"Master Ye, please let them know that we'll be coming for tutoring tomorrow morning."

"good……"

The obedient girl silently typed her reply.

"Also, remember to dress up nicely when you go out this afternoon."

"abnormal!"

The obedient girl bit her pink lips tightly, her fingertips rapidly tapping the screen.

"knew……"

I replied with difficulty.

"Thanks for your hard work"

They were all very serious over there.

"You jerk, can I...?"

The obedient girl's eyes darted around.

"What does Master Ye want to say?"

"Can I ask the young lady to tutor me too?"

She stared at the screen, a hint of guilt creeping onto her face.

"Go ahead."

The reply was only two words.

The obedient girl paused for a moment, then opened another chat window.

"Miss, Cheng Fei asked me to have tutoring tomorrow morning. Would you like to come along?"

"No need, you can go by yourself this time."

A reply popped up a moment later.

"why?"

The obedient girl typed the text without even thinking.

"I have something to do tomorrow, so don't worry about going. Have fun!"

He then posted a smiling emoji with a head pat, which seemed to have a deeper meaning.

The obedient girl's eyes flickered as she looked at the words. After thinking for a moment, she made sure that the sweet girl behind her was sleeping peacefully with a faint smile on her lips as if she was having a sweet dream. She was not in danger of rolling to the ground for the time being, so she quietly got up and left the classroom.

She went to another classroom on the same floor and stood at the back door, looking inside.

In the familiar corner by the window, a tall and handsome young man is writing furiously, his focused profile showing no sign of fatigue.

The haughty girl with cascading black hair turned around from the front seat and lay on the edge of his desk. Her red eyes stared at him intently, and the corners of her mouth were curved in a smile. She was like a well-behaved puppy lying in front of its owner, without a trace of the arrogance she showed in front of strangers.

On the other side, Zhou Han, who was also turning her head to look in that direction, caught a glimpse of the petite figure of the girl with pigtails, turned around, and waved her little hand with a smile.

Ye Shuang responded with a stiff smile, then pretended to be passing by and walked away quickly.

After school in the afternoon, the study session of the Corridor Research Department continues.

When Cheng Fei led Lin Xuanqi through the door of the club activity room, almost everyone had already arrived.

"Good afternoon, everyone," the boy greeted casually.

"Good afternoon, Cheng Fei~" Nagasaki Asuna leaned on Ye Shuang's shoulder, still sleepy, and responded sweetly as if by reflex.

The boy habitually approached the aloof girl sitting at the far end and pulled out the steel pipe chair to her left.

The next second, he was met with a silent, indifferent stare.

"Teacher Shen, please stop being so cute." The boy sighed softly and sat down as if nothing had happened.

Shen Xi frowned slightly and silently turned her seat thirty degrees to the right, leaning it towards the wall.

The boy hesitated, as if he wanted to say something but then stopped.

Lin Xuanqi sat in her seat, covered her mouth, and chuckled.

The aloof girl narrowed her eyes, seemingly a little displeased.

"Brother, can you teach me this problem?" Kato Ai, sitting diagonally across from him, pushed the workbook toward the boy, her voice delicate.

"No problem." The boy took the items.

"Um, can I sit next to my brother...?" the young girl asked again, her bright eyes filled with hope.

The boy looked around cautiously, then nodded tentatively, "Come on over."

"Hmm...!" Kato Ai immediately stood up, clutching her things, a look of excitement appearing on her sweet, childlike face.

An unknown chill quietly spread.

"So winter is really coming soon?" the boy muttered, shivering, and continued looking at the questions.

After Kato Ai finished listening to the explanation and started doing the problems on her own, Zhou Han pushed the workbook over from the other side, smiling, "Cheng Fei, Cheng Fei, can you help me take a look at this problem too?"

A more pronounced chill emanated from a certain direction, spreading over her body.

The petite girl trembled slightly, her eyes glazed over, and she expressionlessly put the item away. "I've suddenly realized something. I don't need it anymore."

Ruan Jingyi, standing next to her friend, looked at her friend tilting her head, a sense of confusion in her eyes.

