Chapter 206

Shower room.

Mai Sui washed twice, applied body wash twice, the goal being to clean herself thoroughly and restore herself to her original appearance.

The scene that just happened in the kitchen made her feel a tremor in her heart, but more than that, it was fear. She knew how much attraction her natural "charming" attribute had for men.

If it weren't for the fact that Li Heng had human beauties like Xiao Han and Song Yu, and if it weren't for the fact that Li Heng could be considered a humble gentleman with strong immunity, stimulating him like that just now might have led to the worst possible outcome.

She had always treated Li Heng as a close friend, someone who knew her heart and mind, but she had never thought about competing with her best friend Song Yu for a man. With her relatively conservative thinking, she couldn't do such an immoral thing.

After wiping carefully twice, removing all the makeup from her body, and putting on her clothes, Mai Sui stood in front of the mirror again. Looking at herself restored to her original state, looking at herself with the charming aura reduced by several levels, she quietly let out a long sigh of relief.

In her heart, Li Heng was a very capable man. She cherished this bond very much and didn't want to destroy this rare friendship because of some "misunderstandings."

Mai Sui was having an internal struggle in the washroom, while Li Heng in the kitchen was relatively much calmer.

Although he had been accidentally brushed by her earlier and his deputy had an uncontrollable reaction, he didn't think much about romance, thinking it was just a physical instinct reaction due to strong vitality.

Even if it was a bit awkward at the time, even if that light friction was heart-thumping and carnal, he still forced himself to forget it, finally sighing: Mai Sui is truly the reincarnation of Su Daji. If she continues to grow like this, oh my!

Saying one dish means one dish, a simple lamb hot pot with four plates of vegetables.

After putting it on the table, Li Heng shouted toward the washroom, "Comrade Mai Sui, time for a late-night snack!"

"Okay!"

When Mai Sui, who had finished washing her clothes, walked out of the bathroom door, the previous hesitation and nervousness had disappeared, and the embarrassment and shyness were also restrained. With a soft smile on her face, she appeared in front of him as generously as usual.

"The food smells so good," she praised.

"That's right, don't look at whose craftsmanship it is. Come! Hurry up and eat while it's hot." Li Heng pulled out a pair of chopsticks and handed them to her, then opened two bottles of beer and placed one in front of her.

Mai Sui said thank you, took the chopsticks and the wine, then sat down peacefully, clinked glasses with him, and lowered her head to eat. From beginning to end, she deliberately avoided eye contact with him, not daring to look into his eyes.

She was afraid that if she looked, the two would be stuck, and the atmosphere that had finally eased would be destroyed.

Or, she was afraid that Li Heng would overthink and think she was seducing him.

The reason she said she was afraid of being misunderstood as "seducing" him, rather than him seducing her, was because in this small building, he actually had many opportunities to take advantage of her, but he always maintained self-discipline and never crossed the line.

This was also the reason Mai Sui was willing to come to the small building with him, and why she liked to watch the scenery from the attic, because she trusted him and felt at ease with him.

How to describe this feeling? It seemed that in the dark, that sense of trust was enough to rival her parents, or even more.

Why would it be more?

She didn't think deeply about the cause and effect; seeing him made her feel very at ease, and that was enough.

As an old hand who had lived two lives, Li Heng didn't dare to say he had a precise grasp of Mai Sui's inner heart, but he could guess a few points. After thinking for a while, he used clean chopsticks to pick up a piece of high-quality lamb and put it in her bowl.

He didn't speak, and after picking it up, he withdrew.

Staring at the lamb in the bowl for a long time, Mai Sui finally overcame the difficulty, looked up, and gave him a soft, charming smile.

At this moment, you understand me, I understand you, everything is unspoken.

Li Heng returned a breeze-like smile and waved his chopsticks slightly, "Hurry up and taste this hot, spicy vegetable, it's too delicious, it's truly a human delicacy."

In winter, hot pot with spicy vegetables, whoever tries it knows.

Mai Sui smiled, happily accepted his invitation, and reached out with her chopsticks to eat.

The two didn't eat this meal for a long time, and compared to usual, there was less communication, but it was still as warm as old friends.

After the meal, she first cleaned up the kitchen, washed the bowls and chopsticks, and then packed up the host's clothes she had changed out of.

