Chapter 44 Doubt
"Is this something you can say?"
On Wednesday, after Jiang Siyue sent her progress summary to Xu Chu, she continued looking for data. Her paper focused on analyzing the fan effect. While there was no shortage of data, it was vast and diverse, making it difficult to collect.
Fang Ming also sent her relevant information, but the psychology department's analysis focused on a different point, and the results were not very helpful to him, so he had to use the original data to reanalyze it according to his own focus.
It probably would take two or three months to finish, so he sighed heavily and resigned himself to opening the document.
"Classmates." Xu Chu clapped his hands, and everyone looked up at him. "There will be a group meeting next Tuesday morning at nine o'clock. The order of presentations is flexible, so everyone should remember to prepare."
I've been busy with business trips and company matters lately, so I haven't had a team meeting in a while. Before, Yue Huan even expressed his gratitude to me, but now...
Zhao Yan was in a meeting at the academy and was away. Yue Huan made no secret of his emotions. He pursed his lips and lamented, "I'm going to see the cruel and cold-blooded Teacher Zhao again. I want to get sick that day."
"Teacher Zhao might scold you later." Jiang Siyue finished her "threat," then smiled and patted her shoulder, comforting her: "It's okay, everyone only has ten minutes anyway, we'll all be scolded together, there's nothing to be afraid of."
"That's true." Yue Huan nodded in agreement. "You're not panicking about not having a paper, so I shouldn't be panicking either."
"That hurts!" Jiang Siyue gently pushed her head. Yue Huan didn't dare to show weakness and poked back, and the two of them soon started playing with each other.
Xu Chu didn't know the details of Jiang Siyue's change of supervisor. Knowing that she hadn't finished her thesis yet, he frowned and looked at the progress report on the screen, feeling that "there is not enough time."
"Si Yue." Xu Chu spoke, and the two people who were playing stopped.
After a while, Jiang Siyue followed Xu Chu away.
Yue Huan watched the office door close and couldn't help but ask Li Rongbo a question, "Do you think there's something strange about these two people?"
Science student Li Rongbo rolled his eyes and said, "Magnetic fields cannot be seen by the naked eye."
"When we went to the dinner party that day, in the car, Teacher Xu kept pulling Siyue aside to talk. He secretly glanced at Siyue during the dinner, and his eyes were unclear."
Li Rongbo thought back, "Is there?"
"Yeah." Yue Huan nodded. "Just now, too. Teacher Xu only needed one look, and Siyue immediately understood what he meant. Then they left together. I didn't understand at all."
"I think—" Li Rongbo slammed on the brakes when he caught a glimpse of a figure in his peripheral vision and said respectfully, "Hello, Teacher Zhao."
Zhao Yan nodded and walked to his seat and sat down.
As soon as he appeared, the gossip atmosphere disappeared, and Yue Huan and Li Rongbo obediently did their own things.
Zhao Yan turned on the computer and stared at the screen for a while, then his gaze shifted to Jiang Siyue's position. Her desk was still littered with things, indicating that she had left temporarily.
"How long have they been out?"
Yue Huan took a moment to react before realizing that these words came from Zhao Yan's mouth. "Not long, Teacher Zhao, do you have anything to do?" Yue Huan thought he had something to do with Xu Chu.
"No." Zhao Yan refused, his eyes returning to his screen. "Go ahead and get busy."
"OK."
*
In the stairwell, the two stood face to face. Jiang Siyue didn't know what Xu Chu wanted to do by calling her out.
Xu Chu looked at the familiar face in his memory, but the deepest part of his eyes was not the familiar admiration, but peace. A trace of fear inevitably crossed his mind, "Your progress on this paper is very slow."
"Ah?" Jiang Siyue was a little confused. Zhao Yan had never raised this question before.
"Yes." Xu Chu nodded, "I suggest you speed up."
Jiang Siyue thought for a moment and said seriously, "But the data for this topic is a bit complicated, and there's not much time I can shorten. If I force it, the quality will be bad, and those publications won't let me publish it."
"You can try a simpler one." Xu Chu went through the economics journals in his mind. "Lin Cup Finance is easy. You can try it."
Jiang Siyue frowned, "I don't want to publish a fake publication."
Xu Chu's retort was on the tip of his tongue, but he swallowed it back. He stared at her for a long moment, his eyes still as stubborn as ever. Things were different now. Their relationship was now just that of an assistant teacher and a student, not a boyfriend and girlfriend. When giving advice, they should be brief and to the point.
"Well, whatever you want."
Jiang Siyue took a deep breath, feeling subtly uncomfortable in her heart, but she couldn't find the reason.
The windows in the corridor were not closed, and the sound of birds chirping spread everywhere. After a long while, Jiang Siyue still didn't understand the reason for feeling comfortable, so she turned around and left.
"When did you get married?" Xu Chu asked the question in his heart.
Jiang Siyue stopped and said nothing.
"I'm just curious, why did you choose to get married during graduate school?"
Jiang Siyue turned around, her eyes a little cold, and the slight unhappiness she had just felt rapidly magnified. "Isn't it too late for you to care about this now?"
"I--" Xu Chu reached out to pull her, but Jiang Siyue dodged him.
"Because I love him! I can't help myself and can't wait to marry him!" Jiang Siyue felt better after she said this and was ready to leave no matter what Xu Chu thought.
The moment he turned around, his sight happened to meet Zhao Yan on the stairs.
