Spicy Girl’s face instantly turned red with excitement: "Alright, professor, don’t worry!"
Because there were no sheets or covers, Tang Yanqing didn’t stay the night and left instead.
He said the dormitory was only for temporary accommodation. So even though everyone was a bit reluctant, he still left gracefully.
After a busy day, everyone quickly rested, and room 507 fell into complete silence.
However, Shi Nian still couldn’t fall asleep, her mind repeatedly replaying the scene of him entrusting the room to her and Spicy Girl, and the look in his eyes that surged like a tide when he handed over the card, saying, "Your—judgment, I trust."
He deliberately made a long pause between "your" to emphasize the former naturally.
The more she thought about it, the more her heart raced, she hurriedly pulled the quilt over her head, warning herself it was enough, to quickly sleep, or she wouldn’t get up in the morning.
In such a dazed state, she didn’t know how long she had been asleep when suddenly it started to rain outside. Then followed incessant flashes of lightning and thunder. Shi Nian nervously emerged from the quilt, glanced at Spicy Girl, seeing her sleeping soundly, unaffected.
Shi Nian only looked up towards the window.
Through the curtains, she saw a distant pitch-black night, as if a utility pole had been struck by lightning, erupting into a massive electric spark.
As expected, the streetlights on campus went out instantly.
Shi Nian was afraid of the dark, so she quickly crawled back into the quilt, commanding herself to fall asleep.
In such a night without any lights, with only occasional lightning splitting the darkness, she suddenly heard a few piercing screams from afar, muffled by the quilt.
But those screams were quickly drowned out by the thunder.
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Shi Nian didn’t know that Rosa had come to her and Xiang Yuan’s home that night.
A huge flash of lightning split the sky, and luckily, the power in this neighborhood didn’t go out. Just for a moment, the lights flickered violently.
In that disorienting, surreal light, she suddenly pushed Xiang Yuan against the wall, pressing herself tightly against him.
She had waited too long and endured too long.
Since Shi Nian had been clamoring for separation, Xiang Yuan had warned her not to contact her temporarily. He even gave her a long leave, using the excuse of an employee reward to send her abroad for a trip.
Because of the bird’s nest incident last time, she knew she had upset Xiang Yuan. Xiang Yuan had become ruthless, even telling her that "the world is not short of women", she understood that despite Xiang Yuan’s gentle exterior, he could be particularly ruthless when he wanted to be. So she learned her lesson, stepped back, obediently took a break, and traveled.
It wasn’t that she admitted defeat, Rosa’s nature was not to retreat when challenged... Ultimately, it was because she still cared about him.
She met him even before he knew Shi Nian.
His law firm had just been established at that time, a small firm without a reputation. Because he had his eyes early on the Chinese and Asian immigrants caught in the immigration wave, helping them with divorce cases and investment issues, they needed someone with plenty of experience in investment and finance as a partner.
At that time, she was young but already doing well in an internationally renowned accounting firm, known in the industry. She met him at a social event. He was very interested in her credentials, nearly on their first meeting, he offered her an olive branch.
Friends who knew about this laughed, saying that Xiang Yuan was crazy, how could he dare compare his newly established, nearly case-less firm with the internationally renowned accounting firm where she was employed?
Her friends gave her a lot of advice, urging her not to make a foolish decision over a pretty face.
She just listened quietly, smiling without speaking.
She and her circle of friends were all in the business sector, each sharp-eyed, so they naturally could tell that evening, Xiang Yuan was indeed using his looks as a tactic. After all, that small firm had nothing, so he could only use himself as a signboard.
Friends warned her not to be deceived, but she knew she had already been deceived willingly long ago.
A few days later, she had completed her resignation to join his small firm. She helped him win the first case, and gradually more success followed.
She always stood by his side, and hence their relationship was assumed by the outside world to be a couple, just waiting for the firm to get better so that they would get married.