Ten minutes later.
Zhaochuan sat on the sofa with his arms folded, looking expressionlessly at the girl opposite him with her hair full of water and a messy face. There was a burning gaze sweeping back and forth across his face, feeling guilty, shy, and hesitant to speak... It seemed that the owner of the gaze did not know that such an obvious stupid look would make the atmosphere even more awkward.
Zhuchuan raised his eyebrows.
At this time, she was wearing a loose T-shirt and a pair of short jeans, and the water in her hair was still dripping down...on his leather sofa.
He rolled up the towel in his arms and threw it at her face. His tone was not so friendly: "Can you wipe the water off? It's dripping down!"
Chu Li hurriedly took the towel and covered her head with it. While drying her hair, she glanced at him cautiously... Before he could ask "What are you glancing at", she cleared her throat first: "Teacher, why are you back?"
"This is my house. I also want to ask you what happened to my water pipe?"
"Maybe they knew you were coming back so they broke it."
Zhuochuan looked at Chuli without any expression.
“…It could also be because I tapped it gently.” Chu Li lowered his head.
The man showed a mocking expression of "I knew it" and said, "Which tropical rainforest King Kong who ran into the city? Not only did you pretend to be a powerless monkey, but you also came to harm my family... If you want to take a plane to the Pentagon, go and climb it. Why are you here bullying ordinary people?"
"………………" Refusing to answer the seemingly sincere question from Ji Chuan, Chu Li continued to brush her hair, asking as if she didn't hear him. "Teacher, you just told me this morning that you would be back in seven or eight days."
"Is this why you're running around the world in banana underwear and panties and turning my bathroom into a curtain hole?"
Zhuchuan had a blank expression on her face. She watched the person sitting opposite her on the sofa suddenly stop moving. Her fair face turned red. She cried out "Aiya" and pulled off the towel to cover her face. A suffocating sound came from behind the towel: "You saw everything?!"
The man folded his arms and sat as steady as a mountain, sneering: "I'm not blind."
Why don't you just suffocate yourself to death?
I was able to come back early because of you, and that bastard Jiang Yucheng was adding fuel to the fire... It's a class reunion, but who is your classmate after how many years?
The more he thought about it, the angrier he got. So he bent down and reached out to grab the towel that the person sitting opposite him was covering his face with: "Do you know any etiquette? You should look at the person when you talk to him - what's the matter with covering your face? I just came back from a thousand miles on a plane. As soon as my feet touched the ground and my butt didn't even sit on the sofa at home, I saw that the bathroom had become a curtain hole. When I went in, I saw a woman who was almost naked standing in the bathroom and roaring into the phone like a water ghost..."
The bath towel was ripped off in a flash, and Zhuochuan glared at Chuli: "It's as scary as it can be."
Chu Li: "..."
Chu Li's face was still flushed, and he blinked blankly: "Scary? This is the first reaction of a normal man when he sees a girl's body? Scary?"
The man raised his chin, his face saying: What can you do to me? Or I will marry you.
The two of them stared at each other for a moment, then stared at Chu Li for a while, and inadvertently remembered the provocative "flower award" in the morning... The man's brown eyes dimmed, and suddenly he showed a trace of fatigue. He stood up and pushed the luggage in front of Chu Li: "Everything in it needs to be washed, put it in the washing machine for me, and don't mess with the rest of the things. I'm going back to my room to sleep. If anyone calls, just say I'm not here. I don't know where I went, especially my dad and Jiang Yucheng..."
Chu Li caught the suitcase with both hands and looked eagerly at the man sitting opposite her as he stood up. She was stunned for a moment, pushed away the suitcase in front of her, and followed behind Zhuo Chuan like a little tail: "What happened? You haven't told me why you came back suddenly? Did you have a quarrel with your family or with Teacher Jiang Yucheng? By the way, it seems that Teacher Xia greeted Mr. Zhuo Guxuan about the Flower Award this afternoon. Don't be angry. Teacher Xia is different from people like me who use authors as weapons and pursue fame and fortune. He really wants your own good..."
The man walking in front suddenly stopped.
Chu Li couldn't brake and her whole face hit his back. She covered her nose, frowned, and squatted on the spot with tears in her eyes. At the same time, she heard the man's voice ringing in her head: "Including punctuation, because of what you just said, you will need to pay a monthly rent of 10,800..."
Chu Li squatted on the ground, holding his nose, and said in a whimpering voice: "You can't even afford 1,800 yuan, so just sell me off."
"Then shut up. Why are you talking so much?" The man lowered his eyes and glanced at her feet, which had forgotten to wear slippers because she was in a hurry to catch up. Her feet were as white and rosy as pig's trotters, her toes were round and smooth, and her nails were trimmed and clean... They looked like they could be put into the hot pot right after being heated. "I told you to wear shoes at home, wild girl."
He threw down this casual remark and was about to turn around and leave, but at this moment someone grabbed the hem of his clothes from behind. The man turned around: "?"
Chu Li: "At least take a shower before going to bed?"
Zhuochuan: "Use that water curtain hole?"
Chu Li: "..."
The corner of clothes that she was holding in her hand was ruthlessly pulled back. The man left after saying "There is a bathroom in my room". Before Chu Li could say "Really? Lend it to me," the heavy door had already slammed firmly on her face.
Chu Li and Er Gouzi were left standing at the door in a daze. Chu Li lowered his head and looked at the big dog who had been staring at him since Zhuo Chuan entered the room and had not been touched on the head. He blinked and said, "To be honest, based on my clever toes, I can guess that your master is not in a good mood."
Er Gouzi tilted his head and said, "Oh."
