Tian Yu, the study.
Yu He skimmed the news reports of Han Dalei's downfall, her peach blossom eyes narrowed.
She had just finished collecting her information and hadn't had time to send it when Han Dalei was already brought down.
Whose speed was this fast?
"The first question, you've already been at it for half an hour."
A slender hand with distinct knuckles tapped on the workbook on the desk.
Yu He looked up, and the man's flawless, arrogant face came into view.
He leaned forward, his right elbow resting on the desk, his palm supporting his chin, his gaze fixed on her.
Yu He: "..."
Didn't he go out? When did he come back?
The sky outside was clear and vast. The two of them, separated by a table, gazed at each other, time seeming to stand still in that moment.
It felt like half a century had passed.
Qin Beiting's left hand crawled across the desk, step by step, reaching her slender wrist.
"If you keep looking, I'll... confiscate your phone."
His hand was large, easily grasping her delicate wrist.
Yu He's eyelashes fluttered. She immediately put away her phone and avoided his hand.
She picked up the pen on the desk and casually filled in a "B" in the blank space of the first multiple-choice question.
"When did you start writing with your right hand?"
Qin Beiting narrowed his phoenix eyes, watching her right hand holding the pen.
He clearly remembered she was congenitally left-handed.
For that, he had even painstakingly practiced his left hand...
Yu He glanced at her right hand and then realized, she had been deliberately practicing with her right hand recently.
"Grandma said my left hand writing was too ugly, so she told me to practice with my right hand," she said, her thick eyelashes half-closed.
Qin Beiting looked at her, a smile tugging at the corner of his lips.
Her nervous reactions when feeling guilty or lying, her inability to meet someone's gaze, those hadn't changed.
Still so cute~
Yu He didn't know what he was thinking and pretended to continue with her studies.
She studied with great seriousness and speed, scribbling away, exuding the aura of a top student.
In less than two minutes, the entire page of multiple-choice questions was finished.
Qin Beiting walked around behind her and took a look.
Excellent!
She had perfectly avoided all the correct options!
Qin Beiting: "..."
As Yu He was about to turn to the next page, the man's magnetic voice, with a warm breath, sounded in her ear.
"You got it wrong."
His large hand enveloped her right hand holding the pen.
This posture made it seem as if Qin Beiting was intimately embracing Yu He from behind, overly ambiguous.
Yu He's body stiffened, her heart skipping an involuntary beat, her nostrils filled with the faint scent of tobacco from the man.
"For the first question, substitute this formula and try calculating it again."
Qin Beiting held Yu He's hand and wrote down a mathematical formula.
His demeanor and actions were as natural as if this teaching method were perfectly normal.
"Is this how Professor Qin teaches homework?" Yu He asked.
"Oh?"
Qin Beiting looked at the person in his arms, his eyebrows slightly raised, a smile on his lips.
Yu He: "..."
She pictured him teaching other women homework like this, and a strange feeling of discomfort welled up in her heart.
Annoyance.
"It's nothing, I don't understand these questions, I'm not doing them anymore."
Yu He pulled her hand back, abruptly stood up, and left.
Qin Beiting watched her retreating figure. Was the little girl angry again?
What Yu He didn't know was that after she left the study, Qin Beiting took out two test papers from the desk drawer.
One was her entrance exam paper, and the other was the paper submitted by Lu Chenyu, attributed to a mysterious academic prodigy.
"Academic prodigy?" Qin Beiting stroked the two papers, his eyes filled with undisguised surprise.
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Ye Family.
"So useless!"
Ye Zisu watched the news online: Chu Shi would be the next mayor, Han Dalei was arrested for bribery, and Han Lili's house was sealed off. She sneered.
She thought she could use Han Lili to put Yu He in her place, but the Han family had an accident instead.
That country bumpkin Yu He was truly lucky.
She always managed to escape by chance!
"Miss, it's time for dinner." The maid knocked on the room door.
"Coming."
Ye Zisu was the last to sit at the dining table. She noticed there were only four people at the table, but five sets of bowls and chopsticks were laid out.
The extra set of chopsticks was placed where Yu He used to sit.
Cheng Lizhu was staring at that spot, lost in thought, while Ye Jianming didn't notice.
Seeing this, a strong sense of resentment welled up in Ye Zisu's heart.
That country bumpkin had already moved out, so why was her mother still missing her so much!
"Aunt Cui, did you forget that Grandma hasn't been discharged from the hospital yet?" Ye Zisu said with a smile.
"I didn't arrange these bowls and chopsticks, Madam did," Aunt Cui mumbled softly and quickly removed the extra set.
This action caught Ye Jianming's attention.
He glanced at the empty seat where Yu He used to sit and calculated the time.
"Dad, didn't you say that the country bumpkin would come back to apologize within a week?"
Ye Zizheng looked up and asked, his tone indicating he was not afraid of trouble and was eager to watch the drama.
Yes, half a month had passed.
Not only had Yu He not returned, but she hadn't even shown her face.
Ye Jianming's face immediately darkened. His first reaction was to look at Cheng Lizhu.
"Did you contact her behind my back and give her money?"
Cheng Lizhu's heart pounded, and she quickly denied it, "I didn't!" Dafeng Novel Network.
In fact, the truth was that she had secretly transferred money to Yu He before, but Yu He had returned it in full.
Yu He had said she had money.
But she had only come out of the mountains not long ago. Even if Old Mrs. Yu had given her some money, the cost of living in Beishi was so high, it wouldn't last long.
"I don't believe you!" Ye Zizheng said.
Mom had already given that country bumpkin 100,000 in pocket money before!
No, that 100,000 yuan had ended up in his hands later... That country bumpkin should be out of money now...
He looked up and found the other three at the table looking at him, expecting him to reveal some unknown secret.
Ye Zizheng: "...Just kidding."
"..."
"..."
"..."
"Did she starve to death at school?" Ye Jianming almost choked.
"Dad, don't be angry. Yu He is actually doing quite well at school. Once, after school, I saw her with..."
Ye Zisu paused deliberately here. Her hesitant demeanor made people even more curious.
"With whom?!" Ye Jianming asked sternly.
Ye Zisu seemed to hesitate for a long time, and finally, as if unsure how to say it, she opened her phone and handed him the photo, letting him see for himself.
The more she acted like this, the more curious everyone became about what Yu He had done.
Cheng Lizhu put down her chopsticks, stood up, and was about to go over to look when Ye Jianming angrily threw the phone on the ground.
"This unfilial daughter! To do such a shameful thing! Hasn't she embarrassed the Ye family enough!"
Cheng Lizhu quickly picked up the phone. On the screen was a picture of Yu He walking away with a group of ruffians.
"How could this be..." she covered her mouth in disbelief.
Seeing Ye Jianming getting so angry again, Ye Zisu's lips curved into an imperceptible smile.
"Dad, don't be angry."
She got up to comfort Ye Jianming and then whispered something in his ear. Ye Jianming's angry expression gradually subsided.
"Okay, you can bring her back then," Ye Jianming nodded.
"Okay, Dad," Ye Zisu's eyes flashed with a cunning light.