Chapter 8: A Cure for Stubbornness

After this incident, the homeroom teacher had no choice but to temporarily send the subject teachers to the classroom to stabilize the situation, while he took the troublemakers back to the office.

Lu Yingchi walked at the back with his hands in his pockets, seemingly arrogant, but his eyes were actually darting around, thinking about the fastest way out, because the teacher had made a phone call to Qiao Wu right in front of him.

I came to a parent-teacher conference for my child, but now I'm the one being asked to be my parent.

The anger hadn't subsided, and a strong sense of shame welled up again.

Tsk.

He took two steps forward with his long legs and tried to negotiate using the direct method he used to use to resolve things. He pulled out a card and said, "Teacher, I am Lu Ning's parent. Just tell me how much compensation you need."

Upon hearing about the compensation, the other parents reflexively jumped up and shouted, "No money! No money!"

Before the money had even warmed up, a lawyer's letter arrived.

Lu Yingchi: "?"

Why would I refuse money offered to me?

He stood at the office door, absolutely refusing to go back in, otherwise it would seem like he'd really been called in by his parents! Did he have no dignity left?!

"Let me make this clear first, I'm not going to apologize." He held the card between his fingers, looking nonchalant. "If you have to blame someone, blame yourselves for not raising these little brats properly. They're so young and yet they're spewing filth all over their mouths. Since you don't have time to discipline them, I'll reluctantly do it for you. You don't need to be too grateful to me."

"Take the money or leave it. If you don't want it now, don't come looking for trouble later. I have plenty of patience..."

Before he could finish speaking, he felt a kick to his shin.

"Damn it!" Lu Yingchi turned around angrily, "Who is it?!"

"Me." Qiao Wu crossed his arms over his chest, as if to kick again, "Get inside."

It would take at least an hour to get here from the Lu residence, and Lu Yingchi planned to finish quickly and leave. It had only been a few minutes, about the time it would take to walk in from the school gate.

He momentarily forgot about the kick he'd received, and seeing her movement, he instinctively moved aside, saying, "How did you get here so fast?!"

Qiao Wu was too lazy to answer. She glanced around the office as she entered and smiled, "An acquaintance."

The parents of the defendants: "..."

"Miss Qiao, it's really nothing serious, there was no need to bother you." The parents were all terrified.

They were all ordinary people, and after witnessing Qiao Wu's methods, they dared not challenge him anymore.

"It was just a small conflict between a few kids. Money isn't important. The main thing is that since everyone is here, why don't we let the kids shake hands and make up so they can get along well in the future? After all, they'll be in the same class for over a year. It would be great to be friends."

I've heard that wealthy people buy insurance policies worth tens of millions of dollars. If they get into trouble or get hurt in the future, they might have the money to compensate them, but they don't.

Furthermore, if they really managed to establish a connection, the small favors they received would be enough to sustain them for a year.

As they spoke, several parents quickly made their children apologize to Lu Ning.

Lu Yingchi had seen this kind of scene many times, and in his eyes, this kind of attitude from others was normal.

He pulled up a chair with satisfaction, ready to sit down and show off, but before he could even put his bottom down, a slender hand snatched the chair away. If he hadn't reacted quickly and grabbed the desk, he would have fallen to the ground.

He glared angrily at the instigator: "You want to die?!"

"Stand still." Qiao Wu pulled up a chair and sat down. "Never had your parents called in before? Don't you know the rules?"

Lu Yingchi wanted to ask more questions.

Never been a butler before? Who's the real young master here? Don't you know the rules?!

He knew that Qiao Wu would definitely push his luck!

Wait a minute, it wasn't his fault on the yacht last time, and Qiao Wu even poured wine all over him.

I hope you won't follow suit this time and slap him in the face in front of so many people!

Lu Yingchi immediately distanced himself from her, and said harshly, "Let me tell you, if you lay a hand on me this time, I will absolutely fight back!"

Little did he know that after Qiao Wu sat down, his chair turned directly towards the parents, without even glancing at him: "Lu Ning, come here."

At this moment, Lu Ning felt like her feet were floating with every step she took. The cool air from the air conditioner was blowing on her forehead, making her head buzz. She kept scratching her hair as she walked.

Why haven't they fought with Lu Yingchi yet, but now they're fighting someone else together? And they even got their parents called in together.

God's Milk!

Then she was gently tugged, warm breath fell on her ear, and a voice was very soft: "Do you want to hear an apology? Do you still want to be friends with them?"

Lu Ning's back was stiff.

If you're going to talk, why are you standing so close?

They acted like they were very close!

Qiao Wu didn't hear a reply, and raised his voice at the end: "Hmm?"

Lu Ning pulled her hand away and lowered her eyes: "Who wants to be friends with them?"

"Then forget it." Qiao Wu rubbed her head and looked at the other parents. "No need to apologize. It's annoying to apologize again and again. We don't have a hobby of taking care of other people's children. Since you are unwilling to teach, there are plenty of people who will educate you in the future. If there is nothing else, don't waste the teacher's time."

The parents' faces turned pale and then red, but they didn't want to keep trying to curry favor with them, so they took their children and left.

