Chapter 42

David's face was so beat up, it was hard for Nada not to see it, "Why do you have that look on your face?"

 David tops his batch face and says, "Which face do I have? "

 Nada said slowly, "Shouldn't you be happy that I said that? What's with the unhappy look?"

 David said, "I'm not upset, I'm overjoyed."

 Nada looked at him and said, "I don't see where you're happy."

 David grinned up at the corners of his lips in exasperation and said to Nada, "I'm happy, see? I'm so happy the corners of my lips are going up to my ears."

 Nada said, "That's a forced smile."

 David: "..."

 He was depressed and said, "I'm not talking to you, I'm going to keep working on the problem."

 After doing so for a short while, he slapped his pen onto the desktop and slumped down onto it with a batch face on top.

 Nada glanced at him and asked, "What now?"

 David looks up to the sky and says, "This question is too hard, I can't do it!"

 Nada came over, "Let's see."

 David pushed the paper in front of him, and while Nada was looking at it, his gaze gently dropped to the high bridge of his nose, and then to the tiny tear duct below the eyelid of his left eye.

 He always remembers the mole of tears. Just a little lick, and Nada sheds a tear.

 Nada was looking at the question, and after just one glance, she said, "Haven't you done this question many times with a similar type of question? You still don't know how to do it?"

 David said, "Oh, well, I'll think about it."

 David took back the paper and suddenly asked again, "Will you dot this mole of tears later?"

 Nada paused for a moment, "Why do you want to point it out?"

 David: "... because it would look feminine and unimpressive?"

 Nada said, "No, but I've heard that the mole of tears isn't good in terms of numerology, so if you get rid of it, maybe your life will go a little bit smoother."

 "Huh? Is there such a thing?" David was confused.

 Nada said, "I've only heard about it, from old people, but they also say that people with tear moles will like to cry, and I'm not a cryer, so it's just superstition."

 He looked at David and smiled slightly, his tone had so much gentleness, "They also say that people with tear moles won't be happy and complete, but I feel quite complete right now. The person who would believe in these to light off the tear mole might not be very determined in the first place, skeptical about whether he can achieve happiness, if he lights it off, it will make him a bit more determined, which is also a good thing."

 David's heart pounded violently as he muttered, "Is it because of this?"

 He stared at Nada and asked in a small voice, "So you ... that you would order off?"

 Nada's eyes collided with his, detecting the strange emotions welling up in his eyes, and he hesitated slightly before slowly saying, "I'm not going to order it off."

 He looked at David, his tone firm, "Because I'm fine now, I won't believe this."

 David stopped talking.

 Nada looked at him, trying to see something in his expression, but couldn't; this was the time when he was able to hide his emotions.

 The atmosphere stood so eerily still for a moment, when David, who had been silent, suddenly muttered in a whimper, "Actually, I'm quite adventurous."

 Nada: "?"

 Nada asked, "What do you mean?"

 David said with a red face and a slightly flustered tone, "If you like women, you can actually try liking me, after all, I'm very good hahahahahahahahaha..."

 Nada doesn't respond, he ha's a little embarrassed and quickly stops, a little overwhelmed and scratches a handful of his hair that has recently been cut short to look spiffy.

 Nada curled her lips slightly and said, "No, even if I liked women, I like Ekin more than I like you."

 David: "..."

 The flustered smile at the corner of his mouth froze, and he said with so much aggravation, "Why? I'm a few handfuls that big! Still taller than him! Can pick you up ..."

 The topic seemed to be getting progressively more dangerous, Nada's eyelids fluttered and she immediately stopped, "Just do the questions, enough time wasted."

 David shut his mouth, but was depressed as hell.

 Just at that moment, Steward Lee returned, and David was immediately energized as he dragged Nada over to the living room.

 The next thing Nada saw was a dozen or so maids fishtailing through the front door, all holding several paper bags.

 There were also two maids on the spot who surrounded a changing room in the spacious living room.

 David quickly forgot about the depression he had just felt and with a smile on his face, he said to Nada, "I bought you clothes, come over here and look at them!"

 The image of being watched by a dozen pairs of attentive eyes was so exaggerated that Nada froze for a moment, looked at David, frowned slightly, and said, "You bought this for me?"

 David nodded invitingly, "Yeah, I haven't bought you any clothes in so long, I was wrong, I'll make it up to you now!"

 Nada said, "No need, I have clothes to wear."

 Butler Li was afraid that David would be tongue-tied, and hurriedly coughed a few times and said, "Our Qin family has shares in this brand, so we go through the black and gold vip channel, and these are equivalent to our own clothes."

 Glancing at David again, he said, "Jack is also the one we hired to teach the young master, the hourly rate is 700 an hour, the family didn't pay you, so you don't have to bother with us for these."

