Ever since Yang Qian used Su Ziqing's phone to secretly delete Shen Gu's messages, the relationship between Su Ziqing and her has been on a downward trend.
After Shen Gu made a "quasi-confession" to Su Ziqing, as the two attended classes, ate together, and studied together, the number of times Yang Qian appeared next to Su Ziqing decreased rapidly.
Even in the past few days, the two of them no longer even come to class together, and enter the classroom one behind the other at a distance.
Shen Gu was actually very comfortable with this.
Whenever he thinks of Su Ziqing, whom Yang Qian once considered "incomparable", who is now by his side every day, and who is no different from being his girlfriend in the eyes of others, he feels that he is completely incomparable in front of Yang Qian. It’s so proud!
As for Yang Qian's recent relationship status, after almost losing the trust of her best friend, she has been spending more and more time with her boyfriend surnamed Jiao.
It's just that the external relationship between the two of them, like Shen Gu's external relationship, has always only claimed to be good friends, and has never admitted to being lovers.
Regarding this, Shen Gu felt that the two of them should actually be on good terms.
After all, they are not subject to the restrictions of the love assistance system like him.
It's just that Yang Qian openly told the class that her relationship with the boy named Jiao was to bring him and Su Ziqing together.
Now that they want to publicly admit their relationship, it is equivalent to Yang Qian slapping herself in the face, or at least she has to wait until Shen Gu and Su Ziqing officially announce that they are together before she can find a reason to admit that they have to be together.
At this time, Su Ziqing couldn't hide the surprise on her face after hearing Shen Gu's request to her.
Then he said in a tone of disbelief and a hint of disappointment:
"It's that simple?"
These five short words sounded like a huge amount of information to Shen Gu!
If understood normally, it can be straightforwardly understood that based on Su Ziqing's psychological expectations, he can accept content that far exceeds this requirement.
However, relying on Shen Gu's own judgment, he felt that Su Ziqing might want him to use this request to formally confess his love to her, and she was ready to accept it.
After all, Shen Gu had said it solemnly to her before, regarding his "oath".
But from a girl's point of view, it is likely to be directly understood as "it's just that the feelings haven't arrived yet, he doesn't like me that much yet"!
Because compared to boys, girls are generally more emotional.
She will believe, and is willing to believe, that if a boy likes her enough and loves her enough, he can break all his so-called restrictions!
However, what she could never guess was that the restrictions Shen Gu suffered were imposed by the "system", something that should not exist in this world.
And with the system's vast capabilities, Shen Gu couldn't violate its restrictions.
So this is no longer a matter of whether Shen Gu is willing to break it, but a "pledge" that he must abide by!
No matter how smart and wise Su Ziqing was, she would never have guessed that this was the reason why Shen Gu was so persistent.
"Actually, besides this, I have an additional request."
Even though he guessed it, Shen Gu could only act puzzled, and simply pretended to be stupid and said:
"It would be too boring to wash alone!"
"So I hope we can share a hot spring pool."
"Of course, they all wear swimsuits!"
For this last emphasized sentence, Shen Gu spoke almost as fast as lightning, following the previous sentence.
This mentality of "wanting" and being afraid of being "misunderstood" made Shen Gu feel that he looked down on himself in his heart.
But judging from his feeling of "first love", his behavior is really normal!
After Su Ziqing heard this, the expression on his face immediately became stunned!
Then he immediately shook his head subconsciously, and blurted out the words of rejection almost immediately:
"no!"
"This will definitely not work."
After he finished speaking, he saw the very embarrassed look on Shen Gu's face and thought of the "Haikou" he had just "browed" to Shen Gu.
I also felt that I was overreacting and refusing too simply, which would embarrass Shen Gu.
So he took a breath and forced himself to explain patiently:
"It is now rumored in the school that we are already together, and I can understand your vow, so I joined you in announcing that we are just friends."
"But what you just said can only be accepted by close lovers."
At this point, Su Ziqing stopped talking.
She remained silent and waited for Shen Gu's next reaction.
However, Shen Gu noticed that her cheeks had begun to turn slightly red.
This should usually be understood as a sign that a girl is embarrassed about something.
"In this case, should I insist again?"
Shen Gu, who had no experience in handling similar situations, was also very hesitant in his heart.
However, Shen Gu still has the concept that "girls are thin-skinned in this kind of thing".
And when Su Ziqing refused just now, saying "It's okay if we're not lovers", is this also equivalent to hinting to him "It's okay if we are lovers"?
It's just that this "status" is exactly what Shen Gu can't afford now.
For him at this time, even if Su Ziqing changed his expectations for him to ask him for 10 million R coins, Shen Gu would not find it so difficult.
So the next minute, a very awkward silence began to appear between the two.
The silence was hard on both of them.
In the end, Shen Gu, as the one who made the request, decided to grit his teeth and persist.
He mustered up the courage and said to Su Ziqing:
"You said before that as long as it doesn't violate the law and basic morals, you can promise me anything."
"And my request to chat in a hot spring together should not be considered a violation of basic morals, let alone the law!"
In Shen Gu's opinion, this statement should be tenable in theory as long as he said it shamelessly.
But Su Ziqing didn't want to take advantage of the situation and reluctantly agreed.
Because she feels that once she agrees, although Shen Gu will be very happy now, considering the long-term relationship between the two, Shen Gu will soon feel that her agreement will appear frivolous and that he has been "emotionally eaten". Set her up”!
Therefore, Su Ziqing only hesitated for two seconds when facing Shen Gu's shameless insistence, and then decisively refused:
"no."
"Although this requirement does not violate basic morals, it conflicts with my principles of getting along with boys."
Then, before Shen Gu's particularly embarrassing mood could spread, she immediately came up with a compromise plan:
"But I can promise you to go to the hot springs with you two."
"If you want to chat, we can chat in the same room except during hot spring bath time."
"Or when we are taking a bath in the hot springs, we can also use the w message to open the voice call."