Chapter 22 Kissing in a Secluded Place
After parting ways with Fang Qibai in the cafeteria, Zhu Fan walked briskly towards the girls' dormitory.
The little robot followed closely behind.
Zhu Fan let it follow him, and occasionally slowed down to wait for it.
Upon reaching the dormitory building, the little robot stopped.
"Master, please take the apple from my hand."
Zhu Fan smiled and took the apple. "Won't your real owner be angry if you keep claiming owners for yourself like this?"
The apple in his hand was 3D printed, which Zhu Fan found incredibly fascinating.
If it weren't for the strange feel of it in her hand, she would have thought it was a real apple.
It's so realistic.
Wen Yuxing sat in an ergonomic chair, staring intently at Zhu Fan on the screen, watching the video synchronized by the small robot.
This little AI, with its artificial intelligence, helped coax Zhu Fan, and that's why we're only giving her the apple now.
He wants to tear it down and rebuild it.
He clasped his hands together and prayed, "Bless the Buddha, quickly open the apple."
On the other side of the screen, Zhu Fan, following the robot's prompt, forcefully broke the red apple in his hand.
The apple was split open, revealing a pigeon blood ruby inside.
Zhu Fan estimates that the weight is no less than ten carats.
Whether the ruby was real or fake, she felt it was burning her hand.
Wen Yuxing remotely controlled a small machine from the backend to generate QR codes with his eyes.
Zhu Fan took out his phone and scanned the QR code.
The pop-up page is for adding friends.
As soon as Zhu Fan added Wen Yuxing as a friend, Wen Yuxing immediately sent Zhu Fan a message.
*: [Hello, this is Wen Yuxing.]
*: [The gem was a gift from Brother Zhou.]
Zhu Fan looked at the message on her phone and wanted to return the ruby to the little robot. The little robot made a heart shape with its hands at her.
Then she turned and ran away, looking all fresh and clean.
Zhu Fan chased the robot for nearly 800 meters under the scorching sun, but still couldn't catch up.
She gasped for breath, supporting herself on her knees. "A 1500-meter running champion robot, you really are something else."
Wen Yuxing stared at the video feed synchronized with the small machine, then pushed off with his feet, causing the ergonomic chair to spin three times.
He was extremely happy at that moment.
He felt it was the right decision to drive his brother's car today; he could finally use the ruby in his brother's car safe.
He's great at building robots, but he's not as good at charming girls.
Fortunately, Brother Zhou has such a clever brother.
Wen Yuxing rubbed his stomach; he was starving, and Professor Chen still wouldn't let his brother Zhou out.
He held the mouse and synced the video footage from the perspective of the little robot and Zhu Fan during that time to his brother Zhou. He even deliberately cut out the part where Zhu Fan told Fang Qibai that she no longer liked him.
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Inside the elevator, Zhu Fan felt extremely dizzy as she held the burning hot ruby in her hand.
She leaned against the elevator, knowing that these were signs of heatstroke.
She found 733 and entered the password to open the door.
When the original owner of this body first started university, she stayed in the dormitory for three days, but found it difficult to adapt to anything, so she decisively moved back home. She only went to the dormitory for short rests when she had classes in the morning and afternoon.
The original owner rarely came to the dormitory, and in her memory, her relationship with her roommates was neither good nor bad.
The four-person dormitory was in a European style, complete with a private computer desk, bathroom, balcony, washing machine, and refrigerator. The environment was so good that Zhu Fan doubted whether the dormitory she slept in with her roommates before transmigrating into the book was as shabby as a pigsty.
The air conditioner was still on in the dormitory, and the cool air made Zhu Fan feel less dizzy and her eyes less blurry.
After a while, she found a nightgown in the closet and took a shower.
As she drew the curtains and lay down, she heard her roommates return.
"Lewei, try the little cake I made for you myself."
Are you satisfied with today's birthday present?
Ming Yazhi's voice made Zhu Fan pause as he reached to lift the bed curtains.
In the original owner's memories, Ming Yazhi and Rong Lewei did not have a good relationship.
Ming Yazhi is an art student, and her dormitory building is not in this building.
Rong Lewei held up her phone to take a picture of the small cake. "What a beautiful cake!" she winked at Ming Yazhi. "I love this birthday present so much."
"Zhu Fan is probably hiding somewhere crying right now."
Ming Yazhi's confident words made Zhu Fan subconsciously touch his eyes.
Yes, she didn't cry.
She almost believed what Ming Yazhi said.
Their celebration and smugness subsided when the dormitory door was opened again.
Rong Lewei scooped a piece of cake and brought it to Ming Yazhi's lips, "The bookworm is back, you can have the first bite."
Ming Yazhi ate the cake and lowered her voice, "I can't stand living in the same dormitory with someone like that."
Rong Le shrugged slightly. It was just her bad luck. One of her roommates was a rich girl, and the other roommate was a bookworm who was also stubborn, argumentative, and difficult to deal with.
Ming Yazhi lowered her voice, "Le Wei, I won't disturb your rest any longer. We'll meet at Lakeside tonight. I've already talked to my brother, and we've reserved a private room for you to have a party."
The dormitory quieted down again, with only the white noise of typing on a phone and chewing food.
A few minutes later, Rong Lewei left the dormitory.
Zhu Fan got out of bed and went to the bathroom.
When she came out, her roommate, who had hardly ever spoken to her, handed her a bunch of washed, thumb-sized grapes.
Zhu Fan took two tissues to wipe his hands before accepting the grapes.
"Don't cry, I'm afraid of making noise."
After saying that, Chao Man picked up the book on the table again.
Zhu Fan blinked.
Her roommate was worried that she would hide in the dorm and cry because of her breakup, which would affect her studying. So she washed a bunch of grapes for her beforehand to appease her.
No, coax her.
Zhu Fan finished the bunch of thumb-sized grapes with a smile.
She climbed back into bed, took out the ruby from under her pillow, slapped it at Fang Qizhou, and typed "I don't want it" before sending it.
Fang Qizhou didn't reply to these two messages until she finished her afternoon classes.
Fang Qizhou sent her his location concisely and clearly.
Zhu Fan was familiar with the location sent by Fang Qizhou.
This is Mirror Lake, where the original owner of this body often fed the stray cats at school with Fang Qibai.
Further into Mirror Lake, a grove of dawn redwoods has been planted, their shadows casting a soft halo on the moss-covered lake surface.
Zhu Fan walked carefully on the bridge among the metasequoia trees.
She is afraid of water.
An apple core hit the surface of the lake in front of her, creating ripples.
Zhu Fan turned his head.
The man walked lazily toward her, backlit by the light.
The surroundings were silent, and Zhu Fan's heart was inexplicably gripped by the man's dark eyes.
By the time she came to her senses, Fang Qizhou had already grabbed her chin.
The man roughly pried open her teeth and viciously bit and tore at the tip of her tongue.
Zhu Fan realized that something was wrong with Fang Qizhou.
"Who... um—"
"I won't let you get away with this."
"Heart?"
The intermittent words were swallowed up.
In a secluded place, the man pressed her head down and kissed her lips again and again.
When Zhu Fan could no longer bear it and cried out in pain, Fang Qizhou finally released her. He looked at her lips, which were now rubbed raw and red, and chuckled coldly, “Sweeter than an apple.”
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