By then it was already noon. Students streamed in and out of the school gate, and Chen Shouyi rode his bicycle onto campus among them.
Looking over the campus, which seemed as vast as a small town, Chen Shouyi suddenly thought of a question. "Do you know where your cousin's office is?"
Bai Xiaoling shook her head blankly. Perhaps she remembered Chen Shouyi couldn't see her from behind, so she added, "I don't know. I've never been here. Maybe we can ask someone later."
There was nothing else they could do.
The two of them asked several students before they finally figured out where her cousin's office was.
A poised woman in her thirties, wearing gold-rimmed glasses, immediately stood up from her desk when she saw Bai Xiaoling and came over, looking surprised. "Xiaoling, what brings you here? Did something happen?"
That was probably most people's first reaction when a relative showed up at their workplace.
"Cousin, it's nothing. I just need to talk to you about something. Let's go outside."
"Okay. Have you eaten yet? Oh, and who's this?" She greeted her colleagues, then walked out of the office.
"Not yet. Let me introduce you. This is Chief Advisor Chen, Chen Shouyi, and this is my cousin, Guan Miao!" Bai Xiaoling said quickly.
"Oh, hello!" Guan Miao said, inwardly puzzled. She and her husband both worked and lived on campus, so they didn't pay much attention to what was happening elsewhere in society. Still, she knew that a chief advisor was no ordinary position.
But he was far too young—barely the age of a college student.
"Hello!" Chen Shouyi said with a smile and a nod.
"You must both be hungry. Let's eat first, and talk while we're at it."
Soon they arrived at a small restaurant. It was