I was exposed for adding my female boss to my group of female friends.

"thump!"

Just then, water burst forth from the fountain next to them.

They were standing in Qingchun Square, next to the infinity fountain. The water splashed out like tiny firecrackers exploding in the water.

Suddenly, a series of "plop plop" sounds rang out from the fountain, and countless water droplets of all sizes splashed out.

Gu Yuqing stared in astonishment at this unbelievable scene, not yet realizing what had happened, when Chen Ya's slightly tense voice rang in her ears, pulling her back from the background music of "Approaching Science":

"it sleets!"

As soon as she finished speaking, some small snowflakes hit her exposed shoulder, which hurt quite a bit.

Sure enough, it hailed.

The weather forecast last night indicated that today there would be a northerly wind of level 3, with possible showers and a 75% chance of precipitation.

As the two chatted and chased each other, the clouds quietly obscured the sun. However, Gu Yuqing was in a fit of anger and did not notice. As a result, the moisture in the sky had a new encounter and turned into hailstones that fell down.

A thick coat was draped over Gu Yuqing's head, and then she felt a warm body press against her. Chen Ya shielded her head from behind.

"Quickly find a place to hide."

"What are you going to do?" Gu Yuqing looked up at him, clutching his coat with both hands. It still retained a lot of warmth.

"It's okay, my head is hard."

The wind and rain raged fiercely, their force overwhelming. Ice crystals fell in droves, leaving only a white dot on the ground, a "ding" as they landed on telephone poles, and a cacophony of alarms as they landed on parked cars.

They happened to be in the square, with no roofs to shelter them from the hail. Gu Yuqing was wearing high heels and couldn't run fast. Fortunately, Chen Ya protected her the whole time, so she was not only protected from the hail, but also felt warm inside and out.

The two ran wildly into a roadside shed, where hail continued to fall, pelting the shed roof with a chaotic, arpeggio-like sound.

Gu Yuqing wrapped Chen Ya's trench coat tightly around herself and looked at Chen Ya, who was only wearing a white shirt. Half of his upper body was soaked, and the water-soaked shirt clung to his skin, revealing the undershirt he was wearing underneath.

"Are you alright? Did you get hit?" Gu Yuqing asked with concern, reaching out to touch his head. "I was really scared just now."

"Hiss—" Chen Ya suddenly gasped, and Gu Yuqing quickly withdrew her hand.

"What happened? Did you get hurt?"

"Yeah, I just got hit here."

"Let me see."

Gu Yuqing pulled his head over and examined it carefully.

"It's become famous."

"Is there bleeding?"

"I don't know, I can't see clearly, I just have a bump."

"Tsk, no wonder."

The sound of ice falling rapidly over the pergola was like snowflakes falling all over the world's squares. Under the immense power of nature, individuals seemed extremely small.

The shelter they were staying in was located in the middle of the square. Originally, everyone in the square had run to the eaves of a building more than 30 meters away to take refuge, but the two of them were crammed into this small shelter.

Gu Yuqing held Chen Ya's head and quietly checked it for a while. After confirming that there was no bleeding, she let go and couldn't help but wrap Chen Ya's clothes around herself a little tighter.

She had already decided to ignore Chen Ya, but now the frustration she felt earlier seemed to vanish in an instant.

"So why did you come looking for me again?" Gu Yuqing asked, her eyes sparkling. "If you hadn't come looking for me, you wouldn't have gotten hurt like this, would you?"

"If I hadn't come to find you, wouldn't you have been smashed by the hail?"

Gu Yuqing rolled her eyes at him: "If you hadn't pursued me, I'd be on the bus right now, and I wouldn't be in this mess. Come to think of it, it's all your fault."

"Blame me, blame me."

Gu Yuqing unconsciously reverted to her previous attitude towards Chen Ya, crossing her arms and saying, "You came to catch up with me because you want me to forgive you, right?"

"Yes, I beg your understanding."

“Fine,” Gu Yuqing said decisively, “You come up with a topic. If you can’t pique my interest in five seconds, I won’t forgive you. I want you to experience how I felt just now.”

Chen Ya tilted his head and thought for a moment, then said, "Let's talk about 'Norwegian Wood'."

