Before Shen Yu could speak, Ji Cიცen's gaze instantly sharpened. He stared at the novel in Yao Maolin's hand as though facing a formidable enemy, worried that an unforgettable first love might leap out of it the next second.
"I see you've been drinking plenty of that toxic tea!"
Shen Yu rolled his eyes in anger. He was just about to snatch it back when Yao Maoming obnoxiously raised the novel overhead. "Reach it and it's yours."
Worried that the girl would grow impatient, Shen Yu gritted his teeth and patted Ji Cიცen beside him, then pointed indignantly at Yao Maoming. "Get him!"
Ji Cიცen's gaze landed on Yao Maoming. Without him having to lift a finger, a certain someone obediently handed over the book. Shen Yu took the novel and hurriedly passed it to the girl with an apologetic smile.
To his surprise, not only had the girl not grown impatient, but she was watching them with sparkling eyes. The way she looked at Shen Yu in particular was practically glowing, and her smile as she accepted the book was positively loaded with meaning.
Shivering for no apparent reason, Shen Yu rubbed behind his ears in lingering fear, suspecting that something unholy had set its sights on him.
"Didn't you get that from that novel?" Yao Maolin leisurely picked a seat and sat down, crossing his legs as he teased casually, "What? Want to get a heart tattooed on your chest?"
"No way. That would affect my eligibility for the civil service exam."
Shen Yu turned his back on the utterly unreasonable Yao Maoming, deeply convinced that he must have been blind when they first met to think someone like him was unfathomable.
The civil service exam?
This time, not only did Yao Maolin fall silent, but the other