Because He Was Kind

Xu Yi's back disappeared completely around the corridor.

Yu Xue mysteriously came over to Liu Qing.

"Teacher, I recorded the piece Xu Yi just played, but there are some parts I don't understand. Could you play it for me?"

Liu Qing gave a bitter laugh. "I can't play it either."

"What! Even you, Teacher..."

"I'm getting old. Osteoporosis, you know."

"..."

Should I just leave?

What should I do? I really want to learn that piece.

I really want to crack open that guy Xu Yi's head and see how exactly it's put together.

After hesitating for a long while, Yu Xue still blushed and opened her chat with Xu Yi.

She typed, deleted it, deleted it, and typed it again.

Beside her, Liu Qing wore the knowing smile of someone who had been there before.

"Some regrets are caused by nothing more than a lack of courage. For example... missing the right person or the right thing."

"Ah! It's over, it's over. Why didn't you call me for today's midterm?"

Xu Yi rolled his eyes and continued typing.

"Big Sis, didn't you see how many messages I sent you? Who else can you blame for sleeping like the dead?"

"It's ruined, it's ruined. Given Iceberg Yu's personality, I'm definitely going to have to delay my graduation."

"Boss, you can rest easy. I'll handle it. You'll pass the test with full marks."

"???"

After Chen Xiaoxing sent three question marks, she stopped replying.

Xu Yi couldn't be bothered to explain further. He was sure that before long, Cockroach Sister would come thank him.

Bingbing: "Xu Yi, aren't you supposed to be teaching your own class next?"

"No. I'm going to keep taking jobs and making money."

"But, Xu, earning money is important, of course, but your studies are more important."

"I already completed all my credits ahead of schedule. Why should I keep attending classes?"

Bingbing fell silent, but she couldn't say anything more.

But this was a livestream.

It was supposed to be a positive-energy program, yet now it was livestreaming a college student running around substituting for other people's classes.

Wasn't this going to corrupt the elementary school students watching?

Just then, Xu Yi received a friend request.

"Bro, I'm not kidding—do you take stand-in gaming jobs? You set the price. I'm about to die... Save me!"

Bingbing's eyelids twitched, and she very clearly hinted, "Fighting doesn't seem like a good idea."

"What fighting? How can a scholar's business be called fighting? This is about determining life and death as well as deciding who's superior. Feng Yuxiu..."

Negative Emotion Points +50

Xu Yi decisively accepted the friend request.

Then he sent the other person a price list for stand-in gaming services.

Kindergarten: fifty.

Elementary school: one hundred.

Middle school: two hundred.

High school: skipped.

University: skipped.

Old men over seventy: three hundred.

The other person was typing.

The other person was typing.

"Why is this guy typing so slowly?" Xu Yi complained unhappily.

"Could it be that he's speechless?" Bingbing added, because he was kind.

Sure enough, the other person sent a long string of ellipses the next second.

A few minutes later, the other person sent another message: "Come find me."

Xu Yi immediately became displeased. You're asking me for a favor, yet you can't even use the polite form? And you want me to come find you?

What are you smoking?

Transfer: fifty yuan (Note: delivery fee)

"Master Beile, I pay my respects."

The two sides met soon afterward.

The other party was a chubby little fellow who looked rather comical.

"Brother, just call me Little Fatty."

"Tell me who I'm fighting. I'll say this in advance: I don't fight anyone over fifteen, because he's kind. I don't fight anyone under seventy, either, because I'm kind."

"..."

Pfft~

Bingbing couldn't hold back and burst out laughing.

The viewers laughed along with her.

"My grandpa says Xu Yi is quite a character."

"Xu Yi is stronger than me. I don't fight anyone over ten."

"Actually, you can't touch anyone over sixty. The current version's T0 picks aren't something to joke about."

"I'm not kidding. I once went to help an old man up, but after he gave me one look, he told me to lie down with him."

"What exactly happened? Explain the whole story clearly, then I'll consider whether to take the job." Xu Yi finally returned to a serious expression.

Little Fatty looked pained. "My girlfriend and I belonged to the Traditional Martial Arts Club. Later, those animals came to provoke us, mocking our traditional martial arts as all flash and no substance. Good for looking at, useless in practice.

"My girlfriend couldn't stand it and went up to argue with them, but then..."

"Then your girlfriend was beaten and injured by them?" Xu Yi asked.

What a cliché plot.

"No... My girlfriend ran off with them. She's now together with the president of the Taekwondo Club."

Xu Yi: "..."

There's nothing to criticize. What a novel plot.

"The hatred of having your wife stolen can't go unavenged!"

"So you went to get revenge?"

"No. I can't beat him... so I'm paying someone else to do it."

"Nice."

Xu Yi asked again, "You trust me just like that? What if I can't beat him?"

"Then I'll say I don't know you."

"..."

Xu Yi couldn't help but look at Little Fatty with newfound respect. All that meat hasn't gone to waste. It's completely filled with scheming.

"What do you say? Will you take the job? Whether you can beat him or not, I'll give you a thousand yuan as a deposit first."

Xu Yi's eyebrow twitched. He was somewhat tempted.

A thousand yuan was no small fortune to him.

"Fine, I accept!"

It's just a Taekwondo Club at a university. Combat Mastery should be enough to handle it... probably?

If it really doesn't work, I'll just ask the system for help.

But to be safe, Xu Yi decided to go to the Taekwondo Club with Little Fatty first and sound them out.