by Dragon King
He had always abided by the rules. Therefore, in weather like this, he would never fly into the sky.
“Go ahead with tutoring, you guys,” Zhao Hongyu said to Hao Ren and Zhao Yanzi.
“Oh…” Zhao Yanzi turned to her room, pouting.
Hao Ren grabbed the tutoring material from the living room and followed Zhao Yanzi upstairs.
Zhao Yanzi was in her pajamas and slippers, and she looked very lively as she hopped upstairs.
Her long black hair fluttered loosely on her back. As she wobbled, her hair gave out a hint of a pleasant scent.
Hao Ren followed her closely into her room.
The room was a bit messy. But compared to the slight drizzle outside, the room had a warm, refreshing smell.
A hand suddenly appeared between the door and the doorframe when Hao Ren was about to close the door. Zhao Kuo pushed the door open and entered the room.
Zhao Yanzi looked at him, confused.
“I… am just here to check,” Zhao Kuo smiled with his mouth open.
“You don’t know any of these anyways, Third Uncle.” Zhao Yanzi pouted.
“Just checking… Just checking…” Zhao Kuo sat himself down in a little chair despite Zhao Yanzi’s complaints.
“Let’s begin,” Hao Ren moved a chair to the desk and took the paper out of his bag.
Zhao Yanzi dragged over her swivel chair, and she pulled her feet up and sat in it with her legs crossed. Then, she took out some scratch paper and a pen and started working on the mock exam Hao Ren prepared for her.
Her pajama was a bit loose. She rested her head on one hand and wrote the exam with the other. Her smooth white neck appeared under her collar.
“Uh-hem!” Zhao Kuo coughed twice by the window.
Hao Ren looked at him before turning back at Zhao Yanzi’s paper.
Rain dripped off the eaves of the house.
Zhao Yanzi read the question carefully, and she pouted, bit her lips, and frowned from time to time. Her facial expression was very interesting.
“Here! All done!” Zhao Yanzi pondered for a bit at the last question. Then, she wrote ‘Don’t Know How’ on the paper before she handed the paper to Hao Ren.
Hao Ren took the paper and read through it carefully. Their tutoring sessions had been pretty effective lately. Zhao Yanzi was able to finish 70%-80% of the questions that she didn’t know how to solve before. She could even use her own ways to answer some of the questions.
Zhao Kuo’s hip was a little sore from sitting. Therefore, he stood up and came over to take a look.
He was glad to see Hao Ren’s checkmarks on most of the questions. As an uncle, he had no idea what these middle-schoolers’ school work was about. However, it didn’t stop him from caring about Zi’s grades.
“You made a mistake on this one. This is what you should have done…” Hao Ren pointed at the first mistake she made and started showing her the right answer.
Zhao Yanzi moved her chair closer to Hao Ren. She rested her arms and upper body on the desk and listened carefully.
Hao Ren picked up the pen and said, “And this one. Let me show you how to solve it…”
Zhao Yanzi moved a bit closer, and her head was almost on Hao Ren’s shoulder.
“See, this is a linear equation here,” Hao Ren wrote quickly on the scrap paper.
Zhao Yanzi pouted her little mouth. The two chairs had already become one, and half of Zhao Yanzi’s body was already right in front of Hao Ren. She laid comfortably in Hao Ren’s arms with her head right under his chin, and she looked closely at Hao Ren’s problem-solving procedures.
“Uh-hem!” Zhao Kuo couldn’t help but cough twice.
Zhao Yanzi looked up at Zhao Kuo and complained, “We are working on a question, Third Uncle!”
“See here… You need to use factorization…” Hao Ren was very focused.
“Um! Um!” Zhao Yanzi nodded immediately. Her hair touched Hao Ren’s chin, and she decided to ignore Zhao Kuo completely.
Although she was still sitting on her own chair, her body was completely snug in Hao Ren’s arms like a mermaid. She didn’t mean to take advantage of him; it was just really comfortable to be in Hao Ren’s arms.
“This… This…” Zhao Kuo’s eyes opened wide. He didn’t think it was a good idea to leave Hao Ren and Zhao Yanzi alone in the room, so he came to check on them. But Hao Ren was…
“So, x equals 12, and y equals six. Then, we have the answer,” Hao Ren held onto Zhao Yanzi’s shoulders and said.
