I was approached by a cat-eared girl.

"That means you're also very smart, and of course, I deserve some credit for that too."

Chen Shuo shamelessly patted himself on the back, saying, "With my careful guidance and your continuous learning, you have developed a healthy and normal set of values. But if it were you a year ago, you might have been naive enough to believe it."

Then I'll have to serve you too. If I don't do it to your liking in the slightest, you'll make me kneel on durians and keyboards. I definitely can't stand that. At that point, there'll only be one ending for us:..."

"separate?"

"Pretty much, but more accurately, widowed. You keep saying you'll kill me if we break up, so I'd rather die than suffer that. That's what they mean by 'a scholar can be killed but not humiliated.'"

"Hurry up and eat." Bai Xiaoqi didn't want to keep nagging him about this topic. It was completely unfounded, yet he kept going on and on. He really overthought things.

After finishing the dumplings, Chen Shuo washed the plates and pot, sat back on the sofa and started typing. Bai Xiaoqi came over with her phone and rested her head on his lap.

The familiar "Timmy" made Chen Shuo look down and meet her gaze. "You're playing games again?"

"Didn't you say you'd rather play games than watch short videos? So I started playing games."

Bai Xiaoqi fiddled with her phone and asked back, her words carrying a hint of self-righteousness.

"Alright then." Chen Shuo stopped paying attention to her. Playing games was indeed better than watching short videos. Watching too many short videos would unknowingly change a person's values. Playing games could be better, but only to a limited extent. For example, the game she played, Honor of Kings, had a lot of historical figures distorted.

However, this kind of situation can be gradually explained in the future, but once values ​​are distorted, they can never be corrected.

"Ya Ya, come play games."

After sending a voice message to Anya, Bai Xiaoqi snuggled up to find the most comfortable position.

No wonder this guy always likes to lie on my lap. If you find the right position, it can be really comfortable. And considering that I have to massage him every time he lies down, it must be even more comfortable.

Anya replied that she didn't have time and would talk to him later. She looked up and saw that Chen Shuo's neck and chin were clearly visible from her angle, and her prominent Adam's apple made her want to reach out and touch it.

After staring at it for a while, she reached out and touched it twice, then said, "If you give me a massage, I'll consider learning to read."

"Although I don't agree with this kind of transaction, I'm willing to do it." Chen Shuo stroked her head for a long time like petting a cat, and only stopped when his hands got a little tired. He then rubbed her cat ears.

"Alright, massage time is over. Go study now."

"........."

No response.

Chen Shuo stared at her for a while, observing her with her eyes closed, her eyelashes trembling slightly, and her breathing quite even and gentle, it seemed she was really asleep.

If you're going to study like this, what's the point?

With a pout, Chen Shuo didn't wake her up. He rubbed her head with his hand, then looked away and turned his gaze back to the computer screen, continuing to be a ruthless typing machine.

Bai Xiaoqi turned over with her head on his lap, pressed her face against his stomach, and continued to sleep soundly.

On a spring afternoon, Chen Shuo was typing away on his keyboard, while Bai Xiaoqi slept soundly on his lap like a lazy cat.

I used to hope that a cat would snuggle on my lap while I was writing, but now I don't have a cat, though I do have a cat-eared girl.

The wish was exceeded.

Chapter 221 I Choose Li Bai

As the sun began to set, Bai Xiaoqi slept until evening. Rubbing her eyes, she got up from the sofa, turned around, and looked around. The living room was empty, with only the afterglow of the setting sun streaming in through the window.

In the empty living room, in the dim light, she looked down at the blanket covering her and felt a sudden wave of loneliness wash over her. She couldn't help but shout at the top of her lungs, "Ah Gou!"

"What are you doing?!" Chen Shuo came out of the bedroom, phone in hand. "Why are you calling my stage name so loudly out of the blue? I'm on the phone, what if someone hears us..."

Before he could finish speaking, Bai Xiaoqi ran over wearing only cotton socks, opened her arms, and hugged him tightly.

Chen Shuo paused for a moment, swallowed the words he was about to say, and said into the phone, "Okay, I'll hang up now," before hanging up and putting the phone back in his pocket. "Did you sleep through it and get all groggy?"

"Um..."

"It's normal. I feel like this when I wake up from an afternoon nap, especially when I sleep until dusk. It's getting dark and I can't see anyone else in the room except myself. At that time, I feel particularly lonely. I often experienced this when I was a child."

Chen Shuo gently patted her back, "You're a twenty-year-old adult now, don't be so timid."

"I'm quite brave." Bai Xiaoqi buried her face in his chest, her voice soft and muffled as she retorted.

After a while, she looked up and asked, "Who were you talking to on the phone just now?"

“Little tweezers, he called to ask me what I had said to his mother. I said I hadn’t said anything, but he didn’t believe me. That’s basically it. Okay, loosen your grip a little, it’s too tight for me, I can’t breathe.”

Bai Xiaoqi tiptoed and kissed him on the cheek, then loosened her arms a little and looked up to ask, "Is it still too tight?"

“Le”.

"How about this?"

"Please loosen your grip a little more."

How about this?

"There's still a little."

"I'm not hugging you anymore." Bai Xiaoqi wrinkled her nose and let go of her hand. This guy is so fussy, even a hug feels too tight.

She walked back to the sofa and sat down, patted the bottom of her socks a few times, then picked up her phone to check. There was a message from Anya that had been sent more than ten minutes ago, asking if she still wanted to play games.

She sent a message but received no reply. She went into the game to check and found Anya in a match. Bai Xiaoqi wasn't in a hurry and waited patiently.

