Chapter 35: You... are so fond of studying, how did you get into this place?

After a moment, Shen Li said: "Thank you, no need."

"Wonton? Steamed buns? Or sticky rice... or how about I buy you a little of everything?"

"Really, no need."

Shen Li had clearly refused, but he kept talking to himself.

Xie Qin asked, pushing his luck: "Do you like soy milk, or bean milk? Sweet or salty?"

Shen Li didn't intend to keep tangling with him, so she found an excuse: "My phone is almost out of battery, I'm hanging up, you should go back quickly too."

"Shen Li, are you in such a rush to chase me away? Am I that unpresentable? Making you find such a lousy excuse."

Xie Qin looked up at Shen Li upstairs and said.

Shen Li, whose lie had been exposed, didn't dare look into his eyes, and in the end, only told him softly: "You go back."

She cut the call.

Shen Li turned and went into the dorm, returned the phone to Zhang Zixin, and went back to her seat to continue reading.

The next morning, eight o'clock class.

When Zhao Zhouyuan and Zhang Zixin got up, they didn't see Shen Li in the dorm.

Shen Li had gotten up at six-thirty; she couldn't sleep, so she sat quietly by the school's artificial lake alone, eating a steamed bun, but after eating only half, she lost her appetite.

Her eyes were lifeless as she stared quietly at the lake, her heart a complete blank...

At seven-fifty-five, classmates arrived one after another, only Shen Li was alone in the classroom, doing English Level 4 reading comprehension, holding a pen, her head lowered with the stray hairs in front of her forehead hanging by her ears, the surrounding atmosphere carrying an inexplicable coldness and detachment.

No one came to disturb her either.

Xu Zhouyuan, Zhang Zixin, Zhou Mingyu, and Qiao Lang, the four of them walked into the classroom. Xu Zhouyuan saw the empty seat in the back row: "Holy shit, didn't we agree to come to class? Where the fuck is he?"

Seeing Xie Qin wasn't there, it was like the sky had fallen.

"How could he deceive my feelings, this dead scumbag, I spend all night playing games with him every day, he doesn't come to class, and doesn't even tell me, skipping class to go have fun by himself."

"Shen Li, have you seen Xie Qin?"

He wasn't here, why ask her?

Shen Li: "Not sure."

Xu Zhouyuan: "Fuck, that dog. I must call him and condemn him deeply, see if he has any conscience."

Zhang Zixin suddenly changed seats and sat next to Shen Li: "I'm sitting with you today."

"Mm." The seat next to Shen Li had always been empty.

"What are you barking for, barking! Your daddy isn't dead." At this moment, Xie Qin's voice rang out from outside the classroom.

Suddenly, a bottle of warm milk was pressed against her face.

Shen Li looked up and crashed into those dark eyes: "Take it."

Shen Li reached out blankly to take it, and seeing it was a bottle of milk, it was still a bit warm.

Xie Qin held his car keys in one hand and a bag of breakfast in the other, placing it on her desk.

The surrounding classmates looked over sporadically, as if watching a show.

There were also a few people whispering.

Xie Qin had just arrived in the classroom, and Zhao Zhouyuan walked in from outside holding books. Seeing the people surrounding Shen Li and blocking the aisle, she could only walk past from the other side to return to her seat.

"Holy shit, Xie Qin, you're too inhumane, I've followed you for six years, from middle school to college, you've never bought me breakfast."

Xie Qin threw the car keys in his hand onto the desk, pulled out a chair, and sat down, not responding to the dog barking beside him: "Are you worthy?"

"Fine, fine, fine, that's how it is, we're through!"

Shen Li looked at the big bag of breakfast in front of her, a bit at a loss for what to do: "I've already eaten."

Xie Qin propped his head up, looking at her lazily from the side: "If you don't eat it, then throw it away."

Zhou Mingyu, who was to the side, smiled and said: "Don't do that, Vice Class Monitor! At least taste some. After all, it's rare for our Brother Qin to act like a lickspittle for someone, don't waste his good intentions."

Last time, half of that big bag of breakfast hadn't been eaten, and after being put in the fridge, no one ate it, and it all went bad.

"Class is about to start, can't eat."

Qiao Lang put his hand on Zhou Mingyu's shoulder: "It's fine, just eat. We play games in class, no one cares, let alone us eating breakfast, it's not high school, there's not that much trouble."

Zhou Mingyu: "Exactly."

Shen Li hadn't expected him to buy so much, tofu pudding and soy milk, both sweet and salty, plus two bags of steamed buns, one soup-filled, one leavened.

Shen Li just wanted a bowl of small wontons and that bottle of milk, and the rest were divided up.

Zhao Zhouyuan was inexplicably quiet today and didn't take the initiative to talk to Shen Li in the back row.

Zhang Zixin, on the other hand, chatted with her from time to time; unexpectedly, she wasn't sitting with Xu Zhouyuan.

In the last hour and a half of the morning, a class meeting was held.

The main reason was because of Xie Qin's group fighting with people from other universities outside school last week.

What was said on stage was all just nonsense.

"... You are all still young, even if you are in a junior college in Chengde, it is still a way out for your future, everyone is an adult. Before doing anything, use your brains more, ask yourself, what is the benefit to you before doing this, what are the consequences, is the outcome good or bad!"

"You are only eighteen, think more about your future path, don't do nothing all day long, do something practical and useful."

"Regarding the fighting outside school, of so many departments, it happened in our class. Don't let the teacher handle everything. I've taught classes for so many years, and you are the worst batch I've ever taught."

"I won't name individual students. Since you've come to school, study well, don't be giggling and sloppy all day long, do something proper."

"Everyone... learn well from our Vice Class Monitor, Shen Li. During this time, she has been preparing for the English Level 4 exam, and every time there is a class, she is the first one to arrive at school."

Shen Li...

Several gazes drifted over, only to see Shen Li lying on the desk, eyes closed, looking as if she had fallen asleep from exhaustion.

Beside her, there was the sound of game effects.

Xie Qin was still playing a five-man game downstairs, scanned the person beside him, curled his lips, and smiled.

The head teacher saw her but didn't say anything.

She just played some inspirational educational films for them to watch.

The final punishment the school gave Xie Qin and the others was just probation; as long as they didn't commit any offenses, the punishment would be revoked after this semester passed.

After the head teacher left the classroom, Xu Zhouyuan was excited: "Holy shit, Brother Qin. That grandson Chen Sizhe was expelled by the school."

"Really? Let me see." Zhou Mingyu took his phone and looked at the message someone had sent him, along with a screenshot of the expulsion notice: "It really is."

"The person who called the police for us is truly a living Bodhisattva; if I find out who she is, I'll have to treat her to a meal no matter what."

"If this were a woman, Brother Qin would have to offer himself in marriage. If they had arrived a moment later, those grandsons might have really killed us." What Xu Zhouyuan said wasn't too much of an exaggeration.