Devil-Style Tutoring Plan

[The host's current situation has been detected. Please make your choice!]

Choice 1: Refuse Gu Lianyin's request. Reward: one latest Huawei phone.

Choice 2: Agree to Gu Lianyin's request and help her rank in the top twenty on her first mock exam. Reward: "Future News Events" ×2.

The higher her ranking, the greater the chance of obtaining a hidden reward skill!

Lin Yuan was a little distracted.

He hadn't expected to trigger a system choice so casually.

He touched the knockoff phone in his pocket, the one he had bought for a few hundred yuan, and figured it was about time to replace it.

All he had to do was refuse, and it would be his.

Still, he was very interested in the reward for the second choice: Future News Events.

According to the system's description, the reward would reveal news events that would happen in the future.

For example, which celebrity would soon have their messy private life exposed.

Or if a listed company's stock suddenly soared, he could buy in at the right time and make a fortune.

"Fine, I can tutor you. But forget the milk tea. Just bring me a few yuan's worth of steamed buns and soy milk every day."

Lin Yuan made his choice clear.

"Yay!"

Gu Lianyin was so excited she nearly cried out. Classmate Lin Yuan had agreed to tutor her!

When the morning classes ended, Gu Lianyin offered to treat him to lunch.

"Order whatever you want. I can afford it!"

Holding his tray, Lin Yuan looked over the day's dishes. They were quite lavish.

He normally spent no more than ten yuan on a meal, and this time was no different.

He picked two vegetable dishes and one meat dish, then got the cafeteria's free soup.

Looking at Gu Lianyin's tray, there were fried shrimp, and pork ribs in her soup. This one lunch had cost nearly forty yuan.

"Classmate Lin Yuan, why didn't you order more? I'm treating, so you don't have to pay."

Gu Lianyin stared at the food on Lin Yuan's tray, dissatisfied.

"Money doesn't grow on trees. There's no need to order so much."

"It's not like I'm short on money. I loaded three thousand yuan onto my meal card, so you're being too formal." Gu Lianyin said indistinctly as she bit into a chicken cutlet.

Lin Yuan was startled. "You loaded that much? Does your family run a company or something?"

Gu Lianyin looked up in surprise. "How did you know?"

Lin Yuan finally understood. His deskmate really was the daughter of a wealthy family!

Seeing how lavishly she was eating compared to Lin Yuan's plain meal, Gu Lianyin couldn't stand it anymore.

She picked up a lion's head meatball with her chopsticks and placed it on Lin Yuan's tray.

"Here, have this!"

Lin Yuan didn't refuse. Since her family was rich, he wouldn't stand on ceremony.

"Damn, what did I just see?!"

A surprised voice rang out behind him.

Then three boys walked over and sat beside Lin Yuan.

They were his roommates: Wang Ping, Liu Qing, and Li Wencai.

They had just seen Gu Lianyin put food on Lin Yuan's tray and assumed he had gotten himself a girlfriend.

But Lin Yuan was so tall, the best-looking guy in their dorm—how could he have fallen for such a... less-than-pretty girl?

Of course, they only thought it. They didn't dare say it outright.

"Don't get the wrong idea. She's my deskmate. Is there a problem with us having lunch together?"

Lin Yuan couldn't be bothered to explain.

Because he knew that the more he explained, the more excited those three would get.

"Hello, my name is Gu Lianyin. I'm Classmate Lin Yuan's deskmate."

Gu Lianyin sat up straight and spoke softly.

"Hello, I'm Liu Qing, Lin Yuan's roommate. This is Wang Ping, and this is Li Wencai," Liu Qing briefly introduced them.

After a simple lunch, Gu Lianyin headed back to the apartment she rented off campus, while Lin Yuan watched her leave school grounds.

After all, several system choices had been connected to Gu Lianyin.

It was only right that he show some concern.

Lin Yuan suddenly felt someone pat his shoulder.

His roommate Wang Ping wore a mischievous grin, and the other two looked no different.

"Lin Yuan, are you two dating?"

"Tsk, tsk, tsk. Who would've thought..."

"Still, that girl isn't pretty. What were you thinking?"

Liu Qing voiced his confusion.

"Stop guessing. We're really just ordinary classmates."

"Do you believe him?"

Liu Qing looked at Wang Ping.

Wang Ping decisively shook his head. "Nope. Do you?"

He asked Li Wencai.

"I don't believe him either."

Lin Yuan rubbed his forehead. There was no explaining this now.

Gu Lianyin returned home and, the moment she entered, heard her best friend's soft sobbing.

She hurried over and saw Ling Wanqing, already stripped of her makeup and dressed beautifully, sitting on the couch with red-rimmed eyes.

"What happened, Wanqing?!"

Gu Lianyin was startled. She had never seen her best friend cry like this before.

"Lianyin, I want to give up. They're being too cruel!"

At the sight of Gu Lianyin, Ling Wanqing's pent-up grievances burst forth.

Tears streamed down her face.

She told Gu Lianyin everything that had happened at school that day.

Several bad students in her class with poor grades had bullied her.

They called her ugly and even gave her the nickname "Big Mole Pig."

Not a single classmate had stepped forward to defend her.

Ling Wanqing had been miserable all day because of it and hadn't even eaten.

She had even begun thinking of dropping out.

"How can those people be like that? They're going too far!"

Gu Lianyin was furious on behalf of her best friend.

"What about you, Lianyin? How did things go on your end?"

Ling Wanqing asked.

"I'm fine," Gu Lianyin said. "No one said anything about me."

"Oh, right. That deskmate Lin Yuan I told you about before is really good at studying. I asked him to tutor me, and he agreed."

"And I treated him to lunch today. I even put a lion's head meatball in his lunchbox, and he didn't mind at all."

"I think he's a pretty nice person..."

Compared with what her best friend had gone through, Gu Lianyin suddenly felt that Classmate Lin Yuan seemed incredibly admirable.

"Lianyin, don't tell me you've fallen for that deskmate of yours?"

Ling Wanqing wiped away her tears and forced a smile as she teased her.

"What nonsense are you talking about?!"

Gu Lianyin rarely blushed. "We're just classmates. It's not as complicated as you think."

"Besides, we've only known each other for a few days. How could I possibly like him already?"

"Oho, you're blushing. It's only been a few days! If it goes on longer, won't you two be holding hands and kissing?"

Ling Wanqing said with a wicked grin.

"Hmph, I don't want to talk to you anymore."

Gu Lianyin got up and went to the bathroom to remove her makeup.

Soon, her true appearance was restored. She was youthful and beautiful, with an elegant, noble air.

Her skin gleamed with a crystalline luster in the light streaming through the window.

"Wanqing, stop thinking about those upsetting things. At worst, we'll call off our bet. Tonight, I'll treat you to barbecue!"

"Sigh!" Ling Wanqing sighed, but her gaze grew increasingly resolute.

"No. I'll keep pretending to be ugly. When the time is right, I'll reveal my true face and blind those people!"

"I support you with both hands!"

That afternoon.

In order to obtain the system reward, Lin Yuan devised a tutoring plan.

He named it Devil-Style Tutoring Plan.

They would do practice problems after class, and he would tutor her one-on-one on weekends.

He told Gu Lianyin about his plan.

Gu Lianyin immediately pulled a long face.

She was beginning to regret it.

But since she had said it, even if she cried, she had to keep studying.

(End of chapter)