The Heartless, Cheating Scum Woman in a Female-Dominated World (11)

The next time Jiang Xuefu came over to tutor him, Xie Ning was visibly better behaved. He had even taken the initiative to preview what she would be teaching that day and made notes.

"Not bad today. You understood all these parts."

Xie Ning grinned, a stray tuft of hair bobbing mischievously on his head. He leaned over and hooked his arm around Jiang Xuefu's, coaxing her with practiced ease. "Then, Sister Jiang, if I do well today, can you grant me one little request after the lesson?"

So that was why he had suddenly become so diligent. He had been waiting for her here.

Blazing sunlight streamed through the window onto Jiang Xuefu, dispelling some of the air conditioner's chill. She held a smile, her ethereal, gentle eyes curving beautifully. She neither refused nor agreed.

Damn it, the plan ended before it even began.

Xie Ning should have been dissatisfied, but he watched the sunlight creep over the woman's slender, beautiful collarbones. In the light, her snow-white skin shimmered with multicolored flecks, as though studded with diamond dust. She was so beautiful it dazzled and bewitched him.

Gradually, Xie Ning seemed to fall into a daze. His lips parted slightly, and his round eyes stared straight at Jiang Xuefu. He didn't even hear her call him twice.

"Xie Ning?" Jiang Xuefu couldn't help raising her voice again.

"Hm? What is it?"

Xie Ning finally came to his senses. He lowered his head and stared at his book, not daring to look at Jiang Xuefu's face at all.

Books all said that beautiful men were blue-faced calamities, but now it seemed women were just the same. Beauty taken to the extreme was a calamity.

"You got five questions wrong on this page. Try correcting them yourself first." Jiang Xuefu patiently pointed them out to him, not understanding why he had started daydreaming again when he had been studying so well.

"Oh, okay," Xie Ning answered absentmindedly. His mind was in such a jumble that he could no longer remember what he had wanted her to agree to.

While he corrected his mistakes, Jiang Xuefu took out her phone to deal with some company matters.

She had put her old SIM card back in last night, and sure enough, there was a long string of missed calls from Rong Chao, interspersed with the names of several other members of the Rong Family.

Jiang Xuefu ignored them all, though, and had no intention of calling back or anything of the sort.

She knew Rong Chao's mother and father well. Show them the slightest softness and they would want a yard after being given an inch. After giving so little, they thought they occupied the moral high ground and could point fingers at other people's lives as they pleased.

Rong Chao's mother especially was headstrong, opinionated, and insufferably arrogant. She was surely still deluding herself that Jiang Xuefu was the same person she could manipulate as she pleased five years ago.

Wasn't it just an apartment, a car, and a dowry of a few hundred thousand?

Yet they acted as though they had bestowed some enormous kindness on her.

Jiang Xuefu looked at the furious messages Rong Chao's father and mother had sent her on WeChat, sneered, and blacklisted them both without hesitation.

She had disliked them for a long time. This saved her the trouble of finding an excuse to block them.

"Hey, I'm done." Xie Ning's clear voice interrupted Jiang Xuefu's thoughts.

"Weren't you just calling me Sister?" She took the notebook of corrected questions he handed her, lowered her eyes, and teasingly tossed out the remark out of habit.

Xie Ning's hand froze as he handed her the notebook. His face flushed scarlet, and he protested softly, "Wh-who wants to call you Sister? Shameless."

Jiang Xuefu wasn't annoyed at being called shameless. Instead, she said unhurriedly, "I brought cake today."

Cake!

Xie Ning hesitated for a moment. He had only called her Sister just now to curry a little favor with her, so she would agree to his request.

In his heart, Jiang Xuefu actually belonged to the same generation as his dad.

She's the person Dad likes, so I should call her Auntie, but she has little cakes...

Xie Ning wrestled with himself for a long while, but in the end, he couldn't resist the temptation of the little cakes. Embarrassed, he called her, "Sister."

"That's right. Call me that from now on. You're not allowed to call me anything else." Jiang Xuefu imperiously ruffled his hair, mussing his once-smooth locks into a mess.

