You're my wife, don't doubt it!

The day finally came to the Crusades. Xiao Yao listened with great interest, and Li Teng spoke with great enthusiasm, raising his voice even higher than usual.

He recounted the rise of the Seljuk Turks, how they expelled the moderates of the Fatimid dynasty, seized control of Jerusalem, and then persecuted and plundered pilgrims traveling to Jerusalem. He also described how the Byzantine Empire was severely threatened, forcing its emperor to turn west and seek help from the Pope.

Xiao Yao was listening intently when his phone in his pocket started vibrating intermittently. He initially intended to ignore it, but after a while, the call came in.

Helpless, Xiao Yao had no choice but to hang up the phone and secretly start pressing the keypad on his phone under the table.

Shen Jie: What are you doing?

Shen Jie: "The dog is talking."

Shen Jie: "I'm going to bite you!"

Xiao Yao: "?"

Xiao Yao: "I'm in class, boss."

Xiao Yao: "Everyone's looking at me."

Shen Jie: "I don't want to practice my voice anymore. Let's skip class together today. I'll take you scuba diving."

Xiao Yao: "No, Teacher Li talked about the Crusades today, and I wanted to listen carefully."

Shen Jie: "Do you miss me?"

Xiao Yao: "I think about it day and night, and I can't sleep at night."

Shen Jie: "Why didn't you choose the same course as your Yu Luying?"

Xiao Yao: "What the hell am I supposed to choose? I'd rather choose a class with you than with her, so I can see you every afternoon."

Shen Jie: "All you do is say is, 'Then why don't you change groups now?' I asked Zhang Huan, and it's possible. What kind of lousy summer camp is this? Can't people even make friends properly?"

"I'm not changing it," Xiao Yao thought.

What's wrong with this girl today? Is she deliberately trying to prevent me from paying attention in class?

Sigh, they must have been unable to hold it in any longer.

To be honest, Xiao Yao felt very guilty for neglecting Shen Jie these past few days.

Moreover, he also wanted to go on a date with Shen Jie.

It was purely out of desperation.

The thought of Shen Jie being inexplicably neglected by him, and how her reaction afterward was not to get angry, argue, or engage in a cold war, but instead to continue to cling to him and have fun, made Xiao Yao feel even more guilty.

How about we take the risk and arrange a clandestine rendezvous today?

The summer camp is ten days long, and today is only the seventh day.

Meet with her once, reassure her, and hold out for three more days; that should get you through this period.

Xiao Yao: "No change. But I can try to sneak out tonight to keep you company, since the group activity tonight is at the beach anyway."

Shen Jie: "You didn't even ask me if I had any plans? You act all high and mighty, making decisions on your own."

Xiao Yao: "My goddess, would you do me the honor of a date tonight?"

Shen Jie: "What else do you want me to do?"

Shen Jie: "Hmph, we'll see then."

Xiao Yao: ".....Okay, I'm going to class now."

Shen Jie: "Are you tired of Yu Luying too?"

Xiao Yao: "How could that be?"

Xiao Yao: "No, what do you mean by 'also'?"

Shen Jie: "You neither come to see me nor keep my sister company. Have you taken a fancy to another girl?"

What, now she's "my sister" instead of "little hussy"?

Xiao Yao: "No, I can barely keep up with my classes, who would I have my eye on? In this whole summer camp, who could be better than the two of you?"

After thinking about it, I deleted the word "two" and sent it.

Shen Jie: "Nonsense, with so many beautiful women gathered here, isn't there a single one you find attractive?"

Xiao Yao: "Now I only want to go to my Lord, and I have no worldly desires."

Shen Jie: Really?

Xiao Yao: "Besides, these are all college students. You know I don't like people older than me."

As soon as the text message was sent, Xiao Yao realized something was wrong and kept complaining and cursing himself. Unfortunately, there was no 2-minute recall function for text messages in this day and age.

