Being a Tutor to a Rich, Psychopathic Young Lady - Chapter 21
Chapter 21
Shi Mingyue pursed her lips tightly and immediately turned over to her side. This couldn’t be a student she taught. This was too… uncultured.
Shi Mingyue just wanted to cover her ears. Xiao Dengqu was still holding her collar, muttering and peeking inside. “Really, it really hurts a little. I feel my n1pple…”
“Don’t say that!” Shi Mingyue stopped her seriously.
“Oh, then my br…”
“Xiao Dengqu!”
Shi Mingyue took a deep breath. “Just go take another shower, and you’ll be fine.”
“It’s not itchy. It’s just, just a sharp pain.” Xiao Dengqu repeatedly insisted that it really, really hurt.
Shi Mingyue didn’t believe her. She put her hand over her ear. Xiao Dengqu reached out to grab her wrist. “Teacher, it hurts.”
Shi Mingyue was quite puzzled. Xiao Dengqu was so good at acting spoiled, so why was she disliked? She was so soft it was hard to be mean to her.
Xiao Dengqu moved forward, her nose sniffing the scent on her palm. “It smells good.”
Shi Mingyue immediately pulled her hand back. “How could it hurt if nothing bit you?”
“The teacher rubbed it.” Xiao Dengqu complained. “The teacher didn’t rub it well, so the skin broke. Will it leave a scar?”
She even knew it would leave a scar. How could that area do that?
Shi Mingyue yawned. “I’m really sleepy.”
“Teacher, won’t you take a look for me?” Xiao Dengqu asked, reaching for her hem to let Shi Mingyue check her.
They were clearly using the same body wash, yet Xiao Dengqu smelled like she was marinated in it, her whole body fragrant. Every time she got close, she would cause Shi Mingyue’s body to feel a primal, lustful hunger.
Shi Mingyue dodged her advance and said, “I’m a teacher, not a doctor. I can’t cure you.”
Xiao Dengqu hummed. “Then if the teacher breaks it from rubbing, I’ll bite you until it breaks, teacher…”
Shi Mingyue didn’t reply. Her mind was not clear, affected by her scent. Xiao Dengqu leaned close to her ear and continued to call out, “Teacher?”
This time, she really fell asleep. As Shi Mingyue got more familiar with her, she also knew Xiao Dengqu’s personality. At night, she would get very restless and try to turn everything into something sensual. She always had a desire for exploration that didn’t fit her age.
Going to bed early was good for her.
But the sleeping Shi Mingyue didn’t know that Xiao Dengqu would also be very excited when she was asleep. Because the teacher would be obedient when she was asleep. Her mouth would be slightly pouted, and her lip bead would become very round and soft. She placed her finger on it, and the stiff feeling made her fingertip feel soft.
Xiao Dengqu stroked her lips open, and her finger slowly slid inside, moistening it and creating a ripple.
She withdrew her finger and stared at the glistening water in the dark. “Oh, the teacher secretly kissed me.”
She wanted to kiss the teacher too.
Xiao Dengqu leaned over and placed a kiss on Shi Mingyue’s thin lips. Her tongue licked the outline of her lips. Her body moved down, and her hand fell on Shi Mingyue’s slender waist, holding her tightly. This could fill a certain emptiness.
She understood this emptiness, and she knew the answer without asking the teacher. It was the desire to make love with the teacher.
After closing her eyes for a while, Xiao Dengqu propped herself up again. “No, the teacher is so cute. I like the teacher so much. I have to kiss her again…”
Shi Mingyue woke up once in the middle of the night from the heat. She pushed Xiao Dengqu’s hand away, but Xiao Dengqu, that big octopus, clung to her tightly again. On such a large bed, Shi Mingyue almost fell off the edge from being pursued.
The next day, they had to attend the birthday banquet.
Shi Mingyue woke up wanting to get ready early, but Xiao Dengqu was still holding her and wouldn’t let go. She squirmed around on her and pinched her several times.
