Tutoring session: on one side was a soon-to-be high school JK, and on the other, a freshman university student who had actually graduated years ago and was already a working adult.
In theory, a working adult shouldn’t be able to help a high school student with homework anymore, but Bai Xiaoya glanced at the textbook cover and thought that since it was only first-year high school material, she could give it a try.
At worst, she’d just tutor Chinese and English.
“Don’t rush, let me take a look at the book first,” Bai Xiaoya said.
“Let me familiarize myself and get a feel for it.”
Bai Xia stood up and poured two cups of water, placing one in front of each of them on the table.
“You focus on yours; I’m not in a hurry.”
It wasn’t actually difficult. Bai Xiaoya quickly found her rhythm.
For her, the accumulation of English vocabulary and grammar had always been ongoing, so this subject was easy.
As for Chinese, it was even simpler—just use the answer key to guide the reading comprehension questions.
Victory already!
Bai Xiaoya happily lifted her head, accidentally locking eyes with Bai Xia.
“Feeling the vibe?”
Bai Xia asked.
“Not yet, just resting my eyes a bit,” Bai Xiaoya said in a mentor’s tone.
“If you keep looking down at the book, your neck will hurt.”
Originally, she felt like she’d gotten into the groove, but the moment their gazes met earlier, the girl suddenly felt a strange new emotion stirring inside.
Maybe it was because Bai Xia’s room was so quiet, the afternoon breeze carrying a bit of drowsiness, sunlight mixing with the lamp light, as if a youth movie filter had been applied.
For the first time, the two of them didn’t argue but sat quietly together, less than half a meter apart, able to hear each other’s breathing and the pounding of their little hearts.
At that moment, the tangled thoughts in their minds slowly unraveled, and following the most natural feeling in their hearts, Bai Xiaoya and Bai Xia suddenly realized something.
Whether it was due to some mysterious factor or an outburst of sweet, innocent emotions, one thing was clear.
They had done it.
The air in the room turned quietly awkward, and the book in Bai Xiaoya’s hand had already been flipped through once, even accidentally held upside down.
To avoid being caught by Bai Xia, Bai Xiaoya decided to take the initiative, pressing the textbook down on the table.
“Before we get into the tutoring content, I have something else to talk to you about.”
Bai Xia pretended to sip her water but was actually still recovering from the complicated feelings just now.
“Is it also about the tutoring?”
They didn’t know that what each of them was thinking about was the same thing.
“No, it’s education,” Bai Xiaoya said seriously.
“Do you know that in high school, there are all kinds of rules, called School Rules?”
“I know.”
Bai Xia looked confused, not understanding why this big-breasted girl suddenly brought this up.
“Then do you know one of the School Rules is that you can’t, just because a girl says something weird to you, or ‘accidentally’ pops a button on your forehead, go and… go and…”
Bai Xiaoya hesitated for a long time, not sure what word to use, and finally just said, “You know what I mean!”
Bai Xia looked up at the big-breasted girl’s angry expression and suddenly realized that she really thought of her as that kind of person.
The kind who gets super happy and excited at the drop of a hat?
“I wouldn’t do that,” Bai Xia twitched the corner of her mouth.
“And actually, the first time I did that was just a few days ago.”
She didn’t know why, but she felt the need to explain herself.
“Oh? So that means you only do that to me?”
Bai Xiaoya got even more annoyed.
“Am I some kind of special case?”
Of course not—mainly, a certain mysterious presence had assigned a Task, and if she didn’t keep Bai Xia in check, she’d be in trouble—Bai Xia thought this in her head, but her gaze subconsciously dropped to Bai Xiaoya’s ample chest.
Recalling the day she first arrived at the Bai Family, the sunlight wasn’t very bright, and it was this pair of big white rabbits lying on the balcony that greeted her first.
If life were only as it was at the Initial Encounter.
“Where are you looking, you pervert!”
Bai Xiaoya scolded the Headmistress.
“Would you do that just because you see other big-breasted girls and can’t help yourself?”
God, why was this kind of pervert the destined protagonist?
Xiaoya was so unwilling.
But Bai Xia immediately denied it: “No.”
She spoke faster than even she expected.
“Really?” Bai Xiaoya crossed her arms skeptically.
Bai Xia gave a helpless smile.
“I said it, you don’t believe me. Do you want me to swear an oath?”
“Go ahead, swear if you want. Wait, no, you’ve led me off track,” Bai Xiaoya suddenly realized.
“Even if you say that, it doesn’t explain the reason. Since you’re not that kind of person, why did you do that to me?”
Yeah, why?
A few days ago, Bai Xia had convinced herself with the excuse of the Task Reward, but in these past few days, the quiet hope rising in her heart wasn’t all for the reward.
The girl suddenly felt a little inexplicably guilty.
“I don’t think I owe you an explanation…”
Buzz buzz buzz, buzz buzz buzz, both phones on the table rang.
Bai Xia’s phone was a message from Li Butler, asking if she wanted a fruit platter or other afternoon desserts.
[No, thank you.]
As for Bai Xiaoya’s phone, the message was from Zhang Butler.
Seeing she had entered the Second Young Miss’s Main Venue, he worried it might be dangerous and said that if the situation became urgent, just give a secret signal and he’d rush up to her aid immediately.
[Don’t bother. I have the advantage here. You go about your business, no need to cause trouble.]
Bai Xiaoya was very confident in her prime condition, and the strong momentum she showed earlier while pressing Bai Xia for answers felt like she was about to win.
After this small interruption, Bai Xia adjusted her emotions and had also thought of how to respond: “I want to ask you the same question.”
Bai Xiaoya blinked slightly.
“Ask me?”
“Yes, why do you do these things to me,” Bai Xia shrugged elegantly, “the so-called… bullying behavior?”
Bai Xiaoya’s eyelid twitched.
In theory, answering a question with a question wasn’t proper and could be ignored, but being asked directly like this threw her off.
Bai Xia sensed this and pressed on: “My answer is the same as yours—you do it for whatever reason, and that’s the same reason I do it.”
The girl didn’t know she’d unintentionally hit the nail on the head—it was just a debate tactic.
Bai Xiaoya didn’t realize either, so she just replied, “We’re different.”
Bai Xia cocked her head.
“How are we different?”
“You just said it yourself—you don’t usually do those things, and you don’t do them to others,” Bai Xiaoya said righteously.
“I’m different. I do the same to others.”
She said it casually, after all, it was just a little bullying here and there—not that special.
But as soon as the words left her mouth, Bai Xiaoya noticed Bai Xia suddenly tense up, her expression turning sour—the first time she’d ever seen such a range of emotions on the Headmistress’s face.
“What did you just say?”
At the same time, a notification sound rang in their minds—
[Ding dong~…]
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