CHAPTER 129: CHAPTER 119 TEACHER QIAO

About the incident of the girls in the dormitory building being sent to the hospital.

The news online is well-controlled; no videos have leaked out, and there’s little discussion on the forums.

But no wall is completely airtight.

There may be no news or videos online, but people do have mouths.

Many people are not malicious; they just casually mention it during conversations.

One to ten, ten to a hundred, gradually it gets distorted, with tendencies to exaggerate and add details.

The girl is a sophomore from the Foreign Language College, a direct junior to Qiao Yuxian, named Chen Xi.

After forty-eight hours in the ICU, she was out of danger and safely transferred to a regular ward.

Her parents contacted Qiao Yuxian via the instructor after she was transferred to a regular ward, repaid her for the hospital expenses, and thanked her.

Qiao Yuxian only met her parents at the hospital and did not visit the girl in the ward.

For Chen Xi, it’s not a good thing; she most doesn’t want others to know, so Qiao Yuxian didn’t visit her, but left directly after meeting her parents.

In the middle of November, on a Saturday, there’s the CET-8 English exam.

Qiao Yuxian had originally planned to do one test paper a day before the exam, ending exactly the day before the exam.

But sometimes, when bored, she would do two more sets of papers, so by the week before the exam, she had finished all her test papers.

With all the papers done and no assignments to write.

Qiao Yuxian was rarely in the study.

Not in the study, she could be anywhere in Fenglin Villa. And wherever she was, she always carried Zhaocai.

So... the rivalry between Gu Yanjing and Zhaocai became more and more apparent.

That day, after work, Gu Yanjing went to a dinner party.

Qiao Yuxian was home alone.

When Gu Yanjing returned, he entered the living room to see a scene like this.

Qiao Yuxian standing in the living room, across from her on the sofa sat Shang Chen, Meng Yan, Aunt Mei, and Zhaocai.

And Qiao Yuxian, standing in front of them, holding a piece of chalk. Behind her was a small blackboard that had been brought in from somewhere.

To the left of the blackboard was a projection screen.

Projected on the screen was the PPT she made.

As soon as Gu Yanjing stepped into the living room, he saw this scene and heard her expressive voice: "Read after me...bus."

The people opposite followed in reading: "bus."

They read quite in unison, just that the emotions sounded different.

Meng Yan read seriously.

Shang Chen seemed dispirited.

Aunt Mei’s eyes sparkled with excitement.

Zhaocai... could only go awo awo awo awo.

"Ok. Very good!" Qiao Yuxian’s voice exaggeratedly curved.

Gu Yanjing paused at the door, Su Qi took a step back.

For that brief pause, Qiao Yuxian suddenly looked over.

Gu Yanjing calmly looked at her.

Qiao Yuxian looked at him for two seconds, then suddenly said: "What’s going on with the two late students? How come you’re just arriving so long after class started."

Gu Yanjing looked at her without speaking.

Qiao Yuxian said angrily: "Hurry in and sit down. After class, come to my office for extra tutoring."

Gu Yanjing unbuttoned his suit jacket and walked in. Shang Chen and the others quickly stood up to make room.

He handed his jacket to Su Qi, sat in the middle of the sofa, and looked at Qiao Yuxian.

Qiao Yuxian said sternly: "You all sit properly."

They all looked at Gu Yanjing, seeing him sitting there watching Qiao Yuxian, they sat back down.

Qiao Yuxian was satisfied inside, pointing at the words on the projection said: "Read this word one by one."

Meng Yan, familiar with the routine, said: "Bus."

Shang Chen expressionlessly followed. Aunt Mei followed right after.

Facing Qiao Yuxian’s gaze, Zhaocai howled towards the sky: "Awo~awo~"

Qiao Yuxian nodded with satisfaction, praising Zhaocai: "Yeah. You are very clever."

Zhaocai squatted on the sofa, looking up and humming at Qiao Yuxian.

Listening to her praise Zhaocai, Shang Chen looked speechless.

After Zhaocai was Gu Yanjing, Qiao Yuxian looked at Gu Yanjing, who sat on the sofa like a Buddha, calmly watching her.

After a few seconds of staring, Gu Yanjing said: "Bus."

Qiao Yuxian looked at him, walked forward two steps and said: "This classmate, your pronunciation isn’t very standard."

Su Qi, who was ready to read the word, lightly inhaled.

Zhaocai got praised for being smart with just two awo sounds. His Gu Shao’s pronunciation was so standard, yet she said he wasn’t good enough.

Su Qi reduced his presence.

Gu Yanjing sat back on the sofa looking at Qiao Yuxian, with a calm but oppressive expression.

Qiao Yuxian, unaffected, said: "This classmate, after class, I’ll tutor you one-on-one."

"Alright. Teacher Qiao."

His voice was light and cool, indifferent as usual, mixed with a lazy vibe. But in Qiao Yuxian’s ears, it still made her heart warm and her ears turn red.

She coughed lightly and said: "Don’t call me randomly. Just call me teacher."

Gu Yanjing saw her ears turning red, appropriately stopped talking.

Su Qi, Meng Yan, and Aunt Mei lowered their heads, either looking at their fingers or picking their nails.

All acting as if they were transparent.

Only Shang Chen, stretching his neck, looked at Qiao Yuxian, then at his Gu Shao, finally at Zhaocai squatting obediently, thinking: What happened?

What’s everyone looking down at?

His Gu Shao seemed to be in a good mood, what’s going on?

Just sitting here for class, reading words, is this worth being happy about?

He touched his crew cut, looking bewildered.

Fifteen minutes later, Qiao Yuxian finished her lesson.

Throughout, Gu Yanjing cooperated very well.

Meng Yan consciously moved the blackboard away, Shang Chen removed the projection screen.

Qiao Yuxian patted the chalk dust off her hands and sat down beside Gu Yanjing said: "How was it? Pretty good, right?"

"Hm."

Qiao Yuxian leaned back on the sofa for a while, then suddenly sat up straight, leaned closer to Gu Yanjing, smelled him and said: "You drank."

"Hm."

"Sneaked out to drink behind my back." Qiao Yuxian squinted her eyes and said.

"Next time, I’ll take you with me."

"I don’t want to go." Qiao Yuxian nested back into the sofa, "All talking business, it gives me a headache."

As they were talking, Zhaocai suddenly jumped onto the sofa, squeezed between the two.

The two sat close, Zhaocai squeezed Gu Yanjing, squeezed for a while before lying on the sofa, looking up, mouth open, in a spoiled manner at Qiao Yuxian.

Gu Yanjing’s eyes darkened.

Qiao Yuxian petted Zhaocai’s head: "Our Zhaocai was great today."

She said as she leaned in to snuggle with Zhaocai.

But as soon as she bent down.

Gu Yanjing suddenly stood up, grabbed her wrist and pulled her up.

"Hey?" Qiao Yuxian bewildered, "What’s the matter?"

"Weren’t you going to tutor me one-on-one?" Gu Yanjing said.

"What?"

"Let’s go." He said, pulling her upstairs.

Qiao Yuxian followed him, explaining: "I was joking."

"I took it seriously." Gu Yanjing threw her four words.

"Even if you took it seriously, it’s not alright." Qiao Yuxian followed him and started to unbend his fingers, "What can I tutor you? Gu Shao! Gu Yanjing..."

Zhaocai saw Qiao Yuxian being pulled away, barking at Gu Yanjing from downstairs.

Gu Yanjing stopped at the staircase, looked at it and said: "Shut up."

The voice wasn’t loud but was cold and severe.

Zhaocai immediately fell silent.

Not only did it fall silent, but Qiao Yuxian also fell silent........