After Becoming the Love-Brained Female Lead’s Best Friend - Chapter 15

[Li Ming: Does anyone know who Fang Shu’s new boyfriend is?]

[Class Monitor: Fang Shu is dating someone? Why do I feel like she hasn’t been dating anyone lately?]

[Li Ming: She definitely is if you think about it. It’s been almost half a month. There’s no way no one secretly made a move.]

[Zhang Xiao: That’s right, it’s me. I secretly made a move.]

[Study Rep: ???]

[Li Ming: Admin, come kick out the guy muddying the waters.]

…

Early in the morning—which meant ten o’clock in the morning—Fang Shu was bombarded awake by the group chat crazily mentioning her. She narrowed her eyes and turned over, only to feel her face touch something cold. She instantly woke up.

Lying beneath her face was the math study guide she had opened yesterday. The page was still on page sixty-seven. She had only done the first few multiple-choice questions, and they looked as if she had randomly chosen the answers.

Fang Shu sat up, rubbed her cheek, and looked around. Then she lifted her pillow and blanket, finally finding the pen she had used last night in the corner. She had fallen asleep while doing problems and forgotten to put the cap back on. Now the bedsheet in the corner had been stained black.

Fang Shu capped the pen, placed the math study guide on the bedside table, and then lifted the bedsheet. The master bedroom came with its own bathroom. Fang Shu first cleaned the ink stain on the bedsheet briefly in the bathroom, then carried the bedsheet to the washing machine on the living room balcony and threw it in to wash.

When she came out, she smelled the aroma coming from the open kitchen in the living room. After putting the bedsheet in, Fang Shu walked to the cabinet outside the open kitchen, leaned against it, and asked Ye Wanyin, who was busy inside, “What are you making?”

“Braised ribs. You eat ribs, right?” Ye Wanyin scooped up a spoonful of soup, blew on it, and brought it to Fang Shu. “Taste it. How’s the flavor?”

Fang Shu tasted it and commented, “It’s fine.”

Ye Wanyin felt relieved and served the soup. She said to Fang Shu, “Eating takeout every day isn’t very healthy. When I have time in the future, I’ll try to cook for you.”

Fang Shu expressed that either way was fine. She helped Ye Wanyin bring over bowls and chopsticks. While Ye Wanyin was serving rice, Fang Shu took out her phone and said, “Let’s order milk tea. We can drink it after eating.”

Ye Wanyin handed Fang Shu her portion of rice and could not help saying, “My dear auntie, you’ve been drinking milk tea for several days in a row. Take a break.”

“If you want something to drink, I can make you fruit juice.”

Fang Shu reluctantly put down her phone and said, “Fine.”

After they finished eating, Ye Wanyin kept her promise and made her a cup of strawberry juice. Only after Fang Shu started drinking did Ye Wanyin ask, “Did you finish yesterday’s homework?”

Fang Shu bit the glass straw in her cup. “I couldn’t do it.”

Ye Wanyin had expected this. She stood up. “You go get the study guide. I’ll get my notes?”

Although Fang Shu moved slowly and looked unwilling, fortunately, she was indeed serious about dating. She still went back to her room to get it. After she came out, Ye Wanyin looked at her “battle results” from one night and felt that buying first-year high school study guides had truly been the right choice.

Of course, if possible, she would rather start teaching from elementary and middle school content. But in that case, there definitely would not be enough time.

The study guide included the basic knowledge points, conveniently saving the trouble of finding first-year textbooks. Ye Wanyin showed her the first-year basic knowledge points while explaining them.

Ye Wanyin’s teaching method was actually similar to the homeroom teacher’s. Both of them broke the knowledge into pieces and fed it to the student. The difference was that the homeroom teacher was facing so many students, so it was very hard to take care of every detail—especially for someone like Fang Shu, who still could not understand even when first-year knowledge was broken into pieces.

When Ye Wanyin explained, every time she saw that Fang Shu did not understand something, she would ask clearly what part she did not understand, then supplement it with the corresponding knowledge.

After finally finishing one knowledge point, Ye Wanyin poured herself a glass of water. She moistened her throat and was just about to have Fang Shu consolidate the knowledge when Fang Shu suddenly collapsed onto the table. Her expression was blank, looking as if she had been exhausted to death and her head had exploded.

Ye Wanyin: “…?”

Ye Wanyin tried pushing her and coaxed her in an extremely gentle tone, “How about you finish this section of homework first, then rest?”

Fang Shu sprawled there without moving. “I’m tired.”

Ye Wanyin had no choice but to let her rest first. She dragged over the holiday homework from the side and began doing it herself.

Fang Shu let her mind go blank for a while. Then her gaze stopped on the person opposite her. Seeing Ye Wanyin so focused on doing homework, Fang Shu could not help asking, “Don’t you get bored?”

“Huh?” Ye Wanyin raised her head from the homework.

Fang Shu nodded toward her homework. “Don’t you already know all of it? Isn’t doing it again boring?”

