43 Do you like me? Of course, I like you.
"Chu Xuan, how about that...?"
After Chu Xuan came out of Deputy Commander Dongyue's office, the black cat who had been waiting outside immediately met him and asked carefully at Chu Xuan's face.
In her opinion, Chu Xuan must have been severely criticized by Deputy Commander Dong Yue, which must have been more terrifying than being called to the training room by the director to criticize him, but Chu Xuan's face was still calm as usual.
"Don't worry, Deputy Commander Dongyue just talked to me about the things in "Super Robot Wars" for a while."
"Are you lying? Although Deputy Commander Dongyue looks very kind, how could he not say anything?"
The black cat's eyes immediately showed a look of unwilling to believe it. Nowadays...it seems that no one will believe the truth.
"There is a saying that "no heavy hammer is needed for a drum." I have a clear understanding of the mistakes I have made, so Deputy Commander Dongyue naturally doesn't need to scold me specifically.
And everyone knows this matter in their minds. Everyone knows that the ‘superior’ cannot really impose any substantial punishment on me, so as the ‘superior’ Deputy Commander Dongyue only needs to do a gesture.”
Chu Xuan pushed down his reflective glasses expressionlessly, and analyzed the "official wisdom" clearly in a few words, allowing young people like Black Cat who lacked life experience to easily understand it.
"Uh... the world of sir is so complicated..."
The black cat raised his hand to wipe off the sweat beads from his forehead, and then asked in confusion:
"You obviously look completely unkind, but why do you know these things so well?"
"How could I not know? If I don't understand the human heart, it is impossible to calculate the human heart at all, right?"
Chu Xuan, who had reflected his glasses, asked Black Cat back, and then he revealed the answer indifferently:
“It’s just that there is no need.
I have enough ability to ignore the so-called "human feelings and worldly ways" and let others act consciously or unconsciously according to my calculations. Then there is naturally no need to waste time and energy on it.
And if you have to say subjective reasons…”
Speaking of this, Chu Xuan paused for a moment, and then gave a rare vague answer.
"Probably because I don't like doing that."
Chu Xuan's answer has violated the principle of "maximizing interests". If you are a person who is truly interested in interests, although they do not mean that they will never consider the issue of likes or not, before personal likes and dislikes, they will definitely consider the issue of maximizing interests.
If you can easily achieve your goal as long as you are servile, will Chu Xuan throw away his integrity and become an extremely despicable person?
But if he does not abandon dignity, the "cost" he needs to pay to achieve his goal is much greater. Even with "Chu Xuan's wisdom", it is impossible to compress this cost to a lower cost than putting down his posture and saying a few self-deprecating words?
However, when he heard Chu Xuan's answer, the black cat breathed a sigh of relief and felt that there was always an existence in his heart... Perhaps the slightest bit that has been around since his "previous life" that has never been able to settle down has finally become at ease.
She has been watching Chu Xuan, and has been watching Chu Xuan since her "previous life", but even so, Chu Xuan is still easy to understand but elusive for her. It is clear but full of fog.
Chu Xuan is obviously simpler than anyone else, but Black Cat always feels that he cannot grasp the thoughts in his brain that are more complicated than anyone else. Chu Xuan himself rarely expresses his thoughts, not just stingy with words, expressions, actions, tone... In order to minimize the leakage of information, he has always disguised himself as a robot.
Although Black Cat didn't know whether this was necessary or not, she always felt that this situation was wrong. No matter who she faced, she should hide the information as much as possible, is it because of a serious lack of security or for some other reason?
Although Black Cat doesn't understand psychology or other knowledge, she can still feel it vaguely and secretly worry about Chu Xuan.
But now she understood a little bit. The Chu Xuan she liked was not a humanoid computer, but a human who had perhaps very unreasonable and very willful feelings like everyone else.
Maybe Chu Xuan's feelings are born so weak, or maybe it is because he has something he doesn't even know about, so he has to try to avoid leaking any information, but even so, his feelings still exist.
For some reason, the black cat suddenly felt a little sore in its nose and its eyes became wet. In order to avoid making a fool of themselves, the black cat blinked hard, showed an evil and charming smile, and took the initiative to change the topic.
"Hey... since that's the case... can I ask a question?"
Although the black cat seemed to have obvious "malicious intentions", Chu Xuan seemed to have not noticed her "sincere intentions" and nodded without any warning.
"do you like me?"
The question that made people blush and shy jumped out of the black cat's mouth very smoothly. Perhaps this question had been buried in the deepest part of her heart for a long time, but because of her uncertainty about Chu Xuan, she never dared to ask this question.
Not only Black Cat, Yan Ye, Saeko, Sayaka, Haruhi, and Xuko... there are many girls, too. After entering the main god space, after learning that they are just Chu Xuan's "strategy target", their love for Chu Xuan has not changed, but what about Chu Xuan's "love"?
Or... Chu Xuan, who is always expressionless and taciturn, seems to be uninterested in anything except scientific research, really has the feeling of "love"?
“…”
Chu Xuan, who had no expression on his face, was silent for a long time, and finally raised his hand and pushed down his reflective glasses under the slightly trembling gaze of the Black Cat, and then replied with great certainty:
"Of course, I like you."
“!!”
The charming smile that barely maintained on the black cat's face instantly frozen, and then there seemed to be a phantom of a blooming cherry blossom forest behind her, but the phantom quickly dyed the girl's cheeks red, making her pretty face more beautiful than cherry blossoms.
"Then, that..."
The helpless black cat was in a panic. The heart of "bang" was beating constantly and disturbed her thinking, making her not know what she should say for a moment.
At this time, should she show a perfect smile and then silently shed two lines of joyful tears?
But to be honest, she doesn't feel as wet as she was just now, and she doesn't feel particularly happy. At most, she can only say that she has a plain and stable joy, just as Chu Xuan's answer was taken for granted, as she had long expected.
——Even though her heart was beating so violently, her heart was extremely calm and peaceful. This was incredible.
"Shy lines are forbidden!"
After the black cat's eyes moved around, he turned his head aside with some embarrassment, and used a famous line to complain about Chu Xuan. The cherry blossom phantom behind her instantly shattered into many cherry blossom-colored fragments, scattering on the ground like a rain of petals and quickly disappeared without a trace.
At this time, it was quite unwise to accuse the Black Cat of being the first to provoke this stingy topic. Chu Xuan, as a peerless wise man, certainly would not make such a low-level mistake. So he slightly deflected his head and said to someone next to him in a boring voice that was as stable and unsuppressed as ever:
"Li, you're back."
"yes."
“!!!”
Hearing the peaceful conversation between Chu Xuan and Ayanami Ri, Black Cat turned his head in surprise and looked at the other side he had not noticed. Ayanami Ri, who had changed into school uniforms again, was indeed standing not far from her and Chu Xuan. He just didn't know when this expressionless and taciturn girl stood there since. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, the novel is better and faster!
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