Chapter 81 What’s so special about his tutoring?
As soon as Zhu Yingning opened the door, she saw Sun Mingyuan standing there holding two red honey pomeloes. She was surprised: "It would be enough if he just showed up, why did he bring food?"
"My mother said this is your apprenticeship fee."
The story all began this morning. Sun Mingyuan, a self-proclaimed comrade-in-arms, called to inquire about Xu Sirui's condition. Zhu Yingning said he'd been found. "He's in good spirits. I'll catch up with him this afternoon after work for the classes he missed."
While they were on the phone, Wang Xiaoqian happened to be watching a drama about a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law relationship. With her ears perked up, she caught the key word "make-up lessons" coming from the microphone. She nudged Sun Mingyuan's arm and shouted into the phone, "Yingning, are you going to give Sirui extra lessons? Look, today is Saturday, and our Mingyuan's stuck at home with nothing to do. Can you teach one more person while he's at it?"
"Okay, Auntie." There was no reason why this kind of thing would be impossible for Zhu Yingning.
Sun Mingyuan didn't even have time to say no before his mother arranged everything for him. After he hung up, he weakly argued, "I'm not just sitting around doing nothing. I even have a ball game with my schoolmates this afternoon..." Wang Xiaoqian slapped him across the head without hesitation, angrily barking, "You can play ball every day, and you can make up for your lessons every day? You're such an ungrateful person!"
Time returned to the present. Zhu Yingning thanked Wang Xiaoqian, accepted her kindness, and told Sun Mingyuan to wait in the living room. She had already pushed the coffee table to the center of the living room, surrounded by a circle of small stools. Sun Mingyuan sat down and said half-jokingly, "Teacher, you're not good at math. Why is there an extra stool?"
Zhu Yingning put the pomelo in the kitchen and poked his head out to explain, "It's not much. I have a friend coming too."
Sun Mingyuan perked up a bit: "Male or female?"
"Female."
He instantly became more energetic than ever: "How does she look? Pretty?"
“…”
Zhu Yingning glared at him in dissatisfaction, "Sun Mingyuan, you are here to study, not for a blind date. Also, please respect my friends."
"Oh, okay, okay." He was afraid of her and quickly raised his hands in surrender and apologized. He touched his neck, looked around, and asked, "Where's Xu Sirui? Where did he go?"
"He's in the room."
"What are you doing in the room? I'll go call him."
"Being angry in the room."
"Ah?" Sun Mingyuan laughed. "Why are you so angry? Who has offended him again? He's like a firecracker every day."
"I don't know." Zhu Yingning said, and added uncertainly, "Maybe I provoked him."
When Xu Sirui learned that Sun Mingyuan was also going to come for tutoring, her expression became a little unhappy, but she didn't notice it in time. She remembered that Wu Bo had told her that her midterm exam grades had dropped and she was criticized by her parents. So she decided to go all out and called Wu Bo to ask her if she wanted to come and study together.
"Who are they?" Wu Bo asked from the other end.
Zhu Yingning told the truth.
Hearing about Xu Sirui, Wu Bo's brain was stuck for a long time: "Who? Who did you just say?"
Zhu Yingning could only briefly summarize her relationship with Xu Sirui. Upon learning that they were actually friends and even lived together, Wu Bo was horrified. He quickly searched his brain, trying to recall if he had ever said anything bad about Xu Sirui. After confirming that he had only complimented him on his handsomeness, he finally felt at ease: "Okay, okay."
After Wu Bo agreed, Zhu Yingning hung up the phone and looked back to see that Xu Sirui's face was already very long.
"Why do you look like that?" she asked.
Xu Sirui snorted heavily, without any explanation, and went back to his bedroom with a sour face.
When Wu Bo also arrived at their house, he slowly walked out of his room, wearing a silver-white pajamas, and lazily sat down on the stool. His legs were so long that there was nowhere to put them, extending from his own seat to her legs.
