Yun Buran was ranked seventh in grade, and she felt a little regretful, because Su Nian’s reputation as first in the city had already spread to the upper grades.
But she still received congratulations from teachers and classmates. In their eyes, only one exam had passed and her improvement was so great, which showed that Yun Buran had really been working hard recently.
But Yun Buran knew that it actually only took eleven days. Part of it was her own effort, but even more so because of that young legend.
She still asked for leave to go to the restroom, and after happily calling her mother to report the good news, she couldn’t help secretly sending a message to Su Nian.
: Seventh place. Mom said she wants to invite you to dinner with us tomorrow night.
But she didn’t expect Su Nian to reply instantly, even though he was in class.
: Is this the reward you wanted?
: This is what Mom wants~
Su Nian replied with a rolling eyes emoji, which counted as agreement. At that moment, he wasn’t in the classroom but in the office.
“Are you really human?”
Tao Ge joked with a grin.
“Little Su, are you interested in tutoring other students? There are many good seedlings in my class. I can negotiate to give you my evening self-study time directly.”
Lao He was also there, and his eyes were shining. Originally, he had been a little dissatisfied with Su Nian’s matters, but now he wanted to even give up his position as homeroom teacher to Su Nian.
Su Nian felt extremely overwhelmed. These idle teachers had already spread the word, everywhere boasting about him and wanting to dump students on him for tutoring.
He had come to the office to protect Yun Buran’s privacy. The teachers promised not to reveal Yun Buran’s situation.
But this phenomenon had already appeared everywhere.
“Look at Su Nian. Not only is he number one in the city, but he’s also said to have taken on tutoring for a Gaokao student, and the results are particularly good.”
After finally dealing with them and escaping the office, Su Nian felt extremely exhausted.
“What are you going to do? I feel like you and Yun Buran won’t be able to keep it secret for long. Won’t she be ganged up on by the girls later?”
Xiali sighed. As a demon, she never had a good view of human nature.
“I’m tired too. The semifinals are starting soon, one after another. I’ll handle it in the shortest time possible.”
“Handle it? You don’t want to confess and see the CG. Is there a special ending for teaching her to be first in grade? You can’t teach her until the Gaokao ends, right?”
Xiali said while using her ability to take out cookies and start eating. She was now flying beside Su Nian.
Otherwise, she’d get beaten to death for eating on Su Nian’s body.
Su Nian pointed at his phone screen and showed the message to Xiali.
“It’s all going as planned. The opportunity has already appeared.”
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Still during evening self-study time, still the two met at the school gate.
But this time they didn’t go home together; instead, they got into Yun Yuan’s car together.
“I heard Little Su got first in the city this time. So impressive?”
“Aunt Yun, it was partly luck. It just so happened that I had done similar problems to the difficult ones.”
Su Nian shyly scratched his head.
Yun Buran was a bit choked. She suddenly recalled everything. Recently she had gotten used to this man’s mischievous personality and had forgotten the shy, reckless boy from the snack shop.
Su Nian secretly sent a message to Yun Buran from the back seat.
: Cooperate with me, or the reward is canceled.
Yun Buran was a little speechless and didn’t know how to act, so she remained silent.
Yun Yuan was used to her silent daughter, but she thought that the relationship between her daughter and Su Nian should be better.
Yun Yuan glanced at Su Nian in the rearview mirror and thought worriedly: ‘Couldn’t even this face win over her daughter? Would she really end up liking girls?’
“My Ran’er really owes a lot to you this time, Little Su. Can you handle it? Aren’t you too tired?”
“It’s not tiring, Aunt Yun. It’s mainly that Senior Yun herself works very hard.”
Yun Buran had mixed feelings when she heard the term “Senior Yun.” She remained silent all the way until the restaurant.
At the dinner table, the host and guest had a great time. Yun Yuan and Su Nian chatted happily, but several times when Yun Yuan passed the conversation to Yun Buran, her responses were very cold.
She was actually a bit uncomfortable. Watching her mother laugh heartily at Su Nian’s jokes, she really wanted to expose Su Nian’s true face.
Su Nian was smiling cheerfully, then asked casually, “By the way, where is Uncle?”
Yun Yuan paused, as if thinking, and looked at Yun Buran, then replied, “We got divorced a long time ago.”
She brushed off the topic lightly, but Su Nian never expected to actually ask anything. From the moment he asked, he had been secretly observing Yun Buran’s reaction.
When Yun Buran heard Su Nian ask this, her hand holding the chopsticks paused for a moment, then she continued eating with her head lowered, but her head was buried even deeper than before.
“Aunt Yun, has Senior Yun been this well-behaved since she was little?”
One thing Su Nian was sure of was that Yun Yuan loved Yun Buran very much. So Yun Yuan began to talk with great interest about interesting childhood stories of Yun Buran.
Su Nian kept providing emotional support, asking appropriate questions, but continuously peeling away layers and organizing fragmentary information.
Yun Buran had probably been in a very happy family since childhood, until a change occurred around middle school, and then Aunt Yun got divorced around second year of junior high.
“Su Nian, Xiali’s demonic energy is getting heavier. Is this stimulation because of her?”
Xiali was already full and couldn’t help but worry.
“No, these are all the happy memories of mother and daughter. What’s really stimulating her is me. That’s what I want.”
Su Nian had previously wondered if it was because the restaurant’s air conditioning was too cold; there was a feeling of low pressure around. It seemed it was because of the senior.
But he still kept laughing happily with Yun Yuan.
Finally, when they were about to leave, Yun Yuan said to Yun Buran with a tone of disappointment, “Ran’er, this meal is just a treat from me. You should buy a gift for Little Su yourself.”
Any parent would have a strong filter for Su Nian, let alone Yun Yuan, who liked Su Nian even more after these two interactions. He was an extremely outstanding young man, yet he could be shy. Sometimes his speech had a kind of pure foolishness. These flaws were perfect for the otherwise perfect Su Nian. He was truly Yun Yuan’s ideal son-in-law.
Yun Buran still didn’t respond. Actually, normally she was a girl who loved chatting with her mother. But earlier it was because she agreed with Su Nian, and she felt speechless inside. Now, she truly didn’t want to say a word.
Because Yun Buran could no longer deceive herself. She realized a very terrifying thing.