Pu Chen ultimately failed to reject Qin Yu's request to add her on WeChat, but after adding him, she became distracted three times in one afternoon, which had never happened to her in class before.
Today's evening self-study went on as normal. After the last class in the afternoon, Zhao Shu started to busy herself with her cleaning business again.
Pu Chen didn't go to the cafeteria to eat. Her dinner was always simple, a bottle of yogurt and an apple, which she could finish in the classroom.
She saw Zhao Shu cleaning the glass by herself. It would take a while to clean such a large piece of glass. She put down the half-drunk yogurt and went over to help.
Zhao Shu turned around and saw Pu Chen coming over with a rag, "Chenchen, you don't have to wipe it. I can finish this job in minutes."
Pu Chen smiled, didn't listen to her, and stood in front of the window to wipe it carefully.
Zhao Shu chatted with her: "Did Qin Yu, that careless kid, apologize to you?"
Pu Chen nodded and took out his cell phone from his pocket: He apologized to me at noon.
Zhao Shu: "Well, don't take it personally. He may just be a big mouth for a while, but he doesn't have any bad intentions. I am a generous and beautiful child, so I won't bother with him."
Pu Chen: I wasn’t angry before he apologized. I guessed he didn’t mean it. Peng Jingyang could become friends with him, so he shouldn’t be the kind of unreliable person who talks nonsense.
After reading it, Zhao Shu smiled and said, "It seems that Qin Yu has benefited from Peng Jingyang's help. Let's talk about the importance of making friends."
"How did I benefit from him?"
Pu Chen looked back quickly. Qin Yu had entered the classroom at some point. He was leaning back in his chair, looking at the two of them leisurely.
Anyway, she didn't say anything bad about him, Zhao Shu said calmly: "Thanks to his good guy card, Peng Jingyang left a good impression on our Chenchen. People are divided into groups, so you are not bad either."
Qin Yu didn't expect that he would have to rely on Peng Jingyang to prove his character.
He asked Zhao Shu: "Is the class representative also on duty today?"
Zhao Shu raised her eyebrows and said proudly: "No, Chenchen saw that I was kind and nice, so he helped me on duty."
Qin Yu stood up and walked to Pu Chen's side, holding out his hand: "Give me the rag."
Pu Chen looked puzzled.
Qin Yu: "You can't reach the glass above, you have to stand on a stool to clean it."
After a brief pause, he added, "I'm on duty today."
Pu Chen handed him the rag and stood beside him for more than ten seconds before returning to his seat.
She continued to drink the remaining half bottle of yogurt. She didn't know what was going on at the back of the classroom or whether the glass was cleaned properly. She was too embarrassed to keep looking back.
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After the evening self-study get out of class, Pu Chen stood up to pack his schoolbag, and glanced back casually. Qin Yu's seat was already empty.
After returning home, Pu Chen took a hot shower and started doing his homework.
Just after ten o'clock, Qin Yu reminded her in the dialog box that it was time to take a photo of the finished homework for him.
Qin Yu added her on WeChat not to ask for help with English questions, but really wanted to copy her homework.
Pu Chen was not confident about his grades, so he said tactfully: I am not sure of the answers to many math and physics questions, and your deskmate studies better than me.
Although it was just a text chat, Qin Yu typed these words on the keyboard with light force on his fingertips, as if he was matching the tone of the conversation. Didn't you say you're not angry with me anymore? Then why don't you copy my homework
Pu Chen sucked on the straw and explained: That's not what I meant. I didn't refuse to let you copy it.
Qin Yu asked: Are you eating
The topic jumped so much that Pu Chen almost didn't react. She was surprised: "Ah? How did you know?"
Qin Yu guessed it. Looking at the message she replied to on the screen, he could imagine her current expression.
He supported his chin and typed with one hand: What are you eating
Pu Chen replied obediently: Drinking milk.
How come she drinks so much milk every day like a little kid
Qin Yu: Which subjects have you finished? Take pictures of them all for me.
Pu Chen took pictures of all her completed homework and sent them to him, but she hadn't done her math homework yet.
Qin Yu clicked on the screenshot she sent him and picked up a pen to copy her answers on the computer screen.
He had just copied half of the test paper when there was a knock on the door.
"Qin Yu?" Qin Mingyi had just come back and stood at the door of his bedroom and called him softly.
Qin Yu said calmly, "I'm doing my homework."
"Click", Qin Mingyi pushed open the door.
Qin Yu didn't even raise his head. If other students were copying homework and saw their mothers coming in, they would have hurriedly closed the page. But he was as calm as ever and continued copying.