The homeroom teacher advised with some difficulty, "Ms. Qiao, although they were wrong to begin with, they also made a valid point. The child will be in school for more than a year, and your attitude and Lu Ning's attitude may not be conducive to Lu Ning's future interactions with her classmates."

Everyone knows that Lu Ning comes from an extraordinary family background and has a full complement of drivers and bodyguards when she goes out, which already creates a sense of distance. But if Miss Qiao speaks like this, it will make other children afraid of Lu Ning in the future.

"Lu Ning already had some difficulty with interpersonal relationships in class."

She stopped there.

Lu Ning clenched her fingers and said coldly, "So what? I don't need friends. I'm the one unilaterally isolating them!"

Courageous and independent people don't need friends.

"Pshaw," Lu Yingchi scoffed, "Your mouth is harder than a goose's."

Lu Ning glared at him: "You have friends, your friends spend your money, live in your villa, and drive your yacht. You think you're so great?"

Lu Yingchi's fists clenched so tightly that they cracked: "Now you're tough, daring to challenge me? What were you doing just now?"

Qiao Wu stood up and stood between the two of them, asking helplessly, "Do you want me to set up a ring for you two to fight again? Can't you tell what kind of occasion this is?"

The two turned their heads to one side and snorted heavily through their noses.

Qiao Wu had already figured out the whole story. She turned to look at her teacher and said gently, "Teacher, you've misunderstood. If it's because I found a lawyer for Lu Ning and made them apologize for their mistakes that they're afraid of being isolated, then that's their fault too. What does it have to do with Lu Ning's attitude? Why would Lu Ning need a friend like that?"

"What's wrong with hiring a lawyer?" Actually, Lu Yingchi felt that hiring a lawyer was also a troublesome matter. "Hiring a lawyer is to protect them. If someone offends me, I will definitely kill them without a lawyer!"

After saying that, he deliberately glanced at Qiao Wu, his eyes full of threat.

Unfortunately, Qiao Wu didn't even glance at him today, so he looked away dejectedly.

head teacher:"……"

Who are these people?

She said, "But the children are hot-tempered and easily misled by those around them. I'm worried that Lu Ning will be ostracized in class."

"It's okay." Qiao Wu shook his head indifferently. "There are so many people in the world, how many are there in your class? If Lu Ning doesn't like it, we can just transfer her to another school. She'll eventually meet some friends she likes."

Lu Ning suddenly looked up.

Even the homeroom teacher didn't expect Qiao Wu to say that so naturally.

Is changing schools such a simple matter?

Oh, Lu Ning's family is rich.

"Changing schools isn't for fun; Lu Ning's grades were already lagging behind." She couldn't help but take out Lu Ning's report card. "You're spoiling the child like this."

Lu Ning's expression was a little strange.

Spoiled?

Does the teacher know how Qiao Wu forces her to come to school every morning?

Qiao Wu suddenly smiled, but the homeroom teacher inexplicably felt that there was no smile in the other's eyes, and that his aura was even stronger.

“Teacher, I don’t think teaching Lu Ning to keep her distance from children with problematic values ​​will spoil her,” she said. “On the contrary, I’ve come to realize that Lu Ning might not be suitable to study with you.”

She reached out and took the things: "Thank you for your guidance over the past year. We'll be going now so as not to take up any more of your time."

As Lu Ning left the office, she still felt a little surreal.

She really disliked the school, and even more so her classmates.

But in order not to trouble her grandfather and to be independent, she kept many things from her family, which became a habit, and she originally thought it would continue like this forever.

Unexpectedly, Qiao Wu said he wanted to change her school.

Seeing Qiao Wu looking down at her report card, she asked, "I got last place, and you still want me to transfer schools?"

"Last place?" Lu Yingchi snatched the report card, flipping it over and over in disbelief. He wanted to crack open her head to see what was inside. "Have you really evolved into a human? Is this the score a person with normal intelligence could achieve?!"

Lu Ning stood on tiptoe to try and grab it from him, but she wasn't tall enough, so she could only jump up and down in frustration: "How dare you, someone who jumped off a building because she didn't want to study, talk to me like that?"

"Even if I break my leg again, I'll still get into college!"

"Don't think I don't know how many walnuts you secretly had the maid crack for you to boost your brainpower!"

"I even know how to eat walnuts, but you couldn't even think of this method!"

Qiao Wu stood in front of the car door for a while and found it amusing: "So proud, should we give each of you an award?"

Lu Ning didn't say anything, but opened the car door and got in when it unlocked.

She knew her grades were bad, and now even Lu Yingchi looked down on her. How awful.

But Qiao Wu opened the car door a crack and laughed, "Every school has a last place. If it wasn't you, it would have been someone else. What's so strange about that?"

Lu Yingchi looked at him with a ghostly, sarcastic tone: "That's not what you said when you used GPA to humiliate me!"

“That’s different.” Qiao Wu rested his elbow on the car door. “Health and happiness are the most important things. If you don’t want to stay here any longer, I’ll try to find a school for you. Once you feel that place is suitable, we can consider your studies again, okay?”

Lu Ning was tempted, but said, "This is such a hassle."

