Chapter 48: It’s a bit late. A pure deskmate relationship? Zhu Hongfei picked...
A pure relationship between classmates? Zhu Hongfei raised his eyebrows. A pure relationship holding hands under the table?
Zhu Hongfei laughed inwardly at her forced demeanor. He coughed, bent over, and reached across his desk to shove the love letters directly onto Xie Shi's desk. "Ah, you're right. It's better to deliver it there."
Lin Xicai watched his movements for a moment, then smiled faintly. "That's right."
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I just finished an exam and there are a lot of wrong questions on the test paper that I need to sort out. The teacher lectured a little too fast, and I was so tired and had a headache at the end of the day.
I got home and lay in bed for a while before going to eat. After eating, I was so sleepy that I wanted to fall asleep immediately. When I threw myself on the bed, I remembered that I seemed to have forgotten something.
Lin Xicai suddenly felt a little irritated - she was probably still influenced by Xie Shi. In recent days, she often felt that her patience with Li Ci was exhausted. This person's presence did take up some of her energy, which she could have used to study or rest.
But things have come to this point, can we just stop it?
Lin Xicai rolled around twice on the bed, stared at the ceiling, and sighed in her heart.
She got up, tiptoed to the cafeteria, opened the refrigerator, packed some food, heated it up in the microwave, and entered the space.
Lin Xicai walked in and smelled a strong aroma of food. She was stunned for a moment, then looked up and saw Li Ci lying on the dining table. On the table were a few plates of stir-fried dishes that looked pretty good and two bowls of rice.
He seemed to be waiting for her. She came a little late today, and he fell asleep while waiting.
Lin Xicai tilted her head to look at him, and the next moment, as if sensing something, Li Ci raised his face from his arms and looked in her direction. His fair and handsome face was reddened by pressure, and his eyes were bleary.
He looked at her, his dull eyes brightening up a bit, "You're back."
Li Ci stood up and saw her staring at the food on the table with a shy look on her face: "I...I cooked. I'll go heat it up..."
"No need." Lin Xicai pursed her lips, put the food box in her hand on the table, and said in a flat tone, "Eat it yourself."
Li Ci looked at her, his Adam's apple rolling up and down, eager to prove something, too serious, "I, I tried it, this time it's not bad."
Lin Xicai stared at him for a while, then looked away. Her tone was deliberately stiff, "Are you saying we should eat at the same table? Aren't you afraid that I'll lose my appetite?"
Li Ci frowned, and a long-lost fierce look flashed in his eyes for a moment. He seemed to want to be angry, but was afraid that his anger would really make her angry. The sharpness soon subsided and his expression became gloomy.
She is right.
He turned her off.
But……
But he's getting better, isn't he?
Why not give him a chance?
The hatred that he had suppressed was about to come back, but when he wanted to hate her, he remembered what she said, he was family.
Yes, she said he was family... He had thought about this a hundred times and it almost immediately calmed him down. His irritable heart was soothed. Li Ci couldn't help but make excuses for her once again. If she didn't want to eat, then she didn't have to. How could he force her? She was in a bad mood and had been bullied by a bitch outside. He should understand her. Now that she was here, how could he continue to make her angry?
All the resentment and hatred suddenly disappeared, and he even felt a little guilty towards her.
"Do you want to drink water?" Li Ci asked, "I didn't make the water."
No, he was the one who boiled the water, so she would probably dislike it too.
Li Ci quickly walked to the refrigerator, opened the door, and pointed at the soda inside without touching it. He looked at her with cautious eyes: "Where's the soda? You bought it. I...I haven't touched it."
Lin Xicai stared at the uneasy face, and found it almost impossible to connect this person with the hypocritical and vicious person before.
She found that she was actually very bad in front of Li Ci.
It's the kind of person who doesn't hide his malice or the dark side of his soul at all.
Why is she so fearless? Because she knows that at least in this place, this person is completely under her control. He has no ability and capital to resist her. Whether he likes it or not, he can only endure it.
