Chapter 62: I’ve kept you waiting for so long Lin Xicai frowned, “Let go.”…
Lin Xicai frowned, "Let go."
Xie Shi loosened his grip, and at the same time, he pressed his back against the door panel, blocking her way without making a sound.
"I've been away for the past two days. I want to check whether you've studied well."
"Very good." Lin Xicai said, "Do you think the earth will stop rotating without you?"
Xie Shi reached out to take her schoolbag, led her inside, put the schoolbag on the table, took out the exercise book inside and flipped through it.
Over the past two days, she'd done a lot of exercises, checking her answers afterward. She'd even marked some of the mistakes with five-pointed stars. They both knew exactly what these stars represented.
Xie Shi looked at it, with the corners of his lips slightly raised.
Lin Xicai frowned: "What are you laughing at?"
"That's right. You remember to mark the questions you don't understand even when I'm not around," said Xie Shi.
"That's for me to see!"
Lin Xicai reached out to take the homework back, but he raised his hand to avoid it. Xie Shi looked at her and said, "Stop messing around. Come here and catch up."
Lin Xicai pursed her lips and slowly sat over. "Go take your medicine first, to avoid infecting me."
"You ate before you came."
Xie Shi turned a page, glanced at the title, and began to speak from zero frame. His voice was deep and clear, a few decibels louder than the volume in the library, and sounded clear and comfortable.
The problem was a bit complicated, and halfway through, Lin Xicai began to struggle to follow. She handed him a piece of scratch paper, suggesting he write down the steps. Xie Shi, however, didn't take it. He stood up and went into the bedroom. When he came out, he was holding a blackboard.
Xie Shi placed the blackboard on a ready-made stand. He even prepared chalk in advance and started writing the questions for her directly on the blackboard.
Lin Xicai was stunned.
Lin Xicai couldn't help but touch it twice: "Why do you have something like this at home? How did you know I would come?"
"You will come sooner or later," he glanced at her, "If you don't come, I will find a way to make you come."
Lin Xicai: “…”
It was lunchtime, Lin Xicai was doing homework in the living room, and Xie Shi was cooking in the kitchen.
Soon, the food was served, and it was delicious. Lin Xicai didn't have high hopes at first, but she was amazed by the first bite.
but......
Why does it taste familiar?
It feels like I've eaten it somewhere before.
Lin Xicai ate slowly and leisurely. Xie Shi stared at her and suddenly asked, "How was my lecture?"
Lin Xicai was stunned for a moment and nodded.
"Is lunch delicious?" he asked again.
Lin Xicai looked down at the empty bowl and nodded again.
"Then let's move our study base here. We will have one-on-one tutoring and lunch included," said Xie Shi.
Lin Xicai: “…”
This person must be a pangolin.
You feel uncomfortable if you don't dig a hole for a minute, right?
This was probably another temptation trap, but I had to admit that it was indeed tempting to the point, and Lin Xicai was a little unable to refuse it.
Holidays are undoubtedly a good opportunity to overtake others. Usually, she learns from others. Even if she does work 20% harder than others, the extra effort is only 20%.
But during the holidays, those who ranked ahead of her might only devote 40% of their energy to studying if they were not self-disciplined. If she, with the help of Xie Shi, this heaven-sent BUFF, devoted 20% of her energy to studying at this time, then she would be working 160% harder than them.
They were running slower because of the holiday, but she was running at full speed. How could the gap not narrow?
Lin Xi's blood boiled a little - if this kind of one-on-one tutoring continued for a month, by the end of the winter vacation, she would be able to move up another hundred places. A hundred places, hey, at the end of the last semester, her ranking in the whole school was over three hundred, so moving up a hundred places would mean... over two hundred places!
"Have you thought it through?" Xie Shi said in a gentle and persuasive tone, "Aren't you going to use me as a blood bag? I'm already so willing to let you suck it, what are you hesitating about?"
"You're all right, but I don't quite understand," Lin Xicai asked sincerely, "What benefits will this bring to you personally?"
Xie Shi stared at her for a moment, then smiled. "Just think of me as being too lonely. I sell my knowledge and lunch, and you sell me some companionship. That's fair, right?"
This reason is perfect for this empty house.
She couldn't find fault.
Lin Xicai was silent for a moment, then decided not to dwell on anything else and left the decision entirely to her heart: "Okay."
......
