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

Shen Xi took a deep breath, her expression unchanged. "Cheng Feiyu, stop putting on airs. I have my reasons."

"What's your reasoning? Why the sudden change to the plans you've been making all this time? Tell me about it." The boy looked genuinely surprised and gestured for him to speak.

"..." The girl glanced at him out of the corner of her eye, then looked away, squinting her eyes and falling silent.

After another brief silence, Cheng Fei smiled helplessly, gently patted her head, stood up and extended his palm to her, "Let's go."

"Where to?" the girl asked him expressionlessly.

"Of course, it's in bed. It's getting late anyway." The boy shrugged as if it were the most natural thing in the world.

"What do you want?" The girl became wary in an instant.

"What kind of expression is that? Of course, it means he's holding the princess during the regular meeting and then getting a good night's sleep."

"Pretending to be something you're not, as if you can't sleep well with that guy surnamed Lin." The girl sneered.

"Sigh, let's not talk about that anymore. Please take your little hand over." The boy shook his palm.

The girl's eyes flickered, but she remained motionless, showing a look of disgust. "You just finished fooling around with that vixen and you're covered in disgusting smells, and you still want to lay a hand on me?"

"Anyway, you'll have to get used to her smell eventually," the boy said in a nonchalant tone.

"What did you say?" The girl's eyes narrowed, and she was displeased.

"Little cutie, are you really not going to give me any face?" The boy shook his hand again.

The girl paused for a second, then turned her face away. "Both of my hands are occupied, so I can't let you hold them."

Cheng Fei couldn't help but laugh as he watched her clutching a caramel macchiato in one hand and a tiramisu in the other. "She really is my princess."

As soon as he finished speaking, the boy took the tiramisu away, grabbed her cool, soft little hand, and pulled her light body up from the chair.

The girl did not resist, but simply turned her face away from him, as if her thick sideburns could conceal something.

The boy led the girl out of the study and into her bedroom.

Shen Xi silently placed the dessert on the bedside table, climbed onto the bed and sat in her own spot by the headboard, staring blankly at the wall with her stubborn lips tightly closed.

Cheng Fei got into bed from the other side and sat down next to her. Looking at the familiar room, he breathed a sigh of relief.

At this moment, the girl beside him suddenly moved with a loud sound, draping the blanket over her shoulders like a monster. Dressed in short-sleeved pajamas, she moved to kneel down in front of him, then buried her upper body in his arms, her small hands climbing up his back, her head burying itself near his neck and pressing against his chin. Her face was buried in a comfortable spot, completely covered by her long, dark hair. Her frail body trembled slightly as if sitting on pins and needles, but quickly adjusted and relaxed, remaining still.

The boy looked down at the aloof girl who was going through the whole process smoothly, and couldn't help but smile. He hugged her back and pressed her into his arms without any politeness, as if he wanted to force her into his own body.

Shen Xi trembled violently, buried her face and clenched her teeth as if desperately enduring something, and said angrily, "Useless vixen, in the end she can't solve anything."

"Sweetie, this is your responsibility, not hers." The young man gently stroked the back of her head, inhaling the faint fragrance emanating from her hair.

"Dirty and vile aquatic mammals." The girl was even more annoyed.

"Alright, let's begin the meeting now." The young man cleared his throat and said seriously, "Today's topic is the discussion about Her Majesty the Empress's willful and reckless behavior that almost led to a major mistake."

"Knowing I am the Empress, you obey orders. Change the discussion to one about Cheng Feiyu's rebellious and disobedient behavior." The girl shifted unhappily.

"That's enough, Shen Xi. Please be honest about your mistakes. You're not planning to back out for doing something like this, are you? This isn't like you." The young man gently stroked her smooth back through the fabric.

“First of all, I did nothing wrong,” the girl said without hesitation.

"Really?"

"Cheng Feiyu is going to question me?" The girl punched his shoulder.

"At least explain why you suddenly turned on me?"

"First of all, there was no sudden change of heart."

"No?"

"I've told Cheng Feiyu countless times to break up with him quickly. Anyway, that guy surnamed Lin must have suspected you to suddenly appear. The timing was just right, so I decided to help you out. It's Cheng Feiyu who doesn't know what's good for her." The girl said in a muffled voice with her face down.

"You've actually made me ungrateful?" the boy exclaimed in surprise.

"Heh, that's true. Besides, I didn't force you. Otherwise, I could have just told that guy surnamed Lin that he was inside." The girl said confidently.

The boy hesitated to speak, yet remained silent, seemingly wanting to speak but unable to.

