Chapter 18 (1/2)

Chapter 18

Autumn Tale 4.3

They hadn’t seen each other for over half a month since that day.

The ‘next time’ that Song Qiyan promised never materialized. It was not because he broke his promise but before he could carry out his next plan, he was a.s.signed another lab experiment by the professor. During this half a month, Song Qiyan had been either in the laboratory or the library the whole day for that experiment. He had no time for any distractions.

As for Xia Liang, after she worked diligently for two weeks to catch up on her voice over projects, it was finally midterm week. For this------Lin Qian’s comment to Xia Liang was------You asked for it.

The original comment was actually: “It’s good enough just to be a normal college student. Who asked you to take two majors plus a minor. You’ll be lucky if you don’t die from exhaustion during soph.o.m.ore year.”

Xia Liang’s dog-tired days had just begun. She shuffled between the Business School and Psychology department buildings. Once she returned to her apartment at night, she plunged headlong into her books to study and take notes. She also had to find time for recordings after 10 o’clock every night……she was too busy to remember anything else.

On this Sat.u.r.day, it was rare that Xia Liang did not sleep in. She woke up at 7am and rushed to the school library after she had washed her face in a daze. She weaved through rows of bookshelves and shortly found books she needed.

Xia Liang was a student in the Business School majoring in Finance and International Trade, with a minor in Psychology. In the beginning she just thought psychology was very interesting and would be helpful for business negotiations. So she happily chose the cla.s.s, but later found it to be quite different from what she expected once cla.s.s started. Her old psychology professor was very knowledgeable and kind, but his lecture was so helplessly hypnotizing…...usually putting a big chunk of the cla.s.s to sleep. The result was that everybody had to study very hard for the midterm exam. They needed to catch up on lectures and memorize concepts they had missed when they had fallen asleep in the first half of the semester.

It was so sad…….

Xia Liang spent the whole morning in the library. She went to a nearby coffee shop to buy a pastry and coffee to tide her over. Then she went back to a corner in the library and continued taking notes.

This Sat.u.r.day was a rare sunny day. Sunlight was spreading everywhere in Seattle which was normally a rainy and wet city. The warm suns.h.i.+ne came in through the windows and made her drowsy.

Song Qiyan and his lab team finally finished their discussion about each individual's responsibilities for the final report. He rubbed the side of his head, he was very tired after running nonstop for three weeks. And next month, he was going to start an interns.h.i.+p at a local hospital. It was really……

“Hey, Albert, are you ok?” A blonde beauty sitting at the opposite side from his lab team asked with concern.

Song Qiyan gave a slight nod. “I’m fine.” Then he stood up. “I am getting some drinks.”

“I’ll go with you.” The blonde beauty followed him attentively. Song Qiyan successfully earned a few weird looks from his other two male Chinese teammates.

Song Qiyan, with hands in the pockets of his pants and his usual cap, walked towards the coffee shop outside the library without any emotion on his face. He was not in good mood probably due to exhaustion. His eyes noticed a person sitting next to the window as he walked around the corner and he paused a bit.