At first, it was just a matter of self-preservation, but later, the process seemed to deteriorate. Watching this vicious, ferocious being, his thorns worn away and ripped off, gradually becoming obedient and docile, this completely subversive feeling gave her a strange fascination.
Sometimes when she looked at him, she would suddenly wonder if this was how Li Ci felt when he hunted others for fun.
So now that she is doing this kind of thing, has she become another him to some extent?
This association made her feel a little uncomfortable. Lin Xicai pursed her lips and said stiffly, "I don't want to drink."
After Lin Xicai finished speaking, she turned around and was about to leave. Li Ci looked at her and subconsciously gently pulled the corner of her clothes.
Lin Xicai paused, looked back at him, and frowned slightly.
Li Ci pinched the corner of her clothes, his palms sweating. He didn't want her to leave. He urgently needed to find a reason to keep her, even for just one second.
"I..." Li Ci suddenly let go of her, ran to the bedroom, took the dark green notebook, and handed it to her. "I have written the self-criticism you asked me to write."
He wanted to keep her so badly that he made up a not-so-clever excuse in desperation.
Lin Xicai was stunned for a moment, glanced at the notebook, and didn't take it. "I'm too lazy to read it. Read it to me."
Lin Xicai didn't leave and sat down on the sofa.
Li Ci stood on the carpet holding the notebook, looking at her, his Adam's apple moving.
"Can't you pronounce it?" Lin Xicai asked, "Is it hard to say?"
Li Ci shook his head slightly, opened the notebook and began to read haltingly under her calm gaze.
Li Ci kept looking into Lin Xicai's eyes while speaking, and it seemed as if every word of his confession was spoken to her.
But in fact, he didn't take any of what he read to heart. He just... enjoyed being looked at by her.
Lin Xicai's gaze fell on his face, her eyes were calm and complicated, and no one knew what she was thinking.
When the first self-criticism was almost finished, Lin Xicai's phone rang again.
Lin Xicai stared at the screen for a few seconds, frowning slightly out of habit.
She seemed a little unhappy with the call, but like every time before, she chose to respond while being unhappy. She left the place without even glancing at him.
It's like this again! It's like this again!
Why is it that every time she comes here, some bitch calls her?
Why did you call me at this time!
He wishfully thought that they depended on each other, but she reminded him again and again that this was not the case at all. He was hers, but she was something he could not hold on to! He only had her, but if she walked out of this place, there would be a wider world and many more people.
Li Ci suddenly had a headache. When he thought of her talking to countless people outside, smiling at them, and treating them better than him, he couldn't help but have a headache and his heart began to spasm.
Li Ci began to suffer from headaches, rage, and even resentment. Why did she want someone else when he was so obedient? Why couldn't she stay here forever? Why couldn't there be just the two of them in this world? If he could get out, he would eliminate everyone who had contact with her, leaving her with only him, only him!
…….
The phone was still ringing. Lin Xicai returned to the room, took a deep breath, and answered the call. "What's going on?"
"What's the math homework?"
"A math paper."
Lin Xicai gritted her teeth after answering, feeling a little impatient - you usually don't even look at the homework assigned in front of you, and you even skipped class today and pretended to be a good student, right? By the way, don't you think we've been calling each other a little too often recently?
They are all trivial matters. Sometimes he asks what the homework is, and sometimes he asks what to eat for breakfast. Do you think this is normal?
There was a moment of silence on the other end of the phone, and then he said solemnly, "What were you doing just now?"
"Eat." Lin Xicai said.
"With whom?" Xie Shi asked.
Lin Xicai: “…”
Lin Xicai didn't say anything and hung up the phone.
Lin Xicai hung up the phone and threw herself on the bed, feeling a complicated mix of emotions. Please, someone come and treat him! He wasn't like this before, why is he so... clingy now?
The next morning, Lin Xicai went to class yawning. As soon as she entered the classroom, she saw several people gathered around Zhu Hongfei's desk, whispering about something.
Zhu Hongfei himself did not come. Lin Xicai passed by and took a look, and found that on his desk were the love letters that he had stuffed into Xie Shi's drawer yesterday.
