Lu Mingren gave Lu Ziqing a set of lectures.
Lu Ziqing surrendered and said he knew he was wrong, but Gu Xiyu felt that Lu Ziqing’s shining eyes were saying something else, such as ‘I will say it again next time’.
Guiding a rebellious teenager seemed much more difficult than appeasing a mature and stable company president.
Lu Ziqing, who usually never sat with his family for dinner and often went straight upstairs, unprecedentedly washed his hands and sat at the dining table today. He even held a bowl full of rice in his hand.
Facing the suspicion in Lu Mingren’s eyes, Lu Ziqing said: “After all, this is my little mom’s first day in the house. Of course, I have to cultivate a good relationship with him.”
The corners of Li Mingren’s eyes twitched after hearing this. He was obviously unable to accept such a name, and his appetite suddenly disappeared: “…I’m full. I’ll go back to the room and work.”
Gu Xiyu was quietly holding his bowl of rice as if no matter what happened in this world, it had nothing to do with him.
But there was a voice that always dragged him into the chaos and bothered him: “Little Mom, I want to eat the dish in front of you.”
“Little Mom, the soup is too far away from me.”
“Little Mom, this fish has so many bones, can you help me?”
“Little…”
Pa!
Gu Xiyu’s slammed the chopsticks on the table.
The cold and somewhat noisy voice finally stopped. Gu Xiyu glared at the boy, who didn’t really want to eat but just wanted to find a chance to tease him, and calmly asked, “Isn’t your ass still hurting?”
Lu Ziqing’s slightly playful chuckle suddenly disappeared.
When the rebellious young man returned to the room carrying his schoolbag with a gloomy expression, Gu Xiyu’s world finally returned to calm. He was the only one in the dining room downstairs.
The aunt who was standing outside the kitchen looked at him eagerly, so he said after a pause, “It’s delicious, thank you.”
The aunt smiled and didn’t speak, but she waved her hand happily, saying it wasn’t much trouble.
Gu Xiyu returned to his room after eating. The first thing he did was log in to the game. It was a competitive multiplayer online battle game that most people were familiar with. To play this game, excellent hand speed, technique, and consciousness were needed.
He had played this type of game a long time ago, so it shouldn’t be difficult for him to play it live in this world. It’s just that in the game played by the original owner, there are a hundred heroes, each with their own settings, and he needed to familiarize himself with them in advance.
[What are you doing?]
Gu Xiyu heard the voice of the system just after loading the game interface.
“Playing games.” As soon as he went online, he received a message from a friend.
Colorful marshmallow: [ Xixi! Did you receive it? When are you showing it to us? ]
Gu Xiyu looked at the message for a long time but still didn’t understand what this friend was talking about, so he could only ask tentatively: [Which thing are you talking about? ]
The other person happened to be online, and the reply came back soon.
Colorful Marshmallow: [Your cosplay clothes! You said on the live broadcast that if the number of fans reaches 150,000, you will surprise them. You aren’t pretending that you don’t remember, are you? ]
Colorful Marshmallow: [You told me that the costume was about to be delivered a few days ago, and you wanted me to come someday to do your makeup and take pictures for a small live broadcast. I think you should have already gotten the clothes. I happen to be free this Saturday, why don’t you do it on that day? ]
Gu Xiyu stared at the computer screen and did not immediately reply. After pondering for a while, he suddenly looked at the suitcase standing in the corner of the room.
When he was unpacking today, he saw that there were several large bags of items inside. He didn’t take them apart immediately because he didn’t think they were important. Were those the clothes that Colorful Marshmallow was talking about?
Gu Xiyu hesitated but finally found a blade and opened the bags that had been sealed with multiple layers of tape.
There were colorful clothes inside, and some fancy designs could be vaguely seen. Sure enough, these were the cosplay clothes that Marshmallow was talking about.
Before taking them out, Gu Xiyu had thought that no matter how bad and exaggerated the costumes of the game characters were, he could grit his teeth and go along with the plot. However, after taking them out and seeing the design of the costume, he fell into a long silence.
In the game, Colorful Marshmallow waited for a long time before getting a reply: [Can I refuse? ]
Colorful Marshmallow:[?? ? Go and ask your fans and see if they agree or not. ]
Gu Xiyu had a headache.
What the original owner bought was a costume for a female character.
Unable to escape, he chose to ignore Colorful Marshmallow first and played several rounds to familiarize himself with the heroes’ settings. He used a side account with low popularity so no one recognized him.
On the contrary, some people were even roasting him in every game:
[How did this noob reach this rank? ]
[Child, did you not finish your homework? ]
[Give up! Don’t give your teammates headaches anymore. ]
Gu Xiyu didn’t reply. After quietly getting acquainted with the hero’s skills and operations, he began to play seriously.
Then these teammates who were initially roasting him gave him a thumbs up.
