Chitose was so focused on the drawer that she didn't even notice when someone opened the door.
Hearing someone speak, she was startled.
Chisui was startled and instinctively pushed the drawer back.
She straightened up, put her hands behind her back, looked up at Ling Shen standing in the doorway, and tried her best to remain upright.
Qian Sui shook her head, looking around guiltily: "I wasn't looking for anything, I just... looked around everywhere."
As she spoke, Qian Sui actually pretended to look around. She turned around and touched the vase on the bookshelf, saying, "This vase is really nice. It looks just like a vase."
Ling Shen: "..."
Chitose is really not suited to lying.
Ling Shen walked over, stood in front of the desk, glanced at the drawer that Qian Sui had just been about to open, and his eyebrows twitched slightly.
He turned to block the drawer, then casually leaned against the desk, arms crossed, watching Chitose with interest.
"You like this vase? I'll give it to you?"
Qian Sui had just said it casually, but now that she heard Ling Shen say he was going to give her the vase, she took a serious look at it.
Ah, it's all dark and unattractive, not good-looking at all, even a bit ugly.
Qian Sui cleared her throat and declined, saying, "No need, I'll go home and have my brother buy it for me."
Ling Shen naturally knew that Qian Sui wasn't interested in the vase, but seeing her like this, he couldn't help but tease her.
Ling Shen said very seriously, "Then take a look at the other things, and if there's anything you like, take it with you."
Qian Sui shook his head vigorously, like a rattle-drum: "No, no."
Chitose retreated somewhat awkwardly and stopped touching anything.
She noticed that Ling Shen had blocked the drawer, so Qian Sui guessed that what was in that drawer might be very important to Ling Shen.
The more Ling Shen valued it, the more guilty Qian Sui felt.
She put her hands behind her back to make herself look like she hadn't done anything.
Qian Sui glanced at Ling Shen and changed the subject, saying, "Where did you go just now? I... I thought no one was here, that's why I came in."
In the past few days, apart from pretending to attend classes at a normal school, Ling Shen has been investigating the matter of that totem with Lu Jiayan.
Like Chitose, he wasn't very interested in this exam.
I was just watching the surveillance footage in the school's monitoring room when I received Qian Sui's message.
Ling Shen didn't care at first; it was just going to the secret base, so what if he went?
Ling Shen was actually hoping she would go; the most urgent thing now was to investigate the surveillance footage.
Just as Ling Shen was thinking this, he suddenly remembered that his drawer was not closed.
Given Chitose's curious nature about everything in the world, she would definitely find that drawer.
Thinking of this, Ling Shen left Lu Jiayan alone in the monitoring room and ran back.
Fortunately, it was in time; they stopped Chitose before she could open the drawer.
Ling Shen said, "Read a book."
Chitose said, "Oh, right. The exam is tomorrow, so it's good to study more."
Chisui tried to brush the matter off with a laugh.
As she spoke, she returned to the sofa, sat down, and hugged a cushion.
When Qian Sui felt guilty, she became talkative, trying to cover up her unease with words. She said, "But don't be too nervous, it's just an exam, it's okay if you don't do well."
Hearing her words, Ling Shen found it inexplicably funny.
No one had ever said these things to him before.
No one ever worried about his exams.
Because Ling Shen always gets first place in the exams, and almost always gets full marks.
But since Qian Sui said so, Ling Shen could only listen.
He nodded as if in agreement: "Yeah, I know, work-life balance is important."
As Ling Shen spoke, he subtly reached out and closed the drawer.
After closing the drawer, Ling Shen walked from his desk to the sofa area and sat on a small sofa next to Qian Sui.
He looked at Qian Sui and asked in return, "And what about you? You also have an exam tomorrow, right? Why aren't you studying?"
Chitose: "......"
Chitose bluntly stated, "I don't want to take the exam, so I don't want to study."
Ling Shen rested one hand on the armrest of the sofa, then propped his head up with the other. After Qian Sui finished speaking, he said "Oh," paused for a moment, and then added, "So you came here to slack off?"
Chitose: "..."
Chisui nodded in agreement, but she still wanted to argue: "It's not that I'm being lazy. It's just that there's no time to read now. People always have to give up things they're not sure about."
This was the first time Ling Shen had ever heard someone describe being lazy, skipping classes, and not studying in such a refreshing and unconventional way.
Ling Shen said, "But the exam is tomorrow. If you come here, won't your brothers say that I'm affecting your studies?"
Chitose: "If you don't tell and I don't tell, how will they know? Besides, I'll do well on the exam tomorrow and won't let them down."
Ling Shen didn't continue teasing Qian Sui. After all, Qian Sui had been avoiding him before, and now that she had come to him on her own initiative, if Ling Shen said anything else, Qian Sui would probably avoid him again.
Ling Shen stopped talking and withdrew his gaze from Qian Sui.
Ling Shen's gaze swept over the plate of cherries on the coffee table and he noticed something was wrong.
Lu Jiayan put that plate of cherries here.
Lu Jiayan said at the time, "Since you're here, you should at least look like someone is here. I'll buy you some fruit to make this place feel more like home."
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