I really don't want to date a girl addicted to the internet!

"I'm not that shameless."

"You're not that shameless."

The two spoke almost simultaneously.

Shen Xi looked at the boy in the mirror with displeasure, and the boy returned her a smug smile.

"Teacher Shen, I really do know you." The boy shook his head and sighed.

"Cheng Fei, I'm thinking about something." Shen Xi frowned slightly as she gazed thoughtfully at the boy in the mirror. "You've said these kinds of things time and time again. Are you implying something?"

"Of course, I'm implying that you should do that." The boy said seriously, "Teacher Shen, this is my sincere advice to you. I understand that you want me to take the initiative, but think about it carefully, haven't I taken the initiative enough for you? If you are willing to use a little trick, I think our relationship will be even stronger."

"What do you mean by 'using a little trick'?" Shen Xi narrowed her eyes.

“Teacher Shen, with your intelligence, you can definitely figure it out. Actually, sometimes you do very well, you just don’t realize it.” Cheng Fei said, gently patting her head. “Finished combing.”

A cool, aloof girl with long, dark hair sat upright in the mirror, her eyes unblinking. She was simply sitting there, wearing a somewhat childish light-colored nightgown, her hands resting on her lap.

But when the bright sunlight streamed in through the porthole, passing through her thick, smooth hair and falling on her snow-white face, and when her pure, unblemished eyes blinked, the illusion arose that some exquisite work of art had come to life, and everything seemed as perfect as computer-generated imagery.

The boy pulled out his phone from behind her and snapped a picture in the mirror. "Perfect, my princess is the cutest in the world."

The girl in the mirror had no expression, but her lips moved slightly.

"Teacher Shen, I have to say your hair is better than Lin Xuanqi's," Cheng Fei exclaimed.

The girl in the mirror was no longer expressionless; a hint of annoyance flashed in her eyes.

Shen Xi stood up, turned to face the boy, took a deep breath, and kicked him viciously, "Cheng Fei, you trash."

The next second, the boy pulled her into his arms.

Caught off guard, the girl's eyes widened, and she trembled violently as if shivering. "Cheng Fei, you've done this again!"

“Teacher Shen, this is what we agreed on.” The boy completely ignored her protest.

The delicate fragrance emanating from the girl's hair was intoxicating.

Shen Xi paused for a second, then gritted her teeth, "Even if we agreed on only once a week, I never imagined you could push your luck to this extent."

"It's once a week, that's right. We started counting from yesterday, and this week's appointment hasn't been fulfilled yet. Teacher Shen, you're not going to include the ones from before, are you? That won't do." The boy's tone was matter-of-fact.

"You shameless scoundrel, you'll be brought to justice sooner or later." Perhaps because she was too angry, the girl's voice trembled slightly.

A moment later, the boy released the girl who had remained motionless the entire time.

Shen Xi clenched her fists, radiating a chilling aura, her piercing gaze seeming to want to tear the boy in front of her to pieces.

"Teacher Shen, your eyes are too fierce. It was just a hug, you don't have to hate me like that, do you?" Cheng Fei pretended to be surprised.

"Anyway, you never considered my opinion from beginning to end. You just came up with a high-sounding excuse and then did whatever you wanted to me. You still expect me to tell you I like you? I can't even imagine what kind of terrible treatment I would receive if I actually did." The girl sneered heavily.

"Teacher Shen is exaggerating. Even if you told me, I would only act like this. Do you think I would carry you to bed right there? How could I do such a thing?" Cheng Fei shrugged.

"Shut up!" The girl struck him again.

"Besides, Teacher Shen, how could I not have considered your opinion? You reluctantly accepted it in the end when we discussed this issue yesterday, so why are you acting like I did something heinous to you today?"

Shen Xi took a deep breath, looked up and glared at him fiercely, "Even if I accept hugging you once a week, you should let me know beforehand, instead of suddenly doing this like just now."

"I see, I understand. Please forgive my rashness this time, Ms. Shen. I will be slower next time so you can be mentally prepared." Cheng Fei quickly put his hands together and said sincerely.

The girl shut her mouth in disgust and stopped talking.

"Teacher Shen, I want to do something for you now. To avoid scaring you again, I'll tell you first," Cheng Fei said calmly.

"What are you going to do now?" The girl immediately looked wary and crossed her arms.