"You just woke up and you're already playing games?"

"Ah."

Seeing her nod seriously, Chen Shuo glanced at the clock on the wall. It was a little past five or six in the evening. "You've wasted another day today. And you said you were going to read this afternoon. Now, choose between reading or doing practice problems."

I choose Li Bai.

"..."

"Kill one man in ten steps, leave no trace for a thousand miles." Bai Xiaoqi held her phone like a sword and stabbed it into Chen Shuo's stomach. "I'll study again tomorrow."

"...Fine, anyway, you're studying for yourself, not for me. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow... there are so many tomorrows! I'll see what you do..."

While Chen Shuo was talking, Anya had finished her game and extended an invitation to Bai Xiaoqi.

The two teamed up and started a game together. Seeing this, Chen Shuo shut his mouth and stopped talking. The game had already started, so what was the point of nagging? It was a waste of breath. He might as well play with his little feet and watch from the side.

Bai Xiaoqi kept her word and immediately selected Li Bai upon entering the game, seemingly preparing to jungle. An Ya, on the other hand, chose Hou Yi, presumably preparing to play mid lane. While waiting, she glanced at Chen Shuo again, saying, "My socks were just stepped on the ground, so they're dirty."

"Just take them off." Chen Shuo pulled off the cotton socks on her feet, held her fair and smooth little feet and rubbed them, then leaned closer and asked, "You're such a jerk, does Anya really want to play games with you? Especially ranked matches."

"I'm amazing, I'm the one who makes her take off."

"She's even worse than you?"

"..."

Bai Xiaoqi ignored him and decided to prove herself with her skills. She entered the game and stood in the fountain for a few seconds as punishment. When she heard the words "All troops attack," she couldn't wait to run out of her house.

I went out and bought a jungle item, then roamed around the jungle, killed a few monsters, bought some boots, and then seized the opportunity to dash out from the bottom lane and take down the enemy's half-health Liu Chan.

First blood secured.

Then, he used his second skill to take down a low-health Huang Zhong, achieving a double kill.

Clever little cat strikes twice!

It's Ya Ya, not Ya Ya (Hou Yi): [Ah Miao 666!]

[That's fucking stealing kills.]

That damned Li Bai, has he got any shame?

The ADC and support in the bottom lane were typing insults in the public chat.

"See? Aren't I amazing?" Bai Xiaoqi snorted smugly. Seeing the rude comments on the public chat, she started chattering again: "What do you mean by stealing kills? I just want to level up quickly so I can carry them. These teammates don't know anything and they even curse."

Well, they've only been playing for a few days and they're already complaining about other people being bad at the game.

Chen Shuo was speechless, but she really played it very well and reacted very quickly. Her little hands were tapping away on the screen. Luckily, the phone cost more than five thousand yuan, which is considered a high-end phone. Otherwise, he really couldn't keep up with her button-pressing speed.

If it were that old secondhand phone, it would probably freeze up in no time.

Clever little cat, ruthless killer!

The clever little cat is unstoppable!

It's Ya Ya, not Ya Ya (Hou Yi): [Ah Miao 666!]

In this game, apart from Anya who became a relentless "6" chanting machine, constantly shouting "666," the rest of the teammates were all cursing for stealing kills.

She didn't let any of the three routes—upper, middle, or lower—go.

Every time, after a long and meticulous battle, and you finally manage to bring the opponent to low health through skillful maneuvering, suddenly a Li Bai appears out of nowhere, shouting things like "The sword of the great river descends from the sky" or "Ten steps to kill one person, leaving no trace for a thousand miles," and then finishes off the opponent in a few moves.

I was so angry I wanted to smash my phone.

Chen Shuo sat next to her, playing with her little toes in his hands, his eyes glued to his phone screen, watching Xiao A Miao control Li Bai as he dashed around in the King of Glory arena, stealing kills.

He suddenly understood why the girl chose Li Bai, a jungler hero, so that she could dart around and steal kills.

She really figured out how to play this game.

Li Bai was so focused on stealing kills that she went on to become a godlike player. Her job was to steal kills and take down the red and blue buffs; pushing towers was not part of her responsibilities.

After several team fights, the enemy's crystal was mercilessly destroyed.

She won, but her teammates didn't seem happy. Not only did they have a bad gaming experience, but they were also forced to become tower-pushing machines. After leaving the game, they were still typing in the chat box to scold her for stealing kills.

"These teammates are such a pain. They're not even happy when I carried them to victory. All I did was steal a few of their kills."

Looking at the chat box, Bai Xiaoqi felt somewhat indignant.

"........."

Chen Shuo, standing to the side, was at a loss for words. What did he mean by "snailed a few kills"? It was clearly a staggering number of kills.

Chapter 222 Look how much fun he's having!

These past few days, Director Nie has been quite busy. His colleagues and subordinates have been coming to visit him at the hospital whenever they have free time, and none of them have come empty-handed; they all bring either fruit baskets or flower baskets.

Chen Shuo would run into a few people every day when he went to the hospital, but this didn't last long. Director Nie was neither infected nor anything, and after being observed in the hospital for more than a week, it was time for him to be discharged.

He was discharged in the afternoon. Right after lunch that day, Chen Shuo came over with a carefully prepared gift: a wheelchair. To be precise, it was a rather peculiar wheelchair, with two large wheels in the back and two small wheels in the front, and a handle added to each side of the armrest.

They dragged and pushed him into the ward, and Chen Shuo began to ramble on about his experiences, while Nie Xi stood to the side, leaning on her crutches, watching expressionlessly.