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Chapter 2020 Fu Yunlu contacted Clough and heard that he...
Fu Yunlu contacted Clough and heard that he was recently worried about his child's academic performance. He knew a student from the University of Stroh who was working part-time as a tutor.
"Students of Stello University? Civilians?" Clough asked in disbelief. "Why would you want to care about the affairs of civilians?"
"Don't ask these questions." Fu Yunlu said.
"Okay, but I have to be frank. Our child is a bit of a pushover. If your friend tried to teach him, he'd probably get pissed off," Clough said awkwardly. "I've tried more than once to hire the best teachers to tutor him at home, but the results haven't been ideal. They've all told me helplessly that they can't teach him."
Fu Yunlu laughed twice after hearing this: "It doesn't matter, I have a feeling that he can do it well." Besides, his real purpose was not to let Liang Guanyue complete this job.
Clough said, "Then name your price."
"Just pay the same price you paid to the teachers before, but I will give you some extra money, and you can give it to him when the time comes."
"What do you mean? Do you think I'm not paying enough?" Clave exclaimed exaggeratedly, "My God! Our William family is never stingy when it comes to money."
Fu Yunlu smiled and denied: "I know what you give is more than enough. But I want him to earn more, and I think this shouldn't be your responsibility."
"Wait, wait, wait, I think I understand. Your friend wants to make money, but he has a very high self-esteem and doesn't want to accept your charity, so you contacted me to find him a tutoring job. Under the guise of paying him a salary, you secretly subsidize him from the money."
Kraf said bitterly, "I really can't stand this sour smell. So he's the rumored new alpha?"
Fu Yunlu raised an eyebrow and said, "I don't think I'm an outspoken person. I rarely take him to crowded places, not even to dinner parties. How did you all know this?"
"You know the Second Prince has always disliked you. He's like a mad dog, sniffing out the slightest scandal. How could he possibly keep quiet about the Alpha Prince hugging an Alpha?"
Fu Yunlu sneered, "Those photos and information that Father obtained were indeed given by him."
"There's no one else except him. Although Fu Xiaoyu is your biggest competitor at the moment, she doesn't have the personality to resort to such underhanded tactics."
"I will slowly settle this account with him."
"Don't let him off so easily!" Clave said viciously, "This madman, just because he's only married to one omega, has set his sights on my sister. My sister is not stupid. If she marries a man like him, even with the William family's support, her future will definitely not be easy."
After hearing what he said, Fu Yunlu seemed to have a premonition and wanted to hang up the phone, but Clave spoke faster than he could move. Clave probed, "You're almost 30, it's not a big deal if you don't get married. As a prince, do you really want to marry your true love?"
Fu Yunlu said helplessly: "How is that possible?"
"Then look at my sister. You're an alpha, and she's an omega. They're a match made in heaven..."
"Kraf—"
"Listen to me, don't be angry first. My sister actually secretly matched with you and found that the compatibility is very good, as high as 70%. Fu Yunlu, you know that it is not easy to find an omega with such a compatibility among the nobles." Clave tried his best to promote his sister, thinking that this is all I can do for you, brother.
"I'm very honored, but I'm not considering marriage at the moment. Clough, please convey this to your sister."
Clough sighed: "Hey, why?"
Fu Yunlu, because Liang Guanyue had something to ask Clough, patiently explained, "Because I don't need to use marriage with a noble omega to increase my chances of winning yet. If one day, Fu Xiaoyu or another alpha becomes so threatening that I decide I can no longer fight alone, that will be the day I accept the marriage."
"Okay, okay..." Clough said speechlessly, "I find that your self-esteem is actually very high."
Fu Yunlu laughed twice and said, "Then I'd like to ask you to take care of my child when he's working part-time."
"I won't eat your lover." Clough shrugged, "As long as he can handle my child."
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This was the first time that Liang Guanyue actually entered the manor where the nobles lived in the main city of Nino Bingya.
The housekeeper respectfully led him through the tree-lined avenue and saw a colorful and bright garden. The cobblestone path meandered into the depths. A specially hired gardener was pruning the branches with a pair of scissors. As he was admiring it, a bucket of water suddenly poured down from the balcony on the second floor. Liang Guanyue reacted quickly and dodged before the downpour.
The butler hurriedly picked up a handkerchief to wipe the water stains on Liang Guanyue's body. Lord Clave had specifically instructed him to treat this distinguished guest well. He was a popular figure around the Fourth Prince and was not someone a butler like him could afford to offend.
The housekeeper looked up in fear and anger, and shouted angrily, "Who is so blind as to throw water down there?"
Liang Guanyue raised her hand to stop him: "It's okay, I dodged it."
"I'm so sorry, I'll definitely check it out..."
Liang Guanyue smiled faintly: "I came here as a tutor. Apart from that student I haven't met yet, who else could hate teachers so much?"
