Chapter 32

Xie Qin reached out and pinched his mouth to shut him up: "Damn, keep your voice down, for God's sake."

Shen Li washed her hands and returned to the classroom.

She hadn't heard what Xie Qin was talking about with him.

Xie Qin took his phone out of his pocket and sent a message to Xu Zhouyuan.

Just as Shen Li returned to the classroom, Xu Zhouyuan, Zhou Mingyu, and Qiao Lang walked out, brushing past her.

"What's the matter, Brother Qin, sending me a message?"

"..."

"Damn, that idiot, I've wanted to beat him up for a long time. When, what time, where?"

The last basketball game was held jointly with other universities. Chengde University played against Nangongda, and Chengde University won the first half.

The second half... the people from Nangongda were sore losers and played dirty, tripping Xu Zhouyuan, who nearly lost his life by almost hitting the iron corner of the basketball stand.

Xu Zhouyuan was thick-skinned and didn't take it to heart. Fortunately, nothing happened, otherwise, he would still be lying in the ICU.

Xie Qin had seen it all clearly.

"..."

Shen Li sat in the classroom, looking at her test paper. The noise outside was loud, and she could hear a little bit of it.

Zhao Zhouyuan probably heard something too. She turned to Shen Li and said in shock: "Did you hear? Xie Qin is going to fight again."

Shen Li: "Mm."

"Shen Li, do you think I should tell the head teacher? What if something really happens?"

Shen Li remained silent and didn't speak; she didn't like meddling in other people's business.

There was half an hour left in the last class.

Xie Qin and his group left directly through the back door.

After class, Shen Li returned to the dorm alone, and Zhao Zhouyuan took a taxi to the station.

Zhang Zixin wasn't necessarily returning to the dorm either.

In the afternoon, Shen Li gnawed on bread, staying in the dorm alone, working on problems.

In the quiet dorm environment, only the air conditioner's outdoor unit was humming, and a sense of loneliness spread around.

Shen Li spent the whole afternoon in the dorm and didn't go anywhere.

She didn't have much appetite in the evening, so she just ate a little.

In the summer, at 6:00 PM, it was still very bright outside. After finishing her test papers, she slept on the desk for a while.

She didn't know how long she had slept when a knock on the door suddenly sounded.

Shen Li woke up in a daze. In the unlit dorm, there was only the light shining in from the window. She looked at the tightly closed door that was still being knocked on.

"Shen Li, are you there?"

"Is anyone there?"

This voice was very unfamiliar.

Shen Li didn't respond.

After waiting for about a minute, the knocking outside stopped, and it became quiet.

She didn't know who she was talking to on the phone; a faint voice rang out from outside: "Doesn't seem to be anyone here, I don't see any lights on."

The last day of the weekend.

9:28 PM.

Shen Li had spent the last two days in the library and returned right at the dorm's closing time. She saw a figure in the distance; Xie Qin had an unextinguished cigarette between his fingertips.

She didn't know who he was waiting for here.

The dorm auntie walked out, "Young man, I've seen you waiting here all day, you should go back. It's such hot weather, be careful of heatstroke. There are only two minutes left before the door closes, maybe she isn't staying at school tonight."

In the last two minutes, she watched Xie Qin leave.

Shen Li entered the dorm as the auntie was closing the door, holding two books in her arms.

Back in the dorm, Zhang Zixin and Zhao Zhouyuan had both returned.

Zhao Zhouyuan was making her bed.

Zhang Zixin sat under her bed, facing the mirror, using a hair clip to pin up her bangs, preparing to wash her face later. On the table beside her, her phone was still in a call.

"Wait a second, I think Shen Li is back."

Hearing the sound of the door lock turning outside, she took a look and saw the person who had returned.

It was indeed her.

"Shen Li, when you came back, did you see Xie Qin downstairs?"

Shen Li thought for a moment and said: "I saw him, why?"

Zhang Zixin: "Then it's nothing."

"Oh." Shen Li returned to her seat and put down the books she had borrowed.

Zhang Zixin said to the person on the phone: "Shen Li said she saw Xie Qin."

Xu Zhouyuan: "If she saw him, then that's fine. Nothing's wrong then. Honey, I'm hanging up, mua, goodnight."

"Mm." After hanging up, Zhang Zixin went to the bathroom to wash her face.

Monday's classes were full as usual.

The classroom, which usually had fifteen minutes before class, should have been empty.

Zhao Zhouyuan was drinking a cup of sweet soy milk; it was from the shop where she had previously said the soy milk was very sweet, and she had specifically bought it iced.

Shen Li and Zhao Zhouyuan walked in through the back door of the classroom, but they didn't expect to see Xie Qin, who had arrived early and was slumped over his desk.

Zhao Zhouyuan looked at Xie Qin sleeping on the desk, a look of surprise appearing in her eyes.

She whispered to Shen Li: "Why is he so early today?"

Shen Li shook her head: "..."

As soon as Shen Li entered, her seat was the last one in the second row.

Her seat and Xie Qin's were only a leg's distance apart.

With the boss of Chengde sleeping, no one dared to disturb him.

Shen Li put down her bag very gently, afraid of waking him.

Students arriving one after another for class lowered their voices automatically upon seeing Xie Qin.

Five minutes before class, Xu Zhouyuan, Zhou Mingyu, Qiao Lang, and Zhang Zixin arrived.

Xu Zhouyuan yawned, pulled out his chair, saw Xie Qin still sleeping, took his phone out of his pocket, put it in the drawer, and slumped over to catch up on sleep.

These people were like this every Monday, all of them too sleepy to function when they came to class.

Half an hour into the lecture, they played a movie about philosophy, "The Godfather."

The film was too boring, and not many people were watching.

Xie Qin slept soundly on his desk. It was a wonder he could sleep in such an environment, with footsteps and people talking in the hallway from time to time.

Shen Li was watching the movie and felt thirsty, so she took a bottle of milk from her bag, inserted a straw, and took a sip. Her peripheral vision seemed to catch a gaze cast from the person beside her.

Her eyes looked over involuntarily, and she happened to meet Xie Qin's eyes, which were filled with sleepiness and bloodshot, his messy bangs slightly covering them.

It was only a glance, and Shen Li turned her head away indifferently, as if nothing had happened, and continued watching the movie.

During the last fifteen minutes of the movie, Shen Li got up, walked to the back door of the classroom, and went to the restroom. Her lower abdomen was aching slightly; it seemed her period was coming soon.

She walked out of the restroom and washed her hands at the sink.

Suddenly, the door to the men's restroom beside her opened.

It was Xie Qin walking out of the men's restroom.

Shen Li looked over, met his gaze, glanced at him, then quickly looked away as if dodging his eyes. She rinsed her hands quickly, dried them, turned off the faucet, and was about to leave when...

Suddenly, her wrist was grabbed by a powerful force.

By the time Shen Li reacted, she had already been pushed behind the door of the men's restroom. Shen Li, who usually didn't show much emotion, felt panic in her eyes, "What are you doing!"

Xie Qin was so tall that he had to lower his head to look at her. He braced his hands against the wall on either side of her, cornering her, "Still angry?"