 David nodded and said seriously, "Let's not make it count between us."

 Nada stopped pushing and said matter-of-factly, "Thank you then."

 David cheerfully lifted the coffee-colored curtain of the changing room for him, egging him on to change piece by piece.

 Nada looked around at the dozen or so maids and once again felt the corrosive power of capital.

 Butler Li, like a savant, notices Nada's eyes and immediately tells the maids who are serving as hard labor to disperse and do their own thing.

 Nada took the two paper bags that Steward Lee sent over, glanced at David, and said, "Go ahead and work on the questions, don't get in the middle of it."

 David: "??" Wife dressing up, can he not watch?

 He stubbornly stayed where he was and didn't move.

 Nada took the paper bag into the spacious changing room and opened it to look at it, no hangtags in sight, but the clothes all felt good to the touch, not something his ten dollar three piece ground floor goods could compete with.

 Nada pinches her shirt and thinks for a moment, but she undresses.

 In no time at all, he changed his clothes, lifted the curtain, and walked out.

 Steward Li's vision is still very good, Nada is now wearing a white printed T-shirt, a pair of black casual ice silk slacks, the main summer leisure style, because the clothes texture is very good, the upper body effect also looks very good, very youthful and energetic feeling.

 The T-shirt was slightly too wide, making him look tall and handsome as a whole.

 The maid even carried a floor-to-ceiling dressing mirror over to him.

 Nada looked at herself in the mirror and didn't really see much of a difference, but then David got all excited and chimed in, "So playful and lively! This outfit looks good! You have a good eye, Uncle Lee!"

 Butler Li smiled modestly and added, "I also bought a lot for my fellow star students, so you guys take your time to try them out."

 Nada, however, glanced at David, "Why are you still here?"

 David's excited expression froze for a moment and he said, "It's not that bad, is it?"

 Nada said, "Go back to your room, when I get back I want to see you write to page three."

 David: "..."

 He dropped his head and went to his room.

 Nada pinched the corner of his coat, his tone calm but his eyes twinkling slightly with so much embarrassment as he asked Steward Lee, "Does it really look good?"

 Steward Lee nodded and said seriously, "Really, it matches you."

 Nada coughed softly, glanced at the rest again, and said, "I'll try them all?"

 Steward Lee smiled and nodded, "Try them all."

 When he went to bed at night, David took five minutes to get out of the shower and all he saw was Nada in a gray shirt with two buttons undone.

 David: "..."

 His eyes couldn't help but frequently look at Nada's beautiful white collarbone, and his mouth whispered and complimented, "Star you fitso well in the shirt."

 Nada was silently memorizing words from an English booklet in her hand when she heard David say that and glanced up at him, "Good looking?"

 David said, "Of course it looks good!"

 He lay down next to Nada and asked, "Did you like those clothes?"

 Nada asks, "How much did you spend?"

 Instead, David said, "Don't care so much, I'm so out of practice."

 Said, and added, "Not used to you being so raw with me."

 Nada nodded, "Anyway, just thanks, I like it."

 David was in a lively mood.

 However, thinking about what Nada had said earlier, the mood slumped violently again.

 Liked the clothes he bought didn't even like him, hmmm!

 Wrathfully, and without speaking to Nada, he closed his eyes and quickly drifted off to sleep.

 Nada, however, was not asleep; he whispered to David and asked, "Are you asleep?"

 Didn't get a response.

 Nada was quiet for a moment and whispered, "Thank you."

 There was no response, and he didn't care, closing his eyes and drifting off to sleep with David.

 The next day, David and Nada went to school, and there was a blackboard with the words "19 days to exams" on it.

 With less than three weeks to go, David didn't have the heart to think about it anymore, yet the sight of Ekin inevitably brought to mind Nada's cutting words.

 Shit, what's Ekin better than him?

 David jolted to his feet, facing Nada's questioning eyes, David's face didn't change, "I have to pee."

 Nada lowered her head, "Come back soon."

 David strides over to Ekin with his stopwatch, "You're coming with me to the bathroom!"

 Ekin lifted her face in confusion, "You want me to walk you to the bathroom?"

 David nodded gravely, "Quick."

 Ekin: "..."

 Seeing that he wasn't moving, David dryly grabbed his arm and pulled him toward the door.

 Nada saw the backs of the two of them leaving the classroom together, and before she could look back, she heard Denqi muttering behind her back, "Woman to woman friendship is sometimes as simple as holding hands and going to the bathroom together."

 Nada: "..."

 David pulled Ekin into the restroom, there wasn't much of a crowd at this time of day, there wasn't even a wait, David looked at Ekin with burning eyes, "Come join me."