"I just wanted to ruffle your hair."

"I can't understand it. What kind of inexplicable and filthy idea is this?" The girl frowned slightly.

……

188. Ye Shuang is reading a comic book.

"I felt I had combed your hair too perfectly, and I didn't want others to see you like this. It's a little bit of my possessiveness towards you." Cheng Fei looked at Shen Xi and reached out his hand. "So I rubbed it."

"A narrow-minded and hopelessly possessive desire." The girl looked disgusted and didn't move.

Cheng Fei quickly straightened her overly neatly combed hair to a slightly messy, normal state. During this process, his fingers touched the girl's ear, which was hidden in her hair, with an indifferent expression, as if it were an accident.

Shen Xi frowned, noticing that the boy's body temperature wasn't as high as usual, and didn't understand why for a moment.

At this moment, Cheng Fei picked up the plate on the table. "Teacher Shen, the seafood porridge is almost ready to eat. The fish in it was caught by Sebastian this morning, and it tastes very fresh."

Shen Xi's expression calmed down, and she glanced at the food.

"Oh, right, Teacher Shen, there's something else I need to trouble you with." Cheng Fei, who was about to leave, turned back after taking only two steps.

"What?" Shen Xi asked expressionlessly.

"Check if Ye Shuang is outside for me. Even though I'm delivering breakfast to you, it wouldn't be good to bump into her."

"What's there to be ashamed of if you're just delivering breakfast?" the girl sneered.

"After all, I felt a little guilty for being all lovey-dovey with you as soon as I arrived," Cheng Fei said frankly, nudging her shoulder from behind. "So, could you please take a look?"

"Disgusting, nobody's here to be all lovey-dovey with you." Shen Xi said with disgust, but opened the door to look outside, then turned back and said, "Nobody's here, get out of here."

"Okay." Cheng Fei took the tray and left quickly.

The girl closed the door, returned to her dressing table, her brows furrowed slightly as if she was displeased. She stared at herself in the mirror for a moment before lowering her head to eat breakfast with a blank expression.

……

When Shen Xi arrived at the reception area, Cheng Fei and Nagasaki Asuna were manually calculating coordinates to accumulate learning data for the model, Ye Shuang was sitting upright reading a book, and Milian was lying on the sofa, sleeping peacefully with a bag of potato chips in her arms.

This area has been designated as a common activity area by the group.

"Teacher Shen, you've finally arrived." Cheng Fei stretched.

"How far are we from the corridor now?" Shen Xi sat down expressionlessly.

"If the corridor maintains its current speed of movement, we estimate we will meet in less than a week."

Shen Xi nodded to indicate that she understood and joined the two in their busy work.

The atmosphere on the boat was quiet in the morning.

Midway through, Ye Shuang put down the book and left without a word.

Seeing this, Cheng Fei stood up as if to stretch his body, passed by Ye Shuang's seat, casually picked up the book the girl was reading, and wandered behind Milian's sofa.

Nagasaki Asuna and Shen Xi both noticed this scene but didn't pay it any mind.

The atmosphere on the ship remained quiet.

Not long after, Ye Shuang reappeared carrying a plate of fruit. The girl, who had been in a good mood and smiling, suddenly became angry when she saw Cheng Fei reading her book.

"Cheng Fei, give it back to me!" She quickly tried to snatch the book back.

"No." The boy, taking advantage of his height, held the book above his head, like a little boy in elementary school bullying a girl. "Master Ye, I didn't expect you to be pretending to be reading comics?"

Cheng Fei removed the stylish black-and-white biographical cover from the book, revealing the actual comic book cover underneath.

"What I see is none of your business?" Ye Shuang turned her head and glanced at Shen Xi and Nagasaki Asuna, who seemed to have nothing to do with her, her eyelids twitching.

She was already the shortest in the Corridor Research Department, and even with Cheng Fei holding the book high, she couldn't reach it at all.

"Hey Master Ye, don't get excited. I'm just curious. I thought you were studying a martial arts manual. Can I borrow it?" Cheng Fei held the comic book above his head and tilted his head back to read. "The Witch Who's Good at Making Love Potion and the Serious Knight, it's a pure romance..."

"Cheng Fei, you asked for this."

As the girl finished speaking coldly, she delivered a lightning-fast straight punch to Cheng Fei's stomach.

