Chapter 55
"Maybe." Ren Qiao'an was confused. She looked at the others, who also had shocked expressions, especially Gao Yu, whose smile froze.
At this moment, Li Duocai seemed to notice the unusual gaze at the door. He pushed the female classmate away and exclaimed in surprise, "Ah! Goddess, you're finally here!"
The girl staggered two steps before she stood firm. She looked at Ren Qiao'an and the others with a look of surprise, and soon, the surprise turned into disgust.
Ren Qiao'an felt that this girl looked familiar, as if he had seen her often. Was she...
"Hello, classmate Ye Qingqing. Are you here to see Duocai too?" Gao Yu took two steps forward and approached the girl. He then naturally placed the fruit in his hand on the bedside table and glanced at something on the bed. "Are you okay? I heard you fell and hit your head?"
Li Duocai received Gao Yu's squinting smile and a chill ran down his spine. "Wow, what are you doing here?!"
"If I don't come, who will bring your goddess here?" Gao Yu said with a smile.
While Gao Yu and Li Duocai were talking, the girl named Ye Qingqing had already left on her own. Before leaving, as she passed by Ren Qiao'an and the others, she glared at Jin Xi angrily and said something in a nonsensical way, "Don't be so hypocritical."
Ren Qiao'an heard it, and she looked at Jin Xi in confusion. Jin Xi gave her a helpless look. Ren Qiao'an moved closer to Jin Xi and pinched Jin Xi's little hand. Jin Xi whispered, "It's okay, she has always hated me." Yes, Ye Qingqing has always hated her, but Jin Xi did not dislike her because she knew that Ye Qingqing liked Li Duocai.
"Let me see your wound." As Gao Yu leaned over to approach, Li Duocai dodged with great resistance, muttering as he dodged, "Get out of the way! I don't want you to see it! I want the goddess to see it for me!" However, Li Duocai's struggle was subdued by Gao Yu after a few moves. Gao Yu looked at him and said calmly, "It seems Ye Qingqing applied medicine to you."
"Hmph!" Li Duocai hid half of his face under the quilt, glaring at Gao Yu angrily but not daring to say a word, looking extremely upset.
"Are you okay?" Jin Xi came over, and Li Duocai's eyes immediately lit up and he said lively, "Goddess, I have a headache!"
"..." He looked so energetic, it didn't look like anything was wrong. Jin Xi said politely, "I'm glad you're okay."
As soon as Yan Yiyi got closer, she saw the big round bump on Li Duocai's forehead, "Wow, your forehead hit the ground."
Mentioning this, Jin Xi felt a little guilty, because when Li Duocai fainted, he fell towards her, but Jin Xi subconsciously took a step back, and then, then, Li Duocai fell to the ground with a thud...
"Ren Qiao'an, did you see that? You have to thank me, your sister. If I hadn't been quick, you would have been disfigured like this guy."
Before Ren Qiao'an could remind her, Yan Yiyi's mouth started firing like a machine gun, saying everything she could and couldn't say. Ren Qiao'an glanced at Jin Xi guiltily, and sure enough, Jin Xi's face turned visibly colder.
Li Duocai asked, "Huh? You fainted too?"
Ren Qiaoan smiled awkwardly and said, "No, it's nothing. I'm just feeling dizzy from hunger. It's nothing serious."
"Oh, I fainted suddenly because I didn't have breakfast." Li Duocai touched his head embarrassedly. It was not a glorious thing for a grown man to faint while working.
"So you can't skip breakfast."
"Yes, breakfast is very important. Skipping breakfast for a long time will seriously affect your health. Not only will it make you more likely to develop kidney stones, it may also..."
The topic suddenly turned to the importance of breakfast. Ren Qiao'an listened with great interest. Jin Xi quietly pulled down her sleeve and whispered softly in Ren Qiao'an's ear, "Come out with me for a moment."
Oh no... Ren Qiao'an felt the crisis and Jin Xi was unhappy.
