Xu Shiyue's voice was neither loud nor soft, yet it exploded like a bomb in Lu Shizhen's head.
But as if things weren't going to go wrong, before Lu Shizhen could even react, a system announcement rang in her head: "-10".
Lu Shizhen heard the sound of her heart breaking.
She pressed her lips together tightly, and after a long, difficult pause, asked in disbelief, "You...can see?"
“You can still sense some light even when it’s blurry,” Xu Shiyue replied calmly, not minding giving Lu Shizhen an example, “For instance, when you’re looking down to take notes, your silhouette is slightly lower in my field of vision. But when you’re staring at me, your silhouette is higher.”
Lu Shizhen's hand gripping the pen tightened suddenly, and she froze completely.
She had never been this lucid before.
In other words, Xu Shiyue could see the whole process of him slowly lowering his head because he was sleepy and almost fell onto the table.
He looked around Xu Shiyue's room, and finally stared at her without restraint, which she could see.
"……Help."
Lu Shizhen silently exhaled a wisp of her remnant soul, experiencing for the first time what it meant to feel like she was sitting on pins and needles.
Overwhelmed by embarrassment and sadness, she was momentarily at a loss as to which feeling was more painful.
An eerie silence fell over the room, and Xu Shiyue did not continue the conversation.
She had just finished explaining the key points, opened her notebook, and neatly wrote down a problem: "This is an example problem based on the key points we just covered. Try it out."
No teacher likes a student who sleeps or is inattentive in class.
If I can solve the problem correctly, it's a good compensation; but if I can't, I don't know how many points I'll lose.
Lu Shizhen trembled with fear, clutching her remaining 90 points. She had no time to marvel at how Xu Shiyue could write so neatly even though she was blind. She cautiously began to look at the questions.
At first glance, the question Xu Shiyue posed seemed to be a very basic kinetic energy question, but Lu Shizhen's understanding of it was limited to its basic nature.
Based on the formula she had jotted down in her notebook before bed, she painstakingly drew it on paper, saying, "The work done by gravity should be... mgh."
"Hmm." Xu Shiyue nodded, indicating that Lu Shizhen had answered correctly.
Lu Shizhen was overjoyed.
Just as she was about to breathe a sigh of relief, Xu Shiyue's voice rang out, reminding her, "There's one more question: what is the horizontal distance?"
Lu Shizhen blinked, stunned.
She looked at her second and final formula, the crooked and drooping letters resembling her deduction curve.
Lu Shizhen stared blankly at the problem for a while, then, glancing at Xu Shiyue who was engrossed in a book, she hardened her heart and said, "Xu Shiyue, I don't know..."
Before Xu Shiyue could react to her words, Lu Shizhen immediately slid down and apologized profusely: "I know I was wrong. I shouldn't have fallen asleep while you were tutoring me, and I shouldn't have been distracted. Physics is just so magical; it tempts me and makes me want to sleep all the time."
Upon hearing this, Xu Shiyue closed the book in her hand and asked in return, "So looking at me is useful?"
"Hmm." Lu Shizhen lowered her head and nodded, seemingly resigned but also quite honest.
The wind rustled the osmanthus trees outside the window, and the sunlight fell on Xu Shiyue's face, a moment of tranquility amidst the chaos.
She just sat there in the chair, without saying another word.
What is the reason for this?
To be able to say such things truly befits Lu Shizhen.
Perhaps because she had spent so much time with Lu Shizhen today, Xu Shiyue had many questions about the person in front of her.
Lu Shizhen couldn't even solve the simplest kinetic energy problem, so it was absolutely impossible for her to be ranked in the top 1000 of her grade. How did she maintain this level of academic performance for two years of high school?
But her distress didn't seem like she was faking it to prolong her time with him.
Xu Shiyue narrowed her eyes slightly, her disgust and wariness mixed with other emotions.
People like Lu Shizhen, who have been spoiled since childhood, never bow their heads to anyone, even when they are in the wrong.
But this time she admitted her mistake.
There was no outburst of anger, no lashing out at others, and no outright resignation.
She sincerely admitted her mistake to herself, her positive and earnest attitude tinged with a pitiful helplessness.
The moonlight cast its shadow through the window, and the swaying shadow of the osmanthus branch hung behind the blurry figure, gently sweeping across the ground like a drooping tail.
Lu Shizhen waited here for Xu Shiyue's punishment. In the quiet, she heard the sound of a pen cap being opened: "We can set the sliding distance on the plane as S2."
Xu Shiyue picked up her pen and wrote on the blank notebook.
Lu Shizhen was immediately pleasantly surprised and quickly nodded, replying, "Mm."
"Next, let's substitute the formula..."
The carbon pen moved smoothly across the paper as Xu Shiyue explained, her calm voice seemingly suppressing all the restlessness.
Lu Shizhen sat upright and listened, and to her surprise, the knowledge actually went into her mind.
"I understand! For this kind of problem, you only need to grasp the two initial states!" Lu Shizhen showed Xu Shiyue the knowledge she had summarized as she watched her concise solution process.
"Hmm." Xu Shiyue nodded calmly upon hearing Lu Shizhen's raised tone, her gaze involuntarily drawn back to the shadow swaying in her line of sight.
Just a moment ago she looked distressed and apologetic, but now she's full of energy.
She was so sleepy she couldn't lift her head, yet she was also so excited and high-spirited.
It's really unpredictable.