While quickly calculating mentally, Ye Wanyin answered, “It’s fine. Even if the questions are simple, I still can’t just not hand in the homework.”

Fang Shu expressed that she did not understand this.

Seeing Ye Wanyin doing homework so seriously, Fang Shu secretly took out her phone. She still had not checked the group messages that had been crazily mentioning her that morning. Seeing that they were all asking about her new boyfriend, Fang Shu replied with a period in the group.

[Li Ming: !!! Fang Shu! Hurry and tell me who you’re dating!]

[Li Ming: We’ve almost guessed everyone in West High!]

[Fang Shu: If you’re bored, you can go do homework.]

[Li Ming: ??? Is this something you, the second-to-last student in class, should be saying???]

[Zhang Xiao: Li Ming, that’s where you’re wrong. What’s wrong with second-to-last? Second-to-last only told you to do homework. She didn’t say she’d do it herself.]

[Fang Shu: .]

After sending the period, Fang Shu exited QQ and opened the novel app she often used. Seeing that a novel she followed had updated, she happily tapped in. Just then, a shadow fell over her head. The next second, Fang Shu’s phone was taken away. Ye Wanyin turned off the screen and pushed the math study guide in front of her.

Fang Shu tried to struggle. “My head hurts…”

Ye Wanyin also placed the pen into her hand and encouraged her, “Once you finish, it’ll feel better.”

Fang Shu: “…”

Fang Shu helplessly picked up the pen. Ye Wanyin added, “I looked over it just now. You got all the multiple-choice questions wrong. Since you just understood it, redo them. Remember to write the steps.”

“The fill-in-the-blank questions too.”

Fang Shu: “…”

Fang Shu silently set up a scale in her heart. One day, when the breakup value outweighed the romance value, she would ask to break up.

Fang Shu did the first multiple-choice question, squeezed the steps into the space below, then switched to the big questions. Since she had to write steps anyway, she might as well do the big questions first.

Ye Wanyin did not care about the order she did the questions in, as long as she finished them in the end.

No one knew whether Fang Shu had too much difficulty applying what she learned, or whether she found it hard to concentrate. In short, this section, including the multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank questions, had a total of six big questions, and Fang Shu worked on them all the way until past eight at night before barely finishing.

The second and third parts of the last big question were still left blank.

By this time, Ye Wanyin had already made dinner. Sensing that Fang Shu was extremely down at the moment, she did not immediately and heartlessly start explaining the questions. After both of them finished dinner, she even gave Fang Shu some time to rest while she checked the section Fang Shu had done.

There were five multiple-choice questions in total. For the first one, the steps were clear, and it could be seen that she really understood it. For the fourth one, the steps were clearly… cut off, and it could be seen that she really did not know it.

As for the fifth one, this one was even more direct. She had only copied down the data from the question, then randomly chosen an answer.

The fill-in-the-blank questions were even more obvious. If she knew it, there was an answer. If she did not, it was left blank.

As for the remaining four big questions, the first part was basically correct for each. For the second part, some were correct, while others were nonsense created by blindly plugging in formulas.

Ye Wanyin spent half an hour checking all the questions. Only then did she call over Fang Shu, who was reading a sweet little novel with a bright expression. As soon as Fang Shu came over, the expression on her face instantly collapsed.

Ye Wanyin rubbed her nose. There was no way around it. Fang Shu’s foundation was too poor. Right now, even her best possible score could barely reach the cutoff for the lowest-tier university, let alone the fact that her grades were not stable.

They could only strengthen her foundation as quickly as possible before thinking about raising her score.

Of course, Ye Wanyin was not supplementing blindly. Going one by one would definitely be too slow. There was only one full year left before the college entrance exam, and if she explained one knowledge point at a time, she would still be explaining by next year. So she directly started with the big questions that might appear on the exam.

Ye Wanyin explained all the questions Fang Shu was unsure about and the questions she did not know how to do. After explaining until the end, she asked Fang Shu, “Do you understand?”

Fang Shu looked at her with a gaze that had been thoroughly tortured.

Ye Wanyin: “…”

…Fine.

Seeing that Ye Wanyin still wanted to explain it again, Fang Shu held her aching head. “Let’s stop here for today. If you keep explaining, I’m going to get PTSD from you.”

Fang Shu was not lying. The amount of knowledge she had taken in today was too much for her. It had compressed her so much that she almost could not breathe. Seeing that the breakup value was about to crush the romance value, Ye Wanyin finally let her go.

The breakup value instantly lightened a lot.

Fang Shu no longer felt that her head hurt. She slumped in the chair and began playing with her phone.

She had already read the new chapters of the several novels she was following, so she started searching for new novels. She flipped through page after page of the rankings. Either she did not really like them, or she had already read them.

In the end, she aimlessly scrolled through videos.

Ah, although videos were very boring, compared to studying, they were indeed much cuter to look at.