Chapter 66
Inside, apart from a few game screenshots, the rest were all short essays about fitness.
Bored, she logged out.
Just as she did, a message from Gao Quan popped up.
She clicked on it casually, and upon glancing at the content, she nearly threw her phone across the room.
"Are you out of your mind? Sending these pictures at this hour?" Li Qingxue shut her eyes and quickly cleared all of Gao Quan's messages.
She had only caught a glimpse of the images, but she recognized the person in the photo—Ye Liangchen.
It was a picture of Ye Liangchen, bloodied and drinking.
At this late hour, it was genuinely terrifying...
As for the caption, she hadn’t bothered to read it.
She vented her frustration to Long Aotian.
"What's wrong with him? Is he really that clueless?" After hearing Li Qingxue's complaints, Long Aotian suddenly remembered that he had seen Ye Liangchen today as well.
With a crooked smile, he flicked his bangs and awkwardly mumbled some nonsensical words, then ended up injuring himself and bleeding. All of this gave off a rather foolish vibe.
The key point was that he had also sensed Hu Yuying's disdain for Ye Liangchen.
Instinctively, he found himself disliking him too.
Tangcu Li Ji: "He wasn't like this before. I can't believe how much he has changed. I'm really at a loss."
Once emotions found an outlet, the conversation flowed freely.
Li Qingxue knew that talking behind someone's back was not a good thing.
But she just couldn't help it.
She wasn't the type to keep things bottled up, and she couldn't understand how Ye Liangchen had turned into this.
Watching the messages flood in on her phone, Long Aotian could almost picture Li Qingxue's furious expression...
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**Chapter 79: Long Aotian's Passive Skill**
The next morning.
Hu Yuying woke up early.
After freshening up, she gathered her long hair and headed into the kitchen.
She poured water into the flour, mixing it until it reached a smooth consistency.
Then she cracked in some eggs and continued to stir.
She was making egg pancakes; just drinking egg soup in the morning wouldn’t suffice. After spending so much time together, Hu Yuying knew Long Aotian's appetite well.
It was substantial, but that was because Long Ge was still growing, which explained his need for so much food.
Humming a tune, she began frying the pancakes.
These were easy to make, and she finished quickly.
Once the pancakes were done, the water was just boiling.
She turned off the heat.
Stepping out of the kitchen, she sat quietly on the steps under the eaves with her phone in hand.
She was waiting for Long Aotian, which seemed to be an additional activity apart from their daily studies.
The process might be a bit dull, but for Hu Yuying, it was worth it.
Just then, a knock sounded at the door, and she smiled, her innocent grin radiating joy.
Opening the door, she exclaimed, "Long Ge, you’re here!"
"Yeah, sorry to trouble you."
"It’s no trouble at all," Hu Yuying said, dashing back into the kitchen.
She turned on the heat, waiting for the water to boil.
"Long Ge, why don’t you have a pancake first? It might not look great, but it tastes really good."
Some of the pancakes had torn when she flipped them, so they didn’t look perfect.
Long Aotian watched from the side, realizing that with Hu Yuying, he seemed to have nothing to do. More accurately, she could do everything for him without needing his help!
"Let’s wait and eat together."
"Okay."
After Hu Yuying said that, she watched the boiling water and began stirring it with chopsticks, creating a small whirlpool before pouring in the already mixed egg mixture.
As she stirred, a beautiful egg flower formed in the water.
"Wow, Hu Yuying, that egg flower is impressive!" Long Aotian was momentarily taken aback.
Being praised by Long Ge made Hu Yuying incredibly happy.
But she had also learned to manage her facial expressions.
She bit her lip, suppressing a smile, but her eyes had already turned into crescent moons—what a silly girl.
Seeing the smile on Hu Yuying's face, Long Aotian felt satisfied. Making this little girl happy had become a passive skill of his.
It was triggered effortlessly in their interactions.
