The receptionist kept a close eye on Fang Zhi's movements.
Seeing that the girl had only been sitting for about ten minutes, she walked towards the entrance of the internet cafe.
He quickly stood up and called out to her, "Miss, you're leaving after just a short while?"
Fang Zhi turned around and nodded slightly to him. "Mm," she said, a relaxed smile blooming on her fair and pretty face. "I've finished my business." She then sincerely thanked the male receptionist before leaving the internet cafe with light steps.
[Liu Siyi: Zhizhi, stay calm until you receive the notification letter, and continue to pretend you've resigned yourself to your fate.]
[Liu Siyi: If your brother really gets angry and doesn't give you your tuition, you must tell me. Also, tell me if you don't have enough living expenses!]
Fang Zhi: Okay, as long as I don't make any big purchases, I should have enough money to last me until I graduate from university. If it's really not enough, I can always do part-time jobs.
Fang Zhi chatted with Liu Siyi as they walked, his thoughts wandering to what Liu Siyi was saying.
She wasn't sure if her brother would really be so heartless as to withhold her tuition fees just to keep her under his watchful eye.
If they really don't give it to her... considering the tuition fees for the art department at University A, the cash she has, plus the bank card Uncle Qi gave her as an 18th birthday gift, is enough for her to live on for four years of university.
She wouldn't borrow money from Liu Siyi unless absolutely necessary. They were good friends, that's true, but even good friends should maintain a certain level of boundaries.
Through the car window, Qi Shen watched as the small figure on the deserted street across the street gradually became clearer. She kept her head down, typing away on her phone, as if she had encountered some difficult problem. Several times she stopped to reply before continuing on her way.
The little girl looked up when she reached the entrance of the food street and was about to cross the road.
The once empty back gate of the campus now has a distinctive military green car parked there.
Fang Zhi's clear black and white eyes flickered slightly; she was extremely sensitive to this color.
When I used to go to the old house with my brother, his grandfather's car was mostly this color.
She shook her head slightly. She must be overreacting; it was just a car. In a city as large as Beijing, it's perfectly normal to have cars of the same color.
Fang Zhi comforted himself while lowering his eyes and quickening his pace to cross the road.
Out of the corner of her eye, she noticed that the car was about to pass by. When it was less than five meters from the back gate of the campus, the driver's side door suddenly opened.
Then came a loud bang, the sound of which was particularly clear on this sparsely populated road.
That was the sound of the car owner closing the car door.
You can tell how much force the car owner used and how angry they were just by listening to that sound.
Fang Zhi was so startled that she involuntarily shrank back and looked up. A familiar face stepped around the front of the car and came into her view—
That person was none other than Qi Shen.
When I saw him, I felt my blood run cold and my feet seemed rooted to the spot.
The man stood tall and elegant, sunlight falling on his exquisite white shirt, the cuffs rolled up to reveal a glimpse of his sexy wrist bone and an expensive custom-made watch.
Looking up, his handsome face was like a calm lake, his eyes behind his gold-rimmed glasses were pitch black, and a strong sense of danger lurked beneath the hazy darkness.
"Zhizhi." Qi Shen spoke calmly, taking a step towards the girl as he spoke, "Didn't you say you were coming to see the A University campus? Why are you outside?"
It was a question that was so plain it couldn't be more so.
But Fang Zhi wasn't foolish enough to think he had come to the back door specifically to pick her up; he knew nothing about it.
She thought: Her secret change of college application was about to be exposed, perhaps it had already been exposed to her brother.
The man walked slowly and deliberately, as if deliberately testing one's endurance.
In the sweltering summer, Fang Zhi felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar.
As he drew nearer, a sense of oppression and fear washed over me, and the hairs on my body stood on end.
She was so nervous that her hands were trembling.
Snap—
She lost her balance, and the phone fell from her hand onto the solid concrete floor. Qi Shen arrived in front of her at that moment.
Fang Zhi couldn't even bend down to pick it up; she could only watch helplessly as the man knelt down and took her phone away.
Qi Shen straightened up, his eyelids lowered.
"Brother..." Fang Zhi's lips trembled slightly. Looking at his lowered eyelashes, her clear eyes filled with panic and fear. "Could you please not look..."
"Why can't I look?" Qi Shen chuckled softly, his dark eyes locking onto the girl's, his laughter laced with sarcasm and chilling coldness. "Planning to surprise your brother? Is that why you're so guilty?"
After speaking, he looked away from his phone screen, which displayed the chat between Fang Zhi and Liu Siyi. His long, slender fingers slid across the screen.
Their chat history gradually came into view, and Qi Shen's expression grew increasingly dark and unfathomable.
The information is constantly being updated.
Perhaps to save energy, the person on the other end sent four voice messages in a row, and Qi Shen immediately clicked on the first one.
"Zhizhi, I think you're making things too easy for yourself. Tuition at University A is 80,000 yuan for four years."
"This doesn't even include accommodation costs. You only have tens of thousands of yuan left, it's going to be hard to survive for four years."
"Besides, many part-time jobs are unreliable these days. You're too gentle, and I'm afraid you'll be taken advantage of. Actually, if you don't want to ask me, there's another way to get money, which I've wanted to tell you for a long time."
"Why don't you consider finding an excuse to get your brother to drop more gold coins?"
Liu Siyi's voice, neither too loud nor too soft, accompanied by a static-like sound, reached the ears of the two people.
Only then did I realize that my lips were gradually turning pale, and my mind was completely blank.
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