But it's not the kind of moody that's unpredictable.
As Xu Shiyue was thinking this, she heard Lu Shizhen's voice coming from beside her: "But what about here? What's with this cos and sin?"
As if her desire for physical exploration had been awakened, Lu Shizhen, who was just so sleepy, was now surprisingly enthusiastic.
Just as she was talking to Xu Shiyue, she encountered another point she didn't understand. Just like in the original world, she subconsciously leaned over and pointed out a certain step of the solution she had written to Xu Shiyue, who was actually unable to see it.
The shadow shifted slightly on the wall, leaning against another one.
The loose clothing filled the slight gap between the two, and a magnified blurry image appeared in Xu Shiyue's vision. The faint scent of roses, carried by the breeze that slipped in through the window cracks, landed on her shoulder.
The hand that had been recklessly reached out unconsciously pressed against the back of Xu Shiyue's hand, and the warmth that had been suddenly pulled close rested against Xu Shiyue's hand that was holding the pen.
Wei Liang always craves warmth, and Xu Shiyue could feel the warmth belonging to another person rapidly spreading across the back of her hand, making the surrounding temperature seem to rise as well.
The girl asked earnestly, revealing no other malicious intent.
At this moment, she was the only one affected by this subtle action.
Xu Shiyue didn't like this feeling.
It made it seem as if she was overthinking something.
"This is the formula, just memorize it." Xu Shiyue said, then awkwardly withdrew her hand from Lu Shizhen's.
She turned to another page of her notebook, quickly and neatly wrote down a problem, and said, "If you solve this problem, today's tutoring will be over. I'm going downstairs to get some water, I'll be right back."
Without waiting for Lu Shizhen's response, Xu Shiyue picked up the cup on her table, got up, and left the room.
Their steps were rather quick.
Lu Shizhen felt that Xu Shiyue was acting strangely, but she didn't know what she had done to offend her.
But after waiting for a while, I didn't hear the sound of points being deducted.
Forget it, let's solve the problem first.
They've already taught you how to do it personally; if you still can't do it, you'll really lose points.
Lu Shizhen reminded herself and shifted her gaze from Xu Shiyue to the notebook on the table.
This is a question that looks almost identical to the one we just had, but it is indeed a step up in difficulty.
The light from the corridor fell into the room, only to be shut out again after the door closed.
The room was as quiet as ever, and the girl's shadow, as she intently analyzed the problem, was reflected on the wall.
Then, it got lower and lower.
It's getting lower and lower.
Even without Xu Shiyue, Lu Shizhen still fell asleep.
Layers of mist swirled around the girl's vision, and the whole world was an endless expanse of white.
Lu Shizhen had no idea where she was, and kept pushing through the cotton-like fog as she walked forward.
I don't know how much time passed, but then light pierced through the fog and shone in.
In an instant, the haze around her dissipated, and when she looked down, she found herself standing on a long slide. Not far away, a huge wooden block was placed on a slope, seemingly paused on a smooth surface that looked like it couldn't support its weight.
And sitting on this small piece of wood is a woman wearing a veil.
She was wearing a plain white dress, and a breeze was blowing around her, causing the flowing skirt to sway slightly.
Her slender legs were crossed, partially hidden beneath her skirt, straight and fair, exuding a casual lightness.
Lu Shizhen looked from afar, her head involuntarily tilting her head upwards to follow the gaze.
The woman's long, flowing hair was half-tied back like that of a Greek goddess, and a crown made of golden olives was pinned behind her head like a halo. Her majesty was tinged with a coldness that made people hesitant to approach her, yet irresistibly drawn to her.
For some reason, Lu Shizhen felt that this person looked somewhat familiar.
Suddenly, a strong gust of wind blew in.
Like revealing an answer, the light white veil was blown into the air by the wind, and a clean and pretty face appeared in Lu Shizhen's sight.
It was Xu Shiyue.
"Lu Shizhen, you still dare to come see me." Xu Shiyue's voice was a hundred times colder than Lu Shizhen's usual tone, and her eyes were full of disgust as she looked at her.
Lu Shizhen could feel Xu Shiyue's hatred for her. Just as she was about to explain something, the huge wooden block slid down the slope.
The example image of the question that Xu Shiyue had just given Lu Shizhen had become her execution ground.
Lu Shizhen's pupils trembled, and she turned her head and began to flee frantically.
But the wooden block was getting closer and closer to her...
"Lu Shizhen".
Lu Shizhen's body jolted, snapping her out of the physics problem's relentless pursuit.
Her heart was pounding even harder as she frantically fled for her life. Leaning against Lu Shizhen's chest, she somehow thought she heard Xu Shiyue calling her voice at the very end.
"Lu Shizhen".
Just as Lu Shizhen was resting her head on her arm to calm herself down, another call reached her ears.
Suddenly, Lu Shizhen realized something.
She slowly and with great difficulty sat up straight, mechanically looking in the direction from which the sound came.
The moonlight was hazy, and the girl's slender figure was enveloped in it.
Xu Shiyue stood beside her at some point, her face expressionless, yet seemingly hiding some emotions.
Lu Shizhen swallowed hard, quickly trying to cover up her mistake: "I was doing homework, I wasn't really asleep!"
This time, however, Xu Shiyue didn't hold it against her or expose her shortcomings.
With her eyelashes lowered, her voice conveyed a calm composure in the face of danger: "Yuanzi is acting strangely."
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