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    Fifteen Degrees Part 6

    Stepping on the rough carpet with her bare feet, the feeling was surprisingly good.

    The sofa sank. Wei Congying’s line of sight passed over his phone and landed on her body. He put his palm on her back. He felt the back under the pajamas through his palms. She was very skinny.

    But… Wei Congying recalled the sensations of last night, as well as the images stored in his mind. She was not flat where she should have flesh./She had curves in the right places.

    At this moment, Wei Congying was feeling each of her vertebrae like an old Chinese doctor, but Shi Yun ended up feeling ticklish. Originally, he was lying on the sofa, occupying most of the space, and she was sitting on a small space near the edge. Shi Yun was ticklish to begin with so dodged, falling off the sofa. From the sound of it, it wasn’t a soft fall.

    Her butt solidly kissed the carpet.

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    Wei Congying put down the phone, put his arm under her armpits, and picked her up from the ground. He bent his legs and made more space on the sofa for Shi Yun.

    The fall didn’t hurt, but the sound it made was loud.

    Wei Cong smiled: “Why are you dodging? Why don’t you lie down on your stomach and I give you a massage?”

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    Elk Usdtukdt blzrle bla pvayktbvld bla ryfyxyp, cwv bl eked’v vyjl bkp bydep cynj yqvla qkdkpbkdt, “R esd’v byhl yduvbkdt tskdt sd vseyu.”

    Tl sdzu ydpolale byzq sq vbl iwlpvksd.

    Rq bl oyp wdokzzkdt vs plde bla cynj vbld pbl oyp fwpv tskdt vs qsatlv ycswv kv, cwv fwpv yp pbl oyp ycswv vs tlv wr vs nbydtl, vbl byde sd bla ryfyxyp lmlavle y zkvvzl qsanl, yde kv xshle vs oayr yaswde bla oykpv. Fs yp pssd yp pbl pvsse wr, pbl oyp rwzzle cynj. Mbl psqy’p lzypvknkvu oyp ps tsse vbyv pbl cswdnle voknl clqsal plvvzkdt.

    Elk Usdtukdt zlydle shla, alpvkdt bkp nbkd sd bla pbswzela, yde vbl blyv qasx bkp calyvb prayule sd bla lyazsclp yde vbl pkel sq bla dlnj: “Gde clnywpl usw’al qall, pbswzed’v usw dsv ts cynj vseyu?”

    “Gcpldnl xyjlp vbl blyav taso qsdela.” Fbk Zwd ryvvle vbl yaxp vbyv olal oayrrle yaswde bla.

    Elk Usdtukdt eke dsv zlv ts, cwv bwttle bla yde tsv sqq vbl psqy ekalnvzu, yde oyzjle vsoyaep vbl cleassx: “R’zz vyjl usw cynj vs vbl esaxkvsau zyvla.”

    The auntie in charge brought in an electrician. It wasn’t a troublesome circuit problem. They just needed to replace the fuse and everything would be fine.

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    The repair was very fast.

    Shi Yun thanked the electrician and the dormitory auntie, and after seeing the two of them off, Shi Yun cleaned the dormitory again, including the balcony and bathroom.

    She mopped the balcony floor. By looking at the wet balcony floor tiles, she determined they only needed a sunny day to dry quickly.

    The clothes she changed out of, were washed and hung up to dry. Shi Yun went to take a shower after taking care of everything. Looking at the marks on her body and her red knees, she dried her body with a bath towel and applied body lotion. The marks would disappear in a few days.

    After returning from Wei Congying’s place, Shi Yun spent several days in the library, reading or writing papers every day. There were not many people in the library, and sometimes she looked for poetry collections on the second floor to take a break.

    She looked through collections from Ai Qing to Marina. She turned on her phone and looked at the blood-stained letter in her photo album. The words on it were hardly discernable and did not match. A few words could just be made out but they didn’t match the works of any of those poets.

    In the class group chat, the academic advisor had already stated in the group chat that although the meeting was on August 1st, it was best for everyone to come back as soon as possible.

    With the ultimate power over whether or not they could graduate, no one dared to make fun of the implicit brownie points. There were very few who acted ignorant or blind to this message. As such, most of the members cursed at the academic advisor internally but still bought tickets to return to school.

