Seeing his awkward expression, the system pondered for a while and then pointed out, "Host, if you really want the young lady to return to normal, it's very simple. Take the initiative to go up to her and tell her that what she said at noon was just a misunderstanding. She said it just to deal with the girl who confessed to her. 】
[I can guarantee that as long as you say this, the young lady will be able to recover immediately, but!] He paused for a moment and his tone became serious.
[But once the host does this, it is equivalent to making it clear and confessing to the young lady in person. Well, as for what will happen next, I don’t need to say more. ]
Qingyou was silent, his frown deepened
He understood what the system meant, so he couldn't say anything.
After a long silence, he finally managed to say, "So, we're just going to do nothing?"
[What else? Should I go and comfort her? ]
The system sneered, "Don't tease me, host. Do you think you are not dying fast enough? Don't forget that our current situation is already very dangerous."
As if realizing that his tone was a bit too radical, the system paused, then sighed and said earnestly, "Host, the main cause of this matter lies with me. I am sorry for you, but everything cannot be repeated. Since things have become so bad that they cannot be reversed, we can only find a way to gain the last ray of hope in this desperate situation."
[As for the young lady's current state, don't worry about it. She can do whatever she wants as long as it doesn't affect us.] It suggested, [Host, what you need to do now is to maintain your normal state. As for the young lady, just greet her moderately from time to time, don't be too concerned.]
[Everything is for the purpose of successfully surviving the Snow Night Tribulation. Do you understand what I mean, host? ]
Qingyou closed his eyes and was silent for a long time before his low voice rang out, "Yeah, I understand."
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fifteen minutes later
Qingyou brought the dish to the dining table and placed the tableware. He glanced at the sofa and didn't see the girl, so he called out to the direction of her bedroom, "Miss Guiyan, it's time to eat."
Less than a few seconds after the words were spoken, there was a noise coming from the bathroom, and then the sliding door slowly opened, and a girl in a white bathrobe walked out.
I went to take a bath.
but...
Qingyou glanced down
Why don't you wear slippers?
But he just thought about it in his mind and didn't say it out loud.
"Come and eat, the food won't taste good if it's cold." He greeted them calmly, sat on a chair, scooped a bowl of white rice and handed it to the other side of the table.
Four dishes and one soup, still the same, but this time he made two of his favorite dishes
Spicy Chicken and Chili Fried Pork
Both dishes have heavier flavors.
I picked up a piece of fried meat with chopsticks and put it in my mouth. The salty and spicy taste spread in my mouth, stimulating my taste buds. It was really delicious and addictive.
Seeing him eating so happily, Gui Yan Xinmei sitting opposite him also sat down in her seat, seeming to have worked up an appetite.
When he was about to pick up the food with chopsticks, his movements suddenly froze in the next second. He looked at the table and obviously found that the boy had fried two spicy dishes.
Noticing that something was wrong with her, Qingyou swallowed the fried meat in his mouth and said, "Why don't you eat it? I made two light stir-fried dishes that are suitable for your taste."
Gui Yanxin's beautiful face showed no expression, and she did not reply. She just put down her chopsticks, lowered her eyes and remained silent.
She looked like she was in a bad mood.
Qingyou raised her eyebrows and subconsciously opened her mouth to speak. The system's reminder sounded in her mind at the right time, "Host, don't forget what I said before. Don't worry too much. Just greet her politely. She can eat it or not."
Hearing what the system said, he had no choice but to hold back the words that were about to come out of his throat.
He lowered his head and continued to eat as if nothing had happened, pretending to be insensitive to the girl's behavior.
Time passed slowly, and the two of them sat at the dining table in this strange state for a long time. In the quiet atmosphere, the sound of dripping water became more and more obvious. Finally, Qingyou couldn't hold back his anger and raised his eyes to look at the dazed girl sitting opposite him.
"Miss, can you please go and dry your hair? It's been dripping and has made water stains all over the floor. I have to mop the floor again."
He tried his best to make his tone sound calm, but there was still a hint of impatience and irritation in his voice.
Gui Yanxinmei pursed her pale lips, fluttered her thick long eyelashes, and just stared at him without saying a word, without making any other movements.
"Why are you looking at me? The hair dryer is in the cabinet under the coffee table." Qingyou pointed his thumb back with an innocent and puzzled look.