“Oh, I see…” Zhao Yanzi looked like she understood it as she laid in Hao Ren’s arms.
“Zi!” Zhao Kuo shouted.
“Quiet, Third Uncle! I am trying to think!” Zhao Yanzi rested her chin on her palms as she stared at Hao Ren’s solution.
“Stop yelling, Zhao Kuo.” Zhao Hongyu suddenly appeared at the door.
“No… but…” Zhao Kuo didn’t know what to say. He pointed at Hao Ren and Zhao Yanzi who were sitting together by the desk.
“Come out and stop interfering.” Zhao Hongyu rolled her eyes at him.
“But… but…” Zhao Kuo walked out in surprise.
“Get some rest after tutoring, Zi. And don’t play any games,” Zhao Hongyu said to Zhao Yanzi before she closed the door behind her.
“I know, Mom!” Zhao Yanzi leaned back, sticking her little round head on Hao Ren’s chest. She stared at the paper and asked, “And the next question?”
456 I Don’t Need Your Company!
After going through the paper, Hao Ren’s legs were a little sore from Zhao Yanzi’s weight.
But since she was very soft, Hao Ren felt like he was holding a large cat in his arms. Therefore, Hao Ren didn’t feel uncomfortable at all.
“Anything else you don’t understand?” Hao Ren turned to her and asked.
Zhao Yanzi was at the age when she had the best skin. There was no flaw on her face whatsoever, and she was as smooth as a porcelain doll.
“No!” she shrugged at Hao Ren’s stare, and her shoulder accidentally hit Hao Ren’s chin, making him almost biting his tongue.
Zhao Yanzi placed her hands on the table like a nimble little kitten. Then, she hopped from Hao Ren’s chair into her own chair.
The spot where she laid on was still warm, and Hao Ren took another look at Zhao Yanzi and felt like she really looked like a cat that he couldn’t even catch.
“If she likes you, she will stick around for a bit. If she doesn’t, you wouldn’t even be able to touch her,” Hao Ren thought.
Hao Ren looked at her smooth neck underneath her hair and asked, “You have been well-behaved lately and have been focusing on your studies. You haven’t gone out with Ling?”
“She has a boyfriend now,” Zhao Yanzi answered absentmindedly as she noted down the answers Hao Ren just gave her.
“Where is he from?” Hao Ren asked casually.
“Liu Yuntao, from Class Three. He is very good at basketball,” Zhao Yanzi tilted her head as she wrote the answers down.
“Watch your posture.” Hao Ren reached out and straightened her up.
“Annoy…” Zhao Yanzi rolled her eyes at Hao Ren. Then, she bit the tip of the pen while she recalled the procedure Hao Ren wrote down for the questions and re-wrote them on her own paper.
Hao Ren sat beside her, and he felt like she looked like a regular middle-schooler to him no matter what.
“Have there been any love letters from boys in your school lately?” Hao Ren continued to ask.
“Who dares? They all know that I have a boyfriend now,” Zhao Yanzi scanned the paper with her black-gem-like eyes and said casually.
She suddenly looked up at Hao Ren and said, “Don’t get any wrong ideas!”
“Uh…” Hao Ren was stupefied, thinking, “I didn’t get any ideas…”
“Sun Yi from Class Six is quite cute, and he is the captain of the soccer team,” Zhao Yanzi stuck out her little tongue as she said.
“I used to be on the soccer team too,” sai
d Hao Ren.
“Really?” Zhao Yanzi raised her eyebrows.
“Yeah, I was the goalkeeper.” Nodded Hao Ren.
“Pffft…” Zhao Yanzi snorted and said, “Xie Xiaofeng from the High School Department comes to school on his motorcycle every day. There are a lot of middle school girls who like him.”
Zhao Yanzi kept on telling Hao Ren about the gossips at school. Maybe it was because Ling got a boyfriend and there wasn’t anyone else to chat with, Zhao Yanzi just poured it all on Hao Ren.
Hao Ren listened to her as she went on and on. She was indeed a little girl in middle school. However, Hao Ren’s characteristic and personality didn’t suggest to people that he was someone a mid-schooler would like.
“Xie Xiaofeng invited me to karaoke this weekend,” Zhao Yanzi continued.
“You can’t go!” Hao Ren shouted out without thinking.