Xie Shi was lying on the table with his eyes closed, pretending to be asleep. Lin Xicai glanced at him and asked Lu Zixin a few questions before she understood what had happened.
Xie Shi had obviously noticed the things in the drawer as soon as he arrived. After learning that Zhu Hongfei had put them there, he threw them directly onto his desk without a second thought, indicating whoever owned them could take them. However, Zhu Hongfei himself didn't show up, so these things attracted the attention of other curious people in the class.
Lin Xicai watched those people pointing and talking at the love letters, and without even putting down her schoolbag, she reached out and took those things.
A few boys who came to join in the fun raised their eyebrows, looking a little amused, and with a generous expression as if they didn't want to argue with a little girl, they returned to their seats in a nonchalant manner.
Xie Shi didn't know when he opened his eyes. At that time, he was looking at her and the love letter in her hand.
Lin Xicai put down her schoolbag and sat down. "If you leave it there like this, people will see it. How will the writer feel?"
Xie Shi stared at her, "What do you want me to do?"
Lin Xicai laughed, "It's not the first day you've been good-looking, don't you have any experience in dealing with this kind of thing?"
Xie Shi frowned, "Are you very experienced?"
"Just a little bit at a time." Lin Xicai sorted out the love letters one by one and talked freely. "When someone gives you a love letter, just accept it. If it means something, reply to it. If it doesn't, just put it away. It doesn't take up much space. Even if you really don't want to keep it, you should find a place where no one is around to dispose of it. What are you doing now? Liking you is a crime. Do you think you should parade it through the streets?"
After Xie Shi heard what she said, he narrowed his eyes slightly and reached into her drawer. Lin Xicai was startled, "What are you doing?"
Before she could stop him, Xie Shi found several unopened love letters in her drawer.
Lin Xicai was displeased and reached out to grab them, but Xie Shi dodged her movement. His gaze lingered on her face for a moment, then slowly fell on the annoying love letters. "It seems like you've had pretty good luck with women during my absence."
That's it. Lin Xicai thought angrily, before, a demon god sat next to me, who dared to come near me, when you were not here, my romantic luck would be better.
Xie Shi looked at her quietly, his eyes wet, cold, and muddy.
Lin Xicai's heart skipped a beat, and she felt inexplicably guilty because he was staring at her.
The two of them stared at each other in this strange and dangerous atmosphere. Xie Shi's voice sounded deep and calm, like a pool of suppressed water. "You can't live without having affairs, right?"
Lin Xicai was stunned for a moment, looking over in disbelief. The guilty feeling she had just felt was almost completely gone, replaced by confusion and anger that had accumulated over the days. She spoke, her voice as cold as ice, "Why do you say that to me?"
The man beside her seemed to be stabbed by the sharp ice in her eyes. He stared into her eyes, his voice suddenly bitter, as if asking her, or asking himself, "What do you want?"
"I should be the one asking you this. What do you want?"
Everything that had happened recently had made her feel terrible. Lin Xicai was furious and blurted out, "Don't you think you've been acting strangely lately? Xie Shi, we're just classmates. You have no right to talk to me like that, let alone tell me what to do. Don't you think you're being too controlling? Who are you to control me like that? Are we even close?"
"Who's qualified?" Xie Shi looked over. His eyes, usually deep and composed, showed a rare glimpse of vulnerability and unwillingness, a rarity only mortals could experience. Deep within his eyes, he suppressed his unseemly hysteria. "Who's qualified? The person you're hiding. Is he qualified? He's not familiar with me, but he is?"
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Lin Xicai felt a chill in her heart. "I think you are really crazy."
Lin Xicai instinctively tried to leave her seat, but her wrist felt tight and she was easily pulled back. He grabbed her wrist, his bright and handsome face leaning slightly closer, his tone damp and cold, "I was like this when you first met me. Back then, you didn't dislike me or care about me, but now you're fed up with me and know I'm a lunatic?"
It's a bit late to say this now, isn't it?
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