I really don't want to date a girl addicted to the internet!

"Don't mention it. Everyone says that Teacher Shen has an oval face, but her cheeks are a bit round, like they've been carefully designed, giving her a grand look. If you still don't believe me, I'll just have to kiss you to prove it." The boy pretended to lean closer to her.

"Cheng Feiyu, stay away from me!" The girl became alert in a second, put her hands on her chest and distanced herself from him, then glanced at her other companions out of the corner of her eye.

The others tacitly distanced themselves from the two, casually discussing where to go next.

"That's too much. Could it be that she's deliberately trying to get me to praise her again?" The boy rubbed his chin, observing her.

"Shut up, give me one." The girl coldly held out her small hand.

"Okay." Cheng Fei handed her a candied hawthorn.

Shen Xi held it up to her eyes and examined it carefully. She then brought it closer and sniffed it with her delicate nostrils before taking a small, tentative bite. Afterward, she glanced at her side and frowned slightly.

"It doesn't taste good?" Cheng Fei stared at her.

"It's the way you're staring at me that disgusts me," the girl said, making no attempt to hide her disgust.

"That's because the way you eat, like a little animal, is so cute." The boy said matter-of-factly.

"Shut up, that's even more disgusting." The girl glared at him fiercely.

"He's clearly trying to entice me on purpose, sigh, so stubborn." The boy sighed and went back to eating his candied hawthorn.

This made the girl even more annoyed as she took a bite of the candied hawthorn, her fair cheeks bulging slightly as she made a soft crunching sound, as if she were chewing on his flesh.

Some time later, when Nagasaki Asuna and her friends ran into the fashion store to try on clothes, Cheng Fei and Shen Xi sat together in the rest area.

"Teacher Shen, aren't you going to pick out some clothes? I already said it's my treat, so take whatever you like as a gift." The boy looked at the girl sitting upright.

“We didn’t feel any significant changes in gravity on the binary star system, so its mass isn’t that large, and it’s impossible for it to form a three-body system with two suns.” The girl ignored him and pondered to herself, stroking her chin.

"Here we go again? You really don't want any clothes? How about that white dress over there?" The boy looked helpless and then pointed to a shelf.

"Sorry, I'm not like them. I'm not interested in gifts that everyone has." The girl turned her face away, her eyes narrowed and her face showing displeasure.

"So you're only interested in going shopping and dating alone with me, my little sister Shen?" The boy leaned closer to her.

"You've got it wrong. I have no interest in such a time-wasting, superficial activity. I can just buy clothes online." The girl tossed her hair, her face cold.

"Yes, Teacher Shen is naturally beautiful. She wears a 180-yuan dress like it costs 18,000 yuan. Who can beat you, the cutest girl in the multiverse?" The boy nodded repeatedly.

"Enough! I'm sick of hearing this fake flattery. Let's get back to the topic of the dual-body world." The girl glared at him impatiently.

"Alright, let's get down to business." Cheng Fei nodded, thought for a moment, and said, "We can indeed rule out the possibility that the binary star itself is part of a three-body system. So let's assume that there are other massive, non-luminous objects in the galaxy, such as brown dwarfs with insufficient mass to ignite fusion, or even a black hole. The other two suns are two very different stars, so their brightness and other characteristics are completely different. This chaotic mutual perturbation leads to the current chaotic state of the binary world... That's right, it's completely solved, isn't it!"

At the end, the boy clapped his hands with a serious expression and breathed a sigh of relief.

Shen Xi glanced at him sideways without expression, and didn't say anything. There was a hint of contempt or pity in her pure, dark eyes.

"It seems that Teacher Shen has a different opinion. Please express it." The boy coughed and gestured for him to speak.

“Cheng Feiyu, there’s a limit to self-deception. What you’ve said doesn’t explain the most basic phenomenon: the inability to observe stars moving away and becoming flying stars. Therefore, the hypothesis of three-body motion is simply not valid. Don’t try to fool me.” The girl’s tone was completely flat.

