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Chapter 1257 Yun Rui's sincerity: the appropriate distance

The sycamore tree outside the window rustled, and a dead leaf floated into the windowsill along the air current. Gu Yunxi paused, and the pen in his hand left a dot of ink on the record book.

When she turned around, the ceiling light in the lab cast a shadow on her lenses, making it hard to see the emotions behind her eyes. "I remember someone told me," she chose her words carefully, "in the academic circle, once you cross some boundaries, it's hard to turn back."

This sentence was like a piece of ice, smashing into Lin Xu's originally surging emotions. He suddenly remembered that night when Gu Yunqian stood beside the car and looked at him, and finally understood the helplessness behind the hot and cold attitude.

"So the smell of fireworks and the laughter in the amusement park," he smiled bitterly, "are all permitted short-term indulgences?"

"No!" Gu Yunxi blurted out, his voice more urgent than expected.

She took off her glasses, revealing the eyes that were always calm in academic conferences, but now they were filled with panic. "It's just... I'm used to weighing everything rationally. That day at the roadside stall and the amusement park, I seemed to..." Her voice became smaller and smaller, and the last few words almost dissipated in the air, "I forgot the distance that should be maintained."

Lin Xu felt as if something was suddenly tightening his heart.

He took a step forward, until he was only half an arm's length away from her. He could clearly see the tiny hairs on her eyelashes trembling slightly.

"What if I say I don't want to keep my distance?" His voice was low and firm, with the courage unique to young people.

Gu Yunxi looked up suddenly, and their eyes met in the twilight.

The air conditioner outside the laboratory suddenly made a buzzing sound, breaking the stagnant air.

She took a half step back, but bumped into the lab table, her fingertips touching the cold test tube rack. "Lin Xu, you are still young," she turned her face away, "you will meet someone more suitable."

"But I met you." Lin Xu stretched out his hands to support the laboratory table behind her and half-held her in his arms.

This bold move made Gu Yunxi's breathing pause. She could clearly feel the boy's vigorous heat, with the unique fresh breath of a young boy.

"In my eyes, you are not a high-ranking professor, nor a family member who needs to be protected," his voice seemed to come from deep in his chest, with a bewitching tremor, "you are just the person who makes my heart beat."

The sky outside the window darkened completely, and the emergency lights in the laboratory automatically lit up, casting a faint blue light.

Gu Yun looked at the fiery passion in the boy's eyes and suddenly remembered what her brother said: "Men understand other men's minds best." But Lin Xu in front of her tore open the high wall she had built with rationality in the most straightforward way.

"Do you know what this will bring?" she asked softly, with a final struggle in her voice, "rumors, academic doubts, and even..."

"I know." Lin Xu interrupted her, and gently brushed her blushing cheek with his thumb, his movements were restrained and gentle, "But I'm not afraid. That day at the playground, you said it was nice to be a kid once in a while." He raised the corner of his mouth, "Then this time, let me take you away from reality."

This sentence was like a stone that fell into Gu Yunxi's heart, which had been silent for many years. She looked at the boy's face close to her, and for the first time she discovered that besides rationality, there was such a passionate and pure emotion.

The laboratory's ventilation system made a slight hum, mixing the two people's overlapping breaths together, and an ambiguous atmosphere flowed freely in the small space.

At this moment, Lin Xu's cell phone suddenly rang. The piercing ringtone caused the two to separate abruptly. Gu Yunxi hurriedly adjusted his white coat, and the tip of his ear was so red that it almost bled.

Lin Xu looked at the word "roommate" on the caller ID and pressed the hang-up button helplessly.

"It's time to go eat." Gu Yunxi turned around to clean up the lab table. With her back to him, her voice had regained some calmness. "What happened today..."

"I'll wait for you to think it through." Lin Xu's voice came from behind, with unquestionable firmness. He picked up the experiment record book that fell on the ground and gently placed it next to her hand, "Just like waiting for the experimental results, no matter how long the wait is, it's worth it."

Gu Yunxi's hand holding the pen was shaking slightly, and the handwriting he wrote in the record book was crooked.

She listened to the boy's footsteps gradually fading away, and only breathed a sigh of relief when the laboratory door closed again.

The moonlight outside the window climbed up the windowsill, stretching her shadow very long, and quietly overlapped with the shadow left by Lin Xu on the laboratory table on the ground.

The door of the laboratory closed behind Lin Xu, making a slight "click" sound, but it was like a heavy hammer hitting Gu Yunxi's heart. She stood there in a daze, and the pen in her hand slipped away without her knowing when, rolling out a long and thin track on the tile floor.

The moonlight outside the window climbed onto the experimental table, pulling her shadow crookedly, interweaving with Lin Xu's remaining breath, and fermenting in the silent space.

Gu Yunxi stretched out his hand to hold the cold laboratory table, his fingertips touched the place where Lin Xu had just supported himself, and the temperature seemed to still remain there.

She took a deep breath, trying to calm her pounding heart, but the emotions surging in her chest were like stirred lake water, and could no longer be restored to rational order.

"In my eyes, you are just the person who makes my heart beat." The young man's passionate words kept echoing in his ears. Gu Yunxi bit his lower lip and tasted a faint smell of blood.

As a highly regarded genius in the academic world, she had long been accustomed to measuring the world with formulas and data, but she had never imagined that one day she would be disturbed by such straightforward thoughts.

She mechanically packed up the experimental equipment, but her movements were much more clumsy than usual. The pipette that she usually handled with ease was now somewhat out of control in her hands, and she almost knocked over the reagent bottles several times.

The mirror reflected her flushed cheeks, and even the tips of her ears were burning. This appearance reminded her of the indulgence she had in the amusement park - it turned out that when the dam of rationality cracked, instinctive emotions would be so turbulent.

Returning home late at night, Gu Yunxi took off her glasses in front of the dressing mirror, and the panic in the eyes of the person in the mirror was evident.

She thought back to her past relationship experiences, those blind dates arranged by her family, those encounters filled with weighing of interests, but they were all like being separated by a layer of transparent glass and had never truly touched her heart.

However, Lin Xu's appearance was like a ray of light, piercing through the cocoon she had built with rationality...

The phone vibrated on the bedside table. Gu Yunxi reached for it reflexively. The moment he unlocked it, he realized what he was expecting. The screen lit up, but it showed a message from Gu Yunqian: "Don't get too close to that student recently."

She stared at this sentence, her fingers hovering above the keyboard for a long time, and finally just turned off the phone and buried her face in the pillow.

In the darkness, Lin Xu's smile became clearer. The boy who was carefully debugging the instruments in the laboratory and the boy who took her to play in the playground, at this moment, turned into gentle vines, entwining her heart.

Gu Yunxi tossed and turned. For the first time, he felt so confused and excited, apart from academic issues.

When the morning light came in through the gaps in the curtains, Gu Yunxi sat up with dark circles under his eyes.

There were shadows under the eyes of the person in the mirror, but he couldn't hide the faint smile at the corners of his lips.

She adjusted her white coat in front of the mirror, her fingertips brushing over the buttons much more gently than usual - it turns out that no matter how rational a person is, they will unconsciously soften when faced with sincerity.