"Tick tock-"
Water drops dripped down her hair onto the tile floor. After a long silence, Gui Yanxinmei said inexplicably, "You weren't like this before."
"Ok?"
"That's not true." She stared at the boy with her dull eyes and said slowly, "In the past, you always helped me blow dry my hair."
The voice is very soft, and at first listen, you can hear the grievances that belong only to girls.
"You said it was in the past, Miss." Qingyou put down the bowl and chopsticks and sighed, "Can't you do something as trivial as blow-drying your hair yourself? You can't ask me to do everything for you, what would that be, a giant baby?"
He ignored the girl's grievances and simply stated his own views in a calm manner, "We have said before that we are friends, and it is okay to help each other. It is normal, but if it becomes a habit, it will cross the line."
"Friend." Gui Yanxinmei whispered the word softly, her bloodless lips moved slightly, and her beautiful phoenix eyes still did not show any light.
Then, she lowered her eyes, stopped mumbling, and didn't know what she was thinking.
After a moment, he raised his head again and looked at the boy steadily, "Yue and I have broken up."
"So what?" Qingyou pretended not to hear what she meant, "Even if you and Guiyan broke up or not, it has nothing to do with the relationship between you and me. We are just friends, just friends."
He was like an emotional idiot, stubbornly correcting something, "Friends are friends, intimate things cannot be done, I hope you can understand, Miss Guiyan."
Gui Yanxinmei's expression did not change. She seemed to be unaware of his words. She remained blank and repeated the previous sentence, "Yue and I have broken up."
"I'm not deaf, I can hear you, no need to bother you to repeat it again, Miss." Qingyou frowned, "I'll say it again, you are you, I am me, I won't say anything about who you are with or who you break up with, because it's none of my business, understand?"
After saying this, he was too lazy to look at the girl's reaction. He just focused on eating without saying another word.
But in the next second, the glass revolver of the dining table was suddenly pulled out by the girl. With a loud bang, the glass revolver and five plates fell to the ground and broke into pieces, with soup and vegetables spilling all over the floor.
“Miss Guiyan!” Qingyou put the rice bowl and chopsticks on the table, stood up, and looked at the girl in front of him calmly, “What’s wrong with you? If you have something to say, just say it. Why are you slamming the table for no reason?”
The tone was higher, mixed with uncontrollable irritability.
At this moment, no matter how good-tempered he was, he was irritated by the girl's behavior. "I, Tada Qingyou, don't think I have done anything wrong to you. From the signing of the agreement to now, what have I not done well? I have always gone along with you. As long as it is not a request that goes beyond the limit, everything is according to your wishes."
He pointed at his chest, his tone unable to conceal his anger, "If there is anything I have done that is not good enough, you can tell me and I will change it. Why do you have to lose your temper for no reason?"
"Of course, if you just treat me as a punching bag that you can vent your anger on at any time, then just pretend that I never said anything."
Looking at the still silent girl, he shook his head and laughed at himself, "But think about it, we are just an employer and an employee. If it wasn't for the repayment, I wouldn't stay here at all."
"After one year, when the contract is over, I will move out and not be a nuisance to you. Then we can go our separate ways and become strangers to each other."
As Qingyou was speaking, he inadvertently caught a glimpse of the girl's fair feet being cut by glass fragments. The bright red blood had already stained her ankles, which was shocking.
Qingyou's heart suddenly tightened, his mouth half opened, and he swallowed back the words he hadn't finished speaking.
After a long silence, Gui Yanxinmei's calm voice rang out, "Employer relationship? Just for repayment?"
The tone of voice was flat, as if she was mumbling to herself, or asking him, and finally, she smiled lightly for no reason.
The voice was very shallow and fleeting, but it made Qingyou feel an inexplicable despair and sadness.
It was so depressing that he almost couldn't breathe.
98②208898Looking at the girl, he was about to say something, but the girl suddenly turned around and walked towards the bedroom. "Da Da Da——" The light footsteps disappeared from sight along with the bloodstains on the ground.
Before Qingyou could wonder for long, the girl came out of the bedroom again, holding a few papers that looked like contracts.
Qingyou looked at her in confusion, "Miss, what are you doing..."
"Tear--"
Gui Yanxinmei tore the papers into pieces, and there was still no expression on her slightly pale face.
