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

Cheng Fei carefully bent down to observe her, "Teacher Shen, are you angry?"

"Go out..." the girl said softly.

"If I've upset you, then disregard what I just said." Cheng Fei's expression hardened.

"I told you to get out..."

"Teacher Shen, please calm down. I'll be out for ten minutes." Cheng Fei raised his hands in surrender.

"Take your things and never come back..." The girl didn't even look at him.

Cheng Fei was startled. "Teacher Shen, is it really that serious?"

"It's not that bad..." The girl sneered, speaking in a flat tone, "It's one thing to do something so despicable to me—I didn't have any hope for your lack of self-control anyway—but you actually dared to criticize me afterwards, saying I was disappointed..."

Cheng Fei seemed to see a tangible black resentment spreading from her ink-black hair.

So it's okay to do filthy things, but not to comment on body shape? Cheng Fei barely managed to hold back from saying those words.

Shen Xi raised her head, her pure, dark eyes becoming utterly empty. She spoke in a tone that seemed to deliver a death sentence, "You should leave the department. I'm completely disappointed in you now, and I never want to see you again."

The boy and girl looked at each other silently.

The room was quiet for several seconds, but the noise from the playground could be clearly heard.

Cheng Fei clasped his hands together and said, "Teacher Shen, I was wrong. Actually, I made up everything before. I didn't do anything last night. I didn't even look at anything I shouldn't have. All your equipment was taken by Nana."

Shen Xi was stunned for a moment, then gave a heavy sneer, "Don't think I'll believe you just because you said it casually. You didn't sound like you were making things up when you were criticizing me just now."

“Teacher Shen, you know I’m watching your body every day. I even hugged you the day you fainted from low blood sugar. Of course I know what type of person you are. But I definitely didn’t touch you on the fifth floor yesterday. You can ask Nana if you don’t believe me.” Cheng Fei said sincerely.

"The important thing is whether or not you touched me? How dare you say I regret it!" The girl's pretty face was icy cold, and her voice was trembling.

Cheng Fei was startled again, then realized what he meant and said, "Saying I regret it was just a joke. Teacher Shen, your body is perfect in my heart. I just said such a disrespectful thing on a whim. Please forgive me, I'm a magnanimous person."

The girl stared at him intently into silence, a look of gritted teeth on her face.

After taking several deep breaths, she finally calmed down.

The girl lowered her eyes, focusing her attention back on her book, and said in a tone that revealed neither joy nor anger, "Within twenty minutes, I need to eat tiramisu from the bakery at the main gate of the school and caramel macchiato from the coffee shop at the back gate, and they have to be hot."

"I'll go shopping with you after the club activity," Cheng Fei said quickly.

"I want it now." Shen Xi glared at him fiercely, set a timer on her phone, and stared at him expressionlessly. "From now on, you have nineteen minutes and fifty-five seconds to make up for your mistake."

Cheng Fei stood up abruptly and disappeared from the club activity room. Due to accidentally pressing a key on the keyboard, the synthesizer emitted a comical vibrato.

A boy as swift as the wind ran through the Sakura campus.

"Wait, what just passed by was..."

"Cheng Fei, I guess..."

"He looks so handsome with messy hair, oh my god..."

After a while, Cheng Fei, carrying two small bags, hurriedly pushed open the door to room 601.

"You're three minutes and forty-seven seconds late," Shen Xi said coldly, putting down her phone, her eyes looking at a death row inmate.

"There are too many people at the bakery, Teacher Shen, you are so kind, please let me off this time." Cheng Fei said sincerely.

"Give it to me." Shen Xi glanced at him and held out her hand.

Cheng Fei opened the tiramisu and placed it in front of her, then put the still-steaming caramel macchiato next to it, and said respectfully, "Please enjoy afternoon tea, Miss Shen Xi, the incarnation of the goddess of wisdom, the princess of the elf clan, the great stargazer, and my beloved."

The girl expressionlessly scooped a bite of cake into her mouth with a spoon, then took a sip of her drink before nodding slightly, still expressionless. "You should be glad this place serves hot food."

……

76. Shen Xi held a grudge.

"So you're not angry anymore?" Cheng Fei carefully observed the girl's expression.

Shen Xi lowered her eyes. "I'll reluctantly forgive you, but don't let it happen again."

"I knew you wouldn't want to part with me." Cheng Fei breathed a sigh of relief, pulled up a steel pipe chair and sat down next to her. "Is it good, Teacher Shen? Share some with me."

The girl gave him a cold glance as he looked eager to make a move.

"Never mind, I won't take what she likes. You can eat slowly." Cheng Fei watched the cake enter the girl's cherry-like mouth.

A barely perceptible look of satisfaction appeared on her cold, pretty face, before she glanced at him with disgust. "Don't stare at me."

"By the way, Teacher Shen, what were you doing on the fifth floor last night?"

"Start a new research project."

Why didn't you ask me for help?

"Seeing you makes me feel nauseous."

"You're like Nana, too?"

"What do you mean?" Shen Xi's eyes narrowed.

"It's nothing, she just has a mental illness."

"You insulted me?"

“That’s not what I meant. She has a personality disorder. She feels physically uncomfortable when she sees certain people. I suspect that you, Professor Shen, are like that too.”

The girl put down her spoon and frowned. "You seem to understand her more and more?"

"How could that be? It was just that day when I was waiting for her at the recording studio while I was buying a synthesizer. Her manager told me about it and even asked us to help her fight her illness. It was very touching."

The girl was engrossed in enjoying her afternoon tea, seemingly oblivious to what was happening.

"Teacher Shen, do you really like these two dishes?"

Is there a problem?

