Chapter 63 Did she really... hate him to this extent?
It was during break time, and almost all the teachers were in their offices.
Under everyone's gaze, Zhou Siyan happily walked quickly to Shen Yichen, "Yichen, what brings you here?"
Shen Yichen subtly withdrew his gaze from Qin Shuzhi. "I was just passing by and stopped by to see you. I brought some afternoon tea for your colleagues."
After he finished speaking, someone came in behind him with coffee, milk tea, and snacks.
Qin Shuzhi glanced at the exquisite afternoon tea pastries placed on the front table and suddenly felt that the scene was ironic.
The moment she was dazed when she saw him was because she never imagined that she would see this person in her workplace.
In the past three years, Shen Yichen never visited her on set or brought her and her colleagues afternoon tea. Even when he occasionally picked her up from get off work, he always stayed in the car and never got out.
Now that he's with his "white moonlight" (idealized love interest), he doesn't feel that his teacher looks down on him anymore. Instead, she personally visits him and brings him afternoon tea.
Indeed, love and not love are different.
"Wow, the pastries here are very expensive."
Teacher Chen was the first to approach, her eyes darting suggestively between Zhou Siyan and Shen Yichen. "Teacher Zhou, who is this?"
Zhou Siyan glanced at Shen Yichen, blushing, and said, "He... is a good friend of mine."
Her words were ambiguous, but her shy expression practically screamed "He's my man!"
Then she warmly invited everyone, "Teachers, please stop what you're doing and come over for something to eat."
My colleagues were very accommodating, thanking me as they went over to get drinks and snacks.
Only Qin Shuzhi and Lin Yuke on the right remained seated.
Zhou Siyan had actually been observing Qin Shuzhi's reaction the whole time. She saw Qin Shuzhi sitting there expressionless, annotating the textbook, as if she hadn't seen anything that was happening.
She went to great lengths to put herself in the same office as Qin Shuzhi so that Qin Shuzhi would witness this scene, so how could she possibly tolerate Qin Shuzhi pretending not to see it?
"Teacher Qin, Teacher Lin, what would you like to eat?" she called out loudly.
Lin Yuke gave Zhou Siyan a polite smile, "We're both on a diet, so we won't eat. Thank you."
She couldn't stand Zhou Siyan's affected manner.
He didn't want to eat her food at all, and seeing that Qin Shuzhi didn't move, he assumed that she had the same idea as him.
A male teacher who usually liked to banter and joke with Lin Yuke happened to pass by with a cup of coffee. He glanced at the chubby Lin Yuke and teased her:
"You can lose weight, but Teacher Qin has a great figure and doesn't need to."
Lin Yuke glared at him. "Coffee can't shut you up, can it?"
"I'm just telling the truth, why are you getting so worked up?"
"Get out of the way."
Seeing the two of them lift it up again, Qin Shuzhi smiled and shook his head. Just as he was about to write something, he caught a glimpse of a pair of leather shoes appearing beside him.
"Let's take a break."
A cup of Americano was handed to her, but Qin Shuzhi didn't look up and refused directly, "I appreciate the kindness, but I have class later, so it's not necessary."
Shen Yichen tightened his grip on the coffee, his hand still frozen in mid-air.
The other hand, tucked into his pocket, gripped the tube of scar removal cream tightly.
Qin Shuzhi was wearing a short-sleeved dress today, revealing her slender arms. Shen Yichen noticed that her arms were fair and smooth, and there was no trace of the scar on her injured forearm.
Seeing Shen Yichen standing there in a daze, especially with several teachers' curious gazes fixed on him and Qin Shuzhi, Zhou Siyan became anxious and quickly went over, standing beside Shen Yichen in the manner of a hospitable and enthusiastic hostess.
"Teacher Qin, you can leave it until after class to drink it."
After she finished speaking, she took the coffee from Shen Yichen and was about to put it on Qin Shuzhi's table.
