After Becoming the Love-Brained Female Lead’s Best Friend - Chapter 16

Before they each returned to their rooms, Ye Wanyin gave Fang Shu a new set of questions she had created by drawing inferences from the ones Fang Shu had gotten wrong that night. She sincerely expressed her hope.

“If you can finish these tonight and wake up a little earlier tomorrow morning to hand them to me, that would be even better.”

At this moment, because Fang Shu had spent quite a lot of time slacking off later in the evening, she was still relatively easy to talk to. After hesitating for a while, she agreed, letting Ye Wanyin feel greatly relieved.

As it turned out, Fang Shu did finish the questions that night.

But she did not wake up in the morning.

At first, Ye Wanyin knocked on her door a few times, but there was no movement inside. Thinking that Fang Shu might have tired herself out from doing the questions, she ultimately did not continue.

It was not until noon that Fang Shu finally came out of her room, rubbing her eyes, with the questions she had finished last night in hand.

Ye Wanyin roughly looked them over. Half were correct. As for the rest, she either had no idea where to start or got stuck at a certain point.

Ye Wanyin was not surprised by this. After all, drawing inferences from one case was not the same as doing completely identical questions where only the numbers had changed. One also had to learn how to adapt. Fang Shu’s current level was within her expectations.

She first let Fang Shu eat. After that, Ye Wanyin picked up the notebook Fang Shu had finished and began explaining the questions to her.

Ye Wanyin did not explain the ones with fewer changes that Fang Shu already knew how to do. She mainly explained the ones with more variations, the ones Fang Shu had no idea how to approach.

After explaining several questions, Ye Wanyin asked as usual whether Fang Shu understood. Fang Shu first nodded thoughtfully, then answered confidently, “I got it.”

Ye Wanyin immediately wanted to write a few more questions of the same type for her to do, but Fang Shu stopped her. Fang Shu said, “I already completely understand this section. You don’t need to explain it anymore.”

Ye Wanyin: “…”

Ye Wanyin pressed down on her own notebook, used a bit of strength to pull it free, then picked up her pen and said, “Then I’ll write one final question. If you get it right, you won’t have to study this section anymore.”

Fang Shu looked at her warily. “What if you trick me?”

Ye Wanyin promised her, “Don’t worry. It definitely won’t go beyond the knowledge points.”

Fang Shu was half-believing, half-doubting.

Five minutes later, Ye Wanyin pushed the notebook with the question she had written toward Fang Shu. Fang Shu gave it a rough glance and relaxed. Ye Wanyin really had not lied to her. As soon as Fang Shu looked at this question, she knew how to do it.

Ten minutes later—

Fang Shu bit the end of her pen and frowned.

Twenty minutes later—

Fang Shu bit the end of her pen and doubted life.

She felt that this was not her problem. The question had to be wrong. After all, Ye Wanyin was still a student. It was normal for her to accidentally leave out a condition and create a faulty question.

With an extremely understanding expression, Fang Shu looked at Ye Wanyin and told her with certainty, “You left out a condition.”

Ye Wanyin leaned over and glanced at it, then asked, “Are you sure?”

Fang Shu nodded firmly.

She had already stirred all the knowledge points into juice and still could not calculate it. It was missing a very crucial number, so there was no way to solve it.

Ye Wanyin took the notebook over. Then she used her pen to draw an auxiliary line on the figure in the notebook and handed it back to Fang Shu.

“Look again. Can you calculate it now?”

Fang Shu frowned as she pulled the notebook back. She picked up her pen and roughly calculated on scratch paper, only to discover that she really could solve it now.

Fang Shu: “…”

This was unscientific.

Ye Wanyin took the notebook back again and began writing questions on it. Fang Shu made a slight attempt to struggle. “Questions can never be finished.”

Without raising her head, Ye Wanyin said, “Mm, but you still need to do more of them.”

Fang Shu lay on the table and muttered, “What’s the point?”

“Questions can never be finished, but every time you learn one more question type, you have one more bit of hope during the exam.”

Twenty minutes later, Ye Wanyin handed the newly written notebook to Fang Shu. This time, there were only two questions on it, but even with one’s toes, one could tell they could not possibly be simple.

Ye Wanyin said, “This section is the easiest type of question in the math exam. To put it in an inappropriate way, it’s a free-points question. What I just wrote are the questions with the greatest variations and highest difficulty that have appeared in exams so far. If you can do these two, then you can basically do all questions of this type.”

Fang Shu bit the end of her pen and started working.

Not long after she started, Ye Wanyin suddenly reached out and removed the pen from her mouth, then sighed. “I’ve discovered that you really do have a lot of bad habits.”

Fang Shu looked at her a few more times. In the end, she still said nothing.

The difficulty of the questions had increased, so this time Fang Shu took quite a while to finish them. Afterward, Fang Shu felt that all of her brain cells had completely died. Ye Wanyin picked up the notebook and said to Fang Shu, who was lying on the table, “You worked hard. Go rest for a bit first.”

Fang Shu did not really want to move right now. She only rolled her eyes toward Ye Wanyin and said weakly, “Don’t you get tired?”

Ye Wanyin glanced at the question bank she had just been working through and said with a relaxed breath, “A little just now. This is just enough to relax.”

Fang Shu looked at Ye Wanyin, who had begun using her pen to mark and outline things in the notebook, and somehow felt mocked.

