Chapter 9 You can’t do it, you can’t do it!!
When Gao Xing returned to the villa after finishing the exam, he thought Shen Xingjian would be taking a nap at this time. After all, his daily routine was as regular as a robot, as if he was bound to some program and would be electrocuted if he didn't follow it.
After quietly opening the door, she discovered that he was surprisingly not sleeping, but had dismantled her computer in the living room until only its parts were left.
"What are you doing?!" Gao Xing shouted on the spot.
Shen Xingjian was startled by her sudden ghost cry, and the screwdriver in his hand almost flew out.
Gao Xing was so anxious that he didn't even have time to change his shoes. He rushed over and glared at him: "You'd better give me an explanation!"
Shen Xingjian felt a pang of guilt and immediately started to turn the tables: "How dare you say that! What kind of crappy computer is this? It won't turn on for a long time, it takes several minutes to open a web page, and it goes black when it restarts. Are you deliberately trying to blackmail me?"
Gao Xing's laptop was a second-hand one she bought a few years ago. Its performance was not very good and the speed was slow, but she never had a black screen problem!
"If you ask me, you should have replaced this crappy computer a long time ago—"
As he spoke, he secretly observed Gao Xing's expression. Seeing that she was about to lose her temper, he quickly tried to make amends, "Fortunately, I know a little bit about computer repair. If you hadn't been yelling just now, I would have fixed it by now!"
"Can you repair computers?" Gao Xing finally calmed down and remained skeptical.
Shen Xingjian picked up the screwdriver again and assembled the parts spread out on the coffee table one by one. After a while, he actually restored the computer to its original state.
Gao Xing suddenly remembered something and exclaimed, "My manuscript!"
She has been working day and night on the manuscript these days, and a lot of her hair has fallen out. At this critical juncture, there must not be any mistakes.
Just as she was about to touch the mouse, Shen Xingjian had already opened a folder called "Materials" in the touch area of the keyboard.
"Is this it..."
Before he finished speaking, the next second, a series of unsightly pictures suddenly jumped out of the folder, and Shen Xingjian was stunned when he saw the thumbnails on the screen.
Shen Xingjian (before seeing clearly): “?”
Shen Xingjian (after seeing clearly): “!”
Shen Xingjian (reacted): “!!!”
Gao Xing was so frightened that he tried to close the folder in a panic, but accidentally pressed the play button.
The sudden stimulating image was played along with the sounds of "hmmmm" and "ahhh", echoing in the empty living room. The two people in front of the computer seemed to be cast under a petrification spell, standing there like statues.
Shen Xingjian had never seen such a scene before, and his heart burned from his neck to his ears in an instant.
My head suddenly exploded with joy and I felt like my whole body was about to collapse.
"you--"
Just as Shen Xingjian started to speak, Gao Xing closed the computer with a palm. His finger that was on the touch area was not able to evacuate in time and was pinched with a "snap". He screamed in pain.
"You didn't see anything!" There was a naked warning in Gaoxing's eyes.
She tried to cover her ears and steal the bell, picked up the computer and rushed to the second floor.
Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!
What they say on the Internet is indeed true. Don’t lend your computer easily because you don’t even remember what shameful things are stored in it!
Gao Xingjian's computer had always been used by her alone, and she had just left all the random things lying around. She had been busy revising manuscripts and hadn't used them, so borrowing Shen Xingjian's computer was a sudden decision. Unexpectedly...
Gao Xing buried his head in the quilt in shame and indignation, imagining whether this space-time bug could be expanded a little bit, so that time could flow back, even if it was only for ten minutes!
Downstairs, Shen Xingjian's side was not much better. He had only glanced at this kind of thing a few times during adolescence, and it was the kind of half-hidden look from Hong Kong and Taiwan. After his leg was broken, he even lost the thoughts of adolescence and lived a life more pure and austere than a monk.
This horrifying 360-degree scene with no blind spots directly caused mental pollution to him. He felt that Gao Xing was probably a pervert and even worried about his own innocence.
So the next morning, when Gao Xing went downstairs to eat, Shen Xingjian was wrapped tightly from head to toe in long clothes and trousers, and he had dug out a high-necked pullover from somewhere.
Happy:"……"
You don’t have to worry about getting prickly heat even in the hot summer.
