Chapter 131: Chapter 131: Even If Doing Nothing, Just Watching Her Chapter 131: Chapter 131: Even If Doing Nothing, Just Watching Her “What?” Zhou Shuyan’s mind was now completely occupied by the image of Lu Youxi lying in bed, and his reaction was surprisingly slow.
Lu Youxi thought to herself, how could he have forgotten about this now?
Zhou Shuyan had to be doing it on purpose, she refused to believe that his memory was that bad.
“I was talking about Hope’s matter,” Lu Youxi said softly.
Only then did Zhou Shuyan remember the key content of the phone call earlier.
Because Lu Youxi had hurt her leg, Zhou Shuyan’s mind had been fully focused on making sure her leg was okay, and he had completely forgotten about Hope’s matter.
“It’s like this, tonight Shen Changze brought up the matter of recognizing a father, and he showed us the forum post so we would understand the context,” Zhou Shuyan said, recalling the incident and a smile involuntarily spread across his lips, “I saw the content of Hope’s posts, and the writing style—no matter how I looked at it, it seemed familiar.”
“But at that time I hadn’t associated it with you,” Zhou Shuyan continued, “However, after Shen Changze called you ‘dad,’ he went to look up your IP address.”
Lu Youxi’s eyebrows shot up fiercely, “He’s that unsatisfied? Looked up my address for what? To come to the university and face me one-on-one?”
“Not really,” Zhou Shuyan explained for Shen Changze, “Although Shen Changze gives the impression of being a self-willed young man with a bit of a quick temper, he was actually raised in a strict household. He’s righteous, but whimsical and impulsive. However, he is someone who keeps his word and accepts his losses.”
Lu Youxi didn’t expect Zhou Shuyan to have such a high opinion of Shen Changze.
She didn’t know Shen Changze and had never met him.
But these days, as she browsed the stock market forums, she also knew that Shen Changze’s ID “Master Shen” was a celebrity on the stock market forums.
Mainly because he had money, made a lot on the stock market, invested a lot, and his judgment was quite accurate.
That he lost to Lu Youxi was entirely unexpected by the forum’s netizens.
However, Shen Changze was able to put so much money into the stock market.
And probably lost a lot this time because of Baixin Technology.
But Shen Changze wasn’t depressed because of this—in fact, the most vexing thing for him turned out to be recognizing her as his ‘dad.’
This indeed caught Lu Youxi by surprise.
Combining Zhou Shuyan’s recent description of Shen Changze, she guessed that Shen Changze was probably some rich second-generation type.
However, Shen Changze, a rich second-generation like him, wanted to find Zhou Shuyan to pour out his worries, clearly seeing Zhou Shuyan as a brother and a friend.
In other words, having Shen Changze, a rich boy, as a little brother, what sort of person was Zhou Shuyan?
Lu Youxi thought about all this, but ultimately didn’t voice her questions.
“So what’s he looking up my IP for?” Lu Youxi muttered.
Zhou Shuyan said with a smile, “Mainly to find out who he was calling ‘dad,’ right? Though it’s just online, he can’t just call someone dad that he doesn’t know, mainly to figure out your identity.
“But, he only found out it was someone from Jing University,” Zhou Shuyan said, “He guessed it might be an expert or professor related to a professional field at Jing University.”
“Thanks for the flattery,” Lu Youxi’s mouth twitched.
Zhou Shuyan chuckled; now that Lu Youxi was okay, he leaned back comfortably against the headboard, tilted his head slightly and moved his somewhat stiff neck, “After all, no one would think it was a freshman just starting university.”
“That’s not Shen Changze’s fault,” Zhou Shuyan remarked.
“Then how did you think of it?” Lu Youxi couldn’t help but ask.
“Intuition?” Zhou Shuyan chuckled, “You’re at Jing University, and the writing felt very familiar to me. Plus, you mentioned before that you had entered the stock market. And your reaction at the time seemed to be very confident about the outcome. Although you didn’t say it then, I thought you must have invested quite a bit of money.”
This time, Lu Youxi didn’t hide it anymore, “I put all of my scholarship and the medical expenses you returned to me into the stock market.”
“You little girl, are quite bold,” Zhou Shuyan said with a light laugh.
That money must have been all of Lu Youxi’s savings.
If Lu Youxi had more money on hand, she would definitely take it out to do something.
This young girl knew how to make money work for her, a natural talent for business.
Lu Youxi felt her ears heating up at his endearment “little girl.”
She had never felt like this before.
Even in her previous life, when she dated Lin Jingshen and he nauseatingly called her ‘baby,’ apart from finding it disgusting and getting goosebumps, she had never had any other feelings.
She even warned Lin Jingshen not to call her that again.
But just now, when Zhou Shuyan called her “little girl,” Lu Youxi didn’t feel uncomfortable at all.
Wasn’t the term “little girl” nauseating?
Lu Youxi imagined for a moment if Lin Jingshen called her that…
Lu Youxi shuddered, it was just too disgusting.
So, it wasn’t about whether the nickname was nauseating, but rather who was calling you that.
Lu Youxi’s ears still burning, she murmured, “I did have confidence that I could make a profit; it’s not like I was recklessly bold.”
She wouldn’t just blindly invest if she had money, let alone when she didn’t.
“I know,” Zhou Shuyan said with a smile, “Anyway, I kept thinking it was you, so I came to ask you.”
“Is that asking?” Lu Youxi thought to herself, clearly he caught her off guard and scared her.
“Sorry,” Zhou Shuyan immediately said, “Next time I’ll just ask directly, and you won’t hide it from me?”
Lu Youxi thought about it; there really wasn’t anything she needed to hide from him.
He already knew her well enough.
“Mhm,” Lu Youxi nodded.
Zhou Shuyan didn’t expect Lu Youxi to agree so readily.
He even wished he could appear in front of Lu Youxi right at that moment.
Even if just to see her.
Zhou Shuyan glanced at the time and said, “It’s getting late, you should have lights out soon, right?”
Only then did Lu Youxi realize how fast time had passed.
She hadn’t been talking to Zhou Shuyan for very long.
“Get some rest early,” Zhou Shuyan said considerately, “The lights are out, and you’re still on the phone, I’m worried your roommate might mind.”
Lu Youxi hadn’t expected Zhou Shuyan to think even of this and agreed.
“Goodnight,” Zhou Shuyan’s voice was soft, using a tone like telling a bedtime story to a child, in the simple two words there was a “sleep well” greeting.
Lu Youxi lay in bed, turned to face the wall, and also softly said, “Goodnight.”
However, after saying goodnight, Lu Youxi couldn’t sleep for a long time, closing her eyes and her mind was full of Zhou Shuyan calling her “little girl” and wondering what that would be like.
She just couldn’t imagine.
Not only Lu Youxi, Zhou Shuyan wasn’t any better.
He also lay in bed after hanging up the phone, unable to sleep, even letting out a sigh.
He really wanted to go look outside Lu Youxi’s dormitory building.
*
The next day, Lu Youxi went with her roommate to class.