Chapter 84: Let me tell you a secret

These guys couldn't say anything nice; nothing good ever came out of their mouths.

Xie Qin also felt it was boring. He took out two hundred in cash from his wallet and put it on the counter. "Keep the change."

Seeing him about to leave.

Xu Zhouyuan called out to him, somewhat worried: "No, you're leaving just like that? Are you okay? How about I send you back!"

He had sat there alone and drank six bottles of beer, which wasn't a small amount.

Zhou Mingyu picked up an empty beer bottle and looked at the alcohol content: "Not a big problem, he won't have any issues."

That was true; this amount of alcohol was like drinking water to him.

Xie Qin walked out of the small tavern with his hands in his pockets and felt the phone in his pocket...

After Shen Li came out of the dormitory, she sat by the school's artificial lake. She wanted to stay alone and quiet for a while.

But after a while, the phone in her bag suddenly rang. She took it out, looked at the caller, and answered without much hesitation: "Xie Qin? Is something the matter?"

"Where are you?" The voice on the other end of the phone was slightly deep.

It sounded like he was in a bit of a bad mood.

What... happened to him?

"I'm at..." Shen Li told him her location.

But ten minutes later, she saw Xie Qin walking toward her from not far away.

Shen Li looked up and saw him looking at her, motionless, which was a bit strange. She sat to the side and made room for him.

When he sat down, at a very close distance, accompanied by the breeze, she smelled the scent of alcohol.

"You... drank?"

Xie Qin didn't know if he was drunk or just listless. Seeing him with his hands in his pockets, his whole body leaning on the chair, his eyes half-drooping, the bangs on his forehead covering those deep eyes, the bright light that used to be in the youth's eyes seemed to have dimmed a bit.

After a long silence in the atmosphere.

He didn't speak.

Shen Li didn't speak either.

The two sat there quietly for a long while.

"... Isn't it all because of you!"

The atmosphere was broken.

Shen Li was a bit bewildered: "What happened to me?"

Xie Qin lazily lifted his eyelids and looked at her: "You have the nerve to ask me what happened? In terms of feelings... you've been sitting here alone, aren't you reflecting on yourself?"

Shen Li sighed slightly in her heart, then reflected on herself for a few seconds, but didn't feel she had done anything to make him unhappy again?

Perhaps, the temper of rich people was just like this.

Even their anger was a bit tricky.

She said to him: "There were too many people in the dormitory, I didn't like it, so I came out. I wanted to stay alone for a while. What about you... Xie Qin... why did you drink so much at noon?"

The smell on him was quite strong.

Xie Qin suddenly leaned over, narrowed his eyes, and accused her: "You gave me a cold shoulder in the last class!"

"You didn't talk to me all morning!"

"If I wasn't sincere about you! Do you think I want to manage you! On the contrary, you're unhappy... and you still want me to coax you. How are you so capable!"

It had always been others coaxing him.

Xie Qin had never been the one to lower his head.

So was it because she didn't talk to him in the morning that he went to drink?

"I'm sorry! I didn't give you a cold shoulder, I just... remembered some not-so-good things, so I didn't want to talk, it has nothing to do with you..."

"Xie Qin, I don't need you to manage me, and I don't want you to manage me..." Shen Li shook her head: "There's no need."

"I think... it's very good right now."

In the past, she was always pressed until she couldn't breathe. Coming to Wuchuan was her choice, and abandoning her former self was also her own choice.

She didn't want to go back to the past.

"Let me tell you a secret."

Shen Li probably wanted to make him feel better, so she said to him: "I don't like that teacher."

Xie Qin: "Who?"

"The head teacher." Shen Li sat on the chair, lowered her eyes, and said to him again: "... She always makes me do things I don't like. I don't like her!"

"She made me the Vice Class Monitor and also wants me to participate in the math competition. Every time I refused her, she still insisted on forcing things I don't like onto me."

He chuckled, his laughter carrying a bit of drunken laziness: "I thought it was some unspeakable secret, turns out you're here to report me."

"Then tell me, who else do you not like?"

This time Shen Li didn't tell him.

"I can't say anymore, it's wrong to discuss others behind their backs."

"Fine." Xie Qin sat up a bit straighter and slowly moved closer to her: "Since we've talked to this point, let's be fair, I'll also talk to you about a couple of things."

As he spoke, his voice gradually softened, and his eyes showed a bit of seriousness: "In the future... I don't know what will happen, but right now I really... really like you."

"I want you to go a little further..."

"Staying in a crappy university like Chengde University, what kind of future can you have."

"Between the two of us, one of us has to be successful, don't you think."

Shen Li: He's so noisy.

He's very good, but he always says things she doesn't like to hear.

Xie Qin didn't wait for her to respond and softened his tone again: "During this time, I've treated you... quite well, right."

Shen Li looked up, bumped into his dark eyes, and nodded seriously: "Mm."

"Then let's discuss something."

Shen Li pursed her lips, listening to him continue.

Xie Qin raised his hand and placed it on her head, then rubbed it: "No matter how much you understand, just listen carefully a little more, every little bit counts, okay?"

Shen Li wanted to avoid the future, but there was still someone who wanted her to take a step out. In his tone, he seemed to be coaxing her. Except for her grandmother, no one had talked to her like this for a long time.

She felt that the drunk Xie Qin was exceptionally easy to talk to.

And not so fierce.

In the blink of an eye, it was soon the last day of the National Day holiday.

In the last class of the afternoon, everyone tried every way to ask the head teacher for leave to go back early, but none were approved.

More than half of the people were too lazy to even ask for leave and just didn't come to the afternoon class.

Now, besides Shen Li, there were few people left who were still studying quietly.

Zhang Zixin had already gone back.

Xu Zhouyuan and Zhou Mingyu had also bought plane tickets and flown home.

Qiao Lang found a part-time job nearby and still had to stay at school and not go back.

The classroom was more than half empty.

Ever since that day Shen Li didn't speak to Xie Qin for a whole class and turned to leave, discovering her habit of ignoring people when she was angry.

Xie Qin moved her seat to the corner by the window in the first group.

Shen Li sat inside, and Xie Qin sat in the aisle.

Xu Zhouyuan and Zhang Zixin's seats were at the table in front.

Zhou Mingyu and Qiao Lang sat next to them.

Now that they weren't there, the classroom was empty, and in the corner of the seats, there were only her and Xie Qin.

Shen Li: "Xie Qin, where is your home?" ===== CHAPTER 85 =====