My Wife Is Going To Great Lengths/Putting In A Lot Of Effort To Turn Me Gay - Chapter 109

Chapter 109: Learning

Xu Zhi let out a soft sigh. Soft jade and warm fragrance were in her arms, yet she had no way to test the accuracy of the theoretical knowledge through practice.

It was truly a happy torment…

Pointless to dwell on it, Xu Zhi turned around, kissed Qi Yaoyao’s forehead, hugged her back, and soon fell asleep herself.

The sun was high in the sky, and Qi Yaoyao was still sleeping soundly in the large bed.

Xu Zhi, whose internal clock was precise, woke up on time. She took the room card, went downstairs to buy breakfast, and returned to the Presidential Suite. She swept up the rose petals that had been scattered all over the floor the night before.

Seeing that Qi Yaoyao was still sleeping, Xu Zhi sat by the bed, quietly watching her, lost in thought.

After a long while, Xu Zhi reached out, brushed back Qi Yaoyao’s stray hair, leaned down and kissed her cheek, then got up and found a book in the suite’s reading room.

She read until around nine o’clock. Xu Zhi realized the breakfast she bought was cold and looked over at the person on the bed.

Qi Yaoyao’s sleeping posture was willful, and her sleeping face was sweet.

Xu Zhi smiled, She’s sleeping so soundly. She put down the book and carried the breakfast out of the master bedroom.

The Presidential Suite had a kitchen.

Xu Zhi boiled a pot of hot water and used a steamer to heat the breakfast.

Seeing a refrigerator nearby, she opened it casually and was surprised to see some fresh vegetables, fruits, and meat inside.

She was very surprised. Didn’t they say no one lived here?

Could it be that Qi Yaoyao specifically asked the hotel staff to put them in advance?

That was incredibly thoughtful.

Seeing the ingredients, Xu Zhi picked up a bag of pasta, then put it back, exchanging it for a handful of thin noodles, and took out one tomato and three eggs.

Xu Zhi rarely cooked at home.

Her mother seldom let her cook. Most of the chores she usually did were sweeping, mopping, wiping tables, and organizing clutter.

However, rarely cooking didn’t mean she couldn’t cook.

Through observation and having consciously sought advice from her mother before, her technique might not be proficient, but her theoretical knowledge was sufficient.

Xu Zhi used the water for steaming the xiaolongbao (soup dumplings) to scald the tomato.

After the tomato was scalded, she scored a cross at the top with a knife, allowing the skin to be easily peeled off.

After peeling, Xu Zhi diced the tomato and set it aside in a dish.

She heated the wok and poured in oil. She added seasoning to the eggs, beat them, then poured them into the hot oil, frying them until fluffy and fragrant before scooping them out. She then poured the diced tomatoes into the wok to sauté until the juices came out, and added three large bowls of water.

When Qi Yaoyao woke up, she didn’t see Xu Zhi and was startled. She immediately got out of bed and searched everywhere. But as soon as she ran out of the master bedroom, she smelled the aroma of cooking.

She followed the scent to the kitchen and saw Xu Zhi, with her back to the door, preparing breakfast.

Qi Yaoyao stood there, watching the busy, methodical figure in fascination. A sense of married life spontaneously arose in her heart.

She giggled happily as she thought about it.

Xu Zhi heard her, turned back, and smiled. “Finally awake?”

Qi Yaoyao snapped out of her fantasy, looked at Xu Zhi, and joyfully called out “Zhi Zhi!” She stepped into the kitchen, intending to hug her!

Xu Zhi noticed something was wrong with the sound. She looked down and saw the young lady had run out without wearing shoes.

As they hugged, Xu Zhi slightly exerted force, picking Qi Yaoyao up and placing her on the kitchen island.

“No shoes?”

“I thought you had left!” Qi Yaoyao had her own set of reasons.

Xu Zhi, however, said, “You should wear shoes even more if I left.”

Xu Zhi turned down the heat under the soup pot, went to the master bedroom, and brought back slippers for Qi Yaoyao to put on.

