Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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Originally, the two of them would sit side by side on the sofa every night, doing their own things. But after this fat cat arrived, it occupied Su Xi’s lap for a whole week, leisurely licking its paws.
But Su Xi was so charmed that her heart fluttered.
Lu Huan glanced at the fat cat, whose waist was so thick that it was impossible to feel its shape, and his mood plummeted. He wondered in a depressed mood what was so cute about it.
He couldn’t resist any longer, so he quickly and ruthlessly grabbed the fat cat by the scruff of its neck, dragged it by its rear end, and shooed it off the sofa.
The fat cat jumped onto the coffee table with a pitiful expression and meowed at Su Xi.
Su Xi, who had just been petting the cat, suddenly found her hands empty and looked at Lu Huan: “What are you doing?”
Lu Huan felt even more aggrieved than a cat. He nestled into her arms, rested his head on her lap, picked up the test paper from the coffee table, handed it to Su Xi, and said, “There are some questions I don’t know how to answer.”
Not knowing how to do a question is a big deal! Su Xi immediately became alert: “Which question?!”
There was a monthly exam after the start of the semester. Lu Huan didn’t do very well on the first exam. After all, no matter how talented he was, it was impossible for him to learn so much high school material in such a short time.
Unexpectedly, although the cub was a top student in Yan, he still had some difficulty adapting to various subjects here. It seems that the golden finger that God gave him was not too exaggerated.
He was even mocked by Huo Jingchuan for being a poor student! Su Xi still wanted to punch Huo Jingchuan whenever she thought about it.
She had been wanting to find some time to tutor Lu Huan for a while.
Su Xi quickly took the test paper and pen, worked out the calculations herself first, and then explained them to him.
In this way, Su Xi completely forgot about the cat.
Lu Huan put one arm around Su Xi’s waist and curled his lips at the fat cat lying on the ground not far away.
Fat Cat: …
It’s cat-related.
Two months later, the unspoken rivalry between Lu Huan and Bold gradually subsided. Bold, having witnessed Lu Huan scooping its poop every day, finally agreed to jump down from Su Xi’s lap and onto Lu Huan’s lap, becoming a little closer to Lu Huan.
Su Xi finally transitioned from her initial fervent attitude to a more normal cat-owning mindset. She stopped showering the fat cat with kisses and cuddles so frequently and started allocating those to Lu Huan instead.
The clouds over Lu Huan’s head finally cleared up.
….
After Su Xi taught Lu Huan how to use those listening software and math explanation apps on his phone, Lu Huan spent a lot of time on them. He was more diligent than anyone else. Most of his classmates, including Su Xi, would still sleep in a little longer or stay in bed a bit longer in their senior year of high school, but he was probably used to military training and never had that habit.
He studied diligently every day, burning the midnight oil to do practice problems.
After finishing the exercise himself, he also had to supervise Su Xi to finish it once more.
So when he took the final exam, his progress was a qualitative leap compared to his first exam.
He ranked 113th in his grade, just ahead of Huo Jingchuan.
Huo Jingchuan’s smile vanished now.
Su Xi was used to being lazy, and her grades fluctuated between the top five and the top thirty in the grade. Under his supervision and forced practice, she suffered terribly, but the result was good. She actually got the highest score ever in the final exam and ranked second in the grade.
Her parents were stunned.
As the weather turned cold, snow began to fall. The school, like an ivory tower, was carefree, allowing Lu Huan to spend an extremely unforgettable period of time there.
They were already seniors in high school, and there was no winter break.
There was only a seven-day winter break for Chinese New Year, and Su Xi couldn’t stay in the apartment during those seven days; she had to go home.
Lu Huan then helped her pack her things and planned to take her home.
Before returning, he made his nightly appearance at the Taishan Palace as usual. The scriptures he had copied over the past six months had piled up into a stack, which he arranged for two servants to carry to another hall.
It also snowed in Taishan, the snow falling heavily, and the eaves were covered in ice and snow.
Lu Huan hadn’t cut his hair short in the past six months. Su Xi had tied it up for him, and now that he was back in Yan, it was just the right length to wear a crown. He changed into a long robe embroidered with dragons, opened the palace doors that had been closed for a long time, and went out to give instructions to the Imperial Guards.
But before he had taken two steps, he suddenly heard the sound of galloping horses coming from the mountainside; it was people from the capital.
Quite suddenly, a major piece of news came from the capital that night.
Six months ago, the money laundering scandal involving foreign merchants blew up. At the time, the Crown Prince was merely confined to his quarters. However, judging from the news that came out, the Second Prince had been up to something again in the past six months. In the end, the Fifth Prince overcame all obstacles and exposed the Crown Prince’s affair to the public.
Just a month earlier, Taizhou, whose disaster relief funds had been embezzled by the Crown Prince, suffered another disaster, causing public resentment and making it difficult for the court to control the situation.
Some in the court even suggested deposing the crown prince to appease public anger.
This letter was sent by the Minister of War, so it shouldn’t be fake. Lu Huan had been staying at the Taishan Imperial Palace for half a year, cut off from news, but this news reached him not too late. At this moment, there should be a dispute in the Golden Palace.
His expression remained unchanged, but his eyes were somewhat dark. He turned and went back into the hall, where he first burned the letter over the candlelight.
If he remembered correctly, the last mission he saw on the screen was to establish an education alliance, promote reading, subsidize people’s livelihood, establish county and prefectural schools, and promote the enlightenment of the people of Yan.
And task twenty was—
Stepping through Xuanwu Gate, occupying the Taiji Palace, becoming the emperor of the Yan Kingdom.
The author has something to say:
For several nights in a row, the door to one of the apartment rooms opened late at night, and a boy, whom his partner called “gentle and honest,” walked out silently, wearing long-sleeved pajamas and holding a bag of snacks he bought for Fat Cat (the kind of dried fish that Su Xi only allowed the cat to eat one piece a day).
He squatted barefoot on the ground, coaxing the fat cat over. He spread out three small dried fish in his hand and said to the fat cat in a low voice, “Let’s make a deal. Three dried fish every night, and tomorrow you must not jump into her arms.”
The fat cat, both greedy and scared, quickly snatched the dried fish from his hand and hid on the balcony.
….
For the sake of peace in the house, the fat cat licked its paws and thought, “I’ll let this kid have my master for one day tomorrow!”
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