Chapter 35

"... Mu Wei, you'd best not provoke him." Qin Zhixiu looked at He Lele and said softly.

☆, Chapter 35: Please Teach Me

She didn't want to provoke anyone, never had.

Thinking of Qin Zhixiu's kind advice that morning, He Lele couldn't help but smile bitterly. After Qin Zhixiu and Jiji finished breakfast, they also went to the company. All morning, she cooperated with the cleaning company staff to tidy up the apartment. No one came back at noon, so she ate alone.

In the afternoon, taking advantage of her free time, she went on NG to check again. L had replied to her message asking about her recent situation. She could only smile and say everything was fine, just quite busy, but she had been listening to new songs and had learned to sing them for him.

She had known L for three years, but she had never heard his voice. Even in the chat room, he only typed and wouldn't use a voice changer like some people, but she could understand; after all, as a well-known hacker in the online world, the less information exposed, the better. Such a person often cared about her, liked to listen to her sing, occasionally joked with her, and even... talked about anime topics she liked.

It wouldn't be a joke to say it out loud, she... had once had fantasies about L. Imagining his age and appearance, guessing if he also had... a good impression of her. Ren Lingyu said L and Li Yiquan were the two people she admired most in this world; one had unparalleled hacking skills, and the other played with the law in the palm of his hand. She would be satisfied if her future boyfriend had half of their qualities! Ren Lingyu, with such good conditions, only thought of "average"; how could someone as ordinary and bland as her dare to hope for anything more? Besides, now, even her body was...

Just like this was fine; occasionally keeping in touch, seeing his greetings, singing songs for him, she was very content.

At dinner time, Qin Zhixiu came back alone, saying Jiji would be back later. After the two finished dinner, Qin Zhixiu asked He Lele to play cards with him for a while. Seeing that Producer Shentu Mo and Ruan Lin hadn't returned yet, He Lele followed Qin Zhixiu upstairs.

They played until 10:30. He Lele went downstairs to make a late-night snack, but Producer Shentu Mo and Ruan Lin still hadn't returned. If they didn't come back soon, should she just wash up and sleep?

Qin Zhixiu came downstairs to drink water. Seeing He Lele looking out the window from time to time, he couldn't help but find it interesting. He leaned his arms on the back of a chair and watched her, a pure and beautiful smile appearing on his beautiful, otherworldly face.

"Uh... is there something on my face?"

Qin Zhixiu smiled and shook his head, "No, I just think you look like a newlywed wife waiting for her husband to come home in the middle of the night."

"Huh?" Shrimp? Should she say she looked more like a wronged ghost waiting for the Ox-Head and Horse-Face demons?

"Cough..." Qin Zhixiu's smile deepened, and he lowered his head to cough lightly.

"You really know how to joke." It was a pity it wasn't funny at all.

He Lele said it offhandedly, but who knew it would make Qin Zhixiu's smile gradually fade. Uh... did she say something wrong?

Qin Zhixiu stood up straight, seemingly thinking about something.

"Mr. Qin?" She didn't really say something wrong and hit a sore spot, did she?

Qin Zhixiu looked up and looked at He Lele very seriously, "I truly don't know how to joke, don't know how to tell funny stories, and don't understand how to speak to make girls happy..."

"Uh..." He Lele felt a bit awkward. He didn't need to know; as long as he was willing to talk to girls and smile at them, the girls would probably already be crazy with happiness.

"Can you teach me?"

"Ah?"

"You are a girl, you should know better what women like to hear, what kind of men they like, what kind of gifts, teach me."

"Me? I, I..." He Lele pointed at her own nose. What, what could she teach him?

"I can pay tuition, whatever you ask."

"... This, can't Mr. Ji teach you—"

"His methods are useless."

He had already learned them? "... Why find me?"

"... Only you will talk to me properly."

"..." She could imagine... shyer girls in front of him probably just blushed, and bolder ones wanted to take the opportunity to seduce him? Very likely.

"Do you... have a girl you like?" She knew she shouldn't ask, but seeing him so serious, she really wanted to help him, if she could.

"Mm."

"If you tell me the type of girl she is, perhaps I can offer some reference advice?"

"... Okay, her name is Du Wei..."

The two talked until past one in the morning, and surprisingly, no one had returned. Considering the time was truly quite late, and Qin Zhixiu had to go to the recording studio the next day, they agreed to talk another time.

Looking at the discarded food, He Lele felt a bit uncomfortable. Although these were reimbursed and didn't cost her money, wasting like this always made her feel very uncomfortable. It wasn't that she felt bad about her own labor, but that "wasting food" itself didn't align with her values.

After returning to her room, He Lele thought for a while and, for the first time ever, opened the official website of Muse, then went to Ruan Lin's fan club... Although the administrator rules said it was not allowed to pry into the privacy of the owners, she was looking on the internet, so that didn't count as prying into privacy, right? Among the five, Ruan Lin's schedule was the most transparent. Nowadays, fans were truly omnipresent, and there were so-called "sasaeng fans" who followed stars every day. If it weren't for the fact that the area around the apartment was a private zone where entry was prohibited, she suspected fans could use cameras to photograph the inside and outside of the apartment!

It turned out tonight was the wrap-up party for Ruan Lin's previous drama; he probably drank too much and was resting outside. Producer Shentu Mo's schedule was hard to check, and she couldn't even find his photos on the internet, but the media had been reporting for the past two days that "Life and Death," which he was producing, was about to start filming, so Producer Shentu Mo was probably working overtime like crazy?

Since that was the case, she would sleep first.

It felt like she had just closed her eyes when He Lele felt the bed vibrating slightly. She opened her eyes and checked her phone; it was 3:30 AM. There was the sound of a car driving by outside. Who had returned?

"Xiao Zhou, you go back, I'm fine." Ruan Lin's voice came from the doorway.

He Lele hurried to the doorway.