Heart voices are transmitted through brainwaves. Under normal circumstances, there is only auditory sensation; when it is vivid, there will be images, but there are no subtitle functions. Bai Jiangxin could only piece together a few words based on Xiang Di’s pronunciation.

The keen sensitivity of a top student made Bai Jiangxin instinctively feel that these words were definitely not anything good. If it were really just the literal meaning, she absolutely would not have been unable to say it.

Bai Jiangxin felt for the first time that he really didn’t go online enough. Sometimes the things Xiang Di said were simply more abstract than science Olympiad problems, and he truly needed to spend time to understand them.

The time for the private room Zhou Linxiao had booked was already up. The waiter came over to clean up, but found there were still people inside, so he politely knocked on the door and asked, “Hello, the time for the private room has ended. Would you like to extend the time?”

Ye Minjia said without thinking, “Extend, extend another hour.”

Waiter: “Okay.”

Under Ye Minjia’s equally expectant gaze, Xiang Di said dejectedly, “…I can’t think of anything.”

Bai Jiangxin: “……”

Every time, thunder is loud, but the rain is small.

【Xiang Di, you coward, I despise you!】

At least she knows how to despise herself—there’s still a bit of self-awareness.

Bai Jiangxin already knew that even if she were lent a hundred guts, she would still be the same as always.

Forget it. Counting on her to have that kind of courage is better replaced by counting on pigs to climb trees. He said flatly, “Then forget it.”

At the side, Ye Minjia watched Xiang Di hold it in for ages without letting out even half a fart, and was extremely speechless.

He had thought that this time he would definitely manage to pry something out of Bai Jiangxin’s mouth, yet not only did he fail to pry anything out, the relationship between these two people instead became more and more puzzling in his heart, and now he completely couldn’t understand it.

So what exactly is the relationship between these two—dated, but never kissed? There are actually people in this world who date without kissing?

Or have they really never dated, and it’s purely him overthinking?

Then why is the state between them so ambiguous, and what did those words Bai Jiangxin was tricked into saying last time mean?

His once rock-solid deductions were now suddenly all overturned. Ye Minjia felt worse than a dog, anxious like a melon-stealing raccoon jumping up and down in a melon field. As long as he could get this melon completely, who cares about a good brother’s face—at worst they’d just cut ties. Ye Minjia practically wanted to press the two of their heads together and directly force them to answer: say it! What exactly is your relationship!

Seeing that Bai Jiangxin was about to leave, Ye Minjia stopped him and said, “Don’t, I just extended another hour. If you don’t continue playing, what about this remaining hour?”

Not to mention extending one hour—even if they extended one whole night, with him plus Ye Minjia, a whole group of them busying around here until twelve at night, a certain person still wouldn’t necessarily change anything.

Although he didn’t know how Ye Minjia had seen that there was a connection between him and Xiang Di, he didn’t want to waste energy anymore, and also wanted to advise Ye Minjia not to waste energy.

“Do whatever you want.”

Bai Jiangxin tossed out that sentence. Just as he reached the doorway, he happened to run into Zhou Linxiao returning from the restroom.

Ye Minjia hurriedly explained to Zhou Linxiao that he had just made the decision on his own to add an extra hour. Zhou Linxiao’s tone was unconcerned: “It’s fine, then let’s sit for another hour. Anyway, Wang Sichen won’t be able to come out for a while.”

Ye Minjia didn’t understand: “What happened to him?”

“Drank too much, has diarrhea.”

“Huh? Is he okay?” Ye Minjia’s mouth twitched. “He didn’t get drunk, right? Don’t let him accidentally fall into a pit later.”

Ye Minjia immediately took out his phone and sent Wang Sichen a message of concern.

Good news: Wang Sichen replied instantly, so he probably hasn’t fallen into a pit yet. Bad news: Wang Sichen said his head feels a bit dizzy. If he really does fall into a pit later, it might require the few of them guys to go to the men’s restroom to fish him out.

Ye Minjia instantly felt that his phone was no longer clean. He sighed. “I really take my hat off to this idiot.”

Wang Sichen’s current physical condition was unclear, with the risk of falling into a pit at any time. At a moment like this, it wasn’t appropriate for anyone to leave first. With no choice, Bai Jiangxin could only sit back down on the sofa.

Zhou Linxiao said to everyone, “Then shall we play for a bit longer?”

Bai Jiangxin refused lightly, “You guys play.”

Xiang Di also said, “I’m not playing either. I think I’m a little dizzy too. I want to rest for a bit.”

Just now, when her focus was all on the game, she didn’t really feel dizzy, and was even quite excited. Now that she had calmed down, the dizziness belatedly came up.

There were only five of them in total. With two people not wanting to play, the remaining three didn’t have much to play either. They had already been playing all afternoon, and they hadn’t drunk little alcohol either, so they simply took advantage of this remaining hour to properly relax in the private room.

The private room fell into temporary quiet. Those on their phones stayed on their phones, those resting rested. In order not to waste this extra hour, Ye Minjia planned to go order two more songs to sing. Singing alone wasn’t interesting, so he forcibly dragged Zhou Linxiao to accompany him.

Xiang Di leaned against Liang Qianqian’s shoulder, looking dispirited as she continued thinking about what had just happened.

Bai Jiangxin calmly listened to her endless regret in her heart, completely not wanting to sympathize with her. He casually took out his phone and checked what she had just said.

