好好好好好好好……

Why are you spouting nonsense when someone's talking to you?

Can't I choke?

"Of, of course, you can use it." Chen Yuan, after all, maintained his aloof persona, so he wasn't too flustered. After a slight pause, he said these words and extended his hand in a gesture of invitation.

Honestly, it was a little weird.

Do I usually act like such a goofball?

"Th, thank you." Like a chick pecking at rice, Xia Xinyu nodded gently, then got up, ready to go back to her room to get her clothes.

At the same time, Chen Yuan also stood up.

"Eh?" Xia Xinyu looked puzzled.

To avoid misunderstandings, Chen Yuan explained, "You can shower in my room. I'll stay in your room until you're done."

"It's okay, it's so hot over there. You should stay here..."

"It's fine."

Before she could finish speaking, Chen Yuan sat back down on the stool, very obedient.

His willingness to listen to her was quite pleasing, but his unhesitating obedience in this situation seemed a little strange...

[But showering in his room, won't he think I have ulterior motives?]

Like what?

[Like I'm deliberately doing things that could easily cause misunderstandings...]

Damn, why am I having a conversation with myself? It's so scary.

[I'm really worried about the smell on my body and want to take a shower. I really can't shower over there. I'm not faking it...]

I know, I know. Hurry up and get your change of clothes. I need to study.

Lowering his head, Chen Yuan began to diligently study English... oh no, it was math.

"Okay." Just like that, Xia Xinyu left the room, leaving the door half-closed, and went to her room to get her clothes.

When studying, she wore the Fourth High School uniform, a white short-sleeved summer shirt with pink trim and long sweatpants. If she were to change, which outfit would it be?

Chen Yuan hadn't seen Xia Xinyu's casual clothes often, maybe just those few sets. She looked good in skirts, but unfortunately, she had only worn one when she brought him food before, so today felt like opening a blind box...

Study, study.

Looking at a woman a hundred times doesn't guarantee she'll be yours.

But looking at advanced math a hundred times... well, that's really not as good as looking at a woman a hundred times.

At least it doesn't strain the brain so much.

Knock knock.

After a while, the door to his room was gently knocked. Then, Xia Xinyu pushed open the door, holding a stack of neatly folded clothes and a towel, and carefully entered.

"I'm going in, okay?"

"Do you know how to use the hot water?"

"I do, if it's the same as next door."

"But I haven't used the one next door..."

"I, I mean, since it's all the same landlord's property, they should all be the same brand, right?" Xia Xinyu explained with an awkward smile.

"That's true."

The landlord here was a typical rich woman from Xia Hai City, owning several apartment buildings and netting hundreds of thousands a year just from rent. And in each unit of these apartment buildings, the appliances were basically the same.

When Chen Yuan was a kid, he didn't even dare to buy dozens of popsicles at a time wholesale. The landlord aunt bought dozens of air conditioners at a time.

But the good thing about having a rich landlord was that these rundown units were like small beehives for worker bees to her. She didn't care at all about damage, depreciation, or even tenants running away, since she had two months' rent as a deposit.

Moreover, the landlord aunt who lived in a high-end residential area like Siji Mingyuan wouldn't treat these old, dilapidated apartments as her home.

"I'm going in, okay?"

"Okay, okay."

Just go already, why are you reporting to me?

Did she not trust him?

[From this angle, you can see the glass... Is his glass not transparent?]

"..."

He almost fell for Xia Xinyu's inner thoughts and his gaze followed hers.

Pretending to stretch, Chen Yuan moved the stool he was sitting on, then sat with his back to the frosted glass of the bathroom, using his most decisive actions to reassure Xia Xinyu as much as possible.

Did she really think he was a pervert?

The light of righteousness!

After Chen Yuan turned around, Xia Xinyu was slightly less uneasy. Opening the bathroom door, she went in and closed it behind her, holding the hem of her shirt with both hands, lifting it up to take it off...

But halfway through, she suddenly realized that if she put all her clothes on the small stool, they would get wet when she showered.

But was there any place in here to put her clothes?

So, she poked her head out of the bathroom and asked, puzzled, "Where do you usually put your clothes when you shower?"

"The plastic stool by the door."

"..."

Xia Xinyu looked at the plastic stool by the door, then at Chen Yuan.