"puff--"

Gu Yuqing couldn't help but laugh out loud. Finally, she bent over, squatted on the ground, covered her face with her hands, and laughed so hard that her whole body was shaking.

"You're terrible at finding topics to talk about. Can't you find a different occasion?"

Chen Ya also squatted down and said, "Your hairstyle is really nice."

Gu Yuqing raised her face and looked at him sweetly: "It's too late to say it now!"

"The clothes suit you very well."

"It's too late! Who told you not to say it before? Even if you say ten more things now, it won't make up for how I felt before."

Chen Ya thought for a moment, then counted on her fingers and said, "And the stockings, they're very high quality and make the legs look thinner, that's the third point; the legs are thin and long, that's the fourth point; the person is also good-looking, with bright and lively eyes, and a beautiful smile..."

Chen Ya used every word he could think of to praise Gu Yuqing from head to toe, making up ten sentences in total. Gu Yuqing listened to him with a smile, and only after he finished did she ask, "Are you done?"

"I haven't finished. There's still a lot more, but I'm afraid you don't want to hear it anymore."

“Go ahead and say it, I want to hear it,” Gu Yuqing’s expression became even sweeter. “In fact, I’m not healed yet. I misjudged the situation earlier. You’ll need to say at least a hundred things to heal the wounds in my heart.”

“One hundred sentences is a bit difficult, but it’s worth a try,” Chen Ya said.

"Let's not talk about it now, we can talk about it later." Gu Yuqing put a finger to his lips. "Tell me first, I already told you I would continue to invest, so why did you still come here?"

"Because I don't want to lose a friend."

"Is it just that you don't want to lose your friends?" Gu Yuqing blinked.

Chen Ya thought for a moment and said, "I just realized that I haven't completely moved on from my past life. My past experiences have become a constraint, and judging from the career I want to accomplish, this constraint will only increase. So I've decided to let go of the past and look more towards the future."

"So, you think I'm your future?" Gu Yuqing asked mischievously. "How long do you think our friendship, as a young lady from a prestigious family, can last?"

"I don't know, let's take it one step at a time."

Chen Ya stood up, and Gu Yuqing, who was squatting on the ground, looked up at him. He struck a graceful pose, like a gentleman from the Renaissance, and held out his hand to her face:

"So, miss, are you willing to formally forgive me?"

Gu Yuqing stared at his outstretched hand when suddenly, a cheer erupted from the crowd of refugees under the eaves next to them.

"Say yes! Say yes!"

The crowd shouted wildly, unaware of the situation, mistakenly believing that Chen Ya was confessing his love. Gu Yuqing blushed instantly.

"Put your hand back! It's so embarrassing!" Gu Yuqing whispered, urging him on.

"Since we've already lost face, we might as well just openly comply with public opinion and lose less face."

"Are you trying to use public opinion to blackmail me? Do you think I have no other choice?"

"You have no choice but to be friends with me. Hurry up, my arm is getting sore."

Helpless, Gu Yuqing placed her hand in his palm and was pulled up by him.

The "public opinion" on the side was very satisfied, and the crowd of onlookers burst into cheers.

"Let's go, I don't want to stay here anymore, it's too embarrassing," Gu Yuqing said, snuggling closer to Chen Ya. "Luckily, it's stopped hailing outside."

As Gu Yuqing had said, the hail had indeed stopped, and a light drizzle had started instead.

Wearing Chen Ya's clothes, Gu Yuqing and Chen Ya ran together until they were both soaked. They then checked into the nearby Huangting Hotel.

After swiping her card to enter the room, Gu Yuqing hung up Chen Ya's wet coat, grabbed a towel to cover her wet hair, kicked off her high heels, and left a wet footprint on the floor.

“I’ve never stayed in a budget hotel like this before,” Gu Yuqing said. “It’s even smaller than I imagined.”

“This place is very small; it’s not usually this small,” Chen Ya said, glancing at the room with only one bed.

Because they just wanted to find a nearby place to take a shower and dry their clothes, they didn't consider the comfort of the accommodation. As a result, the room they found was so cramped that it was difficult to even turn around without going to bed.

