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

"Just saying." The young man gently stroked the back of her head.

The girl's tone remained unchanged, "So the first question is, at most how many suns have the locals observed? If the extreme heat of three days in the sky brought about the end of the world and caused the records to be lost, have they ever observed three stars at their farthest point turning into three shooting stars?"

The boy thought for a moment, "The observation records should only show two suns. As for the so-called flying star, I actually noticed that the sun went out right in the middle of the sky at the beginning. The process was very sudden, and I didn't see the star move away and become a flying star afterward."

“The observation records are unreliable. As for the absence of flying stars, it's possible that Cheng Feiyu is blind and can't see clearly. Let's go ask the locals again to confirm.” The girl said without hesitation.

"I'm not that blind, am I?" the boy said helplessly.

"Stop talking nonsense and hurry up." The girl twisted her body.

"Hurry up about what?" the boy asked, puzzled.

"Go online and ask the locals."

"Now?" The boy was taken aback.

"Otherwise?" the girl asked matter-of-factly.

"How about we wait until tomorrow? To be honest, all I want to do right now is sleep with Her Highness the Princess." The young man said reluctantly, holding the slender body in his arms.

“This is an order.” The girl, her face buried in her hands, frowned slightly.

"Even if there really are three flying stars, there's still a possibility that the record could be lost, right?" the boy said seriously.

"Cheng Feiyu can come up with such a stupid excuse just to delay? There was plenty of time and conditions to preserve observation records before the extreme cold arrived and all the stars moved away. This is the story you told yourself." The girl punched him, making no attempt to hide her contempt.

"Okay, but I still don't want to go. Can I ask again tomorrow? Let's talk about something else first." The boy remained unmoved.

The girl took a deep breath without raising her head, her flat chest heaving, and remained silent.

"Is the little cutie angry?" the boy observed her.

"As expected, Cheng Feiyu, who prides himself on being a realist, is hopeless trash. He always brushes things off and muddles through unless it's an emergency." The girl gritted her teeth, a little annoyed, and raised her voice, "Listen to me!"

"Did you hear me clearly?" the boy asked, puzzled.

The girl shifted her position, nuzzling her head close to his ear. Her soft voice, which was usually devoid of emotion, trembled slightly as she said, "Hurry up and go online to check the information. My little cutie will... lie here waiting for you."

The boy stared at the ceiling, stunned. "Shen Xi, this is really too unfair..."

"Hurry up." The girl punched him again, her tone, which seemed to have changed from her usual authoritative tone.

So Cheng Fei quickly grabbed the girl's infiltration helmet, put it on, and went online as ordered.

The aloof girl with long, dark hair knelt on him. She first straightened up and looked down at the boy expressionlessly, blinked, and her expression was unreadable. After a moment, she knelt down again, buried her face near his neck, and remained motionless.

After a while, Cheng Fei opened his eyes and felt the slender body pressed tightly against him, motionless, as if he could feel some kind of lingering attachment.

Noticing that he had woken up, Shen Xi immediately sat up to look at him, "How did it go?"

"I asked around, and there wasn't even a single flying star, let alone three. It seems like such a phenomenon doesn't exist at all." The boy took off his helmet and placed it on the tatami mat next to him.

The girl frowned, her hand on her chin as she pondered, "That means there are only two suns, which doesn't make sense..."

"A binary star system consisting of only two massive celestial bodies, without external disturbances, must have predictable and periodic motion. Even considering general relativity, it would only evolve slowly, right?" The boy looked at her cold little face.

The girl glanced at him. "Cheng Feiyu actually has some sense this time. I don't need to explain this kind of second-grade common sense to him."

"Yes, yes, Ms. Shen already knew these things in second grade." The boy nodded perfunctorily.

Shen Xi ignored him and continued to ponder, muttering to herself, "But the sun in the dual-body world does indeed exhibit irregular motion, or its motion patterns are far too complex. In any case, there must be influencing factors that we are yet to understand..."

"Sweetie, why don't you get down before you start thinking? I want to hug you." The boy looked at the girl who had straightened up and was kneeling, and opened his arms to hug her.

"Trash." The girl met his gaze, muttered under her breath, wrapped herself in the blanket, and lay back down in her comfortable spot. She murmured softly, her breath warm, "So you first saw the sun go out in the center of the sky, and then rise again from the horizon after a while. The two suns were different brightness levels. It could be the result of a change in distance, or it could be a different sun. What exactly happened in between..."

