Chapter 219
"Now, let's announce the champion of this competition!"
"Let's congratulate the students from the Finance Department of X University!" The host's voice pierced through the cheers from the audience, followed by shouts.
"Senior Chen Ling is awesome!!"
"Senior Ningning, ahhhhh, I'm your biggest fangirl!!"
"Song Zi, you did a fantastic job today!!"
"X University is the best! X University is the best!!"
......
The match ended 15 minutes ago.
The audience seats were almost empty.
A baby-faced boy in the audience was still struggling to shake the handwritten board that read: "Senior Ningning is brave and resourceful, the most charming one in this year's class~ (#heart#)"
When Song Zi saw her younger brother in the audience, she was momentarily speechless.
"Ningning...don't mind Song Ze."
"He's having a nervous breakdown."
"It's okay. With such a fun little brother, your family must be quite interesting."
"No, you don't know how he usually..."
"I didn't see Song Ze come to cheer for his older sister." Song Zi said a few bad things about her younger brother behind his back. After stepping off the stage, she secretly glanced at the tall man in the empty seat who was about to get up.
Duan Shen was a prominent figure at school, and there were always various rumors about him.
However... recently, there seem to be rumors at school that he and Ningning have broken up.
After thinking it over, Song Zi realized that it had indeed been a long time since he had seen Duan Shen and Ying Ning together.
Unable to contain her curiosity, Song Zi asked, "By the way, Ningning, I heard before..."
"There's some gossip, saying that you two broke up... Is it true?"
"real."
"Fake."
Two voices rang out at the same time, startling Song Zi so much that he turned around and quickly laughed it off, saying, "Duan Shen... what a coincidence."
Standing beside the two, Duan Shenxu was perhaps the closest to the end of the month. His face had become a little thinner, and his gaze behind his glasses remained fixed on Ying Ning. He did not respond to Song Zi's words.
Her naturally beautiful almond-shaped eyes were obscured by the glasses on her nose.
Seeing the strange atmosphere, Song Zi immediately slipped away.
"Ningning, I'm going to find Song Ze now, I'm leaving first, hahaha."
By this time, there were hardly any spectators left in the conference hall where the competition was being held. Only a few contestants passed by the two of them, which attracted their attention.
Duan Shen remained silent, his aura somewhat oppressive.
Why aren't you replying to my messages?
"You've even blocked their phone number?"
"Duan, I don't know what's so special about your phone number. Is it something that can't be blocked?" The woman in front of the stage was wearing a dark-colored, beaded cheongsam with a button-down collar and a delicate crimson lip.
As she spoke, her striking features and white teeth became even more apparent.
Duan remained silent, but directly restrained the other party's hand, and taking advantage of the fact that there were not many people in the hall at the moment, he pulled Ying Ning directly into the abandoned storage room on the side of the booth.
The storage room, with only a dilapidated wooden door, was filled with dust as the two people barged in.
Even in the confined space, his tall and imposing figure already exuded a mature masculine aura.
The moment Duan Shen turned around, the light filtering through the crack in the wooden door behind him mingled with the dust in the air, and he found himself in the middle of the two, hovering on the edge of danger.
“There’s nothing special about it,” Duan Shen said.
“But Ningning, I won’t let you leave my side until everything is clear.” Duan Shenwei raised his chin slightly, adopting a proud and protective posture.
"I'm sorry, I'm doing this for your own good."
Duan Shen did not express his concerns.
He felt that the images of the quantum machine could not yet be strongly corroborated at this time.
At least, wait a little longer.
Tell her again.
"Duan Shen, I don't know what you're talking about."
"Between you and me, you are the one using passive-aggressive tactics."
"Besides, I don't know what you're trying to say, or what you're hiding." Yingning walked to a spot that was still relatively clean.
"I..."
Unexpectedly, before Duan Shen could speak, he caught a glimpse of the girl's indifferent expression in the narrow shadows, followed by some cruel words:
"And even if we break up, I won't leave you."
"Does this mean that even if I fall in love with someone else in the future, I'll still have to be with you?"
Upon hearing this, even the dust in the air seemed to fall slowly in fright.
The man standing in front of the dilapidated wooden door had a faint crimson glint in his eyes after hearing those words, which then vanished very quickly.
Duan suppressed his agitation: "You won't like anyone else."
"You were the one who liked me first."
She provoked me first.
How could I possibly like someone else now?
At this moment, Duan suddenly remembered the man he had met at the entrance of Yingning Community that day. Judging from their appearance, they clearly knew each other.
Could it be him?
Duan Shen's agitation was becoming increasingly difficult to control.
A faint, slightly burnt smell wafted from the storage room, but it quickly dissipated.
Duan Shen felt a surge of restlessness in his chest, and as he paced back and forth, his tall figure gradually blocked the light from the cracks in the wooden door.
The man gently removed his glasses, revealing his strikingly beautiful, upturned eyes. Even with his phoenix eyes blurry, his gaze remained stubbornly fixed on the girl.
She almost blended into the darkness, and he nearly lost his grip on her.
"You've provoked me, and you think you can get away unscathed?"
"Ningning."
*
"...Not answering the phone?" Pei Yuqing dialed the number several more times, but all he heard was an unanswered message.
Since Pei Yuqing and Ying Ning signed the contract, he has been appearing at Ying Ning's door every three days to catch up on sleep in the guest room.
Pei Yuqing waited at his doorstep for a long time today, but Yingning did not appear.
Young Master Pei wasn't very patient; unable to find her, he made over a dozen frantic calls to Ying Ning, finally getting the information from Assistant Zhang:
Miss You went to the Minjin Hall in the western suburbs to participate in a competition.
Having nothing better to do, Pei Yuqing kindly decided to go to the Minjin Hall to wait for the other party. On the way there, he even imagined how surprised the other party would be to see him.
Upon arriving at the outdoor parking lot of the Minjin Hall, as soon as Pei Yuqing opened the car door, she heard a voice beside her shouting, "Fire!!"
"There's a fire over there."
"Call the fire department quickly!"
Pei Yuqing looked into the fire and saw that it was the newly built business hall. Thick, hot fog was pouring out of the building, and the flames were growing wildly with the wind.
There were already quite a few onlookers around.
He suddenly had a strange feeling, so he dialed the number again, and this time the call was answered.
But inside came a hurried, unfamiliar female voice:
"Ningning, where are you?"
"Your phone is still in my bag."
"Did you and Duan Shen leave?"
"And I'm telling you, the auditorium is on fire!"
Pei Yuqing frowned slightly and asked, "You Yingning..."
Where is she?
The unfamiliar female voice on the other end realized that the person making the call wasn't Yingning, and then replied blankly:
"I don't know where Ningning is either."
"I came out right after the match,"
"It seems someone said they saw her talking to Duan Shen in the meeting hall."
The woman's voice on the phone seemed uncertain, trembling as she said:
"Perhaps...they came out a while ago."
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