Chapter 25

Lin ChuSui already heard Zhao Xiaolu crying and complaining when she was at the door of the office. She really did not want to go in.

According to her previous temper, she would have just slipped away, called Lu Chi and Zhang Chengyu, and played video games all night outside the school gate. It would have been great to let Zhao Xiaolu make any kind of fuss she wanted in the school while she skipped classes for a few days. Any turmoil could be calmed down eventually.

That was how she had been getting by these past two years.

But now, Xiao Yan was standing right next to her.

Lin ChuSui didn't know why she had to listen to him, but she had followed him all the way to the office as if possessed.

He said...he would take care of her.

Although Lin ChuSui was unwilling and did not want to be disciplined, this sentence gave her tremendous reassurance. It was as if that drifting boat had found its beacon to navigate home.

Was he her beacon?

Lin ChuSui didn't dare to confirm nor did she want to think about it.

While she was lost in thought, Xiao Yan reached out and tidied her messy collar, calmly saying, "After going in, apologize first with a sincere attitude. Don't yell at anyone. Then gently point out her mistakes. Use a tactful tone."

"What is a tactful tone?"

Xiao Yan languidly said, "Do you know how to act coy?"

Lin ChuSui shook her head honestly: "I don't know how."

"Then what do you know?" "How to fight."

"..."

"I'll only teach you once. Just remember my lines and say them to the teacher later."

Lin ChuSui narrowed her eyes with interest as she looked at him: "Okay! Teach me."

Xiao Yan cleared his throat: "Teacher, it's all my fault. Although Zhao Xiaolu stole my best friend's diary and posted it on the forum for everyone to ridicule and insult, no matter what I say, I shouldn't have hit her. I feel very guilty."

"Oh my god."

Xiao Yan glared at her and continued, "Teacher, please don't blame Zhao Xiaolu. There must be a reason why she did this. I believe she didn't want to ruin Lu TianBai's reputation either. It was just a moment of impulse. If you want to punish someone, then punish me. It's all my fault." He added, "Remember to wipe your eyes with your sleeve after saying this."

"..."

"Did you get it?"

Lin ChuSui gave him a thumbs up: "I bow to you!"

Xiao Yan pushed her into the office. Lin ChuSui was still a little hesitant and said softly, "It's a bit shameless."

"Although shameless, it works."

...

Lin ChuSui went into the office and put on quite a tearful show of selling misery according to Xiao Yan's script.

Zhao Xiaolu looked at her in disbelief, having forgotten to keep crying and complaining.

Lin ChuSui had always been straightforward. How did she learn the essential coy girl skills?

Sure enough, homeroom teacher Qin turned to Zhao Xiaolu and asked her if she had read the diary.

Zhao Xiaolu admitted equivocally, "Although I read the diary, Teacher Qin can't let it go that Lu TianBai was in a precocious relationship!"

Lin ChuSui coldly glanced at Zhao Xiaolu: "She didn't confess or write any love letters. She just wrote some thoughts in her diary. If you want to punish that, then you should confiscate and thoroughly investigate all the girls' diaries in our class."

Although Teacher Qin was a "grades-only" person, he was still reasonable in the end. How could he go after a female student's diary thoughts?

"That's enough. You both made mistakes. Zhao Xiaolu was in the wrong first, but Lin ChuSui, you shouldn't have hit someone either. Let's just call it even."

Walking out of the office, Zhao Xiaolu glared fiercely at Lin ChuSui and threatened: "Just you wait and see."

Lin ChuSui rolled her eyes: "Why would I be scared of you?" ...

After school, Xiao Yan and Lin ChuSui walked out of the classroom building.

Lu Chi and the others were training on the field. Seeing Lin ChuSui return, they gathered around in concern.

"How was it? Did Teacher Lin give you a hard time?"

"With Zhao Xiaolu's ability to distort right and wrong, this must have been difficult for Boss Lin."

Lin ChuSui breezily said, "I got punished with a week of cleaning duty, but Zhao Xiaolu got it worse. Her parents were notified."

"No way!" Lu Chi said in surprise. "Just cleaning duty? We thought you'd get put on probation or something!"

"Who told you my deskmate is the school genius." Lin ChuSui patted Xiao Yan's shoulder as thanks, but he nimbly dodged it.

Lu Chi sincerely thanked Xiao Yan: "Thanks for your help this time."

"Why are you thanking me?"

"You helped Boss Lin."

Xiao Yan asked earnestly, "Me helping her is between her and me. What does it have to do with you?"

"Oh, um..."

Xiao Yan told Lin ChuSui, "Remember to do your homework and the questions I circled for you."

"Oh, I know." Lin ChuSui obediently nodded. "Got it."

Xiao Yan rode away on his bike.

"Hey!" Lin ChuSui suddenly called out to him, "School genius, I want to treat you to dinner as thanks!"

She didn't know if he heard her since there was no response. He just went straight on his way.

Lin ChuSui watched his tall, upright figure disappear at the school gate.

The sunset suddenly dropped down in the blink of an eye.

Lu Chi waved his hand in front of Lin ChuSui's staring eyes. "Your eyes are bulging out," he chuckled and asked, "Since when did you two get so close?"

"He's always been really good to me."

"You knew what his intentions were early on, didn't you?" Lu Chi walked to her side and squatted down, gossiping, "He's always liked you and pursued you, right?"

"Then why are you asking."

"I'm asking about your attitude towards him! Offering to treat him to dinner, don't tell me you're really going to fall for him."

