"I wasn't completely certain I could defeat you. When the time came, could you go a little easy on me?"
By saying this, Bo Xiaoya had practically admitted that she was somewhat weaker than Wang Qi—a show of weakness. Especially the first half of her sentence, which Wang Qi found quite pleasing. But the latter half made his expression change.
No matter how low his emotional intelligence was, Wang Qi understood that she had not come all this way just to be modest before him.
"Miss, are you asking me to help you cheat?"
Though Bo Xiaoya hesitated for a moment, she still nodded firmly. "That's right."
Her frankness startled Wang Qi instead. "You're actually being this honest about it?"
"I'm a member of the Bo family," Bo Xiaoya said flatly. "To the Bo family, mathematics is the most important thing. For the sake of studying mathematics, it doesn't matter if our methods are a little despicable."
Wang Qi looked at the girl before him with amusement. "By the way, why do you think I'd let you?"
"As long as you take one step back, you'll be a friend of the Bo family." As though she had prepared her arguments long ago, Bo Xiaoya answered swiftly. "Besides, victory doesn't mean much to you—Chen the Sect Leader couldn't possibly let you become a True Disciple, could he?"
Wang Qi shook his head. "As long as I can prove that I'm stronger than everyone else, he'll have no choice but to make me a True Disciple."
Bo Xiaoya frowned. "It won't be that simple. Did defeating Ai Changyuan make you overconfident?"
"I heard you lost to him in the April joint examination." Wang Qi pointed at himself again. "And I beat him."
"It isn't that simple." Bo Xiaoya snorted disdainfully. "Your victory