Chapter 54

After a while, her thoughts drifted away, and her consciousness fell into a dream.

In the dream, she was walking aimlessly alone, the road ahead had no end, and she was the only one in the empty space.

She walked like that for a long time…

All around was dead loneliness, she wanted to go back, but there was no road behind her either.

She didn't know how much longer she had to walk.

Until… suddenly she saw someone running toward her…

He got closer and closer, closer and closer.

She didn't have time to see his face clearly.

Before she bumped into an embrace.

His body was so warm…

The dorm lights had long been out, Shen Li slowly opened her eyes, her gaze fixed on the ceiling overhead, her thoughts as if hooked by something, tangled and unable to disperse.

In those eyes, all that rippled was a cold indifference.

There had been a heavy rainstorm yesterday, and the soothing wind blew from outside the balcony at night, making the leaves rustle.

With a hint of hypnosis, Shen Li closed her eyes and fell asleep.

This time she slept very deeply…

Class was at 10:30, and Shen Li hadn't woken up by 9:00.

Until finally, there were ten minutes left before class.

Zhou Mingyu turned around, "What's up with the Vice Class Monitor? Is our class's model student going to be late again?"

Zhang Zixin was eating breakfast with Xu Zhouyuan, and she said: "I didn't wake up until 9:45, and I even put on makeup. Seeing she was still sleeping, I didn't bother her."

"If she doesn't come soon, the sticky rice will get hard."

Zhou Mingyu reached out his hand, "For such a small thing, if she's not here, I'll help her solve it."

Xu Zhouyuan: "Go ahead, if you have the guts, take it. See if someone doesn't break your hand."

Zhou Mingyu's cheap hand retracted silently, "If I don't eat it soon, it'll get hard."

Once it's hard, there won't be any left for him to take.

The classroom was almost full.

Zhao Zhouyuan found the people who came to class, and after they all finished signing, she finally put the sign-in sheet and pen on Xie Qin's desk, "…Sign here."

Xie Qin looked down at his phone, playing a card strategy game, threw out a card, then picked up the pen and signed a name in a signature column, but it wasn't his own name.

Zhao Zhouyuan reminded him: "You signed the wrong one."

Zhou Mingyu: "…You don't understand this, this is called a family member signing on behalf."

Zhao Zhouyuan didn't dare provoke them, and just said in a voice like a mosquito, "This is not allowed."

Zhou Mingyu said sarcastically: "It's fine as long as it's signed, what… are you going to report it? You can't sign on behalf, did you make the rules?"

Zhao Zhouyuan didn't dare to speak at all.

After Xie Qin signed Shen Li's name, the handwriting was just like his personality, uninhibited.

In a row, the two characters for Shen Li were the best-looking, different from Shen Li's own usual handwriting, which was a neat and delicate regular script.

Compared to previous signatures, it was clear at a glance that Shen Li hadn't signed it herself.

When it was Xie Qin's own name, he just drew two horizontal lines.

Young Master Xie's exclusive style was just like ants crawling.

Not to mention signing, it was good enough that he could come; these brothers around him were enough to make up one-fifth of the class's attendance rate.

If he didn't come, more than half of the back row would be empty.

Zhao Zhouyuan didn't dare say anything, her heart feeling sour, and she took the sign-in sheet back and turned to leave.

The moment the sheet was pulled away from his desk.

Xie Qin raised his head, his gaze looking at her with some sharpness: "You were quite arrogant last night?"

His voice dropped in tone.

Carrying a hint of threat.

"You'd better have a reason to explain?" Xie Qin supported his neck and moved it; his eyes were a bit sore from looking at the phone for too long, "I'm a person… with a not-so-good temper."

Zhang Zixin continued to chase her Korean drama and didn't care at all.

As soon as these words were spoken, Zhao Zhouyuan was immediately frightened by his aura, a bit dazed, her heart also pierced hard, her hand clutching the sheet tightly.

She knew Xie Qin was because, after the party ended last night, she hadn't controlled her temper and had been a bit harsh to Shen Li.

"It was already very late yesterday, I couldn't get a taxi nearby, I was afraid I wouldn't make it, the dorm was closing, so I walked back in the rain."

"It was me who didn't control my emotions; I will apologize to her for last night."

Xie Qin supported his head, seeing her lower her eyes, and looking at her, she even felt wronged, he curled his lips: "Just know it yourself, we're all in the same class, don't make it too ugly in the future."

"Have a better attitude."

Zhao Zhouyuan responded muffledly: "I know."

Xie Qin was actually speaking in a good-natured way to women; if it were men… it was hard to say.

The head teacher walked into the class, saw Zhao Zhouyuan's sign-in sheet, and happened to receive a call: "…Arriving late, is that so? Okay… I know, no problem."

"Mm, it won't affect your usual grades."

Seeing Shen Li's name signed on behalf, he didn't say anything either.

He did say two things to Xie Qin, "Can you have a proper attitude when signing? You're in university now, you're all adults, don't still be like a high school student, giggling and hanging around all day, not even able to sign your own name properly."

Xie Qin also said arrogantly: "Too many strokes, too lazy to write."

"With this attitude of yours, other subject teachers have already come to me many times… not obeying discipline, you should listen to a little bit at least."

Xu Zhouyuan: "Head teacher, be satisfied that we can come to class. You can't control him, tell the Vice Class Monitor, she's much more effective than you."

These people were arguing one by one, making people's heads big.

…

The weather was very good today; the rain from yesterday had stopped, the sun came out in the morning, and the ground was dry.

The wind swept across the treetops, and the air was wrapped in the faint scent of mud mixed with grass.

Shen Li had her long hair loose, carried a shoulder bag, and walked in from the back door with a bottle of milk in her hand.

She didn't expect she would oversleep and be late.

However… she had already greeted the head teacher, so it shouldn't be a problem.

It's just that when she walked into the classroom, her seat was occupied by Zhang Zixin and Xu Zhouyuan.

She stood in the aisle, looking at Zhang Zixin in a daze.

Zhang Zixin was still burying her head in her drama, pulled off one earphone, looked over, and laughed: "Sorry, sister, your seat has good feng shui, let me sit for a while~ Don't worry, I won't mess up your desk."

As soon as she finished speaking, a lazy question came from her side.

Xie Qin supported the desk with his elbows, his palm gently supporting his chin, his brows curved, with a playful smile, and he extended an invitation to her: "Good student, do you want to sit inside or outside?"

The teacher was still teaching on stage, and his eyes looked over from time to time.

Shen Li chose her old seat where she could see the playground scenery.

Just as she sat down in the last seat of the first row, Xie Qin supported the desk and stood up slowly, then shamelessly sat with her.

This time she didn't drive him away.

"You slept for so long, you slept until you were late, do you know that."

Shen Li opened her book and told him softly, "Shh, class, don't talk."

She had indeed slept for a long time, if it weren't for thinking she still had class…

She would have wanted to stay in bed a while longer.

The doctor also said to let her sleep well and eat well.