I Have Decided to Go Look for My Father

a close look at Gu Xi’s diagram just a little while ago and was genuinely surprised by it: If his memory serves him right, Gu Xi didn’t know much in this area just a few days ago.
It had only been a few days and she was able to draw a basic technical diagram that was almost error free.

Gu Xi, on her end, stared at her phone for a little while.
She was surprised when she didn’t see any new messages coming from him.

Was that it? Nothing else?

Normally speaking, [AAA] would have a string of rainbow fart following that.

But [AAA] said nothing else today.

Whatever happened to this very chatty person?

Gu Xi was almost not used to his concise way.

“Has he really been that busy?” Gu Xi grumbled.

After a long while, [AAA] sent over another message.
It only said [Goodnight.]

After that one word, Sheng Xiuyan tossed his phone away as though it was burning his hand.

***

Must as Gu Xi had expected, before class had even started the next day, tides had turned on the topics with regards to the “exceptionally ugly” head gear in the forum.

First, someone noticed that Gu Xi had switched to a new profile photo and started talking about it in the forum.

[Come look, quickly! I know someone in Class #7 and she saw that Gu Xi had switched to a new profile photo.]

[Old Mr.
Gu.
You are right.]

[So Gu Xi saw the post in the forum?]

[Are you for realz? It’s been pushed to the top with all the responses.
How could she not see it as the person in question?]

[But Gu Xi straight up changed her profile picture.
What’s up with that?]

[Why, I don’t know but I want to say what an awesome move on her part.
Hahaha.]

[‘So you guys call it ugly? I’ll make it my profile photo.’ That’s a respectable move.]

[Perhaps she thinks that ‘It’s not ugly as long as I don’t think it’s ugly’?]

……

Later on, someone also noticed that Gu Xi wasn’t the only one who had updated her profile photo.
Gu Chenyi, too, had switched out his and he had further posted an animated gift of the four of them together.

All of a sudden, the chat forum exploded with messages.