Attention Sir, I Have Your Heart Handcuffed!-Chapter 345 - 228: Can’t See You? I Can’t Control Myself (Second Update)
Shi Nian raised an eyebrow, "Why would you ask that? How could the trustee end up in court?"
Zhong Kui shrugged, "Who knows? Besides, I’m just making an assumption."
Shi Nian lowered his head, "Zhong Kui, are you very familiar with the trustee?"
Zhong Kui raised an eyebrow, then shook his head with a smile, "How could I be? The trustee is always elusive. As an ordinary student, how would I be familiar with him?"
Shi Nian lowered his eyes and smiled, "But you seem very concerned about the trustee."
Zhong Kui tilted his head and thought for a moment, "As a student of Kangchuan University, it’s natural to have respect for the trustee who funded and continuously invests in the school."
"I understand." Shi Nian smiled gently, "I can’t answer you right now because this involves judicial fairness. Moreover, I always believe that based on the trustee’s character, such a situation wouldn’t occur."
"Oh?" Zhong Kui raised an eyebrow, "You trust the trustee that much?"
Shi Nian thought for a moment, smiled but remained silent.
Zhong Kui reached out and patted Shi Nian, "Since you’re here, why not come up and sit for a while?"
Shi Nian thought for a moment and then nodded, "Alright."
As they stepped into 507, Shi Nian immediately caught the aroma of food.
Hearing the door, a lively figure hopped out of the kitchen, her face full of joy, holding a spatula, she laughed, "Surprise!"
Shi Nian was stunned, and Zhong Kui, who followed her, was also stunned.
Even Marina, who popped out suddenly, was equally stunned.
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Shi Nian carefully observed the woman in front of her wearing an apron, with her hair loosely tied up, exuding a naturally charming demeanor. Her eyes widened in disbelief, "Marina?"
Marina had always given Shi Nian the impression, much like her background, of a gang-affiliated woman full of strength and sternness. However, the Marina in front of her seemed like a homely woman, full of shyness, with none of her previous stern demeanor.
Seeing that it was Shi Nian who came in, Marina seemed a bit lost and at a loss for words. She then put down her hand and looked at Zhong Kui behind Shi Nian.
"...I wanted to surprise you, so I didn’t tell you in advance. But you didn’t tell me Nana was coming back today!"
Shi Nian heard a hint of grievance in Marina’s tone and quickly said, "I truly came unexpectedly today." Awkwardly, she glanced back at Zhong Kui who had walked in behind her.
Zhong Kui chuckled and quickly stepped forward, standing between Shi Nian and Marina, first telling Shi Nian, "It’s alright, it’s alright. There’s only the two of us left in 507 for now, so the feeling of relying on each other is even stronger. I can help Marina a bit with her end-of-semester courses, and in return, she occasionally cooks a meal for me."
As he spoke, he shifted his view to Marina, "...Ever since S left, we all realized the value of what we’ve lost. So, you see, Marina has become more tender now."
"Right." Shi Nian also nodded with a smile.
Zhong Kui then walked in front of Marina, leaning down to speak with her. From Shi Nian’s perspective, she could not see his face or guess his expression at Marina.
Seeing them speaking so closely, and because Shi Nian came unexpectedly, she felt embarrassed to observe them closely, so she turned away and walked back to the room she shared with Spicy Girl.
The room was the same, yet everything and everyone had changed, leaving a feeling of nostalgia.
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Someone gently knocked on the door, and when Shi Nian opened it, it was Zhong Kui who walked in.
Shi Nian quickly apologized, "I seem to have come at a bad time today, sorry."
"What are you talking about? No need for formality." Zhong Kui shook his head with a smile, "You were originally living in this room, so coming back is the most normal thing."
Thinking back to when she first moved into 507, the one who was initially the kindest to her was Zhong Kui, Shi Nian felt a sense of gratitude. She couldn’t help but gossip, "You and Marina, are you together?"
Zhong Kui’s expression changed, and he quickly waved his hand, "Nana, don’t say that. You know her background, I can’t be with her."
Shi Nian looked puzzled, "She was born into a gang, it’s not something she can choose. Would you and your family really look down on her because of it?"
"No, quite the opposite." A slight, almost imperceptible frustration appeared on Zhong Kui’s face, and he turned his head away, showing only a 45-degree angle of his side to Shi Nian, "She was born into a gang, and her future marriage is destined. If it’s not an alliance between gangs, it will be someone prominent from within her family. An ordinary student like me won’t catch her brother’s eye."
