America: A Prodigy of Stereotypes

"This is my standard answer format. You can follow it when you answer questions, and the teacher won't deduct points for not understanding it."

"God, this is the cheat code to pass the game!"

Liz held Liz's math notes as if they were the Bible.

"Can I borrow your math notes to copy?" Liz asked, looking at Li Qun with the reverence one would show to a living saint.

"Take it, but remember to return it to me when you're done copying it."

"I'll return it to you on Thursday." Liz happily hugged Li Qun's math notes.

After tutoring Liz in math for about an hour in the school library, Liqun felt it was time to go home.

He left the school library with Liz.

"Leon, I forgot to give you my home address and phone number!"

Liz continued talking to herself, quickly rummaging through her backpack for a pen, and then grabbed Li Qun's hand to write down her home phone number and address on her palm.

“Where do you live? I can have my mom give you a ride home,” Liz said.

"Does your mother pick you up from school?" Li Qun asked, somewhat surprised.

“My mother is a very controlling person, but my father is the opposite,” Liz explained to Li Qun.

Once outside the campus, Liz took out her phone from her backpack and texted her mother. A few minutes later, Liz's mother arrived in her car.

Liz's mother parked her car near the school, and she would drive up to her immediately whenever Liz texted her after school.

"Bye-Bye."

Li Qun raised his hand and waved it; he wasn't going to get on the bus.

Even if it's a classmate's parent, this is still very dangerous.

Inside the car, Liz's mother smiled and nodded to Li Qun before stepping on the gas and disappearing around the corner.

"Liqun, are you alright?" Peter appeared behind Liqun, pushing his bicycle.

“It’s a little troublesome, but it’s still under my control,” Li Qun replied, turning to Peter.

"What little trouble?" Peter asked.

“I need to help her with something; she’s facing a significant challenge in her math and physics final exams,” Li Qun replied.

“Anything else?” Peter asked.

"What other trouble do you want me to run into?" Li Qun asked Peter in return.

“Who knows? Maybe she’ll be clinging to you next semester,” Peter said.

“We’re all classmates, she should understand that we’re just classmates,” Li Qun said.

“Liqun, perhaps you should avoid being alone with Liz so that she won’t misunderstand,” Peter suggested.

“It is indeed necessary.” Li Qun immediately understood Peter’s meaning.

“Should Liz invite her girlfriends? Her girlfriends must be having headaches about their final exams too,” Li Qun said.

"Peter, you'll be with me, right?"

“Of course, it’s my duty,” Peter smiled.

"Don't you find it difficult to adapt?"

“It’s alright, I also want to improve my social skills,” Peter said.

"..."

Li Qun scrutinized Peter.

"Among Liz's girlfriends, there is someone you like."

"What? What are you talking about?"

A flicker of panic crossed Peter's eyes.

"That's right."

"It's Mary Jane."

“Peter, look me in the eyes.”

"no, do not want."

Peter reluctantly looked away.

“I’ve asked Liz to invite all her girlfriends out this weekend. You and I will hold an end-of-term tutoring session with them to create an opportunity for you to meet Mary Jane,” Li Qun said.

“Mary Jane is my neighbor, and I can tutor her anytime,” Peter said.

"Everything is difficult at the beginning, and you haven't been able to get started yet."

"Okay, you were right."

"Peter, you should be more confident. Girls love confident boys the most."

Li Qun patted Peter Parker on the chest.

"I will try."

“Won’t Gwen feel like we’ve abandoned her if we do this?” Peter suddenly asked.

“We should just tell Gwen directly. Tell her you like Mary Jane, that you want to get closer to her, develop a relationship, and ideally become boyfriend and girlfriend.”

"While you still have the feeling of first love, and Mary Jane hasn't found a boyfriend yet."

“…” Peter nodded slowly.

Chapter 48 "Birdman"

It was obvious to anyone that Peter had a crush on Mary Jane.

Li Qun couldn't see what was so beautiful about Mary Jane, but everyone else said she was beautiful, so Li Qun accepted that as fact. Mary Jane was considered a beautiful girl by the American public's standards of beauty.

Li Qun's Aurora-style aesthetic and Peter's American aesthetic are distinctly different. Li Qun finds white girls who are average-looking to be quite attractive; Li Qun finds handsome men to be rather ordinary.

However, Li Qun and Peter both agreed that Gwen Stacy was an ordinary-looking girl.

She has an ordinary appearance, an average figure, and always likes to dress in strange and unusual styles.

"Wow, we've been eating so well these past few days!"

At noon, in the school cafeteria, after Li Qun unfolded the insulated food container, Gwen was amazed by the quality of the dishes.

“It’s the end of the semester, and my uncle said that our brains consume more energy than usual, so he specially prepared a study package,” Li Qun explained.

"Liqun, please tell your uncle thank you for me." Gwen happily ate her lunch.

Peter seemed a little distracted, glancing at Mary Jane every now and then.

“What’s wrong with him?” Gwen asked Li Qun.

“He’s looking at his white moonlight,” Li Qun said.

"White moonlight? What a romantic metaphor! Liqun, how did you come up with this metaphor?"

"White moonlight has a sense of holiness, but it is also unattainable and intangible, expressing an unattainable love."

Gwen followed Peter's gaze and saw Mary Jane's pile of vases, instantly shattering her beautiful illusion about the word "white moonlight".

“Liqun, could you use another word to describe it?” Gwen asked seriously.

"The term 'white moonlight' is quite fitting for Peter. Of course, it doesn't affect us two bystanders."

“I plan to create an opportunity for Peter to have a chance to get to know his ideal woman, so that Peter’s youth will not be filled with regrets.”

"How can you create opportunities for Peter? Wouldn't it be better if Peter took the initiative himself?" Gwen asked.

"That's the problem."

“Peter is not a proactive person; he is very introverted.”

"really?"

Gwen glanced at Peter; she and Li Qun had been chatting about him for a long time, but Peter seemed not to have heard a thing.

“How pitiful,” Gwen said.

“We have to help Peter. Otherwise, he’ll end up like Tom,” Li Qun said.

Who is Tom?

"It's the blue cat from 'Tom and Jerry,' you should have seen 'Tom and Jerry,' right?" Li Qun said.

"Of course I've seen it."

“I think I understand what you mean.” Gwen nodded as well.

In Gwen's view, Peter and Mary Jane are completely different people, living in different worlds. Their relationship would hurt not only the two of them, but also their friends.

Li Qun used "Tom and Jerry" to describe Peter, but Gwen felt that "Forrest Gump" from 1994 was a more fitting description of Peter and Mary Jane.

Peter Parker is the simple-minded Forrest Gump, and Mary Jane is Forrest Gump's childhood sweetheart, Jenny.

“Gwen, don’t be too pessimistic,” Li Qun said to Gwen.

“How did you know what I was thinking?” Gwen asked.

"Your face says it all."

"This weekend, Liz is organizing an end-of-term study session. Peter will use the excuse of tutoring Mary Jane to get closer to her. Do you want to come?"

"May I come?" Gwen asked.

"Liz, that girl over there, a core member of the sorority, her father is a famous Broadway actor, and the study group is held at her house."

"How many boys are there?" Gwen asked.

"For now, it's just Peter and me."

“We’re going there to tutor them. Bringing in other male students would only increase our workload,” Li Qun said.

“Gwen, if you go, you'll also be a tutor.”

As Li Qun and Gwen were talking, Liz, who was in the middle of the restaurant, noticed that Li Qun was looking at her and raised her hand to wave enthusiastically to Li Qun.