Qin Mingyi was holding a fruit plate in her hand, with a few washed fruits casually put in it. She didn't know what Qin Yu liked to eat, so when she passed by a fruit shop, she picked the most expensive ones.
"Eat some fruit before you write." She put the fruit plate on the table and made small talk.
Qin Yu didn't say anything, as if the fruit didn't exist.
Qin Mingyi moved a chair to sit down next to the desk. The atmosphere was awkward, so she had no choice but to look at the computer screen with Qin Yu and asked, "Do you have a lot of homework?"
Qin Yu said nothing, but freed his hand to pat the stack of test papers next to him.
Qin Mingyi ignored the answers on the screen, did not ask whose test paper it was, and did not preach any great principles. She came back early tonight because she listened to Lu Baisheng's advice and came back to spend more time with him.
The mother and son looked at each other in silence for more than ten minutes.
Qin Mingyi didn't expect her son to take the initiative to talk to him, so she said: "Your father will come to see you in a few days."
Qin Yu said, "He's getting married again?"
Qin Mingyi was choked.
Qin Yu: "You can ask him to send the invitation directly to me. There is no need for him to make a special trip."
Qin Mingyi didn't dare to provoke her son, who was full of thorns. She said kindly, "I didn't hear that your father was getting married. I just came to see you."
Qin Yu: "I don't have anything good to look at, and I don't have money on my face. If he really wants to see it, you can shoot a video for him and let him watch it several times a day."
"... ... Qin Yu." Qin Mingyi was helpless.
After Qin Yu finished copying an assignment, he folded the test paper and put it aside. He took out a Chinese test paper from a stack of test papers. He closed the current page and looked for the picture of Pu Chen's Chinese test paper in the dialog box.
"I heard that your school has a half-day break every Sunday afternoon. Then mom will take you to visit Suzhou City." Qin Mingyi took the initiative to talk to her son.
Qin Yu suddenly stopped writing, turned to look at his mother, and asked, "Have you found a new boyfriend, or have you decided to get back together with Chen Zhilun and go ahead with your wedding?"
Chen Zhilun is my mother Huang Diao’s third fiancé.
Qin Mingyi couldn't stand her son's tone, and she couldn't help but raise her voice: "Qin Yu, whether it's your father or me, we just care about you and want to take you out for a walk. Can you talk to us properly?"
"Why didn't I tell you properly?"
"You call this talking nicely?"
Qin Yu uttered a "huh", turned back and continued copying the questions.
Qin Mingyi reached out and took a few strawberries from the fruit plate. If she didn't divert her attention, she would go crazy. The child was her own and there was nothing she could do about it. If it were someone else, she would not be able to bear this kind of anger.
She took two bites of fruit and calmed down. "Why is it so difficult to chat with you now? I try to talk to you nicely but you insist on being sarcastic and sarcastic."
Qin Yu took over her words: "No one is being sarcastic, it's just that you are guilty."
"... ... " Qin Mingyi wanted to get angry, but she held back. She told him the facts: "Your father wanted to come see you, you said he was getting married, I wanted to take you out for a walk, and you brought up that I had a new boyfriend. Are you talking to me in a nice way?"
Qin Yu stared at the computer screen and said slowly, "Since I was little, you have taken me out to travel three times. The first time was when I met your boyfriend, and the other two times were when you told me that you were getting married and wanted my blessing. Every time my dad took me out to play, his purpose was the same as yours."
"Since you are here to inform me that you are getting married, why do you have to beat around the bush? I was a few years old and still had fantasies about you. I never learned my lesson after being deceived. I always thought that you would sincerely take me out to play once."
Qin Mingyi felt a piercing pain in his heart, followed by endless shame.
Qin Yu frowned as he looked at the answers on Pu Chen's test paper. How careless she must be to make mistakes on easy questions. He didn't care what the correct answers were and just wrote down her wrong answers.
"I'm sorry, Mom didn't consider your feelings before." Qin Mingyi knew that an apology would not help, so she explained again: "I just wanted to take you out to relax on the weekend, nothing else."
Qin Yu turned a deaf ear to it.
"Do your homework and go to bed early after finishing it." Qin Mingyi closed the door and left. After being in a daze in the living room for a while, she went back to her bedroom and called He Junshuo.
After she answered the phone, she realized that something was wrong. Calling her ex-husband so late at night was not something an ex-wife should do. It was just that she was so excited that she didn't care about anything else.
"Is it convenient?"
He Junshuo: "In the law firm." He asked: "About the case?"
Qin Mingyi: "No, let's talk about your personal affairs."
