Chapter 54
Jinxi was busy with badminton training, while Ren Qiao'an was busy with the sudden increase in his professional courses. Although they were in the same college, their courses rarely overlapped after their junior year. Eventually, the playground at night became their most common date spot. Because Jinxi had a habit of running at night, Ren Qiao'an also fell in love with night walks.
Life had been busy and fulfilling, and it was great, but over time, Ren Qiao'an noticed a problem: her relationship was becoming increasingly tepid. Young couples strolling hand-in-hand on campus at night are quite romantic, right? But Ren Qiao'an and Jin Xi, aside from holding hands, chatting, and occasionally hugging, seemed to have taken nothing further.
Ren Qiao'an would occasionally think of that night in KTV and that passionate kiss. Occasionally, he would stare at Jin Xi's lips and couldn't help but let his imagination run wild. But they were at school. When he thought about being on campus, Ren Qiao'an didn't have the courage or the guts to ask for more intimate... contact.
Then, Ren Qiao'an also discovered that Jin Xi seemed to be even more shy than her?
So cute!!
It's difficult~~
Life passed uneventfully until Ren Qiao'an embarked on his first field trip of his junior year, a "metalworking internship." Essentially, students in the same major, led by a teacher, would visit an old local factory, where they would complete instruction and hands-on practice. At the end, they would produce a small finished product, usually something like a hammer. Ren Qiao'an had no idea what the course meant, as it consisted of mostly manual labor—grinding iron rods, cutting iron rods, welding, and the like. Did they really want to do these things after graduation? Even if they were to become skilled laborers, these purely manual instruments would have long since become obsolete.
Therefore, Ren Qiao'an believed that the significance of this course was to allow these university students, who were unaware of the hardships of life, to experience the hardships of previous generations in industry and construction. However, there was something else that Ren Qiao'an was looking forward to: their major and the engineering management major were in the same cohort, meaning that she and Jinxi would be able to spend two weeks together on a "metalworking internship."
But hotel rooms were assigned based on their majors. Jinxi's room was on the 8th floor, and Ren Qiao'an's was on the 13th floor. That wasn't much further away than when they lived across from each other on campus! Furthermore, their classes for their majors were staggered!
Therefore, Ren Qiao'an's expectations were in vain. After realizing this, Ren Qiao'an could only turn his grief and anger into strength and devote himself seriously to the great cause of sharpening iron!
"Ren Qiao'an, are you excited? You're grinding so vigorously!" Yan Yiyi and Ren Qiao'an were standing next to each other. Ren Qiao'an used too much force and the iron ash flew onto Yan Yiyi's hands. Yan Yiyi was very disgusted.
Ren Qiao'an just kept working, "Otherwise it will take forever." They were asked to grind a prismatic iron rod into a cylinder, and use a sharpener, yes, the kind commonly used for grinding nails, it's absolutely poisonous.
At this time, a girl next to him said, "I heard that there was a boy in the management major who fainted from working on this this morning."
Qian Baoer heard this, glanced at the few drops of sweat oozing from Ren Qiao'an's forehead, and advised: "Yan'an, you should be like me and take your time. There's no need to rush."
Yan Yiyi glanced at Ren Qiao'an and said, "Of course, with your small body, you can't sustain this intensity for more than a few minutes."
"Maybe he's rushing to meet a beautiful lady." Wu Nianzhi suddenly said. After all, he was rushing to meet a lady after class.
Yan Yiyi was even more disgusted, "Tsk..."
Ren Qiao'an was unmoved: "I just want to finish it quickly. Aren't you hungry?" Anyway, after being with Jin Xi, Ren Qiao'an has been teased enough by her "cute" roommates. She is used to it and has become thick-skinned.
Qian Baoer said with a sad face, "I'm hungry. Baoer has been hungry for a long time." From three o'clock in the afternoon to now, after four o'clock, Qian Baoer has been starving for a long time. Fortunately, he still had a lot of snacks hidden in his pocket.
It would have been fine if she hadn't mentioned it. As soon as she mentioned it, Yan Yiyi felt her stomach go empty. She wailed, "Ah! What kind of suffering is this in the world!"
Ren Qiao'an stared at the last corner, iron rod in left hand, sharpening knife in right, up and down, maintaining a steady rhythm, completely absorbed in it. One, two, three... eighteen, nineteen... two hundred and thirty, two hundred and thirty-one. Ren Qiao'an felt like he had become an emotionless iron-sharpening machine.
"Wow! Look, mine is polished!"
