Chapter 2: A Date with the Goddess?

There were so many meteors in the night sky, so who would remember the one that fell outside Xuancheng University after a few days?

Chen Fengshi had long forgotten about it, and Skinny did not know if he remembered it either. Anyway, he still had not confessed to his goddess. Chen Fengshi had not seen Shen Ai these past few days. At this time, there was only one course left, and for someone who did not need to worry about finding a job after graduation, life was very relaxed and easy.

Shen Ai’s family had already arranged a path for her. Chen Fengshi’s parents worked in a state-owned enterprise with good profits. Many years ago, there was a tradition of a son taking over his father’s job, but that was a long time ago. Nowadays, it was not hard for Chen Fengshi to get in, but it was very difficult to become a formal employee.

So Chen Fengshi said he had no interest, and his father did not force him. After all, they both knew clearly that there was no promising future to look forward to. It just so happened that the martial arts dojo where Chen Fengshi had practiced since he was a child was always short-handed. During past holidays, he would help teach the junior disciples, so he was not in a rush. Compared to fighting tooth and nail during the job-hunting craze, he felt it was better to help his master at the dojo for half a year first, as there would be more opportunities around the New Year.

Not joining the crowd was his usual style, and he remained the same when it came to the job issue.

Big Guy and his girlfriend both had some family connections, and their career paths were already decided. The young couple was now worrying about whether to get married right after graduation or to work for a year or two and save up some freely disposable savings before getting married.

To put it bluntly, their worries were in a completely different dimension from most people’s.

Since Chen Fengshi was not in a rush for a job, what he thought about the most right now was naturally his goddess, Shen Ai. He had always suppressed all his feelings for her, gathering his strength to make his move after graduation. The various plans and lines he had prepared were simply collected and recorded from all kinds of sources over several years.

Chen Fengshi was confident that these preparations could handle any situation; he was just waiting for the right time to act.

Right at this moment, his phone suddenly rang. Chen Fengshi leisurely drank his green tea and picked up the phone, but his expression instantly froze when he saw the name on the screen.

A call from the goddess?

“Are you free… absolutely.”

After hanging up, Chen Fengshi was still in a daze. None of his plans covered this situation. Before graduation, the goddess Shen Ai suddenly took the initiative to ask him out for a chat… this was unscientific!

Chen Fengshi was afraid that if he got too close, he would not be able to hold back and launch a pursuit offensive, so he kept a relatively far distance from Shen Ai. A private meeting like this had never happened before.

This certainly made him guess a hundred different things, but when it came to getting ready to go out—changing clothes, combing his hair, washing his face, and carefully checking himself in the mirror dozens of times—he did not dare be careless at all.

He finally endured until the afternoon. Chen Fengshi went to Yu Lin Park half an hour early, but he felt that standing there foolishly at the agreed spot so early would make him look too immature, so he waited at a distance until the time was almost up before walking over.

He cheered himself up and waited. He looked calm, but he was actually very nervous inside. He could not guess the goddess’s intention for the meeting, so he would have to rely on improvising during the conversation.

Just as Chen Fengshi waited anxiously for a while, a hand suddenly reached out from behind and rested on his shoulder. “Have you been waiting long?”

Chen Fengshi blamed himself secretly. How could he have been approached without noticing? This was unscientific!

In an instant, Chen Fengshi held his breath and focused, his expression as serious as if he were in a job interview. As he turned his head, he suddenly felt his vision go black. Before he even knew what was happening, he fainted right away!

In that moment, Chen Fengshi did not even have time to form a thought…

The dusk light draped over Shen Ai. She pulled her hand back as quickly as if she had been bitten by a venomous snake, stared at the fallen Chen Fengshi with wide eyes for a moment, and then backed away, turned around, and walked away with unusually light and quick steps.

She actually just left the unconscious Chen Fengshi there like that?

When Chen Fengshi woke up again, he found himself in his dorm room.

“How long have I been asleep?”

Skinny was playing a game. Without turning his head, he just complained, “I said, are you sick or something? Why did you go to Yu Lin Park to drink at that time for no reason? And you drank alone until you looked like that? What kind of blow did you suffer? Don’t tell me you confessed to Shen Ai and got rejected?”