What impressed them most was the last game. Their team’s jungler was very strong while he (Gu Xiyu) was still practicing a mage hero the original owner usually used, so he played very badly in the early stages. But his rhythm was good, so he didn’t make the situation too difficult.
Although it was just a matching game, his teammates couldn’t help but frantically roast Gu Xiyu. Only the jungler on their team wouldn’t say anything. However, every time Gu Xiyu died and the jungler killed the player who took his head, he(the jungler) would deliberately come to his side and circle around him or send an in-game text message saying ‘hehe, you played well’.
He was obviously mocking him.
That was until Gu Xiyu took a penta-kill in front of him.
He had been playing for several hours, so he immediately went offline after that round.
The system’s voice suddenly rang out: [What are you planning to do about the mission target?]
He felt that the system in this world was quite active: “You are the system, shouldn’t you issue tasks for me?”
[Huh??] The familiar mechanical tone came over again, and then it said coldly, [I don’t know either.]
At last, the main system was the one that issued the task.
[[The side mission has been triggered. Please help the target improve his academic performance so that he can reach the top 100 in the whole grade in the final exam! Completing this task can reduce the risk by up to 10 points!]]
[[Friendly reminder: The target is currently at the bottom of the grade, out of a total of 603 students. ]]
Gu Xiyu: “…”
It sounded like an impossible task.
In a room separated by a corridor, Lu Ziqing glanced at the nickname “CC” in the record list and shut down the game after sending a friend request.
On the strange panel that came up with his thoughts, the last message was the “I don’t know either” that he had answered in his mind.
Lu Ziqing was still confused.
On the way home, he suffered a headache and suddenly saw this strange panel appear in front of him, with the content of the mission aimed at him. And the mission executor claimed to be Gu Xiyu.
For some reason, a system that was supposed to be controlled by someone else or by pure AI was suddenly loaded in his mind. Then he found that his answer was the system’s reply in the eyes of the other party.
This meant that, as long as he wanted to, he could make the other party deviate from the mission at any time.
Coincidentally, this man named Gu Xiyu was not only the young man who made him lose face in front of everyone yesterday, but he is now his………
Lu Ziqing’s thoughts stopped here, and he didn’t continue down that path. Just as he was thinking about what tasks he should make Gu Xiyu do as a system, the door to his room was suddenly knocked on.
He raised his brows slightly.
Lu Mingren would hardly come to him. If he had something to say, he would just send him a message on his mobile phone or shout directly outside the corridor and leave.
“The door is unlocked.”
After Lu Ziqing answered, Gu Xiyu opened the door and walked in. He did not bother with any formalities but leaned against the door very naturally and asked, “Have you finished your homework?”
Lu Ziqing: “?”
There was no such thing as homework in his life.
“I haven’t done it, and I don’t want to do it either.” Lu Ziqing replied coldly.
He thought that Gu Xiyu was here to put on airs as his elder and wanted to put pressure on him as a ‘guardian’. But just as he was preparing to see how he would deal with him, he saw the person nod slightly and say: “Okay, good night then.”
After speaking, he really closed the door and went outside. He didn’t follow the routine at all!
“…?” Lu Ziqing looked at the tightly closed door and was stunned for a few seconds before reacting.
Gu Xiyu didn’t like forcing people and making things difficult. Anyway, after the first world, he now felt that he could afford to spend a whole life slowly dealing with the target and completing the task. So he was not in a hurry.
It’s just that as soon as he walked back to his room, the door was forcibly slammed open before it could be closed.
Lu Ziqing stared at him with a sullen face for a while, then gritted his teeth and said, “I’ll do it.”
Gu Xiyu lowered his head to cover the flash of a smile in his eyes and returned to Lu Ziqing’s room.
Lu Mingren was talking on the phone with someone in the study next door. His heavy and forceful voice sounded full of anger, as if he were reprimanding the employees for failing to get things done.
Lu Ziqing closed the door as usual before taking out the workbook from the schoolbag with a cold face.
His book was as clean as he was, so clean that there was not even a word on it.
Gu Xiyu directly picked out the most troublesome mathematics, physics, and chemistry.
He opened the math book and put it in front of Lu Ziqing: “Let’s start; ask me if you can’t solve any of the problems.”
Lu Ziqing looked at the complicated questions and didn’t write for a long time. He asked with a confused look: “Even if I ask you, can you answer it?”
“You can try asking.” Gu Xiyu replied.
Lu Ziqing heard the words and simply said: “I don’t know these questions, will you teach me?”
Gu Xiyu didn’t refuse either. He picked up the pen and bent over at the desk to solve the problem seriously.
Lu Ziqing, who was beside him, could see the outline of Gu Xiyu’s beautiful side profile clearly, his long, thick eyelashes, and…the attractive line of his neck whenever he turned slightly.
He was frightened the moment the word ‘attractive’ popped up in his head. He frowned in disgust and moved to the other side of the desk to distance himself from Gu Xiyu.
He did not like men.
When Gu Xiyu put down the pen and looked back, he met his eyes.
