he had discovered a new continent; he felt completely refreshed and in such a good mood that he could take off.
He was afraid that Shen Muwei would be bored by herself outside, so he sent her a message while the students were doing their homework.
xzx: [What are you doing? Are you bored?]
He then realized that she had stopped talking after accepting his red envelope. A little worried, he sent her another message: "Be careful."
There was still no reply.
The two-and-a-half-hour tutoring session ended quickly, and Xiang Zhixing finally had an excuse to call her, but she didn't answer.
He panicked.
Unable to wait for Shen Muwei, he walked straight ahead. He hadn't gone far when he saw her walking with a group of men and women, laughing happily.
He was initially relieved that at least she was alright, but then his anger flared up.
Who are those people? She dares to hang out with them. What if they are bad people?
Especially the boy next to her, whose gaze towards Shen Muwei was clearly strange, and who was holding a broken fan in his hand, fanning Shen Muwei from time to time.
He just stood there, coldly watching the group of people not far away. He was waiting, waiting to see when she would finally notice him.
The return journey was silent; the two sat in the car for a long time without saying a word.
Shen Muwei knew she was in the wrong; she had been having too much fun and had completely forgotten about Xiang Zhixing.
She had planned to send him a message to apologize, but when she saw on the chat page that she had accepted someone's red envelope without saying a word, he at least worried about her safety and sent a message to ask how she was doing. But she was completely oblivious and was having a great time.
I'd better turn off my phone, otherwise he'll probably be even angrier if he sees that long string of messages.
Shen Muwei lowered her head and dared not speak. She looked down and saw Xiang Zhixing leaning back in his chair with his arms crossed in front of his chest. Because he was wearing a hat, she could not see his expression, but she could feel the cold wind blowing.
She had already apologized, and from the moment she saw him, she immediately abandoned Zhang Wenhao and ran towards him.
However, it seems that it's a little too late to make amends.
With her phone on her lap, the screen lit up briefly. She thought it was a message from Xiang Zhixing, but when she opened it, it was from Zhang Wenhao.
That's true, the person next to me is sitting so upright, and hasn't looked at their phone since they got on the bus.
Zhang Wenhao asked her if she had arrived at school safely and if she and her friends were alright.
Shen Muwei picked up her phone to reply. The blue light from the electronic device shone on her face as she sent a message that she didn't mean, telling the other person that she was fine and everything was alright.
However, she glanced at him again, and whether intentionally or not, it seemed as if he had pulled his hat down even lower, making it possible to see only the clear outline of the lower half of his face.
It's not good to always be on your phone; she put it away after replying to the message.
The car stopped at the north gate of the student dormitory, and Shen Muwei got out of the car with Xiang Zhixing.
He was tall, took long strides, and walked very fast, so Shen Muwei could only walk faster to keep up with him.
It was probably intentional. When he saw Shen Muwei walk up to him, he sped up. Shen Muwei looked incredulous and had no choice but to jog a few steps to catch up.
Seeing that he was about to speed up again, she grabbed the corner of his shirt.
Xiang Zhixing didn't stop walking; he glanced at her sideways.
Shen Muwei swallowed hard and asked softly, "Xiang Zhixing, could you slow down? I just ate too much, and my stomach hurts if I walk too fast."
She was serious; her stomach really did hurt.
"No."
As he said this, he resolutely turned his face to the side, but his steps involuntarily slowed down.
Slowing down, and slowing down again, it eventually turned into a stroll on campus.
Shen Muwei had already apologized, and thinking that he needed some time to process his anger, he figured he probably wouldn't calm down so quickly, so he could only keep his head down and remain silent.
Xiang Zhixing escorted her to her dormitory building, and without making a sound, he pulled his clothes out of her hands. The hem of the clothes was crumpled from her grip, but he didn't care and just put them down.
Shen Muwei didn't even dare to look at his sour face at that moment, staring at the ground as she said, "Thank you for bringing me back, and I'm really sorry about tonight, you... don't be angry."
He didn't speak. Shen Muwei looked up and met his gaze. Her innocent look caught his eye, and he instantly felt sorry for her, but his chest still felt tight.
"Who is that man?" he asked again.
She couldn't very well say that the other person was also a colleague working part-time at the escape room; she could only say that he was a friend she had met at a previous gathering.
Xiang Zhixing figured out the relationship between the two and realized it wasn't what he had thought. His mood improved slightly, and his expression relaxed.
Shen Muwei quickly noticed that his face, which had just been tense, was starting to relax a little, and a thought suddenly flashed through her mind: why was he angry?
Come to think of it, putting everything else aside, tonight was actually her part-time job, which was to pick him up and drop him off at work. However, she didn't do her job well, so she couldn't get paid.
A sudden inspiration brings clarity and enlightenment.
Shen Muwei immediately opened her phone and transferred two hundred yuan to him.
She smiled and said, "Look at your phone."
Her mysterious demeanor piqued Xiang Zhixing's interest. He opened his phone and saw the words "transfer of 200 yuan" staring at him, which made him frown.
"I know I didn't do a good job tonight, so I'll take the two hundred back and return it to you. Does that make you feel better?"
Xiang Zhixing's mood, which had just started to improve, was completely ruined by her outburst, making him laugh in anger.
"Great, that's wonderful." With that, he turned and left.
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