"No, I'll buy it for you often if you like."

"I'm not interested in eating this every day."

"understood."

The atmosphere was quiet for a while.

"Shen Xi, let's get back together. I'm serious, I can't stand living without you." Cheng Fei gazed at her profile.

"It's as if we've known each other since birth."

"I could tolerate it before because I hadn't met you yet."

"It seems you've lost your memory again and can't remember our agreement." The girl said coldly.

"I have already broken up with Lin Xuanqi."

"You think I can't tell? She dumped you."

"That's not true, but I can't possibly dump her, otherwise I probably wouldn't be alive to see you. We broke up amicably."

"Why did you break up? She's just the rich person you like." Shen Xi lowered her eyes.

"I've thought about you for a long time, Shen Xi. You are irreplaceable to me. Lin Xuanqi is indeed no good." Cheng Fei said sincerely.

The girl glanced at him with disgust, rubbed her temples, and sighed, "I can't understand how someone like you can exist in this world..."

Cheng Fei continued, "However, she made a condition: I can't be with anyone for three years, so let's date secretly."

Shen Xi was about to speak when she suddenly realized something and shut her mouth, her gaze becoming wary.

"Teacher Shen, what's wrong?"

"I think you're just trying to fool me with sweet talk again. I'm going to call her myself and ask her what's going on." The girl picked up her phone.

"Never mind, Ms. Shen, never mind." Cheng Fei quickly pressed her hand down. "Just pretend I never said anything. You can erase your memory."

Shen Xi frowned and stared at him. After a few seconds, she took a deep breath, and her pure eyes became empty.

"You're really wasting your time. Don't touch my hand."

"Sorry." Cheng Fei quickly stopped what he was doing.

Shen Xi stopped looking at him and began to focus on enjoying her food.

Cheng Fei opened his phone and saw that Nagasaki Asuna had said in the club group that she had something to do and wouldn't be coming today.

Although Ye Shuang and Lin Xuanqi didn't say anything, it was unlikely that the two of them would participate in club activities for two consecutive days.

It seems the Corridor Research Department is destined to have only two people today.

Cheng Fei thought for a moment, then took out two hand warmers from his bag and placed them in front of Shen Xi as if offering them as a sacrifice.

"Teacher Shen, please have some."

Shen Xi glanced at it, frowned, and said, "No, take it away."

"Teacher Shen, please don't be angry. I admit I was wrong today."

"This is the second time you've admitted your mistake today."

"I just wanted to win you back so badly that I resorted to any means necessary."

"You should know that this won't work on me."

"But Teacher Shen, are you really going to ignore our real feelings for that crazy woman Lin Xuanqi? She came here from the very beginning just to disgust you."

Shen Xi frowned and opened her mouth, but after a moment her expression turned cold again. "Stop trying to confuse the issue. You've been the one with the problem from beginning to end. You haven't proven that you don't like her."

"That makes sense, but Ms. Shen, if you put it that way, can I take it as you actually like me? You're just observing my behavior?"

The girl turned her head away. "Enough. I don't want to hear your clumsy rhetoric anymore."

"Alright, since we're not disturbed by outsiders today, let's talk about something else." Cheng Fei nodded. "Teacher Shen, I'm curious, if I really did it to you in the corridor yesterday, you wouldn't have any objections?"

Shen Xi looked disgusted. "If what you call 'other things' are these kinds of disgusting issues, then there's no need to talk about it."

"Just a hypothetical. If you don't want to talk about it, just pretend I didn't say anything." Cheng Fei zipped his mouth up.

"And don't forget you said I'm a footnote to your youth living in your distant memories. Don't even dream about doing things that are only possible between lovers or more, or I won't let you off the hook." The girl's tone was not without sarcasm.

Cheng Fei was surprised, "You're still holding a grudge about what I said back then?"

Shen Xi's expression froze for a moment, then she turned her head away with a cold face. "I just have a good memory, there's nothing I can do about it. Please don't flatter yourself and make it seem like I care about your crazy talk."

"I understand, Ms. Shen, there's no doubt that you dislike me." Cheng Fei got up to get his bag.

The girl glanced at him out of the corner of her eye, watching him sit back down and nonchalantly lower his head to eat his tiramisu. "What are you doing?" she asked.

"Study," Cheng Fei said, expanding his field of vision. "Anyway, no one's coming today, so it's no fun practicing the piano alone. I might as well focus on studying."

Shen Xi frowned. "Don't forget to upload the video. I don't want to see you doing it half-heartedly."

"Don't worry, I'm working hard to prepare, and I definitely won't let you down."

"You better be."

The room fell silent again, with only the barely perceptible scratching of Cheng Fei's pen across the paper.

"I'm tired of it. If you don't mind, you can take it so it won't go to waste." Shen Xi suddenly pushed the tiramisu, which was only a third of the way from being served, in front of Cheng Fei.

Cheng Fei looked at the expressionless, aloof girl and couldn't help but raise an eyebrow. "Teacher Shen, you don't mind me using your spoon?"

"Anyway, that's just the kind of person you are, I'm used to it." Shen Xi turned her face away and pinched her brow as if she couldn't bear to watch.

Cheng Fei thought for a moment, "Because I ate the bread you ate last time?"

"You don't have to say it even if you know." The girl's face was pale, as if bad memories had been stirred up.

"If only I had..."

"What did you say?"

"It's nothing. This is my first time eating tiramisu. I didn't expect it to be so delicious. Teacher Shen, you have excellent taste." Cheng Fei praised sincerely.

At that moment, the door to the club activity room was pushed open.

A blonde, blue-eyed female international student walked in with her chin held high.

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