Seeing this, Li Heng, who had finished washing his hair and taking a shower, wore pajamas and asked, "Are you going back to the dorm tonight?"

"Yeah."

Mai Sui gave a hum, picked up the bag, and prepared to go out, "These clothes belong to the school, I have to return them, so I'll go first."

"Wait!"

Li Heng called her, then ran into the bedroom to change clothes. A minute later, he came out and said, "It's not safe late at night, I'll see you off."

Mai Sui nodded slightly, and after he came out, she locked the door.

One person, one umbrella, the two walked side by side toward the No. 12 girls' dormitory building. At first, neither spoke. After a while, she asked, "Is the blue umbrella in your hand Song Yu's?"

"Oh, your memory is really good, I didn't expect you to still remember," Li Heng admitted.

Mai Sui said, "Mai Ning and I bought this umbrella with her. It was quite expensive, and she hesitated for a long time before she could bear to buy it. So I remember it clearly."

At this point, she paused and teased, "But the deepest impression is still when you and she shared an umbrella from Hongqi Road back to the First High School. Do you know how I felt then?"

Li Heng asked casually, "What did you feel?"

Mai Sui said, "A talented man and a beautiful woman, you two are a perfect match."

Hearing this, he subconsciously turned his head to look at her, but she was looking straight ahead.

Staring at the girl's side profile, Li Heng realized that she was saying this for him to hear, and also for herself to hear.

As for the purpose, it was self-evident and didn't need to be stated clearly. While leaving enough buffer space for each other, it also drew a clear boundary for each other.

She was using the most obscure way to explain to him: the kitchen was an accident, she didn't do it on purpose, and she didn't have the heart to steal a man from her best friend.

Some things, some words, just understand them yourself, no need to point them out, cannot point them out, otherwise it won't work, and it will cause regrets.

Li Heng smiled and took over the conversation, "A talented man and a beautiful woman? I really have big ambitions for her, so I shamelessly accepted it, but you only saw the good side, not the troublesome side."

Mai Sui asked curiously, "Ah? What troublesome side?"

Li Heng recalled, "When passing by the Shaoshi Teachers' College, I ran into Song Yu's parents head-on. Sigh, that scene, I still get nervous thinking about it now."

Mai Sui laughed, "Song Yu told me about this, but I really didn't expect you to get nervous too."

"I'm also a human, how could I not be nervous," Li Heng said so.

Mai Sui sighed, "It's just that you care too much about her. If it were other girls, you would probably have passed by like the wind."

Li Heng agreed with this.

Walking forward for a hundred meters, Mai Sui couldn't help but ask, "Then will you be nervous when you see Xiao Han's parents?"

"I will be too," Li Heng said concisely.

Mai Sui glanced at him, then glanced at him again, her red lips parted slightly, but in the end, she didn't say anything, walking quietly until they reached the bottom of the girls' dormitory building.

He stopped.

She stopped with him, turned around and said, "Then I'm going in, thank you for tonight."

"Yeah, go ahead," Li Heng nodded.

In their current relationship, sometimes saying too much is not beautiful, and simplicity is a state of mind.

Watching her enter the girls' dormitory lobby, Li Heng hesitated for a while, but finally decided to head back and return to Lushan Village.

Occasionally he also wanted to be lazy, also wanted to play, but there was no way, literature was his foundation, and the identity of a writer was his reliance in this life. Since he chose this path, he had to work harder, couldn't be a straw bag with a famous name but an empty stomach, only by reading and savoring books could he enrich himself.

The rain stopped, and the fake Daoist priest Old Fu appeared on the attic to meditate.

Seeing him, Fu Laoshi poked his head out and asked, "Why are you the only one tonight, what about classmate Mai Sui?"

Li Heng replied, "She went back to the dorm."

Fu Laoshi extended an invitation, "I have wine and meat here, how about coming over for a drink?"

Li Heng refused, "Thanks Old Fu, I'm full."

"Hey, you kid, the smell of lamb is still floating in the air, and you didn't call me for hot pot," Fu Laoshi muttered.

Li Heng shouted, "Next time, next time I'll definitely call you."

Opening the door, entering the room, and closing it again.

Without staying long, he put down the umbrella and went straight into the study.

