Chapter 700 - 428: The Gloomy Shadow of Death

Chapter 700: Chapter 428: The Gloomy Shadow of Death

DRING-A-LING...

The phone in Su Yue’s pocket suddenly started ringing. Lin Li held his tongue, deciding to wait until she finished her call to tell her he couldn’t join her for milk tea.

She pulled the phone from her pocket and glanced at the caller ID. It was a colleague. ’I wonder why she’s calling,’ she thought, a little confused.

"Hello."

"..."

"What?"

"..."

"Okay, don’t worry about it. You go!"

Lin Li watched the expressions shift rapidly across the charming Su Yue’s face, curious about what the caller could have said to cause such a reaction.

After hanging up, Su Yue’s delicate eyebrows furrowed slightly.

Then, as she slipped her phone back into her pocket, she looked up at Lin Li, who was watching her, and said apologetically.

"Lin Li, I won’t be able to get milk tea with you after my morning classes."

"Huh?!!!" Lin Li was taken aback when he heard this.

He had been about to tell her he had something to do that afternoon and couldn’t make it. Now, he didn’t even have to say a word; the plan was already canceled. He was secretly thrilled.

Of course, he couldn’t let his joy show on his face, or Su Yue would definitely get suspicious and ask him why he was so happy.

"What happened?" Lin Li asked, his expression unchanging, feigning a bit of confusion.

"My colleague just called me. She said an elderly member of her family accidentally took a fall down the stairs and has been rushed to the hospital in an ambulance.

She asked the school for time off and needs to rush to the hospital, but she still has a class this afternoon, so she was hoping I could cover it for her." Su Yue explained what her colleague had told her on the phone.

Lin Li nodded. "Oh, so that’s what happened. A fall can be very dangerous for an older person."

"Well, that’s that, then. I’m heading back to the office," Su Yue said with a smile. "We can get milk tea together some other time when we’re free."

"Okay," Lin Li replied. He said goodbye to Su Yue and walked toward his car.

Su Yue watched Lin Li open the door, get in, and drive away in his van.

She turned around, carrying the bag of exquisitely made and delicious pastries from Lin Li. As she walked onto campus, she pouted, a look of regret on her pretty face, and muttered under her breath.

"I was planning for us to get milk tea after morning classes, and then maybe we could have naturally gone to a movie...

Sigh, what a shame. I guess I’ll just have to ask him again next time."

A car was parked at the street corner. Zhu Daqi sat in the driver’s seat, hands on the steering wheel, watching the graceful figure carry a bag onto campus. His eyes flickered as he fell deep in thought.

RUMBLE...

Once Su Yue’s figure disappeared onto campus, Zhu Daqi retracted his gaze. He started the engine, looked at the red dot on his phone that marked his target, and drove off in pursuit.

...

Back in the teachers’ office, Su Yue sat down at her desk.

Just then, her colleague Wang Jiao, who sat at the next desk and taught literature, put down her pen, turned to look at her, and asked.

"Su Yue, you left so suddenly before. Where did you go?"

Su Yue smiled at her slightly plump, round-faced colleague. "A friend of mine stopped by the school to bring me some pastries."

Wang Jiao’s eyes fell on the bag sitting on Su Yue’s desk. She smiled knowingly. "Coming all the way to the school just to bring you pastries? I bet this friend of yours is a guy, and he’s interested in you. He’s pursuing you, isn’t he?"

"..." Su Yue immediately shook her head at Wang Jiao’s words. "Him? No, he just sees me as a good friend. He doesn’t think of me that way."

As soon as she said it, Su Yue couldn’t help but grumble about Lin Li in her head... ’Dense blockhead. Wooden dummy. Big idiot.’

In her experience, the boys who usually flocked to Su Yue, tripping over each other to give her gifts, all had the exact same goal. Wang Jiao was surprised that she had actually guessed wrong this time.

Su Yue opened the bag of pastries and offered it to her colleague. "Here, I had one earlier. They’re really delicious. Take one and try it."

"Thanks!" Wang Jiao said with a smile, reaching into the bag and taking out a delicate-looking pastry. After one bite, her eyes lit up, and she asked the same question Su Yue had asked earlier.

"This pastry is amazing! Where did your friend buy it? I want to go buy some for myself later."

Su Yue smiled. "My friend didn’t buy them. They were a gift to him from someone else."

"Oh." Wang Jiao’s hopes of buying the pastries were dashed, and she sounded a little disappointed.

Su Yue’s every move in the office, her every frown and smile, constantly drew the gazes of her male colleagues. So, when she had suddenly left the office and then returned, the men inside immediately pricked up their ears, listening to her conversation with Wang Jiao.

At first, when they heard that someone had given Su Yue a gift and that she had happily accepted it, the male colleagues’ hearts sank, wondering if she was about to become some other guy’s girlfriend.

When they heard it was just a friendly relationship, the male colleagues immediately breathed a collective sigh of relief.

Since she’d given one to Wang Jiao, it was only polite to offer one to every other colleague as well; that was just basic social courtesy.

Su Yue stood up and passed out a pastry to every one of her colleagues in the office.

Luckily, Lin Li had packed plenty of pastries for her, or there wouldn’t have been enough to go around.