Open book is beneficial + special episode

Cheng Zhou: "..." She seemed to be a little bit resistant.

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For the next month or so, except for weekends when the two of them would go to restaurants outside for food, the rest of the three meals a day were fattening meals carefully prepared by Cheng Zhou.

Gu Yazhen tends to get sleepy after eating too much lunch, at first she insisted not to eat too much for work, so Cheng Zhou had to threaten Gu Yazhen by refusing to eat, forcing Gu Yazhen to compromise.

In fact, Gu Yazhen also likes to eat, but she thinks too much on weekdays, so she has a bad appetite.But now with Cheng Zhou by her side, under her careful care, Gu Yazhen finally lived up to expectations, and gained five catties rapidly within a month.

"It's really not easy." Cheng Zhou touched his swollen belly, wanting to cry but not crying.Gu Yazhen gained five catties, and the price was that Cheng Zhou also gained six catties.She could have eaten less, but seeing Gu Yazhen eating fish and meat, she couldn't control her mouth.

"Zhou Zhou is the best to me. What do you want to eat on the weekend? I'll pay for it." Gu Yazhen smiled softly with downcast eyes.

"Don't eat anymore..." Cheng Zhou cried with a sad face, "I want to lose weight and teach me how to swim this afternoon."

"Okay, let's go swimming."

Ten minutes later, Zou Wenyi called and invited them to have a barbecue at home.Cheng Zhou quickly agreed, hung up the phone cheerfully, and forgot about swimming for an instant.

At night, lying on the bed and thinking about life without love, Cheng Zhou strongly reprimanded himself for not being able to control his speech, and vowed to go to the gym to exercise from tomorrow.

"If Zhou Zhou is not fat, don't embarrass yourself." Gu Yazhen defended Cheng Zhou.

"No, no, no, we have to maintain a certain level of fat." Cheng Zhou rolled on the bed, as if he could get rid of the excess fat on his body.

When she rolled onto Gu Yazhen again, Gu Yazhen grabbed her, turned over and imprisoned her under him. "The baby that crosses the border belongs to me."

Cheng Zhou smiled and wanted to break free from her: "What do you want to do?"

"How can this amount of exercise be enough? Let's do something that consumes a lot of energy." Gu Yazhen raised one eyebrow mischievously, and the corner of her mouth slightly curled up.

After some superposition and entanglement, the two got up sweating and went to the bathroom to take a shower.Cheng Zhou looked at Gu Yazhen's thin and fair figure in the water mist, and compared it with his own curvy figure, and instantly felt cheated.

"You're lying. The two of us exercise together, and you also consume energy. How can we maintain a fat body?" Cheng Zhou accused aggrievedly.

"But, Zhou Zhou is in such a good figure, why do you want to lose weight?" Gu Yazhen finished wiping off the bath liquid, and evenly wiped Cheng Zhou up and down.Rubbing a certain place in front of Cheng Zhou suggestively, she suddenly smiled maliciously: "What if there is a place that loses weight first?"

Cheng Zhou slapped Gu Yazhen's hand off: "Then I'll beat you up."

Gu Yazhen: "...Oh." It's really unreasonable.

"No, no, I want to lose weight." Cheng Zhou shook his head and returned to the topic.

"Well, I won't move in the future, you can do it yourself."

Cheng Zhou: "...What are you talking about?" There are several meanings for coming by yourself.

"It's what you said, don't exercise together." Gu Yazhen replied solemnly, then turned around and wrapped herself in a towel, "So I don't move, you move yourself."

"Then you are very relaxed." Cheng Zhou curled his lips.

Gu Yazhen raised a smile at the corner of her mouth: "You know how hard I usually work."

"Fuck you." Cheng Zhou hurriedly washed off the foam on his body, stepped out of the bathtub, and wanted to hit Gu Yazhen.It's as if she doesn't work hard, and she has obviously been on it a lot.

Gu Yazhen took away Cheng Zhou's bath towel hanging on the shelf, turned around and slipped away quickly.

Cheng Zhou: "...you give me back the towel."

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After the end of the second post-doctoral year, Gu Yazhen successfully became a researcher in the group, and her salary almost doubled.Because Gu Yazhen has a regular job, although the two of them still have a lot of work pressure, they are finally living a decent life.

Cheng Zhou's subject was new and difficult. In the fourth year of his Ph.D., he finally achieved decent results and published his first article since his Ph.D.And it was also in the fourth year of Ph.D., Gu Yazhen's number of articles was unattainable in double digits.

