All the goddesses in the world are lusting after my body.

If he refuses Lilith's request, and Lilith gets angry and goes to the school administration office to ask the teachers there to judge the matter, the teachers will most likely argue that "there is no rule in the school rules that prohibits students from studying in empty classrooms," thus ruling in Lilith's favor.

It's not entirely because Lilith has powerful backing that they can't afford to offend her.

Also, because there really isn't any rule that says this classroom is only for students from the Department of Genetic Engineering to use for evening self-study.

They simply used this classroom as a study room for the genetic engineering department, based on past practice, just as the foreign language college where Lilith studied also had its own customary dedicated study room.

But they are only the first to arrive, and they shouldn't prevent newcomers like Lilith from entering the classroom to learn.

However, since the senior student council member didn't make things difficult for Lilith, Lilith happily smiled and ran from the front door of the classroom to the back row where Jiang Tang was sitting. She sat down next to him without hesitation and even proudly puffed out her chest.

It seems like the more attention she receives, the better; she wants more people to know about her relationship with her darling.

Because of the rise and fall of her chest, her "angry jigglypuff" looked even angrier, creating a stark contrast with the joy on her face.

Jiang Tang suddenly realized that his thinking had deviated slightly.

The original intention of calling Lilith over was to let her experience the pain and torment of evening self-study.

But now it seems that evening self-study is nothing to her, or rather, she seems quite happy about it.

But what Jiang Tang didn't know was that evening self-study was indeed a severe torture for Lilith, as she was not a very quiet person to begin with.

But because of Darling, even in hell, it feels like being in heaven.

Moreover, it was just an evening self-study session, which is nowhere near as terrible as hell.

The senior student on the podium looked at Jiang Tang and Lilith next to him, whose lips were curving into a sweet smile as if she had eaten honey. He immediately lost his composure.

Are you here for evening self-study? I'm too embarrassed to call you out!

The other students were also whispering among themselves, and the classroom was filled with the sour smell of lemons.

Lilith didn't care about any of that. As soon as she sat down and put the bag down, she started chattering to Jiang Tang about her trip to the food street.

Jiang Tang ignored her and put a finger to his lips, signaling for silence.

"..."

Lilith had no choice but to remain silent.

Jiang Tang kept his head down, engrossed in his book. After a while, when the classroom quieted down and most people stopped paying attention to Lilith, he looked up and glanced at Lilith, who was twisting her fingers and looking aggrieved.

Poor Lilith thought she had done something wrong that Darling was ignoring her. She pondered this alone, and gradually her eyes welled up with tears.

Jiang Tang felt a pang of heartache and suddenly said softly.

"Didn't you say you'd show me your phone case?"

Lilith didn't receive the comfort she had imagined, and her mood remained low. However, she always found it hard to resist her subconscious attentiveness towards Jiang Tang.

Although I had thought about ignoring Jiang Tang, I always failed in my heart and couldn't put it into action.

Who told her... to be completely under Jiang Tang's thumb?

She sniffed, handed over her phone with one hand, and wiped away the tears from the corner of her eyes with the back of her other hand.

As Jiang Tang reached for the phone, he also tightly gripped Lilith's hand, along with the phone, in his own.

Because the action was performed under the desk, no one would notice.

That's why Jiang Tang squeezed even tighter and more carefully, while the phone that Lilith was going to hand him became insignificant.

Jiang Tang's gaze was not even directed at the phone case he had used as a cover; instead, he looked tenderly at Lilith's face and into her eyes.

"It's not that I'm ignoring you, why are you so upset?" His voice was gentle and soothing.

"N-nothing..."

Lilith's heart raced; it was less a feeling of being flattered and more a feeling of "the clouds have parted and the moon is shining through."

Her eyes blinked incessantly, the glistening tears long since replaced by another light.

The girl's hand rested quietly in the boy's palm, like a well-behaved and cute little animal, or more specifically, a little rabbit.

Seeing that Lilith's mood had improved, Jiang Tang finally had time to look at the phone case she had just bought.

It's really cute! There's a chubby American Shorthair kitten in the background that makes you want to pet it.

Lilith doesn't evoke the image of a cat; she's more like a big golden retriever, but that doesn't really matter.

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Jiang Tang's fingers, with their distinct knuckles, gently caressed the girl's palm in the shadows beneath the desk.

He returned Lilith's phone to her and pretended not to see that she had used her own photo as her phone wallpaper, and it was even a casual snapshot.

Where did those photos come from...? Did Shi Xue betray me?

Or is this a tactic Shi Xue uses to win people over? Is she beginning to feel the responsibility of being the legal wife?

Jiang Tang gasped slightly, his feelings a bit complicated.

"How was your day, attending classes all day?"

He casually changed the subject, his voice still gentle and warm.

Jiang Tang suddenly thought of asking this question.

It's believed that for a young lady like Lilith, sitting in a classroom in China on equal footing with others and receiving instruction from the same teacher must be a novel experience in some ways.

In the past, Lilith's tutors were all renowned masters in various fields, such as ballet, violin, and oil painting... In short, they were all high-class things, but they were a bit too detached from reality.