As expected, Jin Xi was leaning against the wall outside the door, her hands folded across her chest, and she said seriously, "What is Yan Yiyi talking about?"
Ren Qiao'an was very familiar with this "cold" expression. In the past, Jin Xi often wore this look of keeping strangers away, which made Ren Qiao'an retreat. But now Ren Qiao'an was not afraid. She laughed innocently and explained, "Just now, when I was lifting weights in class, I was too energetic and too hungry, so I had low blood sugar and felt a little dizzy. But don't worry, I didn't fall. Yan Yiyi was standing next to me and caught me."
"You..." Ren Qiao'an smiled, and Jin Xi's heart softened. She reached out and touched Ren Qiao'an's face, rubbing it gently, and said, "Why didn't you tell me such an important thing?" Jin Xi didn't want to see Ren Qiao'an get hurt.
"I haven't had time to tell you this yet." Ren Qiao'an grabbed Jin Xi's hand and held it in his palm. "Don't worry, I'm usually lucky and won't get hurt easily." This was just a small matter for Ren Qiao'an. If it would make Jin Xi worry, she would rather not say it.
"Cough, cough, cough."
Yan Yiyi, who was leaning against the door, knocked a few times very "naturally", successfully attracted the attention of the parties involved, and said: "The two of them are back and asked us if we want to go to dinner." Yan Yiyi wondered if she had disturbed them.
Ren Qiaoan reluctantly let go of Jin Xi's hand, "Then I'm going to eat."
"Yeah." Jin Xi also missed the warmth of his palm, but each of their majors and classes had arranged meals, so they had no reason to eat together.
After dinner, Ren Qiao'an rested for a while before showering. She'd worked up a cold sweat that afternoon, and the stickiness was making her uncomfortable. The best part about this internship was not having to complete homework at night, and the hotel shower was so comfortable! Ren Qiao'an took a nice shower, and when she happily finished washing and dressing, she emerged to find Jin Xi sitting quietly on the sofa in their room, using her phone.
When Jin Xi heard the sound of Ren Qiao'an coming out of the bathroom, she looked up and met Ren Qiao'an's surprised gaze. Jin Xi looked him up and down with interest and commented, "The pajamas are very cute." Ren Qiao'an was wearing a one-piece panda pajamas, which were furry and very cute.
"Jinxi? How long have you been here?" Ren Qiao'an couldn't hear any noise from outside in the bathroom. She was even blow-drying her hair in there. Who knows how long she lingered there, and Ren Qiao'an was enjoying it so much that...
Jin Xi suppressed her smile and said, "Probably since you started singing "Little Nezha." Before coming, Jin Xi sent a message to Ren Qiao'an, but Ren Qiao'an didn't reply, so Jin Xi came directly. It was Qian Baoer who opened the door for her. Jin Xi didn't expect that Ren Qiao'an was taking a shower, and he was very happy singing while taking a shower.
"..." Ren Qiao'an was so ashamed that he silently put on the hood of his jumpsuit, pulled it down to cover his eyes, leaving only half of his fair and tender face exposed. His fair and tender face was also stained with a light pink because of Jin Xi's words, "Where's Baoer?" Ren Qiao'an was embarrassed and just wanted to change the subject.
Jin Xi replied, "I went to play with Yan Yiyi and the others." It must be said that Ren Qiao'an's roommates were quite considerate. Seeing Ren Qiao'an suddenly become shy, Jin Xi chuckled and said, "Ren Qiao'an, are you shy? It's okay, you sing well."
"..." Stop it! Ren Qiao'an knew that he was not singing at all, he was just talking nonsense. Ren Qiao'an walked up to Jin Xi and suggested, "Do you want to go out for a walk?" That's right, Ren Qiao'an was still trying to change the subject.
Jin Xi said, "No need, you've already changed into your pajamas, and there are classmates outside."