Cheng Zhou didn't take it seriously for not being able to publish the article, because she actually didn't plan to find a teaching job after graduation.Without affecting the progress of basic scientific research, she spent a lot of energy and time taking minor courses in computer and data science online, and planned to switch careers to find a job after graduation.

For Cheng Zhou's plan, Gu Yazhen expressed support, but felt a little regretful.

"You don't like chemistry." Gu Yazhen teased her, pretending to be hurt and said, "Are you pretending to like doing scientific research just to get close to me?"

Cheng Zhou was sitting on the sofa watching TV, turned his head and pinched Gu Yazhen's arm, and said threateningly, "Who is approaching whom?"

Could it be a little more self-aware.

"Before I confessed my love, you clearly liked me secretly for a long time." Gu Yazhen said stiffly.

“How come you see?”

Gu Yazhen rolled her eyes, paused and said: "Do you still remember the first night we were together, I invited you to sit in my dormitory, but you will be wrong."

Of course I remember, vividly in my mind, fresh in my memory.Gu Yazhen mentioned the bed at that time, probably because she felt that the sheets were messy and wanted to clean them up, but she thought Gu Yazhen was hinting at something.

"You must have been wanting to sleep with me for a long time, otherwise how could you make a mistake?" Gu Yazhen said confidently.

"...Not at all."

"It's obvious."

"You..." Cheng Zhou rolled his eyes and crossed his waist angrily.In fact, what Gu Yazhen said made some sense. Although she didn't directly think about these things at the time, her subconscious mind betrayed her again and again in her sleep.

"Well, I admit, when we were not together, I had a dream one night, and I dreamed that you slept with me."

Gu Yazhen was a little surprised, and nodded exaggeratedly and meaningfully: "I said yes. I really didn't expect that you are such a Zhouzhou. In my dream, I would hug and kiss you at most." What an explosive story, before Unheard of.

Cheng Zhou was a little embarrassed and regretted his impulsiveness.She turned her head away, unwilling to look at Gu Yazhen, and kept her mouth tightly shut, but it was no match for Gu Yazhen's stalking of the details of her dream.

"Okay, okay, I dreamed that I was in the dormitory, and my roommates were away, and then we did a mock final exam, and you said I didn't do well. Then..."

"Then what?"

Cheng Zhou's face suddenly became a little hot: "Then you... put me to sleep."

Gu Yazhen was still holding back her laughter, but when she heard Cheng Zhou's words, she immediately burst out laughing. "...What kind of logic is this?"

"How can there be logic in dreams!" Cheng Zhou blushed, and quickly defended, "I don't know why I had such a dream. I didn't think so far about you at the time."

Gu Yazhen tilted her head, raised her hand to hook Cheng Zhou's chin, and there was a trace of teasing in her deep eyes: "I mean, before the final exam of that semester, every time I asked you how your paper was doing, you blushed... ..."

"You...shut up, you." Xiaosisi was exposed all of a sudden, and Cheng Zhou was furious.

"What are you going to do next?" Gu Yazhen asked persistently, not intending to shut up at all.

"Huh..." Cheng Zhou said with a broken heart, "You still ask me how it feels after you're done. I said it's not bad... So we did another set of final exam questions."

Gu Yazhen couldn't care less about her previous elegant image, so she couldn't help laughing out loud, and finally burst into tears. "Zhouzhou, you are so cute."

"Laugh again," Cheng Zhou slapped Gu Yazhen's forehead with his knuckles aggrievedly, and stood up angrily, "I'm off to study, I'm ignoring you."

"Do you want to do a set of mock questions first?" Gu Yazhen laughed tremblingly.

"go away."

Chapter 71 Anxiety

"Zhou Zhou, when will you graduate?" Cheng Ma asked casually as she was beating eggs in the kitchen during the weekly video call.

"Didn't I say it, I will defend in two weeks, and I will graduate after the defense." Cheng Zhou replied impetuously.The doctoral graduation defense is the most solemn and solemn event in the past five years. Cheng Zhou has been preparing for it for half a year. When he is about to go to the battlefield, he is naturally nervous and anxious. He cannot eat well or sleep well for several days.The consequence of this is that whoever mentions graduation is in a hurry, even if that person is Gu Yazhen.

Cheng Ma muttered a few words in a low voice, put down the bowl and chopsticks, wiped her hands on the apron, and walked to the living room with the mobile phone in the video call.The screen shook violently several times, and Cheng Zhou saw Dad Cheng on the sofa in a blink of an eye, and immediately greeted happily: "Dad! You are back from get off work."