After finishing breakfast, Hu Yuying transformed into a little teacher, scolding Long Aotian for not completing the homework she had assigned him yesterday due to his distractions.
Today, he had to make up for it.
"I wonder who said yesterday that she was so happy," Long Aotian whispered in Hu Yuying's ear.
That one sentence made the strict little teacher's ears turn red.
"Life and study should be balanced; what matters is finding what works for you. You’re just too stressed and need to adjust a bit. We’ll catch up on everything we missed yesterday."
Taking Hu Yuying out for fun yesterday wasn’t a spur-of-the-moment decision.
Long Aotian found Hu Yuying’s lifestyle exhausting to watch, especially for someone like him, who had the soul of a twenty-eight-year-old man on the brink of middle age.
At school, she studied and assigned herself exercises.
At home, she still studied and assigned herself exercises.
Aside from eating and sleeping, it seemed like studying was all that remained.
Long Aotian didn’t think this was bad.
He just wanted to add a little something to her monotonous life, a modicum of joy within his control.
Working hard while having fun.
The rest of the day was spent doing exercises, except for lunchtime.
Returning to the classroom.
A new round began.
He had thought the afternoon would pass quietly.
But someone just had to stir things up for Long Aotian!
The self-study bell rang.
The homeroom teacher, with a dark expression, called Long Aotian out of the classroom.
Anyone could see that today’s homeroom teacher was not in a good mood!
Hu Yuying was puzzled too; why was the teacher calling her Long Ge out with such a grim face?
Long Ge’s grades had improved, and he had been performing so well.
Even Long Aotian himself didn’t understand why he was being called out; he felt he had been doing well lately.
"Just study hard; I’ll be back soon," Long Aotian reassured Hu Yuying as he stood up and walked toward the classroom door.
Watching Long Aotian, the homeroom teacher had no patience: "How long have you been behaving? And now you’re causing trouble again?"
Since they were right at the classroom door, the teacher's words inevitably reached the class.
Everyone began whispering about what was going on with Long Aotian.
Ever since Hu Yuying transferred to their school, Long Aotian had truly changed; he no longer cursed or fought (to his classmates, he seemed to be studying diligently beside Hu Yuying every day).
Long Aotian frowned slightly. "Please don’t be angry; what’s going on?"
"How can I not be angry? You’ve been doing so well lately that I thought you had turned over a new leaf and started studying, but then I hear you’ve been fighting outside school, and now the parents of the other kid have come to the school."
"Fighting? Is there still someone named Long Aotian in our school?"
"Are you still in the mood to joke with me right now?"
The homeroom teacher looked at Long Aotian with disappointment: "Just come with me."
With that, the teacher led Long Aotian away from Class Seven.
As the homeroom teacher and Long Aotian left, the students’ chatter grew bolder.
The high school experience was too tense and monotonous.
Events like this were just a spice in their otherwise dull lives.
A few girls, including Li Qian, saw Long Aotian being taken away by the teacher and dared to approach Hu Yuying.
They shared their speculations, eager to inform Hu Yuying.
Hearing their detailed analysis, Hu Yuying shook her head in a daze. "No, there must be a misunderstanding."
"You don’t know, Long Aotian used to do this all the time. Fighting outside was as easy for him as eating and drinking."
Hu Yuying shook her head again; she didn’t know about his past.
But she was certain that this time, at least this time, Long Ge was definitely being wronged.
Because they had been together on Saturday until eight-thirty in the evening when he returned home.
And today, Sunday, he had come to her house early, around seven. There was no way he could have gone out to fight.
Thinking of this, Hu Yuying suddenly stood up, startling the girls around her who were badmouthing Long Aotian.
"Yuying, what are you doing?"
"There’s definitely a misunderstanding here. I need to go find the teacher and clear this up." Hu Yuying wouldn’t allow anyone to wrong her Long Ge.
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**Chapter 80: As Everyone Knows, I Have a Just Heart**
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