[He doesn't usually close the door when he showers...]

[Well, he lives alone, after all.]

[But of course I can't open the door naked to get my clothes.]

Helpless, Xia Xinyu could only empty the plastic bag she used for grocery shopping today and hang it on the doorknob.

This would hold her change of clothes.

And her dirty clothes that she had sweated in today, she would just put them on the washing machine. It didn't matter if they got wet, since they needed to be washed anyway.

...Wait, I'm such an idiot.

She spent so long picking out clothes, but she didn't bring her shower gel or shampoo.

Fortunately, Chen Yuan had shampoo... men's.

It's okay, his hair smells good, so this scent should be fine.

Shower gel... he was out.

Soap.

Would he be a germaphobe and not like others using his soap?

Maybe I should just go get my shower gel.

But going in and out of the bathroom before taking a shower would make me seem too indecisive.

Holding the smooth, Hetian jade-like soap in her hand, she hesitated briefly, but ultimately decided not to be so pretentious.

I'm so concerned about personal hygiene. As long as he's not too much of a germaphobe, he shouldn't dislike me...

………

Chen Yuan felt that he must have been a tailor in his past life.

Otherwise, why would his feet be shaking so frantically while the sound of water was pouring in the bathroom? He couldn't stop his knees from bouncing, no matter how hard he tried.

Clearly, there was a void sewing machine under his feet.

Today's advanced math was particularly difficult to learn.

Forget it, I'll scroll through Douyin for a while.

Opening his phone, Chen Yuan watched a few game videos, then suddenly a "Nearby" Douyin popped up, a set of pictures.

Good youth of Eleventh High School, bravely saves a drowning beauty [Flowers][Flowers][Flowers]

The first picture was a group photo of him and that Yuan Yu... what's-her-name.

"What the hell?"

Chen Yuan didn't even scroll to the second picture before swiping it away.

Then, there was a brand blogger for "stepmother skirts" that he followed.

@kkHuang: No skits today, just a casual twirl.

Did you think I followed you for the skits?

Just twirl, don't waste my data.

"Chen Yuan, I washed your clothes too..."

As soon as he heard Xia Xinyu's voice, Chen Yuan quickly swiped away the video. However, when he turned around, he saw that Xia Xinyu's signature smile was temporarily out of service, and she said lazily, "I washed my school uniform with your clothes. Help me hang them up when they're done."

"Okay."

Chen Yuan made an okay gesture, forcing a calm expression.

[Do boys like to watch that kind of stuff...]

[He's clearly just a seventeen-year-old high school student.]

Boys don't have any special preferences. They're just perverts.

"Then I'm going to blow-dry my hair."

Holding the wrung-out towel, as well as the underwear wrapped in the towel that couldn't be put in the washing machine, Xia Xinyu prepared to leave and return to her room.

"Where are you going?" Chen Yuan stopped her as she walked past him.

"I'm going back to my place to blow-dry my hair..."

"What's the original name of a hair dryer?" Chen Yuan asked.

"A hair dryer..." Xia Xinyu still looked confused. "What's wrong?"

"An electric hair dryer, right?"

"..." Xia Xinyu's face turned red. She closed her eyes and covered her face with one hand in embarrassment, saying shamefully, "You must think I'm pretty stupid, right?"

"I got a 504 score, are you asking me?" (Referring to the Gaokao score)

"Fine, then I'll use yours."

Xia Xinyu put her two towels, folded into small tofu skins, on the side of the desk, then went to use Chen Yuan's hair dryer.

Because Chen Yuan's hair wasn't long, and the weather was still relatively warm, the hair dryer, which hadn't been used in a long time, was curled up in the corner, its cord tangled. Xia Xinyu could only pull it out first.

However, because the cord of this hair dryer was too long, she accidentally swept it across the table, knocking Xia Xinyu's towels to the ground.

Seeing this, Xia Xinyu quickly bent down to pick up the towels on the ground, as well as the underwear that was fortunately hidden inside one of the towels.

...Wait, that's not right.

Xia Xinyu discovered in horror that one thing was missing.

After a tense scan of the room, her gaze finally landed on Chen Yuan.

Looking at the light blue strip of fabric hanging on Chen Yuan's thigh, she perfectly embodied an adjective that only appeared in novels...

Her face was flushed red.