Luan Muyin was both amused and exasperated: "Do you think Ye Nan and I conspired in advance? I just went to discuss it first. If there are any questions you don't understand, or anything you need, please organize them for me before you leave work today, and I will pass on the message to you."
"Great! That's perfect!"
"Thank you, Mr. Luan!!"
...
Unaware of what would happen next in the conference room, Luan Yenan and Zuo Baixuan, like two butterflies, one white and one pink, gracefully entered the elevator, startling the employees who scattered. The two of them couldn't help but laugh in the elevator, but neither of them spoke. They simply left "Frontend" together, maintaining a certain tacit understanding.
I waited until I got back into the car and settled in.
Luan Yenan said, "I mean it when I said we should go back to school. We can go back to school to eat."
"What you said about practicing dance is true, and I can tell whether these words are true or false." Zuo Baixuan fastened her seatbelt and stared straight at Luan Yenan.
Luan Yenan gave a soft "hmm," just a short sound, but Zuo Baixuan could hear the laughter in his tone.
After the car drove away, Luan Yenan remained silent, but Zuo Baixuan gave a soft "hmm" and started the conversation again: "So, the person who's been assigning me tasks is 'Huanyu,' right?"
Luan Yenan drove steadily and slowly on the road, his fingers lightly tapping the steering wheel.
Her tone was unusually lighthearted: "You actually found out."
She sounded surprised, but her expression didn't reflect that. Zuo Baixuan remained silent for a few seconds.
Looking at Luan Yenan like this, he really looks like a child playing hide-and-seek.
His thoughts were somewhere between not wanting to be caught and not wanting to be caught.
Getting caught directly is boring, so I hide very well. But after hiding for a while, I realized that none of my waiting friends came to catch me, so I deliberately peeked out.
A strutting little head popped out of the closet; if you still can't see it, it's not that your hide-and-seek skills are bad, but rather that you're a bit blind.
"You didn't even try to hide it from me, did you? Not even when 'Global Universe' assigned me the task. It's just that I'm not skilled enough to notice the traces you left on my computer. Today, however, I recognized familiar code snippets from your mention of 'cloud computing' and their discussion of 'blockchain,'" Zuo Baixuan commented.
That's true.
Luan Yenan had told Huanyu about his relationship with Zuo Baixuan, but Huanyu didn't care and even placed several large orders with more confidence.
Lianjiang Lingdan has recently been marveling at how generous her sponsors have become.
Although Zuo Baixuan only received the task unilaterally, she was already a deep participant.
Luan Yenan nodded, agreeing with Zuo Baixuan's statement.
Zuo Baixuan laughed along, "I didn't expect it either. So many people have been guessing how you got involved with 'Huanyu,' even I was guessing. But no one expected that the key was me."
She pieced together everything that made sense and naturally understood what had happened before.
Zuo Baixuan didn't ask about the past or her future plans; she simply turned her head to look at Luan Yenan.
Using the same look Luan Yenan usually had, his gaze wandered over her face and body, scrutinizing her.
Zuo Baixuan never considered herself a looks-obsessed person, because she was usually too busy to care about other people's appearance. Even when she occasionally saw someone good-looking, she would just glance at them and move on.
But Luan Yenan's beauty is real; it's an inner and outer beauty that makes it impossible to look away.
She never felt that she had a tendency to admire the strong, because she would not change her attitude just because someone around her was more capable than her, and she would even subconsciously have the idea of challenging authority.
But Luan Ye Nan's recent performance has made Zuo Bai Xuan want to learn from him, and even the madness in Luan Ye Nan's heart has been accepted.
Her composure and ability to control the overall situation give her the right to be crazy.
Zuo Baixuan pursed her lips.
Luan Yenan knew that Zuo Baixuan beside her was looking her over, but she showed no displeasure. Instead, she smoothed out the wrinkles on her shirt and slightly raised the corners of her mouth.
He could let Zuo Baixuan watch him as long as she pleased.
...
I drove back to school.
He ate in the cafeteria openly, attracting a crowd of students.
After the previous two incidents, "Luan Yenan picked up Zuo Baixuan after class" and "Zuo Baixuan picked up Luan Yenan for a speech", Luan Zuo's wife gained many more fans at school.
Entering the cafeteria caused a stir.
However, when Luan Yenan glanced around, no stubborn students came up to bother him, and they tried their best to keep to themselves.
Unfortunately, there were four people sitting at the central table in the cafeteria.
Snakes, insects, rats, and ants.
The students around whispered among themselves, having all heard about what had happened in Professor Chen's office, and wondering what the consequences would be if Luan Yenan met with these four people in the cafeteria.
The four people had different expressions when they saw Luan Zuo's wife.
Bao Xinglong was the most pragmatic.
After that day, when he was unexpectedly triggered to be in a vulnerable period, he stayed at home for a week, worried and scared. He was also given a week of ideological education by his parents, and he quickly saw reality clearly.
Let alone Luan Yenan's re-establishment of his reputation in Beijing's social circles, even if he were still the same annoying and scumbag A that everyone disliked before, his small family wouldn't be able to handle him.
After returning to school from his vulnerable period, he lived in constant fear, afraid that Luan Yenan would come looking for him to settle scores. But the scores never came. These past few days had been unbearable for him. He had visibly lost weight and looked haggard.
Upon seeing Luan Yenan appear, his eyes lit up, and he immediately stood up straight and bowed to greet Luan Yenan.
Luan Yenan only noticed the four people after Bao Xinglong's high-profile show of weakness. He glanced at them and took in their state.
Poisonous Bee was following Bao Xinglong's movements. Bao Xinglong bowed and apologized, and Poisonous Bee bowed back in return.
