Chapter 44: Has he been paying attention to me?

When the leg‑rubbing motion was linked with the floral water, and Professor Su guessed it correctly in a second.

It was unavoidable that some of the younger ones' hearts couldn't take it.

Their gazes all turned to Su Manyao's legs, but that divine pair was concealed under her long skirt; only the snow‑white bare feet peeking from below the hem and the jeweled toes painted with crimson nail polish inside her high heels could be seen.

Jiang Cheng could perform this series of actions, and Professor Su could still guess it.

This proves that when Professor Su was bitten by a mosquito and applied the floral water, Jiang Cheng was at least watching from the side! Just watching her apply it with both hands on her legs—what an incredible perk!

Pain! Really painful!

They only regretted missing the opportunity, why weren't they there watching when Professor Su applied the floral water!

But if they knew the floral water wasn't applied by Professor Su, but by Jiang Cheng's hands, who knows what they'd think!

Next, Jiang Cheng wrote another term on the cardboard; after he finished gesturing, Su Manyao didn't promptly answer, merely tilting her head and looking at him with an inscrutable expression.

Jiang Cheng met Sumanya's gaze, and his gaze flickered for a moment.

He understood Su Manyao's meaning.

Su Manyao was saying: "I get what you're up to!"

So Jiang Cheng felt a bit guilty! Because just as he was writing the term, he saw the male college students around looking at Su Manyao, each gaze stranger than the last.

His field of vision was filled with two words: want to eat!

Even if he couldn't eat, he wanted to glance at them a couple more times!

Can Jiang Cheng tolerate them? Mine, mine, all mine!

So he directly gave this bunch of "country dogs" a show.

Do you know why my leg‑rubbing is the floral water? Go figure it out yourself!

Su Manyao saw Jiang Cheng's gaze flicker, and an inexplicable strange feeling arose in her heart; she understood that Jiang Cheng understood her meaning.

This feeling of "I know that you know that I know" is quite mind‑twisting.

It's itchy.

Even the aloof Yujie is no exception!

Su Manyao merely paused for three or four seconds, then directly guessed the answer—this was already the fifth placement!

Only forty seconds had passed!

The surrounding students had already grown accustomed to their speed.

So‑called tacit understanding game—this is truly the damn tacit understanding!

In a moment of distraction, Jiang Cheng had already written down the ninth term; then his left hand swiftly made an Orchid Finger gesture, his right hand as if pinching something lightly pushed forward, and he was preparing for the next move.

Su Manyao had already blurted out two words: "Chicken wing tip."

Jiang Cheng stared for a moment, his actions not yet finished, and the Yujie had already guessed it!

Moreover, when he wrote that term, he was just messing around for fun.

Because just now his mind flashed with the image of Su Manyao barbecuing yesterday, but that image actually had no shared memory point—it was merely that scene in his mind.

So when writing that term, Jiang Cheng intended to give the Yujie a hard time and tease her, thinking she wouldn't be able to guess it!

But she actually guessed it that quickly!

The Yujie is terrifying, she knows what I'm thinking! Wind tight, pull the shout! Su Manyao's eyes also shone, soft light flowing, her beautiful eyes fixed straight on Jiang Cheng. She didn't expect Jiang Cheng to remember such a scene.

She doesn't kill living beings, nor does she watch others kill in her presence.

But she also doesn't eat vegetarian.

In her own words, she doesn't eat what she herself kills, nor what is killed especially for her.

Not killed for her, but if she hears the sound while it's being killed, she also doesn't eat it.

She often says, this is her own hypocrisy.

But yesterday at the barbecue, a lot of raw meat needed to be handled by hand, which she disliked.

Just seeing all the students doing it that way, she thought there was no need to be overly antisocial, but in the end she only skewered a few chicken wing tips.

So she felt that to others this might be trivial and not worth remembering, but because she forced herself, she herself remembers it very clearly.

But she didn't expect Jiang Cheng to remember it clearly as well, especially the hand movements; at the time he had restrained himself to conceal his dislike and aversion.

Yet he still observed it!

Has he been paying attention to me? After the Yujie guessed that term, Jiang Cheng found it interesting, so he decided to turn up the intensity. He thought for two seconds, then traced his finger across his own collarbone, lightly pecked his lips, then extended his left hand from his right shoulder down to beside his left hip.

"What does this mean? Why did he just peck his lips?"

"I don't know, this completely doesn't look like it's saying anything!"

"I saw Jiang Cheng just now reach out and touch his chest, then tap his left shoulder and below—is this a prayer?"

"Have you ever seen someone praying with pursed lips?"

"Then what does this mean?"

Around, the teams that had already left the stage and those not yet on stage were all in heated discussion; the atmosphere where they were was extremely tense, because if any of their dozen or twenty heads gathered to discuss and slowed even a bit, Professor Su would already have given the answer, rendering their discussion pointless!

This time was the same; their mouths chattered nonstop, but after just a few words, Su Mengyao spoke up.

"Seat belt."

As soon as those three words were spoken, the whole venue fell silent.

Those who had been gesturing wildly while discussing, some had their hands frozen in midair, all stunned! What? Peace what all?

All what set?

Safety what set?

After two or three seconds they reacted, saying it was a seat belt! A false alarm! But upon thinking, if it were a seat belt, Jiang Cheng's earlier motion of pulling his hand from the left shoulder down to the right side was correct.

But he touched his chest—no, it was his collarbone—and then pecked his lips; what does that mean?!

A seat belt is a seat belt—what does touching it mean? What does touching the left side of the mouth mean? Is your family's safety such that you need to touch chest and left mouth? Do you kiss when fastening a seat belt?

Impossible, absolutely impossible! The people present had such a thought pop into their minds, like a scene from a TV drama, but as soon as that thought arose, they immediately rejected it themselves! Want to kiss Professor Su while fastening the seatbelt? Only someone with a broken brain would dare think that!

If anyone really did that, I bet Professor Su would knock their head off?! But if Jiang Cheng were willing to tell them, he would tell them it's really like that, you didn't guess wrong, and my head is fine, it hasn't fallen off! After Su Manyao spoke the answer, she was also stunned; he had just been thinking that Jiang Cheng remembered his barbecue skewers.

So, while Jiang Cheng was making the gesture just now, she blurted out the answer without thinking.

She didn't even wait for the added strokes to finish.

Because that scene was too deeply etched in her mind!

(End of chapter)