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"You watch One Piece?"

Mr. Jiang poured a bottle of soda for his girlfriend, who had just had a checkup and whose test results were still pending, without showing any anxiety.

of course.

They weren't guilty at all.

His relationship with her was purely that of an upperclassman and an underclassman, and they had indeed only met once.

His statement just now was entirely truthful.

"Is there a problem?"

Li Shurui watched as the cola poured into the disposable plastic cup, bubbles formed, and then burst one by one.

"Girls watch this kind of action anime? Shouldn't they be watching 'In the Name of the Moon, I Will Destroy You'?"

Li Shurui looked up, "I'm going to punish you in the name of the moon? What?"

Jiang Chen was surprised, then smiled bitterly and sighed.

"The generation gap, oh the generation gap."

He handed the Coke over and then put the bottle down.

"Tell me about it."

"What are you talking about? That I'll punish you in the name of the moon?"

"The theory of clouds."

Jiang Chen smiled, picked up his chopsticks, and took a clove of pickled garlic. "It's after get off work hours now, so studying isn't allowed."

Only Li Shurui could understand the hidden meaning in his words.

Is this care?
No.

This is blatant mockery.

"Looking down on me? Thinking I'm uncultured?"

"how come."

Jiang Chen immediately denied it, "What I mean is that people can't be too hard on themselves. Everyone has weaknesses. You can't compete with Conan in solving cases, with Shin-chan in being a hooligan, or with Luffy in picking up girls. You'll exhaust yourself."

Looking at the man peeling garlic cloves with such seriousness, Li Shurui said, "You're so unserious."

Jiang Chen looked up, holding up a peeled clove of pickled garlic, and asked, "Want some?"

"Has a foul mouth."

Li Shurui refused without hesitation and put the vegetables on the baking tray.

Jiang Chen stuffed the pickled garlic into his mouth and mumbled, "How can it smell bad? It smells so good."

"Jingle Bell……"

The phone rang.

The couple, who had finally managed to enjoy some time alone together, stopped what they were doing at the same time.

"Your phone."

Jiang Chen reminded him.

nonsense.

Of course they know.

It is indeed after get off work hours now. Apart from work-related matters, there shouldn't be any work-related interruptions at this time, so it can only be personal matters.

Li Shurui took her phone out of her pocket.

Unknown caller.

Look at the time again.

7:26
It had been less than two hours since I finished the examination and left the hospital.

"Mr. Li, this is Chen Limin."

"Hello, Dean Chen."

Jiang Chen pulled out a tissue and wiped his hands. He seemed a little "nervous" as well.
"I'm sorry to bother you, Mr. Li. Your medical examination results are in. You are in excellent health and there are no problems whatsoever."

Under the table.

Li Shurui's left hand, which wasn't holding her phone, relaxed subtly and quietly. Her expression and tone remained calm and elegant. "Thank you for your hard work, Dean Chen."

"You can view the detailed report on your phone, so I won't bother you any longer."

"Ok."

"I told you, don't worry unnecessarily."

As soon as Li Shurui put down her phone, someone interrupted, as if they had super hearing and could hear what was being said on the other end.

"He told me I needed to have a follow-up examination."

Jiang Chen, who had been relaxed and carefree, was taken aback, and then his expression turned serious.

"Your butt's itchy, huh? Who's cursing themselves for no reason?" Li Shurui chuckled, her pretense completely gone.

How can you be sure I'm alright?

Mr. Jiang said casually, reaching for the meat again, "If you had any problems, he wouldn't have called. People always report good news, not bad."

Li Shurui put away her phone. "Being too smart isn't a good thing."

There's definitely no need to look at the detailed report anymore; non-professionals wouldn't understand the data anyway.

The dean personally called to deliver the good news; there's no way it could be wrong.

"You're wrong. The full version of that statement is: It's not a good thing for a woman to be too smart."

Boss Jiang acted nonchalantly, becoming even more relaxed than Li Shurui, the person involved, as if he were the one who had been diagnosed with a confirmed case of good health.

"Can you relax now? A lot of the pain in life is actually imagined by ourselves."

That was quite a long and eloquent speech.

Have we forgotten who wasn't also scared into the hospital back then?

That's just how people are.

When advising others, they can always speak eloquently and at length.

"Ah~"

For some reason, Li Shurui quickly suppressed her smile. Although she had finally put an end to a matter on her mind, she couldn't feel happy. Her brows furrowed with worry.

"What is it now?" Boss Jiang asked with a puzzled smile.

"It seems our connection isn't very deep."

Jiang Chen was puzzled. The other person's expression was contagious, and he frowned slightly. "What does this have to do with our fate?"

"If there's nothing wrong with my body, why hasn't there been any reaction?"

A simple question, seemingly both a self-question and an interrogation, rendered someone speechless, as if struck by a spell.

Li Shurui stared at him.

"...Isn't this normal?" Jiang Chen pondered for a moment before speaking, "You can ask that Dean Chen, how many couples have been married for years and still can't conceive, even though both partners are perfectly healthy... This kind of thing..."

Jiang Chen paused again, and after a while, he said in a complex tone that he tried hard to hide but could not completely suppress, "Comparatively, metaphysics."

He must have been thinking of Japan, thousands of miles away.

His girlfriend across from him was definitely "sitting at the same table but dreaming different dreams."

"In the end, isn't it just that we were not destined to be together?"

Mr. Jiang, who was good at psychological counseling, failed this time. Li Shurui looked at the rising smoke from the grill and said, "I know there is another saying, called incompatibility of genes."

"Ah."

The man's wry smile deepened. "You've had a physical exam and everything's fine. You're not thinking of getting your genes checked, are you? Let me tell you, human science and technology aren't that advanced yet. With current medical technology, we can't tell if genes are compatible."

"Medicine may not be able to answer your question, but someone else can."

"what?"

Li Shurui picked up a disposable plastic cup and took a sip of cola.

"What do you mean? I don't quite understand."

Mr. Jiang asked in confusion, "Who can tell you the answer?"

"Therefore, cleverness can backfire."

It is now completely certain that he was unaware of this. Indeed, the one in Shacheng must be in a state of great confusion and distress right now.

So, does the underlying logic of this world follow science or metaphysics?
Why did she inexplicably choose to send someone to Shacheng after learning about the story of "The Haunted Village"?

It was as if a voice from the depths of her being told that she might gain something.

It turns out.

Her hunch was right.

Or rather, for the first time, she grasped the pulse of fate.

"When did you become so eccentric?"

Mr. Jiang joked that he was still in the dark, and even thought his girlfriend was being kept in the dark.

Coincidentally.

Li Shurui probably had the same thought.

Do you prefer a son or a daughter?

A string of lamb kidneys was gently placed into Boss Jiang's bowl.

Mr. Jiang naturally misunderstood and grinned, "Can't we have both a son and a daughter?"

Li Shurui's eyes sparkled, and she said in a flirtatious tone:
"Fool." (End of Chapter)