The light in Yu Laoshi's bedroom opposite was on, and through the window, one could vaguely see a woman with a strong scholarly atmosphere reading by the light.

Beside her was a cup of coffee, with smoke curling up.

Through the mist, his gaze lingered on Yu Laoshi for a while, then looked at the osmanthus tree in the courtyard. Unfortunately, it wasn't a four-season osmanthus, and he couldn't smell the osmanthus fragrance in late autumn. It had to be said that it was truly a pity.

How about, next spring, he brings some flower seeds from his hometown to decorate the courtyard?

He was a flower lover.

Especially beautiful flowers, he couldn't refuse. He could often squat on the side and watch for half a day, liked to touch the petals with his hands, and even probe into the stamen. Oh my! That kind of tight feeling of probing to the end was just like a bee collecting honey, extremely satisfying.

After calming down for ten minutes, Li Heng read according to his own rhythm. An hour later, full of inspiration, he put down the book and began to write.

Unknowingly, he had already written to the 33rd chapter, 9 chapters away from the expected completion.

In this chapter, he mainly wrote about Longhua in the southwest corner of Shanghai. To write this chapter well, he read a lot of local materials, and only dared to write on the basis of the original work after he had a clear idea.

"... After all, it's a bit convenient. When I feel I can't do it anymore, I don't need to call a car to the funeral home, I can just walk there slowly..."

When the pen tip reached this point, he suddenly thought of the fool who made a joke about the Shanghai funeral home on the first day he arrived in Shanghai. He didn't know how this guy was doing in university?

Was he still as carefree, saying "damn it" all the time? It seemed he had to go see him when he had time.

Later, he thought of his high school English teacher. Sigh, he also wanted the company of a beautiful woman, but there was no one to pour him tea, which was very desolate.

Mind wandering was like going out to a brothel in his spare time. Once his pants were tightened, he had to secretly return to do serious business.

That's right, he wrote for a whole night, stubbornly finishing about 8,000 words, and even revised it twice himself.

By the time he threw his pen and rolled onto the bed, he was damn tired and stupid! Tired and paralyzed! Soft and weak, even more powerless than a thatched hut.

Damn it! Exercise must be stepped up. Just running in the morning is still a bit less. He had to get two sandbags.

He fell asleep without any burden. When he opened his eyes again, the sun had already set, and the sunset had dyed the room golden.

Li Heng stared at the ceiling foolishly for a long while before coming back to his senses. Checking his watch, he suddenly exclaimed! Damn, he had slept long enough, actually sleeping for more than 8 hours, it was already 5:17 PM.

Coincidentally, just as he was putting on his clothes and preparing to get out of bed, there was a knocking sound outside the door, accompanied by shouting.

"Pa pa pa!"

"Li Heng! Li Heng! Are you up yet? If you don't get up, I'm going to kick the door!"

"Li Heng! Li Heng! You have to perform on stage tonight, hurry up and get up!"

It was Sun Manning's rough voice.

Beside her, Mai Sui was still persuading, "Be a little gentler, don't break the door."

"If it breaks, it breaks! I'm afraid he'll die suddenly. He must have been writing all night last night! This kind of man is useless, maybe one day he'll kill himself!" Sun Manning said, and because she was too worried, she prepared to break in.

"Hey hey hey! Alright, I'm awake, don't curse me." Li Heng shouted at the door, quickly put on his pants, and opened the door.

Seeing him, Sun Manning and Mai Sui breathed a sigh of relief together.

The next second, Sun Manning started nagging again, "Why did you sleep for so long in broad daylight? Someone who didn't know would think you were hiding a woman in bed. No, I have to check, you wouldn't really be hiding a woman, would you?"

Mai Sui pursed her lips and smiled.

Li Heng was speechless, very briskly opened the bedroom door completely, and said angrily, "Go, go, go, hurry up and check. If there's no woman, I'll tie you to the bed."

Sun Manning actually poked her head in to look around, and finally pointed at the lunchbox on the coffee table with a grin and said, "Hurry up and wash up and eat. The party will start in more than an hour. You're the second one to go on stage, and you still need to put on makeup. Time is very tight."

Li Heng had no words, first went to take a shower, brush his teeth, and then asked while eating, "Aren't you all in the student union? Such a big party, why don't you go help with chores?"