When Shen Xingjian saw her, he immediately put on a vigilant posture, either moving his bowl farther away, or pulling his hand away immediately when he picked up a dish at the same time. He was extremely pretentious throughout the meal.
Gao Xing couldn't stand it any longer and slammed his chopsticks on the table: "Is there something wrong?"
Shen Xingjian immediately took a defensive stance: "In case some people become beastly."
Gao Xing was irritated by him and rolled her eyes, wanting to curse, but then she remembered that the agreement stipulated that they couldn't quarrel. She turned to the movie playing on the TV in the living room and sneered, "Even if I were to act like an animal, I would still find a tasty prey, like someone with the body of Diwuzhou..."
She turned her gaze and scanned Shen Xingjian, "You, can't."
Shen Xingjian: “!!”
If this had changed in the past, Shen Xingjian would have taken off his clothes and shown them to her to open her eyes, instead of just sitting in a wheelchair with his neck stiff and his face red with anger like now.
"What do you mean?"
"Speak clearly!"
"Who are you saying is incompetent?"
"You can't!"
With just two words, he won a great victory. Gao Xing brushed off the non-existent dust on his clothes and deliberately walked away from him, leaving him alone at the dining table to break down his defenses.
Shen Xingjian was furious and searched for the threatening words in his mind again and again. In the end, he only found one sentence: "You, you are not allowed to eat my food in the future!"
Shen Xingjian seemed to have some magical power. Every time when others were about to stop disliking him, he would suddenly do something annoying, and consume all the goodwill that they had accumulated with great difficulty.
"baffling!"
After returning to the second floor, Gao Xing cursed softly to vent his anger, then turned his grief and anger into strength, turned on the computer and continued to work on the article.
"Feng Yue" was the first novel she wrote two or three years ago. At that time, the TV series "Chao Hua" starring Qi Ranran and Si Yao was a big hit. She envied the decisive, daring and love-hate character of the heroine Ji Chao Hua in the TV series, so she used this as inspiration to write a short clip and posted it on the forum.
Unexpectedly, this short clip was actually liked by many fans of the drama, and some even gave her rewards. Although the amount was not much, it inspired Gao Xing. Perhaps she could earn some living expenses in this way.
He did it right away, and happily wrote the first chapter of "Feng Yue" according to his own imagination that night.
Because of the popularity accumulated from the previous short segment, the beginning of "Feng Yue" went smoothly. During the later serialization process, Gao Xing always paid attention to the feedback in the comment area. She wrote whatever the readers wanted to see, and she actually earned a lot of rewards.
After finishing the first half of "Feng Yue", Gao Xing tasted the sweetness and planned to write the second half, but it happened to be the time for the school's skills competition. As a seed player, Gao Xing spent almost all his spare time on skills training.
From school competitions to provincial competitions and then to national competitions, although she achieved good results, it also took nearly a year of intermittent time. By the time she came back to write the second half of "Feng Yue", this kind of political online novel had already become unpopular and the original readers had long since run away.
Gao Xing was forced to change his track and stopped hanging out on forums. Instead, he signed a contract with a professional novel platform and started chasing new hot spots.
Gao Xing wasn't a professional author, and hadn't learned any writing skills. She wrote novels purely to make money. So when the hype faded, her novels unsurprisingly flopped, and several of them did.
After understanding this reality, Gao Xing no longer had any hope for it. She began to regard writing novels as a way to earn a living and escape reality. Whenever she felt too tired to bear it, she would escape to the world of stories for a while, and then cheer up to face this cruel world the next day.
The publication of "Feng Yue" was a surprise for her, a beautiful surprise.
Following Jinian's revision suggestions, Gao Xing reviewed "Feng Yue" from beginning to end. The workload was almost equivalent to rewriting the entire book, but she had no complaints because she needed the money, very much.
It was already past one in the middle of the night when I finished the finishing work on the manuscript. I was lying there happily when I gradually felt a stomachache.
She had stomach pain before, and thought it would be fine after a while, so she didn't pay much attention to it. But in the early morning, it suddenly became worse. It felt like there was a knot in her stomach and intestines, and the pain made her sweat.
Gao Xing got up holding his stomach and wanted to find some medicine to take, but found that he had finished the stomach medicine he had taken before. He wanted to order takeout to deliver the medicine, but was reminded that the service time had passed.
She remembered that there was a pharmacy near the resort, but she didn't know if it was open at this time.