“These hourly rooms are usually called brothels,” Chen Ya added.

"What's a brothel? Why is it called such a strange name?"

"It's better if you don't know."

But no one can remain pure forever. Gu Yuqing silently repeated the name twice in her heart, and then connected it with some miscellaneous knowledge she had absorbed in her daily life. She immediately understood its meaning.

"Pah, what do you want with me bringing me to a place like this?" Gu Yuqing asked, grabbing her collar.

Chen Ya replied innocently, "Didn't you run all the way here to get to this spot?"

"...Well, that's because I was soaking wet and had nowhere else to go, so I came here."

After saying that, Gu Yuqing blinked, leaned close to Chen Ya's ear, and repeated, "I'm very wet."

Chen Ya stood there, stunned. Gu Yuqing, with her hands behind her back, winked at him and said, "Did you understand?"

Chen Ya dared not understand, so he could only pretend to be deaf and dumb.

"Isn't my double entendre funny?"

"Haha, that's hilarious."

Chen Ya couldn't laugh at all.

Gu Yuqing took his hand and led him to the bathroom, turned on the heater, and handed him the hairdryer, saying, "Can you help me dry off?"

"I'm not very good at drying it, but I do know how to make it wetter."

"That's a dirty joke you're telling. I don't like it. I'm going to get angry."

"Sorry……"

……

Chapter 330 A Certain Scientific Study of Love

……

Looking at the torrential rain outside the window, Lu Aiai rested her chin on her hand and sighed.

Yan Yiting came over from the side, placed a cup of hot milk in front of her, and asked with a smile, "What's wrong? You look so preoccupied?"

Lu Aiai picked up the steaming milk and sighed again.

The two sat in the spare teaching room of the old teaching building. This classroom had been out of use for more than ten years. The cabinets that used to be full of teaching aids are now full of Lu Aiai's reference books, and the blackboard is covered with formulas and data written down by her.

This place can be considered her second office. Whenever she encounters difficulties in her experiments, she will retreat here to quietly immerse herself in the work for a period of time.

"But you really gave me a fright. You had a fever of 39 degrees just now. I didn't expect you to recover so quickly. Your constitution is truly a mystery," Yan Yiting said with a smile.

Lu Aiai picked up the milk, tilted her head back, and gulped it all down in one go.

Lu Ai'ai's constitution has always been strange. Despite being frail and weak, she can hit her head while playing badminton and break her leg bone while playing soccer, but she is not prone to getting sick.

For her, minor illnesses like colds and fevers are like this: she gets them in the morning and they're all gone by the afternoon—it's amazing.

Today was the same. She came in coughing, feverish, and with a runny nose, but miraculously recovered by the afternoon. She only used half a table's worth of tissues to blow her nose.

Some say that idiots don't catch colds, and this is miraculously proven in Lu Ai'ai's case—

From an intelligence standpoint, Lu Ai'ai is an absolute genius, but from a worldly perspective, she is a fool who is so stupid that she cannot even take care of herself.

Or, to put it more aptly, Yan Yiting thought, the word that best describes Lu Aiai would be "pure".

She is a pure scientific researcher. What she finds tedious calculations and research, she finds incredibly enjoyable.

She had witnessed firsthand how Lu Ai'ai could spend a month without changing her clothes, immersed in piles of paper, working as soon as she woke up and falling asleep as soon as she was tired.

The school teacher told her that her duty as the "life committee member" was to take care of Lu Aiai. At first, she didn't quite understand and felt that the school was giving her special treatment, so she had some minor complaints.

After spending more time with Lu Aiai, she realized that the school's arrangement was absolutely necessary.

Because if Lu Aiai isn't assigned a life committee member, she might really mess herself up.

Yan Yiting was extremely exhausted while taking care of Lu Aiai's life.

To outsiders, Lu Ai'ai is surrounded by countless halos and possesses amazing charm, making her an excellent job to take care of.

She is a child prodigy, a physics goddess, and a stunning beauty even without makeup. Living with her must be an adventure every day.

But that's not actually the case.

Only after living with Lu Ai'ai did she realize that life with Lu Ai'ai was even more tedious than the research itself.