 Ekin: "..."

 If Ekin couldn't guess what David wanted at this point, he'd really grown up for nothing.

 Ekin said politely, "I don't want to go to the bathroom, I'll wait outside."

 David said, "No, you want to!"

 He paused for a moment and continued, "Hush, hush, hush ... is it tempting now?"

 Ekin: "..."

Ekin couldn't believe this was something a high school kid would do, and to make him even more devastated, he actually did pee a little at David's shushing.

 Ekin: "..."

 He was strong and stubborn and said, "No, I still don't want to."

 David then dropped his eyes to Ekin's crotch, and Ekin covered his pants tightly, fearing that David would come on strong and pull down his pants.

 But David wasn't so down on himself, he withdrew his gaze regretfully, "Never mind then, you go out and wait for me."

 Ekin was so relieved that he turned around and left the restroom.

 After a while, it was finally David.

 David approached him, bent over slightly, and whispered devilishly in his ear, "What's your size?"

 Ekin: "..."

 David saw that he didn't say anything, a knowing look came into his eyes, he patted Ekin's shoulder with a sympathetic face, and continued to whisper devilishly in his ear, "It's okay, you're only 17, don't get down on yourself, it can still grow, I've got experience."

 Ekin: "..."

 Nada saw David stride into the classroom and sat down next to him, she took the stopwatch he was holding and looked at it, it was already two minutes, "What took you so long?"

 David muses for a moment, whispering in Nada's ear, "I'm older than him!"

 Nada: "..."

 He couldn't help but ask, "Is that what you dragged Ekin to the bathroom for?"

 David puffed out his chest and said, "Or what?"

 Nada: "... you're really idle, your exams are in 19 days and you still have the heart to compare this."

 David said seriously, "It's a man's honor!"

 Nada was quiet for a moment and said, "Since you have so much time on your hands, let's add one more roll per day."

 David: "..."

 Why does he always have so many reasons to add rolls to his own?

 *

 In the evening, Nada goes to take a shower when David calls and he picks up his cell phone to see that it's Alex calling him.

 Sitting in his chair for several seconds, he thought before getting up and knocking on the bathroom door.

 The sound of water inside stopped and Nada's voice came through the glass door, "What's wrong?"

 David reported, "My hairdresser called me, can I answer?"

 Nada was silent for a moment and said, "Answer it, and talk through it in the time it takes me to finish washing."

 David responded cheerfully.

 Nada turned the shower back on and let the hot water spray over him.

 David's house was so soundproofed that he wasn't going to be able to hear what David and the hairdresser were talking about, but it just inexplicably mattered.

 Some unspoken annoyance.

 David sat in his chair, twirling his pen as he talked to Alex, "What's that? Lena's birthday? I didn't forget, but I don't have time to go over there."

 Alex says, "The brothers haven't seen you in months, so you're going to say no to this birthday party while you can meet up?"

 David was a little embarrassed, "I'm really busy right now, I don't have time to go."

 Alex said, "What are you so busy for that you can't find the time? My sister has been saying she wants to see you, you're not going to give me a chance, are you?"

 David said, "I'm busy with exams, they're in 19 days and I'm doing them every day."

 Alex was silent for a moment before saying, "You're kidding, right?"

 David was a little smug when he said this, "What a joke, I really do the questions every day now, do you know how many points I can get on the test now?"

 Alex: "... How much?"

 David tossed out, "It'll be a 601! I didn't expect that!"

 Alex: "..."

 He asked incredulously, "Are you serious? Don't lie to me."

 David said, "Of course it's true."

 He couldn't resist his heart's desire to show off after all, and said quietly, "Maybe I'll even sprint for Harvard."

 Alex: "... Have you been drinking fake alcohol?"

 David sensed his distrust and was a little offended, "No drinking, I'm not drunk, forget it, when I do get into Harvard, you'll know what I'm saying is true."

 Alex sensed his irritation and said, "You're not running off to school in A City because you think we're interfering with your studies, are you?"

 David said, "That's not true, but if I were with you guys, I'd be thinking about having fun and wouldn't be able to concentrate on the problems."

 Alex was a little depressed, "So you're really not coming to Lena's birthday?"

 David said, "Isn't ... birthday every year? This year even if, next year she eighteen I give her a good celebration, okay?"

 Alex said, "OK, you said so, why not."

 David heard Nada open the door and immediately said, "There's something to talk about later in the exam, don't even call me lately, I'm hanging up ah."

 Without waiting for Alex to reply, David immediately hung up and turned to Nada to take credit, "I hung up, I timed it right, didn't I?"

 Nada asked him as she took a towel to her hair, "Which one of your hairdressers is it?"