Didn’t check, didn’t know. One check, and it was shocking. Bai Jiangxin directly held the phone one meter away from his face.

Check my academic qualifications, homophone for stick it into my hole.

Xiang. Di.

That sense of helplessness from being sexually harassed yet having nowhere to file a complaint surged up again. Bai Jiangxin covered his forehead. The veins at his temples throbbed with his breathing. Grinding his teeth, he called Xiang Di’s name in his heart, angry and helpless.

Even ideological purification education was already useless on her. This groundhog was far beyond something that could be described with the two words “needs discipline.”

Exactly how much corruption from yellow thoughts had she been poisoned by, to grow such a brain?

Knowing full well it definitely wouldn’t be anything decent, then why the hell did he commit that cheap mistake and go search it?

Bai Jiangxin’s ears burned hot. He didn’t know whether he was angered by her or frightened by her. In his cold, sharp gaze was wrapped a few strands of shame and indignation that wanted to bite her to death. Across the distance of the tea table in the private room, he fiercely glared at her.

Yet the instigator was completely unaware, dizzily leaning on her best friend’s shoulder, still over there wallowing in self-pity.

Pitying and pitying, she began to blame herself.

【Xiang Di, how can you be this cowardly? Even if you had said to let him casually pick one opposite-sex person present to drink a cross-cup wine with, he would still have a fifty percent chance of picking you. How could you say you couldn’t think of anything??】

【You deserve to only live in sexual fantasies for your whole life. You deserve your unrequited love to have no result. Trash, coward, loser, silver-tipped spear head, mud that can’t be lifted, a hopeless Adou—talking about you!】

She suddenly pouted. Driven by alcohol, her eyes and nose inexplicably turned sour and wet.

And Liang Qianqian, whom she was leaning on, was completely unaware, currently admiring Ye Minjia and Zhou Linxiao’s duet.

Suddenly tasting the bitterness of secret love again, with no one noticing and no one handing her a tissue, Xiang Di instantly felt even more wronged. Tears plopped down along the tip of her small nose onto her mouth. She stuck out her tongue and licked it, and suddenly started reciting some artsy poem.

【Seawater is salty, tears are also salty. Did seawater turn into tears? Or did tears turn into seawater? Hundreds of millions of years of tears gather into seawater. The bitterness of secret love, only oneself knows. Wuwu……】

Bai Jiangxin: “……”

He froze, instantly falling into silence. On one hand, he found her few unannounced tears a bit funny; on the other hand, he felt helpless about her.

Clearly just now he had been ashamed and annoyed by her unguarded heart-voice words, yet in this second, he felt that being angry with her, aside from making himself feel stifled, really had no meaning.

Forget it. Why get angry with someone who has lustful thoughts but no lustful courage? Hadn’t he long known she was like this?

No one noticed that she had quietly cried, and her heart-voice gradually weakened. Bai Jiangxin struggled internally for a few minutes, and in the end still resigned himself and sighed.

After all, it was also because of him. He should manage it a bit.

He pulled two tissues from the tea table. Just as he was about to hand them to her, he suddenly heard Liang Qianqian exclaim in surprise, “Oh my god, she actually fell asleep?”

Bai Jiangxin withdrew the tissues.

He wondered why there was no movement—turns out she had fallen asleep.

After discovering that Xiang Di had fallen asleep, Liang Qianqian said to Ye Minjia and Zhou Linxiao, who were still singing, “Stop singing, Xiang Di fell asleep.”

Ye Minjia put down the microphone, his tone a little amused. “She can fall asleep even with so much noise?”

Zhou Linxiao said, “She probably got tired from playing all afternoon, plus she drank fruit wine.”

Liang Qianqian carefully lifted Xiang Di’s head off her shoulder, then laid her down on the side.

Since Xiang Di had fallen asleep, singing was obviously out of the question. After moving her sore shoulder a bit, Liang Qianqian said, “Let her sleep. I’ll go out and walk around.”

“Then I’ll go downstairs and walk too.” Ye Minjia asked Zhou Linxiao, “Coming?”

Zhou Linxiao hesitated. “But leaving Xiang Di sleeping here alone feels a bit unsafe.”

“I’ll stay here.”

Bai Jiangxin suddenly spoke.

The three of them looked over at the same time. He added, “If you want to go downstairs and walk around, then go.”

The implication was that he could stay and keep Xiang Di company.

Ye Minjia and Liang Qianqian exchanged a glance. Of course they had no objections.

The two of them were just thinking about how to persuade Zhou Linxiao, this lightbulb, to leave together, when the lightbulb didn’t need persuading at all. Very consciously, he directly said, “Then I’ll leave Xiang Di to you.”

─── ꒰ঌ·✦·໒꒱ ───

Only two people were left in the private room. Xiang Di lay on the side sofa, sleeping soundly on her own. Across a tea table, Bai Jiangxin quietly looked at her sleeping face.

The atmosphere lights in the room shifted through various colors. Ever since forming a link with Xiang Di, this was the first time he observed her appearance in such a quiet environment.

A very well-behaved, fair, clean-looking face—almond-shaped eyes, round pupils, an oval face. When she slept, her mouth would be slightly open, revealing a little bit of her upper teeth.

A face with no aggressiveness at all. It was hard for anyone to imagine that beneath such a well-behaved appearance existed such a soul.