Chapter 44: Make-up classes

“Argh! I don’t wanna do it anymore!”

The boy, sitting as if on pins and needles, shouted as he hugged his head with both hands and began to fidget restlessly on the desk.

The test paper pinned beneath him was still largely blank.

I glanced at him and sighed mournfully.

“Settle down, Zheng Zong. Teacher Mo is the one supervising this study hall. Aren’t you afraid of her?”

“I’ve already figured out Teacher Mo’s habits. As long as I don’t excessively disturb the other students, she won’t bother me. She won’t even glance over. Unless it’s you.”

Zheng Zong was very confident in his assessment, and it seemed to be true.

I gave a silent smile, lifted my head to look at the podium, and my gaze immediately met Sister Yuan’s.

As usual, when she was supervising, her line of sight was almost always fixed on me, only looking elsewhere when a major commotion occurred somewhere.

I playfully stuck my tongue out at her, then quickly lowered my head again.

Large blank spaces remained on the light yellow printed paper.

The difficulty of this test paper was a bit beyond my capabilities.

The three-dimensional diagram marked with capital English letters had already tormented me for half the class.

I had drawn and erased auxiliary lines over and over, leaving a dense mess of faint marks from my mechanical pencil, and there were even traces of a spatial rectangular coordinate system.

“You look so serious, Lu You, but you haven’t done much either. Why not just slack off like me and wait for school to end?” my mischievous friend beside me mocked, his head, plastered to the desk, squirming a few more times.

“Could you please not deepen my understanding of the phrase ‘judging people poorly’? You said it yourself, I’m the exception. If I lie here pretending to be paralyzed like you, Teacher Mo will walk over here in a second.”

When it came to her special treatment of me, I had never doubted Sister Yuan’s attitude.

The strange thing was, she always forced me to be focused and serious when I was studying, yet she would sigh in disappointment when I achieved good grades.

“Then you can just keep pretending to work hard. I’m going to start the countdown to the end of school.”

Zheng Zong took off the digital watch on his wrist and placed it in front of him, letting out a dejected sigh. “How is there still so much time left? Why don’t you stop working too, Lu You, and come chat with me? Did you know? A new senior girl just transferred to the third year. She’s really pretty.”

‘Yes, yes, she’s really pretty. It’d be a miracle if the biological sister of the campus beauty, Teacher Mo Yuan, wasn’t pretty.’

“And then? You have a crush on her?”

“Even if I have a crush on her, she wouldn’t have one on me. This senior is a classic unobtainable flower, an ice queen. I’ve never seen her give any guy a pleasant look, just like Teacher Mo. She also looks a lot like Teacher Mo.”

“Oh? Is that so? Maybe she’s Teacher Mo’s sister.”

I put down my pen and shook my hand.

In reality, I hadn’t written much, and my hand wasn’t sore, but it had become a habit.

“Oh yeah, maybe she is. Why don’t you ask Teacher Mo later, Lu You?”

Zheng Zong perked up, seeming quite interested in what I said.

“You go if you want to. I’m not going. Aren’t you scared of Teacher Mo’s icy demeanor? Every time she calls me for a talk, I just wish for it to end quickly. And you want me to approach her on my own initiative?”

I didn’t mind telling a lie like this that could deepen Zheng Zong’s impression of the incompatible relationship between me and Sister Yuan.

As for whether Sister Yuan minded, I didn’t know.

I glanced up at the podium again.

The female teacher sitting there had an exceptionally cold gaze at the moment, her resentful feelings being conveyed very clearly.

‘It’s over. I actually had doubts about whether Sister Yuan would mind.’

“I’m afraid you’ll have to go whether you want to or not. I bet Teacher Mo will call you to her office after school. Do you believe me?”

“I believe you. I believe you more than you do. Remember to burn a few extra sticks of incense for me on this day next year.”

“Don’t worry, the incense I pick for you will definitely be the thickest and longest,” Zheng Zong said confidently, patting his chest.