“…Drink?” At this moment, Chen Fengshi could not help but wonder if there was something wrong with his memory. Clearly, Shen Ai had asked him out, and right after she arrived, he passed out for no reason. How could that have anything to do with drinking? Besides, logically, after he fainted, it should have been Shen Ai who looked for help… Chen Fengshi did not remember anything about alcohol at all, so he said very firmly, “I didn’t drink!”

“Damn! You didn’t drink? Big Guy and I didn’t see you at dinner, and you didn’t answer your phone. When we went looking for you, we saw you dead drunk on the ground, surrounded by empty bottles!” Skinny said angrily. “If you wanted to drink, you should have done it in the dorm. Do you know how tired Big Guy and I were carrying you from Yu Lin Park to the dorm?”

The more Chen Fengshi listened, the more confused he felt. Skinny’s story completely did not match his memory, but Skinny was not the kind of person who liked to make jokes, especially since his acting was not that good. What he described must have been what he actually saw.

Chen Fengshi calmed down and asked again how long he had been asleep. Skinny complained nonstop again, saying that he had been asleep for two days and two nights. At first, he had a fever, so they fed him fever-reducing medicine and used physical cooling methods. After the fever broke, they saw that he still would not wake up, and they had planned to call an ambulance the next morning if he was still asleep.

“It’s a good thing I’m fine. Weren’t you afraid that something might really get delayed for two days?”

“What could happen? Wasn’t it just drinking too much?” Skinny was very dismissive and even asked self-righteously, “Calling an ambulance when nothing is wrong—do you think it doesn’t cost money for the trip?”

“Carrying me to the hospital doesn’t cost money for the trip, right?”

“It costs energy.” Skinny answered extremely fast, then immediately howled in frustration over losing a battle in his game, taking his anger out by saying, “I was busy talking to you and got killed by this idiot!”

Skinny was determined to get his revenge, so he could not be bothered to pay attention to anything else.

Chen Fengshi talked to him for a while and slowly began to feel hungry. The feeling of hunger grew stronger and stronger, even turning into a faint pain. He got out of bed and felt his body was extremely weak. He had never experienced the feeling of starving for two days and two nights before, and he never wanted to experience it again in the future.

After dry-eating a pack of instant noodles, his stomach felt better, and his whole body felt a bit more comfortable. Chen Fengshi walked out of the campus and had a massive feast. He polished off two bowls of noodle soup directly. After that, he actually felt it was far from enough. When he ordered a third bowl and started eating, even the boss looked at him in disbelief.

While there were not many people who could eat two bowls, there were always some, but three bowls was truly rare! Especially since Chen Fengshi had a well-proportioned body, and you could not see any strong muscles under his clothes. The contrast with this appetite was especially huge.

When the boss served the fourth bowl, he could not help but say, “Where do you put it all?”

Chen Fengshi also found it unbelievable. He usually only ate one bowl, or occasionally two if he was very hungry, and even then he would feel stuffed. Today, after three bowls down his stomach, he still did not feel full. “I performed beyond my usual level today.”

He came here often. Although the boss was not talkative, he still treated him as a regular customer, so he said with concern, “Don’t stretch your stomach out.”

Chen Fengshi really felt something was wrong. Although it was said that a person’s stomach could expand several times without a problem, that was just theory. In reality, he was afraid he would not even be able to walk.

Right at this moment, a handsome man passed by. He saw the several empty noodle bowls Chen Fengshi had polished off and heard the boss’s words, and he mockingly said, “Old Chen, don’t be so desperate! A poor life is still a life, why stuff yourself to death!”

“Hello, Love Sage. Goodbye, Love Sage.” Chen Fengshi looked up and glanced at him, not giving him a pleasant tone either.

Love Sage held his head high, looking proudly disdainful of lowering himself to Chen Fengshi’s level. He chuckled as he walked past, his back straight as a board. His posture was as solemn as if he were walking on a red carpet in a grand hall… The problem was that this was an old street outside the school gate, so his “solemnity” just seemed like he was “faking it.”

Love Sage used to be Chen Fengshi’s strong rival in love, but the latter’s crush was hidden deep. So the reason they were not on good terms with each other right now was still because Skinny had trash-talked him once, which almost led to a conflict. Chen Fengshi had backed Skinny up at the time, so Love Sage started to hate him too.

