But Si Xia was clearly caught off guard over the phone, and quickly spoke up: "Then let her call me back when she’s done bathing."

After saying that, he hung up with a "snap" sound. Sheng Yanxiao curled his lips, put away the phone, and was about to place it back on the table when he caught sight of two text messages on the screen. The originally calm eyes of the young man suddenly turned dark.

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Su Weiyi came out of the bathroom after a shower, her cheeks were flushed. Perhaps due to the dry weather lately, Su Weiyi felt her skin was a bit uncomfortable, so she took out a face mask from the dressing table drawer and put it on before slowly walking out.

On the sofa, there was only Sheng Yanxiao’s computer; its owner was nowhere to be seen. Su Weiyi slightly turned her head and finally saw the young man standing on the balcony.

Su Weiyi walked over, but before she reached the floor-to-ceiling window, her brows furrowed slightly, causing the mask on her face to wrinkle as well. Ignoring the mask, Su Weiyi stepped out onto the balcony, and sure enough, she saw a cigarette between Sheng Yanxiao’s fingers.

Smoke curled up, and the pungent smell wafted over; Su Weiyi absolutely disliked this smell.

She couldn’t speak easily with the face mask on, so she reached out to take the cigarette from Sheng Yanxiao’s fingers, but the young man turned his head first.

There was a faint hint of coldness in Sheng Yanxiao’s eyes, his thin lips tightly pressed into a line, his beautiful eyebrows slightly furrowed, and his sharp gaze seemed to penetrate into one’s heart.

Su Weiyi’s heart skipped a beat, forgetting about the mask on her face, she directly asked: "What’s wrong with you?"

Sheng Yanxiao straightened up, still with a bit of distance between them, he was about to take a step towards Su Weiyi, but suddenly remembered something, and directly extinguished the cigarette on the white ceramic of the balcony railing before closing in on Su Weiyi.

The young man had grown taller; Sheng Yanxiao now stood at least 1.82 meters tall. He stood in front of Su Weiyi, lowered his head, and his eyes deeply locked onto hers.

Su Weiyi looked up at him, but the corner of her eye caught sight of Sheng Yanxiao’s hands tightly clenched at his sides.

Su Weiyi’s heart wrenched suddenly, and then she heard the voice coming from above her head: "What’s going on with the exchange student?"

The face beneath the mask changed repeatedly; Su Weiyi hadn’t expected Sheng Yanxiao to know about this. Did someone from the family tell him?

Seemingly reading her thoughts, Sheng Yanxiao took out the phone from his pocket, opened the message interface, and placed it directly in front of Su Weiyi.

"If I hadn’t accidentally seen this, when were you planning to tell me? Or were you not planning to tell me at all?"

On the message interface, the top two messages were exactly from the academy, about the meeting all exchange students had to attend in the conference room tomorrow.

Su Weiyi pressed her lips together, gradually lowering her gaze.

Sheng Yanxiao took another step closer: "You didn’t tell Chen Ajia, didn’t tell your roommates, didn’t even tell your family. They only knew passively. Why? Just to keep it from me?"

Su Weiyi’s face changed again; she hadn’t expected Sheng Yanxiao to react so quickly.

Indeed, she hadn’t told anyone, because she didn’t want anyone to accidentally let it slip to him, and her roommates only found out from the academy announcement. As for the Sheng Family, the school called them without her consent, and she had instructed them not to tell the person in front of her, hence Sheng Yanxiao truly remained unaware until now.

Su Weiyi moved her lips: "I... I planned to tell you before I left."