Qin Shuzhi suddenly stood up and snatched the coffee away.
She didn't want the dirty drink to stain her desk.
Thank you.
She thanked him indifferently, then, with a coffee in one hand and her textbook in the other, she walked out of the office.
During that time, he didn't even glance at Shen Yichen.
Shen Yichen turned around and followed her out. Seeing this, Zhou Siyan clenched her fists tightly, her hands hanging by her side in anger.
"Teacher Zhou, why...did your boyfriend go out with Teacher Qin?"
Teacher Shang, who had just been arguing with Lin Yuke, asked in surprise.
Zhou Siyan's face turned even uglier. Just as she was wondering how to respond, she heard Shen Yichen's phone ring, as he had already reached the door.
She quickly replied, "No, he went out to answer a phone call."
"Oh, no wonder."
Shen Yichen chased after him out the door, just as Chen He called. He frowned and hung up the phone, when he heard a "thump" from ahead. He looked up and saw Qin Shuzhi throwing the cup of coffee into the trash can with great disgust.
Shen Yichen's steps suddenly froze.
He went on a business trip the day after meeting Qin Shuzhi last time and only returned to Jiangcheng yesterday.
If Zhou Siyan hadn't called him last night, he would have completely forgotten that she was teaching dance at the school.
She told him about how Vice Principal Li had asked her to thank him on behalf of the donation of teaching equipment, and also mentioned that she wasn't used to being at the school yet, asking if he could visit her there when he had time.
Shen Yichen found it annoying and was originally going to refuse, but when he heard that she shared an office with Qin Shuzhi, he changed his mind.
He actually wanted to see Qin Shuzhi today, using the excuse of delivering afternoon tea to bring her scar removal cream.
As a result, the scar removal cream was never given away, and the coffee that was specially bought for her was also thrown away.
Even just now...
She didn't even glance at him.
Shen Yichen felt a sharp pain in his heart.
Did she really... hate him to that extent?
Chen He called again, even though he knew Chen He had hung up. It must be an urgent matter at the company. Shen Yichen composed himself and found a secluded corner to answer the call.
By the time he finished his work and hung up the phone, it was already time for class, and the surroundings were quiet.
He returned to his office and heard sounds coming from inside before he even entered.
"Ignore her, Teacher Qin is obviously jealous of you."
At this moment, only Teacher Chen and Zhou Siyan, who were not teaching, remained in the office.
Teacher Chen, unaware that someone was standing outside the door, spoke with a sarcastic tone, "Teacher Zhou, you don't know, she said she had a rich boyfriend, but I've worked with her for two years and I've never seen what her rich boyfriend looks like even once."
Shen Yichen's pupils contracted slightly outside the door.
"I guess that rich guy didn't take her seriously, he was just playing around with her, or maybe she never actually hooked up with a rich guy and it was all made up by herself."
"If she really had a rich boyfriend, he should be like your boyfriend... your friend just now, bringing her afternoon tea from time to time, showing off their affection, right? How is it possible that in two or three years, not a single colleague has seen her boyfriend?"
Teacher Chen continued to mock, "She just saw how much your friend cares about you, and she got jealous, so she gave you the cold shoulder."
Shen Yichen, standing outside the door, felt as if something had stabbed him hard in the chest.
A sudden pang of pain and... guilt welled up in my heart.
He didn't like Qin Shuzhi being a teacher because as soon as she started working, even the unimportant little kids in her class would distract her attention, and she wouldn't be able to focus her heart entirely on him.
When they first got together, he suggested that she quit her job and stop working, since he could support her anyway.
He brought it up several times, but she refused and even got upset about it, so he eventually stopped mentioning it. However, he never inquired about her work or appeared in front of her colleagues.
He did this to let her know that he didn't like her job, hoping she would quit on her own.
He never expected that his actions would cause her to be criticized by her colleagues, and even draw such unpleasant comments.
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