I was approached by a cat-eared girl.

"Because I understand your shyness, I won't be upset even if you directly say you don't like it."

"But I like seeing you happy."

"..."

With just a simple sentence, Chen Shuo felt as if all the words he wanted to say had been blocked up in an instant.

She liked seeing herself happy, and she liked seeing her happy too.

The feeling is the same.

Despite understanding the situation, Chen Shuo still felt an indescribable stirring in his heart; to be honest, he had broken down.

And Ultraman even got into my eye! Maybe the wind was too strong and blew some unlucky kid's toy over there.

Chen Shuo rubbed his eyes, said nothing more, and gently patted her shoulder, a feeling he couldn't quite describe rising in his heart.

Just as I was about to be deeply moved, I suddenly heard the sound of turning pages. I instinctively turned my head to look, my gaze sweeping over the cat ears on her head, down to her delicate, fair face, and finally landing on the textbook in her hand.

Do you want to read a book too?

"No, why do I get the feeling that you've never even read a math book before?"

"..."

Bai Xiaoqi felt guilty and kept silent, but he found out.

Chen Shuo hoped she could become excellent through her studies, but she was restless, a bit lazy, and a bit noisy.

However, I would occasionally think of Chen Shuo's advice, and when I felt guilty, I would force myself to sit down and study. But I just couldn't get into math books, no matter how much I forced myself.

After a long pause, she whispered a correction: "It's not that I haven't seen it; I've actually seen it a few times."

"Then why did you only look at it a few times, find math daunting, and therefore not want to learn it?"

"Ah."

After hesitating for a moment, she nodded slightly, then shrank back, ready to be lectured.

But to everyone's surprise, Chen Shuo only let out a sigh, a sigh filled with deep empathy, "I feel the same way."

He was bullied a lot by math when he was a child.

Chapter 83 It Doesn't Hurt at All

"I understand how you feel, but math is for developing logical thinking, so you should still learn it. What you're learning now is only elementary school math. Elementary school math is easy. I'm not exaggerating, on tests out of 100, I could always get 80 or 90 points in elementary school, and I could do it in middle school too..."

At this point, Chen Shuo paused, realizing that he had actually done quite well in math in elementary school, consistently scoring in the 80s or 90s, and even, without exaggeration, had achieved a perfect score three times.

I was doing okay when I first started junior high, until the summer of my second year of junior high.

Chen Shuo still remembers it; it was a very ordinary math class, taught by a very ordinary math teacher.

He listened very attentively, nodding frequently, finding the points insightful and reasonable.

Until the pen fell to the ground with a thud, and when he picked it up again, he had forever lost the right to explore the ocean of mathematics.

Looking back now, what fell wasn't a pen at all; it was a young boy's passion for mathematics that was destroyed, and his limitless future in the field of mathematics was stifled.

From that moment on, the world lost a great mathematician and gained a ruthless typing machine.

This is truly heartbreaking; it is a tragedy for all of humanity.

Seeing that he stopped mid-sentence and lingered for so long, Bai Xiaoqi gradually lost patience and pressed him for an answer: "And then?"

Chen Shuo snapped out of his reverie and tightened his grip on her arm. "And then you need to study hard, otherwise when the time comes to test your learning..."

"How do we assess learning outcomes?"

"I bought you so many workbooks before, and you've been doing them all this time, haven't you? I can just flip through them and see..."

At this point, Chen Shuo fell silent, staring at her for a moment. "Why do I feel like you're panicking?"

"No, I'm not panicking."

"..."

Chen Shuo didn't say anything more, released her shoulder, and then bent down to the coffee table.

Seeing this, Bai Xiaoqi's face immediately showed tension and guilt. Her lips trembled for a moment, wanting to stop her but not knowing how to say it. She could only bite her lips tightly, waiting helplessly for the judgment of fate.

Chen Shuo took out all those workbooks, more than a dozen in total, and bought them for her according to various grades, except for English, he had all the others.

I skimmed through each book, and sure enough, they hadn't been touched much at all. There was only a little writing on them, and all of them probably didn't even add up to two pages.

He put all the exercise books he was holding on the coffee table, sighed, and said, "Aren't you going to explain?"

"..."

Bai Xiaoqi remained silent, her eyes lowered, not daring to meet his gaze. After a moment's hesitation, she glanced at him again, and saw that Chen Shuo's expression did not seem angry.

Only then did she dare to raise her eyes and look at him with an innocent expression.