Ye Cangxing was still furious. Perhaps because he was angry about how he hadn't given Lin Xiaoxiao any face before Luan Zuo and the other man, he glanced at Luan Yennan and then looked away without giving him another second glance.
On the contrary, the ants, who had the least connection with them, were in the strangest state. Not only did they have a strange expression, but they also glanced at Zuo Baixuan.
This made Luan Yenan narrow his eyes.
"Let's go eat the hot pot over there, it looks delicious." Zuo Baixuan finally chose the least crowded spot.
Luan Yenan had no objections and followed her in that direction. Before leaving, she didn't forget to glance once more in the direction of snakes, insects, and rodents.
When Bao Xinglong saw Luan Yenan looking over, he stood up again, looking extremely respectful.
The poisonous wasps also lowered their stance.
Ye Cangxing had already started eating and didn't want to have any interaction with them.
The ants were peeling shrimp for Ye Cangxing, as if the extra glance they had just received was all an illusion.
...
After dinner, Luan Yenan received a call from Professor Chen.
"Hmm? Okay, she and I will be there right away." Luan Yenan replied and hung up the phone.
Zuo Baixuan handed an ice cream to Luan Yenan, saying, "Here's some ice cream for you."
Luan Yenan put away his phone but didn't take the ice cream. He just leaned forward and took a bite, turning the square ice cream into an irregular shape: "Thank you, it's delicious."
Zuo Baixuan thought she was used to all of Luan Yenan's sudden actions, but she was still somewhat at a loss for words because of this. Feeding him by hand seemed more intimate than kissing.
Looking at the row of teeth marks on the ice cream, Zuo Baixuan thought of her own shoulder and slightly withdrew her hand: "I'm letting you hold it and eat it yourself, not feeding you."
Luan Yenan's eyes were full of smiles as he looked at the ice cream in Zuo Baixuan's left hand that he had taken a small bite out of, and then at the ice cream in her right hand that he had already eaten two-thirds of.
I remember a few days ago when the weather was hot, I had just arrived at a group meeting in the afternoon and saw several students gathered together eating ice pops.
Zuo Baixuan only took a stick.
Some people couldn't help but marvel at how fast Zuo Baixuan ate.
Jiang Lingdan then explained: "Xiao Zuo'er doesn't have any other hobbies, except for ice cream. Please don't make fun of her."
Of course, no one really wanted to make fun of her.
Even Luan Yenan, who was listening in, found it very interesting and discovered a hidden charm in Zuo Baixuan.
"I can't eat that much, just a taste is enough. I see you like it, so I'll give you more." Luan Yenan bent down and bit a second tooth mark on the tip of the ice cream.
Zuo Baixuan blushed at Luan Yenan's intentional ambiguous gesture, but she managed to hold back. She fixed her gaze on Luan Yenan and smiled, saying, "Then I won't be polite!"
Enjoying the ice cream, taking bites from the left and right, not minding that one of the ice creams had been bitten by Luan Yenan, a storm of satisfaction swept over them.
Looking at Zuo Baixuan, whom he had never seen before, Luan Yenan had more strange thoughts in his mind.
I wanted to buy all the ice cream in the freezer for Zuo Baixuan so she could eat her fill, but I was also worried that she would get an upset stomach if she ate too much.
In the end, Luan Yenan suppressed his impulsive and childish domineering behavior, and simply reached out and took the tissue that Zuo Baixuan had placed under the popsicle stick.
She pulled Zuo Baixuan to a stop and wiped Zuo Baixuan's mouth with a tissue: "Why do you seem to have been waiting for me to give you the ice cream?"
"No, this is a pleasant surprise. Who can resist ice cream?" Zuo Baixuan didn't dodge and let Luan Yenan perform his couple's duty, gently wiping the chocolate residue from the corner of her mouth.
Luan Yenan smacked her lips. The two small bites of ice cream she had just tasted were rich milk flavored with a hint of sweet vanilla.
She stared at Zuo Baixuan's mouth for a long time.
I regretted not having tried another bite.
The ice cream tastes pretty good.
Zuo Baixuan threw the popsicle stick into the trash can and grabbed Luan Yenan's hand: "Why are you still standing here in a daze? It's time to go."
“Okay, let’s go to Professor Chen’s office first.” Luan Yennan nodded at Zuo Baixuan.
"Oh right, I heard from Lingdan that she was helping out with Professor Chen today. So, Professor Chen called you to ask us to help out too?" Zuo Baixuan wiped her hands and threw away the tissue.
Luan Yenan's gaze traveled from Zuo Baixuan's hand to her fingertips, then to the tissue, before returning as the tissue was discarded.
"Luo Yun is here."
"Is she planning to send you money again?" Zuo Baixuan asked rhetorically.
Luan Yenan laughed out loud, raised his hand and patted Zuo Baixuan's head. All his actions came from the heart and were involuntary.
Not wanting her hair to be messed up, Zuo Baixuan grabbed Luan Yenan's hand and pulled her forward, encircling her arm and leading her forward: "Let's go, let's go take a look."
"Okay." Seeing that Zuo Baixuan was subtly avoiding him, Luan Yenan let her hold his arm and let her pull him along.
...
When they arrived at the office, Luo Yun was not there yet, nor was Professor Chen. Jiang Lingdan was studying next to Chen Huanyu in the office.
"Wow, senior, you're amazing! I've learned so much! Let me copy your thought process later." Jiang Lingdan was practically glued to Chen Huanyu's side, her eyes fixed on the screen.
Chen Huanyu's ears turned bright red. She simply hummed in response and looked up to see Luan Yenan and Zuo Baixuan approaching.