The boy scratched his head. "But the situation with binary stars is too abnormal. The brightness of the sun will change back and forth, and it may even go out directly. How can two stars move to produce such an effect?"

"That's why we need to continue observing. We'll go online every day until we figure out the operating rules of the dual-body world." The girl's tone left no room for argument.

“I don’t have any objections, but I feel it will take too much time, even more troublesome than when you were stargazing in the corridor. As the old saying goes, nothing is impossible if you are willing to give up, so why don’t we…”

"I'll be with you every day, isn't that enough?" The girl glanced at him, her face indifferent.

The boy met her gaze for a second, then lowered his head and said, "That's enough. I love you too, Shen Xi."

"This is inexplicable. Could it be that Cheng Feiyu's brain is also undergoing the Three-Body Problem, which is why his logic is so chaotic?" The girl was puzzled.

“Because companionship is the most enduring expression of love. ‘I will be with you every day,’ isn’t that saying ‘I love you’? Teacher Shen is so tactful.” The boy mimicked her tone and expression, then sighed comfortably.

The girl's brows furrowed in disgust, and she hugged her arms, shivering. "Enough, shut up. If you keep this up, I'll regret saying that."

Just then, Zhou Han ran over from a distance, excitedly asking, "Cheng Fei, Cheng Fei, which of these two hats do you think I should choose?"

"Cheng Fei, look! Should Ye Shuang wear this cute dress or this ladylike dress?" Nagasaki Asuna pushed the uneasy-looking obedient girl over, mischievously turning the petite latter around like a product to display her.

The boy stroked his chin, then solemnly began to evaluate them one by one, "I think..."

The aloof girl with long, dark hair took a deep breath, bit her lip, turned her face away, and narrowed her eyes as she stared at the lucky cat waving its arm and laughing at the cashier counter not far away.

In this atmosphere, the Corridor Research Department spent a pleasant (presumably) afternoon on the pedestrian street of the resort.

In the evening, a group of people dined at a barbecue restaurant on the street corner, where the experienced young man, as usual, took on the responsibility of grilling the ingredients.

"Cheng Fei, Cheng Fei, Ruan Jingyi and I want to eat chicken wings. Can you grill some for us? I'll pour you a Coke." Zhou Han smiled and placed the drink in front of the boy.

"Deal." The boy nodded, moved the pork belly he was going to grill for himself aside, and let two chicken wings cut in line to take over the grill.

Shen Xi held a cup of Want Want milk, her gaze fixed on Zhou Han and Ruan Jingyi, her face expressionless.

The petite girl noticed the gaze on her side, her eyelids twitched, and she asked cautiously, "Shen Xi, you've been staring at us the whole time, is something wrong?"

"I have a question for you." The aloof girl raised her chin.

"Wh-what's the problem?" Zhou Han met her cold gaze and shrank back.

"Have you noticed any unusual changes in yourselves during this time?" Shen Xi asked in a completely flat tone.

"A special change?" Zhou Han and Ruan Jingyi looked at each other, completely bewildered. "What do you mean? I don't quite understand."

"It means exactly what it says." Shen Xi stared at the two of them thoughtfully.

"Actually, this is a research project of the club. The topic is whether spending a lot of time with Her Majesty the Empress will awaken special abilities. The two of you are the test subjects," Cheng Fei said, flipping a chicken wing.

"Awakened a special ability?" Zhou Han's round eyes widened slightly, then she shook her head. "I haven't."

“Mm.” Ruan Jingyi nodded from the side.

"Huh? Ruan Jingyi, you're pregnant?" Zhou Han was stunned.

The quiet girl quickly shook her head again.

“What Ms. Ruan means is that she doesn’t have it either,” Nagasaki Asuna explained at the right time.

“Me neither!” Miriam raised her hand.

"Thank you for the feedback, senior, but you haven't had much contact with Shen Xi, so of course it's impossible." Cheng Fei replied with a businesslike smile.

"Junior, sob sob sob..." The blonde girl was inexplicably moved.