After a while, Cheng Fei's phone rang with a WeChat notification. He picked it up and found it was a notification that a package had been delivered.

The boy hasn't bought anything recently.

He thought for a moment, quickly gathered the things in front of him, and coughed lightly, "Teacher Shen, let's go first."

"Why are you suddenly spouting such nonsensical nonsense?" Shen Xi turned her head sharply and glared at him.

"I have important business to attend to, so if you're not available right now, that's fine." The young man waved his phone, looking very serious.

The girl met his gaze, paused for a moment, then raised her chin. "Since it's important business, there's nothing I can do about it. Your girlfriend will definitely understand. Let's go."

When speaking, deliberately raise your voice so that everyone present can hear you.

Asuna Nagasaki leaned against Ye Shuang, her eyes slightly closed, and murmured in a dreamlike voice, "Goodbye, Cheng Fei~"

Soon, the two figures disappeared at the entrance of the club activity room, leaving the remaining people looking at each other in bewilderment.

Cheng Fei and Shen Xi walked out of Yinghua's gate side by side, keeping a distance of one body length, and got into the Lamborghini in the parking lot.

"So what important business is it?" The aloof girl crossed her arms in the passenger seat, staring blankly ahead.

"Actually, no, I just wanted to lure Teacher Shen out to do this and then that, and sure enough, she fell for it right away." The boy glanced at her slender, long legs encased in black over-the-knee stockings and sighed with a sense of satisfaction.

The girl turned to look at him, her eyes widening slightly, her brows furrowing in annoyance. "Just how boring is Cheng Feiyu?!"

"Just kidding, actually the paper materials sent by the foundation have arrived. I'll take you to get them now." The boy said seriously.

As agreed, the foundation unsealed the files from the Antarctic mission for the two boys. However, this content is still not available on the DeepBlue intranet. Instead, a physical copy was sent to the boys.

The girl paused, then turned her face away and stared out the window, making no attempt to hide her disdain. "They're always just trash spouting nonsense."

"Not at all. It's true that I tricked Teacher Shen into coming out and did this and that. Please play the role of my girlfriend well today too." The boy said with a hint of smugness.

The girl paused for a second, then gritted her teeth and said, "Disgusting trash."

"Since that's the case, why don't you show more of your legs?" the boy said casually, gripping the steering wheel.

The girl frowned, her face contorted with disgust. She took a deep breath and shifted, letting her school uniform skirt slide back due to the weight of the chair, revealing more of her dazzling, snow-white cleavage. Her tone was extremely reluctant as she said, "If I didn't owe you my life, I would never have done this."

"Yes, yes, yes, there's no need to reiterate the well-known settings." The boy nodded perfunctorily.

The girl shut her mouth and stopped talking.

In this atmosphere, the white supercar returned to the rented apartment on Guang'an Street, and the two picked up the package from the courier station downstairs.

"Teacher Shen, how about we visit my home again soon?" Cheng Fei waved the things he was holding.

"No." Shen Xi turned her face away without hesitation, leaving him with a cool, soft cheek.

“If it were me…” the boy began slowly.

“There’s nothing we can do about it. Even if we know we’ll be in danger and do something to them if we go, we’ll still be forced to go.” The girl’s eyes flickered, and she spoke faster than him, taking her slender steps toward the stairwell.

"Actually, what I wanted to talk about was going to that dim sum restaurant." The boy stood still, his tone not without a hint of sarcasm.

The girl paused for a second before turning around, her murderous gaze piercing him. She gritted her teeth and walked towards the tea shop, muttering viciously, "Trash, I'll throw you into the superdimensional forging furnace one day."

The boy watched her walk past and followed her without saying a word. "Teacher Shen, let bygones be bygones. How could someone as kind-hearted and adorable as you do such a thing?"

"Shut up, nobody here is kind!" The spotless black uniform shoes kicked him without any politeness.

"Has it turned into an evil little cutie, or a dark little cutie?"

"It's so noisy!" she said, even more annoyed, and kicked him hard.

Soon, the two arrived at their familiar dim sum restaurant.

After the familiar shop owner walked away with the menu, Cheng Fei began unpacking the package.

