Chapter 7: The tutor was originally there to defend his cousin.
The girl lying on the hospital bed was thin and her skin was so pale that it was almost pathological. The afternoon sun shone on her through the gauze curtains, and her carved collarbone glowed with a translucent luster, like the finest jade.
This was the scene Su Xingshu saw when he walked in after sending the doctor away. He was stunned for a moment before he said, "How do you feel?"
Fu Liangxia was called back to her senses. Seeing Su Xingshu was slightly stunned, and then seemed to remember something, she said coldly: "Much better. Thank you for your concern, Mr. Su."
Looking at the alert look of the girl in front of him, whose gaze was no longer as friendly as it was in the cafeteria, Su Xingshu couldn't help but raise his hand and touch his nose.
It seems that she is being hated because of what happened when she fainted before.
After all, even if they were just ordinary classmates, she shouldn't have acted so coldly at that time. Su Xingshu guessed that she might have felt that she was being disliked.
"I'm sorry, I didn't know you had a medical history..." Su Xingshu spoke with an apologetic expression. With his sentimental face, he looked like a little white fox who had made a mistake, pitiful and cute.
However, Fu Liangxia was completely unimpressed. She ignored the conversation and talked about something else: "I was so dizzy at noon that I forgot to take my clothes out of Mr. Su's lounge. I'll ask Fu Liedong to get them later. Thank you for lending me the lounge."
The politeness and unfamiliarity in the tone made Su Xingshu feel a little uncomfortable.
He stood at the head of the bed, staring at Fu Liangxia with a somewhat heavy gaze. Logically speaking, he should feel comfortable with the girl's polite and distant attitude towards him.
But at this moment, Su Xingshu felt as if his heart was pricked by a small thorn, and it felt numb.
[Su Xingshu's favorability +2, current favorability 23.]
Trying hard to ignore the strange feeling in his heart, Su Xingshu smiled as usual: "It's okay, I'll have Auntie clean the school uniform and bring it to you later."
Fu Liangxia was jealous. What kind of school was that? They even hired a housekeeper in the school lounge.
But she said nothing, just thanked him again.
"Brother Su, it's time to go." Wang Ziwei suddenly poked his head out the door. "Liedong just received a call from the rehearsal room, saying that everything is ready."
Hearing this, Su Xingshu nodded slightly: "Yeah."
He turned to look at her again: "I'm leaving, you have a good rest."
After saying that, he turned and walked out.
The look in his eyes when he left was a little strange.
But Fu Liangxia didn't care. What she cared about more was——
That damned Fu Liedong only has his big brother in his eyes, and no real sister at all, right? He just sent her to the infirmary and left her there, not even coming in to take a look!
Although he knew that Fu Liedong was probably used to her sickly appearance, he still couldn't swallow this.
Quickly opening his cell phone, Fu Liangxia typed out a short essay to teach him a lesson.
After educating her useless brother, she remembered that she seemed to have not had time to read the forum of St. Lande College.
This is also the place where the gossip in the original book was moved.
She clicked on it, and the beautifully designed forum page appeared before her eyes, with posts of different sizes divided according to their popularity in browsing and discussion.
Among them, the post about the transfer student from this morning has sunk to the bottom, and now floating on top is a featured post that is trying to trick people into giving away money.
Course Selection Guide
The post was posted a while ago, and Fu Liangxia clicked on it, expecting it to be helpful for class selection. Instead, it was filled with F4's elective course schedules. The colors, as mentioned in the comments, were still the individual support colors.
Fu Liangxia: “…”
There's no hope.
She had no interest in taking elective courses with F4, nor did she have any intention of avoiding them, so she took a quick look and walked out.
Fu Liangxia decided to choose the one she liked.
Economics and operations and management are definitely required subjects, and Fu Liangxia is particularly interested in data analysis. She also wants to study a foreign language to prepare for university applications.
After all, no one knows how the story will develop, so she has to prepare for both scenarios.
If the situation is unfavorable, Fu Liangxia will just run away and apply to a foreign university.
After logging out, she casually scrolled through the page. Besides posts related to F4 such as "Fu Shao's class today Reuters [Pictures] [Pictures]," "Su Shao's national tour is coming soon, Saint Lander may be the first stop," and "President Cheng is really too strict! He deducted five credits from me this morning just for forgetting to bring my name tag!", Fu Liangxia actually found one that mentioned her.
"Team beauty broke up in less than a week? Su Shao went to the cafeteria with his suspected new girlfriend and was splashed with soup and rice!"
The catchy title immediately caught people's attention, not to mention the F4 element that brought its own traffic. If Fu Liangxia wasn't one of the people involved in this gossip, she would also be interested in watching this excitement.
But now, she found it difficult to laugh.
The only thing to be thankful for was that the angle of the poster was off and she didn't get a full picture of her face, so the focus of everyone's discussion was more on Su Xingshu's breakup with Cheng Xiaoran and how Cheng Xiaoran dared to splash water on him.
"Cheng Xiaoran is finished. Even if Master Cheng is her cousin, it doesn't matter. Master Su hates people touching him the most, let alone getting his clothes dirty."
A comment suddenly caught Fu Liangxia's sight.
cousin?
Fu Liangxia was slightly startled, then she thought of the way Cheng Xingzhou looked at her in the cafeteria, and the words he said later to interrupt her... So that's why, no wonder he warned her.
It turned out that he did it to stand up for his cousin.
He also told her not to meddle in other people's business, as he himself was the same.
What a double standard.
But this had nothing to do with her. There were no classes this afternoon, and the school's course selection system would open at 2:30 p.m. Seeing that the time had come, Fu Liangxia clicked on the course selection interface of the academic affairs system and selected economics, operations and management, and Greek as originally planned.