With her shoes on, Qi Yaoyao, who was now at a higher elevation, looped her arms around Xu Zhi’s neck, leaned down, and kissed her.

They didn’t kiss for long. After breaking apart, Qi Yaoyao said with a smile, “Zhi Zhi, I previously thought you looked like a virtuous wife, but now, you look like an overly worried mother!”

“And what about you?” Xu Zhi played along and asked.

Qi Yaoyao immediately said, “I sleep in. I’m the lazy baby!”

Xu Zhi smiled. “Then does the lazy baby want to eat xiaolongbao? I just heated them up, and the dipping sauce from the store is still tasty.”

Qi Yaoyao didn’t answer, asking curiously instead, “What are you cooking?”

“Tomato noodles.”

“Then I want to eat your noodles!”

“It’s not cooked yet.”

“It’s fine. We can eat together once it’s cooked~”

Xu Zhi: “Not hungry right now?”

Qi Yaoyao nodded and then shook her head, reaching out to Xu Zhi. “Zhi Zhi, carry me down.”

Xu Zhi lifted Qi Yaoyao off the countertop.

Once on the floor, Qi Yaoyao immediately stood on her tiptoes, hugged Xu Zhi’s neck, and rubbed her soft cheek against her continuously. “Ah ah ah ah, Zhi Zhi, I feel so happy! Happy to death!”

Xu Zhi hugged her back, smiling, and said with a pampered tone, “This is enough to make you so happy?”

“Mm-hmm-hmm!” Qi Yaoyao nodded rapidly.

Xu Zhi smiled, saying nothing more.

After the tomato and egg noodles were cooked, Xu Zhi served them and asked Qi Yaoyao to bring out the xiaolongbao.

Qi Yaoyao looked at the xiaolongbao, which seemed alright. She picked one up with her chopsticks, dipped it in sauce, and took a bite. She didn’t say whether it was tasty or not, but suddenly asked Xu Zhi, “Zhi Zhi, can you make baozi (steamed buns)?”

“That’s a bit difficult.”

“It’s okay! You can learn with a tutorial.”

Xu Zhi realized something. “Don’t you like the noodles?”

“Mmm…” Qi Yaoyao drew out the sound, and only after a long pause did she say, “It’s not that I dislike them, but relatively speaking… you understand, right? Relatively speaking.”

Xu Zhi saw Qi Yaoyao repeatedly emphasizing the phrase and couldn’t help but laugh. She said, “Alright then, I’ll try learning how to make baozi later.”

Qi Yaoyao immediately asked, “When is ‘later’?”

“We’ll see when I have time.” Xu Zhi said, “The gaokao is over, but I still have to go back to the bar.”

Qi Yaoyao looked deflated upon hearing this. “Ah…”

She had just experienced the beauty of their private world; there was no way she would give it up so easily.

Qi Yaoyao argued for herself: “Zhi Zhi, can’t you just quit? The bar isn’t a good place; it’s a mixed environment and very dangerous. Quit, and I’ll support you!”

Xu Zhi thought Qi Yaoyao was just complaining and joking. She laughed and said, “No. I have ambitious goals; I don’t want to live off a woman.”

Qi Yaoyao: “Are you going to achieve your ambitious goals by working as a bartender with no technical skill?”

Hearing this, Xu Zhi realized Qi Yaoyao was serious. She put aside her joking tone and looked at Qi Yaoyao, saying earnestly, “But it helped me achieve half of it: it helped me meet you.”

Qi Yaoyao was easily appeased. She was instantly calmed down, her ears slightly flushed. She muttered, “Alright then, I’ll go with you! Just like we agreed before!”

Xu Zhi asked, “Aren’t you going out with friends this summer?”

“What’s the point of hanging out with them?” Qi Yaoyao said, then excitedly told Xu Zhi, “Anyway, you work nights, so we can date during the day, and then go to the bar to work part-time at night!”

Xu Zhi looked at her and didn’t say anything discouraging, just telling her to eat her noodles first.

