Yu Yao had just finished stir-frying a dish when she heard the sound of the passcode lock opening.
She had told Zhao Chuji her home’s passcode long ago. Hearing the sound, she did not even turn her head around and merely called out to Zhao Chuji, “Go sit down for a moment, I will be done in just a bit.”
Zhao Chuji obediently agreed and opened her textbook.
She appeared to be reading her book, but her peripheral vision was focused on Yu Yao’s back in the kitchen.
During the class break, she had heard two cleaners discussing something.
Listening to the voice, she recognized that one of them was the “X” whom Yu Yao had contacted.
She found an opportunity to control “X” and questioned him thoroughly about all the doubts in her heart, including Yu Yao’s background and his perspective on Yu Yao.
It turned out that Yu Yao had hired a private detective to investigate her long ago, and because of this, Yu Yao had inadvertently recorded the director’s true face by a strange combination of circumstances, helping her clear her disgraced name.
As for a person like “X” who operated in the gray areas, whenever he received a mission, he would always keep an eye out and conduct an investigation on the employer as well.
In “X’s” mind, Yu Yao was a foolish and pitiful “love-brain.”
Yu Yao was 21 years old this year and had just graduated from university. She had entered school at a young age and had been bullied during her high school years; during her lowest point, a minor internet celebrity had comforted her with a few words.
From then on, Yu Yao had been infatuation-blinded by that minor internet celebrity, not only spending a lot of wasted money but even almost losing her life for him.
The worst thing Yu Yao had ever done was stealing a doll from the internet celebrity’s bag, hypnotizing herself into believing it was a birthday gift the internet celebrity had given her…
An easy target who was both timid and easily softened like this simply could not harbor any intentions of harming people; she was the optimal employer.
In “X’s” view, Yu Yao fostering Zhao Chuji was merely because her heart had died and she wanted to change to a new emotional anchor. The reason she sent him to investigate Zhao Chuji was nothing more than learning a lesson from past mistakes, not wanting to provide for another venomous snake and be fooled like a fool…
After obtaining this information, Zhao Chuji commanded “X” to forget this piece of memory, finally putting her heart completely at ease.
Although the Yu Yao in “X’s” mouth seemed different from the Yu Yao she knew, overall, Yu Yao indeed harbored no malice toward her.
With her heart finally settled, Zhao Chuji’s thoughts wandered a bit.
Even though she had been guarded against Yu Yao before, from the very first time she saw Yu Yao, she felt that Yu Yao was somewhat good-looking.
That was not a beauty of the physical skin, but rather a brightness, freshness, and vibrant vitality that seemed rooted in Yu Yao’s soul, making people unable to resist wanting to draw close.
Yu Yao was good-looking and wealthy, possessed excellent culinary skills, and was unswervingly devoted to people for such a person to actually be betrayed and almost lose her life…
Thinking of the starlight in Yu Yao’s eyes when she smiled, Zhao Chuji bit her lower lip tightly.
Yu Yao indeed had very poor judgment previously.
But since she had sought her out, her judgment seemed to be not too bad after all…
Since she wanted to take herself as an emotional anchor, she would properly play the role she ought to play.
Although she could not be considered a good person, she was at least better than that blind internet celebrity and would not let Yu Yao suffer harm again.
When Yu Yao finished preparing the meal, she acutely perceived Zhao Chuji’s relaxed mood, which was different from before.
“Everything is very good.”
Zhao Chuji seemed to like going to school very much, and her smile was even a bit more brilliant along with it.
“That’s great then!”
Yu Yao could not help but start smiling as well: Zhao Chuji smiled so beautifully, as if even the room had become brighter.
She asked about Zhao Chuji’s situation at school and could not help but urge, “You have only just entered the school, so don’t be too anxious if you can’t keep up with the teaching progress.”
“Once you become familiar with the schoolwork, if there are difficulties, I will hire a tutor for you during the winter vacation…”
Zhao Chuji listened to her words obediently, but in her heart, she had her own calculations.
The teaching resources of the Haicheng school were indeed far too superior to those in the countryside!
Benefiting from her super-strong memory, she could often rapidly master the subjects that required recitation.
As for calculation subjects like mathematics and physics, she could roughly keep up as well; as long as she memorized the formulas thoroughly, applied them flexibly, and practiced more exercises, there was no great difficulty.
But everything had to wait until the examinations to see the final outcome; to be safe, she did not state her true capability.
However, she was absolutely determined not to let Yu Yao hire a tutor for her…
Zhao Chuji peeked at Yu Yao quietly and snorted coldly in her heart: She was not that insatiably greedy minor internet celebrity, so how could she always let Yu Yao spend money for her?
She would soon be able to let Yu Yao see the return she brought!
Zhao Chuji’s daily schedule was extremely monotonous: going to school, leaving school, going to Yu Yao’s home to eat, and returning home to continue studying.
