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

"Do I look blind?" Shen Xi glared at him.

“You really are blind. You can’t see that what I gave you was out of concern, and what I gave Lin Xuanqi was to curry favor.” Cheng Fei said seriously.

The girl sneered, "In the end, it's all about ingratiating yourself."

“Teacher Shen, you’re wrong. Caring is selfless. You don’t know that from the day I touched your cold hands, I made up my mind to bring you a hand warmer every day until spring comes.” Cheng Fei gazed into her pure, dark eyes.

"Heh, here comes your sweet talk again." Shen Xi stared at him for two seconds, then turned her face away, lowered her eyes, and impatiently took out a hand warmer, tore it open, and held it in her hand.

"Think what you want, as long as you accept it." Cheng Fei shrugged and lowered his head to do his homework.

The club activity room was so quiet that only the sound of turning pages and the scratching of pens on paper could be heard.

The club activity room, which only has two people, seems exactly the same as it did a month ago, except that back then the two people sat facing each other, and now they sit side by side.

After a while, Shen Xi suddenly closed the book. "They're not coming. That's enough for today."

"Teacher Shen, are you leaving already?" Cheng Fei watched as the girl decisively packed the book and the remaining hand warmer into her bag.

"Do you have a problem?"

"No, I just didn't expect that you wouldn't even want to spend more time alone with me."

"If that's what you think, I won't argue with you." The girl brushed her hair behind her ear.

"Aren't you going home?"

"Of course, I'll go home."

"That's it."

"I don't want tiramisu today. I'll have the caramel macchiato from the cafe by the back door instead," Shen Xi said, staring at him with a cold gaze.

"Just say you want to go on a date, Ms. Shen, you're being too arrogant." Cheng Fei quickly gathered up his study materials.

The girl frowned. "I guess I'll just take a taxi home."

"I was wrong, Teacher Shen. Please pretend I didn't say anything."

"Stop talking nonsense and hurry up."

"understood."

The boy and girl walked out of the club activity building side by side and headed towards the back door.

Because of the special issue of the news department, wherever Cheng Fei went, people around him were no longer just peeking at him, but openly pointing and whispering about him.

Seeing Cheng Fei's worried face, Shen Xi smiled sarcastically, "Congratulations, you've become a big celebrity in Yinghua now."

"Teacher Shen, do you think people will mistake us for a couple when they see us walking together?"

Shen Xi's smile vanished, and she quickened her pace, leaving Cheng Fei a step behind.

The two went out the back door and bought hot drinks. Cheng Fei didn't want to cross the entire campus again, so he suggested going around to the bus stop at the main gate from outside the school, and Shen Xi agreed.

The boy and girl walked side by side along the deserted wall.

"This is the first time I've had a caramel macchiato. So this is what it tastes like?" Cheng Fei smacked his lips.

Shen Xi glanced at him coldly. "What's the problem?"

"I thought it would be sweet, but it turned out to be a little bitter."

"Macchiato is a type of coffee. If you don't like it, don't drink it." The girl's tone turned cold.

Cheng Fei shook his head. "I didn't say I didn't like it. I quite like it. It's very delicious."

"You'd better really like it."

"I really like it."

"Ah, I hope so."

"I'm not kidding, I love you to an indescribable degree."

"Then you can drink it every day, it's none of my business."

"You figured it out. I like it so much that I want it every day."

"Drink if you like, but please don't stare at me."

"But what I meant was that I like you."

"..."

"Stop with the sweet talk." Shen Xi was taken aback at first, then glared at him fiercely before lowering her head to drink her beverage and refusing to look at him again.

Cheng Fei admired the girl's delicate profile, which had regained its color after drinking a hot beverage; her thick eyelashes trembled gently in the twilight.

The two went around to the main entrance bus stop, waited for a short while, boarded the bus, and successfully returned to Guang'an Street.

After getting out of the car, Shen Xi said, "By the way, how was the piano piece I asked you to practice a few days ago?"

"I wouldn't call it proficient, I'd say it's more like a master craftsman," Cheng Fei said confidently.

"Then let's go play that piano in Wanda Plaza."

"Now?"

“Now,” the girl glanced at him, “I’ll record it for you, and then upload it using your account.”

Cheng Fei understood. "Is this also to build up a fanbase?"

"of course."

"I thought you wanted to hear it. I should have known better than to practice so seriously." The boy sighed.

Shen Xi remained indifferent, "You can take it as me wanting to hear it, and then study it seriously."

"Then you have to tell me."

"Tell you what?"

