35 Chapter 34 – Floured Beef Steamed in a Cup 4 (2/2)
She could not say why, but anyways, she just wanted to smile… The sun today was so round and so beautiful, ah…
Since she and Geng Xiaoxing were heading straight into post-graduate studies without doing an internship this term, this semester, the teachers in their faculty of course took advantage of this to exploit their time. They started the task of organizing the library for the faculty. The dean of the faculty had personally brought in sponsorship for this library, and the plans were for it to officially open next semester. As a result, this semester, the work mainly involved organizing and cataloging, and the people present were all from within the faculty.
So everyday, the two of them would be on the top floor of their faculty's building with four other male students who were also heading directly into post-graduate studies. Breaking off into groups of two, they would each hold an iPad and verify the books on each row of the bookshelves.
A lifestyle of working when the sun rose and then resting when the sun set.
Mo Qingcheng was already out in the working world, and she was still in school. It seemed there had been no real change resulting from the change in their relationship.
But… it had only been three days. What could change yet?…
Oh no. Gu Sheng, your mind wandered again.
T.T...
She stole a glance at Geng Xiaoxing, wanting to ask where she had counted to just now. Apparently, though, that person was not focusing on the task either, for she was holding a book in her hands and browsing through it with great interest. ”Our faculty is so open. There's even a young adult fiction section…” Geng Xiaoxing pursed her lips as she stood on the stepladder, her eyes fixed on the book. ”I read the online version of this, but this published one here has a newly added epilogue. Wait for me. I'm just going to read it and then we can go have lunch when I'm done.”
She was so hungry she could faint but that person on the ladder still wanted to read a romance novel's new epilogue…
She almost wanted to cry, but no tears would come out. Exiting out of the inventory document, she used the iPad and logged into her QQ account, wanting to check her email and calculate how many song compositions and recordings she still owed. To her surprise, however, the first thing she saw was Zou Diao'er's chat message: Little Golden Master, are you still okay?
What a strange way to ask…
”Pretty good. Why? Did you want to change shifts with me on YY?”
”╮(╯▽╰)╭ I noticed you haven't been posting on Weibo, so I thought you saw those posts and were affected by them.”
”Huh?”
”╮(╯▽╰)╭ You know, only the tall tree attracts the wind. As Toupai's little golden master, it wouldn't be normal if you weren't thrown into the wok and fried a few times. So… hang in there, Sheng Sheng Man.”
”Huh?” She had a bad feeling about this.
Sure enough, Zou Diao'er quickly copied and pasted a critique from somewhere and sent it over.
It was completely directed at some songs she had arranged when she first entered the entertainment circle. The choice of words was vicious, and she was criticized to the point where there was nothing good to say… It was very professional, so professional it made her blush with shame. But the mocking and ridicule that could be read into the words were also very obvious. Sure enough… she did feel affected by this, didn't she?
Gu Shen leaned against the side of a bookshelf and watched as Zou Diao'er kept pasting critique after critique for her.
This particular entertainment circle was small, and songs that became famous usually involved a strong line-up of people, from the song arranger to the singer. Therefore, songs she had composed or arranged in the past had, at most, been forwarded two or three hundred times only, and that was already considered a great accomplishment. So if a song was not become popular, naturally, no one would have analyzed and dissected it so professionally like this…
To have her own children thrown into the frying pan like this. It was impossible to not feel upset.
She had been reading in silence and had not noticed when Geng Xiaoxing had come down off the stepladder.
”What's wrong? Not feeling well?” Geng Xiaoxing noticed that her complexion suddenly did not look very good.
”Huh?” Gu Sheng shutdown her QQ and exhaled lightly. ”Nothing. Just hungry.”
Let's eat, let's eat.
A full stomach can solve all worries!
She looked over at Geng Xiaoxing. ”Lunch is on you. So hungry. I want to eat a pot of ground pork vermicelli and soup!”
”Huh?” Geng Xiaoxing completely could not keep up with the pace of her thinking. She made what she believed to be the most reasonable guess for what was wrong. ”Did you and Unrivalled Allure Toupai DaRen have an argument?”
”...” Gu Sheng wanted to say, they had not even seen each other, what could they possibly argue about? But right then, the mobile phone in her pocket started ringing.
It was Toupai…
She made a shushing noise, then took her phone, ran to the window, and answered the call.
'I'm home now.” Mo Qingcheng's voice was not very clear. In fact, it sounded very raspy. ”I might need to sleep a little longer. Probably two hours or so and then I'll call you again.”
”You're… sick?” Listening to this voice of his inexplicably made her heart twinge.
”Mm.” His voice was fading in and out, like his phone was being moved around. ”Sore throat. Might have a bit of a fever.”
”Fever? Have you checked your temperature?”
”Mm.”
And then… quiet.
Those two ”mm” were filled with exhaustion, and hearing them in her ears caused a slight sense of worry as well as a slight ache in her heart… And also a slight bit of restlessness and anxiety. She did not dare continue questioning him for fear his throat would hurt, but she also did not know how high of a fever was ”a bit of a fever”… Seriously, shouldn't doctors take even better care of themselves? T.T...
”I'll sleep for a couple of hours and then call you.” Mo Qingcheng's voice was honestly very hoarse, raspily scraping her heart away, yet he still did not forget to tell her again when he would contact her.
She felt like… her heart was going to be ground away into tiny little pieces soon…
They hung up their call.
Geng Xiaoxing walked over to her and saw that her face had changed from the forlorn and dejected expression a moment ago to one that now looked… like anxiousness? They really got in an argument? She did not even get a chance to open her mouth to ask, though, before Gu Sheng had already stuffed the iPad to her. ”I'm not coming back this afternoon. If the teacher asks, just say I have a stomachache…”
”Huh?”
Gu Sheng had already dashed off to the elevator with her mobile phone in hand.
”Didn't you say… you wanted to eat… ground pork vermicelli in soup?...”
Geng Xiaoxing's mind could not move at the same rate as hers at all and could only watch as she disappeared out of sight…