    Within two days, the instructor asked in the group chat if there was anyone in the school and that they needed two helpers. Shi Yun saw the message immediately after it was sent, but waited five minutes before she replied with a message saying that she could help.

    The help was nothing more than free labor, just familiarizing them with your face and increasing your favorability.

    Aside from Shi Yun, another boy also went.

    The task was to grade examination papers for freshmen.

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    That day happened to coincide with Wei Congying’s appointment with Shi Yun for dinner.

    She hadn’t seen Wei Congying in several days. Wei Congying thought it was because Shi Yun was upset about that morning, and asked her to have dinner in place of an apology. She didn’t reject, but she informed him that she was going to help out her academic advisor with some matters in the morning, so she’d only have time in the evening.

    The two of them didn’t set the appointment for too early of a time.

    Shi Yun said that she would send him a message when it was almost over.

    In the morning, she deliberately got up half an hour early and put on makeup. Although the canteen was open during summer vacation, there were not many options in the canteen, and even fewer in the morning, just a few options.

    Shi Yun bought one tea egg1[1] Tea eggs are a typical Chinese savory food commonly sold as a snack, in which a boiled egg is cracked slightly and then boiled again in tea, and sauce or spices. It is also known as marble egg because cracks in the eggshell create darkened lines with marble-like patterns. Commonly sold by street vendors or in night markets in most Chinese communities throughout the world, it is also served in Asian restaurants. -Source: Wikipedia and order of siu mai.

    In the end, the eggshell and egg yolk were left in the bag and thrown into the trash can.

    When she arrived at the door of the academic advisor’s office, there was already a boy with a backpack squatting there. When he heard her footsteps, he looked up and saw Shi Yun. He stood up, straightened his clothes, and pointed to the closed door: “The academic advisor hasn’t come yet.”

    Shi Yun had skipped a grade and often appeared smaller than her classmates, but the boy in front of her had a similar height to hers.

    Shi Yun searched her memory for this person, and after going through it, she figured out that she had never been assigned to the same group as this person to complete school assignments.

    When it came to university interactions, if they weren’t in the student union or the class leader, just an ordinary student, it was almost impossible for them to have any contact without the excuse of group work.

    The two stood a small distance apart from each other. Shi Yun held a water cup in her hand. She leaned against the railing and looked down the stairs.

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    When someone entered the first floor, they would be able to see a rockery stone at first glance.

    What was written on the stone was scribbled in wild cursive script.2[2] Wild cursive was developed in the eighth century and is a variant of cursive script in which the internal strokes of each character are abbreviated almost to the point of disappearance, and the linkage or separation between individual characters is spontaneous and random. -Source: Smithsonian Institution

    “Fu Jing.”

    A male voice was heard.

    Shi Yun subconsciously looked in the direction of the voice. It was the boy standing at the door of the academic advisor’s office. He scratched his head: “I said, my name is Fu Jing.”

    Shi Yun realized that he was introducing himself: “Shi Yun.”

    Fu Jing had an impression of Shi Yun.

    The ratio of men to women in their major was not particularly unbalanced, and there were quite a few girls. Although Shi Yun’s appearance wasn’t as comparable to the girls from the School of Communication Studies, if you asked what beauties there were in their department, someone would definitely mention her name.

    Fu Jing met her several times when she was an undergraduate. She was a very beautiful girl with good grades. When she was an undergraduate, she would receive scholarships every year. She was also recommended to the capital university by a local key high school in the capital. He also heard that she had a boyfriend. She and her boyfriend were neighbors and grew up together.


    Notes:

    [1] Tea eggs are a typical Chinese savory food commonly sold as a snack, in which a boiled egg is cracked slightly and then boiled again in tea, and sauce or spices. It is also known as marble egg because cracks in the eggshell create darkened lines with marble-like patterns. Commonly sold by street vendors or in night markets in most Chinese communities throughout the world, it is also served in Asian restaurants. -Source: Wikipedia

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    [2] Wild cursive was developed in the eighth century and is a variant of cursive script in which the internal strokes of each character are abbreviated almost to the point of disappearance, and the linkage or separation between individual characters is spontaneous and random. -Source: Smithsonian Institution


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