The girl's soft fist made Cheng Fei curl up like a shrimp in an instant.

"Holy crap! Master Ye..."

Ignoring his cries of pain, the girl gripped his wrist, twisted her slender and supple waist, and unleashed incredible power from her soft body, lifting him off the ground and making him spin 270 degrees in the air.

With a merciless over-the-shoulder throw, Cheng Fei and the comic book hit the ground almost simultaneously.

The dull thud of a heavy object hitting the ground made Nagasaki Asuna unconsciously shrink her neck.

Shen Xi blinked expressionlessly.

"What's wrong? What's wrong?" Miriam, who was on her deathbed on the sofa next to her, sat up in shock, looked behind the sofa, and exclaimed, "Junior?!"

Ye Shuang casually bent down to pick up the comic book, her clean, small pink and white sneakers stepping directly over Cheng Fei, and walked proudly towards the cabin.

Miriam hesitated for a moment, then lay back down in her original position.

"Ugh..." Cheng Fei lay on the back of the sofa where no one could see him, letting out a dying groan.

The air on the ship fell silent once more.

A few minutes later, Nagasaki Asuna stood up and casually knelt down next to the boy to observe him. "Cheng Fei, are you alright?"

Using the back of the sofa as cover, the girl lifted her short skirt and slightly parted her legs.

"Don't worry about me, I'm just contemplating life here." The boy lying on the floor stared at the ceiling and calmly shook his head.

“I see.” Nagasaki Asuna bit her lip and obediently returned to her original position.

After a while, a suppressed laugh came from under the sofa back, followed by a hand reaching up and snatching the potato chips from Miriam's peacefully closed hand, making Miriam smack her lips.

Shen Xi put down what she was doing and walked behind the sofa expressionlessly to look.

The boy was lying on the floor in an extremely lazy posture, reading pirated comics on his phone while stuffing potato chips into his mouth, making a crunching sound.

"I thought there were cockroaches, but it turned out to be rats." Shen Xi looked down at him with disdain in her eyes.

"Teacher Shen? Come and read it with me. The comic Ye Shuang is reading is quite sweet." The boy patted the spot in his arms, looking very serious.

Shen Xi frowned slightly and kicked him.

"You used less force than usual. As expected, you still care about my teacher, Ms. Shen." The boy breathed a sigh of relief exaggeratedly. "By the way, if you keep doing that, you'll expose yourself."

Shen Xi's skirt was much longer than Nagasaki Asuna's; from his angle, he could only see the absolute territory at most.

"Disgusting, get up now and stop slacking off." The girl coldly pressed down on the hem of her skirt and kicked him again.

"Teacher Shen, I'm seriously injured and need to rest here for a while. I'm not joking." The boy quickly put potato chips into his mouth, as if they were some kind of healing medicine.

"Stop pretending, get up right now, that's an order." The girl glared at him irritably.

"Shen Xi, I twisted my back, really." The boy looked into her eyes.

The girl and the boy looked at each other, she was silent for a second, then turned and left without looking back.

The boy breathed a sigh of relief and continued studying the manga titled "The Witch Who's Good at Making Love Potion and the Serious Knight."

A few minutes later, hurried footsteps approached.

……

189. Cheng Fei wanted to borrow the comic book.

Shen Xi returned expressionlessly carrying a first-aid kit. Under the boy's surprised gaze, she squatted down, found a Yunnan Baiyao spray, and then unceremoniously lifted his shirt, asking in a completely emotionless tone, "Where does it hurt?"

"Actually, no, I can get better on my own." The boy said cautiously.

"Cheng Fei, you lied to me?" The girl's eyebrows furrowed, her anger seemingly coming out of nowhere.

Asuna Nagasaki turned her head, blinked, and a hint of doubt flashed in her eyes.

"I'm absolutely not lying to you." The boy shook his head like a rattle-drum, pointed to his lower back, "It hurts here, please spray some."

Shen Xi carefully checked the expiration date before spraying the product a few times on the boy's lower back. She then put the product back into the medical kit, reached out to the boy, and said with no emotion in her pure, dark eyes, "I'll help you up."

The boy hesitated for half a second before grasping her cold little hand, using it to get up from the ground, and gasped as he held his waist.

Nagasaki Asuna, who had been watching the show, suddenly changed her expression and quickly moved over to support the boy from the other side, looking worried. "Are you really hurt?"