His lips were tightly pursed, his eyes dark, revealing no emotion. Jiang Siyue called out "Teacher Zhao" softly and walked around him to the office.
The office building has an elevator. Zhao Yan couldn't be here just to exercise. "Teacher Zhao, what do you want to talk to me about?"
Zhao Yan glanced at him calmly and said in a flat tone, "The homework from Finance Class 3 has been handed in. Please correct it."
Xu Chu looked at Zhao Yan's back in confusion, surprised that he came to him for such a small matter.
*
Xu Chu's nonchalant "It's up to you" really made Jiang Siyue angry. After returning home, she immediately opened the computer to integrate the data. She declined Yue Huan's request for lunch and planned to order takeout.
At half past eleven, heavy rain suddenly fell from the clear sky. No one in the office wanted to go out. After Zhao Yan asked everyone's opinions, they all ordered takeout.
"Then I'll treat everyone to milk tea."
After Xu Chu finished speaking, there was another round of cheers, and everyone reported their own.
Xu Chu looked at Jiang Siyue who was silent and asked, "Siyue, are you still the same as before?"
Hearing this, Zhao Yan also paid some attention to it.
"No need, thank you." Jiang Siyue waved her hand and continued to work on her thesis.
After the takeaway was delivered, everyone stopped what they were doing. Jiang Siyue looked at the newly obtained data several times, and the depression in her heart finally eased a little.
The main dish for lunch was celery beef. After seeing this, Xu Chu habitually glanced at Jiang Siyue and found that there was no celery in her bowl. A trace of doubt arose in his heart.
Jiang Siyue didn't say she didn't like celery just now, but Zhao Yan...
After the evening shift ended, Xu Chu and Li Rongbo left together. After a brief discussion, Xu Chu asked his question, "Have you met Jiang Siyue's husband?"
"I've seen him. He's probably a big shot in Yunjing. He drives a luxury car with a driver." Li Rongbo said, then asked in confusion, "Teacher Xu, why are you asking this?"
"I'm just asking casually." Xu Chu denied any idea that Zhao Yan and Jiang Siyue had.
Li Rongbo narrowed his eyes and jokingly said, "It's not that casual, are you? Do you like Jiang Siyue?"
Xu Chu smiled and didn't deny it, "We used to be boyfriend and girlfriend, and now we are friends."
Li Rongbo took a deep breath and said, "Is this something you can say?"
"Why not?" Xu Chu smiled. "It's just the fact."
*
After returning home, Jiang Siyue asked Zhao Yan the questions she had asked during the day before he started to busy himself. After Zhao Yan answered them, he also gave her some new research ideas. Jiang Siyue suddenly had an idea and wanted to write them down in a document immediately.
“…Scientific research is about constantly trying new things and letting your imagination run wild.”
"Okay!" Jiang Siyue promised solemnly, "I will definitely do my best. I'll try what you said first."
Zhao Yan was puzzled, "Why are you so anxious all of a sudden?" Based on her previous speed, these questions should have appeared in half a month.
Jiang Siyue blurted out, "Teacher Xu said I was too slow and asked me to hurry up."
Zhao Yan stared straight ahead, his dark eyes cold, "You really listen to him."
"So he's not right?"
"...wash your hands and eat."
Jiang Siyue sat on the sofa, watching his back as he left, and seriously suspected that she had missed Zhao Yan's answer during the few seconds of silence just now.
Regardless of whether the progress was fast or slow, Zhao Yan's words brought her great benefits. The originally messy data suddenly became regular, and the decayed data turned into magic.
The weather is getting hotter and hotter. Even if I cover myself with an air-conditioned quilt at night, I will be woken up by the heat. Jiang Siyue took out a short nightgown from the closet and walked into the bathroom.
Not long after she left, the cell phone placed next to the computer flashed. Zhao Yan's eyes paused for two seconds without moving.
Immediately afterwards, the phone flashed several times again, and new messages kept coming in.
Zhao Yan looked over and saw that it was a WeChat message from Xu Chu. His eyes stayed on it for a second before moving away.
After taking a shower, all the stickiness on my body disappeared, and all the worries in my heart disappeared. When I came out of the bathroom, I saw Zhao Yan still sitting on the sofa. I was a little surprised, "Why haven't you slept yet?"
Jiang Siyue walked towards him slowly, her eyes full of tenderness. The nude silk fabric seemed to blend seamlessly with her delicate skin. She stopped at the table, bent down to pick up her phone, and the sweet fragrance of shower gel filled her. Her roundness was faintly visible.
Intentional movement.
Zhao Yan pinched her slender waist and pulled her in, letting her sit on his lap. "I'll wait for you to sleep together."
As he finished speaking, his breath enveloped her, a soft intrusion that made her heart tremble and she instinctively closed her eyes. His lips were unusually hot, like a summer heat wave, rushing over her one after another.
The calloused hand brushed against her spine, and numbness immediately spread. The hand that was clinging to him felt weak and fell down involuntarily. He reached out and held her waist, pulling it up, and the distance between them became closer instead of farther.
The tip of the tongue wraps around freely, determined to cover every inch.
After a moment, the two of them were breathing in a chaotic, intertwined atmosphere. His dark eyes were filled with lust, stronger than ever before. A hint of fear rose in her heart, her eyelashes trembling, and she hurriedly avoided his gaze. "I'm too tired today. How about tomorrow?"
Zhao Yan sneered, his eyes full of interest, "Are you too tired, or are you missing our old relationship and resisting having sex with me?"
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