She enjoyed this feeling immensely and only wanted the days to be able to continue like this.
Here, her study efficiency was several times higher than before; she would not face sudden cursing and severe beatings, and she could also eat her fill at every meal…
Even though some frictions still existed in life for example, Teacher Cao had always held a prejudice against her and treated her as an invisible person; from time to time, people disrupted her under the guise of “liking” her; some people in the class had been targeting her constantly; seeing that she ignored people, some voices appeared in the dark to deliberately slander her…
She knew that these matters had been told to Yu Yao by “X.” The look Yu Yao used to watch her grew more and more complex, and she even cautiously tested her to see if she wanted to transfer schools.
She laughed in her heart: Yu Yao truly regarded her as a flower in a greenhouse.
Compared to what she had endured in the past, these matters really amounted to nothing.
She tactfully refused Yu Yao’s proposal.
But Yu Yao seemed determined to believe she had suffered grievances, changing methods every day to send her gifts: various kinds of snacks, dolls, clothes, shoes…
She did not care about these gifts, but she liked seeing the sparkling, expectant look in Yu Yao’s eyes when she gave her gifts, so she would always cooperate by revealing a joyful and bashful expression.
She used only half a month to keep up with the school’s progress.
Coincidentally, she welcomed her first monthly examination after entering the school.
The tuition fee of this private school was very expensive, and at the same time, the scholarships were exceptionally generous.
She wanted to obtain the scholarship.
As Yu Yao’s emotional anchor, the better her grades were, the happier Yu Yao would presumably be…
She threw herself entirely into her studies, and thus she overlooked some details.
On the first day after finishing the monthly examination, it happened to be her turn to be on duty. Just after she finished dumping the trash, she was dragged into the restroom by several girls, who searched her and took away her phone.
“If it weren’t for you, our Weiwei wouldn’t have been attacked by anti-fans, causing her resources to decline, and she hasn’t even shown her face much this month…”
Zhao Chuji recognized the leading girl; her name was Sun Yan, she was the class monitor of her own class, ranked in the top ten of the grade, and was also the student Teacher Cao liked the most.
As soon as Zhao Chuji entered the class, Sun Yan displayed malice toward her, keeping a cold face whenever she saw her and arranging for her to be on duty from time to time.
Now Zhao Chuji finally understood the reason: the Weiwei in Sun Yan’s mouth was named Zhou Wei, who was precisely the minor starlet who had attempted to step on her to rise to the top when she was framed by the director back then.
Later, the truth came to light, the director was arrested, and this drama also stopped filming. Zhou Wei failed to steal the chicken and lost the rice instead, and she had not shown her face up until now.
She had not expected that Sun Yan was a fan of Zhou Wei.
“You have no father and no mother, and nobody cares about you. You just stay here tonight and reflect on yourself!”
“Even if you tell the teacher, I’m not afraid,” Sun Yan held her head high with a face full of contempt: “I can get into the top five of the whole school this time. Compared to a vase like you, Teacher Cao will definitely partiality toward me; at worst, I’ll just write a self-criticism essay!”
Sun Yan led several girls to lock the door from the outside with an arrogant and domineering air, swaggering away.
Looking at the tightly closed door, Zhao Chuji pursed her lips.
There were too many people, so she had no way to use her ability on Sun Yan.
It was her negligence; she had thought that having the ability meant being completely safe.
In the future, she must find opportunities to train her physical fitness.
Fortunately, the clothes Yu Yao bought for her were very thick; she was only a bit hungry and did not feel cold.
She also did not know how long it would take for Yu Yao to find her way here…
Discovering that she had actually thought of Yu Yao, and subconsciously believed that Yu Yao would look for her, Zhao Chuji pursed her lips and forced herself to withdraw her thoughts…
This kind of thinking was extremely dangerous; she should not depend on anyone.
She lowered her eyes, leaned against the door, and began to review the knowledge points: her memory was extremely strong, to the extent that she could even remember the page numbers of the knowledge points in the books.
The scholarships for the top ten of the whole school were all the same. She originally had not wanted to be too conspicuous, and she had even deliberately done several questions incorrectly on the few subjects tested today.
But now…
Zhao Chuji narrowed her eyes.
Sun Yan being punished was an absolute certainty. To avoid the school turning big matters into small ones and small matters into nothing in order to shield an excellent student, she could only thoroughly defeat her in terms of grades!
Time flew by quickly.
The color of the sky gradually darkened.
Without knowing how much time had passed, a burst of hurried footsteps came from outside the door.
“Chuji, are you there?”
It was Yu Yao’s voice.
Yu Yao had indeed come.
She gave a responding sound, and a faint joy grew uncontrollably in her heart as she moved her body away.
The door was very quickly opened from the outside.
The flashlight beam was too piercing; she squinted her eyes. Before she could recover, Yu Yao rushed in and hugged her tightly…
“Chuji, I’m sorry!”