Shen Xi paused, her voice turning into a gritted teeth, as if she were furious and embarrassed. "Besides, I was in a bad mood that day. I kindly asked Cheng Feiyu to hand over the secret, but he dared to ignore me. He's courting death, so don't blame me."

"Feeling down? Why?" the boy asked, puzzled.

The air in the room fell silent.

"Teacher Shen?" The boy nudged her.

"Menstrual period," the girl uttered in a flat, emotionless tone.

The boy suddenly realized, "So this is the real reason?"

"No, the real reason is that Cheng Feiyu brought this upon himself." The girl's voice had a stubborn quality, and her expression was hidden by her face being buried.

"So you mean you can't help it when you're in a bad mood because you're on your period? You could have just told me that, cutie." The boy sighed helplessly.

"I don't know how to tell him, and Cheng Feiyu himself said he would remember the date, but unsurprisingly he completely forgot. He always has the best way of saying things." The girl was even more unhappy and punched his shoulder hard.

"Shen Xi." The boy mourned, "I only remembered it because you yourself were accurate with the date. Your body is really too weak."

"..." The girl fell silent, lost in thought.

"Alright, since things have come to this, let's talk about compensation." The boy smacked his lips.

"What compensation?" The girl suddenly looked up at him, her face becoming wary.

"Of course it's compensation for making me climb the ceiling so hard. Teacher Shen isn't planning to renege on her promise, is she?" The boy looked into her pure, dark eyes.

"It was Cheng Feiyu's own problem, why should I compensate him?" The girl glared at him fiercely.

"Is it really my fault?" The boy leaned closer to look at her directly. "Although you might be very unhappy that I didn't tell you the secret even though you tried to be cute back then, that's a different matter, isn't it?"

"So you knew it all along, so it's Cheng Feiyu who should compensate me!" The girl raised her voice without backing down.

"So, Teacher Shen isn't going to compensate me? I went to so much trouble to keep Lin Xuanqi from finding out. I think you owe me far more than I owe you this time, so I don't owe you anything. You can just compensate me a little bit, okay?" The boy said seriously.

Shen Xi frowned, staring at him with disbelief. Then she took a deep breath, her flat chest heaving, and uttered two words to him in an extremely fierce tone, "Dream on!"

"Is Teacher Shen really going to renege on her promise? Does she have any conscience? You weren't like this before." The boy was shocked.

The girl turned her face away, her eyes flashing rapidly. She took another deep breath, stared at the wall, and said coldly, "I'll give you a choice."

"What choice?"

Shen Xi turned her head, raised her chin, and stared at him with a condescending air, saying slowly and deliberately, "You compensate me first, and then I'll compensate you. One thing at a time, how about that?"

The boy looked at that cold yet serious little face and rubbed his chin. "You won't go back on your word, will you? You'll just say you did nothing wrong or something."

"Get this straight, I'm not that shameless Cheng Feiyu." The girl glared at him without any politeness.

"Okay, then tell me how Teacher Shen wants me to make amends, and how she plans to do so?" The boy nodded tentatively.

“Tell me the secrets Ye Shuang knows,” the girl said immediately.

"So you were still thinking about that." The boy shook his head decisively. "No, how about we change the terms?"

"I only want this. Only this condition can satisfy me, Cheng Fei." The girl emphasized, her face expressionless, as if she had already made up her mind. "In return, I will compensate you until you are satisfied. The conditions are up to you."

The boy looked her up and down, his expression a mixture of surprise and doubt.

"Of course, this is only to compensate you a little more considering the effort you put in. It doesn't mean you can do whatever you want. If you dare to be greedy, you won't get anything." The girl added, her cold voice carrying a warning tone.

Cheng Fei stared at her for a moment, then suddenly realized something. "Shen Xi, could this all be part of your elaborate scheme from beginning to end, trying to lure me into agreeing to your conditions? You're too cunning and wicked!"

“Cheng Feiyu is judging others by his own standards again.” The girl turned her face away, her stern little face making it impossible to guess her thoughts. “If you’re going to accept it, then hurry up, otherwise forget it. I don’t want to satisfy your disgusting inner desires anyway.”

"Is this implying that it's okay for me to make disgusting demands?" The boy looked at her thoughtfully.

"Cheng Fei, I'll count to three, otherwise forget it, three..." The girl looked down at him with pity and said softly.

"Okay, deal, on the condition that you don't renege on your promise?" the boy said decisively.

"I'm the kind of person who never cheats." The girl turned her face away and tossed her hair.