"We were originally doing chores, but all the other performers came, only you were nowhere to be seen. Senior Ye went to your dorm building to find you, and your roommate said you didn't go back, so we guessed you must have stayed up late last night," Sun Manning explained.

Li Heng instructed, "Don't tell anyone about me renting a house in Lushan Village. I want a quiet environment."

"Don't worry, we're not that stupid," Sun Manning rolled her eyes at him and urged him to eat faster.

Mai Sui got up and poured him a glass of warm water, looked at the time and said, "There's still time, Manning, don't urge him, he'll choke."

Sun Manning shouted anxiously, "If he chokes, he chokes. He's not our man anyway. If he chokes to death, the ones who will be sad are Xiao Han, Song Yu, and Chen Zijin, hee hee... we can still eat at the funeral."

Li Heng was furious, really wanting to poke this girl who spoke without thinking to death with a chopstick. Truly!

After eating, taking the ocarina, the three hurried toward Xianghui Hall.

The school attached great importance to this orientation party. Slogans were posted all along the way, and colorful balloons were tied to the flowers and trees on both sides of Xianghui Hall, in strings, with a rich atmosphere.

Xianghui Hall was crowded with people. Many boys gathered at the entrance outside, calling it chatting, but actually, they were huddled together to do shady things.

For example, secretly looking at the passing senior girls, commenting on the freshmen of this year. Usually, there was no such opportunity, but today they could satisfy their cravings.

Actually, it was completely understandable that the freshmen would be so excited.

In this day and age, except for a few big parties in the school, there were no other entertainment activities at all. Usually, you could see scenes of reading everywhere on campus. Except for reading, it was still reading. You could meet people holding books wherever you went. Over time, it was particularly boring, making many young men full of expectations for university life very disappointed.

After suffering like a monk for two months, they finally waited for the arrival of the orientation party. Could they not be excited?

"Hey, that guy looks familiar."

"What do you mean familiar? He played the erhu at the military training art performance, "Erquan Yingyue", it was super good, don't you remember?"

"Oh, I remember, I was just saying where I had seen him."

"That's Mai Sui."

"I know, I know, you don't need to point it out..."

"This Mai Sui is so charming. I didn't have this feeling when I looked at Wei Xiaozhu just now, strange."

"The senses are different. Wei Xiaozhu is the pure type, this one, hiss! So charming!"

"..."

The boys on both sides thought their voices were very small, but in fact, Li Heng and the three passing by heard a lot of fragments.

Hearing "charming", as soon as she heard it, Mai Sui spontaneously thought of the scene in the kitchen last night, and turned her head away from Li Heng.

Entering Xianghui Hall, Sun Manning muttered with a sad face, "I'm not that mediocre-looking, how come no one paid attention to me when I walked with you two? I'll just cry to death."

Li Heng teased her, "Just because of this 'old lady' of yours, who would dare pay attention to you?"

"No way, I'm also very gentle, okay? I'm even gentler than Mai Sui when I'm gentle. But Mai Sui, you really are becoming more womanly, let's sleep together tonight, let me touch you." Sun Manning smacked her lips, and Mai Sui was momentarily dumbfounded.

"This way." Afraid that Li Heng wouldn't find the backstage entrance, Mai Sui walked a step faster and led the way.

When they arrived, there were already quite a few people backstage.

No, it should be crowded with people, boys and girls were busy putting on makeup and dressing up, preparing for the upcoming performance.

Out of recognition and high expectations for Li Heng, amidst the attention of everyone backstage, Student Union President Ye Zhanyan crossed over from the other side of the room to greet him personally:

"Li Heng, you finally came. It's already this time, I was afraid you'd change your mind again."

Her words were a true feeling.

In order to invite Li Heng to perform on stage, she had mobilized Liu Yue and Mai Sui countless times, and it could be said that he only came out after being invited seven or eight times. Even Zhuge Liang wasn't this hard to invite.

"Senior, I'm sorry, I took a nap in the afternoon and overslept," Li Heng said apologetically.

"It's okay, come with me. Everyone is putting on makeup, I'll handle yours." When it came to makeup technology, Ye Zhanyan considered herself second to none here.

Because she was born beautiful and had studied it herself, as a junior, she had already practiced this technology to perfection.