Love Sage had no other flaws except that his sense of superiority was too strong. His halo was so bright that it made it hard for people not to dislike him.

Chen Fengshi had no interest in caring how far Love Sage had gone. He thought it was better to worry about his body’s condition, so he stood up and carefully tried to move his body, bending over and so on. He found that there was no problem at all. And the most amazing thing was that when he touched his stomach, he actually felt like he had not eaten anything. ‘This is too unscientific. Is there a black hole in my body?’

Since he was not stuffed, and his appetite was surging like a raging river continuously stimulating his nerves, then he might as well keep eating!

After Chen Fengshi finished his fifth bowl, the boss advised him not to eat anymore, afraid that something bad might happen to him. He also felt that the inexplicable increase in his appetite was simply terrifying. Even though he still felt hungry, he decided to endure it. He paid the bill and left. The noodle shop boss also breathed a sigh of relief. Since he could walk and move, at least he would not suddenly collapse here from eating.

After leaving the noodle shop, the more Chen Fengshi thought about it, the stranger he felt it was. He could not wait to find the goddess and ask her about what happened after he suddenly lost consciousness that day, but he felt it was too late, and with Shen Ai’s daily routine, she should be asleep.

Chen Fengshi guessed wildly, but in the end, he still walked to Shen Ai’s dorm building. He stood for a while and felt that standing there in a daze was pointless. Just as he was about to leave, he suddenly saw a man standing downstairs at the dorm, holding a wrapped gift box in his hand. It was none other than Love Sage, whom he had just run into.

Love Sage was one of Shen Ai’s suitors. He had been explicitly rejected three times but still kept pestering her. Later, Shen Ai made it clear that she could only keep her distance from him as a form of rejection.

Some people mocked this man’s persistence, while others admired it, so he was given the nickname Love Sage. Shen Ai had kept her distance from Love Sage for over a year and a half. Love Sage had also not made any crazy, over-the-top moves for over a year, but he still declared in public and private that he would never marry anyone but Shen Ai in this life.

So, for Love Sage to be here right now with a gift was naturally a strange thing.

Chen Fengshi found that his feet could not move. He had to see what the situation was!

Love Sage held the gift, standing straight with a face full of smiles, looking as if he were waiting for his girlfriend. Setting aside the standpoint of being a rival in love, and evaluating from an objective perspective, Chen Fengshi would also have to give Love Sage a three-plus positive review. He had no bad habits, no dark history, was persistent in his pursuit of Shen Ai, had a decent family background, plus a school-handsome-level appearance. He was simply the perfect male lead from a TV show or novel.

Perhaps Love Sage was destined to become the male lead, but Chen Fengshi had a vested interest, so he would absolutely never admit it.

But in reality, the reason Chen Fengshi could hold back until now was thanks to Love Sage’s repeated failures. If someone like Love Sage could not break Shen Ai’s principles, then for Chen Fengshi to rush in, he felt that would be something only a brain-deprived person would do.

So he decided to compete on personality and wisdom.

Was this direction too strange? There was no helping it; Love Sage was excellent in both academics and martial arts. In martial arts, he might be a bit worse than Chen Fengshi, but in academics, he left him in the dust. Under these circumstances, how could Chen Fengshi not take an unorthodox approach? So he set a strategy of precise, targeted strikes, working hard to elevate his personality to match the type Shen Ai appreciated, and then analyzing Shen Ai’s situation, he would endure until graduation to launch a targeted pursuit offensive.

But in reality, the pressure from Love Sage was still huge, so right now, Chen Fengshi had to figure out the situation in front of him. If he endured for years and was just about to make his move, but before he even struck, Love Sage suddenly pulled out an ultimate move and kicked him out of the game, then he would be an idiot!

‘He is not here to see Shen Ai, he is not here to see Shen Ai, he is not here to see Shen Ai…’ Chen Fengshi silently chanted like a spell. But the figure that walked out was indeed Shen Ai. At the same time, Love Sage perked up and stepped forward to greet her.

Chen Fengshi’s thoughts suddenly shifted, because in his eyes, Shen Ai’s body was covered by a layer of red mist…