Yang Wei: "..."
Does this mean he'll force her to go even though he knows she'll be rejected?
Despite Yu Shishi's persistent pleading, Yang Wei finally mustered the courage to go ahead—she wouldn't admit that she actually just wanted to take this opportunity to speak with Professor Qi. She had only taken two steps towards Qi Xiaoyan when she attracted the attention of all the girls in front of the teaching building, and she subconsciously straightened her hair.
As Yang Wei approached Qi Xiaoyan, she found her heart pounding with nervousness. She stopped two steps away from him and whispered, "Professor Qi."
How can you prove that the circumference of a circle in a set of simple closed curves with a fixed area is the smallest?
He speaks very quickly, and his voice is very special, like the most expensive piano being played by the best pianist, clean and melodious.
However, the content of the words was...
"Huh?" That was Yang Wei's answer to Qi Xiaoyan at the time.
Qi Xiaoyan turned around and glanced at her, slightly taken aback. The person in front of her had beautiful curly hair that just reached her chest, and the classic flaxen color shimmered in the sunlight.
He paused for three seconds before saying, "You're not a student at our school."
Yang Wei was a little embarrassed, but she smiled at him and said, "I'm Yu Shishi's cousin. She wants to... invite you to dinner."
The last four characters were already as low as they could possibly be.
Qi Xiaoyan glanced in Yu Shishi's direction, and Yu Shishi immediately sat up straight.
He turned around and looked at Yang Wei: "I'm sorry, I already have plans tonight."
As expected.
Yang Wei smiled and said sorry to bother him, then returned to Yu Shishi's side: "He said he has an appointment with someone tonight."
Yu Shishi was stunned for a moment: "But... I invited him to lunch."
Yang Wei: "..."
Regardless, she couldn't possibly go a second time, so the two of them casually found a small noodle shop for lunch. When Yang Wei carried Yu Shishi's large suitcase out of the girls' dormitory, a passing boy eagerly ran up to help her carry it, and even after seeing her into a taxi, he didn't look away with lingering affection.
"Tch." Yu Shishi closed the car door, scoffing at the boy's behavior. "Why didn't anyone help me when I was carrying my suitcase up and down stairs before?"
The driver in the front seat said casually, "It depends on your looks."
Yu Shishi: "..."
Could she decide whether to pay the fare based on her face later?
In the end, she paid the fare, of course. After Yang Wei saw her onto the long-distance bus, she returned to the city, having completed her mission. Just as she got into a taxi, she received a call from her roommate, Jian Shuang: "Are you free tonight? Let's have dinner together."
Before Yang Wei could speak, Jian Shuang added, "Dress nicely."
Yang Wei's eyebrows twitched slightly: "Do I need to dress up nicely to have dinner with you?"
"Besides me, there are four other university professors."
Yang Wei was stunned: "You didn't offend all the professors in the department, did you?"
"Who told you they were professors from our school?" Jian Shuang said in a tone of exasperation. "They're all professors from Imperial University!"
Yang Wei's lips twitched: "Shuang'er, there are still ten days until April Fool's Day."
Jian Shuang couldn't help but swear on the other end of the phone: "Let me be frank with you, my cousin's four colleagues had invited four professors from Beijing University to dinner, but two of them had to work overtime today and couldn't make it, so it was our turn, you know!"
Jian Shuang's cousin, Yang Wei, had met her before. She'd heard she worked for a Fortune 500 company, dressed very elegantly, and exuded a professional woman's competence; she was the idol of most of the girls in their dorm. Yang Wei thought for a moment, then stammered, "This...is it a blind date?"
"No, we call this a group matchmaking event. University professors spend their days writing papers and doing research, and their personal lives remain unresolved. We should care about them."
Yang Wei's lips twitched: "Thinking about Professor Deng's goofy head, are you sure you want to care about them?"
Jian Shuang paused for a moment, then said, "We had Western food at Moon Lovers tonight, and they paid for it."
Moon Lovers is a newly opened Western restaurant in City A, and you can tell from the name that its theme is "dog abuse" (a Chinese internet slang term for public displays of affection). Yang Wei and Jian Shuang had never been there, but one of their roommates and her boyfriend went once and raved about it. After some internal struggle, Yang Wei and Jian Shuang still couldn't bring themselves to pretend to be lesbians and go to eat there.
Faced with such a fantastic opportunity, and without them having to pay, Yang Wei considered it carefully for a second before readily agreeing, "Deal!"
While frantically changing clothes in her dorm room, Yang Wei couldn't help but worry: "Won't we be exposed if we pretend to be white-collar women from Fortune 500 companies? The other party is a highly intelligent group of people."
Jian Shuang put on a spaghetti strap dress and glanced at her briefly: "Just say that we don't talk about work after work."
