Chapter 203: Actually, she quite enjoyed Xie Qin's service

In the evening, Xu Zhouyuan directly booked a private room in a five-star hotel in the city center, saying he wanted to formally celebrate his and Zhang Zixin's 'happy acquisition of the red booklet', and sent the person and address clearly to several people.

Shen Li saw the message in the group, and he even specifically tagged her, telling her she must go and not be late.

Naturally, she wouldn't be absent; no matter how busy her studies were, they couldn't compare to their happy event.

Shen Li finished her work, greeted her advisor to ask for leave, and she still had to go back first to take a shower; there was a smell of disinfectant on her, which didn't smell very good.

Taking the elevator downstairs at four-thirty, she sent a message to Xie Qin.

He would come to pick her up in a while, and then they would go back together.

Xie Qin: 【I'm almost there.】

Shen Li: 【I just finished, waiting for you downstairs.】

Xie Qin: 【Okay.】

Shen Li put away her phone. When she walked out of the laboratory building, she saw a familiar figure downstairs, but that face still felt a bit strange now. That gaze fell on her, and Shen Li didn't intend to pay attention.

"Shen Li." Zhao Zhouyuan walked toward her.

Shen Li heard her calling her name, so her footsteps stopped. Zhao Zhouyuan met Shen Li's gaze, "Can we... talk?"

During this time, she looked like she hadn't been doing very well.

Shen Li looked at her quietly without speaking.

The two were stagnant for a moment.

Zhao Zhouyuan's eyes carried guilt, and after a long while, she spoke: "I came to find you specifically. Shen Li, about that phone call six years ago, I want to say sorry. I was possessed by a ghost back then and delayed you and Xie Qin for so many years."

"I don't accept your apology." Shen Li's eyes had a bit of chill. She had a gentle temperament and was indifferent to everything, but that didn't mean she really had no temper. The things she did exceeded Shen Li's range of forgiveness.

Because of that phone call, she and Xie Qin had misunderstood each other for so many years.

Over these years, she thought Xie Qin had really given up on her.

She had been heartbroken for a very long time.

Zhao Zhouyuan's guilt deepened as she looked at her, her eyes red, unable to speak. She tried to defend herself, saying to her in a very light voice: "You... won't understand, what kind of pain it is in your heart to fall for someone who is impossible."

"That feeling will drive a person crazy day after day."

"You've had a superior family background since you were young, you're prettier than me, and there are a handful of people who like you. But me... for more than ten years, I've only liked him. Liked him to the point that I could give everything for him."

"If you were me, you would do the same."

Shen Li pursed her lips: "I wouldn't!"

Zhao Zhouyuan's eyelids trembled slightly, and she fell silent: "..."

Shen Li told her: "Feelings cannot have a result just by entanglement."

"It's you who don't understand."

Shen Li didn't care whether she was truly guilty now, or fake, or if she came to find her to apologize just to make herself feel better.

Her coming here was a waste of time.

Zhao Zhouyuan lowered her eyelids in shame, not daring to look at her, "..."

"Actually, you didn't need to waste time to find me today." Shen Li had already made it very clear, and her attitude was very tough: "In the future... don't come over again."

The words, distant to the extreme, stung Zhao Zhouyuan deeply.

Shen Li didn't want to see any expression on her face anymore, her cold gaze swept over her face indifferently, and she walked past her side without stopping at all.

Zhao Zhouyuan's figure moved slightly, turning to look at her back, her hands on her sides clenching tightly. For a moment, familiar memories surfaced in her mind, and she thought of the time they first met.

The words she had been holding back in her heart all came out uncontrollably.

"Before... we were friends too, weren't we!"

"Shen Li, the reason we drifted apart in the end was actually because I was jealous of you."

"Jealous of you, that back then, even though your grades weren't good, he could like you at a glance. I was by your side, but he never looked at me once, and even lost his temper at me. The only time he gave me a good look was still because of you."

Shen Li: "..."

Her voice trembled slightly: "I... I really did have a time when I treated you as a friend."

"If he didn't like you, Shen Li, we really... could have been very good friends for a lifetime."

Shen Li didn't give her any response either, leaving without stopping.

She didn't know why, but everyone, after doing something wrong, would defend themselves, feeling they were innocent.

She and Zhao Zhouyuan, at the beginning, were just a classmate relationship maintained on the surface.

They were never friends.

She didn't want to ruin her mood because of Zhao Zhouyuan's appearance.

After today, she thought they probably wouldn't see each other again in the future.

For this kind of irrelevant person, Shen Li didn't want to have too much entanglement with her anymore.

She took out her phone, found Zhao Zhouyuan's contact information in her WeChat list, and blocked and deleted it.

Without half a hesitation.

After doing this, Shen Li saw Xie Qin walking over from not far away. She put away her phone, curled her lips, her eyebrows softened, and she quickened her pace, walking toward him.

Xie Qin reached out to her, and Shen Li held his hand, "I have a smell on me, I want to take a shower first before going over."

Xie Qin leaned close to her, sniffed, and said improperly: "What smell? Doesn't it smell quite good."

Shen Li met his eyes, blinked, hesitated in her heart, and finally gathered the courage to say to him: "Can you help me wash?"

She was afraid he wouldn't agree.

Shen Li said to him again: "You've helped me wash several times."

It wouldn't hurt to do it one more time.

Having slept together for so long, she didn't feel embarrassed about anything.

Xie Qin stared at her intently for a while, not rushing to agree, not knowing what he was thinking. Shen Li saw him chuckle, saying word by word slowly, his voice seductively different: "Wash! I'll definitely help you wash... clean."

Actually, she quite enjoyed Xie Qin's service.

Seeing him agree, Shen Li breathed a sigh of relief. She thought Xie Qin was afraid of trouble and wouldn't agree, and she felt she had earned it.

The two returned home and walked out of the elevator, Xie Qin holding her hand, his pace suddenly quickening.

Shen Li was being led, not quite able to keep up.

At the door, Xie Qin entered the password.

Once it opened, Shen Li was suddenly picked up by him bending down, and she was startled, subconsciously hooking her arms around his neck.

It was just a shower, no need to be so anxious.

Xie Qin carried her to the dining table and let her sit, and he reached out to undo the buttons on her clothes.

Shen Li didn't stop him, opening her mouth to say to him: "Xie Qin."

"Mm?" He responded, while uncontrollably kissing her, blocking the words she was about to say.

Shen Li was interrupted and didn't rush to speak, first being intimate with him, kissing for a while.

Her knitted jacket was taken off unknowingly and thrown to the side, Xie Qin's breathing was rough and unbearable, and he kissed deeply, as if he had been suppressing it for a long time.

The aggressive aura on him spread wantonly.

Her lips were kissed until they were red and a bit sticky.

He bit her lip and ended it.

Then he kissed all the way to her ear, followed down, and buried himself in her snow-white, delicate neck, the place he kissed remaining with that damp heat.

Xie Qin's hand restlessly reached into her hem, accompanied by his slurred, low, and hoarse voice ringing in her ear: "What were you just about to tell me?"

Shen Li tilted her head slightly, closed her eyes, feeling the pleasure he brought, the not-too-light, not-too-heavy force under her clothes on her chest constantly disrupting her thoughts. ===== CHAPTER 204 =====