These are all core courses among the elective courses. In addition, she also needs to take two non-core courses, which are the most useless courses.
It didn't matter what you chose. Fu Liangxia didn't have any particular course she wanted to take, so she chose the classical art appreciation and drama appreciation courses, which were safe.
After choosing her classes, there seemed to be no need to stay in school any longer. She wanted to go back to the classroom to pack her schoolbag and prepare to go home to study.
Just as Fu Liangxia had expected, the classroom was empty. On the first day of school, everyone seemed to already know what they were going to do. Seeing her come in, Xu Cai, who was about to leave with a few classmates, stopped and turned to ask her, "We're going to the KTV at the school gate to sing, and then to the new club in the Knights' District tonight. Are you coming?"
Indulging in sensual pleasures is indeed the way rich kids of this age spend their time.
"Not today, maybe next time when there's a chance." Fu Liangxia didn't have the slightest thought of going, but her expression showed full of regret, as if she really felt sorry that she couldn't go together.
Xu Cai didn't insist, but just waved and winked at her: "Okay, let's get together next time."
After packing her bag, Fu Liangxia left the classroom. The early autumn afternoon was already chilly, and the breeze blew against her bare calves, sending a shiver down her spine. The sculptural fountain outside the teaching building shone brightly in the sunlight. From the tree trunks on either side came the faint sound of birdsong, like a choir singing a carol, their voices clear and melodious.
She walked along the road on the right towards the gate. When she passed the greenhouse garden, she suddenly heard a conversation coming from through the glass.
"Aren't you going to class?"
"I came out specifically to find you."
They were a couple in school uniforms. The roses climbing all over the glass wall blocked Fu Liangxia's figure, allowing them to snuggle together as if no one was around.
At this time, only the third year students still have classes, and they have more compulsory courses, unlike the first and second year students who just have to choose their courses and then they are done.
The girl shook her head and her words confirmed Fu Liangxia's thoughts: "You shouldn't come out. Senior year classes are so intense. What if you can't get into a good university..."
"As long as I can be with you, that's enough!" The boy's sudden loud voice scared her.
"Don't you think so?" he asked.
Seeing Fu Liangxia's expression of "old man's subway phone", the girl was so moved that she said, "How could it be, Lin Ze, I'm satisfied just having you."
"Even if you can't get into a good university this year, I can ask Dad to help you go abroad. Then in a year, I will go abroad to find you, we will get married and be together forever!"
"Ali..."
The boy's expression was moved. He went over to hug the girl and kissed her hard. The two of them were embracing each other like the male and female protagonists in a tragedy.
Fu Liangxia, who witnessed everything: "..."
She really begs you to fall in love.
Poverty alleviation is fine, but are you even going to help him if he can't get into college? So, what's the point of dating such a useless man? Because he's poor, dumb, and doesn't work hard?
Oh, no, that's a bit unfair to him. This boy obviously works very hard. He knows his grades are not good, so he tries to find a shortcut...
What happened today constantly refreshed Fu Liangxia's worldview and made her more aware of what kind of place she had come to. She walked silently to the door, which was already full of expensive luxury cars.
Fu Liangxia had always been someone who stood out in the crowd. When the original owner was around, she often kept her head down and her back hunched, making her presence invisible. But she was the exact opposite. She always held her head high, standing tall and straight, as strong as a blade of grass by the roadside that wouldn't be easily flattened.
So the driver saw her at a glance. When he saw her coming, he hurriedly got out of the car, took her schoolbag, put it on the passenger seat, and helped her open the back seat door. After seeing her sit down, he returned to the driver's seat and started the car.
…
Shortly after Fu Liangxia left, Bai Kewei came out from the road on the left with her schoolbag on her back. When she saw the luxury car at the door that was completely out of the same world as hers, her expression did not fluctuate at all. Instead, she pushed her car out of the carport and slowly walked through the group of cars.
She could feel that she didn't fit in here.
The after-school entertainment of the wealthy students in her class was something she had never even heard of. The things they talked about and wore were things she had never set foot in. It was like a rift had suddenly opened between two worlds that should never have intersected. She walked through this rift, seeing them but unable to fit in with them.
This made Bai Kewei, who had wanted to get along well with her new classmates, a little frustrated.
Here, it seems like class distinctions are everywhere, with clear distinctions between the three, six, and nine classes, and no one can fit in with a circle that doesn't belong to them. The poor lick the rich, the lower-ranking ones curry favor with the higher-ups, and everything is horribly utilitarian and worldly.
It's hard for students living and studying at Saint Lander College to remain unaffected, especially those with special admissions. Their self-esteem is reduced to nothing in the face of power and wealth, and their only hope of fitting in seems to be fawning over the rich.
Bai Kewei realized with almost horror that there were many people like Li Yuanfan.
Lose self-respect, become a slave to money and a lackey of power.
But Bai Kewei felt that at least she wouldn't go along with them. She sighed, not sure if she was lamenting her own fate or someone else's, and rode her bike home.
A sleek blue sports car whizzed past her, startling Bai Kewei and hastily dodging to the side. Glancing sideways, she saw only a cold, delicate profile and flowing white-blonde hair. The boy's elbows rested on the windowsill, the mechanical watch on his wrist glaring in the sunlight.
It looks familiar, as if I've seen it somewhere.
Bai Kewei shook her head and didn't take it seriously.
Meanwhile, Fu Haoyao, who was sitting in the passenger seat of the sports car, widened his eyes and repeated the man's words in disbelief: "...What, tutor?!"
The same screams also echoed throughout the Fu family villa.
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