Xiao Yao: "I mean, I don't like women who are more than two years older than me."

Shen Jie: "Don't explain anymore, I know I've wronged you."

Xiao Yao: "......"

Xiao Yao: "Please let me attend class, let's chat tonight."

Shen Jie: "Besides, isn't your old flame Zhao Xiaomei in your group too? I saw her wearing a green camp uniform."

Xiao Yao: "They've already lost interest in me, and they didn't bother me at all this time."

Xiao Yao: "The kind of person she is only enthusiastic for a short time. Once she gets bored, she moves on to a different target. Ouyang is the same way."

Shen Jie: "Are you disappointed?"

Xiao Yao: "Oh right, right, I'm so disappointed."

Shen Jie: "Anyway, it's not that you haven't thought about it, it's that you haven't found a suitable target. I understand."

Xiao Yao: "Sis, I was wrong. If you keep sending these, my phone will be disconnected again."

Shen Jie: "Alright, enough with the nonsense, let's get down to business. When you're out and about, there are all sorts of people, and Brother Bo isn't here, so you need to keep an eye on Yu Luying for him."

Xiao Yao: "What are you looking at? She's not a child. Everyone at this summer camp knows her well. Her family is the host for the whole event. She's practically a rich young lady here."

Shen Jie: "Knowing me inside and out, how did I manage to sneak in by changing my name?"

Xiao Yao: "Didn't you use my connections? If there's a bad guy in this, it has to be me."

Shen Jie: "So you do know you're a bad person."

Xiao Yao: "".

Shen Jie: "I told you to keep an eye on her, so just keep an eye on her. Stop asking so many questions. Who is her roommate?"

Xiao Yao: "I don't know, I didn't ask. Why would I ask?"

Shen Jie: "Don't you already know who my roommate is?"

Xiao Yao: "Ha! I didn't know that she was pointing her finger at me and cursing me."

Shen Jie: "Then you still don't care enough about Yu Luying. If someone is fanning the flames at this time, people's hearts can easily be stirred up."

Xiao Yao: "Aren't you talking about Yu Luying? You're implying something about yourself, aren't you?"

Shen Jie: "If that's how you think, I don't object."

Xiao Yao: "What bad things did that old nun say about me to you this time?"

Failed to send.

Sure enough, the server is down again.

Xiao Yao looked up. It was already 1099, the year the Crusaders first captured Jerusalem.

What a joy.

After finishing his afternoon classes, Xiao Yao went to the cafeteria for lunch, but after wandering around for a while, he couldn't find a place to charge his phone.

According to the schedule, tonight's group activity is watching a movie at an open-air cinema by the sea, an arrangement that Xiao Yao quite likes.

An open-air cinema... I've never experienced anything like this before, even though I'm living in this era.

Wearing flip-flops to Mass and class would be disrespectful, so Xiao Yao wore sneakers and socks. Since they were going to the beach again that evening, it would be better to change into a comfortable and breathable pair of flip-flops.

Xiao Yao went back to 1503 to change into slippers. As soon as he entered, he heard Gao Sijun say from inside, "Old Xiao, you're back."

"Ah." Xiao Yao didn't untie his shoelaces, but took off his sneakers with his feet.

"There's a pair of girls' leather shoes in the bathroom. Do you know why?" Gao Sijun said.

"What... leather shoes?" Xiao Yao's heart sank.

He went into the bathroom and saw two small, black leather shoes lying haphazardly next to the toilet, with Dior's gold bee logo on them.

Judging from the position of the shoes and the angle at which he was lying, it looks like he was thrown out of a mirror.

It looks like it was thrown out of the mirror by someone, doesn't it?

Xiao Yao felt a chill run down his spine and turned around abruptly to look at the mirror.

There was nothing in the mirror.

There wasn't even Xiao Yao himself.

Xiao Yao calmly kicked the bathroom door shut, locked it from the inside, then picked up a toilet peg and smashed the hard end against the mirror.