After the two people reached a deal, Lin Xicai basically treated Xie Shi's house as another library to punch in, going there after breakfast every morning and returning around five or six in the evening.
Lin Xicai was used to traveling by bus or subway, but Xie Shi was a bit nervous and gave her two options: one was to take a taxi back and forth, and the other was for him to pick her up on his bike. Lin Xicai couldn't resist, and after thinking about it, she didn't need the money, so she started taking taxis to and from the airport every day.
But even so, he seemed uneasy. Every day when she got off the car, he would be waiting on the roadside. In the afternoon when she was about to go back, he would be even more exaggerated. He would follow her every time and would not stop until he saw her go in and get home, and then he would take a taxi back.
While Lin Xicai was studying, Xie Shi was doing his own thing in the bedroom.
She didn't know what he was doing, it was very quiet, with only the sound of typing on the computer.
He seemed to be avoiding her intentionally. Sometimes when she knocked on the door and went in, he would close the computer without a word. Lin Xicai didn't know what was in it, but she had a hunch that what he was doing was related to her, or rather, to Li Ci.
Xie Shi is not a person who does not hold back. When he dared to force her to release Li Ci in that way, he must have made no preparations.
Lin Xicai even had a vague guess that perhaps he had taken Li Ci's amnesia into account.
But how could he know?
Lin Xicai couldn't figure it out.
When people start doing something with full concentration, time will pass very quickly, and in the blink of an eye it was New Year's Eve.
On the 30th, Zhong Ping was making dumplings at home, and the Fu brothers and sisters were there as usual. Zhong Ping was the one who prepared the Fu family's New Year's Eve dinner, and Zhong Ping and her daughter would eat the dinner with the Fu family.
When making dumplings, all three children were there. Lin Xicai and Fu Yanxiu were a little silent, and no one knew what they were thinking. Only Fu Xuefan seemed quite excited and kept chattering.
Zhong Ping loved listening to Fu Xuefan talk about school. One loved talking, the other loved listening, and the two of them got along very well. Thinking of the big news that had happened in school recently, it was inevitable that Xie Shi would be mentioned. As Fu Xuefan was talking, she turned the topic to Xie Shi.
Zhong Ping had met Xie Shi only once, and her impression of him was that he had a miserable life but was kind-hearted and helpful. Now, she heard Fu Xuefan talking excitedly and exaggeratedly about how he had soared in the final exam, what an incredible result he had achieved, and what a stir he had caused in the school... At this moment, in addition to pity for Xie Shi, she also felt a bit more curious about him.
Zhong Ping then looked at Lin Xicai and said, "This child has had a hard time. Today is the 30th. Is he alone at home? How about having him come over for some dumplings?"
Fu Xuefan's eyes lit up when she heard this. The person at the center of the storm had now become a legend in their school. It would be a lie to say that she wasn't curious about such a mysterious and unpredictable person.
But Miss Fu glanced at her brother and quickly remembered that her brother had fought with this guy before. She curled her lips and the expression in her eyes turned into disdain.
Fu Xuefan looked at Lin Xicai, who rejected the proposal without a second thought: "He won't come."
She thought about it and made up an excuse, "He has social anxiety."
It's not a lie to say that.
He does look socially anxious in front of others.
I just don't behave like a human being in front of her.
After hearing her say this, Zhong Ping didn't say anything else.
Lin Xicai wiped her hands, took out her cell phone and looked at it, but the screen was empty.
Her expression dropped a little, though it wasn't noticeable. However, Fu Xuefan caught her red-handed. "Who are you waiting for news from? You've already checked your phone more than a dozen times while making dumplings."
"I can't check the time." Lin Xicai smiled and put the phone back.
After having a lively lunch with the Fu family, around three o'clock in the afternoon, Lin Xicai went to Xie Shi's house with a thermos bucket. In the bucket were dumplings with both meat and vegetable flavors that she had picked out.
She took the key and opened the door. It was unexpectedly dark inside. The curtains in every room were drawn tightly, as if they were afraid of the sunlight and bustle outside from coming in.
The stove in the kitchen was cold and Xie Shi was sleeping in the bedroom.
Lin Xicai stood by the bed and looked at him. After a while, the person on the bed opened his eyes.
He seemed a little surprised and didn't say anything. He just stared at her for a long time.
Lin Xicai placed the thermos on the bedside table, looked at him with her arm in hers, and shook her phone. "Usually, I get eight hundred messages a day, but you're very quiet today."
