Chapter 192: Having a Meal Together, Cold Face Xie Dog
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The coach directly pulled up Jiang Fuyue’s leave email, showing that it was sent last night at eight o’clock.
Scrolling down, there was the coach’s reply.
“Does anyone still have objections?”
The entire computer room fell silent.
Just then, Jiang Fuyue’s learning ID, submitted the assignment. The coach clicked to approve.
Five seconds later, the computer automatically graded the score — 600! Full marks!
In addition to that, she actually completed all the homework assignments as well.
The coach’s expression turned serious, “Look at her speed, and then look at your efficiency. It’s been less than forty minutes since the assignment was issued, has anyone completed the second question?”
Everyone: “…”
“Instead of staring at others all day, it’s better to cultivate yourselves first. Don’t say that I’m being biased by approving Jiang Fuyue’s leave. When you can also score full marks, I’ll approve your leave just the same. This statement is always valid, feel free to come and ask for it!”
“…” Since when was full marks so easy to come by? Saying “exam” and you’re done.
So far, only Jiang Fuyue, Fan Ye, and Lin Yuan have scored full marks.
“Alright,” the coach finished what he wanted to say, and most of his anger had dissipated, he waved his hand, “Continue with the assignments!”
“I told you so, without evidence, don’t make wild accusations, now it’s backfired.”
“Then who knew that Jiang Fuyue had requested leave in advance? The teacher didn’t say anything…”
“Did you see it? The email stated that she requested leave for three days! Emphasis on: not one day, not two days, but a full three days!”
“So what if it’s three days?”
“One dared to request, and one dared to approve! After the first quiz, everyone started to get nervous. Have fewer people been staying up late typing on their keyboards? Some even dream of writing code. Everyone is afraid of falling behind, wishing to split a minute into two, only Jiang Fuyue dares to be so arbitrary, absent for three whole days.”
“Tsk… where did she go for such a long leave?”
“Didn’t the email mention something about needing to conduct experiments for academic issues?”
“Humph! Academic issues? We’re all high school students, birds of a feather. What kind of issues could be related to academics?”
“Indeed, there really isn’t any.”
“It’s obviously just an excuse, only fools would believe it!”
Just now, they were saying not to jump to conclusions without evidence, and now a new wave of random guesses had begun.
People, always so forgetful.
“I don’t know why Jiang Fuyue requested leave, but I’m really curious now, which idiot actually reported to the coach? How big of a grudge does this person have against Jiang Fuyue? We just talk and complain behind her back, but this person, without any real evidence, just directly stabbed her to the teacher, bold!”
Lin Yuan was pricking up her ears, secretly eavesdropping, but upon hearing this, she instinctively tensed her scalp and felt a chill down her spine.
The storm of absenteeism settled for the time being, and Jiang Fuyue, who was busy in the laboratory, was completely unaware.
The main experiment had reached the third stage, and the data hadn’t come out yet. Taking advantage of the break, she decided to start another auxiliary experiment simultaneously.
However, by doing so, she had turned from busy to extremely busy. She would often sit at the lab bench for four or five hours at a stretch, seamlessly switching between several experiments, plus continuous multitasking, leaving her with no idle moments.
Until the knocking sound came again and dinner was delivered, Jiang Fuyue had to stop.
She walked over to open the door, supporting her stiff neck.
She saw Ling Xuan with two takeout bags, smiling at her, “Six-thirty, not too early, not too late, perfect timing for dinner.”
Indeed, this time was just right, because Professor Xie’s assistant was also passing by with a lunchbox, and he greeted Ling Xuan, “Are you also delivering food?”
Ling Xuan: “Yeah.”
“You’re quite punctual.”
Ling Xuan: “You’re not bad either.”
The assistant raised his head proudly, “Delivering food is my specialty.”
Ling Xuan: “…”
“Well! I won’t talk to you anymore, Professor Xie is very strict about time. I’m about to be late, let’s chat next time!”
After speaking, he hurried past.
Jiang Fuyue asked Ling Xuan to just leave the food on the outdoor terrace. She needed to tidy up the workstation and finish some follow-up work.
Ling Xuan: “It’s okay, I’ll wait.”
“If you’re busy, you don’t have to…”
Ling Xuan: “I’m not busy.”
“Up to you.”
Jiang Fuyue moved quickly, but even so, it was already fifteen minutes later when she finally started eating the steaming hot food.
During this time, Ling Xuan stood outside, quietly waiting.
