About you
Gu Ye sat motionless in front of the instrument, and Lin Yehuan, watching him, was also trembling with fear and motionless.
The system was still stubbornly repeating those two meaningless sentences.
Lin Yehuan, having made up his mind to do something unethical to disrupt the plot if necessary, couldn't help but lean forward slightly and ask softly, "What's wrong?"
Under her gaze, Gu Ye took a deep breath, placed his hands on the table, and shook his head with a gloomy expression: "I won't watch."
...Could you please stop making such a big deal out of it?!
Lin Yehuan felt like he had lived half a lifetime in just half a day. He rubbed his face to calm himself down, asked the big Buddha in the chair to leave, and helped him with the analysis test.
The result was exactly what she wanted; she was successful in her failure.
Gu Ye slunk off to wash up.
"Ah! No, that's not right!!!"
Again?! Lin Yehuan's heart, which had just calmed down, was once again raised high. He slowly rose vertically from his seat, picking at his nails as he took a few steps forward, afraid that he would say something useful.
"Liu Bei did indeed weave a straw hat for Zhuge Liang!!!"
…………
If you keep torturing people like this, believe me, I'll send you to weave straw hats in a heartbeat!
[Plot correction complete.] The system finally stopped its spamming behavior, which resembled posting small advertisements in front of her, and displayed these six large red characters.
So... you really expect him to accomplish in one afternoon what others take three years to achieve?!
Can't this plot at all have a little bit of logic?! A little bit of brainpower?!
[You don't understand what love is at all! You don't understand what love is at all! ...]
The system entered a loop again, and Lin Yehuan snapped out of her chaotic thoughts. Perhaps she had just inadvertently created some trouble for herself again.
"Eat, eat, eat."
Are you all together?
After finishing tidying up, Lu Xingzhi sat back down at his workstation to write a report. He was closest to Yang Cheng, but he just smiled and waited for the opinions of the others.
"The teacher rode the donkey home?" Lin Yehuan took off his gloves and glanced at the time; it was exactly 5:30.
"We rest promptly from 5:30 to 8:00," Xu Yin noticed that they were all speaking cautiously, so he specially pulled up the surveillance footage. "Teacher Cheng still has that much credibility, being on time and silent every day."
"Then... shall we walk?"
The laboratory building is very close to the school gate. Just across the street is a food street, and around the corner is a large shopping mall. Rather than going around half the campus to eat pre-made food, the group decided to go out and get some freshly made junk food.
"What's the date today?" Zhao Lei suddenly stopped halfway through his walk and started flipping through the calendar.
"Number 27? What's going on?" Yang Cheng leaned closer to see what was happening, then exclaimed in surprise, "Holy crap! Old Cheng got paid!"
"Senior sister, am I dreaming? Is this a consolation payment before being kicked out of the research group?" Yang Cheng scrolled through "boss is generous" emojis while expressing his thoughts on such a huge sum of money. "Could this be Lao Cheng's SOS signal?"
"Shh, when has the teacher ever made things difficult for us when it comes to money?" Xu Yin also took out his phone, and frowned after seeing the amount. "It's a bit suspicious."
"Never mind, I'll treat myself to a good meal first."
"We received it too." Lin Yehuan looked at the empty chat page and the cold transfer record, feeling a warmth in his heart.
“What did I tell you?” Yang Cheng finally got to eat the seafood feast he had been longing for, and his mouth was busy peeling the shells. “When the teacher isn’t scolding us, he’s actually quite nice to us.”
"Then why hasn't the research group grown and expanded over the years?" Gu Ye always maintained a thirst for knowledge when it came to gossip.
“You have to understand, not many people can withstand those two curses. Most people run away as soon as they hear the first syllable,” Yang Cheng said, speaking at length. “You all heard it today, how did you feel?”
"Legs went weak"
"Want to escape"
"Luckily I didn't drink too much water?" Gu Ye glanced around at the stares coming his way, then smiled awkwardly. How come these people had absolutely no sense of humor?
“This is less than half of his ability.” Zhao Lei continued after picking up his food, “When I first came here, he talked a lot about how his senior sister cried and stayed up all night doing experiments, determined to publish in a top journal and trample him underfoot.”
“I’m not the same person I used to be.” Xu Yin’s embarrassing past was exposed the moment she took a sip of water. She wanted nothing more than to kick the two of them back to the lab. “If the publication fee wasn’t so expensive, I would definitely fight him to the bitter end.”
"But it's fine now, the teacher has undergone a complete gender reassignment."
"What do you mean by transgender? That's called changing appearance."
"A dramatic change doesn't sound good."
…………
After dinner, the group split into three groups: those who needed to do experiments went back to their experiments, Lin Yehuan and his two companions rushed to reserve the back seats for the last water class of the evening, while Gu Ye was dragged home by a phone call from Ms. Gu.
On the podium, the teacher continued talking about her child's study abroad experience, building on the content of the previous two lessons. Lin Yehuan couldn't resist adding Lu Xingzhi and Xu Pengpeng to the same group chat and starting a game of Dou Dizhu (a card game).
Inspiration often arises unexpectedly. For example, the moment Lin Yehuan saw the cards, he unconsciously incorporated them into his experimental calculations as data.
It's absurd, but it seems like it could actually work.
Lin Yehuan racked his brains trying to figure out how to pass the information to Lu Xingzhi without making a sound. He glanced guiltily at Xu Pengpeng, who had a determined look on his face. Friendship was precious, but the mission was even more valuable. After hesitating for a long time, he reached out his left hand and pretended to tap the back of Lu Xingzhi's hand casually.