Qi Yaoyao was acutely sensitive to emotional changes and immediately asked, “What’s wrong? Is that not allowed?”

Xu Zhi hesitated, sighed, and confessed, “Yaoyao, I also need to find a daytime job. University expenses are high, and before, we and…”

Xu Zhi paused slightly, looking at Qi Yaoyao. She said, “You know that my family still owes a very large debt. We made an agreement before that after the gaokao, all the prize money, subsidies, and scholarships would be used to pay off the debt first.”

Qi Yaoyao pressed her lips together.

Xu Zhi saw Qi Yaoyao’s silence and knew she was unhappy. She instinctively added, “But I can set aside Sunday.”

“What about after university starts?”

“Hm?”

Qi Yaoyao looked at Xu Zhi and asked, “Even after university starts, you’ll still have a lot of debt to repay and will go out for part-time jobs whenever you have free time, right?”

Xu Zhi said, “I heard that in the second year, I can work with a professor on a project. I’ll earn more money that way, and I won’t have to go outside. I’ll spend more time in the lab.”

Qi Yaoyao said angrily, “What about me?!”

Xu Zhi was stunned.

Qi Yaoyao also knew her outburst was somewhat unreasonable. She became disheartened and complained sadly, “This is completely different from the university life I imagined…”

She thought that in college, away from the eyes of their elders, they could freely live together, happily go shopping and dating, buy groceries and cook, and sleep together at night.

Like all couples in love, deeply affectionate.

However, the reality was that Zhi Zhi still had so much to shoulder.

And even had to put her aside for those things.

Was she not important enough?

Because they had just started dating, was her importance very small, so small that Xu Zhi hadn’t planned her into her life, just as her classmates said—they would break up soon…?

Xu Zhi was unaware of Qi Yaoyao’s thoughts. She put down her chopsticks and apologized, “I’m sorry, Yaoyao…”

She reached out to hold Qi Yaoyao’s hand, but it was quickly withdrawn.

Xu Zhi’s expression froze slightly.

For a moment, she didn’t even dare to look up at Qi Yaoyao, only hearing her heart pounding loudly in her ears, rushing into her head.

At that moment, Xu Zhi didn’t know what she was anxious about.

Qi Yaoyao, however, looked at Xu Zhi. A brilliant idea flashed through her mind, giving her a perfect solution. She immediately said, “Actually, I have a way to satisfy both of us!!”

Xu Zhi immediately looked up at her.

Qi Yaoyao’s eyes shone brightly as she said, “You’re so capable, what’s the use of being a non-skilled bartender at a bar? You won’t need to bartend in university. You went there before because the part-time hours were relatively flexible, right?”

Xu Zhi said, “Mm.”

Qi Yaoyao said, “How about this? I’m going abroad in a few days and I need an escort plus a bodyguard.”

“…” Xu Zhi felt slightly helpless. “Yaoyao, stop joking.”

“I’m not joking at all!!” Qi Yaoyao spoke earnestly, fabricating a story for Xu Zhi: “I really go abroad every summer to visit my maternal grandfather.”

“Your maternal grandfather?”

“That’s right!”

Xu Zhi frowned. “But…”

Qi Yaoyao interrupted her, saying boldly, “I won’t give you special treatment as my girlfriend. I’ll pay you the same salary as the bodyguard my mother hires. You know, foreign countries are more open, and I’m so pretty, I could easily be taken advantage of. This is where I need you to step in!!”

Xu Zhi said, “But I don’t know how to fight?”

“That’s not a problem, we can learn!!” Qi Yaoyao said, “I’ll hire some instructors to teach us. Girls should definitely learn some self-defense techniques when traveling abroad! This skill will benefit us for life. Not just in university, but even when working later, you can use it if you encounter bad people! It could even save your life in critical moments!”

Xu Zhi: “…”

After speaking, Qi Yaoyao lowered her head and ate her noodles, deliberately avoiding Xu Zhi’s gaze, not giving her a chance to refuse. She said, “If you don’t say anything, I’ll take it as a yes. We’ll start practicing tomorrow. I’ll pick you up at the gym tomorrow morning!”