Just as he finished speaking, another basin of water poured down from the balcony. However, this time Liang Guanyue was prepared and reacted faster, dodging it with one hand and the stunned housekeeper beside him.
He was not a good-tempered person to begin with, and his face darkened slightly at this moment. He raised his head and squinted his eyes to identify the blurry and moving shadow through the gap in the curtains.
Liang Guanyue said loudly: "I saw you, your hide-and-seek skills are really terrible."
“…”
"You'd better pray that I don't catch you." Liang Guanyue said to the housekeeper next to him, "Seal the door of this room and take me there."
When the housekeeper knew it was the young master, he hesitated: "This..."
"I'm afraid his parents gave you this authority to discipline this naughty child," Liang Guanyue said, "and now I'm his teacher. Shouldn't he be punished for doing something like this?"
A head suddenly popped out from behind the curtains and shouted, "Jackson, how dare you!"
Liang Guanyue looked up and saw an undifferentiated boy about twelve years old with freckles on his face. Liang Guanyue smiled and said, "Why, you're not pretending to be dead anymore?"
The boy blushed angrily and threatened him, "Get back here, you untouchable. Get out of my house!"
Liang Guanyue was not annoyed at all. He was so tired of hearing such words that if he wanted to curse someone, he should go to his hometown and see the world.
He said calmly, "It's your father who pays me. I'll only leave if he orders me to stop teaching you. You're just the object of my teaching. Your orders are meaningless."
Seeing that his insults failed, the boy threatened: "I don't want to learn. Do you believe I will jump down from here?!"
"I won't let anyone catch you. I'll stop the butler beside me. You can just give it a try by jumping." Liang Guanyue said indifferently, "If you break a bone, I'll go to the hospital and teach you. It's just a change of environment. It makes no difference to me."
This man, however, was like a broken jar, he suddenly pulled open the curtains, climbed over the railing, and stood on the outermost edge of the balcony. He said proudly, "You think I don't dare to jump?"
Liang Guanyue just chuckled, and the second floor... He looked up and down, as if he was calculating something.
The housekeeper was startled and screamed, "Young Master——"
The boy became even more arrogant, and said to the butler next to him, "Jackson, you witnessed the entire process. You must report the truth to my father. Tell him what a heartless person the teacher he hired is. He even instigated his students to jump off the building!"
Liang Guanyue nodded to the housekeeper: "Yes, let's put it this way."
The housekeeper was extremely anxious. It was like he had met two ancestors and he didn't know which one to appease first.
Liang Guanyue asked suddenly, "Before I jump, I want to ask you, how much do you weigh?"
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"say."
The boy was puzzled and asked, "What's it to you?"
Liang Guanyue asked the housekeeper: "How much does your young master weigh?"
The butler didn't know what Liang Guanyue was making a fuss about, but out of respect for Master Clave and the Fourth Prince, he answered honestly, "It seems to be 37kg?"
"How can I be so thin?!"
Liang Guanyue glanced at the child, sized him up, and nodded, "That should be the number." He crossed his arms over his chest and said coldly, "How about this, after you jump down, finish this problem and then go apply the medicine."
He continued, "I estimate the balcony to be four meters high. I know you weigh 37 kg. If you fall freely from the four-meter-high balcony, find your speed when you land and how long it will take you to land."
The boy was stunned for a moment, then he said frantically: "Are you sick?"
Liang Guanyue turned a deaf ear to him. "Given your poor results, I'll take 10 for g and round the result to one significant digit." He looked up and smiled at him. "Do you want to jump down and I'll hold you down to calculate, or do you want me to come up and teach you how to calculate?"
“…”
"Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!" After watching the surveillance video, Clough laughed so hard that he couldn't hold the teacup steady. "Guan Yue, you're amazing! Even Hilde, the devil of the world, can be subdued by you."
He wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes: "Fu Yunlu asked me to take better care of you, but I don't think it's going to work. I can't let Hilde suffer like this at home."
Liang Guanyue said calmly, "Mr. Clough, you are so kind."
Hilde snorted in dissatisfaction and cursed, "I'm not afraid of this pretty boy..."
Clough slapped Hilde on the head with a serious expression: "Hilde, where is the courtesy of the nobility? What did your etiquette teacher at school teach you?"
"cut……"
Liang Guanyue didn't really like Western food. After finishing the rare steak, she didn't want to eat anything else. Seeing that it was getting late, she wanted to say goodbye: "Then I'll leave first and come back tomorrow."
Clough stopped him and said, "Wait a minute, boy. Fu Yunlu specifically asked me to keep you here. He said he would come and take you back when he has time."
Rather than waiting for Fu Yunlu to pick him up to continue acting, Liang Guanyue wanted to be alone for a while, but he didn't have a good reason to refuse. He endured it and said, "Then I'll wait for Mr. Fu."
Hilde stared at Liang Guanyue's face and asked, "What is your relationship with the Fourth Prince?"
