Shi Nian exclaimed in surprise, but it was too late to stop: "Yanqing, what are you doing?"
She had just finished her protest when he reached back and snatched away the black-framed glasses on her nose. Shi Nian’s second cry of surprise followed: "What exactly are you doing!"
He laughed mischievously like a child whose ghostly trick had succeeded: "Don’t disguise yourself in front of me."
Shi Nian’s face turned red again.
Indeed, at the company, she tied her hair in an old-fashioned bun, perched black-framed glasses on her nose, and chose the most formal suit, all to appear more mature and composed. As if only this way could she better find her professional footing as a reporter.
"Don’t be ." In a panic, Shi Nian reached to grab the glasses: "I’m used to wearing them. If you don’t let me wear them while working, I’ll feel insecure."
"No." He confiscated the plain glasses and stuffed them into his pants pocket.
"But don’t you always wear sunglasses yourself?" Shi Nian was truly anxious.
He shook his head, "I’m not wearing them now." The corners of his red lips slightly lifted: "...If you don’t like it, then I’ll never wear them again in front of you."
"That’s not what I meant!" She always felt the more she spoke in front of him, the more she was wrong. "What I mean is, wearing those glasses won’t affect the investigation later, so just give them back."
"Who said it doesn’t affect?" He gently turned her shoulders, directing her toward the university campus without courtyard walls: "Look, how many university girls sport a bun as old-fashioned as yours or wear such old-style glasses? Now, our role is the same as university students, so we can blend in easily."
The university girls in sight... were indeed vibrant and youthful. Each one fully showcased their youthful energy, never conservative or timid.
He walked over and lowered his head to gaze into her eyes: "You’re only 25, not 52."
Shi Nian was slightly stunned.
Indeed, she had forgotten she was just 25, still a number that could freely enjoy youth. But she was too accustomed to seeing herself as a wife of four years, thus always viewing the world with an old soul’s eyes.
She had forgotten that when she suddenly traveled overseas to marry, she had not completed her university education. After arriving in M Country, without a university diploma, countless times she attempted to apply for jobs but was gently refused.
So, looking at it this way, she was actually quite envious of those free-spirited university students, and very much missed her own unfinished university studies.
"Let’s go." Tang Yanqing approached and gently embraced her shoulder: "Let’s go and be university students."
Walking across the large lawn, passing through the book-scented teaching area, arriving at the entrance of the ancient dormitory building. Along the way, Tang Yanqing told Shi Nian the scenarios the campus police had described to him.
Shi Nian smiled gently, "Wait here first, let me go in alone."
"Why?" Tang Yanqing raised his eyebrows in surprise, but the corners of his lips slowly rose.
He knew what she was up to. She and he thought alike.
Shi Nian smartly laughed: "Since the campus police said Zhou Guanghan’s social life before his death was rich, often bringing back Eastern-faced girls. Then I’ll go be one of them and see what I can find out."
Tang Yanqing smiled approvingly but still stopped her: "Let me go instead. Zhou Guanghan’s is a murder case, and you’ve just gone through Nisha’s incident, I don’t want you to be startled again."
"The one who gets startled isn’t me," Shi Nian reached out to push away Tang Yanqing’s hand: "If you go, the campus police will be startled. With a murder case in their jurisdiction’s campus apartments, the campus police are already on edge; you’re a man, easy to make them nervous; I’m a woman, easier to handle."
Tang Yanqing raised an eyebrow and smiled: "Go ahead, Sleeping Beauty. I’ll be right here; if there’s any problem, quickly run back to me." Find the newest release on NoveI~Fire.net
Walking into the student dormitory, a scent of old decay rushed forward. Shi Nian closed her eyes and flared her nostrils.
This feeling, surprisingly similar to the scent she smelled when entering the corridor of Yanwu Square.
This indicates that the building of Yanwu Square and this student dormitory should have been constructed in similar eras. The scent is produced by building materials from a similar time, especially wood. With time passing, wood is most susceptible to decay, and such almost identical scents surely come from the same kind of fungi.
Conversely, if the woods are not from the same era, even if they are of the same type, the age difference will cause variations in moisture, resulting in different fungi situations, hence different scents.