The first night ended amidst anxiety and excitement.
The unfamiliar environment kept Shi Nian awake, so she curled up under the covers with her phone. She browsed the news online for a while. Then she thought about calling someone to let them know she was safe, but she didn’t know who to call. Dad was no longer around, and Mom—perhaps she could no longer understand everything happening to her now.
She swiped through her contacts, her fingers unconsciously lingering over "Mr. Tang," but eventually, she gave up.
Naturally, there were also colleagues, like Ye He, like Xiao Mai, but this trip was confidential, and she feared those two curious babies would ask too many questions.
In the end, Shi Nian’s gaze settled on "Xiang Yuan."
On this trip, she also told Xiang Yuan a "real lie." She explained she was going undercover for an interview about a case—this part was true;
but she didn’t say she was going to Kangchuan University, or that it was for Zhou Guanghan’s case, or that it was to assist Tang Yanqing—this part was a lie.
She knew she couldn’t face Xiang Yuan like Jia Tianzi did, calmly and earnestly lying so that Xiang Yuan wouldn’t see through it; every time she faced Xiang Yuan, she would get unconsciously nervous, so if everything was a lie, she wouldn’t be able to pull it off. Only by revealing half the truth could she make Xiang Yuan barely believe her.
At this time, she was also grateful to boss Li普曼. Because Tang Yanqing had beforehand informed Li普曼 that "Deep Throat" would have the right to share information and exclusive disclosure rights, the news-sensitive Li普曼 agreed without hesitation. Even when it came to family affairs, he agreed to help communicate.
With an explanation from Li普曼 personally calling, Xiang Yuan never doubted again.
Shi Nian went through many different wordings in her mind, but in the end, she gave up on all of them. She simply pressed "I’m here, don’t worry." After sending it with her phone card, she immediately removed the card.
Instinctively, she didn’t want Xiang Yuan to have a chance to locate her position through the phone card.
She had many tumultuous dreams during the night, and in the morning, the Spicy Girl on the opposite bed laughed: "Hey, you’ve got dark circles."
Shi Nian stuck out her tongue and hurried into the bathroom to wash up.
is a suite with a layout of four rooms and a living room, two rooms for girls and two rooms for boys.
There are two bathrooms, separated for boys and girls to use. Although Shi Nian didn’t have to encounter the boys in the bathroom, she couldn’t avoid the other two girls from the room.
She just washed her face and looked up to see her dark circles in the mirror, when she saw Queen S walking in with a sullen face.
There might be a little natural enmity between girls, so Queen S’s gaze traveled from Shi Nian’s head to toe, while Shi Nian stared at her skin through the mirror.
Eastern girls compared to Western girls, don’t have the advantage in terms of body, but their skin is flawless when bare-faced.
Queen S without makeup had fair but slightly porous skin; eyes used to heavy makeup looked somewhat pale and dull without it, while Shi Nian’s own skin, at 25, was still as smooth as silk. She instantly regained confidence as a college student.
Initially, she always considered herself a woman married for four years. To be honest, from the moment she reported in and walked in, she always kept her head down, thinking she was too old.
The two girls quickly scanned each other with their eyes, even though there were waves of emotion, the whole process took only a few seconds. Shi Nian was the first to greet S: "Hi, I’m Nana."
"Oh, hi." S replied lazily, not warmly, and went straight to wash her face on the other side of the sink.
Awkward silence fell between the two, and Shi Nian didn’t know what else to say, so she quickly finished up and returned to her room.
Seeing Shi Nian’s expression, the Spicy Girl laughed: "You met S, right? Don’t mind her; she’s always cold to girls, only when she sees a male does she switch faces."
Shi Nian stared at the Spicy Girl, a sentence was on the tip of her tongue, but she had to swallow it down.
After all, she wasn’t familiar with Spicy Girl yet.
Earlier, Queen S’s lethargy didn’t seem entirely due to physical fatigue, that particular pallor, dilated pupils...
Shi Nian suspected she was on drugs. ʀᴇᴀᴅ ʟᴀᴛᴇsᴛ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀᴛ novel※fire.net
On the first day of class, having to face completely unfamiliar people and surroundings, Shi Nian felt a bit reliant on the Spicy Girl. She asked for the Spicy Girl’s class schedule and, as expected, they were different.
She also tried asking Zhong Kui, and surprisingly, theirs were different too.