Part 2 Hello, Mr. Major General I'm Gu Nianzi

283. Seemed out of place!

Early the next morning, Mei Xiawen got a call from He Zhichu after waking up.
"Good morning, Professor He." Mei Xiawen greeted him, "Are we going out now?"
He Zhichu's cool and indifferent voice traveled from the phone, "Come down in half an hour, I'll send a car to pick you up."
Half a hour later, Mei Xiawen came downstairs to see an extended Cadillac sedan parked in front of the Hilton hotel entrance. A handsome Caucasian man wearing white gloves exited the car and opened the car door for him when he came down. Mei Xiawen thanked him and smiled at He Zhichu, who was sitting inside.
"You're too kind, Professor He." Mei Xiawen was flattered. It was all very grand and he even had a driver. This Professor He was really a partner of a major law firm.
He Zhichi opened the mini fridge inside and took out a bottle of red wine and glasses, "Do you want a glass?"
Drinking red wine in the early morning Although Mei Xiawen didn't have such a habit, he fluidly accepted the glass so not to be looked down by He Zhichu.
"I don't usually eat breakfast and only have a glass of red wine on the rocks in the morning." He Zhichu raised his glass at Mei Xiawen and emptied it.
Mei Xiawen followed suit. Ice cubes were placed in the glass to chill the wine, and there was also faint aroma of lemon to make it almost taste a cocktail. He Zhichu refilled his glass and Mei Xiawen barely moticed any feeling of the road inside the extended luxury vehicle. After drinking four, five glasses in a row, Mei Xiawen finally realized that they had traveled a fair bit of distance. Slightly dizzy, he gripped his wine glass as his eyes struggled to focus, "Professor... Professor He, where are we going?"
Although He Zhichu had much to drink himself, he did not seem affected at all. He looked coldly out the window and said dryly, "To pick up Nianzhi, isn't she your girlfriend? Don't you want to go out with her?"
Mei Xiawen nodded as he rubbed his temples and leaned back on the seat. He was already very drunk and chuckled, "Girlfriend? Not quite, I even dream about her being my girlfriend, but she wants me to wait for her. She's testing me for six months before she agrees to be mine."
He Zhichu looked away in surprise and glanced over Mei Xiawen as though he was determining if he was telling the truth, "It's almost the same thing right? You hold hands in public"
"That's just hand holding,." Mei Xiawen was chatty when inebriated and couldn't help but complain, "I can't even hug her without her pushing me away. She's probably the only virgin in the school, and hadn't even had her first kiss yet Hahaha I'm so useless, I've pursued her so long and only got to hold hands.."
He Zhichu was silent and looked out the window again. He picked up his phone to call Gu Nianzhi, "Nianzhi."
Gu Nianzhi was still sleeping in her bed and finally picked up the phone after letting it ring for ages. "Professor He?" She woke up as soon as she heard He Zhichu's voice and sat up from the bed. Her voice was still groggy and raspy with sleep, "What is it?"
"I'm showing Mei Xiawen around the Harvard campus today, and remembered that you need to get your injury looked at again, so I'm picking you up too." He Zhichu hung up after speaking and didn't even give Gu Nianzhi an opportunity to refuse. Thanks to Zhao Liangze's special green ointment, her face had healed. There was no need to have it checked at the hospital? However He Zhichu was taking Mei Xiawen to campus and it was only proper that Gu Nianzhi show him around like a proper hostess. Although she had actually planned to sleep in all day She rushed into the bathroom to take a quick shower and picked out a ladylike white dress with a navy T-shirt and white sneakers. Her long hair was pulled back into a ponytail and topped with a navy baseball cap. She put on a backpack and said to Yin Shixiong, "Brother Xiong, Professor He is showing Xiawen around campus, I'm going to go with them."
Yin Shixiong poked his head out of the room, "When are you back?"
"I'm not sure. Maybe in the evening, I'll call you." Gu Nianzhi's phone rang she spoke and she glanced at it. "I have to go now, they're already here to pick me up." She opened the door and ran out. Soon afterwards, Yin Shixiong assumed his disguise and went downstairs to follow them to campus.
He Zhichu's extended car was very flashy and hard for Yin Shixiong to miss. When they arrived to campus, Gu Nianzhi happily pointed out all the buildings to Mei Xiawen and told him which faculties were in in which one. She them brought him to Law School building and even took a few photos.
Mei Xiawen smiled, "Now I can show off when I go back home and say I went to Harvard too."
"Yeah right." Gu Nianzhi gave him a sidelongs glance and giggled. He Zhichu on the other hand, seemed out of place. However, he didn't seem concerned and followed them at a comfortable pace and sometime after, held a cigarette in his hand and stood at a smoking zone on campus. Gu Nianzhi turned to see the burning light between his fingers and her eyes flashed.
He Zhichu noticed this and looked up to see Gu Nianzhi stare at his cigarette. "Fine, I won't smoke." He smiled as he threw it out in a nearby trash can.
Gu Nianzhi pursed her lips and didn't say a word before turning around to point out the School of Electronic Engineering Building across from Law. She said to Mei Xiawen, "That's the School of Electronic Engineering Building, I know a few Chinese students there."
"Right, and Nianzhi has a male idol there." He Zhichu placed his hands behind his back and stood on the other side of Gu Nianzhi as he squinted at the building with them.
"Male idol?" Mei Xiawen's heart thudded as he looked at Gu Nianzhi in shock, "Who?"
Face flushed, Gu Nianzi said gingerly, "Professor He is joking, I have many male idols. Xiawen is one of them too!"
"Really?" Mei Xiawen laughed, even though he knew she was just joking, it made him happy. His shattered confidence rose again when he knew he should indeed be her male idol.