‘Don’t act like you’re so reliable at a time like this, damn it!’

“Lu You, come to my office for a moment.”

Sister Yuan gave me a deadpan look, stood up, and left the classroom.

The school bell rang right after.

“Good luck, Lu You~” An Xue Ruo let out a faint smile and mocked me in the same way Zheng Zong had.

I shot her an annoyed glare and quickly followed Sister Yuan to her office.

Just as I stepped inside, right on her heels, I was slammed against the wall in a kabedon.

“Si-Si-Si-Si-Sister Yuan, why don’t you calm down first? I didn’t really say anything, right? I was just talking nonsense just now. It was Zheng Zong who muddled my mind… alright, if you want to bite, then bite.”

Seeing that Sister Yuan’s expression hadn’t changed at all, I gave up on explaining.

I resignedly pulled open my collar, closed my eyes, and accepted my punishment.

A warm, wet sensation touched my collarbone.

Sister Yuan kissed it and, at the same time, licked it with her tongue, but she didn’t bite down.

“You’re so mean, Xiao You. You just take advantage of the fact that I like you to make me angry,” Sister Yuan murmured in dissatisfaction.

She pulled me to a chair, then sat on the office desk next to it, crossing her legs.

“You don’t seem like the type of person to sit in such an indecent posture, Sister Yuan?”

“I’m sitting like this to give you a little treat, Xiao You. Is my absolute territory beautiful?”

Sister Yuan was wearing a light gray, short pleated skirt.

The way she crossed her legs fully exposed the fair, rounded thighs between her black stockings and the skirt.

I could even faintly see her panties.

“It’s… it’s beautiful, alright… why are you suddenly doing this?”

“Didn’t you say you don’t like spending time with me, Xiao You? So I can only rely on giving you treats to keep you here. Boohoohoo~ I’m so pitiful.”

Sister Yuan raised her hand to wipe away non-existent tears, putting on a show of fake crying.

“I already told you I was just talking nonsense. If you were really hurt, instead of crying, pinning me down and biting me wildly is what you would do, right, Sister Yuan?”

“Of course not! I’m not a puppy. I can cry too, you know. Boohoohoo~ My own boyfriend dislikes me. I’m so sad~”

“I won’t even comment on when I became your boyfriend, Sister Yuan. But from my chest up to my jaw, is there any part that hasn’t had your teeth marks on it? Is it really appropriate for you to say you don’t like biting me now?”

Sister Yuan stopped her fake crying, used both feet to slip off one of her shoes, and pressed her jade-like foot, wrapped in black stockings, against my face, shutting me up.

“Don’t talk back to me. Otherwise, I’ll shove my foot right into your mouth, Xiao You.”

Sister Yuan tapped my forehead with the sole of her foot, then paused.

“The mid-term exams are coming up soon, right? Are you planning to slack off again, Xiao You? You spent the whole study hall chatting with your deskmate.”

“I was just tired from working. Since you like forcing me to study seriously so much, Sister Yuan, why do you act like you don’t want me to get good grades?”

“Forcing you to study hard is to make you back down in the face of difficulty, to make you give up trying, to stay obediently by my side, and to rely on me completely. And that’s precisely why I’m dissatisfied when you do well on your exams, Xiao You.”

“What kind of parent are you, Sister Yuan! I was counting on you to tutor me in my other subjects, but you were plotting something like this.”

I grabbed Sister Yuan’s calf, pulled it off my face, and put her shoe back on for her as I retorted in surprise.

“Hm? You want me to tutor you? That’s fine. As long as you can afford the tutoring fee, there’s no problem.”

I froze for a moment as I watched her tongue lick her upper lip.

“Tutoring fee… I have a bad feeling about this. Can I pretend I never said that, Sister Yuan?”

“Of course not. Now, even if you don’t want tutoring, you have to get it. Get up and let’s go home. I can’t wait any longer.”