Suddenly, he heard Yan Yiyi's exclamation. Ren Qiao'an looked up and saw Yan Yiyi waving the iron rod excitedly, looking very proud. Ren Qiao'an laughed, but for some reason, Ren Qiao'an suddenly felt that he could not see Yan Yiyi clearly. Why did Yan Yiyi appear as a double image?
"Ean'an, Eucalyptus, what's wrong with you?"
Ren Qiao'an could hear the sounds around her, but her head felt heavier and her body felt weaker.
"Ren Qiao'an!"
Yan Yiyi watched Ren Qiao'an fall headfirst, but luckily she was quick to catch Ren Qiao'an's falling body. "Ren Qiao'an! What's wrong with you?!" Yan Yiyi gently shook the person in her arms, and only heard Ren Qiao'an mutter, "It's okay, just a little dizzy."
Wu Nianzhi quickly called the teacher: "Teacher! Someone here has fainted!"
The teacher in charge of this class was a factory technician, not a school teacher. A man in a blue overalls rushed out of the crowd. When he arrived, Ren Qiao'an was sitting on the ground, half of his body slumped over Yan Yiyi, his eyes slightly closed, his face pale. The man asked nervously, "Classmate, are you okay?"
"Teacher, I'm fine." The sudden dizziness disappeared quickly, and Ren Qiao'an broke out in a cold sweat, but she was now conscious. Ren Qiao'an guessed that she had hypoglycemia and that she just needed to take some sugar and rest. "I'll just rest for a while."
Wu Nianzhi saw Ren Qiao'an's sweaty head and pale lips and said angrily, "Hey, don't be so stubborn!"
Seeing this, the man muttered a few words, "What's wrong with children these days? Each one is more delicate than the other." Then he said loudly, "One of the students can take her back to the hotel to rest."
"Teacher, teacher, I'll take her back." Yan Yiyi volunteered, after all, the person was already in her arms.
On the way, Ren Qiao'an felt much better after eating the chocolate given by Qian Baoer and a can of milk bought on the roadside. "Yi Yi, I'm fine. Let's go back."
"Are you crazy?" Yan Yiyi cursed while chewing on a roasted chicken leg she bought from a roadside stall. "It's already so late and you're still going back. Their get out of class will be over soon, and you finally managed to slip away early. There's no point in going back." Yan Yiyi felt that Ren Qiao'an might have something seriously wrong with his brain.
Ren Qiaoan glanced at the time and realized that there really wasn't much point in going back. "Okay. Let's go back to the hotel first and then go out for dinner together when they come back."
Yan Yiyi swallowed a mouthful of meat and said with satisfaction, "This is pretty good."
As they slowly wandered back to the hotel entrance, they ran into Jin Xi and Gao Yu approaching from the other direction. All four of them had varying degrees of surprise on their faces. Gao Yu was the first to react. "Oh, what a coincidence! You guys are done with get out of class already?"
"Uh, what a coincidence?" Yan Yiyi glanced at Ren Qiao'an without leaving a trace, and saw that Ren Qiao'an looked calm. Yan Yiyi thought Ren Qiao'an would have some strange reaction, but Ren Qiao'an didn't react at all. Instead, Jin Xi said, "Gao Yu bought some fruit and is going to see Li Duocai, so I might as well stop by."
"Yes, that's right." Gao Yu looked at Ren Qiao'an with a smile, "Don't think too much."
"..." Ren Qiao'an didn't actually think much about it. After all, Jin Xi had already made it clear to her before that she and Gao Yu had a "mutually taking what they needed" relationship. But seeing Jin Xi's panic, Ren Qiao'an didn't know whether she should be happy or worried.
Yan Yiyi exclaimed, "Could it be that the boy you manage who fainted this morning is Li Duocai?"
"Yes, do you want to go see him together?" Gao Yu looked very happy, and it was hard to tell that he looked like someone who went to see a "patient".
Yan Yiyi was about to refuse, but Ren Qiaoan beside her said, "Okay."
Ren Qiao'an and Yan Yiyi followed Jin Xi and Gao Yu all the way to the management department's room on the 8th floor. There were men and women walking back and forth in the corridor, and it was very lively. It seemed that the management department's afternoon class ended earlier than theirs.
When they were almost at the end of the corridor, Gao Yu stopped at the door of a room. The door was open. The three followed Gao Yu into the room. As soon as they reached the entrance, they saw an "indescribable" scene.
It wasn't to the point of being indescribable. There was just a girl lying on Li Duocai's bed, pressing Li Duocai under her. From the perspective of Ren Qiao'an and the others, they had no idea what the two people on the bed were doing.
Yan Yiyi whispered, "Did we disturb them?"
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