Chapter 38

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Zhan Zhao stared at the message with furrowed brows for a long time before ultimately shaking his head at it… He didn’t understand it.

Bai Yutang scratched his head. “What does this G.S. mean? Is it an acronym for some organisation??”

Zhan Zhao rubbed his chin in thought. “Hmm… Ah!”

“What?” Seeing that Zhan Zhao seemed to have some clue, Bai Yutang hurriedly looked at him.

“The German G.S. Ohm discovered Ohm's Law!!” Zhan Zhao said with a nod of his head.

“Huh??” Bai Yutang looked at him all amused at how he even managed to come up with that. “You think my brother would know what ‘Ohm’s Law’ is?”

“…” Zhan Zhao was disappointed. “No…”

“What about this QINGJIASANTIAN? Is it a word?” Bai Yutang posed another question.

“It doesn’t seem like it. It’s definitely not an English word… It’s not French either… or Spanish…” Bai Yutang gently rubbed Zhan Zhao on the head; he couldn’t bear to see the latter rack his brain over it. “Don’t bother, Kitty, my brother only knows Mandarin.”

“Hasn’t he been living abroad all this while?” Zhan Zhao asked, puzzled.

“Yeah, he speaks Mandarin abroad too.” Bai Yutang nodded.

“Then what if they don’t understand what he’s saying?”

“He doesn’t care if people understand him or not.”

…

“Why don’t we just ask him.” So Bai Yutang replied to him with a “?”.

After a long time, Bai Jintang finally replied.

When Bai Yutang pressed on the notification, it was a picture.

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao leaned into the phone to get a closer look; it was a selfie: Bai Jintang was holding the phone up with a bright smile on his face, his hair messy and a duvet was covered up to his chest… Ah no, none of these were the main point!! The main point was that someone was lying in his arms—it’s Gongsun!! His bare shoulder and arm that was exposed was covered in bright red marks…

“Cough cough…” Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yu Tang choked on their porridge at the same time.

It took a long time before their brain booted back up again when they saw another sentence underneath that photo: D. JIAYOU3!!

It’s just that, at this moment, neither of them was in the mood to study just what those letters meant. Bai Yutang’s face was also covered in a rare blush as he grabbed Zhan Zhao who could already replace a steam engine. “Kitty, why don’t we…”

“AH～～～” Zhan Zhao picked up the cushion behind him and smashed it into Bai Yutang. “Shut up!”

“Why? We can’t lose to them!!” Bai Yutang chased after Zhan Zhao who had made a break for it.

“I can’t hear you4!!! Don’t you say anymore!!!” Zhan Zhao clutched his head and rushed into the bedroom, slamming the door shut as it pushed against it with all his might such that Bai Yutang couldn’t open it.

“Kitty, open the door, let’s do it in the bedroom.” Bai Yutang said while rapping on the door.

“Shut up! Don’t say those words!!” Zhan Zhao blocked the door and berated, “You brothers are not good people!”

“What words? Do you mean ‘do it’?” Bai Yutang continued thumping on the door. “Kitty, let’s do it!!”

“Get out! Get the hell out!!” Zhan Zhao yelled, “You're not allowed near me again!!!”

“Kitty… I will do my best… I’ll do it better than Da G–”

“Shut up! …Don’t say that kind of thing!!!”

“Kitty…”

“Hmph!”

Zhao Hu could vaguely hear the conversation coming from the women’s restroom and it made it frown.

Qi Le leaned against the sinks as she rushed Chen Yu. “Hurry up!”

“Don’t be in such a hurry.” Chen Yu rummaged through her clothes pocket, took out a small pill bottle and poured out a coloured pill. “Here.”

“Just one? Give me another one” Qi Le took the pill from Chen Yu.

“Do you have a death wish? Too much of this stuff will kill you.” Chen Yu said while putting away the bottle.

“It doesn't work if you don’t take enough!!” Qi Le snatched the bottle over and took out another one.

Just when she was about to put the pill in her mouth, the door was knocked open with a loud bang.

Zhao Hu stormed in furiously and slapped and slapped the medicine out of Qi Le’s hand. “Didn't you promise that you wouldn't do drugs anymore?”

Qi Le and Chen Yu were both dumbfounded by what had just happened but quickly burst out laughing after exchanging a look.

While Zhao Hu was still bewildered by their laughter, he saw Chen Yu wave the bottle at him as she said, “You think this is a drug? It’s a painkiller!”

“Painkillers?” Zhao Hu was still a little puzzled. “What are you taking painkillers for?”

Qi Le was out of breath from laughing so hard. She patted Zhao Hu and said, “You’ve never had a girlfriend huh?”

“…?…”

Seeing that Zhao Hu still had a blank look on his face, the two girls laughed even harder.

“Don’t you know?” Chen Yu said, “Women will hurt every month～～” With that, the two of them left the red-faced Zhao Hu and went out the toilet still guffawing.

Zhao Hu sighed and once again observed a moment of silence for his misfortune. Then, he took out a piece of tissue and carefully picked up the two coloured pills from the ground, put it in his pocket, and left.

Outside the public toilets at the staff apartments of M University.

Wang Chao threw the leftover cigarette butt onto the ground and stomped out the flame with his foot.

Zhang Long checked the time on his watch. “Is there something wrong with this Jia Zhengyan? It's been ten minutes since he went in and he still hasn't come out?”

Wang Chao shrugged. “We’ve been following him all day and all he’s done is either go for class or just wandering around—I really don’t see anything off about him.”

“…Fifteen minutes now.” Zhang Long looked at his watch again.

Wang Chao frowned. “Something is wrong.”

The two men looked at each other before briskly entering the public toilet…

There they found Jia Zhengyan lying on the floor in front of the sinks.

“Jia Zhengyan!” One of them called out but there was no response.

Zhang Long went up to feel for his breath under his nose and pulse along his artery… In the end, he turned to Wang Chao and shook his head.

Wang Chao didn't say a word as he looked at the coloured pills scattered near Jia Zhengyan’s body with knitted brows.