"Your father's debt will be considered as your repayment in advance. I will move out starting tomorrow. This house is a gift from you for taking care of me these days."
Under the dim light, her face was extremely calm, but in her dim eyes, there flashed crystal tears.
Qingyou stared blankly at the girl in front of him. At that moment, his heart seemed to be stabbed by a sharp knife and the pain was so severe that he almost suffocated.
What reached my eardrums was her hoarse and suppressed voice, "From now on, we are strangers."
Chapter 43: Bridges are bridges, roads are roads
When night falls, early spring is never calm. It is dotted with shining stars, like fine sand forming a Milky Way that falls on the night sky, shining with dazzling brilliance.
The breeze blew quietly in through the window, ruffling a few strands of hair on her forehead. Qingyou lay on the bed, looking straight ahead, speechless.
Everywhere you look, there is an endless dark ceiling.
"From now on, we are strangers"
The words the girl had said to him kept echoing in his mind. He tried to force himself to forget them, but every time he closed his eyes, the girl's empty and depressed expression would float to his mind, as if it was deeply engraved in his mind and could not be dispelled at all.
On a quiet night, his breathing became heavier, and even the air became more dull.
With the back of his hand against his forehead, he stared at the ceiling in silence. Suddenly, he shook his head and laughed. The sound was very low, perhaps not even louder than his breathing, but it contained endless self-mockery and confusion.
The cool and quiet night was spent by the young man in a state of anxiety and fear.
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At dawn, Qingyou arrived at school early
"Good morning, how...eh? You have dark circles under your eyes." The classmate who wanted to say hello pointed at the eyes curiously, "Did you stay up late studying last night?"
Qingyou nodded and responded politely
The boy showed an expression of "as expected" and moved his lips. Just as he was about to say something else, Qingyou had already walked past him, returned to his seat, took out a book and started reading.
Seeing that he looked like a good student studying hard, the classmate felt embarrassed to disturb him. He sat back in his chair awkwardly, took out his game console and started playing.
Qingyou's eyes never left the page, her thin lips pursed, her face expressionless, the fatigue between her brows obvious
[Host, did you not sleep last night? ]
This exhausted state of being about to die suddenly made the system that was originally planning to dive involuntarily pop up and ask
When I came out of the spiritual space in the morning, I saw the boy lying on the bed with his eyes open, in a daze. He was not thinking about anything, just standing there without saying a word.
The dark eyes and the heavy dark circles under them are so gloomy that they can scare people to death.
Sure enough, after it asked this question, the boy said "hmm" faintly.
[Why don't you lie down on the desk and take a nap? I'll play some lullabies for you. I guarantee you'll fall asleep in three seconds.] The system suggested with concern.
"No, it's fine like this." Qingyou half-closed his eyes and turned the pages of the book, his fingertips slightly white.
"If I go to bed now, I won't be able to fall asleep at night, and my biological clock won't be able to return to normal."
[Ah... But if you do this, your body won't be able to bear it.] The system worriedly said, [What if you accidentally faint on the road and a girl picks up your body?]
"No, I'm not that weak."
Qingyou replied, "My physical strength is higher than that of people my age. I am also young and my vitality is strong. I won't faint so easily."
He spoke seriously, the luster in his eyes was still there, but the dark circles under his eyes were so deep that they were almost as dark as the eye shadow of girls.
This bird's appearance makes the system suspect that anyone who hits him with a stick will fall to the ground and never get up.
After being silent for a while, it slowly let out a sigh, [Host, are you still thinking about the matter of the young lady? ]
Hearing that name, Qingyou's originally dim eyes brightened, but only for a moment.
He lowered his head, and the loose hair on his forehead covered most of his eyebrows and eyes, and at the same time covered the confusion in his eyes.
"I have no idea..."
His lips moved slightly, and in the quiet classroom, only he could hear his low voice.
----
"Tada-kun, this is today's mission."
Inside the office, the principal handed a thin stack of paper to the boy and said, "Just tick each box. It's easy and should be done in about ten minutes."
"Yes."
Qingyou took it, glanced at it quickly and put it back into the folder.
At this time, the principal, who was sitting in his office chair, suddenly sighed, "Oh, the student union has completely taken over your affairs. You will have much less work in the future. Your busy days can finally come to an end."