Zhong Kui indeed appeared gentle and kind, not the fierce type admired by gangs.
Shi Nian stepped forward and softly patted Zhong Kui’s elbow, "But I can sense that Marina’s attitude towards you is extraordinary. As a woman too, I know what the tenderness in her eyes means. If you both genuinely like each other, don’t give up. Family background and opinions can possibly be reconsidered."
Zhong Kui couldn’t hide his worry but still managed a smile, "Let’s not talk about this. Since you’re here and she’s already cooked, why not try her culinary skills together?"
Shi Nian glanced outside and saw dishes laid out on the table but didn’t see Marina. She politely declined with a smile, "Thank you for the offer, but I have some things to do, so I won’t interrupt your dinner. Zhong Kui, I’ll be going now. Goodbye."
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Walking out of the dormitory building, the earlier scenes swirled and intertwined in her mind.
Standing at the dorm entrance, she couldn’t help but look again at the campus police office where Sean had died...
From this direction, you can only see the window of the campus police office. Ancient buildings all have high and narrow windows, the stone-framed windows are thick and heavy, seemingly dividing the world inside from the one outside.
For some reason, her mind wandered, thinking of the Bastille, and also "The Man in the Iron Mask." The ancient prison windows in those stories must have had similarities to this old window?
Thinking so... Shi Nianxin felt a flutter in her heart.
——She couldn’t help but think of Huangfu Huazhang, the old European-style house-lined street, the window of that little white building, remembering the person who once sat alone inside, looking out.
Window...
At this time, the window was lit up, the bright light illuminating the night, symbolizing warmth, but because Sean had died there, it only made Shi Nian feel a bit eerie.
It was as if the whole building was a crouched beast, and the window was like the beast’s eye, silently and quietly gazing at her from behind.
The feeling made her suddenly feel a chill all over, quickly wrapping her coat tighter to drive away the cold.
Winter was deepening, the campus nights increasingly made her feel as if every pore was wide open, letting the cold wind seep in, piercingly bone-chilling.
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She stood for a moment longer, overcoming the strange intuition rising within her, and then hurriedly bowed her head and walked briskly away.
But she hadn’t walked far when she heard a soft call carried by the night wind.
The call was not loud, easily scattered by the winter night’s cold wind, indistinct and obscured, making one easily mistake it as unreal, just a reverb from one’s inner memory.
Even if the heart remained unmoved, still as the stone cast into water, it inevitably creates ripples, the echoes lingering.
She stopped her steps, hesitantly turning to look in the direction the wind carried the sound.
The wind blew leaves, they danced and scattered, and in that solitary cold wind stood a figure.
Dressed in black, in the winter night, he appeared even taller and slimmer, straight and lonely.
The wind lifted the hem of his coat and his neck scarf, adding an ethereal touch to his solitary demeanor.
His grace unparalleled, yet it inexplicably caused her heartache, inhaling deeply the cold wind of the night, even her nose tinged with soreness.
Shi Nian quickly sniffed quietly, rubbed the tip of her nose with her hand, then raised her eyes to look over directly.
"Sir, why are you here?"
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Huangfu Huazhang stood lonely in the cold wind of the night, but his gaze was warm and gentle, cast towards her: "From my birth until now, my life’s path has been trapped between a few points and lines. In the past in China, it was between home and rehabilitation clinic; later in M Country, only between home and company, and occasionally coming to school for meetings, yet always just sitting in the office not going outside."
He paused for a moment, then raised his eyes and looked: "But recently, I find myself uncontrollably appearing in places I had never set foot in before, completely breaking the habit of my many years."
He slowly inhaled again: "...simply because, only in these places can I meet you."
From arriving at Kangchuan University, standing at the corridor’s beginning for a long time, then returning to the dormitory and lingering, the time had already added up significantly. As the director of the university, Huangfu Huazhang wouldn’t have difficulty receiving the news.
Shi Nian inhaled sharply: "Sir, what are you here for? I’ve already said the words that cause you heartbreak, I’ve rejected you... You shouldn’t come anymore, shouldn’t care about me."
He raised an eyebrow gently: "Truth be told, you have truly hurt my pride. So I also thought as you said, I shouldn’t come looking for you, shouldn’t care for you anymore. But... I despairingly found that I can’t do that."
"Nian, what should I do?"
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