Xie Shiyang lay on the bed, his Adam's apple moving, "I want you to have a good New Year."
Lin Xicai went back home a little later that day. When night fell, fireworks were set off one after another outside.
The two stood on the balcony watching the fireworks. Lin Xicai looked at the night sky. At the moment when her favorite blue-purple meteor fireworks fell, she heard her own voice.
"Xie Shi, Happy New Year."
"Yeah." He was silent for a moment, then seemed to nod, "At least this New Year is a happy one."
......
Inside the Li family villa, people were in panic.
The young master of the Li family fainted again and had to be rescued. This was the third time in more than a month.
"If you keep going like this, something bad will happen. Not only will your body be pushed to its limit, but you'll also have mental problems."
"Something's happened," the middle-aged doctor muttered, his face pale. "If he doesn't wake up, our lives will be over. The Li family will not let us go."
In extreme pain, Li Ci seemed to have had a very long dream.
His head ached badly, as if countless needles were piercing his crown at the same time, as if someone was using a blunt knife to break his head into small pieces one by one... He had never known that a person could be in so much pain.
Growing up, he had lived a life of luxury, but in just one month, he had experienced all the pain he had never experienced before, multiplied a thousand times over. He was in so much pain, so much pain that he didn't want to continue, so much pain that he wanted to end it all.
But he knew better than anyone that this was a hysterical self-rescue.
If he couldn't get through it, he would die. That terrible numbness and emptiness would completely destroy him. The indescribable thing suppressed in his chest was about to burst out. If he didn't figure out what it was and let it explode aimlessly, he would be completely destroyed.
He has to remember, he has to remember...
How can he die when the person who made him what he is now has not been found yet!
He must find that person, even if it means death, he must drag her with him!
This therapy is effective. Every time he is in extreme pain, some fragments will be awakened from deep in his brain. Those fragments are vague at first, but gradually become clear in the end.
The familiar feeling was like a layer of frosted cellophane. His violently beating heart told him that it knew her, but he could not see her face clearly.
He saw himself sitting in a living room whose furnishings and structure he had never seen before, but the first moment he saw it, he felt at ease, as if he had lived there for a long time. It was as if... this was his room, the place where he should live.
He saw him watching a movie with someone. The person was sitting on the sofa and he was sitting on the carpet under the sofa. While the person was watching the movie, he turned his face to the side and pretended to casually look at the person's face.
He followed his own gaze and saw a back that made his heart beat faster, but as he stared at the back, it seemed as if a corner of his heart had been dug out out of thin air, and he could not see anything clearly.
Clearly, that person was sitting there, but his eyes seemed to have lost the ability to analyze her. Clearly, a feeling, a name was about to come out, but he couldn't call it out. It was as if! It was as if there was a force trying desperately to stop it! Secretly tripping him up!
The feeling was blocking his chest, making him suffocate and anxious.
His heart felt sour and itchy, both sour and itchy, as if there were thousands of ants crawling and biting him. He wanted to scratch it, but he didn't know how to put his hands in.
How could he touch the heart through the flesh, unless he cut it out bloody. But what could he do? It was so painful.
The depressed emotions that he had been forcibly suppressing began to ferment uncontrollably. He stared at the figure on the sofa with a fierce look, almost filled with strong hatred.
Then, at a certain moment, the owner of the back seemed to sense his gaze, and she suddenly turned around and looked straight at him.
In an instant, the scene suddenly changed and turned into another one. He was standing next to the coffee table with a steaming food box on it. He was holding a cold, sharp metal spoon in his hand. Before he could react to what was happening, it seemed as if a force was suddenly added to his hand, and then, the sharp spoon in his hand pierced straight into the shoulder of the person in front of him.
A dazzling bright red spread across the white shirt. His heart skipped a beat and he looked up helplessly, meeting a pair of calm, indifferent, beautiful eyes - then, her straight nose, her soft lips, and that delicate and pure face that made his heart stop.
He finally broke through the cellophane that covered his eyes and mind.
He finally saw the culprit's face clearly.
He stood there, his eyes sliding from her face to every inch of the living room. Scenes from the past flashed back in his mind uncontrollably like a kaleidoscope at the moment of death.
The memories that had been taken away from him returned to his broken body and to his dying soul bit by bit, and the empty space in his heart was being filled.
He remembered.
He remembered everything.
Li Ci's gaze returned to that captivating face, becoming intense and sinister.
Sorry to have kept you waiting, my baby.
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