Chapter 942: Xiao Chong Extra 27_2
Chapter 942: Xiao Chong Extra 27_2
There are indeed only traces of study here, no other smells.
Xiao Chong’s mom silently went downstairs and made a surprise inspection of Xiao Chong’s master bedroom on the second floor, finding no contraband.
She couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief; at such a youthful and vigorous age, she really feared they might do something rash.
Xiao Chong’s parents didn’t stay long at the small villa. They had just returned from his grandparents’ house, preparing to pick up their son on the way home.
Now it seems this son is reluctant to leave.
Not long after they left, Xiao Chong brought up sliced tiramisu and a pot of red tea to the attic.
Lin Wanwan had slept enough and woke up groggily, staring blankly at Xiao Chong for a moment before asking, "What time is it now?"
"Almost four o’clock." Xiao Chong placed the tray with cake and red tea on the coffee table. "Go wash your face, come have afternoon tea. Today it’s tiramisu, your favorite."
"Oh." Lin Wanwan rubbed her eyes and sat up, dazed for a moment before muttering, "How did I fall asleep?"
Xiao Chong laughed, "You should ask yourself that. What time did you go to bed last night?"
Lin Wanwan propped her elbow on the coffee table, resting her head in her hand, and sighed, "I must be stupid. Looking at these questions makes me sleepy."
"You’re not stupid, just sleep-deprived." Xiao Chong sat cross-legged and began pouring tea.
Lin Wanwan lifted herself up and crawled to the bathroom to freshen up.
Because she had been staying here almost every day for the past month, Xiao Chong had already prepared a special toothpaste, toothbrush, and face towel for her in the attic bathroom.
Lin Wanwan went from feeling embarrassed at first to now being accustomed to it.
After all, Xiao Chong lived alone, and his parents hardly ever visited, and if they did come it was at night when Lin Wanwan was already home.
She still doesn’t know that Xiao Chong’s parents had already learned everything during her nap.
On September 1st, Xiao Chong and Lin Wanwan entered their senior year of high school.
On Xiao Chong’s first day of school, he received attention and jokes from various "big shots" starting from the school gate.
Especially his loyal follower Hong Yijing and others, who leaned out the window and shouted in unison, "Boss Xiao Chong, why did you personally walk to school?"
Thus, downstairs at the sophomore and freshman windows, a dense crowd gathered, watching the school’s handsome star.
Trying to keep a low profile was impossible for Xiao Chong—it’s really a headache.
Already assured of a direct admission, Xiao Chong, aside from needing to attend autumn and spring camps at Peking University in November this year and April next year to experience college life, has plenty of free time.
Teachers at school no longer monitored him closely, but the competitive class teachers often called him over to help guide younger students.
He was happy to help with questions from classmates around him.
Many boarding students in their senior year became day-students, as parents wanted to accompany their children through the final year.
In the high-rise neighborhood where Lin Wanwan lived, more and more tenants from her senior year were moving in, but the villa area remained unchanged.
Xiao Chong’s brothers, Hong Yijing and Gao Wang, stopped boarding in their senior year and joined the group of day-students, renting in the high-rise neighborhood where Lin Wanwan and Xiao Chong’s community is located.
The villa area and high-rise area are not connected; though part of the same community, they have separate gates and property management, yet visiting each other’s places was still easy.
So ever since renting in the high-rise area, Hong Yijing and others often visited Xiao Chong’s house.
It was during this time that they discovered Xiao Chong and Lin Wanwan were actually neighbors.
However, about Xiao Chong’s feelings for Lin Wanwan, his friends were already aware, mainly because Xiao Chong had never intended to hide them.
Having realized the two were neighbors, the teasing only increased.
Xiao Chong often helped the three of them with math tutoring—if you get into it, Lin Wanwan turned out to be the smartest student, while the other two often left Xiao Chong speechless.
But Lin Wanwan wasn’t all that great either; with the same type of problem, she could get it wrong three times in a month.
With Xiao Chong summarizing and helping her memorize ancient Chinese reading, politics, history, and geography, her grades in each of these subjects improved, but her math scores remained around 120, showing little progress.
"Sigh, the big math problems are really tough to handle."
"Wanwan, actually high school math isn’t real math; it’s mostly arithmetic. Here’s the deal: I’ll organize a list of essential math exam points over the next few days. Since you can’t draw inferences, just memorize them by heart."
Xiao Chong supported his face, helplessly looking at Lin Wanwan, finding a solution that wasn’t really a solution.