After He Niancheng finished changing his clothes, he came out and had breakfast with Gu Qingjiu.
When he had finished eating and picked up a napkin to elegantly wipe the corners of his lips, Gu Qingjiu was still eating.
“Today’s the weekend. You don’t have to return to school. Is there anywhere you’d like to go? I can accompany you there now.”
In the past, he had to bear in mind that he was Gu Qingjiu’s superior, so there were many places they couldn’t go together in an above-board fashion.
Now that their relationship was out in the open, and he was no longer an active duty Chief Instructor, he could go out with Gu Qingjiu more naturally.
“To the movies!”
Gu Qingjiu raised a fork and said.
Don’t think of her as being tacky. She liked watching movies, to begin with, and it was rare for her to have the time to come out. Naturally, she wanted to watch a film with the Chief Instructor.
He Niancheng didn’t look like it was difficult for him or anything. “Sure, I’ll call Joker and get him to book a theater.”
“The ambiance won’t be as good if you book the entire theater!”
Gu Qingjiu didn’t like that idea.
“…”
She wanted to go to the cinema for the atmosphere. So, if he simply booked the entire place, there wasn’t any point to it.
Although He Niancheng naturally knew what watching a movie was like, he had never watched a movie at a cinema where there were so many other patrons.
But anticipation had filled Gu Qingjiu’s eyes. After some hesitation, He Niancheng ultimately nodded. “We’ll do as you say.”
He always didn’t have the heart to reject Gu Qingjiu.
Although he would still stand by his view on matters that compromised his principles, Gu Qingjiu wasn’t the sort of person who would breach He Niancheng’s principles.
But what would He Niancheng’s principles in front of Gu Qingjiu be?
Perhaps neither of them knew.
Hearing He Niancheng agree to it, and Gu Qingjiu felt elated.
“Great! Chief… I’ll buy the tickets! I’ll treat you to a movie!”
He Niancheng was speechless.
Gu Qingjiu bought tickets to an afternoon show nearby.
Right after she bought it, Lu Yimei called Gu Qingjiu.
“Qingjiu, Instructor Xiong asked me to ask you. How did you feel after interacting with that senior?”
“How?”
Gu Qingjiu carefully thought back to Elder Gong, whom she met yesterday, and replied a moment later, “Teacher seems like a nice person. As for shooting tips, Teacher didn’t talk much about them yesterday. He merely asked me to head over there every week from next week onwards.”
She did tell Instructor Xiong about this yesterday, but the latter was busy at the time, so she merely described it briefly.
“Since you’re already addressing him as Teacher, it seems like there isn’t much problem.”
There was a congratulatory tone in Lu Yimei’s voice. She continued, “Since that’s the case, have a proper rest outside and relax.”
Of course, nobody at school had found out that He Niancheng was already back.
Lu Yimei thought that Gu Qingjiu was still feeling suppressed over that matter. Hence, she asked her to have fun outside.
“Mm, thank you, Commander.”
Gu Qingjiu didn’t deliberately mention this matter. After she had hung the call, she noticed that He Niancheng—who was standing in front of her—seemed deep in thought.
As they were discussing his absence yesterday, he didn’t have the time to ask Gu Qingjiu about other stuff.
Gu Qingjiu nodded. “Mm. That person’s also Yin Ruoyi’s teacher. It’s a senior called Elder Gong, who is also my teacher now. In the future, I’ll be learning from him in the area of shooting.”
For some reason, He Niancheng didn’t seem to mind when he heard about this teacher.
But when he heard that the person was also Yin Ruoyi’s teacher, Gu Qingjiu could sense a suppressed vibe coming from He Niancheng.