“So, we’ll stay together when we sleep too?”
Lin Zitong blinked her big eyes, staring at Yan Shouyi.
The innocent boy Yan Shouyi immediately felt a bit embarrassed, his old face turning red. “You sleep, I’ll watch over you.”
“Don’t you need to sleep?”
“My physical body is a Heavenly Fiend Corpse Puppet. Theoretically, I don’t need rest, but if I don’t sleep at all, my energy will also give out. So, sleeping once every three to four days is fine.”
Seeing Yan Shouyi explain so earnestly, Lin Zitong inwardly exclaimed.
Good heavens, if we weren't childhood sweethearts, you'd probably never find a girlfriend in this lifetime.
Lin Zitong thought for a moment and sighed, “It’s already past midnight. The school dorms closed long ago. We probably can’t go back to school to rest tonight.”
Yan Shouyi frowned and patted his chest. “Did you forget who your boyfriend is?”
“Who?”
“I’m the captain of our school’s security guards! Letting you in through a back door is just a small matter, isn't it?”
Lin Zitong: “……”
Yan Shouyi said, “Let’s go, we’ll head back now. I’ll call my subordinates to open the door for you. I also have some acquaintance with your dorm’s matron, don’t worry, she’ll definitely let you back in to sleep!”
Yan Shouyi mused inwardly, sometimes being a security guard was pretty good, it could even conveniently help his girlfriend.
Truly worthy of me, Yan Shouyi!
Lin Zitong looked at Yan Shouyi, falling silent for more than ten seconds. Then, she suddenly found her Lv handbag, and took out her ID card from it.
She held the ID card in front of Yan Shouyi’s eyes and said, “You haven’t seen my ID photo, have you?”
“What’s so good about an ID photo?” Yan Shouyi asked doubtfully.
But to be honest, ordinary people’s ID photos were one uglier than the last.
However, Lin Zitong’s ID photo didn’t need any touch-ups. With her hair simply tied up, she was already more beautiful than some celebrities’ retouched photos.
Yan Shouyi, worried that Lin Zitong might be angry, specifically praised her a few times.
“Take a closer look?” Lin Zitong was still persistent.
“You’re really beautiful already!” Yan Shouyi used all his compliments.
Seeing that this straight man of steel… no, it should be alloy of steel, was still not getting it, Lin Zitong gave up.
She put away her ID card and said dejectedly, “Alright then, we’ll go back to school now. It’s a good time as I need to pick up some personal belongings from school. Starting tomorrow until the press conference ends, I’ll be staying at the company.”
“Go, rest assured, I’ll open the door for you!” Yan Shouyi still didn’t know what he had missed.
Lin Zitong helplessly started the car and drove towards Shanghang Art School.
It was already past midnight, and there were hardly any vehicles on the road.
Perhaps to vent her frustration, Lin Zitong floored the accelerator.
Yan Shouyi, being driven by Lin Zitong at breakneck speed for the first time, turned pale with fright.
He tightly gripped the handrail with both hands, checking multiple times if his seatbelt was fastened.
“You brat, slow down!”
“We’re not in a hurry!”
“Don’t worry, no matter how late it is, I can open the door for you!!”
Lin Zitong heard him and pressed the accelerator even harder…
What should have taken half an hour, Lin Zitong covered in ten minutes.
After getting out of the car, Yan Shouyi was still shaken, his steps faltering.
“Go open the door,” Lin Zitong pouted and said.
Yan Shouyi had no idea why Lin Zitong was angry. He walked with his still trembling legs to open the door for her.
When they reached the dorm building, he woke up the matron again.
This matron was nicknamed the "Night Yaksha." No matter what background a student had, if they displeased her, she would scold them thoroughly.
However, because Yan Shouyi was the captain of the security team, and had previously given this Night Yaksha two batches of eggs, the Night Yaksha’s favorable impression of Yan Shouyi skyrocketed.
Even though she was woken up in the middle of the night to open the door, the Night Yaksha didn’t complain. Instead, she handed the key to the girls’ dormitory to Yan Shouyi.
This meant that in the future, if Yan Shouyi and Lin Zitong returned late, Yan Shouyi wouldn’t even need to call the Night Yaksha to open the door.
He had the key himself!!
Lin Zitong looked at Yan Shouyi holding the key, feeling a wave of despair.
I said we couldn’t share a room before marriage, but I never said we couldn’t stay in the same room!!