When Fang Shu had rested enough and was about to take her phone, Ye Wanyin had also just finished looking everything over. Ye Wanyin looked at Fang Shu, who was picking up her phone. Fang Shu looked at Ye Wanyin, who was holding the notebook. They fell into silence as they looked at each other.

Ye Wanyin thought about the few small problems she had just found and felt that balancing work and rest was not impossible. So she said thoughtfully, “Play for a while first.”

Fang Shu: “…”

Fang Shu put her phone away. “Forget it. Explain it first.”

The other party had been doing questions all day too. She should also get to “relax” a little.

Fang Shu felt she was truly considerate.

Because Fang Shu had done quite a few practice questions earlier, the little mistakes she made this time were not too serious. So Ye Wanyin only briefly helped her consolidate the knowledge and reminded her of a few things to pay attention to. With that, this section could be considered over.

By now, it was just about dinnertime, so Ye Wanyin simply let Fang Shu rest and went to prepare dinner herself.

Watching Ye Wanyin open the fridge and think about what to make for dinner, Fang Shu stood up and followed her. “I’ll help you.”

Ye Wanyin said there was no need, but Fang Shu did not listen.

The open kitchen was not very large. Having two girls squeezed inside could only be considered barely just right.

When Ye Wanyin washed the vegetables, Fang Shu helped her from the side.

This scene made Fang Shu think of a manga she had read last night. In the manga, Female Lead One and Female Lead Two also prepared dinner together in an especially warm atmosphere. The two people in the manga had not yet pierced through the paper window between them, and every movement was filled with ambiguous tension.

Fang Shu looked at Ye Wanyin beside her. When Ye Wanyin finished washing the vegetables and was about to put them into the draining basket, Fang Shu suddenly reached out.

“I’ll help you.”

Their fingers “touched” midway according to plan. Fang Shu hissed softly. “Damn.”

Ye Wanyin turned back blankly.

Fang Shu shook her hand, expressionless. “Static electricity.”

Ye Wanyin said “Oh, oh” twice, then apologized, “I didn’t notice.”

Fang Shu was not unreasonable enough to throw the blame for static electricity onto Ye Wanyin’s head, so she waved her hand. “Why are you apologizing? I was the one who accidentally touched you and caused the static. Speaking of which, didn’t you feel it?”

Ye Wanyin had already placed the vegetables properly. Hearing Fang Shu’s words, she said strangely, “I really didn’t feel much.”

Then she seemed to remember something and smiled. “In the past, when my classmates walked with me, they would often get ‘shocked’ by me too, but I never felt anything myself…”

Before Ye Wanyin finished speaking, she felt the air go quiet. Fang Shu was narrowing her eyes at her, interrogating her. “Aren’t you supposed to have grown up with me? When did you get a classmate I don’t know about?”

Only then did Ye Wanyin realize she had slipped up. She laughed awkwardly. “We weren’t together twenty-four hours a day. It’s normal that you don’t know.”

Fang Shu said “oh,” as if she believed it.

After dinner, Ye Wanyin flipped the study guide to the designated page and handed it to Fang Shu. While cleaning up the dishes, she said, “Why don’t you preview it first?”

Fang Shu hugged the study guide. Because she was sitting, she had to tilt her head up to look at Ye Wanyin. She asked, “I’m already fulfilling my obligations. When are you planning to fulfill yours?”

Ye Wanyin almost lost her grip and dropped all the dishes. For the first time, the eyes hidden behind her black-framed glasses opened so wide.

“Wh-what?”

Fang Shu still hugged the study guide, and her finger tapped on it. “Your obligations.”

Then she narrowed her eyes at Ye Wanyin and said warily, “Don’t tell me you’re just trying to freeload off me? Taking the title of lover while acting as a teacher?”

Ye Wanyin: “…”

Ye Wanyin: “Emmmmm…”

Fang Shu stared her down.

Ye Wanyin finally could not hold on anymore. She put down the dishes she had cleaned up and hesitated. “No, but I don’t really understand that side of things.”

Fang Shu gave her a look that said, What use are you, then? Then she went to her own room and carried out more than a dozen books.

Every book had been sealed in a plastic protective cover. The edges and corners were all very new and neat. Each book looked as if it had never been opened.

Fang Shu did not immediately hand the books to her. Instead, she first said solemnly, “Treat them well.”

Ye Wanyin was a little afraid to take them. “What if I damage them?”

Fang Shu looked at her several times, then decisively carried the books back.

Ye Wanyin also quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

However, this breath of relief did not last long, because Fang Shu brought out a tablet instead. Fang Shu locked everything involving privacy inside, then told Ye Wanyin the screen-lock password. She also found the apps she usually used to read comics and novels and showed them to her.

Finally, Fang Shu placed the tablet in Ye Wanyin’s arms and said to her, “Study properly. Tomorrow, I’ll check your progress.”

Before Ye Wanyin could raise any questions, Fang Shu had already carried the study guide back to her room.

Before locking the door, she waved to Ye Wanyin one last time. “Right, the dishwasher arrives tomorrow. Starting tomorrow, we won’t need to wash dishes by hand.”

This time, the door was completely closed.

Only Ye Wanyin was left sitting on the sofa, holding a tablet in her arms, somewhat at a loss.

Ye Wanyin did not tap into the novels, because just seeing so many densely packed words made her dizzy.

She did tap into the comics. Fang Shu’s taste was basically reliable. Aside from the ones that were too colorful for her to keep reading, Ye Wanyin tried reading one with a relatively simple and natural art style.

Mm. The female lead was very pretty.