Liang Guanyue glanced at him, too lazy to answer, knowing that someone else would take action for him. Sure enough, Clough slapped him on the head again: "What's your business? You're the only one who can ask questions, right?"
"Hmph..." Hilde felt like everything he said was wrong. He was the most wronged kid in the world. He pursed his lips, pushed his plate away, and said irritably, "I'm full of anger. I'm not eating anymore. I'm leaving."
Clough was too lazy to care about him. Hilde's omega mother was traveling with her good friend, and no one at home was willing to beg him for food, so he said, "If you don't want to eat, get out of here."
Liang Guanyue stopped Hilde's thin back and said, "Hilde, wait."
Hilde turned back impatiently: "What?"
"Is there anything you didn't understand from what I taught you today?"
"I don't understand anything!"
Liang Guanyue had seen many such problem children, and he held up his face leisurely: "That means he understands everything." He said, "I left a gift for you. It's in your room. Go and take a look."
Hilde was stunned for a moment, glanced at him suspiciously, and whispered, "Is it true...are you so kind?" Then she quickly ran to her room.
Clough said with a smile: "Did you really send a gift? I can't let you pay for it." Fu Yunlu will despise me if she knows.
Liang Guanyue chuckled, "Just homework." His laptop beeped, a message from Fu Yunlu. He stood up and said, "Mr. Clough, I have to go."
"He's here?"
"Wait for me at the door."
"He's already here, why don't you come in and sit down?" Clave waved his hand speechlessly. "Forget it, forget it. It's good that he's so casual."
Fu Yunlu opened the car window and leaned against it to smoke a cigarette. He was halfway through the cigarette when Liang Guanyue came out. He took another deep puff before reluctantly putting it out in the ashtray.
Liang Guanyue was carrying a single-shoulder backpack, and looked like a high school student no matter how you looked at her. It was not good to look too young, Fu Yunlu thought, because she would always feel that she was doing something very immoral.
"Are you smoking?" Liang Guanyue frowned, opened the car door, smelled it, and was disgusted and didn't want to get in.
Fu Yunlu said, "Just half a stick." Seeing Liang Guanyue's unhappy expression, he opened the skylight begging for mercy, "It will lose its taste soon."
After waiting for a minute, Liang Guanyue was willing to go in. Fu Yunlu propped herself up and looked at his face, then smiled and asked, "How do you feel today?"
Liang Guanyue only said: "It's normal that the previous teachers were driven away by him."
Fu Yunlu laughed twice: "What about you? Do you want to come tomorrow?"
"Why not come?" Liang Guanyue turned to meet Fu Yunlu's eyes and smiled sincerely, "Brother, don't you think that people like him who are the harder to discipline but are the most obedient later on, can give the tamer a greater sense of accomplishment?"
Fu Yunlu said, "It seems I worried about you for nothing."
"Your worries weren't in vain." Liang Guanyue leaned on his shoulder with ease, playing with his fingers, and said, "After all, when I went there today, he threw two basins of water at me from the balcony."
Fu Yunlu frowned and said unhappily, "Isn't the William family too spoiled with this child?"
Liang Guanyue added, "But I reacted quickly, so my clothes weren't even wet." He rubbed his head against Fu Yunlu's. "Is that impressive?"
Fu Yunlu's neck was itchy from being rubbed by Liang Guanyue's hair. He dodged to the side and chuckled, "Great, great." He lowered his head and kissed Liang Guanyue's cheek, "Baby, you are great."
He said, "Next time something like this happens, don't hide it from me, okay?" His fingertips twirled around Liang Guanyue's small, tied-up locks of hair. "Since you were able to handle it easily this time, I won't handle it for you. But there's no guarantee there won't be a next time. If there's ever a time after that when you don't want to deal with it, you can just leave it to me without any pressure."
Liang Guanyue was silent for a moment, thinking about what to say. To be honest, the only time in his life he couldn't handle something was when he had multiple guns pointed at him. He couldn't help but feel funny thinking about this.
Liang Guanyue said: "But I don't want to rely on my brother to solve everything..."
"Why not?" Fu Yunlu seemed to think Liang Guanyue was cute and smiled, "I can definitely be your umbrella of protection."
Liang Guanyue said: "But one day, you will leave me."
"The vow I made that day still stands."
Liang Guanyue thought for a moment and said, "By then, you will have your omega wife, and I might also choose to start a family."
Fu Yunlu smiled and said, "I will choose a suitable and reliable partner for you—"
Liang Guanyue looked at him in confusion: "But brother... I just want to be a partner with the person I like."
"But you like me, don't you?"
"That's now, Mr. Fu." Liang Guanyue told him, "We don't have a long-term future, so in the future, you will have your family, and I will have a new one that I like."
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Only after reaching 120% progress on the strategy for Family 0 will Family 1 be ranked first among all the others... I'm still immersed in the fantasy of getting married...