Fang Xingyun crossed her arms over her chest, leaned her shoulder against the doorframe, and watched Little Chongyang reading seriously in the bedroom with a gentle smile on her face.
Beside her, Jiang Xiao listened with a smile as Little Chongyang recited the passage in her not-quite-fluent speech. Only after a long while did she finish.
"Do you want to go to school?" Jiang Xiao asked softly from the edge of Little Chongyang's bed.
"Huh?" Little Chongyang blinked and asked, "Go to school? Like the one Auntie Cang Lan runs?"
Jiang Xiao said, "More or less. Only your classmates won't be savage children anymore, but humans like us. And you'll learn all kinds of knowledge."
Little Chongyang hesitated slightly. "Uh..."
From the doorway, Fang Xingyun said gently, "Little Chongyang is fifteen this year and will be sixteen soon. She's at the age to start high school, and being with people her age will help her physical and mental development. But... Little Pi..."
Jiang Xiao asked, "What is it?"
Fang Xingyun said, "Little Chongyang won't be able to keep up with the high school curriculum. She's only just learning to read with pinyin, and she only knows addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. She'll have to start from elementary school."
Jiang Xiao nodded. The girl before him was no ordinary girl from human society. Her way of thinking was vastly different from that of human children, and her way of surviving was worlds apart from theirs.
Fight?
Little Chongyang could hack her way from the school building all the way to the school gate! Solve equations? Uh... what do you mean? Are you looking for a fight?
Fang Xingyun said, "Perhaps we should find her a small class with only a few students. That way, she can slowly adjust. While adapting to