Xiangxiang was on the verge of tears. "Little Miss, that teacher is a top-tier tutor. If he leaves, how will you pass your final exams...?"
But how could she possibly pass?
Getting a score of 60 in Medical School exams was hard!
Qin Xin calmly instructed Xiangxiang, "Go after him and bring him back."
Xiangxiang nodded through her tears. "Okay, okay! I'm going right now!"
Great, Little Miss was still sensible. She hadn't wasted Young Master Jue's good intentions.
Who knew?
The next second,
Qin Xin added languidly, "Didn't you say he charges a fortune? Bring him back and make him refund my tutoring fee."
She needed money to buy medicine.
Xiangxiang stumbled. "...!"
Waaah, she absolutely couldn't let Young Master Jue find out!
Not far away, by Ice Lake,
Bai Chi, every inch the dashing gentleman, smiled as he asked a passing girl who the belle of Imperial University was.
As it happened, she was a freshman at Medical School. She only knew they were currently choosing the school's belle.
Since it was the first semester for the new students, nobody knew each other very well. They'd chosen the class belle during military training, then the department belle two months later. Now that finals were almost here, it was finally time to choose the school belle. The university belle wouldn't be chosen until next semester, though.
A little embarrassed under the gaze of the dashing Bai Chi, the girl stammered out the whole story. "The school belle is on the school forum. You can take a look if you're interested..."
Bai Chi nodded, opened the forum, and began browsing with great interest.
"Qin Wenrou... Hmm, nice name!" Bai Chi enlarged the photo of the girl at the top of the school belle rankings. "Is she my future sister-in-law?"
Qin Wenrou looked sweet and well-behaved. Objectively speaking, she was a pretty little beauty.
And there was an indescribable resemblance to the photo Nalan Ye-Jue had been holding that day.
But...
Look closely, and they were different.
The girl Nalan Ye-Jue was going to get engaged to had only been glimpsed in profile, but she'd been dazzlingly pale and breathtakingly beautiful.
Most importantly, she had an imposing elegance—and she was handsome, cool, and beautiful!
By comparison, Qin Wenrou was merely a sweet, demure beauty.
She wasn't exactly breathtaking.
"Could it be the angle of the photo?" Bai Chi rubbed his chin.
"But it looks like she's wearing the same clothes, too!"
Bai Chi was still hesitating when he suddenly heard a deafening BANG behind him.
He jolted, nearly losing his gentlemanly composure.
"Damn... That little good-for-nothing..."
Turning around, he caught Qin Xin wrecking a car and driving off the elderly tutor.
Bai Chi shook his head. "What a mess. A complete mess..."
Such an ugly, savage, arrogant little dunce!
He shuddered and decided he'd better look at his future sister-in-law's photo a little longer to cleanse his eyes.
His curiosity was so intense that he wanted to head straight to Qin Wenrou's dorm and scope things out.
But his charming eyes rolled, and he decided to call the old dean of Medical School first. "Hey, old man, are you short on medicinal herbs or teaching equipment lately?... What? You need a sponsor for the freshmen's academic scholarship event? Perfect, I'll fund it!... Hehe, I'm handsome and kind-hearted, and I've always loved doing charity. I care about the growth of our nation's future flowers... I'll sponsor it with no strings attached! No strings attached! Wait, the only condition is that I get to visit the event and present the awards. Is that okay? Great, it's a deal!"
After hanging up, Bai Chi felt rather pleased with himself.
"I'm getting more and more low-key, and more and more strategic."
Sneaking into Qin Wenrou's dorm to snoop around was the worst option. It would be too forward and might startle the beauty.
Sponsoring a school event and observing Qin Wenrou up close—that was the best option!
Future sister-in-law, here I come!
Bai Chi could already picture himself as the first in their circle to discover his future sister-in-law's true identity, the first to secretly approach her, and even the one who personally presented her with a scholarship.
When Jue got engaged, his future sister-in-law would surely look out for Bai Chi in particular.
Maybe she'd put in a good word for him, and Jue would obediently sell him the first batch of robots at a 20 percent discount.
Sure enough, doing business took brains—brains.
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