Chapter 44.1 - Reece's Heart: The Needle at the Bottom of the Sea

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“Idiot.”

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“You watch if you don’t believe me!”

At this time, Ewing flipped Nie Chuan’s back collar over. From this angle, Ewing was able to see Nie Chuan’s entire back.

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“Allen! You’re so silly! You wore your shirt inside out!” Ewing held his stomach as he laughed out loud.

“No way!” Nie Chuan looked down and found all the stitching on the outside. “Eh? It really was inside out…… I’ll need to get shirts with designs and patterns on them next time. These solid-colored ones are the most annoying!”

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“How are they the problem? You must have put your clothes on with your eyes closed this morning! Quickly change it back! You’re embarrassing yourself!”

Nie Chuan laughed. He took off his shirt while facing Ewing and inverted it before quickly putting it back on again.

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Carlo stroked his chin regretfully and said, “Why wasn’t I the one who noticed that Allen’s shirt was inside out?”

“Idiot,” Reece coldly threw this out and left.

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The next morning when Nie Chuan followed Reece for morning exercise, he felt a constant and inexplicably gloomy atmosphere.

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Of course, Reece had always been a person of few words. However, Nie Chuan felt that it wasn’t just an issue of few words, even his response was unusually lacking.

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In the past, Reece would still pat him on the shoulder occasionally to tell him to speed up or he would slow down after running ahead and turn back to see if Nie Chuan was slacking off. Nie Chuan would sometimes wonder if Reece had eyes growing on the back of his head, otherwise how would he be able to catch him slacking off so accurately every time?

But today, Reece didn’t even look at him.

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Nie Chuan felt as if he had Stockholm Syndrome. Now that Reece was no longer watching him so closely, he was uncomfortable contrary to expectation!

After finishing their morning exercise, Reece went to the side of the track where they had put water and towels and found some cookies placed there. It was unknown which one of Reece’s female admirers had contributed them.

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Nie Chuan knew Reece wasn’t interested in sweets. In order to make conversation, he picked the cookies up and asked, “Hey Reece, let’s open and eat these?”

“If you want to eat, then eat it yourself.” Reece slung his towel over his shoulder and turned and walked away.

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Nie Chuan hurriedly chased after him and held a cranberry cookie up to Reece’s lips. “Then you have one too! Someone made these for you with good intentions yet you’re not even willing to try a bite……”

When Reece’s gaze swept over him, Nie Chuan felt pressure. He was about to take his hand back when Reece unexpectedly opened his mouth slightly.

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He’s willing to try a piece?

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As Nie Chuan happily pushed the cookie over, Reece’s lips opened and he forcefully bit down where Nie Chuan was holding the cookie. Nie Chuan’s fingers were practically about to be bitten off by him.

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“Aiya!” Nie Chuan abruptly retracted his hand and the cookie crumbled and fell all over the ground.

Reece turned and leisurely walked away.

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Where did I even offend you? Even if you don’t want to use Chinese, you can use English to tell me ah

Could he be taking a shower?

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Nie Chuan pressed his ear against the door, but there wasn’t any sound of running water coming through and there were no signs of movement in the room.

Right at that moment, someone was passing by Reece’s door and looked at Nie Chuan with suspicion.

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Nie Chuan hurriedly withdrew his head.

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Really truly too humiliating!

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At this time, Reece was sitting by the window of the Chinese restaurant on campus. Sitting opposite him was a woman with short hair and wearing a suit who had a capable disposition.

“It seems like you came back to New York not long ago, how come you didn’t go home for a visit and have a meal with dad?”

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“Isn’t dad busy with a case again?”

The woman lowered her head and laughed. “Same goes for you. CBU is clearly an Ivy League school, but you weren’t willing to go there and wanted to come here instead. You just didn’t want to be anywhere near him, right?”

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“I respect him very much, but we all have our own lives.” Reece’s expression was indifferent.

“Hey, can you not talk to me with that kind of expression? It’s really not cute at all. I’m your older sister, you know! When you fought with other kids back in elementary school, I was the one who called the teacher while pretending to be mom!”

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“Alright Vivian, it’s already very late now. Shouldn’t you be getting back to the hotel? Thanks for taking a detour to come see me.”

Vivian helplessly took a small box out of her purse. “This is the chocolate you asked me to bring back for you the last time I went to Switzerland.”

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“Thank you.” Reece had just laid his hand on the box when Vivian took it back.

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“This shouldn’t be for you. From when we were little to now, chocolate has been my interest, not yours.”

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“It’s for someone else.”

At this time, Reece’s phone on the table rang and a picture flashed on the screen. A young man with black hair was squatting on the side of the road with his hands in his pockets while blowing back the bubbles that a little girl had blown. The name displayed was two characters in Chinese.

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Vivian was just about to take Reece’s phone for a look when Reece covered the screen with his palm. He connected the call and used Chinese to answer, “Hello.”

“That, Reece, where are you?”

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“Are you outside my room?”

“Ah, yes. I have some questions for advanced mathematics that I wanted to ask you.” When Nie Chuan said this, he felt a little guilty. “But if you’re out, then I’ll go back to my dorm!”

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“I’m going back now.”

Reece was already standing up. He bent down to kiss Vivian on the cheek then, after mouthing “bye bye,” he tucked the chocolates under his arm and walked out.

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Vivian was at a loss. She watched the disappearing view of her younger brother’s back before suddenly holding her forehead and smiling.

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Drea: *takes deep breath* ah the smell of vinegar

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MadMadamMims: Reece is a mess >< u can’t ignore him and give him chocolates at the same time, u damn tsundere.