He had not misunderstood that.
At least today, he had genuinely felt that Herta seemed quite happy with the teaching.
"Even proper tutoring shouldn't be like this!"
Asta waved her hands in panic. "It's just... aren't the others waiting too?"
"The others? That bunch with nothing but..."
"I'm among them."
Ruan Mei slowly walked past Herta and stopped her before the insult could leave her mouth.
"You think you aren't some tutoring-obsessed motherf***er yourself, Ruan Mei?!"
Herta had originally intended to go easy on her, but Ruan Mei's complete lack of self-awareness made Herta abandon that plan.
She was talking about people exactly like her!
She had to curse her out properly!
"Tch."
Ruan Mei glanced at Herta. "So even you've started calling me Ruan Mei."
Ruan Mei did not care about Herta's insults.
After all, Ruan Mei... one only had to look at the insect nest on the Space Station to know that she was the sort of person who did not bark.
When the chance came to catch Herta off guard, Ruan Mei would absolutely show no mercy.
What Ruan Mei cared about more now was how Herta addressed her.
"I've always thought it was way too troublesome to pause in the middle of a two-syllable name."
Herta took the opportunity to mock her.
"It's so pretentious."
That was true enough. Ruan Mei's deliberate pause in the middle of her name was rather counterintuitive.
As Herta kept saying it, she had been led astray by the others too—after all, no one could resist something more convenient.
Especially Herta herself, a scientist so casual she could practically be called reckless. The fact that she had kept calling her that until now was already giving Ruan Mei plenty of face.
"Call me whatever you want, but don't take up my