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When she found out it was Li Tao, she was a little annoyed, but as her colleagues around her were all looking at her, she had to wave her hands awkwardly to indicate that she was fine.
"Come with me."
Xiang Lian grabbed Li Tao's wrist and led him to the stairs.
"Glasses, counselor." Li Tao reminded with some amusement.
Upon hearing this, Xiang Lian fumbled to straighten her glasses, glared at him fiercely, and quickened her pace.
Li Tao was being led and dragged behind, looking at Xiang Lian's serious and stubborn back. He suddenly felt that this silly woman was the same as Xiang Xue at heart, strong on the outside but weak on the inside, still quite cute.
After entering the office, Xiang Lian breathed a sigh of relief. She first turned on the air conditioner, and then went to change into her professional teacher's attire.
After making sure that her image was suitable for a teacher, Xiang Lian sat down on the office chair and looked at Li Tao with a frown.
Of course Li Tao remembered that he was caught on the scene of torturing her sister. At that time, Xiang Lian must have thought that they were having sex in the car. In fact, Li Tao just kissed her vigorously.
"According to the feedback from the school hospital, you are still injured in the simulated battle. Are you feeling better now?"
Chapter 155: Strange Death
Li Tao didn't expect that Xiang Lian not only didn't make things difficult for him, but also cared about his health.
He shook his head with a hint of gratitude: "It's just a minor injury. Thank you for your concern."
Xianglian's office is generally very similar to the cubicles used by white-collar workers in companies. Each person has a workstation, and there is a baffle where the two desks touch to maintain a certain degree of personal privacy.
Because it was early, there was no one else in the room except her and Li Tao.
Presumably, the Academy of Art has not been completely completed, so this room is used by many teachers. Otherwise, a building that costs far more than the Louvre would have a lot of empty space if each room was allocated to each faculty member.
Feeling the "goodwill" of his sister-in-law, Li Tao was no longer too restrained and casually found a chair to sit down.
Xiang Lian was stunned for a moment, her fingertips involuntarily began to twirl the pen, and she said in a strange tone: "I'm not worried about you. The mock battle just ended and you were sent to the hospital. The Academic Affairs Office contacted the school hospital, and they told us that you were lucky to be a vegetable due to your injuries."
The school hospital believed at the time that Li Tao had a high probability of not surviving. He had been cut open by Duanmu Rong and was in such a state, so this diagnosis was exactly in line with common sense.
The pen spun on her slender fingertips, and her voice became a little vague: "I thought that after you died, I could take this opportunity to comfort Xiangxue and mend our relationship, but you..."
Xiang Lian looked up and down at Li Tao, who was in a state of confusion, and continued:
"He came to my house again, full of energy and vigor. I was really stingy. My sister is sentimental, and I was afraid that she would not be able to sleep at night and cry until her eyes were swollen. I even bought her sleeping pills and anti-inflammatory drugs, but now all my preparations were in vain."
Li Tao's mouth twitched. This woman had even planned his death. It really is true that one cannot judge a person by his appearance.
Xiang Lian looks like a slightly rustic and serious girl, but she turns out to be a vicious person.
"Isn't that better than her being a widow?" Li Tao licked his lips and said.
"Oh, you look down on the women of our Xiang family too much. With my sister's beauty, if you die, will she not be able to find another man?" Xiang Lian retorted.
"That's not what I meant. It's just that, counselor, Xue'er is almost 30 years old. Do you still want her to be single for a few more years...and end up like you?" Li Tao looked at her strangely, with a hint of pity in his eyes.
"What do you mean!"
Xiang Lian was so angry that she suddenly stood up from the chair, her chest heaving, and several strands of her hair fell down and lay on her pretty face, making her look a little embarrassed.
"Counselor, please calm down. Women in their thirties and forties should not get angry. It will cause wrinkles and lead to early menopause..."
"Who's in menopause? I'm only 32!" Xiang Lian was so angry that she was shaking. She slapped the desk, and the pen in her hand broke into pieces.
Li Tao tilted his head to avoid the pen that splashed towards him, but after hitting the baffle, the pen still bounced to the ground and finally stopped directly on his left and right feet.
Li Tao shook his head helplessly. He was unlucky today. If he had reacted a little slowly, the pen would have hit his temple.
Of course this is not Xiang Lian's fault. When she angrily slammed the table, she certainly didn't expect the pen to jump out so cleverly.
Li Tao bent down and was about to help Xiang Lian pick up the pen, but she had already trotted over and picked up the pen in a panic.
Xiang Lian knelt on the ground, holding the pen, tears welled up in her beautiful eyes. It was obvious that this pen meant something special to her.
Li Tao's gaze was unconsciously fixed on her chest. Xiang Lian was concentrating on the fallen pen and didn't notice how much she was exposing while kneeling on the ground and bending over.
A rustic and serious woman, she is really full of substance.
"Pen cap...where did I lose the pen cap...pen cap...found it!"
The pen cap just fell into the compartment where the computer host was placed at this workstation.
Xiang Lian was so panicked after losing the pen and then surprised after finding it that she didn't even notice that Li Tao had just lowered his head to help her pick up the pen.
Then Li Tao kept that posture without straightening his back.
Xiang Lian only had the pen cap in her eyes. She knelt down and reached out to touch the pen cap anxiously.
Li Tao didn't know why, but his brain lost the ability to think.
"Purple......"
Xiang Lian, who had already grabbed the pen cap, had a face that turned redder from her neck to her pretty face, as if boiling water. A circle of white steam was rising from her head like an angel circle.