Chu Li stood outside the door in a daze for a while, then turned around and ran barefoot to the sofa and sat down with his knees hugged. After thinking something was wrong, he ran into the bathroom and took out his cell phone. As soon as he picked up the phone, it vibrated and he received a text message from [Actor Teacher]: Put on my shoes! ! ! !
Chu Li: "..."
Open Q.
[The water army hired by Monkey: Teacher Jiang Yucheng, can you ask what happened to our veteran, Zhuchuan? He suddenly went home just now, and he seemed to be in a bad mood. ]
【Jiang Yucheng: It seems that he had an argument with his family in the afternoon. Also, I asked him to attend a classmate party, but he refused to go and got angry.】
【Jiang Yucheng: How do you know he has returned home?】
Chuli: “…”
Yeah, how should I know?
Mard is retarded.
[The navy hired by the monkey: I saw that the distance between him and me in Q chat was only a few kilometers. ]
【Jiang Yucheng: Oh, like this:)】
…
Zhuchuan came back just like that.
However, in Chu Li's opinion, it would be better for him to die quietly in City C.
Since that night when Chu Li suddenly appeared out of nowhere, she had never expected that the brief conversation between her and Zhu Chuan would become their last conversation during this period of time. After that, the man had been locking himself in the room, not seeing guests or people, refusing to chat. He was a homebody who didn't know what kind of magic he was practicing day and night, eating, drinking, defecating, urinating, and sleeping all in the room...
Every morning when the first liturgy comes, a knock on the door opens and a hand reaches out to take breakfast.
When Chu Li came back in the evening, the dishes were already outside the door. Chu Li took them away and went to cook. After cooking, she brought the dishes to the door, knocked on the door and called "Teacher Chu Chuan". The door opened again. This time, as the door opened a crack, different background music would randomly flow out from the dark room, such as video games, computer games, and lines from otaku harem anime...
Of course, men don't code either.
He hasn't updated for seven days in a row, and the internet is littered with corpses. Fans and haters started out by questioning, then scolding, then panicking, and finally wailing: "Big Boss, it's okay if you don't update, but at least come and say something, don't be dead!!!"
——Let alone his fans, if he wasn’t fed regularly every day, even Chu Li, who lived under the same roof with him, would almost doubt whether he was a dead body...
But in fact this is not a problem. After all, apart from work, they don’t have much to talk about. But the problem now facing Chu Li is: not only did Chu Chuan not write any words to update the series on Weibo, he also hasn’t handed in the frontispiece plan for the "Reader-Author Interaction Month" that he promised to write for Chu Li.
It was approaching the end of August.
The most outrageous thing is that not only the depressed Chu Chuan was cheating her, but even Ah Gui, who had agreed quickly at the beginning and whom Chu Li had always mistakenly believed to be a good person, suddenly became a cheating editor -
Ah Gui said: My computer hard drive broke, and I sent my laptop back for repair. I don’t know if those beginnings are still there.
Then this repair took more than half a month.
Jiang Yucheng said: It will be ready soon, it will be ready soon.
And this “immediately” lasted for more than half a month——
Manuscript? It doesn't exist.
On August 23, the weather gradually became hotter.
At work that day, everyone in the editorial department was immersed in their work. Lao Miao, who was sitting next to Chu Li, suddenly clapped his hands happily and said, "Well, now Niannian has submitted the beginning of the foreword plan. Hey, these people, we told them that there was no rush to submit the foreword plan for November. It's good enough to submit it now!"
Chu Li: "..."
Chu Li felt a chill down his spine, and had a vague feeling that someone was going to cause trouble.
As expected.
Lao Miao clasped his hands together with a joyful expression, and turned his desk chair towards Chu Li: "Oh, by the way, Chu Li, it's already the end of August, and the three starts over there should be due soon - just proofread them and hand them over to me directly, hehe, I'm really looking forward to the starts of the three great ones!"
"..." Chu Li squeezed a smile from his constipated face, "Of course I handed it in. I'm helping them proofread it. It's really well written. Teachers are worthy of their reputation!"
As he said this, he waited for Lao Miao to turn around and then copied the sentence [Please hand in your manuscript, if you don’t, you will find the editor’s corpse at your doorstep tomorrow! ! ! ! ] to the three great gods separately...
The great god A Agui replied immediately: [I got my computer back, but the hard drive crashed... I'll rewrite it for you, give me three days of light! Before the day after tomorrow! ]
First Ceremony: ...
Master B replied five minutes ago, with a screenshot of the word count in Word: [Don’t commit suicide, live strong, you see I have written 500 words! ]
Chu Li: My smart toes told me that the teacher opened Word and started coding what he had promised to do more than ten days ago only one second after receiving the announcement of my death.
As for the great god C... there is no news at all, as if this person does not exist.
In return, Chu Li planned to go home tonight and smash his door.
Get off work at 6pm.
Chu Li and Ah Xiang were walking side by side to discuss the cover proofing of "The Divine Book of Luo River" while walking towards the gate of the park. Chu Li was racking his brains to think about whether it would be better to use transparent color or real hollow for the cover. Ah Xiang asked casually, "By the way, what did the three teachers write at the beginning of the September issue? I am still waiting for the cover slogan to match their content..."
Chu Li: “…They haven’t submitted their manuscripts yet.”
Ah Xiang was stunned: "Ah?"
Chu Li: "None of these masters have submitted their manuscripts yet!!! Ahhhhh, can you believe this? They usually act like decent people but now they are acting like inhumane people when it comes to submitting manuscripts - my computer is broken, I forgot, my dad is scolding me and I am not happy!!!"
Chu Li: "I seem to have brought three Togashi Yoshihiro! Three!!!"
Ah Xiang: “…”
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