He thought for a moment and decided to stay put and wait.
After a long while, Qiqi finally returned.
"Alright, let's go to class! We're almost late!"
The girl had already regained her bright and sunny demeanor, her soft long hair draped over her shoulders, her pink little face revealing adorable dimples—as if everything that had just happened was merely a minor, insignificant interlude.
Yet, seeing her slightly reddened eyes, Rong Yi felt a soft ache in some corner of his heart.
"Qiqi..."
"Hmm?"
"Actually... if you don't want to smile, you don't have to," Rong Yi said.
Qiqi froze for a moment, then scratched her hair: "Ha! Rong Yi, I have no idea what you're talking about..."
Rong Yi straightened his back: "Nothing! If you don't get it, forget it. Let's go to class!"
"Okay."
The girl responded meekly, obediently following beside the Wolf King as they walked shoulder to shoulder toward the school laboratory.
"Qiqi, why is that brat always following us?" Rong Yi asked, puzzled.
At that moment, he and Qiqi were heading to the lab, while Qin Chen, after hesitating by the lake for a moment, slowly trailed behind, keeping a ten-meter distance from them.
His gaze drifted between the two occasionally, and whenever it met Qiqi's eyes, he would immediately lower his head as if burned by a branding iron.
"I don't know, maybe he's here for class!" Qiqi replied. "He's my classmate."
Rong Yi's eyes widened at that—he had just been thinking that since that man could make Qiqi so sad, he would find a way to make him disappear from her sight in the future... but he turned out to be her classmate!
When they reached the lab, Rong Yi suffered an even greater blow—it turned out that Qin Chen wasn't just Qiqi's classmate; he was also in the same group as her!
Rong Yi was displeased, very displeased!
But no matter how displeased he was, he could only obediently wait in the lab hallway for Qiqi to finish class.
Gu Qiqi was the group leader. Upon arriving at the lab, she immediately assigned the day's preparatory tasks—each group had five members, and besides Qin Chen, the other four in Qiqi's group were all girls. The girls had little strength and even less courage. Though they also coveted Qin Chen's good looks, in the clinical school, who didn't know that Gu Qiqi was once Qin Chen's childhood sweetheart and girlfriend? Even though they had broken up now, none of the girls wanted to court trouble. Moreover, the task of fetching the corpse was definitely a tough job testing both courage and strength, so no one was willing to go with Qin Chen to the basement to retrieve the body.
In the end, Qiqi had to take on the heavy responsibility herself, assigning the other three girls to get equipment and prepare the lab tables.
Qiqi changed into a white lab coat and walked out of the lab. Rong Yi, who had been waiting in the hallway, immediately followed her.
His handsome brows furrowed as he looked at her in surprise and asked, "Hey, why are you dressed like that?"
Qiqi shrugged: "This is the medical school. I'm a future doctor, and now I'm going to do an experiment, so naturally I dress like this."
The Wolf King's eyes widened as if he had heard news of the apocalypse: "What?! You're going to be a doctor too?! Like that Lu Wei?"
He still remembered the days spent in the hospital—it was a nightmare!
Qiqi nodded: "Of course! Why else would I call him senior?"
The Wolf King suddenly realized: "So that's the kind of senior-junior relationship you have!"
Qiqi asked curiously: "What did you think? What kind of senior-junior relationship did you imagine we had?"