Ye Qingchang yielded.
There was no way she was going to carry books to the Literature Society’s Club Activity Room first, then hug the books and drift all the way back to the Dormitory.
“Then I’ll leave it to you, Student Xiao.” Ye Qingchang handed the books in her hands to Xiao Yi’an with practiced ease.
After Xiao Yi’an took them, he did not rush to leave. Instead, he looked at Liu Xie.
Or rather, he looked at the table in front of Liu Xie, at the Senior Phone placed squarely there.
“This thing is a bit old, isn’t it?” Xiao Yi’an said.
Liu Xie was stunned, picked up the Senior Phone, and held it a little closer to Xiao Yi’an. “Do you know this?”
“I know it. I have one too.” Xiao Yi’an nodded. “It’s even the same brand. It’s just old too, and turning it on is a bit difficult.”
“Really?” Liu Xie looked as if he had grasped a lifesaving straw and handed the Senior Phone to Xiao Yi’an. “Can you fix this?”
Xiao Yi’an took it and gave it a rough look.
“I think it might be a battery problem. I’ve encountered this situation before. Changing the battery should do it.” As he spoke, he emphasized again, “Of course, this is just my feeling. After all, I’m not a professional.”
“How do you know it’s a battery problem?” Ye Qingchang raised an eyebrow.
“Because the situation I ran into before was very similar to this one.” Xiao Yi’an pressed the power button twice more.
“What situation?” Ye Qingchang asked again.
Xiao Yi’an looked at Ye Qingchang, who was tilting her head, then directly placed the Senior Phone in her hand.
“First, this thing won’t turn on, right?”
Ye Qingchang looked down. “Yeah, right.”
“At this time, if you press any button on it other than the power button, then put your other hand on the charging port, don’t you feel something subtle?”
Ye Qingchang did as told, and indeed felt a slight itch.
It was a little like the Little Orange Cat Zhu Niao had left with her before, with soft cat fur passing by her side, leaving gentleness and tingling on her fingertips.
“I do feel that.” She nodded, expressing considerable approval.
“That’s it preparing to leak electricity. You can understand it as static.”
Ye Qingchang’s expression changed at once.
Xiao Yi’an continued as if he had not seen it. “If you press the power button now…”
Ye Qingchang rummaged around and finally found the power button.
“You’ll get shocked directly.”
She immediately withdrew the finger that was about to press down and shoved it into Liu Xie’s hand beside her.
“You really do like holding in some nasty farts whenever you have nothing better to do.”
“Isn’t it because you were in such a hurry to try it before I even finished speaking?” Xiao Yi’an retorted, leaving her speechless.
“Third, don’t speak for now.” Liu Xie stopped Ye Qingchang, who already could not speak, and looked at Xiao Yi’an. “Can you fix this thing?”
“I can’t guarantee 100 percent. If there’s something very important inside, I’d still suggest you take it to a place that specializes in phone repair first. If that doesn’t work, come find me again.” Xiao Yi’an said, “After all, anyone still keeping this kind of phone at this point probably has something very important they need to preserve.”
What Xiao Yi’an said was indeed correct.
After hearing that, Liu Xie nodded slightly and suppressed his impulse to grasp at any straw in desperation.
After all, there was only one phone. If it got broken later, there really would be no way.
Liu Xie left, with a bit of urgency.
This time, the classroom was not left with only Xiao Yi’an and Ye Qingchang.
Quite a few classmates who had not yet left were blocking the doorway.
This made one have to mention the Large Classroom door that only opened halfway every time, while the other half was still blocked and could not open.
“Let’s go to the Club Activity Room.” Xiao Yi’an held the books Ye Qingchang originally needed to take with her and walked in front of Ye Qingchang.
But he did not stay far ahead. In the crowd ahead, he used his body to open up space while also protecting Ye Qingchang’s skeletal body from being directly converted into experience points by the crowded students beside them.
After leaving the Teaching Building, things felt much more relaxed.
Ye Qingchang also let out a long breath, but when she looked at Xiao Yi’an, that breath caught again.
“If you were really confident, shouldn’t you have just agreed to help repair it earlier?” She still asked.
This was, of course, only one of her questions.
“I know that if I had agreed to repair it earlier and fixed it, maybe it would have improved your impression of me a bit more, but that would be wrong.”
Xiao Yi’an said, “With that style of Senior Phone, if it isn’t charged or used, it dies on its own in three months. That proves this thing was at least used until recently and is still taken out from time to time. There must be something very important inside.”
“He cannot be responsible for something that important, and it is even less possible that he would destroy someone else’s treasure just to show off.”
After hearing the description, Ye Qingchang was stunned for a moment.
She did not know. She had never heard Liu Xie mention that he had such an important thing before.
“Then you really did consider it quite thoroughly.” Ye Qingchang held back for a long while before squeezing out this sentence.
As the two walked on the road, Xiao Yi’an slowed his pace considerably to match Ye Qingchang, who could not walk fast because she had worn Fleece Slippers outside.
The black half-length skirt almost flew low against the ground. If Ye Qingchang lifted her steps high, she would kick the skirt up.
Seen from the side, if she walked with slightly smaller steps, she looked like some glasses-wearing female ghost drifting past.
“You seem to be wearing a bit too little today.” Xiao Yi’an said, “I remember your body doesn’t allow you to wear skirts in this season. Aren’t you cold?”
“It’s okay, not very cold. What I’m wearing under the skirt is actually quite thick. It’s just not very pretty, so I cover it with a long skirt.”
Ye Qingchang said, lifting a corner of the long skirt slightly until the black fabric on her lower legs was exposed.
It looked a little like black tights, but Xiao Yi’an knew that kind of fleshy feel could not possibly appear on Ye Qingchang.
It was a slightly thinner pair of Long Johns underneath, with a pair of black leggings added over them.
Looking on the bright side, at least Ye Qingchang, this Dark Literature Girl who completely did not know how to match outfits, knew that without this black half-length skirt, she would look very unsightly.
“Should I praise you?” Xiao Yi’an seemed to be asking Ye Qingchang, and also seemed to be asking himself.
“If it’s insincere, forget it. Hurry up and open the door, then go in and turn on the air conditioner.”
Under Ye Qingchang’s urging, Xiao Yi’an still took out the key and opened the door to the Club Activity Room.