Yang Wei couldn't help but give her a thumbs up: "Brilliant."
At six o'clock in the evening, Yang Wei and Jian Shuang arrived at the Western restaurant on time. Jian Shuang's cousin was already waiting outside. She looked at them for a while and praised, "Your eye makeup is very nice."
Yang Wei was a little nervous and was practically dragged in by Jian Shuang. When they reached the reserved table, Jian Shuang suddenly stopped.
"W-what's wrong?" Yang Wei became even more nervous because of her.
Jian Shuang opened her mouth, then opened it again, and finally uttered a sound: "Professor Qi."
Yang Wei was taken aback. Following her dazed gaze, a radiant light burst into view – it was Professor Qi, whom she had met that morning.
Unlike his simple attire back then, Qi Xiaoyan was now wearing a classic black suit that perfectly accentuated his physique, making him appear both elegant and powerful.
So what he meant by "arranging a group" was a group blind date... No, wait, someone like him, does he even need to go on blind dates?!
Jian Shuang's trembling voice came from the side: "Weiwei'er, I'm a little nervous."
"I felt it." Yang Wei pried open the fingers that were tightly gripping her arm. "You know Professor Qi too?"
Jian Shuang said, "Our neighbor's kid has been showing off his teaching skills on WeChat Moments for two years now."
Yang Wei paused, then turned to look at her: "You actually kept this from me for two years?"
Jian Shuang: "..."
Is this the main point now?
Yang Wei also realized that this was not the point, because she suddenly remembered that Professor Qi recognized her!
"Shuang'er, I suddenly have a stomachache, I have to go now." Yang Wei said and tried to slip towards the door, but Jian Shuang grabbed her wrist.
"You think you can leave now? Didn't you see Professor Qi has been watching you the whole time?!"
Jian Shuang said this through gritted teeth, and Yang Wei turned around with a trembling heart, accidentally meeting Qi Xiaoyan's gaze.
His gaze was like an electric shock, giving Yang Wei a momentary jolt.
Oh no, he must have recognized me. Yang Wei was heartbroken. She hadn't even seen the plate yet, and her mission was already ruined.
Because of Qi Xiaoyan's striking good looks, everyone wanted to take the chair opposite him, but when they noticed he was staring at Yang Wei, they quietly gave her their seat. When Yang Wei sat down opposite Qi Xiaoyan, she was moved to tears by their selfless dedication.
The three people at the next table were already chatting, while Qi Xiaoyan and Yang Wei remained silent. Yang Wei kept her head down, staring at her handbag. Suddenly, Qi Xiaoyan spoke, her clear voice swirling slowly like the red wine in front of her: "You're a college student."
Yang Wei: "..."
She knew she couldn't fool highly intelligent people!
"I... I was just dragged here to make up the numbers..." Yang Wei explained softly.
Qi laughed and said, "I understand, I was also dragged in to make up the numbers."
The head of the mathematics department cried to him for three days, repeatedly assuring him that all he had to do was decorate the facade and he wouldn't have to worry about anything else, before he finally showed up.
Dinner went fairly well—except for Yang Wei trying to embolden herself with alcohol, which resulted in her accidentally getting herself drunk. After dinner, everyone planned to go to karaoke, but Qi Xiaoyan objected when she saw how drunk Yang Wei was. In the end, they decided that Qi Xiaoyan would take Yang Wei home.
On the way, Yang Wei kept saying she didn't want to go home, so Qi Xiaoyan had no choice but to leave her at the hotel. For some reason, Yang Wei suddenly grabbed his tie and pulled him down when she saw him about to leave.
This was the first time Qi Xiaoyan had ever been so close to a girl. Before he could even react, Yang Wei had already kissed him.
In the words of a boy who once confessed his feelings to Yang Wei, Yang Wei is like a cake with the aroma of cream, making people want to take a bite just by looking at it.
Once Qi Xiaoyan tasted Yang Wei's flavor, he couldn't stop. They spent the night in a passionate frenzy, but since it was their first time, their coordination wasn't very smooth—the bloody teeth mark on Qi Xiaoyan's left shoulder was the best evidence of this.
When they woke up the next day, the mess on the floor made them realize that something was seriously wrong.
One felt he had taken advantage of a university professor while drunk, and the other felt he had taken advantage of her and defiled her. Both felt they should take responsibility for each other, so they quickly registered their marriage.
Upon learning of their marriage, Yang's father nearly beat Professor Qi to death. Yang Wei claimed that Professor Qi was a highly educated intellectual, a national first-class protected animal, which finally stopped her father's attack, his lips twitching. The couple later held a wedding ceremony, with guests attending the entire event displaying identical expressions of shock.