Zhao Yanzi turned to him. “Why not?”
“Because… Because…” Hao Ren didn’t know what to say.
“It’s great to relax after the exams. Ling needs to go shopping with her boyfriend, and I don’t want to be the third wheel,” Zhao Yanzi said.
“I’ll go with you if you want to go karaoke,” Hao Ren said.
“I don’t need your company,” Zhao Yanzi sniffed, “You are an uncle!”
“I… I…” Hao Ren pointed at himself as he was at a loss for words.
“I am going to sleep now, so you should head back.” Zhao Yanzi pushed Hao Ren’s chair.
She put the paper in her backpack; she probably would work more on it during school the day after. Zhao Yanzi walked to her bed, whipped her slippers off, and slid under the blanket.
Hao Ren sighed and opened the door to her balcony.
Shoo! He headed toward the East Ocean University on his sword energy.
Xie Yujia was studying in Academic Building D, so Hao Ren went straight to see her when he returned to school.
He needed to tutor Zhao Yanzi since her finals were coming up. However, his own finals were also coming up, so he needed some tutoring from Xie Yujia.
Hao Zhonghua and Yue Yang never asked a lot for him, but their bottom line was that he needed to pass all his courses; Hao Ren had to study hard since he didn’t want to get scolded by his parents. This was the same case with Zhao Yanzi.
“Gongzi!” Lu Linlin and Lu Lili appeared as soon as Hao Ren stepped into the classroom.
They had thick books and notes in their hands. Apparently, they were here to review for their exams as well.
Little White wiggled its tail as it ran in front of the twins.
After Hao Ren stopped controlling it, Little White had gotten very familiar with all the buildings in East Ocean University. Sometimes, it went to the Post-Graduate Dorm to see the Lu sisters; sometimes, it went to the dorm buildings in the south to find Xie Yujia; and sometimes, it went to the front of the library to get food from the students.
Most girls were familiar with this ‘puppy’ that ran around the campus now, and they would always keep some food in their bags in case they ran into Little White.
The school’s gardener had been quite busy lately because some of the bushes had been growing like crazy. He even wondered if these bushed were mutated.
Since it was close to finals, the study rooms were crowded. Xie Yujia saved a seat for Hao Ren, but there weren’t any empty seats left for Lu Linlin and Lu Lili.
“Let’s go somewhere else,” Hao Ren said.
“Where?” Xie Yujia looked up.
Hao Ren smiled.
Half an hour later, the four of them arrived at the Ethereal Summit on Fifth Heaven. Little White went into its dog house to enjoy the comfortableness of its personal cave.
Xie Yujia went to the entrance of the valley, and she noticed that the three sects already left their names on the wooden bulletin board that Hao Ren made; it meant that the three sects had taken up the mission.
One hundred level 4 Foundation Establishment Pills was a tremendous reward. Although level 6 spiritual herbs were very precious, it was useless in the hands of cultivators who didn’t know to make elixirs. Foundation Establishment Pills, on the other hand, could increase the chances for Qi Refinement Realm cultivators to get to the Foundation Establishment Realm. Also, 100 level 4 Foundation Establishment Pills would take a large sect on Fifth Heaven years to make, so this enticed all the three small sects around the valley to look for level 6 spirit herbs.
Xie Yujia admired Hao Ren for coming up with this mission-method herb collection. She used to think that it was going to be hard to collect level 6 spiritual herbs. However, it seemed like as long as she could make enough good quality elixir pills, she could have all the cultivators on Fifth Heaven working for them.
“Hao Ren is pretty smart…” Xie Yujia thought to herself cheerfully. She went back to her cave abode and saw the 16 goose-egg sized night pearls Hao Ren and the Lu sisters placed on the roof, lighting up the interior.
“Um… put another curtain here.” Hao Ren nailed a piece of blue cloth at her cave entrance.
Zhao Yanzi got the robes from Fifth Heaven cultivators’ storage bags, and Hao Ren ripped them open and modified them into curtains.
Hao Ren put the stone table in the middle and laid four chairs around it. Then, a quiet and cozy study room had been created.
Hao Ren renovated the cave into their own little study room, and Xie Yujia looked down and laughed, thinking, “Although Hao Ren seems clumsy, he is quite good at setting the mood.”