"Why don't we wait until I gather more information before analyzing it? There's no point in worrying about it now." The boy hugged her tighter again.

The girl paused for a moment, then said, "I want to go with you tomorrow."

"what?"

"I want to go see the Twin World with you," the girl said coldly.

"You can go too? Did Xiao Yi help you get the permission?" the boy asked in surprise.

"No."

"What should I do?"

"Cheng Feiyu will figure out a way to solve this. Anyway, I'm going." The girl shifted slightly, her voice muffled.

"Alright, I'll ask Tang Yu tomorrow." The boy sighed helplessly.

"I'm sleepy, this is enough," the girl said again.

"Okay, goodnight, little cutie?" The boy gently patted her head.

"Good night."

After he finished speaking, the room fell into a brief silence.

"Little cutie."

"what?"

You look really cute today.

"Shut up, it's too noisy."

"Yes."

The room fell into true silence.

……

The next day.

As the first rays of dawn filtered through the shoji paper of the shoji window into the room, Cheng Fei opened his eyes.

The cool, aloof girl with long, dark hair was sleeping peacefully in his arms as always, huddled under the covers like a hibernating animal. He could feel her slender body trembling slightly with each even breath.

Her words from last night echoed in the boy's mind, and he couldn't help but hug her tightly.

Upon opening the system interface, you can see that the timed task has failed.

System, if you are truly conscious, how are you going to respond now?

No matter what, he would continue to protect the stubborn and adorable girl in his arms; the boy was absolutely certain of this.

After a while, the girl with her face buried in her hands took a deep breath.

"Good morning, little cutie," the boy said to the ceiling.

"Unrepentant trash, I told you it's forbidden." The girl gritted her teeth and remained still, making an annoyed sound.

"Yes." The boy's hand, which had moved to her slender, rounded ankle, had to return to its original path, continuing to feel the beautiful, slender lines of her curled-up ankle.

"Don't be too disgusting, I want to sleep." The girl trembled slightly and hugged his neck tightly.

“Okay.” The boy replied seriously.

The quiet atmosphere lasted for a while.

The girl suddenly felt she couldn't take it anymore and gritted her teeth, "You filthy, disgusting rat, you're moving around down there the moment you open your eyes, just how obsessed are you with my legs?"

"It's all your fault, Shen Xi." The boy buried his face in her smooth, thick hair, smelling the familiar, faint fragrance.

Suddenly, the girl opened her mouth without a word, pretending to bite his trapezius muscle, as if she intended to retaliate against him. When the boy subconsciously tensed up, he withdrew his teeth and sneered with the feeling of a victor.

Cheng Fei thought for a moment, then said, "Shen Xi."

"What?" the girl said coldly.

"People say that kissing the neck represents desire. Can I interpret that as you being full of desire for me right now?" the boy asked seriously.

The girl frowned slightly where he couldn't see her. "Absurd. Putting aside the fact that there's no logical connection between kissing a neck and desire, when did I kiss your neck?"

"That didn't count?"

"You're indulging in wishful thinking again. I only said this as a warning to Cheng Feiyu." The girl said coldly, without a trace of emotion.

"At least we kissed last night," the boy recalled.

"Did Cheng Feiyu hallucinate while soaking in the hot spring?" The girl was even more puzzled.

"You kissed her yesterday when you gave her orders, little cutie. Are you going to deny that?" the boy said firmly.

"Stop being so self-righteous and trying to understand. That was still biting, and don't spout any disgusting nonsense. What orders? I've already deleted the memory of them. If I hear them again, I really won't be able to hold back my vomit." The girl covered her mouth in his arms with a serious expression.

"Teacher Shen, you clearly know what makes you most attractive to me, yet the things you say are increasingly outrageous. You slept with me and then denied everything. Isn't it a bit too deliberate to turn your back on me like this?" The boy hesitated, wanting to say something but then stopping himself.

"Shut up! First of all, with my abilities, I could easily deal with this Cheng Feiyu. Secondly, I only said that to satisfy your shady desires. I told you to forget it last night, but now you dare to repeat it in front of me. It's utterly disgusting!" The girl punched him and raised her voice.

