Dedicated to studying, yet forced into a chaotic situation.

Chapter 210 Don't Refuse a Friend's Kindness

Xu Chaomu stood by the door and rang the doorbell.

Leopard Brother and Jiang Ming are both watching "Super Genius". They are really into it and are chatting about it in real time in the chat group. In this episode, he and Shi Sui are standing together, and they posted a lot of screenshots of them together.

Jiang Ming even edited the video, saying it was material for a wedding music video.

It's not even close to being started.

However, Xu Chaomu still saved all the group photos and video footage.

Later, Jiang Ming and Brother Leopard started chatting about gossip and trending topics.

Xu Chaomu also noticed the slander and abuse on Weibo, which was almost one-sided, with everyone accusing Shi Sui of cheating and demanding that she withdraw from the competition and apologize.

He then came to find Shi Sui.

He wasn't sure if she was asleep, since it was almost midnight.

It's good that she's asleep; she probably didn't see the malicious comments online. He'll take care of everything before she wakes up the next day.

But he really wanted to see her.

Very much.

Very much.

The door opened, letting in light. The girl, wearing a cotton slip dress, with her long hair flowing down her back and holding a plush jellyfish doll in her arms, softly called his name upon seeing him.

Xu Chaomu looked down at her and asked, "Shi Sui, are you going to sleep?"

Shi Sui was supposed to be sleeping.

But it's already 11:30, and Xu Chaomu is still looking for her so late, there must be something important going on.

So she opened the door completely, and Shi Sui turned to the side, shaking her head and saying, "No, no, I don't go to bed that early. Come in."

Several pairs of slippers were placed by the door. Xu Chaomu changed into them while explaining, "My computer at home is broken. Can I borrow yours?"

This is a flimsy excuse.

He can fix computers.

Even if the computer is completely broken and can't be repaired, he can still go to the company.

But Shi Sui had no doubts about him and readily agreed: "Sure, then come with me to the study."

A while ago, Shi Sui had just renovated an empty room into a study and equipped it with a computer for online meetings with Zhang San.

Of course, she wouldn't show her face at the meeting, and she used a voice changer.

The image of a mysterious big boss must be maintained.

Xu Chaomu followed Shi Sui to the study. The lights were turned on, revealing a warm-toned study with a cozy and layered feel.

Shi Sui immediately put away the romance novel that was spread out on the table and moved the gaming chair in front of him: "Xu Chaomu, you can sit down."

Xu Chaomu did not sit down immediately, but continued to look at her.

The girl had a jellyfish doll tucked under one arm and a baking book in her hand. She spoke with a smile on her face and a lighthearted tone.

She seemed to be in a good mood and hadn't seen the negative comments online.

But Xu Chaomu knew that even if she was feeling down, she wouldn't show it in front of him.

It's difficult to tell from her expression and tone whether she saw the negative comments on Weibo.

Shi Sui saw that he was still standing there, looking at her, as if he wanted to say something but couldn't.

?

It can be inferred that he probably wanted her to leave.

Shi Sui: "You must have something important that you need to borrow the computer for, so I'll be going now. Call me if you need anything, I'm in the living room, I can hear you."

"Shi Sui".

He called her almost immediately after she finished speaking, without any pause.

Nothing else mattered in his life except her.

Shi Sui: "Is there something you need?"

Do you check Weibo?

Shi Sui was stunned for a moment, then slightly raised her head to look at him. The boy had his eyes half-lowered, his gaze gently and softly falling on her, full of emotion.

She suddenly seemed to understand why he had appeared at her door so late.

Shi Sui nodded and said in a relaxed tone, "I checked Weibo and saw Dog Da Chui's video."

"Yes, it's a frame-up. The truth will come out. Song Xinying called me, and the production team won't let me withdraw from the competition, so it won't affect me."

"I don't care about what people say online."

Xu Chaomu listened quietly to her. After she finished speaking, she looked up at him and smiled sweetly and brightly.

His Adam's apple bobbed, and his voice was slightly hoarse: "But I care."

Shi Sui froze, looked away from him, and glanced down at her slippers.

She felt something was off.

I'm wearing a sundress, but why do I feel a little hot?

Xu Chaomu noticed that she took a small step back, looking somewhat at a loss as if she didn't know how to respond.

He lowered his eyes, his eyelashes casting a faint gray shadow on his eyelids, and said in a gentle voice, "Shi Sui, we are friends, and I don't want to see my friends being attacked online."

friend.

Shi Sui silently repeated it in her mind, and then heard him continue.

"Shi Sui, I'm sorry to bother you so late, but I really wanted to see you."

"Those comments online are clearly being manipulated by someone behind the scenes, deliberately targeting you."

"I think we all know who it is, and I want to help you."

"If I were the one who got hurt, you would definitely want to help me, right?"

"Of course," Shi Sui replied instantly.

