jdhmnovel Chapter 925: Xiao Chong Extra 21_3
Chapter 925: Xiao Chong Extra 21_3
Mi Yunzhi laughed heartily: "He’s not exactly a flirt, just very popular with the girls. Every day there’s someone coming over to hang out at his place. To get a girlfriend for him is just a matter of minutes."
"Do you both live in the same neighborhood?" Zheng Ying took a sip from the coke in Mi Yunzhi’s hand.
"Yes, we’re both from the Yongda Residential area, grew up together since we were kids."
As the two walked away, Lin Wanwan waited until they were out of the elevator before covering her face with a scarf and stepping out.
She walked over to Xiao Chong and whispered urgently, "Let’s hurry and go."
She was afraid of running into someone she knew and feeling embarrassed.
"Sure." Xiao Chong responded, then joked, "Why, am I so disgraceful that you have to hide?"
"Uh..."
Lin Wanwan was at a loss for words. She didn’t know why she hid instinctively. Maybe those people in the Monday morning classes, who got called out by the headmaster, made her feel too empathetic—it’s like a rabbit mourning a fox’s death!
Thinking about how she and Xiao Chong might be schoolwide ’social death’ if they were announced like that, made her not want to face the neighborhood folks.
At this age, dating boys always seemed to involve a lot of sneaking around.
Luckily, Xiao Chong didn’t mind, and the two walked together to the roadside outside the square, waiting for a ride-share.
On New Year’s Day, aside from visiting relatives and going to the movies, there’s basically nothing else to do offline.
So after returning to the neighborhood, they did what students should do—homework.
Earlier, Xiao Chong promised Lin Wanwan that he would tutor her, and he kept his word.
Lin Wanwan felt a bit awkward initially walking to his room, didn’t they agree not to date? But now it seems not much different from dating.
Yet once they started studying, those thoughts automatically disappeared from her mind.
Xiao Chong analyzed Lin Wanwan’s final exam mistakes in detail, much more than the teacher did, offering various solving approaches.
He could even casually come up with similar questions for Lin Wanwan to practice.
A private tutor as good as him would cost hundreds to thousands an hour in the training market, and you’d need connections to find one.
Some people just read and do it themselves but can’t teach, yet Xiao Chong is different because Mi Yunzhi and a few other pals around him had unimpressive grades, so to avoid the "Xiao Chong Lee team" from having a low cultural average, he had been tutoring his buddies since young, honing his teaching skills.
Lin Wanwan occasionally sought Xiao Chong’s help before, but mostly it was shooting paper balls to ask questions she couldn’t solve, or doing exercises together and checking answers.
This was the first time where he took a test paper and rigorously taught each mistake without letting anything slip.
After an hour of studying, Lin Wanwan immediately felt as if she’d taken a potent tonic for her science subjects.
She felt she could now move up a few ranks in exams.
"Xiao Chong, you’re amazing." She couldn’t help but exclaim.
Xiao Chong looked up at her, teasing, "So would you reconsider being with me, we could be a couple that boosts each other’s growth, what do you say?"
As he spoke, he propped his elbow on the desk, leaning closer to Lin Wanwan.
His eye gaze was locked on her like evening stars, and although he didn’t touch Lin Wanwan, she felt as if touched.
His gaze was alluring!
Lin Wanwan leaned back on the chair, looking at Xiao Chong’s face coming closer, her breath involuntarily paused, her slightly open mouth failing to emit sound.
Xiao Chong watched her closely for a moment, his gaze resting on her naturally red lips, recalling the night a millennia ago watching stars together during the Lantern Festival, her lips tasted like cherry mousse... his adam’s apple rolled a few times.
Lin Wanwan instinctively reached out to touch his beautifully contoured adam’s apple then froze, startled by her own action.
How did she dare do such a thing?! Was she swooned by his charm?!
Xiao Chong immediately pulled back, his usually calm and composed expression momentarily collapsed, his jade-like face flushed red, even to his ears, surprisingly exhibiting some cuteness.
They silently sat across each other for a while, speechless.
Moments later, Xiao Chong’s soft laughter broke the awkwardness: "Wanwan, you took advantage of me this time. I’ll keep that in mind and collect it back later."
Lin Wanwan blushed even more at his words: "When did I take advantage of you..."
But her voice grew softer, lacking confidence.
After that incident, Xiao Chong came to the small villa whenever he had time throughout the winter holidays to tutor Lin Wanwan.
The rank she lost because of him needed to be made up by him personally.
During Xiao Chong’s birthday, Lin Wanwan specifically gave him a cake and a gift, spending all the money she’d saved up for half a semester.
The tutoring effects were immediate; at the start-of-semester assessment test, Lin Wanwan directly surged to 22nd in class, 25th in grade.
After the whole winter break, Qi Bingqiong fell to 23rd in class, shocked by Lin Wanwan’s progress. During the study group sharing session, she kept asking if Lin Wanwan had hired a private tutor during the break.
Due to what happened in Hai City last time, Lin Wanwan wasn’t fond of her, and naturally couldn’t tell her the truth, so she claimed she learned it all by herself.
Qi Bingqiong obviously didn’t believe it, but had no means to find out, as Lin Wanwan didn’t confide in anyone in class—at least that’s what Qi Bingqiong thought.