 David said honestly, "It's Alex, the Alex I told you about, the Alex with all the girlfriends."

 Getting up again in a hurry, he took out the silent hair dryer from the cabinet and said to Nada, "Come sit here and I'll blow-dry your hair."

 Nada was used to David's solicitous attentiveness and thus readily went to the chair and sat down.

 Although David had accepted the hard work of studying every day and accepted Nada's arrangements at face value, he was still more or less lazy; blow-drying Nada's hair for ten minutes was equivalent to being able to pet a fish for ten minutes, and the errand was very pleasurable for him as well.

 Nada didn't think that much about it, he just thought it was too mentally tense to always be doing and writing papers, and sitting around like this, chatting casually, could loosen up the tightness as well.

 He felt David's warm fingers gently graze his scalp, and the warm breeze skimming his cheeks gave him a very pleasant and reassuring feeling.

 He asked, seemingly offhandedly, "What did Alex want with you?"

 David made no secret of it, "He asked me if I'd go to his sister's birthday party, and I declined, it was almost exams, they should be playing, and I didn't have time anyway."

 Clinging to Nada's ear again, he invited, "Did I do it right?"

 Nada dropped her eyes and smiled, "You did the right thing."

 David didn't even need Nada to continue asking, so he poured himself clear, "Riina throws a birthday every year, and every year she lets people go to the birthday party, and I do like to have a good time, but that little girl is so petulant and pestering that I'm scared of her."

 "Alex even joked with me about marrying Riina as a wife, and really, if I did marry her, I'd be in a mental institution in a few years."

 Nada interrupted, "So does that Riina like you?"

 David said, "I don't know, who knows what she thinks, little girl's thoughts, change from day to day, I really can't see through it."

 Nada felt a little offended that he was biting a little girl in a mature tone, when it was clear that he wasn't very mature in mind either, and couldn't help but be a little amused.

 David continued, "I still read people accurately, I grew up thinking that Riina that nature is not good, sooner or later by the society poison beat, to later also really proved that I think really not wrong."

 Nada sensed the hole in his words, "What happened then?"

 David was about to say, suddenly reacted and hurriedly said, "Then it was just like that, her no-nonsense personality, often making jokes."

 He was slow to recognize other people's love and adoration, and he was actually really unsure whether Lina liked him or not.

 A generation ago he just graduated from college, back from abroad, Ri Na also has a lot of boyfriends around, and his brother as philandering, but also pestered him, seems to want to be his girlfriend, but David feels that there should also be the meaning of the family union in the beginning, not so pure, coupled with the dislike of Ri Na's character, so they all stay away from it.

 Then it didn't take long for Adolf to pull a fast one and push him straight to Nada.

 ... Wait a minute, Riina seems to have even gone after Nada, and by the time he knew about it, Nada had taken care of it herself.

 Ri Na didn't continue to pester him later, but instead found a family of similar wealth to marry, but because of her character, she did make a lot of jokes in the upper class circle. He had heard about it even if he didn't specifically try to understand it.

 David was so absorbed in his thoughts that he only reacted when Nada called him softly, he scratched Nada's soft black hair, attentively like a shampooer, "How is it, this heat is okay, isn't it? It won't burn, right?"

 Nada: "... won't."

 David bent down again and carefully blew the hair on the back of his head, "You have good hair oh, even if you stay up all night you don't see hair loss, hahaha."

 Adding, "You don't know, my dad loses his hair when he stays up late, and when he stays up long enough, the top of his head comes off as a bald spot, it's scary."

 Nada: "... Bald, huh?"

 David scoffed heartlessly, "Yeah, hahahahahaha if the health club hadn't saved him, he'd be a handsome Mediterranean in a few years hahahahahaha"

 Nada: "... I remember baldness seems to be hereditary, so if your dad is bald, won't you be ... too?"

 "..." David's laughter slowly stopped.

 The air was suddenly deadly quiet.

 Nada sensed him blow-drying his hair less carefully and whipped her head around to see him typing with a tight face on his cell phone in one hand.

 Nada stood up and came over to him to see the search page open on his phone - "Is baldness hereditary?"

 Nada: "..."

 David quickly finished his search, and with a sigh of relief, he said to Nada, "This has a lot to do with personal habits, I rarely stay up all night, and I'm also very careful with my diet and don't strain myself, so I won't go bald!"

 Speaking of which, and suddenly remembered, he did not marry Nada before, but also every day bubble bar party to the early hours of the morning, but also drinking and smoking, etc. ...

 Grass ...Nada The previous generation gave him a doorstop to stop smoking, drinking and controlling his diet, it can't be all about preventing him from losing his hair, can it????