Xu Zhi remained silent for a long while before finally conceding, “I need to discuss this with my mother. If we go abroad, how long will it be?”

Qi Yaoyao: “One to two weeks. It should be just enough time for the scores to be released, and we can come back together to fill out the applications!”

Xu Zhi acknowledged this with an “Mm.”

Back at home, Xu Zhi told her mother about the plan.

Zhou Weixiang, as an adult, immediately saw through Qi Yaoyao’s little scheme. She said, “She just wants to take you out to travel, right?”

Xu Zhi naturally knew that must be one reason, but she still relayed, “She said she goes to visit her maternal grandfather every year.”

Zhou Weixiang was startled and looked at her daughter.

Seeing her mother stay silent, Xu Zhi also looked at her. “What’s wrong?”

Zhou Weixiang shook her head. “Nothing. Then you should go with her, but you must be careful abroad and try not to go out at night.”

“Okay.” Xu Zhi smiled. “Mom, I’ll contact you every day!”

Zhou Weixiang smiled, her eyes gentle. She reached out and stroked her hair. “Silly Zhi Zhi, you’re an adult now. You don’t need to report everything to your mother.”

Xu Zhi pursed her lips and smiled.

The next morning at nine o’clock, Qi Yaoyao’s car was already downstairs.

Zhou Weixiang was at school teaching students and wasn’t home.

Qi Yaoyao saw Xu Zhi about to change into athletic wear and said, “You’ll change into a taekwondo uniform at the dojo; no need to change clothes now.”

The taekwondo instructors were two heroic-looking female teachers. They first demonstrated the moves, then broke them down one by one, teaching techniques, hand movements, and pressure points.

Xu Zhi learned things very quickly.

In just half a day, she already showed a good stance and could perform several set counter-moves with the instructor.

However, during training, she adamantly refused to try the moves on Qi Yaoyao.

Are you kidding me? Qi Yaoyao was delicate and precious, with soft, tender skin. A simple hickey on her neck would leave a mark; if she were really thrown, she’d be covered in bruises.

No, no, absolutely not.

Qi Yaoyao, however, didn’t worry so much. She actively attacked Xu Zhi in front of the instructors, shouting as she struck, “Left hook!”

Xu Zhi dodged.

“Right hook!”

Dodged again.

“Sweeping kick!”

Dodge, dodge, dodge.

As Qi Yaoyao attacked, her peripheral vision caught the instructors leaving. She immediately changed tactics, shouting “Waaah ya ya ya ya” as she lunged at Xu Zhi!

Xu Zhi blocked, then was knocked back a few steps by Qi Yaoyao, who was like a small firecracker, and finally tackled onto the soft mat.

Taking advantage of the fact that Xu Zhi wouldn’t fight back, Qi Yaoyao immediately pinned Xu Zhi’s hand and pressed it against her neck, triumphantly declaring, “Chokehold! Surrender or suffer!”

Xu Zhi, pinned down, said, “Surrender, surrender, I surrender.”

“Hmph, just surrendering isn’t enough. Losing requires punishment.”

“What’s the punishment?”

Qi Yaoyao, using random moves since the instructors were gone, took advantage of the privacy and said cheekily to Xu Zhi, “The punishment is to kiss me!”

Xu Zhi said, “Isn’t that actually a reward?”

Qi Yaoyao’s heart melted from happiness upon hearing Xu Zhi ask so earnestly. She lowered her head, and they kissed and embraced on the mat.

The two instructors didn’t dare to leave for too long and soon returned to the gym.

As soon as they came back, they saw the two girls kissing passionately on the floor, unable to part…

They exchanged glances, backed away discreetly, pretended not to see anything, and decided to come back later.

Qi Yaoyao checked in at the taekwondo dojo for three consecutive days.

Her boxing skills were merely a flourish, but her kissing skills had significantly improved.