She didn’t say he couldn’t enter the laboratory, but the young man tactfully didn’t step inside, even though the door was always open.
Braised beef, sweet and sour pork ribs, these were two meat dishes.
Stir-fried cauliflower, mapo tofu, these were vegetarian dishes.
There was also a large box of yam and winter melon soup. After taking a sip, Jiang Fuyue felt warmth spreading through her entire stomach.
“How is it?” Ling Xuan asked.
“Not too salty, with a hint of the fragrance of winter melon, it’s delicious.”
“As long as you’re satisfied.”
Jiang Fuyue noticed another takeout bag next to him that hadn’t been opened yet, but her own meal of two meat dishes, two vegetarian dishes, rice, and soup were all set out, “What about that?”
“Cough… that’s my dinner.”
Jiang Fuyue was a little surprised, “You haven’t eaten?”
“I got a call from the restaurant after class, went to pick it up at the school gate, and came straight to the laboratory, I haven’t had a chance to eat.”
Jiang Fuyue frowned, “Did I disrupt your original schedule?”
“Not at all. If you don’t mind me eating here with you.”
Ling Xuan wasn’t lying; he usually ate at this time.
It’s just that he deliberately had the restaurant deliver the food right after class, leaving no time for himself to eat.
Of course, Jiang Fuyue wouldn’t object.
Firstly, if she didn’t eat these takeouts now, they would get cold.
Secondly, Ling Xuan had been running errands for her, it wouldn’t be right to let him not even have a warm meal, right?
Of course, Jiang Fuyue could also ask him to leave now and find somewhere else to eat dinner.
But since he had already said it like this, it seemed inappropriate for her to do so.
It’s just a meal, each to their own, and he wasn’t picking from her plate, so what’s there to be concerned about?
Ling Xuan immediately took out his own meal from the packaging bag and placed it next to Jiang Fuyue’s in a horizontal line.
At first glance, it had a somewhat romantic feeling of a boy and girl having dinner together.
…
In the neighboring laboratory.
The assistant put down the lunchbox and secretly glanced at the man who was coldly recording data at the workstation.
Although his face was still expressionless, for some reason, he felt that Professor Xie today had an unusually cold aura.
Even though he was far away, he could feel the floating ice crystals in the air.
It had only been one afternoon, who had upset this ancestor?
“Professor Xie,” the assistant rubbed his hands, cautiously reminded, “the food is getting cold, you should eat while it’s hot.”
Xie Dingyuan gave him a cold glance, “…Too talkative.”
The assistant shrank his neck, oh no, he’s going to freeze to death.
He swore that he would never speak up again!
But the next second, Xie Dingyuan actually asked him, “Is the person next door still there? I need to use the thermal imager.”
The assistant glanced silently at the brightly lit neighboring laboratory, What?
Does that look like someone’s not there?
But he still honestly replied, “Yes, just now I saw her boyfriend came to deliver food for her again, although it’s takeout, not very healthy, but it smells so good! I just happened to pass by, and the fragrance went straight to my nose…”
Uh!
He realized that Xie Dingyuan’s expression turned even colder, as if the ice crystals floating in the air had turned into ice chunks.
His breath was trembling from the cold.
The assistant was quite puzzled, did he say something wrong?
After careful recollection, he suddenly realized, “Rest assured, they didn’t eat in the laboratory, they put the food on the terrace like they did at noon.”
So can you please stop with the icy attitude?
Freezing!
“They?” Xie Dingyuan caught his choice of words.
“Yeah! I just peeked through the window, they were eating together, and their backs looked so beautiful, like a fairy tale! Back in the day, when I was an undergraduate, I also had a period like this…”
“Heh.” A cold laugh interrupted the assistant’s sweet memories.
Here it comes, that cold air again!
“Professor Xie, are you… not in a good mood today?”
Xie Dingyuan raised his eyelids, his pitch-black pupils were cold and profound, exuding a faintly indifferent light, “Who told you that?”
Assistant: I have eyes, I can see, thank you!
“I just felt it.” He cautiously worded his response.
Xie Dingyuan: “People who do research keep talking about feelings. Then why bother with experiments? Just write papers based on feelings, right?”
“?”
“What is a feeling?” Xie Dingyuan’s tone was disdainful, “That’s subjective imagination! It’s illogical! It lacks factual support! No matter what you feel, you’d better stop.”
Was he saying this for the assistant’s sake, or was he reminding himself?
Assistant: ? Did I do something wrong?
Xie Gou: I’m indifferent, I’m emotionless, I feel nothing!
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