However, Xiang Ran had no intention of satisfying their curiosity any longer. With his arms crossed, he looked at the two people standing in front of him.
“So, why did you two come here so late?”
At that moment, Fatty remembered the "midnight snack" they had left on the table at the door.
After finishing dinner, he and Qi Dong wanted to head straight back to the dorm. However, they hadn’t finished their ordered dishes and it felt wasteful to leave them behind. So, he decided to pack them up to treat Xiang Ran, who was still working late.
As a result, they witnessed such a strange scene.
Now that the topic was open, it was clear that the midnight snack was more important than gossip.
Then, Fatty opened the door and headed outside, mumbling:
“Xiang Ran, let me tell you, this fish is especially fresh tonight!”
“We had the boss’s wife pick out a big one!”
“You have to try it!”
Before Xiang Ran could stop him, Fatty was already out the door, completely forgetting about the still-sleepy campus beauty.
The three of them then saw Liu Shuyao looking dazed, a few strands of rebellious hair falling across her forehead. She blinked her eyes, a hint of confusion mixed with panic as she tilted her head, staring toward the small conference room.
In truth, she hadn’t been sound asleep when she arrived. She had woken up when Xiang Ran covered her with a blanket, feeling her boyfriend's movements. Her heart raced with anticipation for what would come next!
Wasn’t it always depicted in novels how the male lead would gently caress the female lead’s face or lean down for a kiss?
In reality...
You end up with a theoretical 100 points and a practical score of 0 when it comes to pure love.
Holding half a portion of boiled fish, he asks if you want a midnight snack!
Seeing that the campus beauty was already awake, Fatty thought he had disturbed her and scratched his head awkwardly.
“Sorry, campus beauty! I thought it was just Xiang Ran in the lab!”
Hearing this, Liu Shuyao quickly shook her head. Maybe it was the wind, but her voice had a slight nasal tone, sounding somewhat muffled.
“I accidentally fell asleep~”
Knowing that Liu Shuyao wasn’t someone to hold grudges, Fatty directly brought in the boiled fish he had brought.
“Come on, try this irresistible midnight snack!”
At first, he enthusiastically promoted it, but just as he was about to tear open the packaging, he remembered that it was leftover food. While it was fine for Xiang Ran, he wondered if the campus beauty would accept it.
As he hesitated on how to bring it up, only Qi Dong remembered that Xiang Ran had said earlier that Liu Shuyao was bringing him food in the lab.
He thought to himself,
The leftover half portion of fish would probably not sell well tonight.
“They’ve both eaten, who are you expecting to eat it now?”
“What? When did they eat?”
Qi Dong felt a bit speechless. Why couldn’t this guy ever grasp the main point?
“Just eat a little more! Isn’t this top-notch Sichuan boiled fish worth it?”
“I think you should just eat the leftover fish yourself!”
“It’s a pity it doesn’t have the fish head; otherwise, it could replenish your brain or something.”
“Damn you!”
At this point, the two began bickering, completely ignoring the other two in the room.
Liu Shuyao still had the blanket that Xiang Ran had covered her with draped over her, now warmed by her own body heat.
She seemed uninterested in the argument between Fatty and Qi Dong, her gaze fixed on the ground, her small hands clutching the blanket. She cautiously inched closer to her boyfriend.
Leaning forward slightly, she could barely see the tips of her toes.
Muttering softly:
Hmm, it seems like I’m still too far away~
“Then let’s move a little closer!”
Just another tiny step~
They finally stopped when their shoulders brushed against each other through the small blanket.
Hmm!
This is good.
Liu Shuyao nodded in satisfaction, like a cat that had just tasted a sweet fruit, secretly curling the corners of her mouth, afraid of being discovered.
The campus beauty just wanted to be a bit closer to her boyfriend~
What bad intentions could she have?
...
In the end, the leftover half portion of fish went to Fatty, as Xiang Ran really couldn’t eat anymore.
With the midnight snack situation resolved, Fatty walked over to Xiang Ran’s computer desk, looking at the various interfaces on his screen.
He didn’t remember the specifics of the food Liu Shuyao had brought, but he hadn’t forgotten the code issues that Xiang Ran mentioned earlier.
“How’s the troubleshooting going tonight?”
“Do I need to optimize the code on my end? Or check the request frequency?”
“I called Brother Zhang, and he told me to start with the database, so I’m still troubleshooting. I’ll check everything after the debugging is complete.”
“Just don’t touch anything on your end for now.”
Hearing this, Fatty nodded, “Just tell me if you need me to do anything.”
“Okay.”
With no tasks at the moment, Fatty quickly returned to the secondary front line, just like Liu Shuyao, leaving only Qi Dong to occasionally discuss things with Xiang Ran.
After all, with Xiang Ran, the academic prodigy, around, he just needed to follow orders.
When Fatty heard Xiang Ran discussing technical issues related to adding artwork images, he suddenly thought of something and turned to Liu Shuyao.
“Isn’t it someone else who will handle the follow-up projects?”
He remembered that several people from the art department were assigned, but since Xiang Ran was making the project schedule, he didn’t know the details.
Liu Shuyao nodded helplessly at this.
“Yeah, the follow-up project isn’t my responsibility. Teacher Wu sent Han Lele to take over.”
Just thinking about it made her head buzz!
Why send Han Lele of all people?
Ever since she came, she had shown interest in Xiang Ran, and now that things were starting to thaw between her and her boyfriend, she felt a sense of crisis looming again.
Although she knew nothing would really happen between them, it still bothered her!
But Liu Shuyao couldn’t express her jealousy, so when she replied to Fatty’s question, her face remained calm, and her tone steady.
“The freshman courses focus on the basics. Han Lele and the others have more time to work on projects, and they can communicate with upperclassmen. This kind of collaboration could be beneficial for their ideas and thoughts. That’s why Teacher Wu made this arrangement.”
“Right! Exactly!”
When she finished the last word, she nodded to affirm herself.
What she said was perfect.
No jealousy! No jealousy! No jealousy!
But if there were something that could hear her thoughts at that moment, it would know that Liu Shuyao’s jealousy was bubbling over, ready to spill out at any moment~
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