There seems to be a faint sound of a train whistle~
"Snapped--"
"Shameless beast!!!"
……
"Bell~"
The bell rang for class, and Li Tao covered his face as he walked in the deserted corridor.
"Should I go to the bathroom and take a shower with cold water? Half of my face is numb." Li Tao said to himself.
"hiss--"
If you press it a little harder, he can't help but let out a sound of pain.
According to Xiang Lian, he should have been able to dodge at that time, but he didn't. He was really like a demon. She was so angry that she swore to tell Xiang Xue about this and make her recognize his dirty face.
He really looked a bit innocent. He was just confused at the time. It was a bit tactless of him to avoid it.
"It's really hard to bear to see a country girl's simplest clothes from time to time~"
Liu Renna and her group are really at the forefront of fashion. All kinds of styles are worn with the intention of teasing Li Tao, so they are as seductive as possible. But for an older woman like Xiang Lian, even if the clothes are close-fitting, they look a bit tacky, too conservative and serious, but they do feel a bit different.
"620, it's on the sixth floor, it's really high~"
Li Tao covered his face and complained. Although Xiang Lian was so angry that she cursed him for a long time, she still gave him the class schedule in the end.
However, Li Tao has not joined the class group yet, so he has to find the organization alone.
Freshman classes are still mainly large-class public courses, with students from several majors squeezed into one large classroom.
Having said that, the Art Academy is still somewhat special in that it has more professional courses, and those professional courses are taught in the academy building.
However, this Wednesday's classes were still held in the teaching building. Coincidentally, this building happened to be the seven-story building where Li Tao and Li Manzi stayed during the simulated war.
During the week that Li Tao was in a coma, the entire teaching building was almost renovated and it looked much newer than when he first arrived.
Finally reaching the sixth floor along the stairs, Li Tao could hear the voice of the teacher teaching in the classroom.
He couldn't help but yawn. Ever since the college entrance examination, whenever he heard lectures, it was like listening to a lullaby.
"601, 603... the numbers in the right row are all odd numbers, which means they are in the left row."
Li Tao wiped the tears from his eyes and finally arrived at classroom 620. He glanced through the crack in the door and saw that the huge classroom was already full of people.
Li Tao didn't come too late. It was only a little past eight in the morning. Classes started at eight o'clock. Each class was fifty minutes long, with a ten-minute break between each class.
He paced at the door for a long time, and said timidly, "Forget it, I'm embarrassed to go in, let's wait until the get out of class is over~"
Li Tao was not a coward, he just didn't want to make a fool of himself, so he rubbed his face, leaned against the wall and began to daydream.
When asked what the most important thing for him today was, his intuition told him that it was meeting A-Cha.
Ever since Ah Cha sent him that inexplicable text message, Li Tao sent him a few jokes as a joke, but Ah Cha didn't reply. Li Tao had a feeling that a gap had appeared between the two of them.
“I hope we don’t drift apart.”
Li Tao clenched his fist and murmured with mixed emotions. Suddenly, the sound of heavy footsteps was heard in the corridor.
Li Tao grinned, looking at the newcomer with amusement, and couldn't help laughing: "How can you be late? Is this your first day of class like me?"
"You know shit, I am... for a reason."
Tong Anqi stopped in front of Li Tao, breathing heavily. She had such strong muscles that even the boys who often went to the gym would feel ashamed of themselves.
"I think this isn't your first time." Li Tao yawned.
He has been in a coma for more than a week, which means that school has been started for at least a week. Tong Anqi is still so embarrassed, obviously a repeat offender.
Hearing Li Tao's words, Tong Anqi's face turned red. Her strong appearance but weak heart had exposed her true condition.
Tong Anqi took small steps and peeked towards the crack in the door. The situation inside was so public that she felt a little embarrassed to go in.
She looked at Li Tao and asked, "Did the teacher ask you to stand there as punishment, or were you too embarrassed to go in because you were late?"
Li Tao pouted at Tong Anqi, indicating that he was the same as her.
"Humph~ You're useless. You're a grown man and you're too embarrassed to go in."
Tong Anqi suddenly found a point to mock Li Tao and ridiculed him mercilessly.
Li Tao didn't care at all, and even felt that her chattering helped him sleep. Before he knew it, the class was almost over.
No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't think of anything to complain about. Once Tong Anqi stopped talking, the corridor became much quieter.
Li Tao didn't feel embarrassed, but Tong Anqi must have felt embarrassed. She poked Li Tao's stomach and asked, "Why don't you ask me why I was late?"
Li Tao lazily lifted his eyelids and glanced at her: "I was confused because of sleep~"
"I went to open the door. What do you mean you're confused? Get out of here!" Tong Anqi swung a punch at Li Tao. After Li Tao dodged, the punch, which was packed with terrifying force, directly hit the wall behind him.
As if there was an earthquake, the wall trembled with oppression and a sense of loss of footing. Li Tao even felt that there was sand or something on the ceiling sliding down into his collar.
"With your temper, how could a man dare to..."
Li Tao had only said half of his words when a scream suddenly came from the classroom.
"teacher--"
Li Tao and Tong Anqi looked at each other, immediately opened the door and rushed into the classroom.
This is a middle-aged, bloated man. He is now lying on the ground with his lower legs still on the steps of the podium, while his upper body has fallen below the stage with his face buried in the ground, and it is unknown whether he is alive or dead.