Gao Xing forced himself to stand up, grabbed his coat and phone, and walked down the stairs, holding onto the handrail. When he passed the bathroom on the first floor, he didn't notice the water stains on the floor, and his foot slipped, hitting his knee hard on the ground.
The phone slipped out of his hand instantly, and a crisp "click" sound was heard in the silent living room.
At the same time, Shen Xingjian woke up from the bed, immediately and vigilantly pulled out the telescopic crutches from the wheelchair, and carefully opened the door.
But when she opened the door, she happily knelt on the ground and saluted him?
"Stand...flat?" he said uncertainly.
Gao Xing really had a thousand curse words on his lips, but after enduring them for a long time, he finally said through gritted teeth: "...Get lost."
Shen Xingjian also realized that something was wrong at this time and quickly turned on the light.
Under the light, Gao Xing's face was pale and his forehead was covered with cold sweat.
He frowned: "What's wrong with you?"
Gao Xing endured the pain, gritted his teeth and got up from the ground: "It's none of your business."
Seeing her miserable appearance, Shen Xingjian didn't care that she woke him up in the middle of the night and asked, "Are you going out at this time?"
Gao Xing was about to speak when her stomach suddenly started to ache again. The pain was so severe that she had to hold her stomach and squat down to relieve it.
Seeing this, Shen Xingjian finally reacted, “Do you have a stomachache?”
"Thanks to you, my knees hurt now too!" Gao Xing's attitude was not good.
Shen Xingjian glanced back at the water stains at the bathroom door and touched his nose guiltily: “Go sit on the sofa first.”
He turned back to his room and brought out a medicine box that was half a person's height. After rummaging through it, he took out some stomach medicine: "Twice a day, one pill each time. If the pain still persists tomorrow, go to the hospital."
Gao Xing was surprised by the size of the medicine box and the richness of the medicine inside. She didn't answer for a moment. Shen Xingjian thought she was questioning him and immediately said sarcastically: "Yes, that's right, I poisoned the medicine. I want to poison you and turn myself into a murderer!"
Gao Xing was puzzled by his sudden breakdown. She sat down, took the medicine and water he handed her, and swallowed them.
After drinking the warm water, the originally aching stomach and intestines were moisturized and there was a moment of relief.
She lay back on the sofa, trying to calm down.
The chirping of cicadas in midsummer is like boiling water, rolling endlessly outside the window. In the living room, the ticking of the old wall clock cuts the cool air into countless tiny fragments.
Gao Xing stared at the swaying chandelier on the ceiling, listening to the rustling sound of Shen Xingjian packing up the medicine box, and suddenly felt that even the chirping of cicadas became distant.
The cramps in my stomach gradually subsided, like the beach after the tide receded, leaving behind a strange warmth. The memories of those nights spent curled up alone in the dark formed a sharp contrast with the soft sofa at this moment.
"hiss--"
Gao Xing was lost in thought when he suddenly felt a chill on his knees.
Shen Xingjian sat in a wheelchair, his silver-gray silk pajamas loosely revealing half of his smooth collarbone. He lowered his eyes and tore open the package of the disinfectant cotton swab. His eyelashes cast fan-shaped shadows under his eyes, and his high nose bridge and tightly pursed thin lips outlined a rare seriousness.
He used a cotton swab to help Gao Xing do some simple disinfection, and then tore off an ice patch and applied it to her swollen and red knee.
"Be careful not to do strenuous exercise these days."
He gave the instructions and when he looked up, he met Gao Xing's interested eyes.
Shen Xingjian's heart tightened for no reason, and his tongue almost got tied as he said, "Don't think too much! I'm just performing humanitarian assistance to you according to the agreement!"
Seeing him embarrassed and annoyed, Gao Xing felt a subtle sense of satisfaction in her heart. She shrugged and said, "I didn't say anything."
Shen Xingjian could feel that the faint smile on Gao Xing’s lips was definitely not funny, but he couldn’t put his finger on it, so he could only let it go.
After confirming that she would not die for a while, Shen Xingjian angrily packed up his medicine box and prepared to go back to his room to sleep. Before closing the door, he heard Gao Xing say behind him:
"Thanks."
The wheelchair paused slightly, and Shen Xingjian didn't look back, but just squeezed out a proud snort from his nose.
Gao Xing thought, he seemed... not that annoying.
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Some female gaze perspectives, hehe [evil smile]
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