The club recruitment fair was over, and the broadcast had just announced that decision.
Since everyone had been busy all day, plus there had been a heavy rain, running up and down, it was estimated that no one had the mind to study.
After the current president, who was still fulfilling her duties as student council president, applied to the school, tonight’s self-study was canceled, and everyone was allowed to go home early.
The campus broadcast started playing The Wind Rises.
To Lin Yi’s surprise, the broadcasting department had somehow gotten the original version, and it was nostalgic to listen to.
Jian Shuye looked at the soaking wet Lin Yi and shook her head.
“I can’t just leave you like this.”
“Shouldn’t I be saying that?”
Lin Yi looked at Jian Shuye, who was just as drenched.
“Besides, you’re a day student. You can’t go home looking like this. At least I’m a boarder.”
“So?”
Lin Yi touched her two index fingers together, then clenched her fists.
“I… I guess if there’s no other way, I could let you change clothes in my dorm. You can shower if you want. I have spare clothes.”
Jian Shuye extended her hand, slowly approaching Lin Yi.
Lin Yi stared at the pale, slender fingers reaching toward her, her eyes gradually crossing.
Snap!
“Ah! Ouch, ouch, ouch! Why did you flick my forehead?!”
Lin Yi clutched her head, tears welling in her eyes.
Jian Shuye withdrew her fingers and sneered.
“So you’re that kind of casual woman? Inviting someone into your room to shower and change just like that?”
“You’ve got a screw loose…”
“Hm?”
Jian Shuye’s eyes flashed with killing intent.
“…a smart brain circuit swimming in your brain juice?”
Jian Shuye didn’t bother arguing with her.
Instead, she took out her phone and quickly dialed a number.
“Yeah, it’s me.”
“Where’s the key to the room Father keeps at school?”
“Okay, got it. The usual place…”
“No need. I’ll stay overnight at school. Tell them I’m not coming back tonight. Yeah.”
Lin Yi guessed she was probably talking to her female bodyguard.
After hanging up, Jian Shuye grabbed her bag and said to Lin Yi,
“Follow me.”
“Huh? Where to?”
“To change clothes.”
Jian Shuye closed the club room door.
“The night wind in Suzhou can easily give you a cold.”
Lin Yi hadn’t expected Jian Shuye to agree so readily to go to her dorm.
She quickly said,
“Uh, I need to contact my roommate…”
Jian Shuye locked the door.
“Right. Tell her you’re not coming back tonight.”
“Yeah, I’ll tell her I’m bringing another girl home tonight… Ha, what’s going on?”
Lin Yi froze.
“What do you mean ‘again’?”
Jian Shuye caught the keyword in Lin Yi’s words.
Lin Yi quickly stepped back, then wrapped her arms around her chest.
“First, tell me why I can’t go back to my dorm tonight? Are you going to take me to some corner, do the deed, and then lock me up?!”
Jian Shuye squinted.
“I’m very interested in how you came to that conclusion. So interested that I want to crack open your head right now and see if it’s filled with garbage or yellow garbage.”
“Is there even a difference?!”
“Garbage can be cleaned up and used as a specimen. Yellow garbage is better burned to ashes.”
“Hmm…”
The two walked down the stairs together, Lin Yi in front this time, Jian Shuye behind.
The club building was already empty.
As soon as they heard there was no self-study tonight, the students scattered like birds, and not a soul was in sight.
When they reached the student council office, Lin Yi waited outside.
A gust of wind blew, and Lin Yi shivered.
It really was cold.
“Ah, ah, ah… achoo!”
She wiped her nose and looked to the side, only to see Jian Shuye holding a key and a pack of tissues, looking at Lin Yi with disgust.
“I can’t help it. When the feeling comes… Ah, ah, mmph!”
The sneeze didn’t come out because Jian Shuye covered her mouth with a tissue.
Help!
I can’t breathe!
I can’t breathe!
Sumimasen!
When Jian Shuye finally let go, Lin Yi felt reborn.
Was Jian Shuye seriously trying to kill her for a second there?
What a scary woman.
But Jian Shuye just didn’t know her limits.
