I was approached by a cat-eared girl.

The small lips were soft and fluffy, as if they would melt.

After a long while, their lips parted.

Bai Xiaoqi's face was flushed, her breathing was still a little disordered, and there were a few more wrinkles on her pajamas.

She felt like she could never keep up with this person's pace. It took her a while to get used to the tongue-licking during kisses, and her mind was no longer as empty as before. Although she still felt short of breath, it wasn't to the point of being unable to breathe.

But now this guy has added another trick to his kisses: he uses his hands to do naughty things to himself.

Chen Shuo kissed her forehead and was about to speak when he suddenly felt something was wrong. With a complicated expression, he stepped back a little and looked at her hand.

What are you doing with your hands?

"I want to touch it back."

"?"

Chen Shuo was puzzled. He watched her small hands groping around on his chest. After a long while, he finally managed to say, "You're not one to suffer a loss."

He didn't stop her. He leaned back on the sofa and let her touch him as she pleased. After thinking for a moment, he added, "Once you've touched enough, we'll start doing the workbook. I'll sit in front of you and watch you do it, and I'll also check your learning progress."

Upon hearing this, Bai Xiaoqi paused, looked at him in silence for a moment, and then asked softly, "Can't I not do it?"

"No, more than two months have passed, and I need to check on your current learning progress."

"How many do I need to make?"

"Um..."

Chen Shuo pulled out a fourth-grade Chinese workbook and a second-grade math workbook. "Do five pages of each of these."

Upon hearing this, Bai Xiaoqi's eyes widened instantly, her slightly flushed cheeks puffed out, and she shouted, "No!"

.......

Men often have a kind of inexplicable confidence, but this confidence tends to diminish as things progress.

When he was in elementary school, Chen Shuo was always thinking about whether to go to Harvard or Cambridge.

When he got to junior high school, he pondered whether to go to Tsinghua University, Peking University, or Fudan University.

When he got to high school, he felt that 985 and 211 universities were actually acceptable.

As a result, after the college entrance examination, I barely passed the first-tier university admission score and almost got into a second-tier university.

Watching Bai Xiaoqi do her homework, Chen Shuo was initially very confident, thinking that with his encouragement and guidance, she could at least get a correspondence college diploma, and with some effort, she might even be able to get a bachelor's degree.

But after watching her work on the problems for a while, that confidence gradually faded, and I felt that it wasn't so bad that she could finish nine years of compulsory education.

We haven't started math yet, we've started with Chinese. The fourth-grade Chinese workbook is basically just word formation, sentence construction, reading comprehension, and composition.

Forming words and sentences is no challenge for her, and writing essays is not a big problem either. The key is reading comprehension.

Chen Shuo discovered that not only did she not know how to do it, but she was also a contrarian.

"When asked what the author intended to express when writing this passage, you wrote 'I don't know'?"

"How would I know what the author was trying to express? I'm not the author," Bai Xiaoqi retorted confidently.

“…”

Chen Shuo was speechless at her self-righteous little act, but then he thought it made sense. Many things the author himself might not have thought of, yet he was forced to come up with a set of reasonable arguments.

But that's not the point. The point is that reading comprehension is the best way to develop a person's depth of thought. People with a high level of intellectual depth will analyze problems more profoundly than others.

So this thing may seem useless, or even redundant, but it is actually quite useful.

"Look beyond the surface to see the essence. First, examine the question, then read the article several times, and then analyze the author's psychology in combination with the context and semantics. Finally, analyze to find the most appropriate answer, instead of writing 'I don't know.'"

"I didn't know anyway," Bai Xiaoqi pouted.

"How could I not know? The answer is already out. Look at the question, what does it say?"

"home."

"Yes, hometown, and then look at this passage."

Chen Shuo's gentle and earnest teachings attempted to provoke her deep thought: "Isn't it easy to get the answer? So how should one write it at this point?"

Bai Xiaoqi frowned and pondered for a moment, then handed over the pencil in her hand, "Here, take the pencil, you write."

Finally, she added, "I think you're pretty good at it."

"..."

Chen Shuo picked up another math workbook, covered his face with it, leaned back on the sofa pretending to be dead, and clutched his chest, feeling a sharp pain there.

Now I finally understand why many people say that tutoring children can cause a heart attack.

This is so true to life.

Perhaps I shouldn't have made her do the problems; it's torture for both of them.

Seeing that he had clearly given up on her, Bai Xiaoqi wrinkled her nose in grievance, bit her pencil, and continued to stare at the article in the workbook, but she found that she couldn't calm down at all.

She would occasionally turn her head to look at Chen Shuo, only to see him covering his face with his exercise book and remaining motionless, as if he were dead.

After hesitating for a moment, she poked Chen Shuo with her pencil, "Are you asleep?"

“…”

Chen Shuo kept his eyes closed and didn't answer, still considering whether or not to let her do the questions.

