Chapter 100: The Lucky Goose Who Happily Received a Box of Study Materials

From the very beginning, Huo Shuyue had never once considered the possibility that Gu Ci would tutor her properly.

In her own mind, although her relationship with Gu Ci was no longer as tense as it had been at first, it was still at least one of hostility.

If Gu Ci agreed to tutor her, then it was probably just to tease her over this matter.

So when Gu Ci had refused, she had only felt a wave of relief.

Last night, when she heard her little uncle say that Gu Ci had agreed to tutor her again, the first thing Huo Shuyue thought was that Gu Ci wanted to mess with her on this stupid issue.

But now, hearing Gu Ci calmly lay out such a carefully arranged study plan for her, a thought flashed through Huo Shuyue’s mind.

Gu Ci had no intention of teasing her at all; she was truly going to tutor her.

“Otherwise?” Gu Ci lifted her eyelids slightly and added, with considerable credibility, “Don’t worry. I’ll help you improve in a targeted way.”

Huo Shuyue stared at Gu Ci, speechless for a long time.

Even so...

She felt even worse now.

She would actually rather Gu Ci was trying to get back at her through tutoring!

After she finally caught her breath, Huo Shuyue noticed that the students around them were looking at her strangely.

Only then did she turn her head belatedly and meet their astonished gazes.

“You are... Shuyue?”

“Shuyue, did I hear that right just now? You want to study hard? With Boss Gu?”

The students around them looked as though they had just heard some earth-shattering gossip.

At first, when they saw a strange girl charge up to Gu Ci so aggressively, they had assumed she was there to cause trouble and had already been preparing to drag the unfamiliar girl out for a stern talking-to.

After all, not just anyone could push people around in their class.

But as they listened, something gradually felt off.

Why did that voice sound so much like... Huo Shuyue?

Listening to a voice that was exactly Huo Shuyue’s, then looking at that face that still seemed a little familiar, everyone finally confirmed that the person in front of them really was Huo Shuyue.

As for why she had suddenly changed so drastically, no one could guess.

After all, when they had seen her at school yesterday, she had not looked like this.

Huo Shuyue only wanted to say that no one could possibly understand the mood she had been in when her suddenly free little uncle dragged her to a hair salon right after school yesterday and gave her a complete makeover.

As for the reason, it was simply that her previous look had become offensive to her little uncle’s eyes.

Of course, the people here would not know that for now.

After learning that the person in front of them was Huo Shuyue, they silently changed their original fierce intentions into preparations for pulling the two sides apart if needed.

But listening further...

it did not seem like that at all?

Gu Ci had made a study plan for Huo Shuyue?

Which meant...

Huo Shuyue was going to take remedial lessons with Gu Ci.

Looking at the stack of materials in Huo Shuyue’s hands and then at Gu Ci’s calm expression, the students’ faces gradually turned aghast.

Huo Shuyue was actually going to get tutoring?

And with the top student in their class, her own “love rival”?

Sensing the strange looks from the students around her, Huo Shuyue felt even more miserable.

Glaring viciously at Gu Ci, she simply sat down in the seat in front of Gu Ci in a shameless, apathetic sprawl, as though she had given up entirely.

“Gu Ci! Anyway, I’m telling you, I am not taking any stupid remedial classes. If you know what’s good for you, go tell my little uncle right now that you don’t want to be my tutor anymore! Otherwise I’ll make sure you regret it!”

Gu Ci narrowed her eyes slightly and said earnestly, “No, Huo, I’m very willing to help a good student like you who wants to study and wants to improve.”

Her tone was serious, yet the natural laziness in her voice only made Huo Shuyue want to explode.

Just where exactly had Gu Ci seen that she wanted to study and wanted to improve?!

Fine. She’d change. Was that enough?

Fuming, she blew at the bangs on her forehead and said fiercely to Gu Ci, “In any case, I don’t need your help, okay? I’m not going to read or do any of the study materials you mentioned either! Just give up!”

Xiao Yang lounged in his seat with a careless air and, hearing this, mocked her, “Huo Shuyue, just take remedial lessons properly with my Ci-jie. Look at your grades, tsk tsk tsk. They’re simply tragic...”

Huo Shuyue: “...?”

She endured it again and again. “Says the guy who’s somehow so proud of himself, as if your grades are amazing. I’m second from the bottom in our class, and you’re the one at the very bottom, okay?”

Having been hit where it hurt, Xiao Yang still rocked one leg lazily, looking neither ashamed nor embarrassed, but rather proud of it.

He lifted one finger and wagged it. “No, no, no!”

Then he flashed a mouthful of white teeth. “But you need tutoring. I don’t!”

Huo Shuyue: “!!!”

Ahhh, why had she fallen for such an aggravating idiot?

Just then, Gu Ci turned to Xiao Yang with a serious look. “Since you’re the lowest-ranked, you should come along too.”

Suddenly struck by misfortune, Xiao Yang stared blankly. “Wait... Ci-jie, how is this my problem?”

Meanwhile, Huo Shuyue burst out laughing. “Xiao Yang, look at those tragic grades of yours. If you don’t need tutoring, who does?”

Gu Ci was already thinking about which of the study materials Gu Jiancheng had given her could be handed over to Xiao Yang.

After Shi Xuetong entered the classroom, this was what she saw.

Gu Ci sat in her seat with a calm expression, surrounded by several classmates.

Even more glaringly, Huo Shuyue, who should have always been at odds with Gu Ci, was also sitting nearby, laughing out loud.

The two of them looked nothing like people who had any rift between them.

So... in the end, she had been the only one excluded by everyone.

Huo Shuyue had sounded so pleasant before, saying she would always be her good friend, but in reality she had merely treated her like a lapdog.

No doubt her business... had already become common knowledge among the classmates in the room.

Shi Xuetong had been released yesterday afternoon without alerting her parents, relying instead on a connection she had once happened to make in society.

She had even wanted not to come to school, but there was no helping it...

Yesterday, she had merely missed one day of school, and the homeroom teacher had already called her.

Thinking of this, Shi Xuetong lowered her head to hide the resentment in her eyes and forced herself to walk toward her seat.

When she passed Huo Shuyue, Shi Xuetong could clearly sense that the smile on Huo Shuyue’s face vanished for a moment.

And in the seat that should have belonged to Huo Shuyue, another girl from the class was sitting.

In truth, this was only because Huo Shuyue wanted to “negotiate” with Gu Ci about the tutoring matter, so she had temporarily taken that girl’s seat and let the girl sit in hers for the time being.

But in Shi Xuetong’s eyes, it looked as though Huo Shuyue no longer wanted to sit with her and had deliberately switched seats.

“Shi Xuetong, how come you didn’t come to school yesterday?” the girl sitting next to Shi Xuetong asked casually, showing a bit of concern.

Yet the moment those words landed, Shi Xuetong’s expression immediately stiffened to the extreme.

When she looked up and saw the three or five glances faintly drifting toward them, she subconsciously assumed they were mocking her.

She could no longer bear it. With a bang, she stood up and exploded, “What are you putting on that act for? How could you not know why I didn’t come? Isn’t it just because you’re bullying me because I don’t have as much money or power as you do?”

Instantly, the entire classroom fell silent at Shi Xuetong’s outburst.