That's right. Unlike school, where there aren't many people here and the space is large, there's more choice. If you wander around the hotel, nine out of ten people you'll run into are classmates or acquaintances from the next class, which is quite uncomfortable. Ren Qiao'an's eyes rolled, and a thought suddenly occurred to him, "How about going to a movie?"
"OK."
After successfully avoiding the topic of singing in a bath, they came to the part of finding a movie. Ren Qiao'an actively turned on the hotel TV. After a while of operation, he found that there were very few movies on the TV APP, and even fewer that were watchable. In the end, the two found a decent old Hong Kong movie.
The movie was classic and clichéd, so both of them were distracted. First, it was Ren Qiao'an who broke the silence. "Isn't Gao Yu the HVAC guy? He seems to care about Li Duocai." This puzzled Ren Qiao'an, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it. Gao Yu seemed so polite to everyone.
Jin Xi said, "Well, they knew each other as a freshman." Jin Xi didn't know exactly how they met, but their friendship should have been even earlier than her and Gao Yu's acquaintance.
"Is that classmate Ye Qingqing your roommate?" Ren Qiao'an only remembered later what made this girl look familiar. Wasn't she one of the people who lived in the dormitory across from them?
Jin Xi did not hide it, "Yes, she likes Li Duocai."
"Really?" Ren Qiao'an was silent for a moment. One was the man who shamelessly pursued Jin Xi, one was Jin Xi's current "boyfriend" in name only, and the two might even be good brothers. The other was Jin Xi's roommate who also considered her a rival in love. These people seemed to have nothing to do with Jin Xi, yet they were inextricably linked. How could Ren Qiao'an not understand this complex relationship? But Ren Qiao'an didn't want Jin Xi to get involved at all. "You and Gao Yu, you two... do you have to, do you have a relationship?" Ren Qiao'an could see that Gao Yu had no romantic feelings for Jin Xi, and he had made that clear to her. But Ren Qiao'an could never get enough of Gao Yu. This guy always had a smile on his face, and it was unknown what he was thinking.
"I promised him." Jin Xi turned her head and looked into Ren Qiao'an's eyes and said, "Actually, we both get what we need. I help him block romantic interests, and he helps me solve some problems with suitors." Jin Xi would not lie to Ren Qiao'an about this matter, and Gao Yu had his own little secrets, which Jin Xi could not tell much about.
He repeated these words again, and Ren Qiao'an replied indifferently, "You two are quite a match."
Jin Xi felt sour after hearing this, "Pfft...are you jealous?"
"Um."
Seeing Ren Qiao'an's expressionless confession, Jin Xi was stunned. Ren Qiao'an just looked at her so calmly, which made Jin Xi's heart skip a beat. "I'm sorry, I..."
"Zha Zha, you have to compensate me." Ren Qiao'an had no intention of forcing Jin Xi. She knew that Jin Xi had her own considerations and difficulties.
Maybe one day they can solve these problems together.
"So, you have to kiss me."
"ah?"
Ren Qiao'an's style was changing so quickly that Jin Xi could barely keep up. But seeing that Ren Qiao'an had already closed his eyes, with a smile of anticipation on his face, what else could Jin Xi do but lean over and kiss him.
Ren Qiao'an touched the little face that was kissed: "Is that all?" Didn't she close her eyes in vain?
Jin Xi was too shy to look directly into Ren Qiao'an's eyes and said angrily, "What else do you want?"
Whatever she wants, of course she wants...
Staring at Jin Xi's lips opening and closing, Ren Qiao'an recalled their previous kiss. It had been so long, so long that he'd almost forgotten what Jin Xi's lips tasted like. Ren Qiao'an's intense gaze left Jin Xi with nowhere to hide. She saw Ren Qiao'an's knotting knots twitching slightly. She raised her eyes, and when their eyes met, even the air felt thick. Jin Xi couldn't help but part her lips slightly. The two of them edged closer and closer, like magnets drawing to each other, an irresistible attraction that drew them closer and closer...
Just when both of their eyes became blurred, a violent "pa pa pa" sound suddenly rang out.
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