Doing practice problems is definitely necessary; simply reading books won't help with learning. Besides, this girl is actually quite smart, but her thinking is rather unconventional, or even eccentric. So I need to be patient with her and guide her slowly.

Just then, he felt the sofa beside him sag slightly, and then the exercise book on his face was removed. Chen Shuo simply closed his eyes and pretended to be asleep to see what she was up to.

Love can disappear, right?

"Where did you learn such rubbish?"

Hearing her words, Chen Shuo couldn't help but open his eyes and look at Bai Xiaoqi, who was kneeling beside him. "Don't say things like that in the future. I'm not a scumbag."

"Then why are you ignoring me?"

"It's not that I'm ignoring you, I'm just thinking."

Seeing her pout, Chen Shuo pulled her arm and made her lie on top of him, then hugged her back tightly.

"What are you thinking about?"

Bai Xiaoqi nuzzled her head against his chest, feeling his hands gently stroking her back, and closed her eyes in relief.

If only things could stay this way forever, without having to do exercises or guess what the author was thinking.

"Through the reflections I had while helping you with your problems, I realized that helping you with your problems is a kind of torture for both of us."

"So I don't have to keep doing problems, right?" Bai Xiaoqi looked at him with hopeful eyes. She could accept reading and studying, but doing problems—no way!

Chen Shuo pretended not to see her gaze. "It still has to be done. I might not be patient enough, so I feel chest pain when I tutor you. I've decided to buy two bottles of nitroglycerin pills just in case."

"Besides, how can you learn if you only read books without doing practice problems? That won't be effective. If it's not effective, you can't become excellent, and if you can't become excellent, it will be a regret for both of us."

"Life is always full of regrets; a life without regrets is incomplete."

“…”

Chen Shuo was silent for a moment after hearing this, then suddenly patted her head and laughed, "Look, you can say such philosophical things, which means you are very smart. It would be a waste not to use such a smart little brain to do math problems."

Bai Xiaoqi immediately panicked, "I learned that online."

"This shows that you can apply what you've learned. Come on, get up and do some practice problems."

Chapter 85 It's good to be confused sometimes

Falling in love is a wonderful thing. You can kiss and hug each other, and do very intimate things together. This wonderful feeling will continue until you get married.

Marriage isn't so great because it involves doing terrible things and having children.

However, marriage is still a long way off, so there's plenty of time for dating and for me to continue enjoying this wonderful time.

Although no one had ever told Bai Xiaoqi this, after several months of personal experience and reflection, she naturally came to believe it and was convinced of it.

Until she discovered that there was more to relationships than just that, because her boyfriend would also tutor her with her homework.

That's when I realized that dating also has its downsides.

Although he spoke in a gentle tone and had a pleasant voice, it was still a bit tedious to hear him chattering away in my ear about how to analyze problems in depth and how to do reading comprehension.

My head still hurts.

However, she felt that she had understood some of it. She pursed her lips and listened patiently as Chen Shuo finished speaking. After thinking about it for a while, she asked uncertainly, "Then should I write that the author is missing his hometown?"

"Yes, yes, that's right, write it like that."

Chen Shuo echoed his sentiments repeatedly, almost moved to tears. "You finally stopped arguing with me."

A hint of smugness flashed in Bai Xiaoqi's eyes. She picked up her pen and wrote the answer crookedly, asking as she wrote, "Am I very smart?"

Chen Shuo discovered that this little cat was really prone to getting carried away. If she did something she thought was amazing, she would think she was incredibly awesome and would put her hands on her hips for a while.

Although I really didn't want her to be too arrogant, my arm reached out uncontrollably and affectionately ruffled her hair. "Yes, you're the smartest."

Sure enough, she had him completely under her control.

After finishing five pages of Chinese language exercises, Chen Shuo started working on math, and then he found that tutoring math was even more painful for him.

After doing only a few questions, he felt he couldn't keep going. He checked the time and it was already 7 p.m., and it was completely dark.

From the afternoon until evening, more than six hours.

This shows how difficult it is to tutor her with her homework. Despite the difficulty, Chen Shuo felt that everything was moving in a positive direction. At least the number of times he felt chest pain when she did Chinese homework was gradually decreasing.

As for math, let's talk about it tomorrow, otherwise he felt he might not survive the night.

"Alright, alright, that's enough for today. We'll continue tomorrow."

"Really?" Bai Xiaoqi's worried expression vanished instantly, replaced by surprise.

"Yes, it's getting late, let's do it tomorrow."

As he spoke, Chen Shuo went to the water dispenser, filled two cups with water, handed one to her, and gulped it down in one go. Then, remembering something, he wiped his mouth and said, "Your handwriting is terrible. I think I bought you a few calligraphy practice books. You should practice your handwriting in the future."

"Uh-huh."

Bai Xiaoqi nodded repeatedly as she drank her water, agreeing readily. She was fine with anything as long as she didn't have to do practice problems; as for whether she would practice later, they could discuss that later.