Chen Shuo's heart softened instantly at her appearance, and he even felt a sense of guilt. His eyes flickered a few times, but then became firm again. He was determined to get to the bottom of this matter today and not let her fool him.

So he forced a serious expression and said, "Don't look at me like that, it won't help."

"It didn't work?" Bai Xiaoqi felt deflated. It had clearly worked before.

"Yes, it's useless. I need a reasonable explanation now."

"......"

no respond.

After waiting patiently for a while, and seeing that she had no intention of explaining, Chen Shuo finally spoke with a complicated expression.

"I finally understand why you always went to the living room to study, especially when you were doing workbooks. I told you to write in the bedroom, but you said you didn't want to disturb me while I was writing."

Then, after waiting an hour or two, you came in and told me you'd written a lot, which made me feel both gratified and touched. But now I know you just went to play in the living room and didn't write anything at all.

"I didn't play, I didn't write, but I did read books."

Bai Xiaoqi retorted, sticking her neck out.

"Really not?"

"without...."

Meeting Chen Shuo's gaze, she felt a little guilty and couldn't bear to lie to him anymore, so she simply turned her head back and whispered, "I only played for a little while."

"As expected, I trusted you so much and was so touched. Now you have to give me back my gratitude."

"How can I repay you? It's not like I'm the one who moved you. At worst, I'll just let you beat me up."

With that, Bai Xiaoqi sprawled on the sofa, nonchalantly saying, "Go ahead and hit me."

Seeing her pull this stunt, Chen Shuo was a bit taken aback. After a moment of silence, he asked, "Where do you want me to hit you?"

"Let's spank him, there's plenty of flesh there, it won't hurt."

"Okay, you said it yourself."

Without further hesitation, Chen Shuo slapped her round little buttocks. Feeling the soft, bouncy texture, he couldn't help but feel a surge of emotion. However, just as this ripple began, he heard her snort disdainfully.

"Hmph, it doesn't hurt at all. Didn't you eat?"

"you....."

Chen Shuo's eyes twitched. This little thing was actually provoking him. He was about to give her a good whack, but he couldn't bring himself to do it. He could only reluctantly withdraw his hand and explain with a hint of resentment, "That's because I didn't use enough force."

"I know."

Bai Xiaoqi climbed up from the sofa, hugged Chen Shuo's arm and pulled him into her arms, then leaned over and gave him a quick kiss on the cheek. "I deliberately let you hit me. I knew you wouldn't have the heart to hit me."

"..."

Chen Shuo looked helpless, not understanding why he had ended up with such a person, and he really had no way to deal with her.

"Don't be angry, okay? I'll definitely write more in the future."

Seeing that he didn't speak, Bai Xiaoqi hugged his arm and shook it a few times, then rubbed her head against him, "Really, I promise."

Chen Shuo sighed again, "The nature of your matter is not that you didn't do these workbooks. If you didn't want to do them, you could have just said so. There was no need to lie to me. That's where you went wrong."

What if you're unhappy when I tell you?

"So, if I find out you've been lying to me for so long, do you think I'll be happy?"

Chen Shuo countered, saying that the girl in front of him had many images in his mind: cute, innocent, adorable, sassy, ​​and intermittently witty...

But no matter what, he had no image of being a liar, and he had always trusted this little cat without reservation. He never expected to be deceived for so long.

"Didn't you lie to me too?" Bai Xiaoqi retorted.

When did I lie to you?

Chen Shuo swore that he had never lied to the little kitten; at most, he was just teasing her.

"You have so many things you don't tell me, and you won't even let me ask about them."

"I was doing that for your mental health. Knowing those things won't do you any good."

"But I know a lot now, and you've been leading me astray all along."

"You searched for that online yourself, what does it have to do with me?" Chen Shuo refused to take the blame.

“…”

Bai Xiaoqi ignored him. If this guy had told her right away, she wouldn't have gone online to search for it. In the end, it was still his responsibility.

"Are you still angry?" she asked after a moment of silence.

"I wasn't angry in the first place."

"Then kiss me, and I'll believe you're not angry."

Chapter 84 Get Up and Do Your Problems

Chen Shuo looked at Bai Xiaoqi, whose eyes were now closed and whose face was slightly raised.

For some reason, he suddenly became worried about his future. This little cat was too clever. He was already helpless against her now, and he was sure she would have him completely under her control in the future.

Thoughts raced through his mind, but Chen Shuo had already turned halfway around, carefully embracing her, and then pressed his lips to hers.