Chapter 8 The Fragrance of Coconut Groves and Tonight's Promise
Unlike Cheng Jingyan's strong reaction, Jiang Shiyu stopped what he was doing and calmly raised his eyes.
“I have my reasons. I will tell her about this sooner or later, but not now.”
He looked down at the game again, and as the results screen flashed with gold, a large "Victory" appeared in the center of the screen.
"I didn't expect him to be so talented."
Shen Cen looked at the final results screen of the game. Although Jiang Shiyu's performance was among the worst in the team, at least he didn't drag the team down, and his teamwork in the team battle was also commendable.
Who would have thought that he had only played this game for the first time half an hour ago!
At the time, she asked Jiang Shiyu to choose a character he often played, and Jiang Shiyu chose the swordsman.
Coincidentally, in the game, the Yue Maiden and the Swordsman are a couple. When the two characters combine their swords, the damage they deal to the enemy is multiplied.
She took Jiang Shiyu to the game training camp to practice basic skills a few times. In the first two games, he struggled even against the AI opponents, but after a few more practices, he improved rapidly and left the training camp in half an hour to participate in a team battle with Shen Cen.
Jiang Shiyu: [How did the students perform?]
A message popped up on WeChat, drawing Shen Cen's attention back. A slight smile played on her lips as she replied: "Still need to work harder."
Needless to say, she could imagine how smug Jiang Shiyu must be at that moment.
Jiang Shiyu: [Then you'll have to guide your students in practicing more from now on, teacher. [clasped hands]]
Shen Cen agreed: [Okay, same time tomorrow?]
Jiang Shiyu: [Okay.]
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Starting Tuesday, Kyoto University entered its intense final exam week.
In addition to proctoring professional courses, some teachers from the history department were also assigned to proctor history general courses for various majors, and Shen Cen was among them.
The invigilation tasks on the first day were not heavy. Shen Cen was in charge of a class's general education course, which only had one session in the afternoon.
In the afternoon, she carried a stack of test papers to the general education classroom.
The classroom, which was so quiet you could hear a pin drop, suddenly erupted in a cacophony of voices the moment Shen Cen entered.
"I told you I saw the goddess teacher on the proctor list! You didn't believe me!"
"Ahhh, so beautiful!"
"So gentle! I'm going to transfer to the history department, I'm not kidding!"
...
Faced with the noisy classroom, Shen Cen did not rush to stop them.
She walked forward in her high heels, and with each click of her heels, the classroom quieted down a little more.
Perhaps it was because her aura was too strong. By the time she stood on the podium, the classroom had returned to its initial silence.
Seeing this, she smiled and wrote "4 pages, 120 minutes" on the blackboard in beautiful handwriting.
"The content of the general education exams is not difficult. Please read the questions carefully. I wish you all the best in passing the exams."
The words had barely left his mouth when rustling sounds broke out in the classroom. But as the test papers were handed out, silence returned.
The two-hour exam passed quickly, and many students handed in their papers early. By the time the bell rang, only a few people remained in the classroom. After collecting the papers, Shen Cen walked out of the classroom, only to find a few girls still waiting at the door.
Upon seeing Shen Cen emerge, the girls pushed the girl in front forward, and she slid directly to Shen Cen.
“Professor Shen…” The girl blushed and covered her mouth slightly. “Can we add you on WeChat? I might have some questions about history that I would like to ask you later.”
“Okay.” Shen Cen took out his phone and opened the QR code. “Are you math majors?”
When she was collecting the exam papers, she noticed that the college listed on the papers was the School of Mathematical Sciences.
The girls looked like they'd been caught doing something wrong, and they all started to say "uh...uh..." awkwardly.
Shen Cen pulled her hair back and said with a smile, "It's okay. As long as you are interested in history, students from any major are welcome to come and discuss it with me."
"Thank you, Miss... no, Teacher Shen!" The girls who had added her on WeChat thanked her repeatedly and immediately opened their phones to add Shen Cen.
After the event was completed, several girls invited Shen Cen to have dinner together in the cafeteria.
Shen Cen declined, saying, "I have some important things to do tonight, so I won't be joining you."
A few girls pouted dejectedly. However, getting the contact information of this "ice queen" from the history department was already beyond their expectations: "Okay, we'll be going now, bye-bye, Professor Shen!"
Bye-bye~
After they left, Shen Cen opened the friend request page and accepted them one by one. Returning to the chat page, she scrolled down and opened her chat history with Jiang Shiyu, which was still stuck on his reply from yesterday, "Okay."
He must be terrified right now, right?
I wonder if he still remembers our agreement for tonight.
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After getting off work at five o'clock, Shen Cen returned home and made a simple vegetable salad for dinner. After finishing all her chores, she checked her phone and saw that it was just past seven o'clock.
She returned to her bedroom, picked up the new book she had just read a chapter of the day before yesterday, sat down on the single sofa next to her, and began to read it.
This book is highly technical and its content is obscure and difficult to understand. Chen Cen scanned it line by line, but when he finished reading a page, he found that he had not absorbed anything.
She turned to a chapter that interested her, and did the same thing again.
Shen Cen sighed, got up from the sofa, turned the air conditioner down two degrees, and went into the kitchen to pour a large glass of cold water.
As the cool water flowed down her throat, she finally felt the coolness cover up the heat inside her body.
Summer in Jingjia is the most unbearably hot. Seeing that it's already this hot in June, Shen Cen can't imagine how unbearable it will be in July and August.