He Junshuo put down the work at hand and rubbed his eyebrows: "You say."
Qin Mingyi stood in front of the French window, crossed his arms, and asked him, "You said a few days ago that you would come to Sucheng to see Qin Yu. Are you...getting married again?"
He Junshuo paused, "When did you start to care about my private affairs? Don't worry, whether I get married or not, I will not have children anymore, and it will not affect the inheritance of Qin Yu's property."
Qin Mingyi was not surprised that he spoke so bluntly. After she divorced He Junshuo, nine out of ten phone calls they had were about the interests of the law firm.
But just now, He Junshuo made it clear that he would not have any more children, which was beyond her expectation.
Her and He Junshuo's property is not just the shares of the law firm, which is only a small part. The part that belongs to her from the Qin family and the part that belongs to He Junshuo from the He family are the bulk of the property.
Of course, it would be best if he didn't have any more children, so that Qin Yu wouldn't suffer financially.
Sometimes she thinks that it is nothing but sadness that she and Ho Kwan-shuo have gone from first love to this point today.
"Asking you whether you want to get married or not is not a personal matter. I don't have that much free time. If you are planning to get married for the fourth time," Qin Mingyi emphasized the word "fourth", "don't tell my son yet. He is in a bad mood now. I am reflecting on what else I have given him besides money over the years."
He Junshuo: "You don't need to reflect on this. Qin Yu is just being pretentious because he doesn't lack money. Ask those children who work hard in society. Ask them whether they prefer money or their parents' nagging."
Qin Mingyi didn't want to argue with him, so he held back his anger and said, "Why don't you just not come over for now? Qin Yu will have his winter vacation in more than a month, and you can pick him up and take him back to Beijing then."
"What about you?" He Junshuo asked.
Qin Mingyi: "I have a project abroad and I need to go on a business trip."
He Junshuo: "You're not coming back for the New Year?"
Qin Mingyi said "hmm".
He Junshuo guessed that she didn't want to come back to face her relatives and friends at home. Qin Yu was stabbed before, which caused quite a big fuss. Everyone thought that she was the one who interfered in other people's marriage. After she successfully got promoted, she was retaliated by the other party's ex-wife.
But that's not the case.
Others don't believe it, but he believes her.
If she was really the kind of person who could take the initiative and put aside her pride, his marriage with her would not have come to a dead end.
He comforted her: "Then you can go out and relax. You don't have to worry about what others say. You don't expect them to give you money, so you don't have to be nice to them."
Qin Mingyi said, "Thank you."
This was their first non-work-related phone call in half a year.
He Junshuo chatted with her for a few more words: "How is your son now?"
"He doesn't pay much attention to me." Qin Mingyi felt full of self-blame. "I don't plan to get married again in the future. I will spend more time with him. If you have time, you should also pay more attention to him."
He Junshuo was silent for a moment, "Mingyi, do you have to do this?"
Qin Mingyi: "I didn't ask you not to get married, I just asked you to take some time to spend with your son."
He Junshuo felt that Qin Mingyi was making a big deal out of nothing: "He's almost as tall as me, and he still needs my company? You don't have to watch him for two days before he starts to get annoyed with you. You might as well relax yourself if you have that time."
Qin Mingyi had nothing to say. If she continued talking, they would definitely start a quarrel. She was angry that he had time to accompany his girlfriend and no time to ask about his son.
The conversation was not going well, so she said angrily, "I'm hanging up!"
What He Junshuo hates most is that she hangs up the phone all the time: "Why are you so angry with me? You always give me a cold shoulder."
Qin Mingyi could no longer bear it: "He Junshuo, you are kidding me, I am giving you a cold shoulder, how dare I?"
Her ability to turn the tables is just as good as before.
It was as if he had been the one giving her the cold shoulder all those years.
He drank half a cup of coffee to calm his temper.
"I won't argue with you." He Junshuo controlled his tone and tried his best to speak calmly: "Mingyi, can you please not take all the blame on yourself? My son was hurt, I don't blame you, you don't want that kind of thing to happen, don't be so cautious just because your son is like this. Remember, this is not your fault, you don't need to please anyone."
Qin Mingyi opened his mouth, not knowing what to say.
The incident of my son being stabbed a few months ago has become a taboo in the family and no one wants to talk about it.
The person who stabbed Qin Yu was Chen Zhilun's ex-wife. Half a year ago, Chen Zhilun was still her fiancé. If it weren't for this incident, she and Chen Zhilun would have got married and started her third marriage life.
And now, she and Chen Zhilun have become strangers.