"No way, impossible."

Everyone in unison: "Yes way!"

"..."

Lu TianBai sat down next to Lin ChuSui and casually asked, "Can you forget about Qin Nai?"

The mention of those two words, Qin Nai, made Lin ChuSui break out in goosebumps. "That's ancient rotten history!"

She hated it most when people brought up her old matters.

"It's only been two years though." Lu TianBai said, "Back then, you two...were also the hottest couple at our school. I heard he was depressed for a long time after you broke up."

Qin Nai was Lin ChuSui's first boyfriend, or rather, not exactly first love. People were always teasing them that they matched well, and somehow, their relationship became ambiguous.

Qin Nai was the school bully in middle school. His grades weren't great, he was impulsive and irritable, but he was quite gentle to Lin ChuSui.

Later, he went to a vocational high school nearby. She heard he got a new girlfriend quickly.

Lin ChuSui hadn't seen him again after that.

Although the initial feeling was hard to forget, after all, they were young. Looking back now, that feeling...had basically become just history.

"Forget about Qin Nai." Lu Chi waved his hand. "Although the guy looks decent, his personality is just...possessive and irritable. Men like him are prone to domestic violence. If I were Lin ChuSui's dad, I wouldn't just object. I'd threaten him with death!"

"You can go die right now." Lin ChuSui twisted his ear. "Don't joke about my dad."

"Ow ow! It hurts!"

Lu TianBai said, "Yeah, compared to Qin Nai, the school genius is much better. Good grades, handsome, and decent personality."

Lin ChuSui let Lu Chi go. As he rubbed his ear, he said, "But I feel like Qin Nai's fierceness is just an act without true viciousness inside. But our school genius, he looks normal on the outside but his eyes are...quite deep. I'm afraid he's not quite right mentally." Lu TianBai: "You make him sound scary."

"When have I ever been off about judging someone's character? I predicted early on that Qin Nai would break up in less than half a year and immediately find a new girlfriend. Didn't it happen in less than three months... Girls were already lining up for him..."

Lin ChuSui stood up and brushed the grass off her pants. "Going home."

"So early?"

"Going home to do homework."

Lu Chi felt it was a mood killer and complained, "You just do whatever he tells you? You're that obedient?"

Lin ChuSui looked back: "He said that if I obediently finish the questions he circled and patiently listen to his explanations of the question steps, he'll copy the rest of my homework for me."

Lu Chi paused and looked at Lu TianBai. "How much does School Genius charge for tutoring again?"

Lu TianBai counted on her fingers. "His fee system is too complicated. I know a girl from another class who got tutored by him for a month and spent like 7,000-8,000! But her grades went up by 200 points."

"Dang...that's really getting your money's worth." Lu Chi asked again, "So how much does he charge Lin ChuSui?"

"Zero." Lu TianBai said meaningfully: "Not only that, as long as she can get every question right, every morning the God of Learning will also give her a complimentary mango parfait."

Lu Chi: ...

If this is not considered love.

<Lin ChuSui> wandered out of the school gate, following the street southwards, crossing over the overpass, then arriving at the old districts with relatively low buildings.

The bustling night market street, <Xiao Yan>'s hot stew shop was extremely busy at the door, with a long queue formed.

Moreover, people tend to follow the crowd. The longer the queue, the more interested the passersby became, so more and more customers gathered.

It looked very busy.

<Lin ChuSui>'s plan to ask him out for dinner was probably going to fail.

She strolled slowly along the long queue with her hands in her pockets, until she arrived at the door of the shop.

At this time, her sister was probably at night school, leaving only <Xiao Yan> alone busy at the shop.

The God of Learning wore a black T-shirt with an apron. His beautiful black eyes were lowered, and his hands were busy flipping several ladles, skillfully searing the hot stew.

Few boys could pull off a flat-top haircut. The vast majority of boys at school had bangs, very Korean style.

However, <Xiao Yan> insisted on a neat and clean flat-top hairstyle, which made his features even more rugged, his facial features clear and distinct, just like a male lead who walked out of an idol drama.

The girls queuing stared at <Xiao Yan> without moving their eyes, even more attentively than watching a brain-burning suspense drama, afraid of missing every frame of this man.

Is he really that good-looking?

<Lin ChuSui> wondered to herself as she strolled to the front of the shop, chewing gum, and waited for him leisurely.

<Xiao Yan> knew she had come, but didn't respond to her, and continued with his work.

"Can I take a picture?" A girl queuing asked him, "I'll pay 50 yuan for it."

<Xiao Yan> glanced at <Lin ChuSui>, and politely declined: "No pictures today."

"Okay." The girl looked slightly disappointed.

<Lin ChuSui> blew a bubble. The bubble stuck around her lips, then was swept back in by her tongue.

She was in a good mood, and happily said, "Boss, I want to order."

<Xiao Yan> asked indifferently: "What do you want?"

"Anything is fine, as long as you make it, but not spicy."

<Xiao Yan> deliberately took out a pot of freshly cooked soup, then picked out a few dishes she liked and served them to <Lin ChuSui>.

Just then, the girl next to her said very rudely, "You... how can you cut in line?"

<Lin ChuSui> glanced at her and said righteously, "I'm not a customer."

"Then who are you?"

"I'm his..."

Just as the word "classmate" was about to come out, <Xiao Yan> said, "She's the boss's wife, she doesn't need to line up."

<Lin ChuSui> nearly choked on her chewing gum.