She returned to her room and lit an aromatherapy candle. The delicate fragrance of magnolia slowly filled the bedroom, making one feel as if they were in a misty mountain forest, the subtle scent of magnolia blossoms soothing the restless heart of a passerby.
When her alarm rang at 9:20, Shen Cen realized she had unknowingly read almost half of a book. She saw the prominent red dot on WeChat and immediately clicked on it.
Sure enough, the latest message was sent by Jiang Shiyu ten minutes ago:
[Chen Cen.]
Are you busy?
Shen Cen replied: [I was just reading a book.]
Jiang Shiyu thought about how he had been nervous and uneasy all day. During the day at Guangyi, even He Yan noticed that his boss was absent-minded.
But Chen Cen was fine; she peacefully read books all night. She probably only remembered playing games when she picked up her phone just now.
Jiang Shiyu chuckled self-deprecatingly and said, "I thought Teacher Shen had forgotten."
Shen Cen smiled and said deliberately, "You guessed right, I almost forgot."
Actually, she hadn't forgotten; she just wanted to see how Jiang Shiyu would react to her words.
There was a moment of silence on the other end.
Then reply: 【Oh, so Teacher Shen has such a bad memory?】
Shen Cen: [As long as Boss Jiang has a good memory, that's fine [clasped hands].]
Jiang Shiyu: [That's true, as long as one person in the family has a good memory, that's enough.]
Before Shen Cen could finish reading the sentence, he subconsciously sent a "[Indeed]" message.
When I saw the words "family", I was shocked and hurriedly retracted the message.
Jiang Shiyu: [Withdrawal invalid.]
Before Shen Cen could retort, Jiang Shiyu sent another message:
I've found it.
What did you find?
Shen Cen grunted: [What?]
Jiang Shiyu: [Teacher Shen is different online and offline.]
Seemingly having her secret exposed, Chen Cen's face flushed red: "I didn't!"
Without waiting for Jiang Shiyu's reply, she urged: "Get online quickly!"
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Time may fly by when you're busy.
For the past week, Shen Cen has been proctoring exams at school during the day, grading students' homework in her spare time, or reading books. She finished reading that obscure and difficult monograph in three or four days.
At 9:10 PM, Jiang Shiyu would send a message. The two would chat briefly before entering the game.
It was as if they had reached some kind of tacit understanding.
On occasional days when neither of them had time to play games, they would let each other know after finishing their games the previous day.
That day, as usual, after playing games with Jiang Shiyu, she returned to WeChat and was stunned when she saw the message from Wen Jie.
Wen Jie: [Sweetie, do you know what day it is today?]
Shen Cen glanced at the calendar; today was June 12th. She didn't remember what special day it was.
She replied: 【I don't know...】
Wen Jie: [It's one week until your birthday!!]
Shen Cen: [It's one week until my birthday!!]
She had completely forgotten that next week was her birthday. In the past, she and Wen Jie would plan how to celebrate a week in advance.
Shen Cen is actually a person who values rituals; she remembers every anniversary.
For her, her birthday is the most anticipated day of the year.
When she was little, she rarely asked her parents what gifts she wanted.
But only on her birthday does she not have to be a sensible little adult; she can ask her parents for any gift she wants.
Later, her parents divorced, and with her mother becoming increasingly busy with work, Shen Cen's birthday was repeatedly ignored.
Fortunately, Wen Jie and her brother Lu Baichuan always remembered.
Wen Jie: [Are you still celebrating my birthday with me this year, Ms. Chen, who is married?]
Shen Cen: [Of course.]
Wen Jie: [Will your husband, Mr. Jiang, celebrate your birthday with you, Ms. Shen, who is married?]
Shen Cen then noticed that Wen Jie had already sent "Married Ms. Shen" twice. She chuckled and replied: [Jiang Shiyu probably doesn't know my birthday? I didn't mention it.]
Wen Jie sent a "That's not true" emoji: [If Jiang Shiyu were a thoughtful person, he would have noticed it on the day they got their marriage certificate.]
Shen Cen: [Oh well, it's just a fake marriage anyway, it's normal not to notice.]
Wen Jie: [No way! A fake marriage is still a marriage! How can a husband not know his wife's birthday!]
Shen Cen: [Okay, okay~ But speaking of which, I actually don't remember his birthday either; I didn't look closely on the day we got our marriage certificate.]
Wen Jie: [It's nothing, it's only human nature.]
Shen Cen was both amused and exasperated. This was a true best friend, always on her side no matter what.
However, Wen Jie's words gave her much to think about.
My birthday is June 19th, which is a week from now. Will Jiang Shiyu remember it?
The next evening.
After the two finished playing the game as usual, Jiang Shiyu told Shen Cen that he had something to tell her.
Looking at the text "The other party is typing..." above the chat box, Shen Cen felt inexplicably nervous, and his heart raced.
However, the next second, Jiang Shiyu sent a message: [I have to go on a business trip tomorrow, my flight is at noon.]
Chen Cen's heart sank, and she bit her lip: "Where to?"
Jiang Shiyu: [United States.]
If I go to the United States on a business trip, it will take at least a week.
She asked: "How long is the business trip?"
Jiang Shiyu: [Depending on the work situation in the US, it should take about ten days.]
Ten days.
By the time Jiang Shiyu returned, her birthday had already passed.
So he doesn't remember.
Shen Cen suddenly felt a sense of relief.
Yes, what exactly is she expecting? Their marriage was just a contract anyway.
She replied with an "OK" gesture: [Good luck with your work.]
A note from the author:
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[Milk Tea] Okay, okay, even when President Jiang plays games, he has to choose a couple character with his wife.
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