After all, she had never done something like this for anyone else.
Handing Lin Yi a tissue was already a miracle as rare as the sun rising from the west.
Jian Shuye jangled the key and said to Lin Yi,
“Follow me.”
“Go… where?”
“Teacher’s Apartment Complex.”
Zhuming Girls’ High School was a private school, so a long time ago, a villa complex was built on campus specifically for the school’s leadership to live in.
Later, the principal who built the villas was investigated and imprisoned, but the land and the villas were of decent quality, so they were retained and designated as teacher’s apartments and talent housing, temporarily for out-of-town teachers or top graduates.
However, the school board still kept a few villas for meetings and occasional personal use, so Jian Shuye had a key to one of them.
The teacher’s apartment complex wasn’t far from the cafeteria.
The two walked a short distance and soon saw the wall and the lush coconut trees inside.
Because the school had also dug into the back hill to build an observation deck when constructing the villas, the entire building complex had a certain slope compared to the main school.
Entering the wall, Jian Shuye counted the numbers and finally stopped in front of a Greek-style cliff villa.
Pure white cubes stacked layer upon layer, with white lime plaster walls, sea-blue doors and windows, and shutters fitted together.
Jian Shuye stopped under a blue arched door.
After facial recognition, fingerprint scanning, and inserting the key, she passed the triple authentication and opened the door.
“Come in.”
“Oh, oh. Sorry for the intrusion…”
After entering, Lin Yi saw purple bougainvillea and red creeper climbing the white walls.
In the small courtyard were olive trees, rapeseed flower beds, and lavender.
Small white wall lamps and blue ceramic decorative plates were embedded in the exterior walls.
The edges of the stone steps under Lin Yi’s feet were painted with thin blue lines, winding along the terrain.
The real front door of the villa required another key.
Jian Shuye opened it and walked in without waiting.
Lin Yi followed.
The interior was a spacious open-plan space.
White walls and light gray marble floors reflected the light streaming in from the high side windows, diffusing across the living room.
Rough-hewn wooden beams hung beneath the flat ceiling, matching the white linen L-shaped sofa and solid wood long table.
A blue ceramic vase with dried olive branches sat on the coffee table.
It was clear that a lot of effort had gone into the decoration.
The two climbed the white stone spiral staircase to the third floor.
If not for the music from the broadcasting department still audible outside the window, Lin Yi would have seriously thought she had arrived in the Aegean Sea.
The third-floor bedroom had an arched ceiling design, softening the angles of the space.
Light oak solid wood floors creaked underfoot.
White linen bedding was spread neatly, and a blue geometric tapestry hung above the headboard, the color scheme making it easy to calm down.
Pushing open the narrow blue-framed window, the post-rain breeze carried the scent of earth.
Jian Shuye turned back and said,
“Surprised?”
“Not really. I just feel like you and I live in different worlds.”
Jian Shuye touched the wooden window frame and said,
“This is just one of my family’s many idle properties. Before coming to this school, I only heard I could stay here.”
Lin Yi sighed helplessly.
“I don’t really understand how you rich people live.”
“Well… for example.”
Jian Shuye snapped her fingers.
“Xiao Ai, what’s the water heater temperature?”
The nearby Bluetooth speaker immediately turned on.
“The current water temperature is 65 degrees Celsius, perfect for your bath.”
Lin Yi was startled, but relaxed when she saw it was just a Bluetooth speaker.
They didn’t have to wait for the water heater to heat up by themselves, because even though no one lived there, the water heater in this house was on 24/7.
Wasteful!
Jian Shuye put down her bag and unbuttoned her school blazer.
Lin Yi immediately covered her face, her fingers spread wide.
“W-w-w-what are you doing taking off your clothes?!”
Jian Shuye looked at her like she was an idiot.
“Do you shower with your clothes on?”
“Is it necessary to strip in front of me?!”
“We’re both girls. What are you afraid of?”
Damn it.
Jian Shuye really was one to repay a grudge without delay.
No grudge lasted overnight.
Lin Yi had no choice but to blush, open the bathroom door, and say,
“At least… change inside.”