Chapter 607

Li Heng and Zhou Shihe looked at each other, then both stood up one after another to follow her back to the hotel.

Upon entering the hotel, Yu Laoshi and Liu Bei went off to get busy, leaving only Li Heng and Zhou Shihe behind.

For some reason, when their gazes inadvertently crossed, both were somewhat heavy-hearted, and subsequently, they moved their eyes away nonchalantly, looking elsewhere.

To ease the gloomy atmosphere, Li Heng turned on the television and said, "We won't be able to sleep even if we go back to our rooms; shall we watch some TV together?"

Hearing this, Zhou Shihe sat quietly on the sofa; she didn't speak, but gave her answer through her actions.

After searching through all the channels, there was nothing good to watch. Li Heng felt a bit discouraged and handed the remote control to her:

"The TV and I don't get along; you've always had good luck, why don't you try?"

Zhou Shihe smiled cleverly, took the remote control, switched to a channel without commercials at random, and then put the remote down.

During the performance today, she had been moved by the music, to the point where she had revealed a flaw in front of him. At this moment, she didn't want to face his gaze directly, so she looked for a topic to distract each other's attention:

"I want to call Mai Sui."

Li Heng asked, "Do you want Mai Sui to come over sooner?"

Zhou Shihe did not hide it, "Yes, it's boring to be alone at school."

Li Heng asked, "It's only the seventh day of the New Year tomorrow, aren't you going home for a visit?"

Zhou Shihe was silent for a moment, then said okay.

Li Heng: "..."

In just a few short sentences, it seemed as if nothing had been said, but both of them understood everything.

But since the words were already out, and things had reached this point, there was nothing more to say.

After pondering for a short while, Zhou Shihe turned off the TV and began to dial.

Before long, the call went through, and on the other end was Mai Dong's voice: "Hello, who is this?"

Zhou Shihe identified herself: "Happy New Year, Uncle. This is Zhou Shihe; I have something to ask Mai Sui."

Upon hearing it was the girl from the Zhou family, Mai Dong unconsciously became a bit more solemn, "Mai Sui is playing at a childhood friend's house. Wait five minutes and call back; I'll go call her."

Zhou Shihe replied politely and hung up the phone.

Ten minutes later, she called again, and this time it was Mai Sui's voice.

Mai Sui asked, "Shihe?"

Zhou Shihe smiled and said, "It's me."

Mai Sui asked, "How was the performance today? Did it go smoothly?"

Zhou Shihe swept a glance at someone out of the corner of her eye, "It went quite smoothly. We plan to return to the country tomorrow morning. Mai Sui, do you and Manning want to come over earlier?"

Unexpectedly, Mai Sui said, "I can't get away these few days; a relative at home is getting married, and I have to finish the wedding banquet before I can leave."

Then she added, "How about I come over on the tenth?"

Zhou Shihe said, "Okay, then I'll buy plane tickets for you and Manning for the afternoon of the tenth."

"Mm." Mai Sui hummed, and the two best friends chatted warmly about interesting things that happened during the New Year.

At first, Li Heng was still trying to fathom the two women's conversation based on fragments, but later he fell asleep on the sofa without realizing it.

After chatting for a while, Mai Sui finally asked about Li Heng, "Shihe, where is Li Heng?"

Zhou Shihe said, "He fell asleep on the sofa. Do you want me to wake him up?"

Mai Sui hurriedly spoke up, "No, he often has his days and nights reversed reading and writing; don't wake him if he's asleep. It's rare for him to get a rest.

Help me cover him with a thin blanket so he doesn't catch a cold."

Hearing these heartfelt, earnest words from her best friend, Zhou Shihe felt troubled, and after a while, she said, "Okay."

After the call ended, Zhou Shihe put the receiver back, turned to the side, and stared fixedly at his face, lost in thought.

After a very long time, she got up, found a blanket, and slowly covered Li Heng's stomach with it.

After doing all this, she got up and returned to the bedroom. First, she removed her makeup and took a shower, then, dressed in snow-white pajamas, she half-leaned against the head of the bed to read.

