CHAPTER 711: CHAPTER 711: MEN AND WOMEN DO NOT TOUCH HANDS WHEN THEY GIVE OR RECEIVE THINGS

The professor has always been a strict person; he wouldn’t be planning to criticize Xiao Ge for suddenly leaving the lab in a huff yesterday, would he?

Compared to everyone’s nervousness, Xu Yang was the calmest.

"Xiao Ge, go ahead."

"Oh, okay." Su Ge actually feared being criticized deep down because, after all, Professor Cheng is a teacher, and students always have a kind of fear towards their teachers.

But since she was called out, she had to go even if she didn’t want to.

Obediently walking out of the lab, Cheng Jinxi was waiting in the hallway.

School hadn’t started yet, the hallway was eerily quiet, and the campus was also silent.

Su Ge’s footsteps sounded exceptionally clear as she walked.

While moving forward, she noted Cheng Jinxi’s expression.

Yet his face was indifferent, showing neither joy nor anger.

She had wanted to guess the reason he was looking for her, but now she couldn’t guess at all.

"Professor." Stopping in front of Cheng Jinxi and being much shorter than him, Su Ge looked like a student who had made a mistake, waiting to be scolded, even though she wasn’t bowing her head.

Cheng Jinxi cast a faint glance at her upon hearing her voice.

But he didn’t speak for a while.

Su Ge looked up puzzledly.

Just as she lifted her head, her body suddenly became unsteady, and with only a light tug by Cheng Jinxi on her arm, Su Ge directly fell into his embrace.

A light fragrance unique to men immediately filled her nostrils.

Su Ge’s eyes widened in shock.

"Are you okay?" A gentle and pleasing voice sounded above her head, like a spring, like flowing water, exceptionally crisp and melodious.

It was a kind of voice one found difficult to resist.

Nevertheless, as a reflex, Su Ge pushed him away, stepped back immediately after pushing, and with her face down said, "Thank you for your concern, Professor, I’m okay."

"Did I scare you?" Cheng Jinxi’s eyes, dark as obsidian, stared deeply at her.

"Professor." Su Ge lifted her face, a slight flush already on her cheeks, her eyes sparkled like the stars, but they held a hint of anger, "Men and women should avoid intimate contact."

"I..." Cheng Jinxi opened his mouth as though he wanted to say something but in the end didn’t say it.

After a while, he sighed somewhat helplessly, "I’m worried about you."

"I’m sorry to worry you, Professor. But please believe that I’m not fragile, and I hope, from now on, you won’t worry about me," she said.

Looking at the stubbornness on the young girl’s face, a flicker of light flashed through Cheng Jinxi’s impenetrable eyes.

Soon, his gaze settled back to a calm darkness, "I’m also very sorry."

"Is there anything else, Professor?" Su Ge didn’t like hearing apologies.

Rather than apologies, she preferred everyone to remain rational at all times.

"Go back to your experiment."

Cheng Jinxi didn’t say much.

Su Ge nodded and turned back towards the lab.

Cheng Jinxi watched her enter the lab.

Only when he could no longer see her did his gaze suddenly shift, looking towards the end of the corridor.

There was no one there, but the fallen leaves on the ground fluttered for a moment.

A gleam passed through those obsidian-like eyes, and Cheng Jinxi calmly walked away.

Leaving the student union building, he went straight back to his office.

There was already someone waiting in the office.

"How is his illness?"

Cheng Jinxi sat casually on the black sofa, his amicable appearance hiding a chilly aura.

"Reporting to the Young Master, his health has deteriorated a lot compared to before, worsened rapidly in recent months. I’ve administered a full-body treatment once, which has shown some improvements for now, yet it can only stabilize him temporarily. His condition has reached a stage where the recurrence rate is extremely high."