79 Studying?
The next day, everyone in the Lu mansion was busy with their activities when they saw a young boy entering the house followed by the housekeeper.
“Good sir, how did my son offend you?” Lu Zhaolin asked as he saw the boy dressed in black pants and a white shirt. He was sure that the boy was not his son’s friend as the latter was quite refined and polished to look at.
“Greetings to Mr Lu, I’m Gu Shangyan and I’m here to meet Lu Xuan,” Gu Shangyan properly greeted the middle-aged man. He could tell even without knowing the man that he must not share a very harmonious relationship with his son.
“Child, I should beware about the consequences of befriending children such as my son,” Lu Zhaolin replied. “You should focus more on studies and less on befriending delinquent children.”
“Mr Lu, I’m the tutor school assigned to Lu Xuan,” Gu Shangyan replied with a smile.
“Oh, you are the student Gu? I heard good things about you. Please come and take a seat,” Lu Zhaolin’s attitude took a three-sixty turn.
“I have something to discuss with Lu Xuan,” Gu Shangyan smiled.
“Housekeeper Wang, please take student Gu to Lu Xuan’s room,” Lu Zhaolin said with a smile.
As Gu Shangyan entered Lu Xuan’s room, he was welcomed by the sight of a room decorated with an Avengers theme. Figurines of Marvel heroes were lying all over the walls and the floor.
“Young Master, this is Student Gu and he is here to tutor you,” The Housekeeper left after introducing them.
As Gu Shangyan took a step ahead under the other boy’s scrutiny, he sighed, “Your father is a piece of work.”
Lu Xuan smirked, “Say something I don’t know.”
“Your room is way cooler than your father’s unrealistic expectation of you,” Gu Shangyan commented and Lu Xuan’s smirk deepened.
“So, you think your plan will work?” Lu Xuan asked as he saw Gu Shangyan who was lying on the bed with his eyes closed.
“Hundred per cent sure,” Gu Shangyan replied with his eyes closed. Last night, he studied till two in the morning and then attended classes all day. In the evening, he had come to Lu Xuan’s house. He was so tired that he couldn’t keep his eyes open.
“My father’s eyes and ears will enter the room forty-five minutes from now, sleep until then,” Lu Xuan said.
“What will you do until then?” Gu Shangyan asked with a yawn.
“I will do what delinquents like me do,” Lu Xuan grinned.
Gu Shangyan rubbed his eyes. “You know what? I got the syllabus you missed in school. It’s in the pen drive I put on your study table. Just copy it and if someone asks what you studied, show them the copied notes. This will make our plan seem more foolproof.”
The notes he placed on the study table were what he had made for An Xiulan in a very simplified manner and he had worked all night for the very same thing.
Lu Xuan, who wanted to act high and mighty like the school tyrant that he was, found himself in a difficult situation when his tutor was different from his expectations. He tossed that Peng Cheng out as whenever he would come to tutor him the latter would shudder in his presence as if he was some kind of monster. He tried his best not to beat up that boy. But when he saw Peng Cheng gossiping with his father about how he was such a hopeless case, he couldn’t stop himself from beating up the bastard.
He could have done the same with this Genius Gu but two things were stopping him from the same. First was how Gu Shangyan’s cousin saved Lu Xun who was his lifeline and second how the former knew that his bastard father was a piece of work. ρꪖꪕᦔꪖꪕꪫꪣꫀꪶ
As petty as Lu Xuan might sound, he liked all the people who disliked his father.
While Lu Xuan was copying absent work, he furrowed his brow. Did his school have some kind of enmity with him? Whenever he used to attend classes, all they taught was so damn hard but now he left school, they even simplified the syllabus?
What the hell?
If he could, he would have beaten the school principal for tormenting him with that hard syllabus for nothing.
Forty minutes later when Gu Shangyan woke up from his nap, he saw Lu Xuan copying the syllabus that the latter had missed in the school.
“Did you copy everything?” Gu Shangyan startled the boy who used his pen for the first time.
Lu Xuan nodded this head. “I don’t understand one thing.”
“Hmm?” Gu Shangyan looked at the notes where the boy was pointing. “You are asking why 3 was transferred to that side?”
Lu Xuan nodded his head.
Gu Shangyan took a pen and a piece of paper and explained to him the equation in the easiest way.
“So fucking easy?” Lu Xuan couldn’t help but be amazed by himself.
“You understood everything else?” Gu Shangyan asked in surprise.
Lu Xuan nodded his head.
“Even this?” Gu Shangyan pointed at a question.
Lu Xuan nodded his head.
“I don’t believe this,” Gu Shangyan said. “This exercise needs to be revised twice or thrice to learn it.”
“Hey, I learned it in a single try,” Lu Xuan said immediately. “If you don’t believe me, give me any sum from this exercise and I will solve it.”
A few moments later.
“I get three tries for every sum, ” Lu Xuan grabbed the notebook from Gu Shangyan and began trying once again.
“Come on, don’t be stingy with tries classmate,” Lu Xuan said once again.
And just like this while making plans to not be in any arrangement, Lu Xuan and Gu Shangyan fulfilled their duties even without realizing it.
Gu Shangyan cleared his throat as he looked at a certain cocky delinquent. What delinquent?! The boy was a reincarnation of a proud peacock.
His face seemed to be written with, ‘praise me.’
“Student Lu, I have to see you have a calibre in mathematics. I wonder how nobody ever noticed this.”