In Lin Zitong’s heart, she simply liked being with Yan Shouyi.
Even if they did nothing in the room, just looking at each other made her happy.
It was just that this dream was ruthlessly shattered by the oblivious Yan Shouyi.
To have another chance, it would only happen after Lin Zitong graduated, or if the dorm building collapsed.
Hmm? The dorm building collapsed?
For a brief moment, Lin Zitong genuinely had the thought of bringing the dorm building down…
“I’m going upstairs!” Lin Zitong said to Yan Shouyi.
Yan Shouyi forced a gentle smile and waved at her, “Goodnight. I’ll be patrolling nearby tonight and will pick you up in the morning to go to the company.”
“Hmph! Goodnight!”
An angry Lin Zitong stomped her way up the stairs.
The Night Yaksha could tell there was something going on between them and said with a smile, “Did the young couple have a fight?”
Yan Shouyi coughed dryly, “Yes.”
“You don’t know why she’s angry?”
“No idea!”
“Getting angry for no reason might mean she’s on her period. During that time, girls’ moods tend to be irritable and they get angry over trivial things,” the Night Yaksha said. “Young man, you should pay more attention to her, get her some brown sugar water to drink, and maybe give her a belly rub when you have time.”
“Auntie, thank you for your guidance!”
“Bah, who hasn’t been young before? Back in my day, I was a stunner from Minnan. The men chasing me could have filled the entire Minjiang River!”
“Uh… Auntie, you’re still as charming as ever! I need to patrol, so I’ll take my leave!”
The Night Yaksha was getting old and liked to say rambling things. Yan Shouyi quickly found an excuse to slip away.
However, if he had to say one thing, the Night Yaksha’s words did bring him clarity.
So, the reason the little brat was angry was because she was on her period!
No wonder, no wonder, everything suddenly made sense!
Yan Shouyi also thought that Lin Zitong would be very busy in the coming days, and it seemed he needed to show her more care.
After bidding farewell to the Night Yaksha, Yan Shouyi patrolled around the girls’ dormitory again.
He was mainly concerned that Jiang Yunning and the people behind her might still have plans for Lin Zitong.
Yan Shouyi’s suspicion of Jiang Yunning stemmed, first, from her complexion.
When she met Lin Zitong, her eyes darted evasively, and her complexion was very unnatural. Clearly, she was hiding something from Lin Zitong.
Secondly, it was the beef noodles Jiang Yunning sent to Lin Zitong.
In those beef noodles, Yan Shouyi smelled some medicinal ingredients, mostly drugs that could affect Lin Zitong’s mental state.
Yan Shouyi, having been thrown into the Hundred Herbs Valley in Diannan by his grandfather as a child, spent his days eating poison besides sleeping, developing a body immune to all poisons.
Therefore, Yan Shouyi was not afraid of those ordinary toxins and swapped bowls of noodles with Lin Zitong.
It was precisely because of this that Yan Shouyi concluded Jiang Yunning had ulterior motives towards Lin Zitong, and had left the Yin Wood, where his ghost resided, in Jiang Yunning’s office.
Jiang Yunning would surely reveal herself by then, and everything would be under the ghost’s surveillance.
Yan Shouyi would know what schemes Jiang Yunning was hatching in a couple of days.
After patrolling for three rounds and finding nothing unusual in the vicinity, Yan Shouyi planned to return to his dorm to check on Long Feicheng.
But at this moment, he suddenly received a call.
Fortunately, this call wasn’t so mysterious; it was from an acquaintance—Lu Jing!
Yan Shouyi answered the call. Lu Jing got straight to the point, “You’re back in Rongcheng, right? Are you at Shanghang Art School now?”
Yan Shouyi’s tone deepened, “Are you spying on me?”
“What spying?” Lu Jing’s tone was confused, then he changed the subject, “Something’s happened. I need to see you.”
From Lu Jing’s tone, it seemed he was unaware of any surveillance.
This meant that he was not working with that mysterious Xue Kai.
Yan Shouyi temporarily set aside his doubts and vigilance, replying, “I’m at Shanghang Art School. Come find me.”
“Okay, I’ll be there in five minutes.”
Lu Jing seemed very urgent, suggesting that something had indeed happened.
Yan Shouyi went to the school gate. After waiting patiently for five minutes, an Audi indeed stopped in front of him.
Lu Jing sat in the driver’s seat and waved at Yan Shouyi.