Tool-man Adam

Paige's apartment.

"Who I am?"

Where am I?

What am I doing?

Adam was caught in a profound dilemma.

When his dazed eyes refocused, they were met with long eyelashes that almost poked his eyes, and bright eyes with a wicked smile beneath them.

"Holy shit!"

Adam then realized that he had been pinned against a wall...

What are you looking at?

"What are you looking at?"

"Let's try looking at another one!"

In an instant, Adam and Paige seemed to enter the special realm unique to Lily Marshall: communicating through eye contact.

Are you sure?

"Stop pretending to be a good person and asking what you're sure about. If you really don't want to, shouldn't you ask me my birthday and whether I'm an adult? Or just push me away?"

"June 25th, I'll be an adult..."

"Hehe! How do you remember so clearly?"

"We are friends."

Do you remember all your friends' birthdays?

"..."

What else is there to say?

Stop talking!

Even your eyesight is terrible!

Downstairs at the apartment building.

Leonard looked up at the third floor with expectant eyes, waiting for Adam's good news.

Half an hour later.

"No rush, no rush."

Leonard muttered to himself.

An hour later.

"Adam also said that he hadn't seen Dr. Adler. Paige Adler for seven years, so they had a lot to talk about."

Leonard was very considerate of Adam.

Two hours later.

Leonard felt a chill in the crisp autumn breeze.

"Dr. Adler. Paige Adler needs Adam's help, so she must be very busy right now. It's normal for it to take a while... She shouldn't have forgotten that she's still waiting for him, right..."

Three hours later.

The sun is at its zenith.

Adam still had no shadow.

Leonard's experience of being forced to play the cello by his mother Beverly led him to play many classic melodies in his mind, but none of them were without a sense of desolation and sorrow.

"Adam has probably really forgotten that I'm waiting downstairs... And what has Adam been doing upstairs for so long...?"

Leonard's mind drifted to Adam's handsome face and Paige's stunning beauty, and his heart grew increasingly desolate.

"No way, no way, no way..."

Despite this emotional state, Leonard remained steadfast in his position. It wasn't that he didn't want to leave, but rather that he simply couldn't bring himself to do it, feeling utterly powerless.

It was 2 p. m., and he had been waiting downstairs for Adam for five hours.

Adam was still nowhere to be found.

Then, he saw a short-haired girl carrying a large box of things walking towards the apartment.

"Young man, is this Dr. Adler. Paige Adler's apartment?"

The short-haired girl glanced around the apartment, then spotted Leonard, who was wearing glasses, standing downstairs. She walked over and gave a hearty laugh.

"Right."

Leonard's eyes lit up. "Are you delivering takeout to Dr. Adler? Can I deliver it for you?"

"Hehe, no need."

The short-haired girl shook her head and smiled, "I can do it myself."

"Oh."

Leonard was somewhat disappointed as he watched the short-haired girl walk inside carrying the large box.

Room 3A.

Ding-dong.

The short-haired girl rang the doorbell.

"Lisa, you've come."

A moment later, Adam opened the door halfway and smiled at the short-haired girl while leaning against it.

"Boss, here's your food."

Lisa handed the large box to Adam with a strange look in her eyes.

"Thank you, Lisa."

Adam took the food box, but because it was too big, he could only open the door a little wider.

"Boss, is there anything else you need?"

The scene inside the room flashed by, and Lisa clearly saw a girl wearing Adam's clothes, hunched over a desk, writing furiously. The girl's profile, which was visible, made Lisa, who was also a woman, feel a surge of attraction.

Qin Beast!

She is clearly a female student, and is even rushing to finish her homework for tomorrow's class.

Even the boss could do that!

Could she be Dr. Paige Dr. Adler's sister or daughter?

"No need, you can go back."

Adam shook his head, gave a brief instruction, and closed the door.

Lisa, who had imagined countless indescribable scenarios, went downstairs and saw Leonard still waiting there. She imagined it again and looked at Leonard with pity.

However, her job was easy and well-paying, and she didn't want to lose it by commenting on her boss's private life.

Besides, given the boss's circumstances—whether it's his physique, appearance, wealth, status, or even age—doing this kind of thing isn't really excessive.

Maybe they're truly in love?

Your perspective is determined by your position.

Lisa's initial discomfort gradually disappeared, and she began to imagine pure and true love.

Looking at Leonard again, pity and sympathy remain, but the flavor of them has changed.

Upstairs in the apartment.

"Paige, want something to eat?"

Adam walked over with the lunchbox and said gently.

Paige wrote furiously, but there was no response.

She wrote out mathematical formulas line by line with effortless grace. The calculation process was so complex that she seemed to need no thought at all, directly writing down the answer as if she were a human computer.

"Paige!"

Adam couldn't help but call out again.

"Leave me alone!"

Paige kept writing, not even glancing at Adam, her delicate brow furrowing slightly.

Adam felt a pang of sympathy; he couldn't stand seeing Paige frown right now...

Who would have thought he would have such a day?

Adam smiled wryly, the scene from before flashing through his mind.

Paige's soul-searching questions left Adam speechless.

In fact, if he really didn't want to, how could Paige possibly have ambushed him with his reaction speed?

It's just that his facial features were distracted by Paige's.

Adam has little resistance to a naturally charming and beautiful girl like Paige.

Later, I simply stopped pretending.

Anyway, she's an adult.

We're all adults; it's perfectly reasonable for us to fight if we like each other.

So Adam laid his cards on the table...

That's right!

He is the Mount Akina Racing God!

A few hours would be enough for him to teach Paige a lesson.

However, something completely unexpected happened.

More than two hours into the battle, Paige suddenly shoved him aside, ignoring his displeasure, and staggered to the desk, picked up a pen, and began to scribble on the scratch paper.

She ignores me when I talk to her.

Adam had no choice but to get up, drape his coat over Paige, and then go to the bathroom to take a cold shower.

He wrote for more than two hours straight, without showing any sign of stopping.

"Did I inspire her?"

As Adam called his assistant's assistant, Lisa, asking her to prepare some blood-nourishing food, his mind wandered freely. "Everyone else is a muse, a goddess of inspiration. What am I? Adam, the god of inspiration?"

Tool-man Adam, was caught in an unprecedented emotional state.

He knew this feeling was wrong, contrary to his principles, and probably just wishful thinking, but he still decided to let it run rampant in his mind for a while.

Just for a little while.

Jingjing Adam gazed at the picturesque scene, a slight smile played on his lips.

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