* * * Continued from Part 2 * * *
When the rumbles of hunger seized his stomach for the 13th time, Yi Tang Yao cursed and groaned in his sleep, as he shifted his body about.
What the hell! His arm ached, while his back and waist had stiffened to the extent of getting numb.
He furrowed his brows, groaning as he collapsed back on his desk.
“With an incorrect sleeping posture, it’s normal for the body to hurt. And you’ll get sick easily.” A vivacious voice rang beside him.
Yi Tang Yao’s eyes flew open in shock!
Sunlight scattered in through the window, as it bounced off the girl’s face in a candescent glow. It was as if she was enveloped in brightness. Only a pair of playful eyes that arched like crescents, as well as dimples the size of grains can be seen. The girls’ hair was short, thinly cropped. It was soft, making it seem wildly disobedient, waving about in its tiny strands amidst golden sunlight.
He squinted his eyes and surveyed her.
“You again? Why do you seem to hound me like a ghost?”
“My name is Mi Ai, you can just call me Xiao Mi.” A huge smile revealed on Xiao Mi’s face. “I am the new student who has just transferred here today!”
Everyone else had left the class since long ago; only Yi Tang Yao and Xiao Mi remained.
Yi Tang Yao rose, his brows knit together, as he reached out an arm to grab Xiao MI.
“Shove off!”
“Are you hungry?”
Xiao Mi seemed to not mind his nasty tone, and questioned him cheerily.
Yi Tang Yao was annoyed. “What do you want?!”
Xiao Mi blinked, and materialized a packet of milk and bread from her back as if by magic. She waved them about in front of him.
“You must be hungry, I’ll treat you!”
Yi Tang Yao folded his arms in a commanding pose as he stared down at her from the corners of his eyes. Earlier in the morning, she had pushed him out of the rental taxi onto the ground; his arms still hurt even now. He was already at his tolerance limit not calculating with her for it, yet what is she playing up now.
Xiao Mi poked the straw into the milk packet, and placed it in his hands, smiling.
“Drink up.”
Initially, she should have made use of the time after the class to finalise the school transfer procedures. But, she heard his stomach rumble, and thus rushed out to buy food back for him.
“Gu—“
The noise of hunger pangs resounded from his body once again.
Xiao Mi raised her right hand, and grinned. “I swear, the food isn’t poisoned!”
His eyes ran through her, as he pulled out the straw and tossed it away. He then ripped open the milk packet, raised his head, and downed it in huge gulps. A large part of the packet of milk nestling in his stomach, his urgent voracity was eased. He sat back on the desk in a suave pose, his eyebrows raised.
“What do you want from me?”
What a mysterious girl. One moment, she poked her nose into his business and sent him to hospital; the other moment she pushed him off the car. And now, she offered him milk and bread. She must be trying to get his attention in order to be his girlfriend. He has seen way too many of her kind.
“What do I want?” Xiao Mi was befuddled, her eyes opened wide.
Yi Tang Yao smiled devilishly.
“My dates have been packed all the way till next month, you’re welcome to wait if you have the patience. But……” Irritation flashed through his eyes. “It would be embarrassing if you’re still this hideous during the date.”
“Oh……”
Xiao Mi broke into a smile. She scratched her head, and held up a stack of papers from his desk. “This, when do you intend to write it?”
Yi Tang Yao glanced over.
It was the Human Resource thesis Professor Bo had flung towards him.
“Why should I write this?”
“You can’t pass if you don’t do it!” Xiao Mi was on tenterhooks. “I have looked through other classmates’ theses after class, and actually it doesn’t have to be written very professionally or complexly. You just have to have your own opinion, it doesn’t need to be long.”
Yi Tang Yao laughed scornfully. How can he fail? If he was unable to graduate successfully, the fund for the school’s new library would be unable to culminate huge donations. Professor Bo isn’t a moron who doesn’t understand the situation.
“What has it go to do with you?”
His cold gaze scrutinized her face full of concern.
Xiao Mi was stunned, and she pondered for a while, before regaining her smile. “I want to be your guardian angel!”
Pfft—
Yi Tang Yao choked on his milk, and spluttered out, laughing in his surprise as he felt her forehead with the back of his hand. “If you’re sick, go to the hospital to see a doctor. And, don’t read too much manhua, you’ll get poisoned!”
As he finished, he bent forward and strode out of the classroom.
Xiao Mi hugged onto the thesis, as she sat on her seat in a daze. After a while, she scratched her head and laughed bitterly. She must have been too impatient.
But—
She had been searching for him for so long.