If You Could Hear My Heart-Chapter 1384: Who Are You Exactly

Gradually, the weather became hotter, and early summer slowly turned into high summer, with a suffocating heat pervading everywhere.

The weather in June is fickle, clear in the morning and by noon it starts to rain, a heavy downpour shrouding everything in a misty haze.

Because of the rain, Shen Chi didn’t go home for lunch but made do with a meal in the restaurant.

Xiao Mo joined him for lunch, and the two just ended up sitting and drinking some red wine.

"Xiao Mo, you seem a bit distracted lately," Shen Chi observed.

"Hm? Maybe I haven’t been resting well," Xiao Mo said casually.

"Oh, there has been a lot of work recently. I’ll give you a few days off so you can adjust. Rather than being distracted, it’s better to take a good rest. The project you are responsible for is quite important, you can’t handle it without being in good shape."

Xiao Mo didn’t refuse, as he also knew his recent condition wasn’t great.

"How about this, I’ll give you three days off, is that enough?" Shen Chi took a sip of wine and looked at him.

"Okay," Xiao Mo agreed.

"Come back in three days, better be full of energy, there’s a tender with Qiao Corporation waiting for you to take," Shen Chi said.

Xiao Mo nodded, understanding Shen Chi’s intention.

Shen Chi wasn’t in a rush to get back to the office at noon, so he talked with Xiao Mo in the restaurant for a long time.

Outside, there was a torrential downpour, rainwater hitting the glass windows, leaving trails of watermarks, fragmenting the world outside the windows to pieces.

The restaurant was serene, with the melodious sound of piano music ebbing and flowing. Shen Chi had no psychological burden, he seemed even more carefree than Xiao Mo.

However, this was the first time he saw Xiao Mo so preoccupied, he was someone who always kept his emotions well under control, rarely bringing them into work. But these last few days seemed different.

"Hand over the work you have this afternoon, and you can go home," Shen Chi patted his shoulder.

Shen Chi was only a few months older than Xiao Mo, most of the time, he was Xiao Mo’s boss, but also like his elder brother.

Having been through life and death together, they never distinguished between each other.

Xiao Mo looked at the rain sliding down the window, took a sip of wine: "General Shen, you work too hard."

"It’s nothing."

After finishing the wine, Xiao Mo went to his office to hand over his work to his secretary, then went to the garage to get his car.

Perhaps because of the rain, he felt a stifling heaviness in his chest.

When he drove the car out, he sat there, uncertain where to go.

Possibly because of the alcohol, his head felt heavy with a dull pain.

In the end, he drove the car to an open space not far from the group, took out his phone, and dialed a number.

"Hello, who is this?" A crisp female voice came from the other end.

"Is Xia Chuqing there?" Xiao Mo said.

"Yes, she’s here reading a book next to me. Do you need her for something?"

"Where are you guys?"

"At our school’s library."

"Specific location."

Xiao Mo’s voice was a bit cold, which startled the girl on the other end, and she spoke cautiously: "Who... who are you?"

"Specific location." Xiao Mo repeated, now feeling the blood rush to his head as he gripped the steering wheel tightly.

"Who are you really, I’m not telling you." The girl hung up the phone, frightened.

This was no big deal for Xiao Mo; he quickly drove to the library at C University.

On the other hand, Xia Chuqing said in a dazed voice, "Who is it?"

"Don’t know, some crazy snake lady."

"It sounded like my name." Xia Chuqing had taken a nap on the desk.

"Not at all, not at all, just focus on your review. You’ve been skipping quite a few classes lately, and with finals coming up, do you still want that scholarship?" The girl whispered in a hushed tone.

Xia Chuqing nodded, "Of course, I want it. I’ve never missed a semester’s scholarship since I was young. If I don’t get it, then I’m not Xia Chuqing."

"Good, that’s the spirit!" The girl was almost clapping her hands.

Xia Chuqing got up, washed her face in the restroom, and then returned to her seat to do practice papers.

Today was rainy, and it was summer, which tended to make one sleepy, so Xia Chuqing picked a relatively cool corner to sit in.

She worked on the papers quickly, at times frowning in thought, at others writing vigorously.

Ever since she saw Xiao Mo and an unfamiliar woman very close together in the bookstore, she had been distracted, and the usually diligent Chuqing had skipped several days of classes, almost getting caught by the counselor.

During those days she skipped, she hadn’t done anything except shut herself in her dorm.

Time passed rather quickly, and with the end of the term approaching, her academic busyness gradually pushed Xiao Mo to the back of her mind.

She bowed her head and continued her papers until she finished three, at which point Xiao Mo appeared behind her.

He silently watched her diligent figure, leaning against a bookshelf with his tall frame, casually draping his legs.

Perhaps because of Chuqing’s isolated seat, not many people noticed Xiao Mo, let alone recognized him.

As she tackled the papers, Chuqing clearly felt a bit overwhelmed. Having skipped classes several times, she found she couldn’t answer many questions and had to flip open her textbook to continue reviewing.

If this continued, the scholarship would be in jeopardy.

Damn it, if she knew it would end like this, she would never have skipped classes. In the end, she was left empty-handed, both financially and emotionally.

Seeing Xia Chuqing with her head propped up in thought, Xiao Mo felt a sudden sense of reassurance in his heart for some reason.

His gaze remained fixed on her, and Chuqing never once turned to look back.

In truth, she only needed to turn her head slightly to see him, but she was too engrossed in her work.

"What kind of question is this... it’s so hard." Xia Chuqing patted her head, unable to solve the final big question.

Just then, Xiao Mo walked over, glanced at the problem, and whispered, "Try simplifying the numerator and denominator first, both divided by 1024 raised to the power of n..."

Xiao Mo took the pen from her hand and wrote down the step-by-step solution on the paper.

It had been many years since he last touched a textbook, but he didn’t expect to still be able to solve the problem, living up to his past reputation as a top student.

During university, there was hardly any problem he couldn’t solve. For a time, when a teacher was unwell, he even acted as an assistant and taught a few classes for his juniors and juniors.

But that was all a distant memory now...

When Xiao Mo’s voice sounded, Xia Chuqing was startled. How did he get here? When did he arrive?

Xiao Mo focused on explaining the problem, but Chuqing wasn’t listening, just staring blankly at his profile.

Xiao Mo wrote down the full solution process on the paper; it was a complex problem, and he wrote for a while, filling all the blank spaces until he reached the result.

As he wrote, he explained to Chuqing, feeling like he was back in his college days.

Xia Chuqing didn’t absorb a single word; all she could hear was Xiao Mo’s calm and steady voice, magnetic and deep.

"Let me check the answer." After finishing, Xiao Mo turned to the back of the paper, "Hmm, that’s correct."

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