Chapter 16: Sound Sleep
Xie Yu was annoyed: "Of course it's for you, who else can I give it to?"
He took the scarf box from Shen Ci's legs and threw it into the back seat with a click: "Don't stand there like an idiot, put it on and let me see."
Shen Ci paused slightly. The fabric in his palm was extremely soft. It was a very good material. One scarf could cover his food expenses for several months. He awkwardly wrapped the scarf around his neck, tightly wrapping it around his neck twice.
It was as if he was planning to hang himself with this scarf.
Xie Yu: "...Are you a fool? Never mind, let me do it."
He leaned over and retied the scarf for Shen Ci, tying a beautiful knot. The tassels hung loosely on the windbreaker, surrounding Shen Ci completely.
Shen Ci gathered the scarf and lowered his eyes to watch Xie Yu tie the knot. Master Xie's fingers were slender and beautiful, and extremely dexterous: "... Sorry, I haven't tied this before."
There were no scarves at home, only grandma's old-fashioned silk scarf, which had been wrinkled and turned white due to washing, and the patterns had all faded.
He thanked Yu for a moment, fastened his belt for him, and then sat stiffly in the driver's seat, rubbing something with his fingers, and didn't speak for a long time.
Shen Ci: "Then I'll go to class?"
He pulled the latch and tried to get out of the car.
Xie Yu stopped him: "Don't move! There's something else!"
Seeing Shen Ci stop, Xie Yu held the box in his hand, cursed the damn plot a thousand times in his heart, and then closed his eyes and ordered: "Well, you, lower your head."
Shen Ci was slightly stunned and lowered his head in cooperation.
Xie Yu: "Lift your hair and reveal your earlobes."
Shen Ci pinned her hair behind her head, revealing her earlobes.
Xie Yu opened the package and reached out to press the edge of his ear. The next second, Shen Ci’s earlobe hurt slightly, as if it was pinched by something.
Xie Yu: “This…”
He swallowed a certain noun whole: "This earring also, you are not allowed to take it off before the get out of class is over."
The word "ear" is deliberately blurred to make it unclear.
Chen Ci tilted his head and saw the small ornament clearly through the rearview mirror. It was a platinum ear clip the size of a grain of rice, with an English "x" in cursive script, and the lines were smooth and beautiful, like intertwined vines.
The ear clip is plain, and because it is small enough, it is very low-key and does not attract attention. It is a style that can be used by both men and women. It hangs cool on the ear and has almost no presence.
Shen Ci touched it: “x?”
Xie Yu narrowed his eyes: "The letters of my surname, why, you don't want to take it?"
In the perverted novel, the original owner was determined to leave a mark on Shen Ci. The original description was "a nail with Master Xie's name written on it." Although the word "*" was blurred out, Xie Yu could figure out what it was with his toes. He was speechless and refused. He found a jeweler overnight and customized this ear clip.
As for why it wasn't an earring, the first reason was that Xie Yu didn't know how to pierce his ears, and the second was that he felt it was weird to ask a man like Shen Ci to pierce his ears. Fortunately, although it wasn't a stud, it was almost the same, and the system didn't raise any objections.
Shen Ci pinched it, and a small ear clip fell on her ear, which was wrapped in a scarf. Only a little silver could be seen from a social distance, and it was almost indistinguishable.
While he was observing the ornaments in the mirror, Xie Yu's Adam's apple moved slightly and he felt uncomfortable all over: people came out for class, but he insisted on branding them, and even marked his own name on them, as if he was marking his property. He was simply like a psychopath. Although it was a system requirement, it was also extremely perverted.
Xie Yu was a little annoyed: "If you don't like it, just sell it after this class. It can sell for a lot of money."
Young Master Xie is not short of money. The ear clips are from a luxury brand and are also unique custom-made by a designer. They can be sold for a lot of money second-hand, which is enough to cover his expenses for a few years after he quits.
Shen Ci paused while pinching the earring.
Xie Yu continued to be annoyed: "Anyway, I don't care what you do later, you have to wear it in this class, do you understand?"
“Yeah.” Shen Ci said, and added after a moment, “I won’t sell it.”
As class was approaching, more and more people came to the door of the teaching building. Xie Yu's Bentley was quite eye-catching. Seeing that there were less than five minutes left before class, Shen Ci pushed the door open and said, "I have to go."
He glanced at Xie Yu and saw that he had no intention of starting the engine. He hesitated slightly and wanted to say, "Will you wait for me?" But he felt that Master Xie's time was precious and it would be too much to say so, so he asked, "Do you have any activities later?"
Xie Yu often plays with a small group of rich second-generations, but He Zhiyuan is in police station, so they probably can't play together today.
Unexpectedly, Xie Yu pulled out the car keys and jumped down from the other side: "I'll go with you."
Shen Ci paused: "With me?"
Xie Yu: "Take classes with you."
He said with a long face: "Why, I want to listen to your class, but it's not possible?"
Shen Ci: “Maybe a little boring.”
Today is the professional course Q&A session. As the highest institution of learning in Jiangcheng, A University is home to many talented students and the academic difficulty is also very high. The failure rate of this course taught by Shen Ci is as high as 50%. Half of the students in this major can't understand it. Xie Yu must have found it very boring if he insisted on listening.
Xie Yu thought to himself that he had to listen. He had to finish this shitty plot, so he nodded coldly: "I know."