When Chen Zhilun divorced his ex-wife, his career was at a low point, his cash flow was cut off, and his company was in a debt crisis. He and his ex-wife had a small quarrel every two days and a big quarrel every three days, and finally broke up.
In the following years, Chen Zhilun made a comeback in mountaineering.
At the end of last year, his company was listed in two places.
She and Chen Zhilun have had a good relationship in recent years. He is particularly tolerant of her and they originally planned to get married this year.
Just before they got their marriage certificate, Chen Zhilun's ex-wife heard from somewhere that Chen Zhilun's company had not been in a debt crisis at all. The so-called company debt was actually a debt owed to another company of his. The other company was registered in the Cayman Islands, and the actual controller was Chen Zhilun.
His ex-wife heard from someone that she, the lawyer, was a third party, and that the reason Chen Zhilun was able to get a smooth divorce without having to divide the property was all because of her bad advice.
She and Chen Zhilun did know each other during his marriage, but it was because Chen Zhilun's company had business cooperation with her law firm.
After the collaboration ended, she and Chen Zhilun had no contact. The next time they contacted was after his divorce, when he took the initiative to pursue her.
But who would believe it
In the eyes of his ex-wife, Chen Zhilun now has so many assets, and he usually doesn't care about his daughter. It is very likely that her daughter will not get any property in the future. Chen Zhilun is now in his early forties, so it is normal for him to have another child.
The ex-wife became more and more unwilling, and her life was not going well, so she went to Chen Zhilun to settle the score. The result is predictable.
The ex-wife was so provoked that she lost her mind and finally took out her anger on Qin Yu.
The woman had no intention of letting Qin Yu live, so she stabbed him twice. The incident happened at the school gate when school was over. Qin Yu was talking to his classmates at the time and was not on guard at all.
The car that the Qin family came to pick up Qin Yu from school was parked across the road, dozens of meters away. The driver had no time to react, and by the time the driver rushed out of the car, it was too late.
Fortunately, Qin Yu was lucky enough to be rescued.
The next day he was supposed to take part in the mathematics competition exam, but missed the opportunity.
At that time, the rumor in the school was that she was the third party in someone else's marriage, so the woman went to take revenge on Qin Yu. It was not spread by students, but by the woman who stabbed Qin Yu to vent her anger.
Later she found out that Chen Zhilun did transfer the joint property when they divorced.
Who would have thought that beneath that beautiful appearance, there is such a despicable heart.
After his ex-wife was arrested, Chen Zhilun burst into tears when he learned that she might be sentenced to life imprisonment.
Who knows why he is crying.
Chen Zhilun's daughter will take the high school entrance exam next year. Since her mother's accident, she has been on leave from school and is unwilling to go out. She has developed serious psychological problems. However, she went to the hospital to see Qin Yu and apologized on behalf of her mother.
Qin Yuyuan and the others said that a good little girl was ruined by them.
Qin Yu stayed in the hospital for more than a month, and then stayed at home. When he recovered, she brought him to Sucheng, wanting to give him a quiet study environment.
However, even though she and her son were in the same city and had more time to spend together, their relationship was at an unprecedented stalemate.
"Ming Yi?" He Junshuo called her when he saw that there was no response on the other end of the line.
Qin Mingyi pulled himself away from his memories and replied, "I'm listening."
He Junshuo was still worried about his son. "Isn't Bo Sheng Qin Yu's class teacher now? You should talk to him about what to do. I don't want to talk to you anymore. I have a phone call."
Before hanging up, He Junshuo explained: "It's a call from a client." This prevented Qin Mingyi from thinking that he didn't care about his son's studies because he was answering a call from some woman.
After the call ended, Qin Mingyi calmed down for a moment and felt that what He Junshuo said was not all nonsense.
She first sent a message to Lu Bosheng, asking him if it was convenient.
Lu Bosheng called her back later.
Qin Mingyi asked: "Is Qin Yu still in class like this now?"
Lu Bosheng did not hide it: "Well, except for math class, I slept in other classes. I was just planning to make some minor adjustments to the seats, so I will move Qin Yu and Pu Chen to the same table."
Qin Mingyi: "Is it the pretty little girl who can't speak?" She saw Pu Chen's test paper in the office and remembered the name.
Lu Bosheng: “Yeah.”
Qin Mingyi asked: "How are her grades?"
Lu Bosheng said truthfully, "It's very ordinary. She was in a car accident and her voice was damaged. She fell behind for several years. After that, she never caught up and didn't communicate with anyone."
Qin Mingyi followed his words: "It's already good to have such an achievement."
