Yuxue Caught for Drafting
On the morning of the 2nd, Xia Yu was lying on the sofa on the balcony, listening to music and brushing through questions. Although he had a Gui Zixiao to practice with, she couldn't always be there, so he still needed to work on questions himself. It would be great to have someone living in his house who could practice with him whenever he wanted. It seemed as though there was someone like that.
Xia Yu looked at Yuxue next to him, who was browsing through a talisman forum.
"What was your rank in the midterm exams?" Xia Yu asked the girl.
Raising her head, Yuxue was first surprised, wondering why her brother suddenly cared about her studies, but then pride filled her heart.
"I ranked first in my class!" With her head held high, the girl was very proud, waiting for Xia Yu's praise.
"What about the whole school?" Xia Yu asked again.
"I ranked fifth in the whole school!" Yuxue was even more proud, raising her hand. However, the reaction she got was quite different from what she had imagined.
"Only fifth, that's not very good," Xia Yu sighed, shaking his head.
"Where's not good about the fifth place? How did you rank, brother?" Yuxue was displeased.
"I ranked first in the school for this monthly exam, leading the second place by ten points," Xia Yu said.
"..."
Yuxue stopped talking.
"As my sister, it's not good enough if you're not first in the whole school. Bring your math homework and I'll tutor you," Xia Yu revealed his true intentions.
"My math score is already 104!" In middle school, the full score for math is 150 points. "You can't even score full marks in seventh grade, that's terrible. Bring everything you have!" Pressing Yuxue to study at the desk, Xia Yu felt double the happiness. This girl was too lazy, always watching cartoons at home, doing nothing but her homework. With such great talent, it was such a waste not to use it on exams.
After explaining a few questions to Yuxue, Xia Yu received a call from Gui Zixiao. "Xia Yu, I'm ready. Where shall we meet?" On the other end of the phone, Gui Zixiao was determined, having made up his mind to give his all for the pig-headed man.
"Come to my house."
"Alright." Just as Xia Yu was about to give his address, Gui Zixiao hung up the phone. He called back, and Xia Yu told Gui Zixiao that he had moved.
Twenty minutes later, Xia Yu received a call from the security desk, asking if he could let the visitor in. Five minutes after that, Gui Zixiao arrived at Xia Yu's house. Seeing Xia Yu opening the door, Gui Zixiao was astonished.
"This is your house?" He asked after entering the villa, looking around. The villa was decorated in a modern minimalist style, but simplicity referred only to the style, not the materials. The furniture and walls were of impeccable quality, not the cheap stuff that you can only look at from a distance, and must have been quite valuable.
"Yes," Xia Yu led Gui Zixiao upstairs.
"Do you rent this place?" Gui Zixiao had a guess, but he found it hard to believe. "Just bought it; I made some money recently," Xia Yu answered.
"How did you manage to buy such a big villa so quickly? Did you sell yourself?" Gui Zixiao looked at Xia Yu suspiciously.
"Wake up, there's no rich woman who would spend millions on a man."
"Then how did you do it?"
"I tricked a rich loli out of it."
"Really?" If someone else said this, Guizi Xiao would definitely not believe it, but for Xia Yu, he felt that it wasn't impossible.
"Fake, there's everything in dreams. Being kept would only bring a few million at most, not as good as working hard on your own." Xia Yu paused in the middle of his words, recalling that there was indeed a rich girl who was willing to buy him a private hospital.
"Ah." Guizi Xiao sighed.
Upon reaching the second floor, Xia Yu let Guizi Xiao stay in the living room.
After scanning the environment on the second floor and confirming that he would never be able to afford a villa in his lifetime, Guizi Xiao took out his pen and notebook from his backpack.
"Hello."
At this moment, a clear voice came from the balcony, entering Guizi Xiao's ears.
Looking toward the balcony and spotting Yuxue, Guizi Xiao grabbed Xia Yu's collar: "Is this the rich girl?"
"Didn't you see her last time? She's my sister!" Xia Yu pinched Guizi Xiao's hand, helping him stay sober.
"Ouch, ouch, ouch!" Guizi Xiao exaggeratedly cried out.
When Xia Yu let go of his hand, Guizi Xiao picked up his pen and notebook: "I'll go to the balcony too."
As soon as he stood up, a palm pressed down on his shoulder, a huge force pushing him back down onto the sofa.
From the darkness behind him, a face with red eyes emerged and looked at him menacingly.
"Ah, I think I'd better stay in the living room. I'm afraid of heights and can't stand being on the balcony." Guizi Xiao quickly opened his workbook and started working on it.
Withdrawing his hand and ending the intimidation, Xia Yu returned to his bedroom, threw three workbooks to Guizi Xiao, and said coldly, "Do the exercises I marked."
After that, he returned to the balcony and continued teaching Yuxue the exercises with a smile on his face.
Guizi Xiao pressed his slightly trembling leg.
He had always thought that scenes in comics where a single look could make others fear were artistic creations, but he didn't expect them to be real!
In his heart, he felt wronged.
I'm your longtime friend, and you're being mean to me just for a sister!
Damn it, I wish I had a cute sister to play games with me too!
Sighing, Guizi Xiao picked up Xia Yu's workbook and flipped through the marked exercises.
These were all of the same type, three exercises in the first workbook, four in the second, and one in the third.
He pondered on how difficult it would be to find these eight exercises in the thick workbooks.
Sure enough, Xia Yu still loved him!
Excited, he began working on them.
He didn't know that Xia Yu, with his level 4 exam education, could see the patterns of ordinary exercises at a glance. Finding these eight exercises only took Xia Yu three minutes to flip through the three workbooks.
After finishing teaching Yuxue, Xia Yu came to the living room, where Guizi Xiao had completed five exercises, fully solving one, solving half of three, and only solving the first small question of the last one.
Holding the exercises, Xia Yu asked Guizi Xiao, "These five exercises are all of the same pattern and there isn't much difference in difficulty, but why can you fully solve some and only solve the first question of others? Do you know why the results are so different?"
"Because of love?" Guizi Xiao said with an old-fashioned joke.
"It's because you don't consciously use routines when solving problems, you rely purely on inspiration and luck!" Xia Yu wrote down the common thought process for these problems on paper and explained them to Kui Zixiao.
What he was doing now, in terms of gaming, was transforming a happy and innocent player who relied on intuition into a cunning one who used various dirty tactics.
Kui Zixiao's expression showed that he was more focused than when he usually attended classes.
The reason he often goofed off during class was that he couldn't feel his progress, and he thought it didn't matter whether he paid attention or not. But with Xia Yu, he could feel his progress.
In fact, the lack of progress he felt was due to the minimal experience gained from ordinary classes, while with Xia Yu, his experiences were much more fruitful, thus causing Kui Zixiao's strong feelings of improvement.
After teaching Kui Zixiao, Xia Yu went back to Yuxue, and so on.
By noon, Kui Zixiao, who joined them for lunch at the villa, saw that Yuxue could cook and jealousy cast a glance at Xia Yu.
He made his glance very subtle and discreet.
In the afternoon, after finishing his studies, Kui Zixiao came to Xia Yu's study room, touched Xia Yu's trophies, played with Xia Yu's gaming console, and reluctantly left the villa.
The three of them spent the seven-day Labor Day holiday in this manner. Afterward, Yuxue experienced a degree of relief, while Kui Zixiao continued to struggle and enjoy under Xia Yu's pressure.
In this way, the college entrance examination approached quickly.