“You are the youngest child in the family, so these are things you should do. You have your grandfather and uncles, and if all else fails, you have me. So you can always tell me what you need. Look, didn’t your uncle stand up for you today when he heard people talking badly about you?”

Lu Ning found this strange, and the term "uncle" felt awkward to her. She looked up at Lu Yingchi and asked, "What are you doing here?"

"I don't know," Lu Yingchi said sarcastically. "I was having lunch and the navigation system led me here. Who knows what kind of place this is? The school gate isn't even as big as my car's rear end."

Lu Ning gritted her teeth: "...Do I look like I'm brainless?"

"Do you have any brains to ask such a question?" Lu Yingchi said in an unfriendly tone. "Otherwise, why would I be here for a drive?"

Resisting the urge to slap Lu Yingchi across the face, Lu Ning kept quiet and angry.

Lu Yingchi came to attend her parent-teacher conference, and he was invited by Qiao Wu.

Judging from how quickly Qiao Wu got to the office, he must have come to the school as well.

"Why?" she whispered. "I didn't ask you to come."

"Because he's your uncle, what else could it be?" Qiao Wu closed the car door and said to Lu Yingchi, "Let's go, get in your car, and go home for dinner."

Lu Yingchi finally realized he had been tricked.

Today was the parent-teacher meeting, and the parking spaces in front of the school were almost all full. When he arrived, he had already searched for every available spot and finally had to park in a corner.

"Are you kidding me? You're already here, why did you call me here in the first place?"

Qiao Wu winked at him, still giving the same answer: "Because you are his uncle."

Before Lu Yingchi could get angry, he heard Qiao Wu sigh again.

“Lu Yingchi, you also said that to those children.” She spoke softly so the children in the car wouldn’t hear, “Would you want someone else to tell Lu Ning in the future that they should discipline her on behalf of her family?”

Lu Yingchi was taken aback.

In his world, no one had ever mentioned the concept of family to him.

“You are her uncle and have no deep-seated hatred towards her, so you have the right to know her current situation before deciding whether you really want to sever ties with her.”

“I saw the surveillance footage.” Qiao Wu gave him a thumbs up, her eyes full of smiles. “Lu Yingchi, you looked really cool standing up for her today.”

Although Lu Yingchi had known Qiao Wu for quite some time, this was the first time he had seen such a relaxed smile on her face, one that was full of sincerity and appreciation.

Suddenly, he burst into flames.

He turned his head uncomfortably and walked stiffly toward where he had parked his car: "You have to tell me."

When they got home, dinner was already prepared. The uncle and nephew sat down together for dinner, which was rare for them, although they were still far apart and as quiet as chickens.

Lu Yingchi was eating in a hurry, wanting to finish quickly so he could go back to his room to play games. Then he saw the lazy Susan on the dining table start moving.

The two of them didn't have much food, and they weren't particularly fussy about it; they ate separately, so the chef didn't use a lazy Susan but instead served them their own portions.

But a plate of pre-shredded crab meat slowly swayed in front of him.

"Hello." Lu Ning's awkward voice came from the other end of the line, barely audible, "Thanks for today."

"What are you saying? Speak louder." Lu Yingchi said arrogantly, taking advantage of the situation. "Didn't you eat?"

Lu Ning forced out through gritted teeth, "I'll say thank you!"

“Okay.” Lu Yingchi held up his phone and waved it, looking quite smug. “I’ll change the morning alarm music to this tonight, and I’ll definitely be able to get up tomorrow.”

Lu Ning blushed instantly and rushed over, wanting to smother his head with crab shells.

Qiao Wu pushed open the restaurant door at this moment: "Can't you even have a quiet meal? Did you just finish watching the news?"

"..."

Who the hell eats while watching the news?!

He's eighteen, not eighty!

"What are you holding?" Lu Ning asked.

"A gift. You all did a good job today." Qiao Wu placed the box on the table beside him. "Want to open it and see?"

One gift for two people?

The two rushed over instantly, seeing who could grab it first.

But when the box was opened, it contained a huge object that looked like it had two hands.

"Robots? What do they do?"

"A toy." Qiao Wu smiled and turned it on for them. "But you need two people to play with it. Why don't you give it a try?"

What a crappy toy.

Despite her verbal complaints, Lu Ning stood at one end and put on her equipment.

Boys also like these electronic toys, and Lu Yingchi, unusually cooperative, stood on the other side.

A line of text appeared on the electronic screen in front of them: "Who is the other party to you?"

“An enemy.”

“An enemy.”

in unison.

The robot was silent for two seconds, then slowly raised its two mechanical arms.

Under the foolishly expectant gazes of the two, each of them was slapped on the buttocks, the sound echoing loudly.

"Wrong answer!"

"???"

"!!!"

This thing really hurts when it hits you!

Lu Yingchi's face flushed red. It was the first time in his life he had been spanked. His eyes widened in rage as he glared at the culprit, feeling both ashamed and furious. One hand covered his bottom, while the other trembled slightly: "You...you..."

"It's tailor-made for you." Qiao Wu walked to the restaurant door, smiled slightly before closing it, "It's a cure for all kinds of stubbornness."