She looked up and her gaze met his.

The boy took a step closer to her, his clear, snow-white eyes revealing a faint smile.

"I'll help you resolve the online public opinion."

"Don't reject your friend's kindness."

*

Shi Sui certainly knew who was behind those online opinions.

The only people in the world who were so hostile towards her, besides the Jiang family, were Gu Chenyi.

Gu Chenyi, as the male protagonist of the novel, is a lawless outlaw, possessing both strength and cunning.

Shi Sui knew that she had too much screen time in this episode, blocking Jiang Tianyao's way.

As Jiang Tianyao's fiancé, Gu Chenyi naturally protects his wife fiercely, clearing away all obstacles in her path!

After clearing away the obstacles, they resumed their affectionate relationship, and the female supporting character completed her task of contributing to their love story, before disappearing from the story amidst a barrage of insults.

Xu Chaomu naturally guessed this as well.

As he typed on the keyboard, he said, "Shi Sui, after you were subjected to public opinion, the one who benefited the most was Jiang Tianyao. Under the trending search terms, most of the comments were from paid trolls promoting Jiang Tianyao."

Shi Sui sat next to him.

I looked at the computer interface, but I couldn't understand it.

I looked at his profile again. The light from the screen shone on the boy's face, flickering between bright and dim, and his eyes were as clear as glass beads.

Xu Chaomu noticed her gaze and smiled gently: "Does it look good?"

Shi Sui immediately looked away and picked up the novel to cover her face: "It's really good."

Xu Chaomu's smile deepened, and her voice rose slightly at the end:

"Then why don't you watch it anymore?"

Shi Sui: "Because it's impolite to stare at someone's face."

Xu Chaomu glanced at her gently, his tender expression softening his usually aloof demeanor.

Shi Sui started reading the novel. After reading two lines, she looked up and asked, "Xu Chaomu, am I bothering you by being here?"

"will not."

He shook his head slightly and said, "I'm afraid of being alone. You have to stay with me."

Shi Sui softly replied, "I'll stay with you."

I kept looking down at the novel, but I just couldn't get into it.

I was also a little afraid of getting sleepy, so I fell asleep right next to him.

Xu Chaomu thought she wanted to leave, so she tried to start a conversation by asking, "Shi Sui, what are you looking at?"

"Romance novels."

Xu Chaomu was surprised.

He found it hard to associate romance novels with Shi Sui, but it's perfectly normal for girls to enjoy reading romance novels.

After a moment, he laughed and said, "I thought it was a baking book."

"That's what I think too!"

Shi Sui puffed out her cheeks and pouted, "This novel isn't very good. I've read half of it and still can't figure out who the male lead is."

Xu Chaomu: "The female lead likes the male lead."

Shi Sui: "But I can't figure out who the female lead likes—I don't want to watch anymore."

She closed the book, and the image of cream bread on the cover made her stomach rumble.

Shi Sui rested her chin on her hand and poked at the bread: "I think I'm a little hungry."

"What do you want to eat?" Xu Chaomu put down the mouse and asked, "Do you have any ingredients at home? I'll go and make it for you."

"No need for all that trouble, I just want some snacks." Shi Sui thought to herself as she poked at her bread, then a thought flashed through her mind, "I'll go get a can of koala cookies!"

She turned her head to look at him: "Xu Chaomu, do you want to eat?"

When cookies were mentioned, Xu Chaomu saw her eyes light up and smiled, "Yes."

"What flavor do you want? Strawberry, chocolate, vanilla?"

"strawberry."

"Okay! I'll go get it right away!"

Shi Sui went to the snack cabinet, took a jar of strawberry-filled cookies, and returned to her room. She saw a video posted by Dog Da Chui playing on her computer screen.

"The video posted by Dog Hammer is not a composite. The video quality and audio have been processed, but there are ways to restore it."

While cracking the video, Xu Chaomu explained, "The employees are relatively easy to find. They have been identified through intelligent recognition of all the TV station's employee photos and voices."

"Next, we just need to investigate this employee's schedule and who he met with to quickly identify who bought the exam questions."

Shi Sui tore open the cookie packaging, leaned closer to the screen, and found that the video quality had become high definition, and the sound was normal human speech.

"Xu Chaomu, you're amazing." It was a sincere compliment tinged with admiration.

Xu Chaomu gave a soft "hmm" and then asked, "Just one compliment?"

It was discovered that Shi Sui always praised Chi Yanhou. (Although it was always the same few lines.)

He's already not satisfied.

"Something didn't look right no matter how I looked at it, but kneeling down made it much better." Shi Sui recalled a comment she had recently come across.

Xu Chaomu turned her head to look at her, a hint of confusion in her eyes: "What do you mean?"

"That's right, I think you're amazing, I'm totally impressed."

As Shi Sui spoke, she walked two fingers across the table, then with a snap, her fingers knelt down.