Lu Xingzhi was very shrewd and thought he understood perfectly. He played a pair of threes, catching Xu Pengpeng, who was also a farmer and had a straight, completely off guard.
"I protest! Can't you have some sportsmanship?!" Xu Pengpeng angrily pounded the screen, throwing a basket of rotten eggs and tomatoes at him. "We're the two of us on a team!"
"I need a tutorial on how to avoid prioritizing romantic relationships over friendships!"
"I'm really going to cause trouble! Lin Yehuan, if you're so capable, play a royal flush followed by a straight. What do you mean by playing a pair of fours?!"
"Lu Xingzhi, you still play a pair of fives! Why are you playing this 'Sweetheart Landlord' game if you're not going to make a bomb?!"
"Can anyone please answer me?!"
While complaining, Xu Pengpeng kept a close eye on the two people's movements. The good news was that Lin Yehuan had finally managed to throw out a royal flush after playing a bunch of random cards, interrupting a certain traitor. The bad news was that Lin Yehuan only had one straight left.
Xu Pengpeng rolled her eyes and silently withdrew, completely unaware that the other two had already made some earth-shattering discovery through telepathy.
"Hey, why are you back again?" Zhao Lei had just finished tidying up his workstation and was about to rest when two people suddenly rushed in, startling him so much that he sat back down in his seat.
"Hurry, hurry, hurry! Senior brother, don't worry about us," Lin Yehuan helped him prepare the experimental equipment. "We'll only be here for four hours."
"No, don't tell me you've got seafood poisoning."
"A poisonous jellyfish got mixed in with the jellyfish?" Yang Cheng leaned over, looking shocked. "Oh, and also, the dean will be coming to inspect at 2 a.m.."
"Don't worry, I have a way," Lin Yehuan said seriously. She was an expert at staying in the lab until the early hours of the morning to avoid inspections. "I just need to trouble my senior sister to help adjust the camera."
"The computer will automatically shut down at 11 PM, and the teacher is very trustworthy about that." Xu Yin had just finished taking the data and moved the computer to the back row to keep them company. "If you really want to do it now, I'll stay with you."
"Okay, thank you, sister." Lin Yehuan didn't intend to do anything herself; she was just standing next to Lu Xingzhi, acting as a lucky charm with mystical blessings. If she accidentally produced something that would shock the academic world with a single drop, that would be a disaster.
Lu Xingzhi repeated the experimental steps as planned. They added a pretreatment step based on the literature, which gave them an extra twenty minutes of free time. The two looked at each other and then turned their attention back to the table.
"What are you thinking about?" Lin Yehuan felt it necessary to remind him, after all, according to the system's previous logic, this was a necessary step for the experiment to succeed. "Lu Xingzhi, are you thinking about me?"
Lu Xingzhi was stunned. If he were to follow his truest feelings, he would absolutely admit it without hesitation. But sometimes things just develop in such strange ways. For example, he was now involuntarily starting to have many concerns.
He touched the corner of his mouth, but it didn't turn up. Had she noticed? He definitely couldn't admit to this. He swore he only liked her and hadn't thought of anything inappropriate. But what was the difference between telling a girl he missed her late at night and harassing her? After a struggle with his conscience, he resolutely said, "No."
No, that's not what he meant.
"Huh? How could you do this?" Lin Yehuan immediately sensed something was wrong. "I've been thinking about you the whole time!"
"You've gone too far!" Without the emotion experiment, what would they do? Wouldn't they have wasted four hours? Lin Yehuan blurted out in a panic, "Don't you have any feelings for me at all?"
"Of course!" Lu Xingzhi hurriedly explained, then felt something was amiss. That strange feeling surged up again, making him want to continue explaining, "That's not what I meant..."
The timer broke the awkward atmosphere, and Lin Yehuan focused her attention back on the lab table, not wanting to listen to his excuses anymore. She just hoped that she wouldn't waste these four hours.
"Why did the background music stop?" Xu Yin was puzzled by the sudden silence. "I'm a VIP subscriber, can you please show two more episodes?"
Neither of them answered. Standing in front of the lab table, they bowed to Xu Yin like elementary school students, then turned around and clasped their hands together, bowing to the lab table for two minutes before proceeding to the next step.
"Fifth floor, elevator open!" When the experiment was finally about to be completed at two in the morning, the three of them were already drowsy. They were awakened by the mechanical female voice of the elevator and the light footsteps in the hallway. They quickly closed the doors, windows and lights.
They simply forgot that they locked it from the inside.
The dean stood in front of the suspicious door for two minutes, trying to open it with his key, but not only did he fail to open it, he also locked both the front and back doors from the outside.
Xu Yin: "Damn it, you guys are going to sleep here too."
Lin Yehuan: "It's okay, I'm used to it."
The footsteps outside the door faded into the distance, and the sound of the elevator doors opening completely disappeared in the corridor. The three of them turned on only the dimmest row of lights and completed the final product inspection.
"Holy crap!" Xu Yin exclaimed as he looked at the data report. This... it's done already?
"Teacher Cheng will jump onto the roof if she hears about it."
Lin Yehuan imagined the comical scene and once again questioned the system's logic. If Lu Xingzhi had never thought of her, then how could she have come up with such a brilliant solution? Perhaps she really was a genius?
However, the genius, who was forcing himself to shut down his brain while hunched over his workstation, vaguely heard someone say in his hazy consciousness, "All my thoughts are about you."
Why can't you just look at me?
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