Because Yang Wei was graduating at the time and had a lot of job interviews to attend, the two didn't go on their honeymoon. However, they agreed to go on a luxury eight-country tour of Europe together next summer.
But before summer vacation even arrived, they got divorced.
Yang Wei finished her drink in one gulp and ate her food in silence. This marriage was too hasty and ill-considered; the lack of understanding between them beforehand inevitably led to numerous conflicts afterward. They tolerated each other for a year before finally deciding to divorce.
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When Qi Xiaoyan pushed open the door, there was no one inside. He turned on the living room light, changed into slippers, and went in. Habitually tying his hair back, he looked around the living room before heading into the study.
Chu Tian followed behind him, glancing into the study. The room was filled with papers and research materials, leaving him speechless. Qi Xiaoyan was silently organizing his things. Chu Tian watched his back, pursed his lips, and asked, "You really divorced Yang Wei?"
Qi Xiaoyan threw the divorce certificate at him.
Chu Tian looked at the purplish-red booklet in his hand, then at Qi Xiaoyan, and tentatively asked, "Are you willing to part with it?"
Qi Xiaoyan didn't answer, but simply picked up a stack of books from the bookshelf and packed them into a cardboard box. Chu Tian silently shut his mouth; he still remembered how shocked he was when he suddenly received Qi Xiaoyan's wedding invitation.
For Qi Xiaoyan, women are the complete opposite of mathematics—utterly illogical. Therefore, Qi Xiaoyan has never had a girlfriend in all these years. The only woman he could be considered a potential romantic interest was a junior from Beijing University. They were both on the school's basketball club, but a year later Qi Xiaoyan went abroad, and that was the end of that.
He never expected that Qi Xiaoyan would have a whirlwind marriage with someone else! He met Yang Wei for the first time at Qi Xiaoyan's wedding. The girl was indeed beautiful, and her smile was especially sweet, but... Qi Xiaoyan didn't seem like such a superficial person.
In his memory, when they were still learning two-digit addition and subtraction, Qi Xiaoyan had already won the first prize in the National Primary School Mathematics Olympiad; when they finally came into contact with square roots, Qi Xiaoyan had already achieved a perfect score in the International Mathematical Olympiad; and the year before they took the high school entrance exam, this guy had already entered the halls of university.
Fourteen-year-old Qi Xiaoyan was the youngest student ever admitted to Imperial University. After graduating with his bachelor's degree, he went abroad to pursue a doctoral degree. He graduated successfully four years later, stayed at the university for a year of research, and was then hired by Imperial University to return as a full-time professor.
Qi Xiaoyan's resume is a dazzling story of a winner in life, but Chu Tian thinks that the most shameless thing about Qi Xiaoyan is that he also has a face that is extremely attractive to women.
Having been friends with this person for twenty years, he felt that he had also had a tough time.
As he reminisced about Qi Xiaoyan's illustrious life, Qi Xiaoyan had already finished tidying up the study. He went to the bedroom, glanced at the neatly arranged bed, and opened the wardrobe to get his clothes. Chu Tian followed him into the bedroom. A large wedding photo hung in the most prominent position, but what he noticed first was... a poster of Mo Zhen next to the wedding photo. His eye twitched, and he asked, "Yang Wei actually put Mo Zhen's poster next to the wedding photo. You didn't divorce her because of this, did you?"
Qi Xiaoyan paused, then took out several suits and threw them into her suitcase: "She's the one who wants a divorce."
"So you agree?"
Qi Xiaoyan didn't say anything, but simply closed the wardrobe door and dragged his suitcase out. Chu Tian glanced at the wedding photos on the wall, walked over and put his hand on Qi Xiaoyan's shoulder: "Your wedding photos could be hung in front of a photo studio as promotional posters. People who don't know better would think you're two models."
"That's what the people at the photo studio said too." Qi Xiaoyan unceremoniously pushed his hand off his shoulder and looked around the living room. The living room was filled with small photo frames, all containing pictures of him and Yang Wei. He picked out about half and packed them into his suitcase, leaving the few he considered his most handsome photos in the living room.
"Let's go." Qi Xiaoyan zipped up her suitcase, stood up, her posture as upright as ever. Chu Tian glanced down; just two cardboard boxes and a suitcase. "Is that all you have?"
"Hmm." Qi Xiaoyan looked down at the door key in his hand, considered for two seconds, and then put it in his pocket. He picked up the two cardboard boxes on the ground and walked towards the door: "You take the suitcase."
Chu Tian dutifully carried the suitcase and followed behind him. Just before the door closed, Qi Xiaoyan suddenly asked, "Do you believe in love at first sight?"
Chu Tian paused for a moment, then replied, "I don't believe it."