With Xu Zhi’s passport processed and flight tickets purchased, Qi Yaoyao began the second part of her plan—diligently studying the tens of gigabytes of “learning videos”!

That’s right. The trip abroad was certainly not to visit her maternal grandfather.

Her maternal grandfather passed away even earlier than her great-grandfather.

Otherwise, her mother wouldn’t have grown up with her cousins.

The real purpose of this trip abroad was threefold: one, to keep Xu Zhi away from the bar, a place that was mixed, low-paying, and physically demanding.

Two, to spend time together, fostering their relationship during their private time.

Three, a perfect confession! And then, sex!!

Yes, sex!!!

Julie had said that a relationship limited to only emotional connection, no matter how intense, was thin.

But once a physical relationship was established.

Even if it was “only a physical relationship,” maintaining it long-term would affect their mentality!

What’s more, they were already in love, weren’t they?

Sex was the perfect tool to deepen their affection and bond!!

Qi Yaoyao’s attitude was very serious and earnest.

However, the quality of the videos was lacking…

Several videos in a row, and she wanted to close them after just watching the opening.

Qi Yaoyao was confused and asked Julie what was wrong with her.

Julie didn’t know either. After much thought, she concluded that Qi Yaoyao’s situation was unique. She was likely new to her sexual orientation and had little contact with the lesbian community, so currently, she was only physically interested in Xu Zhi.

So Julie selected a few videos where the dominant partner resembled Xu Zhi and sent them to her individually, asking her to try watching them.

Qi Yaoyao opened them.

She immediately noticed that one of the girls was tall and slender, somewhat like Xu Zhi. Knowing Julie’s intention, she tried to keep watching.

However, the girl was heavily made up, and Qi Yaoyao quickly closed the video with a frown.

Why watch such an eyesore?

She’d rather video call Zhi Zhi!!

Wait, video call??

Qi Yaoyao suddenly thought of a possibility!

Maybe it wasn’t that she couldn’t “learn,” but because Zhi Zhi wasn’t around? After all, before the gaokao, she always studied with Zhi Zhi via video call.

I’ll try it first!

Qi Yaoyao was a woman of action. She immediately video-called Xu Zhi on WeChat.

Xu Zhi was sitting properly at her desk, with a strap-style massager hanging over her shoulder, “thumping” away.

Unlike Qi Yaoyao, who was always delicate and lazy, Xu Zhi had been seriously and diligently studying combat and taekwondo techniques these past few days.

Since Yaoyao entrusted her safety to her, she naturally had to protect her well.

Moreover, she was going abroad soon. She naturally practiced harder during the day, resulting in various aches and pains when she returned home in the evening.

If Qi Yaoyao hadn’t occasionally kissed her at the gym, providing her with emotional and spiritual nourishment, she would have collapsed long ago.

Xu Zhi answered the video call, looked at Qi Yaoyao on her phone, and asked, “What’s wrong?”

They had just chatted on WeChat half an hour ago.

The conversation had ended with Qi Yaoyao suddenly saying earnestly that she was going to study and would see her tomorrow.

Qi Yaoyao said vehemently, “Zhi Zhi, I need to look at your face to study!”

She did as she said, looking at Xu Zhi through her phone while placing the tablet, which was playing the uncensored video, on her lap.

Xu Zhi was confused. “What are you studying? Why do you need to look at my face?”

Qi Yaoyao couldn’t possibly tell the truth, so she immediately resorted to the blame-shifting method: “That’s all your fault! You video-called me when I was studying for the gaokao, and now I’m not used to it and can’t focus without a video call!”

Xu Zhi smiled at the notion. “Alright, my mistake. I let you develop a bad habit.”

Qi Yaoyao hummed and hawed, fidgeting a little, and said, “It’s, it’s not really bad, as long as you’re willing to video call me whenever I ask.”

Xu Zhi smiled and agreed, “Mm, whenever I’m free, absolutely.”