Qin Mingyi didn't ask any other questions. Since Lu Baisheng arranged the seats, he must have his considerations, so she didn't say anything more.
Maybe Qin Yu and Pu Chen sat at the same table, and seeing that the girl worked so hard to study despite the difficulties, he might have been touched.
After thinking about it, Qin Mingyi felt a little relieved and hoped that his son could get over it as soon as possible.
After finishing the call with Lu Bosheng, she had nothing to do, so she knocked on Qin Yu's door again.
Qin Yu's voice came: "What's the matter?"
Qin Mingyi pushed the door open and said something small: "Are you having enough fruit? Do you want me to wash some more for you?" She glanced at the fruit plate and did not move.
Qin Yu: "I won't eat anymore."
Qin Mingyi had no choice but to take the fruit plate away.
Qin Yu spent an hour copying all the test papers, except for the math test. Pu Chen hadn't sent him the answers yet, so he knocked on her: Where is she
Pu Chen said anxiously: Please wait a moment, I haven’t finished the last math problem yet.
Qin Yu turned to the last question on the back of the math test paper. The difficulty of this question was so great that he didn't even need to think about it. He could figure out how to do it at a glance.
He found a piece of scratch paper and wrote down the steps to solve the problem in detail, his handwriting was neat. He had never written the steps so carefully even when he was in elementary school.
Qin Yuhua took several minutes to finish the question. He glanced at the time below the computer. It was still early, so he played a game. Then he leisurely took a photo of the draft paper and sent it to Pu Chen, saying, "I asked Peng Jingyang for you."
Pu Chen was surprised: Was it really him who did it
Qin Yu asked back: Could it be that I did it
Pu Chen didn't expect that Peng Jingyang, who had the aura of a top student and a school idol, would be so patient. There were several steps that could be completely omitted for him, but he still wrote them down carefully and even marked the knowledge points involved.
She replied to Qin Yu: I have never met a top student like Peng Jingyang. He is more patient and humble than I thought. Please thank him for me.
Qin Yu: From now on, tell me any questions you don’t understand and I will ask him for you.
Pu Chen thanked him and began to study the answer seriously.
At half past eleven, Qin Yu sent a message: I just finished copying. You should do your homework faster next time, otherwise I will have to copy until midnight and affect my sleep.
I've never seen anyone copying homework so confidently.
Pu Chen kindly advised: You should do some of the homework assigned by the teacher in the future, at least do everything you can do.
Qin Yu looked at the computer screen. He could even imagine that Pu Chen was typing and lecturing him seriously at this moment.
It's also strange that he always has an endless good temper when talking to her: Okay, I'll listen to you, the class representative is right, I will try to do some homework in the future.
Pu Chen then advised him: There is still a month before the final exam. You should set a target score for yourself. It doesn’t have to be very high. For example, for English, you can set a target score of 70. When you get that score, you will be very happy.
Qin Yu's fingers stayed on the keyboard for a few seconds and replied: Okay, then let's set the score at 70. If I get 70 points, you can help me with all the winter vacation homework.
Pu Chen: “?”
Wouldn't this be too difficult for her
She asked him: How are your grades in other subjects
Qin Yu: The others are not as good as English.
Pu Chen sighed slightly, thinking how bad his grades must be.
Qin Yu: We have a deal. If I get 70 points in English at the end of the semester, you will write my winter vacation homework.
Pu Chen wanted to give Qin Yu some motivation, but he couldn't discourage his enthusiasm, so he set a threshold that was neither too high nor too low: 80 points, if you get 80 points in every subject, I will do all your winter vacation homework, if you get less than 80 points in one subject, I will only do your English homework. Is that okay
Qin Yu suddenly smiled. She even knew how to negotiate terms with him.
He asked: Can we exclude Chinese? After all, it is difficult for him to control his score in Chinese, and it is impossible for him to get 80 points.
The two reached an amicable agreement.
Pu Chen was just curious: If I don’t give you the homework to copy, are you really going to tell Teacher Lu that I bought candy
Qin Yu: Yes. You didn't even give me homework to copy, so why didn't I tell the teacher that you ate candy
Pu Chen: “…” Robber logic.
Qin Yu: Teacher Lu and I are from the same hometown and have a good relationship. If you don’t give me homework to copy, I might accidentally let it slip to him that the English class representative in our class seems to love eating candy and can’t stop eating during class.
Pu Chen: “…”
Qin Yuxiao stopped teasing her and said to her: It's too late today, let's talk tomorrow night, you should go to bed early.
Pu Chen typed the words "good night" in the dialog box, hesitated for a few seconds, and then deleted it.