It was so cute that Xu Chaomu burst out laughing.

Seeing him smile, Shi Sui was also happy, took out a cookie and held it up: "Dedicated to Xu Chaomu, the smartest and most amazing person in the world!"

At this moment, the cookies seem to have a sparkling effect, like a treasure.

Xu Chaomu smiled slightly as he watched her hand the cookie to him.

He shook his head slightly, showing no intention of taking the cookies, his slender, pale fingers moving rapidly across the keyboard.

"My hands were on the keyboard, they're not clean."

“Oh, then I’ll feed you!” Shi Sui readily agreed.

She brought the cookie to his lips and examined them closely.

The lips are beautifully shaped, and the color is a lovely cherry blossom pink.

The boy slightly parted his lips, and Shi Sui stuffed the cookie inside.

Even through the biscuit, she could feel the touch of his lips; they were soft, like pudding.

The faint sounds of chewing and swallowing interrupted Shi Sui's imagination about pudding, and she pulled her thoughts back.

Xu Chaomu smiled faintly: "I'd like to have another one."

"it is good!"

Shi Sui responded quickly, taking out another cookie from the bag, but this time she didn't stare at other people's mouths, as that would be too impolite.

I raised my hand up a little, felt it was the mouth area, and then stuffed it in.

Suddenly, my fingertips touched something soft and damp.

Shi Sui quickly withdrew her hand; the fleeting touch of that moist softness sent shivers down her spine.

She was a little flustered; if she wasn't mistaken, she had accidentally touched his tongue.

Ah, my toes are so embarrassed I feel like I'm digging a castle out of them.

Shi Sui secretly glanced at him out of the corner of her eye.

Xu Chaomu seemed completely unconcerned, her gaze fixed intently on the computer screen, a faint smile playing on her lips: "So sweet, I want more."

Shi Sui breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that he probably hadn't noticed the accident.

So he said "okay" again and held the cookie to Xu Chaomu's lips.

The moment the cookie was put into his lips, the boy suddenly lowered his head, his fingertips enveloped by a soft touch, as if he were being rolled into pudding.

The wrapping was damp, with a subtle sucking sensation.

Shi Sui was so frightened that she withdrew her hand, her mind went blank, and she patted her disobedient hand.

Xu Chaomu: "Sorry, I didn't notice, I licked your hand."

Shi Sui glanced at him. The boy's clear eyes, hidden beneath his long eyelashes, were calm and clear, as if he had no other thoughts.

Shi Sui: "Um...it's nothing."

It turns out that I was just making a fuss out of nothing.

So I stuffed five or six cookies into my mouth to calm my nerves.

He picked up the water glass on the table and gulped down some water to calm his nerves.

After calming down, Shi Sui noticed that Xu Chaomu's water glass hadn't been touched, so she handed it to him: "Xu Chaomu, are you thirsty? Would you like some water?"

Xu Chaomu nodded slightly, picked up her water glass, tilted her head back, and her Adam's apple bobbed up and down.

He said, "We've already found out who stole the exam questions."

Shi Sui: "Who?"

Xu Chaomu: "Finding someone is like searching for a needle in a haystack, but by working backward from the result, we knew that Gu Chenyi was targeting you, so we quickly found this person from the Gu Group."

Shi Sui sighed, "Although I can guess that Gu Chenyi arranged for his subordinates to buy the exam questions, I'm still speechless."

Xu Chaomu: "Hmm?"

Shi Sui: "Gu Chenyi and Jiang Tianyao both did very well in these two episodes. I thought they were focusing on their studies."

"But now it has been discovered that they actually obtained their scores by cheating on the exam questions."

"It's so abominable."

"It's so unfair to the other players."

Compared to Gu Chenyi creating public opinion, Shi Sui disliked him even more for undermining the fairness of the competition.

Xu Chaomu: "It's okay, I'll expose him."

"Mmm, Xu Chaomu, you're the best!"

After Shi Sui finished praising it, she glanced at the time displayed on the computer and realized it was past midnight.

Xu Chaomu noticed her checking the time: "Are you sleepy? Do you want to take a nap?"

Shi Sui looked up at him: "It's already very late, why don't we do it tomorrow? Xu Chaomu, why don't you go to sleep too?"

"It's past midnight, it's already tomorrow."

After correcting her on the first half of the sentence, Xu Chaomu asked her on the second half: "Sleep together?"

Shi Sui froze, realizing that she had spoken too quickly, made a slip of the tongue, and created ambiguity.

She was just about to explain.

Xu Chaomu looked into her eyes and said softly, "It's very late."

The look in his eyes was cold and broken, as if he were homeless.

Shi Sui's heart skipped a beat as she realized it was indeed very late and it wouldn't be safe for him to go home alone.

But just then, the doorbell rang.

It's so late at night, and someone's still looking for her?