Shen Ci had no choice but to take him to the classroom.
As the end of the semester approached, those who usually skipped classes came and the classroom was packed. Xie Yu looked around and went straight to the back and found a corner seat.
When he was in high school, he liked to sit at the back and sleep where the teacher couldn't see him.
Shen Ci watched him sit down, then stepped onto the podium. He spread out the lesson plan, his clear eyes swept across the entire audience, fixed slightly on Xie Yu, and then moved away: "Dear students, let's first talk about the exercises with the most mistakes in the homework..."
Chen Ci was tall and slender, wearing a slim-fitting camel-hair windbreaker - this windbreaker was bought by Xie Yu last time. The laces at the waist outlined a beautiful curve. Standing on the stage like this, he looked gentle and abstinent.
Xie Yu admired it for a moment, then raised his hand to check the clock: "System, help me keep an eye on it."
There are also several plot points as required by the novel.
Time passed, the PPT was cut into three slides, and the students were busy with calculations.
System: "Host, press the remote control."
Xie Yu took out the TV remote control, put his hand under the desk, and pressed buttons randomly.
This thing is the hotel's TV remote control. The two places are more than ten kilometers apart, so the remote control is of course useless, otherwise the history of infrared communication technology would have been rewritten. Xie Yu brought this thing purely because of the original requirement, and he took it out temporarily as a prop.
The original description is: "The elegant and handsome young man on the stage was giving a lecture slowly. His posture was very good, and his back was straight. Seeing this, Xie Shao laughed sarcastically and thought to himself: 'He is really a stubborn person. He has endured to this point, but he still refuses to bend down.' He suddenly became interested and wanted to test the young man's limit, so he curled his lips slightly and pressed the remote control..."
In response, Xie Yu said: "What remote control is not a remote control? Who stipulates what remote control to use? My TV remote control is not a remote control?"
He followed the system prompts. When the system asked him to increase the volume, he pressed the volume up button. When the system asked him to decrease the volume, he pressed the volume down button. He fooled people with this random sequence of operations.
On the other end, Shen Ci was giving a lecture, with chalk scratching across the blackboard. He had just finished breaking down two big questions and now switched to the PPT to let the students practice on the spot.
No student dared to ignore the practice questions before the final exam. For a moment, everyone lowered their heads, and the rustling sound of pen tips rubbing against paper was heard. Shen Ci stood on the podium, his eyes looked around, and finally landed steadily on Xie Yu.
System: "Quick, quick, quick, make eye contact, host, touch your scarf!"
In the novel, after the original owner left a humiliating mark on Shen Ci's body, she also wore a matching necklace around her neck. When the two looked at each other, she deliberately rubbed his neck, like a condescending master reminding a slave to pay attention to his identity, which was full of the meaning of a villain succeeding.
Xie Yu didn't wear a necklace, but he wore a scarf of the same style, so he raised his hand and touched the scarf awkwardly.
"System, thank you." Xie Yu had a blank expression. "This is the first time I know that adjusting a scarf can be so vulgar."
Shen Ci also noticed this action. He seemed to be half burned, and hastily looked away, burying his head in the lesson plan.
These were all the actions that Xie Yu performed in the original text, and now he had finished them, but the get out of class was not over yet, so Xie Yu could not leave, so he half-lay on the desk and listened to Shen Ci's lecture.
Chen Ci must be a very popular teaching assistant among students. He speaks at a moderate pace and with clear and rigorous logic. As he talks, many students show expressions of sudden enlightenment.
But Xie Yu wanted to sleep.
Professional courses are very interesting for top students, but they are really boring for poor students. Moreover, Xie Yu is a poor student in a cross-disciplinary field. Shen Ci read out all the nouns and formulas that he didn't understand. He was confused and dreamed of returning to high school classes. Within two minutes, he was very sleepy. Shen Ci on the podium seemed to have become a double image, and the profound vocabulary became chanting, circling around his head.
Xie Yu: "...Is this what the world of the academic god is like? After listening to it for two minutes, if I didn't know I was sleepy, I would have thought I was having a relapse of my mental illness."
Halfway through the class, Xie Yu could no longer hold on and fell asleep.
Shen Ci raised his head slightly, his eyes fell on him, and then he paused.
Xie Yu sat in the back row by the window. Outside the window were large patches of ginkgo trees. It was late autumn now, and all the ginkgo leaves had turned golden. The sunlight shone through the window lattices, also taking on a warm hue. The halos fell on his coat, scarf, and cheek skin, outlining fine hairs that were furry and warm, and soaked in the scent of the sun.
It was a peaceful and deep sleep indeed.
Shen Ci looked at him and was stunned for a moment.
Xie Yu has a temperament that is completely different from Shen Ci. Shen Ci is tense and cold, revealing a sense of loneliness and aloofness, but Xie Yu is relaxed and lazy, like a big cat basking in the sun, comfortable and cozy, making people want to come over and purr on his fur.
Shen Ci looked at him, and suddenly thought aimlessly: “It should be very comfortable if I can hug him.”
He was startled by this strange idea, and then suddenly remembered that he had already hugged her.
In the past many nights, he and Xie Yu had been close together on the big bed in the hotel. At that time, he just thought of it as fulfilling a contract, but thinking about it now, the temperature at that time was a bit scorching.
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The beginning of the fall.
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