Volume 1 Chapter 27: Wuwuwu, Please Tutor Me…
The next day.
The girl stretched lazily and struggled to climb out of her blanket.
After breakfast, she exchanged annoyed looks with her younger brother, put on her school uniform, and went to school.
On the way, she felt much more used to going to school in girls’ clothes today.
After all, she was a girl now. Wearing girls’ clothes wasn’t a big deal anymore.
Besides, girls can wear both skirts and pants, but boys usually can only wear pants. If you think about it that way, she wins!
Today’s goal, find a top student to tutor her.
With that in mind, Lin Lin arrived early and sat in the classroom. She waited for Teacher Zhu to show up during morning study, while also secretly looking around the class to see if there were any classmates with good grades and an easy personality.
She waited and waited, but Teacher Zhu never came.
Normally, Teacher Zhu would appear as soon as morning study started, but today Lin Lin waited a long time and still didn’t see her.
Time was running out. Only two and a half hours were left.
Lin Lin quickly shifted her focus to her classmates and started choosing people from the grade ranking list, from top to bottom.
First place: Gao Liang.
Immediately excluded!
Then she started from second place.
Second place was a girl with braided hair and glasses.
Lin Lin walked toward the girl step by step, feeling very nervous. The girl looked even more shy than Lin Lin herself. Then Lin Lin suddenly spoke.
“Um… can you tutor me in math?”
The girl with glasses was startled. After calming down, she quickly waved her hands.
“Uh… Classmate Lin, I’m busy preparing for the math olympiad right now.”
“Sorry to bother you!”
Lin Lin covered her face and ran away.
Next! Third place, a bookish-looking boy.
“Um… can you… tutor me?”
The girl bowed at a 45-degree angle, hoping not to give him the wrong idea.
But…
“Uh, we’re not really close, are we?”
The boy pushed up his glasses and spoke with no expression.
Lin Lin turned around stiffly. Right, she was reaching too high.
Next…
“Um, if I tutor you, my friends might say I’ve become weird like you.”
Next!
“Hey, look, she’s really going down the ranking list, haha! Guess you’re next!”
“Everyone else refused, so how could I agree? Sorry, I don’t really understand the recent lessons either…”
“I’m busy, I’m busy, sorry!”
After being brushed off again, Lin Lin stood there awkwardly.
Her classmates whispered among themselves, talking about how she had been running around asking for tutoring all morning. No one knew what had happened to her.
Just then, the blonde girl Han Kui suddenly came over, hooked an arm around Lin Lin’s neck, and laughed teasingly.
“Well, isn’t this Lin Lin? I heard you’re looking for someone to tutor you. How about I tutor you instead~?”
“No thanks, thank you very much, goodbye forever!”
Lin Lin quickly broke free and ran out of the classroom, carrying all the whispers behind her.
Wuwuwu… this classroom is impossible to stay in anymore.
She had already asked more than twenty people. How… how was it possible that not a single one was willing?
The girl felt a bit hopeless, but she still held on to one last bit of hope.
The teacher… Teacher Zhu.
Teachers would never give up on their students!
With that thought, Lin Lin rushed straight to the teachers’ office.
But…
When she reached the office, the teachers were already holding their lesson plans and walking out to go to class. Only Teacher Zhu’s seat was empty…
Lin Lin stood there blankly, then started looking around for Teacher Zhu.
But she wasn’t there. Not anywhere.
Time slowly passed, until Lin Lin suddenly heard footsteps.
She turned around out of instinct.
But the person who came in was the last one she wanted to see—
It was Gao Liang!
Damn it!
The girl stood up right away, her face turning ugly.
She stared at Gao Liang, while Gao Liang awkwardly held a stack of notebooks. Neither of them spoke. The air felt stiff and awkward.
After a long moment, Gao Liang spoke quietly.
“Um, Lin Lin, can I go in? I need to put these assignments on the desk.”
“Ah… okay…”
Feeling awkward, the girl moved aside a little to make space for him, then stayed where she was, looking at him with clear annoyance.
Why hasn’t Teacher Zhu come yet? Why did this guy show up first?
Please leave, please leave, please leave… this is so awkward…
While Lin Lin was praying in her heart, Gao Liang put down the homework, and instead of leaving, he looked up at her with a strange expression.
“Lin Lin… Why are you staying in the office? Do you need something?”
It was a very normal question. But to Lin Lin, mixed with his strange look and the stress from being rejected by so many classmates, the words somehow sounded completely wrong.
In her imagination:
‘Lin Lin, is something wrong with your head? Why are you staying here? This place doesn’t welcome you, trash! This weekend we’re holding a study meeting, all the important people will come, guess who won’t get invited? You~’
Wuaaahhh!
This guy! This guy!
He’s going too far!
Her face turned red, and she shouted at him loudly.
“What does it have to do with you?! Don’t ask things you shouldn’t!”
After that, she turned her head away, fuming.
Seriously… I’m so mad.
I’d rather look at the system screen than look at you!
Damn it!
So she turned her head and looked at the system screen.
And then…
She saw that message again.
【Time left to find and bind a top student: 0 hours 1 minute 42 seconds. If no top student agrees to tutor you before the time ends, the task will fail.】
O–one… one minute?!
“Uh, if you’re here to find Teacher Zhu,” Gao Liang said, “she doesn’t have classes this morning. She took leave today, so she probably won’t come to school.”
“Sh–sh–she took leave?!”
The girl froze, then quickly took out her phone and called the teacher.
The phone rang for more than ten seconds. No answer.
She called again, this time the phone was turned off.
She looked up. Less than one minute left.
And the teachers’ office was now completely empty. The only people left were herself and Gao Liang.
Tears suddenly poured out of Lin Lin’s eyes. She panicked and spun in place.
She just wanted to find someone to tutor her. She thought it would be easy once she came to school.
Why… why was it so hard?!
Wuwuwuwu—ahhhh!
“Lin Lin… why are you crying?” Gao Liang asked nervously.
“Coach… I—I want to learn math!”
The girl collapsed onto the floor, hugged Gao Liang’s leg tightly, and cried with tears and snot everywhere.
“Please agree, Coach! Please! I want to learn math!”