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Chapter 120: Yu Lan’s Coffee (1/2)

Yu Lan: Are you awake?

Seeing this, Shen Cheng smirked slightly and quickly typed a reply: Did you install surveillance in my lounge?

At 3 a.m., Shen Cheng had just woken up when Yu Lan sent a message: “Awake?”

It’s hard not to let your mind wander with that!

Thinking about this, Shen Cheng looked around the room carefully, but didn’t find anything resembling a surveillance camera.

Yu Lan: Stop looking. There’s no surveillance in your lounge. You don’t have anything worth watching anyway. I just woke up too early and had nothing to do, so I messaged you for a chat, just taking a chance.

Shen Cheng: “…”

The more you explain, the less I believe you!

Yu Lan: You just woke up too?

Shen Cheng: Yeah, I went to bed pretty early.

Yu Lan: Got time? If so, come to my office. I’ll treat you to coffee.

Seeing Yu Lan’s message, Shen Cheng thought for a moment, got out of bed quietly, put on a jacket, and left the lounge.

Outside the lounge window, patches of moonlight fell onto the ground. Shen Cheng stretched lazily, figured out the direction to Yu Lan’s office, and was about to walk when he suddenly noticed a figure ahead and froze in place.

The figure stood in the corridor, facing the moonlight through the window, their delicate face bathed in a soft glow. They were wearing… a maid outfit that Shen Cheng was all too familiar with!

“Shao Silin?” After recognizing the figure, Shen Cheng shivered all over and exclaimed, “What on earth are you doing?”

Hearing Shen Cheng’s voice, Shao Silin, who had been staring at the moon from the corridor, stiffened, then awkwardly turned his head toward Shen Cheng and explained, “This… I’m just trying to adapt to my job at the Cat Café. I didn’t want the experience I gained over the past few days to go to waste, so yeah, that’s it!”

Shen Cheng: “…”

I’m sorry, I regret it! I should never have given you that maid outfit to wear!

If Shao Silin wasn’t standing directly on the path to Yu Lan’s office, Shen Cheng would have definitely chosen to take a detour at this moment.

After carefully squeezing past him along the wall, without giving Shao Silin a chance to speak, Shen Cheng hurriedly walked toward Yu Lan’s office as if fleeing.

“Hey? Senior Shen Cheng?” After walking for a while, a voice suddenly startled Shen Cheng. He turned his head to see Lu Mingjing, who looked at him with sleepy eyes. “Are you going to the bathroom too?”

Seeing it was Lu Mingjing, Shen Cheng let out a slight sigh of relief. After all, Lu Mingjing was one of the few normal people he knew from the Bio-Scientific Institute. “I’m just going to take care of something.”

“Oh… as expected of Senior Shen Cheng, still working at 3 a.m.!” Upon hearing this, Lu Mingjing’s eyes lit up, and he clenched his fists in admiration. “I should learn from Senior Shen Cheng too!”

“Haha…” Shen Cheng awkwardly chuckled and didn’t respond further.

After all, he was just going to grab a cup of coffee with Yu Lan…

Seeing Lu Mingjing’s motivated look, Shen Cheng wordlessly patted him on the shoulder for encouragement.

Sure enough, after Shen Cheng’s pat, Lu Mingjing’s determination became even stronger.

After bidding goodbye to Shen Cheng, Lu Mingjing walked in the direction of the bathroom, following the path Shen Cheng had come from.

After walking for a while, Lu Mingjing suddenly sensed a figure ahead, which made him frown slightly. He focused his gaze and looked more carefully.

In the next moment, Lu Mingjing was frozen in place.

—It was a girl wearing a maid outfit!

The figure’s graceful silhouette in the moonlight, her short, tidy hair, and that familiar aura, reminiscent of first love…

Lu Mingjing felt a slight flutter in his heart.

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