“Mm-hmm, then you go ahead and do your thing.” Qi Yaoyao said, noticing that Xu Zhi had taken off the massager. She immediately asked, “Why did you turn it off? Are you done massaging?”

“It’s too loud; it will affect your studying,” Xu Zhi said. “I’ll turn it back on after you’re done studying.”

“No, no need!” Qi Yaoyao quickly said, “It won’t affect me. You can just keep massaging.”

Xu Zhi didn’t listen. She put away the shoulder massager, plugged her phone into the charger, and picked up a supplementary book to read.

Seeing this, Qi Yaoyao didn’t press the issue and looked at the tablet.

The main character in this video also somewhat resembled Xu Zhi. Of course, she wasn’t as beautiful as Xu Zhi, nor did she have her temperament.

Her silhouette from a distance was similar, but upon closer inspection, her walking posture was completely different.

The two were still connected via video call on their phones, neither of them staring at the other for long.

They would just glance over occasionally. Seeing the other person on the video gave them a steady, reassuring feeling of companionship.

That was the purpose of video calls before.

But today was different.

For Xu Zhi, it was the same.

For Qi Yaoyao, it was different.

When the camera switched to a close-up, Qi Yaoyao immediately turned her eyes away, looking at Zhi Zhi on the WeChat video to cleanse her eyes, lest she fail halfway through again.

Ah, no, lest she die before achieving success.

Surprisingly, it actually worked!!

Qi Yaoyao finally managed to get through the opening. She hadn’t turned the sound on for the video, realizing this made it hard to understand, so she put on a pair of Apple headphones.

She turned on the transparency mode so she could hear the audio from the “learning video” and also hear Xu Zhi if she spoke to her.

Qi Yaoyao frowned, watching the two female leads meet and immediately start kissing.

Qi Yaoyao had missed a part of the plot setup, so she didn’t quite understand. She only saw that while the two were kissing, another woman was asleep on the sofa in the room, with an empty beer bottle in her hand, and many scattered beer bottles on the floor.

One of the leads was resisting. It was a foreign film without Chinese subtitles. Qi Yaoyao only understood from the pushing movements and the familiar Japanese phrase whose meaning everyone knew…

The dominant party was very forceful and naturally didn’t let her push away.

But instead of going anywhere else, they inexplicably went to the sofa where the drunk woman was lying.

Qi Yaoyao watched with a puzzled expression. Julie had told her that watching these kinds of films was about the ambiance and immersion.

But how was she supposed to immerse herself in this film?

Infidelity?

Neither she nor Zhi Zhi would ever cheat!!

Qi Yaoyao closed the video in disgust and opened another one.

This one started on a campus. The female lead was sitting in the classroom, looking out the window, her gaze falling on a girl with long black hair on the sports field.

Qi Yaoyao’s eyes brightened slightly. She rested her chin on her hand and watched with interest.

This film didn’t immediately jump into explicit content; it was a pure love story.

It had a lot of backstory.

It was a story of secret admiration.

Qi Yaoyao deeply empathized, until the dominant party discovered the feelings of the submissive one and pinned her against the equipment cabinet during a physical education class.

Wow! Qi Yaoyao’s spirits immediately soared. She regretted not having taken a single PE class or having a chance to go to the equipment room after transferring to No. 1 High School.

Of course, she wasn’t dating Zhi Zhi back then, so it would have been useless even if she had gone…

University is possible, hehe, university is possible!!

Xu Zhi didn’t know what Qi Yaoyao could possibly be studying now that they had graduated. She glanced at the video occasionally and saw her cupping her chin, smiling shyly and sweetly.

This was clearly zoning out, not studying.

But Qi Yaoyao was indeed “studying.” She was only distracted for a moment before looking back at the plot.

The protagonists’ school uniforms were pleated mini-skirts. After the dominant party pinned the submissive party against the equipment cabinet and kissed for a while, the dominant party unbuttoned the skirt and reached inside.

Qi Yaoyao’s eyes instantly widened!