Jiang Tang recalled that he was the same way when he was a child, with many troublesome and short-term useless tutoring classes waiting for him to attend.

The most realistic courses Lilith received were probably in finance and business management. She was quite talented and was one of the most outstanding among the family's descendants, far surpassing some of her peers who were good-for-nothings, although she could not be compared with business geniuses like Minamoto no Shiki.

Oh, right, there's also a course on "Castle Building Restoration". Lilith's family owns many precious, old and dilapidated castles that look magnificent from afar, but only when you go inside do you understand what it means to be "all show and no substance".

Furthermore, the new generation of family members clearly preferred living in modern palaces to living in cold, damp castles, so the existence of these castles almost became a liability.

However, in order to preserve tradition, Lilith's family still spends a huge amount of money every year to maintain these buildings that are hundreds or even thousands of years old.

Lilith is surprisingly a nostalgic person, so she took the initiative to learn the course "Repair Techniques of Castle Architecture". She even has a degree certificate in architecture, something Jiang Tang probably won't have a chance to find out.

"It was a great experience. The teacher was very caring and attentive to me. If I didn't understand something, she would patiently explain it to me after class."

The biggest difference between Lilith and domestic students is that she believes her relationship with her teachers is equal. She respects her teachers, and her teachers respect her in return. Therefore, whenever she has a question, she will not hesitate to stand up and ask her teacher.

This was seen as somewhat "bold" by many students.

However, university professors actually like students like this. On the contrary, if a student is too quiet and works too hard, it can easily cause misunderstandings and make it difficult for professors to provide guidance.

"And what about your relationship with your classmates?"

“Well…” Lilith frowned slightly. “Although I wanted to talk to the girls next to me, for some reason, they seemed a little afraid of me, even though I tried my best to talk to them calmly.”

"It should be reverence," Jiang Tang corrected.

That makes sense. Most people, aside from themselves, would feel tense and under immense pressure just being around an elegant and noble princess like Lilith, let alone having a normal conversation or becoming friends with her.

However, once you get to know her better, you'll probably discover her wonderful and pure qualities: sincerity, kindness, innocence, and silliness.

Jiang Tang smiled slightly when he thought of the word "idiot".

Lilith's hand felt a little hot in Jiang Tang's palm, but she was equally reluctant to take it away.

“So apart from Murasaki and Maizo, I haven’t made any new friends yet,” Lilith continued, letting out a sigh.

Are they too?

"Yes, Murasaki is very proud, and Maizo doesn't seem like the type to make friends."

Jiang Tang nodded thoughtfully. Sure enough, there was still a certain gap between the little princesses of the chaebols and ordinary people.

"Speaking of which, they didn't go to the food street with you. Are they at the apartment?"

Lilith shook her head.

"No, I heard that Murasaki and Maizo went to visit Uncle."

"Uncle...is he the uncle I'm thinking of?"

The phrase "What you love is what you are..." involuntarily surfaced in Jiang Tang's mind.

Lilith tilted her head, looking puzzled.

"I don't think so. I don't know who Darling's 'uncle' is. Ziji is talking about the uncle at Uniqlo. They're going to pay him a visit."

"This uncle seems to be even more impressive..."

Jiang Tang's lips twitched. Although when Uniqlo is mentioned in China, it is always hard to avoid thinking of a certain short video of a Uniqlo changing room that once went viral on the Internet.

But in reality, Uniqlo is incredibly large, and its founder was once the richest person in Japan.

In that case, it's only natural that Minamoto no Shikihime and Miyamoto Maizō would visit such an uncle.

He had finished his review for the day, so the significance of evening self-study began to diminish in his mind.

Jiang Tang propped his cheek up with his other hand, looking bored, thinking to himself, "The world that Yuan Ziji and the others live in is still so far away from me."

Yet they are so close to me, like a vast expanse of blue sea and sky that I could reach out and touch.

Lilith is like the snow-covered mountains of Northern Europe, while Minamoto no Murasaki and Miyamoto Maizo are more like the cherry blossoms on Mount Fuji in late spring and early summer.

Snow fell on my shoulders, cherry blossoms fell on my palms.

Not responding to their efforts and expectations seems to be a sin.

But in reality, no one is obligated to pay for someone else's one-sided efforts.

Unless Jiang Tang himself is willing.

Jiang Tang's hand, which had been holding Lilith's, was a little sweaty. He gently let go, but Lilith didn't seem to mind, because every time he let go, he would hold on again.

If there is no further grip, Lilith will absolutely not let go.

"Did you bring any books? I saw you were carrying a bag of something." Jiang Tang sniffed it and smelled a spicy aroma, so he roughly guessed what it was.

Fortunately, Lilith was well-covered; otherwise, it would have affected the other students.

"Who brings books when they go shopping? That's... I'll tell Darling after class, it's a surprise for Darling!"

Upon hearing this, Jiang Tang nodded and casually handed over a popular science book that he had been reading recently, "The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins, an evolutionary theorist from the UK.

Because textbooks are too dry, Lilith would definitely find them tedious to read, so we decided to let her read some popular science books that are slightly more attractive and interesting than textbooks to help her pass the boring time during evening self-study.