"What are you doing?! Jiang Xue-"

Before Xie Ning could finish, the woman covered his mouth. Unable to speak, he could only keep making muffled noises to voice his protest!

"What did you call me? Hm?" Perhaps finding it fun to tease the youngster, Jiang Xuefu leaned a little closer. Her cool, beautiful eyes suddenly filled Xie Ning's vision, taking up his entire field of view.

Thump! Thump! Thump!

His heart raced. For an instant, Xie Ning seemed unable to sense anything at all; his heart and eyes were filled with that rich gardenia fragrance.

He blinked, affection and infatuation that even he hadn't noticed hidden deep in his eyes.

"Fufu, I cut up some fruit for you two."

Xie Jinhua came in carrying a plate of cut fruit, but when he saw the two of them in that intimate position, he paused. His feet rooted to the spot, and the smile froze on his face. "What are you two doing?"

When Xie Ning saw who had come in, he found strength from somewhere and suddenly pushed Jiang Xuefu away. He immediately retreated several steps, as if he loathed her touch.

Jiang Xuefu showed no particular reaction to being pushed away. She withdrew her hand and said calmly to Xie Jinhua, "President Xie, Xiao Ning wasn't behaving, so I was punishing him."

Punishing him? Why did she need to get so close to punish him? Why did she need to cover his mouth?

Xie Ning nodded too and walked over to Xie Jinhua. Half coquettish, half complaining, he said, "Yeah, Dad, she's so annoying. There was only one question I couldn't do."

Although Xie Ning had done his utmost to act normal, Xie Jinhua knew him well enough to see at a glance how distracted he was.

And although he said she was annoying, his eyes kept stealing glances at Jiang Xuefu. Clearly, his blossoming feelings couldn't be concealed, even though he wasn't aware of them himself.

Xie Jinhua tightened his grip on the plate, but in the end, he didn't lose his composure in front of her. "I see. You two take a break first."

The sun was shining brightly outside the window, yet the man's heart felt as though it had plunged into an ice cellar.

At first, he had thought that having Fufu come to the house to tutor Xiao Ning would give the two of them more excuses to see each other.

But he had forgotten how charming his Fufu was. Even Xiao Ning had been drawn to her so easily.

That evening, after Jiang Xuefu left, Xie Jinhua came to Xie Ning's room again.

Xie Ning had just finished showering and came out wearing only a bath towel, his wet hair dripping. Xie Jinhua brought over a hair dryer and began drying his hair. Amid the rushing sound, he ventured, "Xiao Ning, what do you think of Teacher Jiang's teaching? Are you adjusting to it?"

"Her? She's pretty good. She explains things simply and clearly, and she isn't boring, so I can actually concentrate on learning. She's much better than that old man at school."

"That's good. The younger girl from your Uncle Xu's family is about to start university too. He was thinking of having Guiyu come and sit in on the lessons."

Xu Guiyu was the Xu Family's only daughter. She and Xie Ning had practically grown up together, and their families were on excellent terms and saw each other often.

"Either way is fine with me. Just arrange it, Dad." Although Xie Ning agreed aloud, he didn't know why he felt a little uncomfortable.

It was as though, as though he didn't want that woman to turn her attention to anyone else.

Startled by the thought that had suddenly popped into his head, Xie Ning quickly shook it.

Xie Ning, oh, Xie Ning! What nonsense are you thinking?! That's the woman Dad likes!

Yet perhaps the more he suppressed it, the deeper it grew.

Xie Ning, who never dreamed when he slept, not only dreamed of Jiang Xuefu that night, but the dream also took place on a bed that made him feel ashamed.

In the dream, the woman guided him, turning him this way and that, until she had eaten him up and wiped him clean.

Early the next morning.

Xie Ning stared in disbelief at the suspicious patch on his bedsheet, frozen in place as though struck by lightning.

Ahhhhh! the young man screamed silently in his heart.

I'm falling apart! This is too much!