“I asked Ma Lina to make copies of the study materials for Zhao Jiayi and the guys. This copy is for you, and I have highlighted all the key points while I was waiting for you.” Xie Yujia took thick copies of study materials from her bag and put them on the stone table.
Hao Ren flipped it open and saw highlighted parts right in the pages. His copy was the ‘advanced version’ made by Xie Yujia while the copy Zhao Jiayi and the guys fought over was the ‘original version’.
Also, Xie Yujia was studying with him, so she could answer his questions whenever he ran into one.
Lu Linlin and Lu Lili were a bit jealous when they saw how well-prepared Xie Yujia was. They regretted listening to Lu Qing and entering the Films Program, which was less stressful. If they were in the same program as Hao Ren, they could take advantage of the same material.
“Linlin and Lili, you guys can ask Yujia or me if you have any questions too,” Hao Ren said to them.
“Thank you, Gongzi!” They both nodded.
Lu Linlin wasn’t a petty girl. She realized that Hao Ren didn’t try to spy on them with his sword energies on purpose. Therefore, she wasn’t upset about it anymore.
Hao Ren, on the other hand, felt sorry about it, so he decided to bring them along for this final review session.
Lu Linlin and Lu Lili adored this ordinary life. They felt closer to Hao Ren as they acted more like mortals.
In the Lu sisters’ opinion, Hao Ren was more shy than dumb. Hao Ren knew about everything they had done, and they considered him cute for that.
In the meantime, a young girl sat on a hay-covered stone bed in her light-yellow silk dress. She was in the back mountain of the Sky Mountain Sect on Sixth Heaven, and she kept poking the two scarecrows in her hand with a small knife.
“Pervert! B*tch! I will cut you up when I get out of here!” She gritted her pearl-white teeth as she poked. “How dare you take my jade away! How dare you take my jade away!”
There was a layer of white light over her cave entrance. It was the array formation of the Sky Mountain Sect, Tiangang Lightning Array Formation.
She would get shocked as soon as she laid her finger on it, let alone getting through it.
At this time, Zhao Yanzi had the beautiful and smooth jade from Duan Yao around her neck. She was in a deep sleep, and she didn’t know that it was a pair of jades, and Duan Yao could locate her with the one she had left.
457 Zhao Yanzi Is Mine!
In the next few days, Zhao Yanzi, Hao Re
n, Xie Yujia, and the Lu sister were all busy studying.
The relaxing university life suddenly became intense.
Hao Ren made sure to attend the review classes for each course during the last week of school. Then, he would head to Zhao Yanzi’s house in the afternoon for her tutoring session. In the evening, he would go up to Fifth Heaven to go through all the key concepts with Xie Yujia as well as help the twins with their University English.
Xie Yujia would also find time to get some instructions from Su Han in her office. Her grades were excellent, so she wasn’t worried about the exams at all. The cultivation instructions Su Han gave, on the other hand, was more important to her.
The only thing that brought some joy to the pre-exam cramming atmosphere was the appearance of Su Han.
“Su Han!”
“Su Han is here!”
The guys on the sidewalk shouted.
Su Han ignored them with a folder under her arm. Her high-heels made a series of sharp sounds as she walked to an academic building from the administrative building.
Her slim legs were luring under her light-brown falbala skirt, and her thin, light blue shirt emphasized her mature body. The buttons seemed to be having a hard time locking her strong aura inside.
The Beauty Pills Xie Yujia gave to her worked very well. Although cultivation could empower her body to a certain degree, Su Han had a bad diet since she didn’t know how to cook and was too lazy to eat out. The Beauty Pills not only kept her face beautiful but also improved her body. No wonder it was the holy elixirs for female cultivators.
Su Han walked into the academic building under the guys’ glowing stare. Then, she stepped up the stairs and walked into the classroom.
The guys in the class all gasped deeply.
Su Han seemed even more beautiful after a week!
“This is the last review class,” Su Han scanned everyone with her cold eyes as she put her folder on the podium.
“What do I do… What do I do…” Zhou Liren squeezed by and held onto Hao Ren’s arm. He was almost crying, “I can’t see Su Han anymore.”
This was her last class of the course, Weak Optical Signal Processing, and some guys came to the classroom to grab a seat four hours before the class started. Zhou Liren was Su Han’s hardcore fan, yet he only got a middle-row-seat.