"So the smokescreen that some people used to confuse the public can be declared over." Shen Xi looked at Cheng Fei and sneered.

The boy seemed neither to see nor hear her, humming an off-key tune as he flipped the grilled ingredients, then placed a large shrimp on the plate in front of her.

"Cheng Fei is humming 'Love Through Lifetimes,' isn't he?" Nagasaki Asuna suddenly looked enlightened.

"You can tell from that?" the boy asked in surprise.

"Because I've covered it, hehehe~" The sweet girl laughed with no small amount of pride.

“I’ve heard Miss Nagasaki’s cover, it’s so beautiful, it’s heavenly!” Miriam said, her eyes sparkling.

Shen Xi stared at the prawns on the plate, then suddenly struck the boy under the table. When he looked up at her, the girl coldly bit into the middle of the prawn's back, leaving its smooth shape incomplete and giving it an indescribable cruelty.

The boy shivered.

As dusk fell, the research department members, having filled their stomachs, returned to the hotel via the same route.

Along the way, Cheng Fei caught sight of a public piano by the roadside, put his hands in his pockets, stopped walking, and seemed to be deep in thought.

"Hey, Cheng Fei, do you want to play?" Nagasaki Asuna, who had been paying attention to the boy, tilted her head.

"Your junior plays the piano beautifully too!" Miriam clasped her hands together in enthusiastic praise.

Ye Shuang curled her lip, a hint of disdain flashing in her eyes.

"I'll pass." The boy shook his head casually, then looked to the side, "Teacher Shen, you've said before that you can play the piano, but I've never heard you play it."

"Cheng Feiyu wants to question me?" The aloof girl, who had been pretending to admire the scenery, raised her chin and turned around, her little face showing displeasure.

"That's not what I meant. I just wanted to hear you play it once." The boy gazed into her pure, dark eyes.

"Ha, why should I play for you? Don't dream about it." Shen Xi turned her face away without any politeness.

"I've played for you so many times, can't you just consider this a response? Is this a reasonable request?" The boy continued to gaze at her.

The girl paused for a second, her eyes flickered, but she still didn't look at him, her tone unchanging, "Okay, what do you want to hear?"

"Whatever," the boy said cheerfully.

So Shen Xi walked to the piano alone and sat down, her back straight, her long, dark hair reaching her waist and falling smoothly like silk, her small hands touching the keys expressionlessly.

"Wow, Shen Xi really has that air of a sheltered young lady from a wealthy family." Zhou Han sighed softly as she looked at her.

The aloof girl took a deep breath, lowered her eyes, leaned her upper body slightly forward, and her fair and slender fingertips landed nimbly and powerfully on the black and white piano keys. Her small feet, covered in spotless white socks and black uniform shoes, lightly touched the pedals.

As the tranquil prelude slowly unfolded, Cheng Fei raised an eyebrow.

"Eh, playing this? That's foul." Nagasaki Asuna blinked.

Ye Shuang was also taken aback.

“It’s ‘My Heart Will Go On,’ my junior played it!” Miriam suddenly remembered.

Like a lighthouse quietly lighting up on the horizon during a long night voyage, passersby were drawn to the music and stopped to watch.

Compared to Cheng Fei's performance, Shen Xi's technique was gentler and more soothing, like calm waves receding and surging back, the force of the waves lapping against the shore soft and affectionate.

At dusk, when the world meets the night, a beautiful melody blossoms from the fingertips of a cool young girl. The afterglow of the setting sun falls on her thick hair and eyelashes, as if gently kissing her, daring only to lightly touch her smooth forehead and nose, afraid of disturbing her exquisite and delicate beauty, like a work of art.

As the melody progresses, her high notes with her right hand are like shimmering silver fragments on the sea surface, while her low notes with her left hand are like unfathomable surging waves at the bottom of the ocean. The two intertwine, like unspeakable emotions surging in the heart. The surging and pure thoughts transform into waves, immersing everyone in the music and preventing any distracting thoughts from arising.