At this moment, the camera angle switched, changing from bottom to top, revealing hands turning and rubbing inside the sheer lace fabric…

Qi Yaoyao’s attention was focused on the faintly visible back of the hand and knuckles. She thought, It looks like Zhi Zhi’s…

—”Yaoyao.”

Qi Yaoyao’s heart leaped when she heard the sound. She felt a jolt of numb electric current shoot down from her heart, but her brain simultaneously issued a command. Startled, she quickly slammed the tablet shut with a “bang,” then took off her headphones and looked left and right.

Seeing the bedroom, and no one around, Qi Yaoyao remembered that Xu Zhi wasn’t next to her, but was video-calling her…

Qi Yaoyao let out a long breath, but still blushed deeply. She looked at Xu Zhi on her phone. “Zhi Zhi, did, did you call me?”

“Your face is very red.” Xu Zhi asked with concern, “Are you too hot and suffering from heatstroke? Is the air conditioning on?”

Qi Yaoyao quickly fanned herself with her hand. “It’s on, it’s on. Maybe the temperature is high. I’ll go turn it down a bit.”

She said this and got up to leave the bed, but her headphone fell to the floor, and the edge of the duvet brushed against the tablet.

The video, which had automatically stopped when the headphones were removed, started playing again due to the accidental touch…

Qi Yaoyao fled to wash her face before returning, but halfway back, she realized something was wrong. A subtle yet brief, explicitly erotic moan filled the room.

Oh my god!!!

Qi Yaoyao nearly went insane! She ran back, almost tripping over the carpet. She hurriedly returned to the bed and saw that the two in the video were already having sex in the equipment room.

This kind of film naturally didn’t require logic. The submissive party’s cries were incredibly loud, completely disregarding the “classmates taking PE outside.”

Qi Yaoyao’s ears were scarlet. She quickly tried to pause the video, but her fingers were sweaty from nervousness. Instead of pausing, the volume slider went up.

Xu Zhi slightly raised her eyebrow. “.”

Qi Yaoyao finally managed to resolve the situation after a flurry of panicked movements, but she couldn’t face Xu Zhi. She knelt by the bed, covering her flushed, burning cheeks with both hands, her eyes clouded with tears of shame and frustration.

Just kill me,呜呜呜…

How did things turn out like this?

Did her tablet have a virus??

Just then, Xu Zhi’s voice came through the quiet room—”Didn’t you say you wanted to ‘study’ with me? Why didn’t you wait, and started watching by yourself?”

Qi Yaoyao mumbled indistinctly, not speaking, her hands tightly covering her brightly blushing face, her eyes filled with the watery fog of shame and annoyance.

“Yaoyao?” Xu Zhi called.

Qi Yaoyao heard her call several times before she picked up her phone in a fit of self-abandonment, pointing it toward herself. With one hand still covering her crimson, burning cheek, she saw Xu Zhi’s face, and the other party’s smiling eyes.

Xu Zhi was wearing wired headphones, leaning against the bed.

The strange moaning from the phone was so sudden. At first, she thought Yaoyao had fallen and anxiously asked a couple of questions, but there was no response. Instead, the moaning changed, and she realized what was happening. She immediately turned off the sound, found her headphones, and plugged them in.

Qi Yaoyao covered most of her face, only exposing a pair of moist eyes. She said in an extremely shy whisper, “J-Julie gave it to me. She said to pick some high-quality ones for me, so I thought I’d screen them myself first, and then ask you to watch them with me.”

Xu Zhi chuckled softly. “But I remember you said you were going to study early tonight?”

Qi Yaoyao: “…………”

Was there anyone in the world who was better at blocking her own retreat than she was?

Qi Yaoyao attempted to argue.

But Xu Zhi kindly let her off the hook, asking, “So, did you learn anything?”

Qi Yaoyao immediately bit her lower lip tightly in embarrassment, whimpering and refusing to speak, feeling that Xu Zhi was teasing her maliciously.

Xu Zhi, however, put down the book in her hand and said again, “Prop the tablet up. I’ll watch with you.”