Wu Bo was originally chatting with Sun Mingyuan when her eyes flickered to Xu Sirui, and she looked away awkwardly. She had a habit of feeling uncomfortable around handsome guys. Although she loved reading romance novels and being a fan, often asking Zhu Yingning, "Will a handsome guy show up and give me a passionate early love?" However, when she saw a handsome guy in real life, she couldn't even breathe. Not only did her mouth seem to be covered in 502, but her eyes also had a system of avoiding glances.
Sun Mingyuan said with a tut, "At least change into something else before you come out. Please don't wear pajamas in front of women. Look how embarrassed they are."
Wu Bo wanted to say that she wasn't embarrassed about this, but no, she wasn't embarrassed at all! But before she could say anything, Xu Sirui had already dragged out his words to justify himself: "I didn't miss anything."
When he said this, the three of them looked at him like searchlights.
The first button of his silvery-white pajamas was undone, revealing a delicate collarbone that looked as if it had been chiseled with a sword. The other buttons were buttoned tightly, revealing nothing that shouldn't be exposed. Speaking of lewdness, Sun Mingyuan might have been even more lewd with his sleeves rolled up, his arms exposed. But perhaps it was his collarbone that was so well-proportioned, it was completely different from Sun Mingyuan's boring arms. Everyone present, observing his outfit, felt an inexplicable sense of strangeness, as if they had been forced into a handsome man's bed and shared his bed.
"Button your clothes properly." Zhu Yingning reminded him in a low voice.
Xu Sirui glanced at her sideways, showing off his temper: "No."
He was still angry and didn't want to go along with her, but as soon as he said no, she raised her hand and buttoned his shirt for him.
Her fingertips brushed lightly across his skin, seemingly touching him, yet seemingly not. Xu Sirui felt as if he were under a spell, his back and waist frozen, unable to move for a long time. It wasn't until Zhu Yingning casually flipped open her textbook and asked everyone else to do the same that he slowly recovered. His ears were burning, and he silently retracted his Young Master's magical powers and began to listen to her lecture.
She first summarized the knowledge taught by teachers in various subjects this week and briefly reviewed it with others. After that, she spread out the exercise books, took out the alarm clock, and seriously set a time limit, requiring them to finish it within a certain number of minutes.
The first subject to tackle is mathematics.
Sun Mingyuan did five multiple-choice questions in a row. When he got to the sixth question, he was stuck on the difficulty of functions. He worked diligently on the draft paper for a long time, and finally came up with an answer that was not in the options. He was so angry that his mouth was crooked and his eyes were squinting. He pushed the exercise book away, his patience running out. He urgently wanted to find someone to chat with and relieve the torture of mathematics.
His eyes slid across Zhu Yingning's focused profile. Oh, this person is definitely not to be messed with. He turned to Xu Sirui, who was also studying hard with his eyes downcast. Undeterred, he nudged him with his toes under the coffee table. Xu Sirui immediately showed an expression as if he had eaten a fly, mercilessly bending his knees and pulling his legs to his chest to avoid his harassment. Sun Mingyuan could only look at Wu Bo in anger, and then he was surprised to find that Wu Bo was also stuck on the same question. He stretched out his hand, about to point out the situation and make a bold statement, when he felt a burning gaze burning his face.
Looking up, Zhu Yingning glared at him.
Sun Mingyuan smiled awkwardly and retracted his hand, trying to excuse himself. Before he could finish his explanation, he saw her lower her head, write his name on the notebook, and then forcefully drew the first stroke of the word "正" under his name.
"This is……"
"Number of desertions."
Sun Mingyuan touched his nose and said, "Why...are you remembering this? Will there be a punishment if you collect five times?"
She nodded seriously.
"No way?" Sun Mingyuan covered his chest and screamed in a strangled voice, "What are you going to do to me? I'm a virgin, a pure young man."
"Nothing." She tapped his exercise book with the tip of her pen, signaling him to concentrate on the questions. "If you do this five times, we will all despise you."
Xu Sirui and Wu Bo nodded in agreement with a serious expression.
Sun Mingyuan: “…”
**
When he got home that night, Wang Xiaoqian asked him how his studies were going. Sun Mingyuan had been holding it in all afternoon, and finally found an outlet to vent his frustrations. He immediately started complaining—the teacher was too strict, the classroom atmosphere was too serious, and his classmates were unkind...
