Chapter 48

Many students actually felt it.

The head teacher was somewhat protective of Shen Li.

Facing this answer, in those few seconds, it was as if she had asked herself countless times.

But her heart.

It was like...

The blank sheet of paper placed in front of her on the table.

Completely blank, with nothing on it.

Did she...

still have a future?

They were all waiting for Shen Li's answer.

But the answer that came out of her mouth made everyone feel very shocked.

"The future..."

"To me, it has no meaning."

Xie Qin's fingertips paused while operating the game, a mistake of only one second.

He lost.

After the class meeting ended, the location for the group dinner was finally chosen at "Xiangweiju" near the school.

The place wasn't far, just on the third floor of the university commercial plaza, less than a ten-minute walk away.

There were more than thirty people in the class, and a few didn't attend the dinner, so in the end, there were twenty-five people, about two tables' worth.

The door between the two private rooms was pulled open, forming a single independent room.

While others were ordering food, Shen Li sat on the sofa in the corner, lowering her presence and looking at her phone.

Zhang Zixin walked over with two cups of iced watermelon juice, sat beside her, and crossed her slender, straight legs, "Here for you."

"Thank you." Shen Li reached out to take it.

"Isn't it boring sitting alone? Did you and Zhao Zhouyuan have a falling out?"

Shen Li answered her without much emotion: "No."

"I see you changed to a new phone. Do you want to team up and play a game?"

Shen Li: "I don't know how to play games."

This sofa could seat four or five people.

Once Zhang Zixin came over, Xu Zhouyuan, Zhou Mingyu, and Qiao Lang all crowded over.

Xu Zhouyuan laughed, "You've never played games? Then what do you usually do? Could it be... studying?"

Shen Li nodded: "Yes."

Xu Zhouyuan really couldn't hold it in and laughed out loud, especially when she nodded seriously; that was the funniest part.

"Did you hear that... did you all hear that... it's killing me!"

"So in love with studying, studying and studying... until you ended up here."

"Your IQ isn't even as high as mine, oh my... I can't take it!"

Zhang Zixin looked over impatiently, "Can you not have such a low threshold for laughter? What's so funny?"

"Alright, alright, I won't laugh, I won't laugh, okay?"

Still afraid of his girlfriend.

Xie Qin walked in from outside the private room, carrying a waft of cigarette smoke, and sat directly on the single sofa chair, his long legs crossed and stretched out.

Zhao Zhouyuan finished ordering food with the head teacher and fulfilled her duties as class monitor by going out with the waiter to choose seafood, but she didn't rush back to the room.

She went to the exit of the safety stairwell, and the sensor light overhead turned on.

She sent a voice message on her phone, speaking in a very sweet voice.

In the private room.

Xie Qin's phone popped up a twenty-five-second voice message. He was about to exit the page but accidentally clicked on it.

Zhou Mingyu urged: "Brother Qin, what are you doing? Hurry up and log in, we're just waiting for you."

Until suddenly, a voice message rang out not too softly or loudly in the circle around them: "It's all your fault, we lost the dungeon just now, and it made me drop my equipment. I don't care, you have to compensate me."

Xie Qin: Fuck!

Xu Zhouyuan: "... How else can he compensate? Of course, it's our Brother Qin offering himself."

Zhou Mingyu didn't mind making things worse and fanned the flames on the side, "Exactly! They started connecting in high school, and it's been how many years now. She ran abroad as soon as she said she would, and Brother Qin's heart has been broken."

Xie Qin narrowed his eyes, his gaze pitch black, and he stared at Zhou Mingyu: "If you want to die, you fucker, try saying one more word."

This one look made the person's scalp go numb.

Qiao Lang, on the side, was drinking pure milk and didn't want to deal with this bunch of idiots anymore.

He had seen idiots, but never anyone more idiotic than a pig.

Did these two really not see it, or were they pretending not to?

No one knew what happened between Xie Qin and Shen Li that night.

Only that he had never seen Xie Qin like that before...

That night he came to Night Bar alone. At first, he was still normal; as soon as he sat down, he had women in his arms, surrounded by girls pursuing him.

One after another, they personally fed him alcohol, all wanting to get Xie Qin drunk.

That was a rule he had set himself: whoever could get him drunk, he could sleep with.

Xie Qin also played openly and didn't refuse any girl.

When the party ended.

Xu Zhouyuan and Zhou Mingyu were both drunk to the point of unconsciousness, each collapsed on the sofa.

Qiao Lang came out of the restroom and saw several girls leaning on him, and he didn't push them away or have any reaction.

At that time, Xie Qin didn't know if he was sober or drunk.

He sat quietly on the sofa, lowering his eyes, looking quietly at one spot, motionless...

The whole person looked like he had lost his soul...

Actually, everyone saw it, but no one around him dared to ask more.

Yet at this time, they still dared to look for trouble in front of him.

Clearly, this time Xie Qin was truly angry at Zhou Mingyu. If he dared to say one more word, he might really take action.

The atmosphere froze instantly.

It was filled with the smell of gunpowder.

Xie Qin just looked at him with a cold expression.

If he really took action, no one could stop him.

And no one knew which sentence had offended him.

At this moment, only Qiao Lang spoke, breaking the stiff atmosphere. He took a box of children's mini QQ Star milk out of his pocket and gave it to Shen Li, "New flavor."

Sitting beside Shen Li, Zhang Zixin looked at him with disgust, "Are you really a sissy? Why do you like carrying milk wherever you go? I really admire you."

"How many bottles do you have on you?"

Shen Li was still drinking her watermelon juice: "I have juice."

Qiao Lang laughed, quite gently, and his temper was the same: "We're all sisters, no need to be polite with me."

Shen Li didn't refuse again, curling her lips: "Thank you."

"Do you want one? I have another bottle in my pocket." Qiao Lang had almost finished the one he was holding, and he took another bottle out of his other pocket and gave it to Zhang Zixin.

However, she didn't want it; she was lactose intolerant, so she stuffed it into Shen Li's pocket, "I can't drink milk, it's for you."

Shen Li: "Thank you."

Zhang Zixin asked her curiously, "What's going on with you today? I usually see you never miss a single class, why were you so late today?"

Encountering a question she didn't want to answer, Shen Li didn't want to lie, so she remained silent, lowering her eyes without speaking.

"It's okay, it doesn't matter if you don't say."

Noon.

After her bank card was frozen, Shen Li went to the bank, and the staff said there was no way to unfreeze it; the cardholder needed to be present with their ID card.

Later, Shen Li went to that training center again.

"... It's you again! Still here to solve problems today... but our event ended yesterday."

It ended...

Shen Li's long hair was dampened by the rain, and she stood in the shop looking somewhat disheveled.

Because... she really had no other way.

And she didn't know what to do!

A feeling of helplessness surged in her chest, making Shen Li's eyes wet instantly.

She still couldn't hold it back.

Tears fell like a broken string.

Her voice was weak as she pleaded: "Can you... can you help me..."