Bai Chen felt terribly embarrassed, never expecting his peeping would actually get caught.
"Haha, Mr. Lin, your hairstyle looks really nice today; it makes you look even more mature." Bai Chen gave two dry laughs, trying to ease the atmosphere.
"Was I dressed so childishly before, then?" Lin Jingchen teased.
"No, no, it's just that this outfit really suits you today. The previous set was great too, making you look very young." Bai Chen felt like he was only making things worse the more he tried to explain.
What he actually wanted to say was: you look damn cool.
"Oh, is that so? The little boss is far too flattering." A smile had already reached the depths of Lin Jingchen's eyes.
Five minutes later, the car slowly came to a stop in front of the male dormitory over in the North District.
Bai Chen was now warm all over and a bit sleepy too. Seeing that they had finally arrived downstairs at the dormitory building, he immediately took the suit jacket off his shoulders, folded it neatly in his hands, and placed it beside the driver's seat.
Yet before he could even get out of the car, Lin Jingchen suddenly called out to him, pointing outside the car window: "Little boss, look out the window."
Bai Chen: ???
Hearing this, Bai Chen looked out in the direction he was pointing.
He saw several shooting stars streaking across the sky toward a mountain ridge not far away.
Shooting star after shooting star formed a heavy shower of meteors, swiftly gliding across the deep and pitch-black night sky, silently plunging down toward the mountain cliff to the north.
"A shooting star?!" Bai Chen was stunned for a few seconds before immediately pulling out his phone, clicking away to capture the breathtaking moment of the falling meteors with his low-pixel phone.
After snapping about five or six pictures, he immediately put the phone down, sincerely pressed his palms together, closed his eyes, and shut his long eyelashes tightly.
If this really works, I hope I can return to my world soon. Bai Chen recited inwardly.
He chanted it about four or five times; after all, important things should be said three times, and since he had already said it this many times, it meant it was extremely, extremely important.
After finishing his wish, he opened his eyes, turned his head sideways, and found that Lin Jingchen was staring right at him.
"I heard that making a wish when a shooting star descends is the most effective," Bai Chen said.
"Yeah, when a lot of things are hard to achieve, we all hope to find a sustenance for our hopes; that might make us feel a bit more comfortable inside." Lin Jingchen understood completely.
Well, I suppose this counts as a sustenance. Bai Chen looked at the meteors outside that had yet to fade and suddenly felt a bit sad.
"Alright, I'll get going now. Thank you today, Mr. Lin. Someday when you come to the tea house, we'll give you two pieces of pottery, even though they aren't precious." Bai Chen bent down and spoke softly to Lin Jingchen inside.
"Okay. I'm very honored to receive pottery made personally by the little boss." Lin Jingchen lowered his gaze and smiled faintly.
"Then I'm heading up. Goodbye, have a safe trip back." Bai Chen gave a greeting and slowly walked up the stairs.
"Goodbye." Lin Jingchen gave a slight nod.
With his own eyes, he watched Bai Chen go upstairs, and only then did Lin Jingchen drive away from the campus.
At three in the morning, Lin Jingchen's car drove in and stopped in front of a luxurious villa.
After locking the car doors, Lin Jingchen slowly opened the main gate, the fatigue in his eyes plainly obvious.
Just as he prepared to go upstairs, the lights on the first floor clicked on.
"Jingchen? Why are you only just getting back now?" A beautiful-looking woman draped in a coat leaned against the hallway.
"Sis? Why are you back today?" Lin Jingchen was somewhat surprised, considering that after his sister Lin Xiaoqian got married, she basically never stayed overnight at the family home.
Staying the night at home today genuinely caught him a bit off guard.
"Oh, I had some business at the company today." Lin Jingchen replied.
"Lying." Hearing this, Lin Xiaoqian wore a somewhat proud expression; she didn't believe it at all.
"What were you even doing going to the school just now? Looking for me?" Lin Xiaoqian was a teacher at the school and also had an independent building over on the south side of the campus, so for convenience, she had given Lin Jingchen one of her access cards.
Lin Jingchen: "It was nothing much either, just dropping a friend back at school a moment ago."
The moment she heard the word "friend," Lin Xiaoqian was no longer sleepy at all; her eyes instantly lit up by a notch, and she quickly hurried right over.
Smiling from ear to ear, she asked: "Who is it? Male or female? What's their name? What year are they in? Why are you guys still out so late?" Lin Xiaoqian blurted out all her questions in one breath.
Although her younger brother had many business partners, those were merely cooperative acquaintances and he had never gotten deeply involved with them.
She was just so curious.
Lin Jingchen felt a wave of speechlessness and refused to answer: "It's nothing, Sis, you hurry back to your room to sleep too. I'm tired as well, we can talk about whatever tomorrow."
"Fine, go on up and rest first. You have to remember, no matter whether your partner is male or female, you must bring them back for me to see first, alright?" Lin Xiaoqian also knew that Lin Jingchen didn't want to expose that person's identity.
It must mean things weren't official yet; otherwise, he definitely wouldn't keep it from her.
"Yeah, good night." Having said that, Lin Jingchen strode upstairs.
After taking a shower, he got into bed.
He had originally been quite tired today, but lying in bed he couldn't fall asleep no matter what. Scene after scene replayed of Bai Chen sitting pitifully on the bench earlier today.
There was also Bai Chen's delighted look upon seeing the shooting star, his eyes shining brightly as if his whole heart and soul were filled with him. He thought that if the little boss could smile so brilliantly and sincerely at him too, it would be wonderful.
He didn't understand why, but even though Bai Chen smiled at him every time they met, it still made him feel so distant-yet today, the other person's happiness had been completely real.
"Hiss-" Li Xingzhu leaned against the hospital chair and took a deep breath.
Gu Yun sat on the other side with a look of utter helplessness, continuously disinfecting Li Xingzhu's wound with alcohol: "Li Xingzhu, haven't I told you not to meddle in my business anymore from now on?"
Gu Yun's tone was very flat, but listening closely, one could still detect that he was a bit angry.
"But..." Before Li Xingzhu could finish, he saw Gu Yun's brow furrow slightly, so he immediately lowered his head and changed his words: "I'm sorry."
Yet he certainly didn't feel sorry toward that jerk; he was only very apologetic for calling Gu Yun out this late.
If possible, he still wanted to beat that guy up again.
"Why were you guys fighting just now?" Gu Yun asked.
"Gu Yun, you don't need to worry about this; I'll handle it." Li Xingzhu lowered his gaze, absolutely refusing to speak.
Seeing this, Gu Yun also knew that even if the other person held it in until they choked, they wouldn't say a word.
He looked toward the male student beside him-the very one who had called Gu Yun just moments before-named Fang Yuan, who was a friend living next door to Gu Yun.
He inquired: "Fang Yuan, what on earth happened between them just then?"
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