Something deep in Lu Ziqing’s heart trembled heavily and then tightened slightly, causing a trace of discomfort. But the feeling disappeared quickly, too fast for him to observe it carefully.
Only then did he realize that the color of one of Gu Xiyu’s eyes was very special, much lighter than the other. It subconsciously made Lu Ziqing wonder whether Gu Xiyu was born with some eye disease.
“You have to solve these questions step by step according to these formulas…” Gu Xiyu explained for a while, and it was only after Lu Ziqing’s thoughts gradually became focused that he realized that something was wrong.
He interrupted Gu Xiyu, who was patiently explaining. He frowned lightly and pointed to one of the questions, saying: “You have done this wrong. There are pitfalls in the question. You should first…”
He murmured for a long time, and when he realized that the person beside him hadn’t replied from beginning to end, he raised his head and saw the faint smile in the other party’s eyes. Then he suddenly realized something.
Lu Ziqing’s face sank. His tone turned into anger with a bit of irritation: “Did you deliberately..?”
From the very beginning, Gu Xiyu hadn’t really believed that this rebellious target didn’t know anything. If he was really that bad, then the bureau wouldn’t have sent tons of people to eliminate him.
When a child in the rebellious period does things very well, especially in school, they hope to get praise or at least some response from elders. When they don’t get any response or praise, they just stop doing things well. In this way, even if it harms them, they will act wild to finally get a little attention.
[How did you know he knew the answers?] the system suddenly asked.
Gu Xiyu smiled slightly: “He is so powerful, how can he really know nothing.”
Lu Ziqing lowered his head slightly and moved his fingers. His ears seemed to be a little hot all of a sudden.
[[The target’s risk value is -5. The current risk value is 60. ]]
“Let’s do it.” Gu Xiyu saw Lu Ziqing suddenly grab the pen and whisper the words he had said countless times in the first world, only that they had a different meaning this time.
Lu Ziqing’s mouth pursed into a line, and he began to write under Gu Xiyu’s supervision. He answered the questions seriously and looked like a cool scholar.
Gu Xiyu was very pleased, but he was also tangled. If Lu Ziqing’s grades were raised too high and the protagonist’s limelight was accidentally overshadowed, would it be a mission failure?
Commander Gu, who had completed the mission of the previous world after getting led astray by the system, didn’t know how mission is defined path as successful. But if he didn’t finish the mission properly, he would face the crisis of mission failure and the collapse of the world.
It was so confusing!
On the other hand, Lu Ziqing, who was beside him, was becoming more depressed as he wrote.
Why should he be so obedient? Why was he doing his homework so obediently just because Gu Xiyu said a few nice words casually?
He wanted to go back to lazing around, but he couldn’t control his hand which was continuously writing down.
Lu Ziqing couldn’t help but think again, he must get back the losses he has suffered from Gu Xiyu sooner or later.
———-
The next day, Lu Mingren left the house early. When Lu Ziqing came downstairs with dark circles under his eyes, he did not see anyone in the living room. But there were a few bowls of hot porridge on the table.
Lu Ziqing paused and looked in the direction of the kitchen subconsciously.
It was Gu Xiyu who was standing inside, and Aunt Zhang, who usually cooks for them, was not there.
He didn’t like porridge, so Aunt Zhang usually didn’t make this kind of breakfast.
When Lu Ziqing walked to the dining table, he remembered that Aunt Zhang had said the other day that she would take three days off and go back to her hometown to visit relatives.
“I don’t like porridge.” Lu Ziqing threw his schoolbag onto another chair where no one was sitting and said in a deep voice.
Gu Xiyu didn’t even look back: “Then don’t eat.”
Lu Ziqing frowned and asked, “Then what shall I eat?”
“How about eating wind? It’s free.”
“…”
Gu Xiyu’s university and Lu Ziqing’s high school were very close in distance. Lu Mingren, who finally found someone to help keep an eye on his son, hoped that Gu Xiyu could go out with Lu Ziqing every day, and Gu Xiyu also did not refuse.
The original owner had taken a few days off from the university to get married, so he would be going back to class today.
Lu Ziqing at the table struggled for a long time, then finally resigned himself to a bowl of porridge with a dark face.
Although he disliked the sticky taste and texture, he was certain that Gu Xiyu wasn’t someone who would inconvenience himself by making another dish. Anyway, the other party had cooked it with his own hands, there were few opportunities to consume his value.
Lu Ziqing held the bowl and stared at Gu Xiyu, who was wearing an apron in the kitchen with his back to him. He looked at him for a long time, and for some reason, he subconsciously blurted out: “The apron looks very nice on your body. It would have looked even better if there were no extra clothes underneath.”
The surroundings suddenly became quiet.
There was the sound of something falling to the ground in the kitchen. Lu Ziqing looked over and saw the iron spoon for soup getting broken in half when Gu Xiyu picked it up.
Lu Ziqing: “…”