“Tell me you want me to play the piano for you.” Cheng Fei looked into her eyes.

The girl turned her face away. "I can't."

“I can’t do that either,” Cheng Fei shrugged.

The air was still for a few seconds.

"I want you to play the piano for me," Shen Xi said in an extremely cold and curt tone.

"Just say you want to hear it, you're so arrogant." Cheng Fei laughed and quickened his pace.

The girl stared at his retreating figure and gently bit her lip.

The two arrived at the mall's atrium. Cheng Fei put his belongings aside, sat on the piano bench, and cleared his throat with an air of importance. "The Butterfly Lovers, dedicated to my dear Shen Xi."

The aloof girl standing to the side had no expression on her face as she held up her phone to record him.

The gentle and lively prelude began, and Cheng Fei started playing.

Shen Xi asked him to practice this piece last week. The boy only spent two days getting used to it, and then he started playing it as he pleased. After all, he was very familiar with the story behind it, and it was easy for him to put his emotions into it.

Cheng Fei's version was only a few minutes long. After playing the final, melodious "Butterfly Transformation" part, he looked up.

The beautiful piano music unsurprisingly attracted some passersby to stop and listen.

Cheng Fei stood up and bowed with practiced ease, then left the scene with Shen Xi amidst scattered applause.

"Teacher Shen, how did I play?"

"Barely passed," the girl commented casually. "Next, let's go to my house."

"Is something wrong?"

"Ah."

"Teacher Shen, you keep asking me to come to your house every few days. What are you implying?"

"Forget it, I must be crazy to even think of asking you to record a video for me." The girl quickened her pace as if trying to shake him off.

……

90. Cheng Fei wanted the key.

Cheng Fei followed Shen Xi into the elevator, and the two stood side by side watching the elevator doors close.

"Teacher Shen."

The girl glanced at him sideways.

"How about giving me a key to your house?"

“My house has a fingerprint lock,” the girl said coldly.

"Then please take my fingerprints."

The girl swept her icy gaze over him. "What is our relationship? What gives you the right to open my door?"

"Because I am your steadfast and devoted partner until death."

"I have learned something new: there is such a saying about slaves who are never freed for life."

"How did I become a slave? Aren't I a servant?"

"No difference."

“Teacher Shen, you’re wrong again. Slaves are passive, servants are voluntary.”

"Ha, are you satisfied now, servant who will never be free?"

"My main consideration is that if you ever feel unwell, I can come to your door to help you at any time."

Do you think I'm that fragile?

"Love is being unable to stop caring."

"I've only ever heard that love is about constantly feeling indebted to someone."

"Okay, actually I'm worried about something else. You see, Professor Shen, we've been studying the corridor all this time. What if one day we discover a secret we shouldn't have, and we get targeted by the mastermind behind it all?" Cheng Fei and the girl walked out of the elevator, and Cheng Fei gazed at her profile.

Shen Xi lowered her eyes, opened the door, stood on one leg, took off her black loafers, placed them neatly to the side, and walked in without looking back. "You didn't believe me? It's just a game, how could there be a mastermind behind it?"

Cheng Fei glanced at the girl's clean and small loafers, and then skillfully changed into his own slippers.

"To be honest with you, Professor Shen, I have reservations about the authenticity of the corridor. However, based on realistic considerations, I think it's necessary to be on the safe side, don't you think?"

"That's enough. All you've been saying is trying to open my door."

"In exchange, I'll give you my key too, how about that?"

"I have no interest in entering other people's houses without permission."

"What does 'without permission' mean? Having a key is the same as having permission."

"In short, I'm not interested."

"Teacher Shen, please think about it."

"I really can't understand how you can be so shameless as to ask a female high school student living alone for her key. If it were anyone else, I would have called the police." Shen Xi glared at him with a disgusted look.

"I knew I was special to you."

"It is indeed extremely filthy and disgusting."

“Teacher Shen, I won’t break into your house and do anything strange to you. I can vouch for it with my reputation at Yinghua. Besides, do we really not have this much trust between us?”

"Do you still have any reputation in Yinghua? I don't even remember trusting you to the point of letting you come and go freely in my house."

"If you don't agree today, that's fine. We can talk about this another day."

As they spoke, Shen Xi took out a violin and a tripod from the inner room.

Cheng Fei picked up the violin and examined it, confirming that he had absolutely no feeling for this instrument.

Shen Xi handed him the tripod, saying, "Choose a spot."

"Let's go by the balcony." Cheng Fei glanced around, his gaze settling on her. "Aren't you going to change your clothes?"

"Need it?" The girl frowned slightly.