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Chapter 61: I’m Handling Business
Cheng Ge felt guilty, knowing full well he was just bitten by Wen Ling. “Ah… is there?”
“Yes, it’s very red, and it looks like it’s bleeding. If you don’t believe me, ask Lin Hai and the others to look.” Saying that, he really beckoned Lin Hai and Zhang Fan over to look together.
“No need, no need!” Cheng Ge was panicking in his heart. “I remember now, um… I’m a person who loves to bite his lips. I was too annoyed while doing homework just now and accidentally bit them.”
“Oh~” Wang Lei dragged out his tone to show he understood.
Cheng Ge didn’t dare to make eye contact with his other roommates at all. He hurriedly sat back in his chair and held the barbecue up in front of Wen Ling. “You eat.”
Wen Ling lowered his head and grabbed two skewers from the barbecue bucket. He stood up and bowed to Wang Lei and the others at nearly ninety degrees: “Thank you for the barbecue. I still have things to do, I’ll go back first. Goodbye everyone.”
Cheng Ge and the others in the dorm were all bewildered. Cheng Ge covered his eyes in embarrassment, not knowing where this guy learned to bow.
Only after hearing the sound of the door closing did he realize he needed to chase after him. He hurriedly rushed out, leaving the three roommates looking at each other in dismay.
Wang Lei: “What’s wrong?”
Zhang Fan: “Maybe Xiao Wen is a bit shy, and you were too enthusiastic?”
Lin Hai: “Then why did Cheng Ge chase out?”
A moment of silence. The three all shook their heads.
In fact, Cheng Ge didn’t know what he was running out at a life-and-death speed to chase for either.
The current situation was Cheng Ge holding onto Wen Ling’s arm, one frozen, the other bewildered.
Cheng Ge hemmed and hawed: “I… I, um, remember to call me before sleeping…”
Idiot! Cheng Ge wanted to slap himself to death. What the hell was he talking about, making it seem like he was eagerly waiting to pick up the phone.
“Okay, I know. Um,” Wen Ling lowered his head slightly, lifting his eyelids, “Your lips. I’m sorry. I haven’t learned well. I didn’t do it on purpose.”
“Ah? It’s fine, it’s fine! Nothing at all…”
“Mn,” Wen Ling nodded. “Then I’ll go back to the dorm first.”
“Okay, okay.” Cheng Ge watched Wen Ling walk two steps and enter the dorm. Before closing the door, Wen Ling quickly glanced at him, then quickly shifted his gaze away.
With a soft “bang,” the door closed.
Cheng Ge was actually totally confused by Wen Ling’s reaction. It wasn’t that it was abnormal, just a bit strange. And how come he seemed to see that Wen Ling’s ears were especially red?
Cheng Ge touched his head and entered the dorm, hearing Lin Hai talking about the newly built faculty dormitory.
“It’s like a villa, the environment is super good, and the equipment is super complete. It’s much better than our place.”
“There seems to be double rooms and single rooms.”
“The main thing is I heard students can live there too, it’s just really expensive. I can’t afford it.”
“About how much?” Cheng Ge suddenly joined the conversation.
“At least one or two thousand a semester, I heard. Our ordinary dorm is only four or five hundred a semester. That one is almost triple the price, too expensive.”
“It really is quite expensive,” Cheng Ge said softly.
“Right? Right? Otherwise, I’d have relocated my whole family there, hahaha. Then you’d all have to rely on me, hahahaha…”
Zhang Fan rolled his eyes at Lin Hai: “Idiot, suspected to be illusions before being poisoned by eating a group-buy meal.”
“Hey!” Wang Lei exclaimed, easily startled. “Speaking of group-buy meals, I claimed a three-yuan red packet yesterday.”
Zhang Fan: “…”
Lin Hai: “…”
Zhang Fan, who only claimed 0.2 yuan: “No one cares.”
Lin Hai, who only claimed 0.1 yuan: “Who asked you? I just said who asked you?”
The teasing sounds of the few people were gradually isolated by the balcony door. Cheng Ge put away his change of clothes and entered the bathroom.
The environment quieted down. Cheng Ge remembered Wen Ling’s words just now. Wen Ling said he didn’t mind, as long as he didn’t ignore him, the rest didn’t matter.
Actually, Cheng Ge didn’t believe it. How could someone not mind being deceived and utilized? But he also had to believe it.
A person like Wen Ling probably wouldn’t lie at all.
But that made him feel even more uncomfortable.
Cheng Ge wiped his face clean with a towel, and remembered what Lin Hai had said about the new dorms. Double rooms, students could also live there, it was just very expensive.
Cheng Ge sighed. If the future was destined to not be beautiful, then he would cherish the present. He wanted to give Wen Ling the present he liked and wanted the most…
Recently, Cheng Ge had also started using the positioning software. The positioning software Wen Ling had bought before was originally two-way, it was just that Cheng Ge had felt it was unnecessary before, and he didn’t like doing such things, so he hadn’t used it.
Now, because sometimes he had no way to watch over Wen Ling, and he was genuinely worried about Wen Ling’s situation, he would always occasionally open his phone to see where Wen Ling was, or send messages to Wen Ling to ask what he was doing.
And Wen Ling was always moving between two points: the dorm and the classroom. There had barely been any fluctuations.
There were only two times with major fluctuations, where Wen Ling directly went off-campus. Cheng Ge was scared out of his wits when he checked the location. Once outside the campus, there was absolutely no safety guarantee.
Cheng Ge hurriedly ran to the toilet to call Wen Ling, asking him what on earth he was doing running off-campus.
Wen Ling first remained quiet for a while, only answering when Cheng Ge was about to get suspicious.
“I’m handling business.” Wen Ling said the same thing both times, his tone even rising at the end.
This made Cheng Ge unable to bear pouring cold water on him. He hemmed and hawed, only saying: “Then pay attention to safety.”
Fortunately, both off-campus trips were false alarms.
When Cheng Ge suddenly thought back on it later, he felt that Wen Ling’s phrase “I’m handling business” was particularly like “a child secretly wearing adult’s clothes.”
If an adult didn’t want the other party to ask more, they would generally and simply say “I’m handling business” to prevaricate. But Wen Ling even added a particle like “ya.”
How should he put it? Learning half-heartedly, yet also acting like he was acting spoiled.
As for what exact “business” Wen Ling was handling, upholding the “principle of privacy,” Cheng Ge had never asked.
Since that day, Lin Yuchen hadn’t come to school again. Cheng Ge thought this was probably what they called “avoiding the limelight.” Therefore, his days with Wen Ling had actually been quite pleasant, not as fraught with danger as he had imagined.
However, regardless of how Lin Yuchen avoided the limelight, according to the progress revealed by 001, someone in their family was destined to go in (to prison), and their family business would also be destroyed in a day. So in this chess match, he had probably won.
It was just that he didn’t expect the retribution for that group of people to come so quickly.
Recently, Cheng Ge was driven onto a perch like a duck, half-pushed and half-willingly participating in a city-level basketball game.
At the time, he was taking orders playing games in the dorm. Wang Lei suddenly rushed in, gripped Cheng Ge’s desk with both hands, squatted down, and opened his mouth miserably: “Cheng Ge~ Are you willing to participate in a basketball game for me?”
Cheng Ge’s hand playing the game trembled from Wang Lei’s voice, almost causing him to lose. He clicked his tongue in his heart, his tone neither salty nor light: “Wait a minute.”
“Mn mn mn.” Wang Lei nodded repeatedly, his breathing growing lighter, afraid that Cheng Ge wouldn’t agree.
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