Chapter 80: If you can listen, then listen; if you can't take it in, then call me

Shen Li: "..."

She noticed that every time they went out to eat, it was basically Xie Qin who paid the bill.

She had also heard others say that Xie Qin's family seemed very wealthy, though as for what they did, no one knew.

After eating and preparing to leave, Xie Qin simply hung up on the unfinished game, turned off his phone screen, and shoved it into his pocket.

Actually, Shen Li wanted to tell him that she could wait for him to finish that game, but Xie Qin didn't give her the chance to speak.

The car had been driven away by Xu Zhouyuan, and it would take them about twenty-five minutes to walk back.

Shen Li didn't mind the fatigue; she just considered it a way to digest after the meal.

The two walked slowly, and Xie Qin lowered his eyes: "Not sleepy this time?"

Shen Li shook her head in response to him.

Xie Qin: "It seems your brain is clear this time."

This remark sounded a bit strange; did he mean that her brain hadn't been very clear before?

Just as Xie Qin finished praising her, Shen Li stepped onto the stone stairs of the pedestrian bridge; perhaps there was something odd about the stone, as it tripped her, causing her body to tilt forward, and just as she nearly lost her footing and was about to fall, a hand grabbed her arm in time.

"Just finished praising you, and you're starting again?"

"..."

"Are you really not doing this on purpose to get my attention?" This was said with such narcissism and arrogance, yet for some reason, his demeanor didn't make one feel annoyed; it only felt as though he was naturally meant to be this way.

Shen Li: "It seemed to trip me."

Xie Qin raised an eyebrow at her, as if only she could say such a foolish thing: "No wonder you could get lost at the airport all by yourself; it's a miracle you've survived until now."

"Can you walk properly?"

How could he still remember that incident.

Shen Li nodded: "I can."

Xie Qin let go of her arm.

One after the other, they walked up the stairs, and when they crossed the pedestrian bridge, Shen Li hesitated, seemingly wanting to say something but finding it difficult to open her mouth; when they were halfway across the bridge, she thought about it and said: "Xie Qin."

He was looking down at a message on his phone and responded lazily: "Hm."

"Those things I told you last time, could you please not tell anyone else? Just keep it to yourself."

Xie Qin moved his gaze away from his phone and looked at her: "If I can't tell anyone else, why were you willing to tell me?"

Shen Li seriously pondered this answer, but it seemed she couldn't find one; her mind was a blank, "I don't know, maybe... because only you were there at the time."

It just so happened that he appeared at that moment.

She remembered very clearly that the day Xie Qin sent her to the high-speed rail station and suddenly appeared by her side again, the feeling that emerged in her heart was one she had never experienced before.

She would also think back to the scene of this memory from time to time.

Shen Li rarely told others about her own affairs.

Because other people's affairs were of no consequence to her.

She also felt that her own affairs should be of no consequence to others.

Even if she said them, there wasn't much meaning to it.

She also didn't know why she had told him about this.

Her feelings for Xie Qin seemed somewhat different from the feelings she had for the boy who pursued her back in high school.

Shen Li was in Class 1, and the boy who pursued her was in Class 2, right next door.

Every day after class, he would come to talk to her.

The classmates in the room would tease them.

Shen Li would feel uncomfortable and somewhat impatient in her heart.

Therefore, when he gave up on pursuing her, Shen Li felt a sense of relief, without much disappointment.

Xie Qin was indeed annoying sometimes; he would always touch her, reaching out to touch her face, yet toward his touch, she didn't seem... to feel that much aversion.

The sunset slowly sank toward the horizon, grazing the treetops, sweeping over the high-rise buildings, and spreading across the entire street.

Since enrolling at Wuchuan, she had never noticed it.

That the scenery here could be so beautiful.

She had never seen it in Haishi, but she saw it in Wuchuan.

She felt that Xie Qin was like this beam of light...

Standing by the bridge, the young man turned his head to watch her standing in the light, capturing her features within his dark eyes.

Shen Li still had to attend evening self-study, so Xie Qin accompanied her back to get the books she would need for class later.

Then he accompanied her all the way to Classroom 102.

This classroom could seat about fifty people.

Currently, many people had arrived, and the first three rows were already full.

The three best seats in the middle of the first row had already been taken by Zhao Zhouyuan, Li Xiaoya, and Zhang Meiqi.

The atmosphere in the classroom was quite good; those eating snacks were eating, those chatting were chatting, and the mood was very lively and bustling.

Xie Qin's dark eyes scanned the classroom before looking at Shen Li, "Where are you planning to sit?"

"Anywhere is fine."

Xie Qin, carrying her bag, grabbed her wrist in front of many people and entered the classroom, finally choosing a seat in the fifth row by the aisle and letting her sit down.

Just then, the phone in Xie Qin's pocket rang; he took it out, glanced at the caller ID, and didn't rush to answer.

He pressed it to silence and muted it.

Shen Li sat in her seat, and Xie Qin tapped her desk; she looked up, meeting his dark gaze, "Listen if you can, and if you can't take it in, just call me."

"When it's over, send me a message, understand?"

An instruction like that of an old father.

Shen Li even nodded at him, as if possessed.

Only after receiving her response did Xie Qin turn to answer the phone and leave the classroom.

His figure disappeared around the corner outside the classroom door.

Shen Li took out her book, turned a page, and ate the red bean snack bread that Zhang Zixin had given her last time and hadn't finished; she was full, but she saw the date and it would expire after today.

She was not nearsighted and could see clearly from the fifth row, though the position was a bit high.

However, there were not many people sitting in this row; she was the only one.

After a while, the teacher who was going to tutor them walked in; he was a middle-aged man in his fifties with sparse hair, wearing nearsighted glasses, with a few books tucked under his arm, and he plugged a USB drive into the multimedia computer.

When the class started, half a sheet of practice problems was passed around first.

Without much explanation, he began to lecture on the first problem.

The first problem was still a basic one.

Everyone started off with a blank look on their faces.

Shen Li had already solved the answer in her mind.

She had never intended to participate in this competition anyway.

She only came to attend the lecture to cope with her head teacher.

If she didn't come, the teacher would lecture her for a long time.

The two-and-a-half-hour class lasted from 7:30 to 10:00.

There was still a while to go.

Halfway through the class, some people couldn't hold on, stopped listening to the lecture, and left directly; others just slumped on their desks and fell asleep.

It was a struggle to make it to the end.

It was time for Shen Li's nightly biological clock for sleep, and she walked slowly, head down, following behind the main group as they left the classroom.

With her head down and eyes lowered, she had no energy.

She didn't want to walk anymore.

It would still take a long time to get back to the dormitory.

Suddenly.

A figure elongated by the streetlamp intruded into her line of sight.

She stepped on that shadow.