He's So Sweet After Class

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Translator: Rin     Editor: dedaign     Proofreader: Amber.es

Due to his knee injury, Jiang Chenming didn’t attend training for a few days. Other than going to classes and reaching home on time, he would go to the Chinese Language Department to have lunch with Mo Lingqiu.

In no time, almost every University A student knew that the PE Department’s prince and the Chinese Language Department’s male god teacher, Mo Lingqiu, were familiar with each other.

“Are you sure it’s fine to eat hotpot here?” Mo Lingqiu anxiously looked at the induction cooker that was placed on Fan Nian’s table after it had been cleared.

“No problem.” Fan Nian waved his hand. “I’m the only one using this room, and it’s only for resting.”

Like he said, they were indeed in the clinic’s resting room. Fan Nian usually used the room to take a break. He was so bored that day that he called Mo Lingqiu and Jiang Chenming over to eat hotpot.

Mo Lingqiu had bought the ingredients just after they all had agreed to the lunch, while the hotpot broth base was provided by Fan Nian. He had hidden all sorts of broth bases in the resting room.

“Spicy broth or bone broth?”

“Bone broth.”

“Spicy.”

Mo Lingqiu chose bone broth at the same time that Jiang Chenming chose spicy.

They both exchanged looks and simultaneously reproached the other.

“Don’t you like to eat it spicy?”

“Your injury hasn’t healed yet.”

Fan Nian’s left hand was holding the spicy broth base and his right hand was holding the bone broth base. He purposely slammed them onto the table. “Stop fighting. Are you showing how lovey-dovey you guys are in front of a single dog like me?”

“Then you decide.”

“Dr. Fan, you decide it, then.”

It was the third time they had spoken at the same time. Fan Nian’s face started turning green. He threw both of the bags into the box and snapped, “Then, let’s have this mushroom broth. Mo Lingqiu, dip the chilli sauce yourself.”

Neither of them could reply to that, and they awkwardly sat down.

When the water in the pot started boiling, Fan Nian poured in the mushroom broth base. The aroma slowly wafted out. The three of them moved their chopsticks when it fully dissolved into the water.

“Hey, to be honest, these days I feel like quitting my job.” Fan Nian took a bunch of enoki mushrooms. “I wanna go traveling, but I’m unwilling to leave you here alone.”

“Why quit?” Mo Lingqiu was rather shocked because Fan Nian always liked his job, so his sudden declaration didn’t seem reasonable.

“‘Cuz it’s too limiting here. It’ll be extremely boring if I continue doing this until retirement.”

“Quit then.” If a job became boring, and one had the ability to do other jobs, it was fine to think about quitting.

“I’m only saying.” Fan Nian raised his eyebrows. “What? Since you have a boyfriend, you don’t need a true friend like me anymore?”

“…No.” Mo Lingqiu initially wanted to say ‘Don’t spout nonsense’, but he remembered that he was still hiding the truth from Fan Nian, so he changed his words. “Keep working here, then.”

“I’ll think about it.” Fan Nian really intended to quit, but his desire wasn’t that strong yet. He might stay working for a year or two and then leave afterwards.