Chapter 160: Professor’s Rebate System Has Been Monopolized by the Poor Thing (4)

Chapter 160: Professor's Rebate System Has Been Monopolized by the Poor Thing (4)

Ning Xiuping adjusted his glasses, his ears flushed.

He felt a little embarrassed for some reason.

"If you like them, go ahead and buy them."

He took the book from Song Chuyi's hand and, glancing over, grabbed all the books with similar covers.

There were ten books, their colorful covers making them dizzying to look at.

Titles like "Arrogant Love" and "Pampered on the Bed" were faintly visible.

Ning Xiuping walked to the cashier and placed the ten books down.

"Could you check these out for me?"

The cashier, a young lady, looked up in surprise at the handsome man in front of her.

Who would've thought a handsome guy would be into this kind of stuff?

Ning Xiuping swiped his card, and a notification from the Rebate System popped into his mind.

"Congratulations, you’ve spent 500 yuan on the rebate target, and you’ve earned a 100 yuan rebate."

"Keep up the good work!"

He stayed calm, ignoring the system’s constant chatter.

This Rebate System was really strange. Even though he was using his own card, the money deducted wasn't from his bank account.

He had also checked the bank statements, and aside from the rebated money, there were no traces of outgoing transfers.

This meant the system was providing the money he spent on Song Chuyi, while the rebates were real cash deposits in his account.

Strangely, the bank didn’t seem to notice these unexplained transfers.

Perhaps it was because the transfer amounts were still small.

As Ning Xiuping pondered, Song Chuyi walked over from behind, carrying a stack of books.

"Miss, please calculate the cost for these as well!"

He gave the cashier a sweet smile and pointed at Ning Xiuping.

"Swipe his card."

The cashier glanced at the book covers—more standard CEO romance novels.

It seems that these days, handsome guys really liked this kind of CEO love.

She felt a surge of pride and chuckled.

"We just got a new batch of CEO romance novels that haven’t hit the shelves yet. Interested in checking them out?"

"Yes!" Song Chuyi replied quickly.

Ten minutes later, Ning Xiuping was holding a huge cardboard box in both hands.

Inside the box were various tycoon romance novels, the kind that exuded a domineering presence just by looking at their covers!

Of course, Ning Xiuping had used his card to pay for all of them.

Ning Xiuping also got a 1,000 yuan rebate, which he hadn’t touched yet, sitting in his bank account.

As soon as they got home, Song Chuyi rushed to place the books in his bedroom.

Once the bedroom was full, he started placing them in the living room, with two books on the coffee table in front of the sofa and one on the dining table.

He even placed one on the coffee table in front of the TV.

In short, you could find tycoon romance novels all over the place.

After finishing all this, he turned to Ning Xiuping and softly said, "Brother Ning, you're so good to me."

Ning Xiuping pinched the middle of his finger between his thumb and forefinger.

This was a habitual gesture he used when thinking.

The young man at this moment didn’t look as pitiful as he had been last night, but instead exuded a lively energy.

His skin was pale, smooth as snow or fresh milk.

Even a light touch would leave a faint red mark, as if his skin was delicate and easily bruised.

But last night, seeing the young man huddled in the corner, soaked to the bone, had truly tugged at his heartstrings.

That look of utter abandonment, as if the world had forgotten him, made Ning Xiuping believe that the young man really had nowhere to go.

Ning Xiuping didn’t think that the young man had deliberately waited for him there.

He was just an ordinary professor, not someone the young man would wait for.

Or perhaps, it was because he had never had such expectations in his heart.

He had grown up in a scholarly family; his grandparents and parents were all professors in physics research.

They were rational, calm, restrained, and silent, dedicating their lives to their careers.

Precisely because of this, Ning Xiuping had grown into a rational person.

Rationality doesn’t have expectations because he clearly understood that expectations are products of sensibility, a kind of waiting due to a lack of something.

And he didn’t need too much sensibility.

His elders had successively devoted themselves to death for physics, and the baton had been passed to him.

Unfortunately, due to various factors, he hadn’t achieved much in this field.

At least, not achievements that satisfied him.

These growth experiences shaped Ning Xiuping’s current personality.

He was very confident, which stemmed from his extensive theoretical knowledge and rich resume.

This confidence was also carried into his life.

Besides being confident, he didn’t have emotions such as expectation.

In countless experiments, expectation could not be the determining factor for success.

Because there was no expectation, he was confident that the young man wouldn’t get soaked in the rain, stubbornly waiting for him to show up.

The person at the gate last night could have been him, or it could have been anyone.

Ning Xiuping was very clear about this.

But the person who could bring him home would only be him.

This thought crossed Ning Xiuping’s mind, and he suddenly recalled the discussion among his students during the afternoon class yesterday.

“There’s this really good-looking guy at the school gate, waiting for his girlfriend.”

This sentence caused Ning Xiuping to slightly furrow his brows, his gaze falling on the young man who was happily flipping through a book, and he spoke up:

“Last night, did you get dumped by your girlfriend?”

Song Chuyi looked up blankly, letting out a confused “Ah?”

“Gi…girlfriend?” He almost bit his own tongue.

“You…you mean me?”

He couldn’t help but point at himself.

Ning Xiuping nodded.

Song Chuyi waved his hands hurriedly, “No, no, no, like I’d ever have a girlfriend!”

“I’m into guys!”

A faint hint of confusion passed through Ning Xiuping’s eyes, but he quickly returned to calm.

Liking guys, that’s normal.

Song Chuyi placed his hands on his hips, his eyes wide open.

“And how could I possibly get dumped?”

“I’m so good-looking, if anyone’s getting dumped, it’s gonna be me doing the dumping!”

His face was his own, of course it was good-looking!

This time he didn’t possess someone else’s body but instead traveled in his own body.

He suspected the main system was behind this, thinking it might be more convenient for him to travel in his own body.

Or maybe the original body was taken by the main system, after all, the main system always pulled weird stunts.

But since he traveled in his own body, he didn’t have the memories of the person he replaced.

After checking out the basement, he figured the guy he replaced was an orphan, barely known by anyone, so he didn’t think about going back.

Thinking about this, Song Chuyi muttered again, “You got two things wrong in one sentence, you owe me a penalty.”

Ning Xiuping thought the young man was refreshingly honest and endearing, so he agreed to his request.

"Alright, what’s the penalty going to be?"

Song Chuyi’s eyes twinkled with mischief. "Then the punishment is that you buy me an ultra-large screen TV—something with a screen so big I can practically swim in it!"

He gestured toward the TV in the living room. "This one’s way too small. How about we get one that’s, like, wall-sized?"

"Deal." Ning Xiuping nodded and handed his phone to Song Chuyi.

"You can pick whatever you want, A'Chu."