"...Huh?!" What a huge pot!
"No, no, I didn't mean that!" Zhu Jinzhao waved his hands repeatedly, hurriedly denying it. "I didn't mean to refuse to teach you, I really don't know!"
Zhu Mingyue raised an eyebrow: "But my brother said you have excellent grades, and you even received the school scholarship for two consecutive years."
"I..." Zhu Jinzhao frantically scratched his head and toes, "I was just lucky. I happened to see the same questions when I was reviewing before the exam. Otherwise, with my level, I would have had to pull some strings to avoid failing."
"..." Zhu Mingyue looked at her with a half-smile, neither speaking nor believing.
Unable to think of any other way to explain, she could only turn around and point to her desk; "If you don't believe me, go in and see for yourself if I'm still taking extra lessons."
“Okay.” Zhu Mingyue didn’t stand on ceremony with her at all and immediately stepped into her room.
"!!" Zhu Jinzhao's eyes widened instantly.
Zhu Mingyue also closed the door for her.
"!!!!" Zhu Jinzhao opened her mouth wide in horror.
"No need to close the door!" She stepped to the side and blocked the doorway, pushing it firmly to prevent Zhu Mingyue from closing it.
Zhu Mingyue turned around and looked at her with a puzzled expression: "Why didn't you close the door?"
"..." Zhu Jinchao dared not say.
In the original story, this room was the main location where Zhu Mingyue framed the fake heiress.
To smear the fake heiress, Zhu Mingyue would find excuses to enter the fake heiress's room every few days. Then she would either fall in the room or get cut by a knife; the worst time, she almost fell out of the window.
Fortunately, Zhu Xingye arrived in time, otherwise she would have fallen from the third floor that time.
Although Zhu Jinzhao couldn't figure out why Zhu Mingyue wanted to see her tonight, she had a gut feeling that nothing good would come of it once Zhu Mingyue entered her room.
But now that they're already inside, she can't just kick them out. So she has to guard this last line of defense and absolutely cannot let the door close easily, giving Zhu Mingyue an opportunity to commit her crime!
"Because... I felt the room was too stuffy, and opening the door would allow some fresh air."
She grinned foolishly, her face clearly saying "Something's fishy."
Zhu Mingyue frowned: "If the room is stuffy, just open the window. Leaving the door open means there's no privacy at all."
"Hey, I... I've never cared about privacy." Zhu Jinzhao's explanation was a jumbled mess, but there was nothing she could come up with; that was all she could think of.
"..." Zhu Mingyue's gaze towards her became somewhat indescribable.
"Leave it open," Zhu Jinzhao said, opening the door as wide as possible. "Let it get some fresh air."
“…Fine.” Zhu Mingyue didn’t understand, but she also didn’t respect it. “This is your room, you decide what to do.”
"Hey..." Zhu Jinzhao was happy now, "Thank you."
Zhu Mingyue: "..."
Was it her imagination? She felt like Zhu Jinzhao was acting strangely…
Zhu Jinzhao's desk was by the window. As soon as she entered the room, she saw a tablet on the desk, which was playing a teacher's course.
"Mingyue, look, I really didn't lie to you. My grades are really bad. I only got scholarships because I secretly took extra classes in private." Zhu Jinzhao followed behind Zhu Mingyue, deliberately pretending to be helpless.
Zhu Mingyue ignored her words. She walked to the desk, looked at the notes Zhu Jinzhao had spread out on the table, and her expression suddenly turned to surprise.
"You're learning this lesson too? Perfect! I haven't figured it out either. Can I watch the instructional video with you?"
Zhu Jinzhao: "...Huh?"
Zhu Mingyue blinked innocently: "What's wrong? Do you mind?"
"No, I don't mind!" Zhu Jinzhao's mouth was faster than her brain. She was about to add a few more words to hint at something when Zhu Mingyue had already sat down in her seat.
"If you don't mind, come over and let's learn together."
"..." Zhu Jinzhao felt like he was about to die.
"Okay, okay..." She smiled stiffly, like a robot, and awkwardly walked to the desk, sitting down next to Zhu Mingyue. After settling in, she furtively moved her chair further and further away from Zhu Mingyue...
"Chao Chao, where are you going?" Zhu Mingyue looked at Zhu Jinchao walking away, her face full of shock and confusion.
"...Huh?" Zhu Jinzhao stopped what she was doing, only then realizing that she had run too far. If Zhu Mingyue hadn't reminded her, she would have left right away.
"I'm sorry, I... I have ADHD." Zhu Jinzhao lifted the chair and ran back with small, quick steps, sitting down three steps away from Zhu Mingyue.
"Study, bright moon."
"..." Zhu Mingyue stared at her with a very strange look, then turned her head to listen to the lesson and stopped talking.
Halfway through the lesson, the teacher wrote a few questions on the blackboard, and Zhu Mingyue wrote down the correct answers without even thinking. After finishing, she turned to look at Zhu Jinchao, only to see him still scratching his forehead.
"You don't know how?" she asked suspiciously.
Zhu Jinzhao held a pen and racked her brains to write down a wrong answer in her notebook: "I... I should know it, but not many."
Zhu Mingyue: "...You got them all wrong."
"...Huh?" Zhu Jinzhao looked completely bewildered.
Zhu Mingyue gave a mocking smirk and ignored her.
"What a pretentious act..." she thought to herself. "He clearly has excellent grades, but he insists on pretending to be stupid and clueless, thinking that he can fool her and deceive her?"
dream.
After a 60-minute lesson, the teacher assigned several assignments, all of which were in the problem set included with the textbook.
Zhu Mingyue: "Zhaochao, lend me your notebook to take a look."
Zhu Jinzhao did not refuse and took out the workbook from his schoolbag and handed it to her.
"for you."
Zhu Mingyue: "Thank you."
Zhu Jinzhao had already finished the questions for this lesson, but when Zhu Mingyue opened the page, she only saw a page full of big red crosses.
Of the ten multiple-choice questions, Zhu Jinzhao got two right. He even revised his answers three times before finally getting those two right.
"..." Zhu Mingyue was stunned.
Is Zhu Jinzhao genuinely unable to do this, or is he pretending?
"When did you do this question?" Zhu Mingyue asked with a stiff face.
Zhu Jinzhao honestly said, "It was made before you came, and it's still warm."
I made this before I came… while Zhu Mingyue wasn’t here. If Zhu Jinzhao was really pretending to be stupid, there was absolutely no need for her to start pretending before she even arrived, unless she guessed that I would be coming tonight.
But how could she possibly guess? Even if she were incredibly smart, it would be difficult for her to anticipate this.
Good heavens, what's wrong with Zhu Jinzhao's brain? She's really starting to lose her senses.
"What's wrong? Do you think I did a good job?" Zhu Jinzhao couldn't understand Zhu Mingyue's expression, so he grinned and asked.
Zhu Mingyue couldn't hold back any longer: "Fine my foot!"
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