Shen Xi sat opposite him, staring at him expressionlessly.

"The paint will automatically expire 72 hours after the sealed bag is opened..." The boy read the warning text on the bag aloud, slid the bag open with a knife, and took out a thick stack of documents inside.

He glanced at the girl opposite him, whose eyes were fixed on him, handed her the second half of the document, and then began to read the first half himself.

Both of them flipped through the pages very quickly, finishing almost simultaneously, and then exchanged their parts. The only sound in the air was the rustling of the printing paper.

This time, Cheng Fei finished reading faster, put the food aside, and started eating the stir-fried beef noodles that the owner had brought out halfway through, muttering, "It'll get cold if I don't eat it now."

Shen Xi seemed not to hear him, lowered her eyes and continued reading. She only put down the document after the boy had finished half of the rice noodles, and then shivered for no reason.

Then, the girl's gaze passed across the table and stared into the infinite distance, as if she were lost in thought.

"Sweetie, let's eat first, we can talk while we eat." The boy unceremoniously snatched a shrimp dumpling from her plate.

"So even the Foundation didn't realize she was faking her death." The girl remained motionless, her eyes flickering.

"It seems so." Cheng Fei shrugged and glanced at the files on the table.

According to the account, the first Antarctic expeditions took place shortly after the foundation was established.

After locating the mysterious signal in Antarctica, the research team, including Lin Wanqing, disguised as researchers, set off before the arrival of the Southern Hemisphere winter that year.

After a difficult search of the destination, the expedition team found a large alien spaceship buried in an underground ice cave and entered it for preliminary exploration.

Due to the worsening weather, the expedition team had to evacuate the site with their existing findings.

“It wasn’t until a few months later that the foundation began planning a larger-scale operation, intending to dig the spaceship out from under the ice and transport it away the following summer. It was during this time that your mother committed suicide, right after your birthday in June.” The boy said slowly, slurping up a piece of steamed pork rib.

“But according to what’s written, she mysteriously revived soon after and told the Foundation that she had made an important discovery, so the original research team went to the ice cave ahead of schedule to conduct research.” The girl grabbed her hair and stared at the table, her pupils contracting as if she had heard something unbelievable. “Then the entire research team disappeared along with the spaceship.”

"After that, no one knows what your mother discovered, because the Foundation didn't have many people at the time, and the work process was not perfect. Some of the higher-ups were also involved in the operation, and no one knows what they discussed in private." The boy picked up another steamed chicken foot, thought for a moment but didn't eat it, and continued, "When the Foundation sent out a new batch of scientific expeditions, they discovered the failed project that was dormant in the ice cave. In order not to provoke it, they had to put the investigation on hold and seal the files until now."

"So what exactly did she discover?" Shen Xi took a deep breath, her palm supporting her forehead, revealing deep confusion.

"Nobody knows, but most likely she activated the spaceship and took everyone on the expedition team with her." Cheng Fei put down the steamed chicken feet he hadn't eaten, pursed his lips, and said, "Professor Shen, I think there's reason to suspect something now."

"What?" Shen Xi looked at him, as if she had a feeling.

"She did all this to protect you," the boy said softly, looking directly at her.

"Protect...me?" The girl blinked, her eyes slowly widening.

"She brought back something she shouldn't have from Antarctica, which led to you becoming the Protoss Queen. What do you think will happen if the Foundation finds out about this?"

The girl turned her face away, her eyes darting around nervously.

"Maybe someone already realized it by then, so she simply packed up everyone who knew the truth, including herself, and took them all away at once, so that you could grow up safely." After the boy finished speaking, he silently lowered his head and ate his food.

A deathly silence fell between them.

Until a certain moment, the girl opposite sniffed, turned her face away to look at the street outside the window, and something quietly trembled deep in her pure, dark eyes.

1051. What Shen Xi discovered was

Cheng Fei looked up at the cool girl across from him, whose eyes reflected the street scene. He reached across the table, patted her head, and said softly, "Little cutie, she's a smart person. Maybe she's still waiting for you to grow up in some world. So cheer up and eat well. I'll continue to help you find her."

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