Wang Xiaoqian was very satisfied after hearing this and said with a smile: "You can continue to go there next week."
That night, Sun Mingyuan changed his signature to: I am dead, burn paper if you have any questions.
**
At the start of a new week, Zhu Yingning approached Xu Sirui's homeroom teacher and requested a month-long vacation for him. She then settled into a regular routine, attending classes on time during the day, helping out at Zhu Zhiwei's shop after school, and reviewing the teacher's lecture with Xu Sirui in the evenings, treating it as a review for herself.
As the weekend approached, Wu Bo asked her with a smile, "Yingning, can I come over again this weekend? I feel like after you sorted my hair out last weekend, attending classes this week has been much easier."
"Of course, I'm glad I helped you."
Zou Hao happened to pass by and asked curiously, "What are you talking about?"
After listening to Zhu Yingning's explanation, he pondered for a moment: "Saturday afternoon? Hmm... I'll ask my mom to change my piano lesson on Saturday afternoon to Sunday."
Wu Bo's heart was filled with alarm. "Wait! You're not coming too, are you?"
"Are there any problems?" Zou Hao spread out his hands righteously.
**
Xu Sirui reluctantly accepted the existence of Sun Mingyuan and Wu Bo. Afterwards, he thought about it and realized that one of them was his friend and the other was Zhu Yingning's friend. It was really unreasonable for him to be sulking about this.
Just when he was trying to convince himself awkwardly, Zou Hao showed up.
Zou Hao possessed the adaptability characteristic of a socialist. Xu Sirui's long vacation had deepened his disdain for him, convinced he would never amount to anything. But upon learning Xu Sirui's father was Zhu Yingning's sponsor, he immediately recast his usual scumbag attitude and visited him with a peace-and-love attitude. Their relationship during the tutoring sessions had been relatively peaceful, if one ignored Xu Sirui's stilted, unfocused manner. He simply couldn't get along with people like Zou Hao. He sneered at his elitist, self-righteous aura. And the thought of someone like him actually joining Zhu Yingning's tutoring group only confirmed her previous words, "You're special," were pure bullshit.
What's special about him?
Doesn't this mean that anyone can get the same treatment as him?
After the make-up class, Xu Sirui once again became like a prince, and said in a tone like an emperor executing a eunuch: "I don't want to see that fat guy again next week."
Zhu Yingning recently learned a new term from the domineering CEO novel Wu Bo lent her: "Tian Liang Wang Po." Applying it to Xu Sirui would be "Tian Liang Zou Po." The thought of this amused her, and she laughed for a long time before she forced herself to stop laughing under Xu Sirui's murderous gaze and asked, "Why?"
"No reason, I just don't like him."
"But I think you two look alike."
This comment was more insulting than any negative comment he'd ever received. Xu Sirui screamed as if he'd stepped in dog poop. "Zhu Yingning!" His face flushed with anxiety. "How are we even alike?! From looks to IQ to everything else, I'm miles ahead of him, okay? Are you blind?"
"They do look alike." She said calmly, "You see, you both look down on each other."
“…”
**
Zou Hao didn't get angry when the weather got colder, he came again.
On the new Saturday, he not only showed up, but also brought a strange message. As soon as he entered the house, he looked around at everyone else in the room and asked, "Does anyone of you have an enemy?"
Everyone looked at each other in confusion.
Sun Mingyuan: "I have done good deeds and accumulated virtue throughout my life..."
Wu Bo: "I'm an honest and upright person."
Sun Mingyuan pointed at Xu Sirui: "Him! He must have a lot of enemies."
Xu Sirui glared at him unhappily.
Zhu Yingning stepped forward and asked, "Why do you say that? What happened?"
"It's nothing." Zou Hao pushed the mirror holder and said calmly, "Just when I came in just now, I saw a suspicious person wandering around your house."
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The author has something to say: The King of Vinegar is online^^
Xu Three: She gave me extra lessons, I am special.
When I turned around, I found that Zhu Yingning had brought half of the classmates.
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