Only by reading could she become absorbed in the shortest amount of time and forget the world outside.

Half an hour later, Yu Shuheng returned. Pushing the door open, she saw Li Heng lying on the sofa and the thin blanket on his body.

Did Shihe cover him?

Yu Shuheng glanced at the door of Zhou Shihe's bedroom, then changed her shoes and came to sit down beside Li Heng. Looking at this sleeping young man, she had a bad premonition: the peaceful life might not last much longer.

Li Heng didn't wake up from this sleep until 2:00 AM.

When he opened his eyes, Yu Laoshi, Zhou Shihe, and Wu Yili had all returned to their rooms to sleep, and the living room was momentarily cold and quiet.

After taking a shower, he realized he had no more sleepiness. He tossed and turned in bed, unable to sleep, so he simply got up to write, planning to continue refining Chapter 27 of "Dust Settles."

But when he went to look for the manuscript, he was dumbfounded; the manuscript was still with Miss Zhou. There were too many things to do during the day, and he had forgotten to bring it over.

Oh well, after weighing the options, he finally extinguished the thought of going to knock on her door and simply spread out his pen and ink, writing on a white sheet of paper: Chapter 28, Fate and Love.

The Ronggong Tusi caught up with his beautiful daughter to the pasture.

When they arrived, I was dreaming, a very noisy dream. It was those flowers blooming especially lushly by the water that were making a clamor. Once or twice I was almost awake, faintly hearing someone say: "Let him sleep; being the young master of a powerful Tusi is very tiring."

That night, Li Heng was in high spirits, his pen moving like a dragon until dawn before he interrupted his work.

If Yu Shuheng hadn't interrupted his writing, he could have kept going and hadn't intended to stop.

He looked up and asked, "Teacher, are we leaving?"

Yu Shuheng nodded with a smile and urged, "We leave in 15 minutes. Go wash up quickly, and I'll help you pack your luggage."

"Okay."

He didn't have much luggage, just a few sets of clothes and a few books, and it was done quickly.

At 8:30 AM, the plane from Singapore to Shanghai took off.

Looking out the window at Singapore becoming smaller and smaller, a thought suddenly popped into his mind: at such a height, what would happen if the plane fell? Wouldn't the fame and fortune he had worked so hard to obtain become nothing but a passing cloud?

What would happen to Huang Zhaoyi, who had been intimate with him?

He couldn't bear to part with the Mai Sui of this life.

Thinking of Mai Sui, he felt relieved a moment later; if the plane really fell, could he return to his previous life, resurrected with full health on the spot after being struck dead by lightning?

Would Song Yu still be by his side?

Would Xiao Han, Zijin, and his four children still be at home waiting for him?

He had to go find Mai Sui; even if she were old, he would still go find her. If the plane really fell, this thought sprouted in Li Heng's heart.

Seeing him staring blankly out the window, Yu Shuheng followed his line of sight and asked curiously, "What are you looking at?"

Li Heng hadn't come back to his senses yet, and replied instinctively, "I'm thinking about something."

Yu Shuheng asked, "What thing?"

Li Heng replied, "About the plane falling."

The plane falling? Yu Shuheng glanced at the white clouds outside again, "If the plane fell, did you think of Teacher?"

Li Heng replied, "No need to think, we would die together."

Yu Shuheng smiled elegantly, wanting very much to hold his cute face and peck it twice.

This time, Murphy's Law did not occur; the plane did not crash and landed safely at the Shanghai airport five hours later.

Wu Yili did not return to the country.

Yu Shuheng sent Zhou Shihe and Li Heng to Fudan University and prepared to leave.

Before leaving, Yu Shuheng gave Li Heng separate instructions: "Siya came down with a sudden illness yesterday, and Teacher Fu has to divide his attention to take care of his wife and children, becoming overwhelmed with work. I have to go over to the Hengyuan Investment Company to hold down the fort."

Li Heng asked with concern, "What illness does Sister Chen have?"