Shi Mingyue’s skin was delicate. She lifted her skirt in the bathroom and saw several marks on her waist from being pinched. She carefully pulled her hem down to cover them.
Shi Mingyue picked out a cute dress for Xiao Dengqu. Xiao Dengqu was very happy when she zipped it up for her and kept staring at Shi Mingyue’s fingers. However, Xiao Dengqu also wanted her to wear a matching one. Shi Mingyue refused, and Xiao Dengqu became unhappy. Shi Mingyue felt that she was just a small tutor for a wealthy family and didn’t need to dress so extravagantly.
Xiao Dengqu couldn’t understand. She asked, “Teacher, why are you so class-conscious?”
Because she was poor.
Shi Mingyue said, “We can’t confuse the main and supporting roles.”
“You’re not wearing the same clothes as the old… old lady, so what’s there to be afraid of?” Xiao Dengqu said, “If you weren’t my teacher, would you not be friends with a fool like me? In our school, the first-place student doesn’t hang out with the last-place student.”
No matter how much Xiao Dengqu chattered, Shi Mingyue didn’t give in. This place was clearly very class-conscious. It wouldn’t be bad for her and Xiao Dengqu to have some distinction. This way, if she were to leave, Xiao Dengqu wouldn’t be scolded for not having a tutor.
Shi Mingyue said, “It’s a birthday banquet today, so we have to dress beautifully. We can’t let others outshine us.”
Xiao Dengqu was finally convinced. She nodded with difficulty. “Okay, I can be beautiful and make the old lady furious.”
Xiao Dengqu reluctantly put on the dress. She was angry when she left the room, her face was tense, and she didn’t talk to Shi Mingyue. Shi Mingyue was helpless.
When they got to the next floor, Xiao Dengqu quietly hummed. “Okay, since you want to make up with me, I forgive you. I agree to make up.”
Shi Mingyue gave her a mental thumbs-up: “The first person to give herself an out—Xiao Dengqu.”
“How did I want to make up with you?” Shi Mingyue said, making a rare joke.
“In your heart. I heard it. You kept saying it in your heart,” Xiao Dengqu said proudly.
There was someone specially guarding the restaurant entrance. “Unimportant people” were not allowed to enter. Shi Mingyue was stopped and told that she wasn’t invited and couldn’t go in. This was a bit ridiculous. She had greeted people last time, and Xiao Dengqu had introduced her.
The old lady was being subtle that day, but now she was deliberately making things difficult for her to make her understand her place. Xiao Dengqu angrily said she was her tutor, and the person at the door said awkwardly that the old lady was afraid of noise. It was a family gathering, and only relatives were allowed in. In the end, Cheng Jin had to come and negotiate to let Shi Mingyue in.
The guests were dressed even more extravagantly than last time. Cheng Jin, Fu Wanxing, and others were wearing custom-made gowns, dazzling and radiant, with an innate aristocratic air. Only Shi Mingyue was wearing a shirt and a pair of jeans. She had guessed wrong. No matter what she wore, she would look out of place. If she dressed beautifully, she would be a little duck trying to pretend to be a swan. If she stayed true to herself and dressed simply, she would be seen as a clown trying to squeeze into high society. The labels followed her everywhere, and the contempt was everywhere.
But what bothered Shi Mingyue more was that she could clearly feel several explicit stares. She was all too familiar with them. They were a man’s gaze. These gazes were more excessive than those of the students at school, filled with the condescension of a person of power. The students from her school wanted to pick a high-altitude flower and possess her to satisfy their desire for conquest, while these people looked down on Shi Mingyue and wanted to get the poor female university student in their hands to trample and ravage.
From the first time she appeared here with Xiao Dengqu, Shi Mingyue had noticed. But Shi Mingyue didn’t look back at those gazes. If she responded, these people would feel a high.
She didn’t want to figure out who was who, and she didn’t want to hold anyone accountable for disrespecting her. She just wanted to go back to school after her tutoring job was over and study quietly without being disturbed. She had her own ideals and passions. She wasn’t anyone’s plaything.