"Yes, yes, I really can't do anything with you, Shen Xi." Cheng Fei sighed as he looked at the aloof girl in front of him, feeling like he didn't know what to say.

He had to admit that, whether or not it was part of her elaborate scheme, he had fallen for it.

The girl glanced at him sideways, a barely perceptible smile playing on her lips, her delicate face remaining expressionless. "So hurry up and hand over the secret."

"Okay, here you go. Be careful not to cut yourself." A three-pointed dagger quietly appeared in the palm of the young man's hand as he gently stroked her back. The young man placed the strangely shaped weapon in front of her. "Here."

Shen Xi stared wide-eyed in disbelief, like a child watching a magic show for the first time, "Where were you hiding? I didn't feel a thing..."

The girl hesitated for a moment as she spoke, then looked down with suspicion.

"It's not hidden in some weird place, thank you!" the boy emphasized.

The girl took the heavy dagger from his hand, examined it carefully, and a thoughtful expression appeared on her face. Then, she suddenly realized something, her pupils contracted, and her face turned to shock. "This is the dagger you used in the corridor?!"

The boy made a gesture as if he were zipping up his mouth.

"How is this possible..." Shen Xi frowned, her expression shifting.

Then she gripped the dagger tightly, gritted her teeth, and stabbed it into the side of the boy, easily piercing a hole in the soft headboard.

The boy's eyelids twitched, and he carefully tried to pry her fingers open to retrieve the dagger. "Teacher Shen, be careful, this is very dangerous."

"You were able to bring back the items from the corridor? How did you do that? Tell me!" The girl snapped her dagger out, gripped it tightly, and stared at him with unprecedented urgency.

The boy glanced at the gleaming blade of the three-pointed dagger. Even though he knew that Shen Xi's speed posed no threat to him, he couldn't help but swallow hard. "I have no comment on that."

"Trash, tell me now!" The girl gripped the dagger tighter, the tip pointing at him intentionally or unintentionally.

"Little cutie, if I remember correctly, I only promised to tell you what Ye Shuang knows. Calm down." The boy's tone was cautious.

Shen Xi stared at his face in silence for a second, then looked down at the dagger, muttering to herself, "No, if you could really bring back any item from the corridor so easily, you wouldn't just bring this. There must be some condition, or maybe this is just a copy..."

833. Cheng Fei put forward three requirements.

Cheng Fei brushed aside the hair that fell to the side of her face and observed her beautiful face, which was showing a complicated expression as she struggled to find an answer.

"What are you doing?" the girl suddenly looked up.

"It's nothing." The boy quickly shook his head and withdrew his hand.

The girl stared at him as if he were the most complex puzzle in the world. She took a deep breath, squirmed in his arms, and pressed her body against his, clearly feeling each other's presence. Her eyelashes trembled slightly as she lowered her eyelids. "Cheng Fei, just tell me, and I'll do anything you ask."

"Shen Xi, you've really gone completely astray now," the boy couldn't help but sigh.

The girl's pure, dark eyes stared unblinkingly, her stubborn lips tightly closed, as if she were both pleading and sulking.

The air in the room remained still for a moment.

The boy glanced at the dagger in her hand. "Have you seen enough? If you have, then give it back. It's not that I don't want you to play with it, but this is really dangerous."

Even a small cut can cause profuse bleeding; this is a characteristic of a three-pointed dagger.

The girl's gaze met his, she gritted her teeth and remained silent for a second, then handed the dagger back to him, turned her face away, and said nothing.

Cheng Fei breathed a sigh of relief and temporarily placed the items on the bedside table away from the edge of the bed.

Shen Xi caught a glimpse of his movement out of the corner of her eye, and said calmly, "Aren't you going to take it back?"

"Let's just leave it for now," the boy said noncommittally.

The girl's eyes flickered.

The boy clapped his hands. "Alright, you've looked at the items. Are you satisfied now?"

"I'm not satisfied!" the girl said in a muffled voice, her small face showing undisguised displeasure as she stared at him intently.

"I promised to tell you the secrets Ye Shuang knows, and if you're still not satisfied, you can go talk to her." The boy shrugged nonchalantly.

The next second, the girl's flat chest heaved violently, as if she could no longer bear it, "You heartless trash..."

As soon as she finished speaking, she suddenly wrapped her arms around the boy's neck and leaned in, burying her face near his shoulder. Her pink lips parted slightly, revealing her small, neat teeth, and she bit down without any hesitation.

"Die!!!"

"Hiss...Teacher Shen?!"

The boy's sudden scream echoed through the space on the thirty-sixth floor.

after a while.