Six hours ago -
It had been raining heavily for several days, and Jiangcheng truly lived up to its name. Yi Pin stood at the entrance of the teaching and research building of the Law Department. With his handsome face, his expression was rather grim.
The students passing by all cast sidelong glances at his distorted face.
Yi Pin was clutching several sheets of white paper in his hand, on which were written in bold characters "Assignment of Thesis Advisors". The phone in his pants pocket had been vibrating like crazy, but Yi Pin ignored it. Frowning, he casually rolled up the papers and tucked them under his arm, not caring whether the much - awaited list would get wet. Then he dashed full - steam ahead towards the boys' dormitory.
As soon as he entered -
"How about it! How about it?"
"Is the result out?"
Today, the list of thesis advisor assignments was out. If choosing a thesis topic was a game of strategy, then the assignment of thesis advisors was a matter of vital importance!
Wang Tao, the third in the dormitory, was already impatient. The topic of his thesis was already difficult, and if he got a strict advisor, he was afraid it would be all over.
He snatched the papers tucked under Yi Pin's arm in a hurry and complained, "Why are you so careless! They're all wet."
After saying that, this big and burly man carefully pinched the papers, not daring to look at them at all.
He closed his eyes nervously and mumbled, "Heavenly spirits, earthly spirits, it must be Professor Li."
Professor Li was a well - known kind - hearted person in the Law Department. As a woman in her fifties, although she was a bit chatty, none of the students under her guidance had ever failed.
Qin Zhuoyue, the eldest in the dormitory, who was sitting in front of the computer, seriously looking at a pile of academic reports, handed over a dry towel.
Yi Pin grabbed it and roughly wiped his wet hair. With a cold face, he didn't even bother to change his clothes and just plopped down on the chair.
Before his butt could even settle on the chair, he was startled by a sudden wail and almost kissed the floor.
"Yangcong! Can you be a bit more calm!"
Yi Pin threw the towel that had been crumpled like a rag onto the boy who was wailing while hugging the bedpost.
The man who was sitting on the floor and wailing loudly while hugging the bedpost was named Lin Yangcong. He was over 1.8 meters tall, extremely good - looking, and of okay intelligence. But his only drawback was that he was extremely sensitive - hearted.
And -
He was extremely noisy.
"Oh my god! Save the child! It's actually that exhibitionist!"
"Help! If I fall into her hands, I'll be doomed!!!"
"Yi Pin, think of a way quickly and save me!"
Finding that wailing while hugging the bedpost was useless, Lin Yangcong turned his head and started hugging Yi Pin's leg instead.
Yi Pin was the class monitor and knew quite a few teachers and professors.
"Come on, I don't have that much ability."
Yi Pin snorted and withdrew his leg.
Lin Yangcong hadn't yet recovered from his pain and was blinking his big, wet eyes.
Over there, Wang Tao, who had been too scared to look, finally summoned up the courage, squinted his eyes, and slowly found his own name.
Immediately afterwards came cheers.
Some were happy while others were sad.
"Great! It's Professor Li! It's really Professor Li! Haha... I love you so much!"
Wang Tao hugged the paper and kissed it hard several times, leaving thick saliva marks.
Lin Yangcong cried even louder, which gave Yi Pin a headache.
"That's enough!"
Yi Pin slammed the water cup in his hand onto the table.
The water splashed onto Qin Zhuoyue's hand. Fearing that his computer would be in trouble, Qin Zhuoyue silently closed his laptop and pushed his glasses on the bridge of his nose.
Only then did the three of them notice that something was wrong with Yi Pin. Usually the most lively one, why did he suddenly seem a bit gloomy...
"What's wrong?"
Lin Yangcong sniffed, and the wet mist in his eyes hadn't dissipated yet.
"Humph!"
"Who among you can be more unlucky than me?"
Yi Pin sneered with a slight twitch of his lips and looked at the paper in Lin Yangcong's hand with a distant look in his eyes.
Wang Tao snatched it. When he felt the wet part that was hard to tell whether it was tears or rain, he frowned.
He casually complained, "Yangcong, can you pay a bit more attention? We still have to distribute this to everyone later."
Lin Yangcong gritted his teeth and got up from the ground. "You don't even know who my advisor is!"
Only then did Wang Tao become interested. He took a glance at the list and whistled suggestively. "Yo~ Not bad, big - chested girl."
He gave Lin Yangcong a teasing look. "You're in luck. She's... well, very well - endowed!"
Lin Yangcong pouted. "I'm not interested!"
Wang Tao didn't continue this topic and kept flipping through the list...
Finally, he understood why Yi Pin was like this.
On the thesis advisor assignment list, under Shen Yu's name was clearly written Yi Pin's name.
Everyone knew that the name Shen Yu made Yi Pin turn pale with fear.
The specific reason was unknown to the others. All they knew was that Shen Yu was a friend of Yi Pin's parents, an associate professor in the Law Department of Jiangcheng University and their legal theory teacher. He was gentle and kind - hearted, not as heinous as Yi Pin thought.
However, Yi Pin had been avoiding him. Every year, as soon as the New Year's Eve dinner was over, he would slip away the next day, spending very little time at home. He never attended the legal theory classes and had failed them for several years. He even gave up a very rare internship opportunity.
It was said that the Yi family and the Shen family were family friends, so Yi Pin shouldn't have behaved like this.
But the relationship between Yi Pin and Shen Yu was like a mouse being afraid of a cat.
Wang Tao nudged Lin Yangcong with his elbow. Lin Yangcong took the list suspiciously, swallowed hard, and then handed it to Qin Zhuoyue.
"I'm also under him."
Qin Zhuoyue casually glanced at it, took off his glasses on the bridge of his nose, and said nonchalantly, "Pinzi, don't worry. In a matter of such importance, Shen Yu won't make things difficult for you. Besides, I'm here."
Yi Pin had already clenched his fists tightly. He slightly raised his eyebrows, his expression dark and unclear. He gritted his teeth and said, "He won't let me go!"
"How do you know?"
"Yi Pin, you have a prejudice against Professor Shen."
Wang Tao curled his lips. After his heart had settled down, he was very carefree.