The boy was silent for a moment, then hugged her tightly and said fiercely, "Shen Xi, you're finished."

"Cheng Fei, so this is a threat? Let me go!" The girl also became angry, her frail body twisting in vain.

“There’s no threat.” The boy remained motionless.

"Isn't this a threat? What do you want to do to me? I told you to let go!" The girl, unable to move, punched his shoulder hard.

"It's nothing special, but if you don't switch modes and say 'Little cutie, wake up,' I won't let go of you today." The boy said frankly, then held her tightly and didn't move.

The air in the room was silent for a second.

The girl took a deep breath, her voice trembling with anger, "As expected, as expected..."

"As expected what?"

“That despicable and shameless Cheng Feiyu, that rebellious piece of trash, will never change his heartless and ungrateful nature. Last night I kindly satisfied you, you soaked in the hot spring, you let me go upstairs, you even used those disgusting nicknames, and you even told me to say the nauseating things you wanted to hear, and I even allowed you to touch me like a rat in the morning. In the end, you still dare to threaten me like this. What kind of rotten person did I trust? Heaven knows how I will be treated in the future. Maybe it was my fault from the beginning. Yes, I was crazy to choose such a smooth-talking, fickle social scum…” The girl buried her head, her flat chest heaving rapidly, speaking faster and faster in a flat tone.

"You talk about erasing your memories, but you remember them all clearly, don't you?" the boy couldn't help but say.

As soon as he finished speaking, even though he couldn't see the girl's face, he could feel that her pure, dark eyes were gradually losing focus and becoming empty.

"Cheng Fei, I'm giving you one last chance. Let me go, do you hear me?" the girl said in an extremely calm tone, slowly releasing a chilling aura.

"Shen Xi, I was wrong." The boy shivered, and in a second he let go of her, freeing her. He was very careful. "I just wanted to hear you switch to your cute mode and say one more sentence, is that really not allowed?"

The girl didn't leave immediately, but continued to lie in his arms, and the air in the room fell into a deathly silence.

After a long silence, the girl let out a soft sigh, "Cheng Fei, please get this straight."

"what?"

“There has never been a switching mode. There wasn’t one before, there isn’t one now, and there never will be.” The girl said slowly and deliberately. “I’ve already made it very clear that I’m admitting that the way we address each other is just a result of the fact that our relationship has become more and more entangled. Although it’s disgusting, I’ll barely tolerate it. Saying those things to you is just a means of fulfilling my responsibility to you and doing so out of necessity.”

"Okay, Teacher Shen, I was wrong. Thank you for your hard work, Teacher Shen." The boy lowered his head honestly.

"If it becomes a situation where I have to coax you like that for everything in the future, I might as well die. So stop now, or it won't happen again." The girl finished speaking softly, got off him, stood up and looked down at him, her delicate and beautiful face cold as ice.

The boy lay on the tatami mat, looking up at her, and swallowed.

……

Some time later, the group from the Corridor Research Department sat around in the living room to enjoy a sumptuous breakfast delivered by the hotel staff.

"Asuna, Asuna, I heard the pedestrian street over there is really interesting. Do you want to go for a stroll during the day?" Zhou Han asked, tasting the salt-grilled katana. Suddenly, he looked up with great interest.

Asuna Nagasaki tilted her head thoughtfully, glancing at the aloof girl opposite her. "Pedestrian street? That's fine, if I have time."

"There should be... right?" Zhou Han also looked over, feeling a little guilty.

"Teacher Shen, Tang Yu replied to me. She said she can give you access." Cheng Fei said while drinking miso soup and staring at the WeChat message on his phone.

"Understood." Shen Xi nodded slightly and said expressionlessly, "Cheng Feiyu and I have other things to do this morning. You guys go and farm low-difficulty dungeons to collect materials. If you want to have free time, we can talk about it this afternoon."

"Oh, that's good." Zhou Han nodded with a smile.

She was already thankful that the other party didn't order everyone to work in shifts and be online all day like before.

816. Shen Xi will tell it one last time.

After filling their stomachs, Cheng Fei and Shen Xi went online together.

……

The two appeared in the small square where the fountain never stopped.

"A long-awaited date adventure just the two of you, little cutie, are you happy?" The boy opened his arms to the girl.