Fei Bai approached the table a little closer and gently brushed Luo Yusen’s leg beneath the table with his lower leg. “Shixiong, are you willing to let me wash the dishes?” Fei Bai asked. His movements were deft and delicate, even nudging Luo Yusen’s pants leg with the tip of his foot.
Luo Yusen felt the airflow caused by Feibai’s movements around his legs. “So, how do I prove that I am unwilling to let you do it?” he asked coolly.
After pausing to consider her response, Feibai said, “Shixiong, at least you should act like you care a little.”
“Okay,” Luo Yusen nodded, “I will tell you to take a break before continuing when you are tired of washing the dishes.”
This proposal made Fei Bai’s movements pause for a moment, and he quietly withdrew his leg.
He had originally planned to go play with Luo Feifei after dinner, but the little girl fell asleep first, so Luo Yusen directly took him home.
When the car came to a stop in front of Fei Bai’s house, he had the sudden idea to ask Luo Yusen to come over and take a seat. However, he immediately dismissed the idea because he had overeated for lunch, and he was sure that he would be very uncomfortable in any position.
He miscalculated.
So Fei Bai just obediently said goodbye to Luo Yusen and got out of the car with his backpack.
He climbed the stairs one by one, passing by walls with peeling paint and bicycles in the hallway, catching a whiff of the scent of cooking from some unknown neighbor’s door gap. He thought about the private hotel he stayed in yesterday and Luo Yusen’s second-ring villa, and suddenly he felt like Cinderella, who had just returned from a grand ball.
Everything related to Luo Yusen was great, but he would eventually have to return to his own world. He just didn’t know if, when that time came, Luo Yusen would come after him and hunt him down after ruining his relationship with Xu Geyang.
It probably wouldn’t come to that. Luo Yusen was a person of excellent manners, except for his not-so-gentlemanly act of trying to steal someone else’s romantic partner.
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Fei Bai took a long afternoon nap, as if trying to replenish all the physical and mental energy he had spent in the past few days. He didn’t get up until the evening, when it was already getting dark.
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Tonight and tomorrow morning should be enough for him to go through half of the semester’s lecture notes.
In the afternoon of the next day, Fei Bai walked into the classroom and saw Qiao Li waving at him. He noticed that Yan Yan was sitting next to Qiao Li, buried in her books. When he sat down, he whispered, “You two are making quite good progress, huh?”
Qiao Li whispered back, “Not really. Yesterday, when we were chatting, she mentioned that she didn’t prepare well, so I suggested that she sit next to me today and copy my notes.”
Fei Bai raised an eyebrow. “Copy your notes? Doesn’t she remember what happened last semester when you forgot which educational philosopher Mei Yiman belonged to and ended up writing about Wudang martial arts, which the teacher then shared in the class group?”
Qiao Li urgently signaled him to be quiet, “Could you not bring that up, Fei Bai? I did forget, but I couldn’t just leave it blank, could I? Writing about Egg Tart Sect was the best I could do.”
Fei Bai joked, “If you had written about Egg Tart Sect, Mei Yiman, you probably would have been haunted in your dreams for the rest of your life.”
Qiao Li leaned closer to him and said, “Actually, I told her I was copying from you, and that’s why she agreed to copy from me.”
Fei Bai raised an eyebrow, “Playing the middleman, huh?”
Qiao Li elbowed him under the table and said, “Come on, help a buddy out.”
Feibai agreed, “Sure, just be careful during the exam.”
Qiao Li gave him a thumbs-up, “Don’t worry, Mr. Straight-A Student. I won’t get caught. My naked eye vision is 5.0.”
After a pause, he whispered, “Hey, after the exam, Yan Yan will definitely want to treat both of us to dinner. You can…”
Fei Bai interjected, “I’ll pretend I’m busy and let you two go alone, right?”
Qiao Li gave him a thumbs-up, “You’re indeed a study ace.”
Then he added, “How about I treat you to dinner tomorrow night? You choose the place, and you pick the dishes?”
Fei Bai chuckled. “You don’t need to treat me to dinner. I didn’t have any plans for tonight. An old coworker from that convenience store job asked me to cover a night shift.”
Fei Bai patted Qiao Li’s shoulder, “But if you’re really grateful, just call me ‘Dad,’ that will be enough.”
At this moment, the teaching assistant entered the classroom with exam papers in hand. Yan Yan lifted her head from her books, turned to Fei Bai, and smiled, saying, “Big brother, Qiao Li and I are counting on you.”
Qiao Li looked serious and said, “Don’t call him ‘big brother,’ call him ‘father-in-law.'”
This playful operation of calling him “Dad” and taking advantage of the situation to flirt with the girl made Fei Bai cough.
Yan Yan looked puzzled as she gazed at the two of them. “What’s going on?”
Fortunately, the exam papers were already being distributed, so she didn’t press for an answer and began to write her name and student ID on the exam paper.
The in-class quiz had a few questions, and Fei Bai finished it in about half an hour. Normally, he would hand in his paper and leave right away, but today, he had to wait a little longer to help Qiao Li and Yan Yan with their copying. He pretended to check the papers and patiently waited for them to finish copying.
Unexpectedly, while checking, he found a problem. In the last question of the essay section, he had misread the word “前” (pre) and wrote about a randomized controlled group “后测设计” (post-test design) instead of “前后测设计” (pretest-posttest design).
Fei Bai picked up his pen and marked a big “X” around that part. Just as he finished the second diagonal line, he heard the sound of Qiao Li’s pen dropping onto the desk.
“Feibai, don’t tell me you did this on purpose.” Qiao Li squeezed the words out from between his teeth.
Fei Bai thought about how hard Qiao Li had worked to copy a large portion, only to have it all be wrong. Amid his apologies, he also found it a bit funny. While quickly making corrections, he said, “Really, not on purpose. Who asked me to have less than 5.0 vision? I missed one word.”
Fortunately, the professor had given them ample time, and after Fei Bai made the corrections, Qiao Li managed to successfully copy the same corrected answers, and they both safely passed the quiz.
After the class ended, Yan Yan warmly invited Fei Bai and Qiao Li to have dinner with her. Qiao Li gave Fei Bai a signal, and Fei Bai sincerely explained that he couldn’t make it due to his prior commitments, suggesting they both go without him.
Yan Yan exclaimed, “Oh, how can that be? Then how about we reschedule? What about tomorrow night? Do you have any classes tomorrow evening?”
Qiao Li playfully pushed Fei Bai from behind, and Fei Bai responded, “No need to change the plans for me. Qiao Li and I are buddies, so him going is equivalent to me going.”
Yan Yan appeared troubled, saying, “Oh no, but I already told my mom about it. What should I do now?”
“Your mom?” Both Qiao Li and Fei Bai were taken aback.
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She doesn’t deserve you, Ql! ><
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thanks for the chapter!