"Can I not put on makeup?" He was a bit unaccustomed to applying things to his face.

"That won't do. Even if you're handsome to the sky, you have to put it on. Today's party will be recorded throughout, so makeup looks better on camera," Ye Zhanyan didn't give him a chance to refuse.

No way, Li Heng had to follow the senior to the other side of the room.

Mai Sui and Sun Manning originally wanted to follow, but were called away by another vice president of the student union halfway, saying that there was a problem with the front desk layout and they urgently needed people to help.

"Come, sit here." Arriving at a position by the window, Ye Zhanyan pointed to an empty chair and said.

It wasn't that she wanted to travel far to get here, but that there were no seats left in other places in this dressing room, they were all full, and only here was there an empty seat.

"Okay." Li Heng responded and walked over as instructed.

Just after sitting down, he was a bit surprised.

Unconsciously glancing to the right, he was instantly amazed.

He immediately understood why other places were full, and why only here was there the last empty seat, because the girl next to him was too beautiful, beautiful to the point of being otherworldly. Sitting here would cause psychological pressure.

Zhou Shihe?

A name suddenly popped into Li Heng's mind.

The other party's fame was really too big, so big that even he, who had Xiao Han and Song Yu, was a bit curious.

Curious about what the other party looked like?

Why did the young men in dorm 325 collectively use "peerless beauty" to describe her? Why didn't the handsome Hu Ping dare to write her a love letter? Why did Li Guang, Li Guoyi, and Zhou Zhangming get so nervous that they stuttered when talking to her?

Why could she unify the aesthetics of all the boys at Fudan University? No one questioned her title of "King"?

Now

Now there was an answer: any rumor in front of the real person seemed a bit inadequate. Her eyebrows were like paintings, every stroke was just right, outlining the most perfect face in the world, well-deserved!

The other party was average in height, probably around 163 or 164.

A light brown wool coat was draped lazily over her, looking very casual, giving people the first feeling of being very soft and comfortable, just like nature's favorite, without any sense of disharmony.

Leaving aside her top-notch appearance, what attracted Li Heng's attention most was her temperament. The whole person was as crystalline as snowflakes, pure and simple, clean without a trace of impurities, as if she came with her own light. Just a fleeting glance was enough to make people's hearts ripple. Even with his extensive knowledge and talent, facing this flawless beauty, he was afraid it was difficult to hide the ripples in his heart, intoxicated by her indescribable charm.

Li Heng observed this woman nonchalantly, unconsciously in a strange and mysterious state. How to say it, he felt that meeting her once in his life was like the flash of light before death, like encountering an isolated island in the sea, like a gift from heaven. All sorrows were forgotten at this moment, his heart was inexplicably calm, and everything was moving toward the good.

No wonder Mai Sui would say she was better looking than the rumors.

No wonder the young men in the dorm voted, and the other party could suppress Yu Shuheng, who was full of scholarly atmosphere.

Ye Zhanyan laughed softly, holding a makeup box in her hand, and said in his ear, "Beautiful, right!"

Li Heng didn't make a sound.

Ye Zhanyan continued, "Her name is Zhou Shihe, she's also from your School of Management. You don't seem to have seen her?"

Li Heng shook his head, thinking it was indeed her.

Actually, without the senior saying it, any boy could guess who the other party was. After all, a person's name and a tree's shadow, ordinary people didn't dare to identify themselves, and couldn't impersonate at all.

Ye Zhanyan introduced them, "Shihe, this is Li Heng, he is like you, invited by me personally."

Zhou Shihe gave him a comfortable smile, which counted as a greeting.

Li Heng smiled back, and then saw Liu Yue walk over.

Walking close, Liu Yue first subconsciously glanced at Zhou Shihe and said to Ye Zhanyan, "Senior, are you putting makeup on him?"

Ye Zhanyan finished with the eyebrow pencil, bent over slightly, and said yes.

Liu Yue's eyes flashed, she narrowed her eyes and said, "Let me put it on him, Senior Zhao is looking for you outside."

Ye Zhanyan was stunned, glanced at Li Heng, then glanced at Liu Yue, then glanced at Li Heng, then glanced at Liu Yue, and finally laughed, "Then you put it on him first, I'll come over to touch up when I'm done."

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