Just as the wave was about to reach its highest point, the handsome young man quietly sat down beside her and joined in the performance, instantly injecting powerful and surging chords.

Shen Xi was taken aback for a moment, then turned her head to meet Cheng Fei's nonchalant, smiling gaze. She then subtly looked away and began to cooperate with him, turning her solo performance into a more complex four-hand duet.

"Those two are amazing..."

"Are they a couple...?"

"This is going too far with all this public displays of affection..."

In this atmosphere, a barely perceptible smile curved the corners of the girl's lips, like the silvery ice crystals reflecting the clear, moonlit glow on the summit of a snow-capped mountain that never melts.

818. Nagasaki Asuna performs her talent.

Nagasaki Asuna gazed at Shen Xi's profile with her hands behind her back, blinked, and smiled in a way that was hard to decipher as either emotion or something else.

Ye Shuang's gaze first fell on the two people playing the piano, then quickly swept across the crowd of onlookers. Noticing some passersby raising their phones to record, the girl with pigtails frowned slightly and bit her lip, her expression showing a hint of unease.

"Is Shuangshuang worried?" Nagasaki Asuna turned her head to look at her as if she sensed something and said in a low voice.

"If Miss finds out about what they're doing..." The obedient girl lowered her head, her eyes flickering, her fingers twisting together.

She could guarantee that she would keep it a secret, but she couldn't guarantee that the photos and videos wouldn't get out of Lin Xuanqi's sight. She didn't even dare to think about what Lin Xuanqi would think of her then.

"Then Shuangshuang can get married early? Congratulations~" Nagasaki Asuna's eyes darted around, and she smiled as she hugged the other person and whispered in their ear.

"Nana! What nonsense are you spouting now?" Ye Shuang glared at her with reddened eyes, almost bursting into tears.

"Anyway, Cheng Fei is almost ready. If he's really unlucky and Lin finds out beforehand, it's okay. Then you can be Cheng Fei's girlfriend without worry." Nagasaki Asuna gently stroked the twin-tailed girl's head, blinked, and smiled mischievously.

The obedient girl's eyes flickered, and her gaze unconsciously drifted to the boy playing the piano over there. She felt even more panicked and pressed her slender hand hard against her rapidly beating heart.

Miriam stood to the side, watching the two girls whispering to each other, one smiling brightly, the other flustered and shy. Although she couldn't hear what they were saying, she could tell they were flirting with each other. Her chin trembled as she bit her finger hard, barely managing to hold back her tears.

After a while, the final notes of the piano piece, like the breath of a departing lover on a windowpane, faded away with lingering reluctance, disappearing without a trace, leaving only a lingering warmth in the heart.

Amidst spontaneous applause from passersby, the two musicians rose and left the crowd, followed by several members of the Corridor Research Department.

Once out of sight, Cheng Fei leaned forward, hands in his pockets, and approached the aloof girl beside him with great interest. "Teacher Shen, I didn't expect you to play so well. Could it be that you've been wanting to play with me for a while and practiced beforehand? Your Celestial Queen has too many little schemes up her sleeve."

"Being arrogant is one thing, but this level of performance is a piece of cake for me. Only a brainless Cheng Feiyu needs to practice specially. Could it be that he's been wanting to play with me for a while?" Shen Xi flicked her hair, sneering without showing any weakness.

"As expected of Her Majesty the Empress, you guessed that. I did want to play this piece with you back then, but I didn't expect you to take the initiative to play it." The young man looked at her and smiled and nodded.

The girl turned her face away expressionlessly.

"Teacher Shen, by the way, why did you choose this song? Are you perhaps taking this opportunity to express your feelings? I have indeed received it." The boy continued nodding to himself.

"Cheng Feiyu is being presumptuous again. She just thinks you can't appreciate anything too refined, so she reluctantly plays something shallow as a response to satisfy you." The girl sneered, not without disdain.

"Really?" The boy leaned forward to examine the cold little face.

"Otherwise?" The girl glared at him without any politeness, then subtly looked away.