Shi Mingyue had a good feeling. It was true that some people were staring at her. Because Xiao Dengqu, that “lunatic,” was so clingy, they hadn’t made a move yet. They had asked Cheng Jin for her contact information several times in private.
Shi Mingyue glanced at Xiao Dengqu. Xiao Dengqu was still the most beautiful. She was young, vibrant, cute, and real. She was pure and authentic.
The two of them chose to sit in a corner. Soon, Xiao Dengqu would present her gift, say some words of blessing, and eat. The task would then be complete.
After the old lady’s birthday, she and Xiao Dengqu would have a good time here for two days, which would also give Xiao Dengqu a vacation.
Xiao Dengqu got some delicious food for Shi Mingyue. Shi Mingyue told her, “We’ll leave after we eat the cake.”
“Okay.”
About ten minutes later, the old lady was about to come out. A group of people were discussing with worried faces. Shi Mingyue, who was far away, overheard a couple of things.
It seemed that the custom-made wedding cakes and cakes had been kicked and had a few words written on them: “Old person about to die.”
These four words were even more malicious than “old hag.” The old lady would surely get high bl00d pressure if she saw them. A group of people were furious, cursing and guessing who did it.
The cakes didn’t matter. The old lady didn’t like them, so they could get away with it. The problem was that the old lady loved the wedding cakes. Her son had specifically hired a master baker to make them, and now there was no time to rush a new batch.
They had checked the surveillance, but there were too many people coming and going, including many children. They couldn’t find the culprit.
They didn’t dare tell the old lady about this, for fear that she would get a bad shock. The old lady had three sons. The youngest wanted to call the police, but the eldest said there was no need. If the media found out, who knows how much of a commotion it would cause.
Xiao Dengqu took some juice and drank it with a straw, quietly counting the time. She really wanted to go out and play. Shi Mingyue felt extremely uncomfortable. She had heard Xiao Dengqu’s name mentioned several times.
Shi Mingyue wanted to sit farther away, but the farther she sat, the more guilty she felt. Xiao Dengqu was with her all day, clinging to her as if she wanted to grow on her. How could she have time to do something so evil?
Everyone was guessing, and most of their gazes were on Xiao Dengqu.
Cheng Jin came out and said softly to everyone, “Stop discussing this for now. Call the cake shop and pay extra to have them rush a new batch. It should be on time. As for the wedding cakes, let’s see if anyone can spare some. We’ll pay more to buy them. They should be able to be delivered tonight.”
Everyone thought that made sense and went to busy themselves. The old lady came out, and everyone went up to give her a gift. The old lady happily gave out red envelopes. Xiao Dengqu was the last to carefully go over with her gift. She said the words of blessing Shi Mingyue had taught her, waiting for her grandmother to give her a red envelope. Xiao Dengqu’s was thinner than everyone else’s. The old lady expressed her likes and dislikes very directly, without hiding anything. Everyone who had spent time with her said she was “authentic.” Xiao Dengqu looked at everyone else’s and implicitly knocked on her red envelope. The old lady completely ignored her. Xiao Dengqu continued to stare and knock. She found that hers was even thinner than Cheng Jin’s. Xiao Dengqu whispered, “Grandma, when are we going to eat the cake?”
Suddenly, everyone gasped. Xiao Dengqu blinked after saying it. No one replied, so she pretended no one heard and shouted loudly, “Grandma, when are we going to eat the cake?”
The old lady had to look at her niece. She didn’t like to eat cake, but she nodded. “Then bring out the cake. Let the children eat it.”
The faces of the others changed. The cake hadn’t arrived yet. Someone said, “The cake was taken to be chilled. The location was just changed, so it will take some time to get it.”
The old lady said, “Then bring out the wedding cakes.”
Their faces looked even worse.
Xiao Dengqu kept waiting for the cake, asking every now and then where they were going to eat the cake, where’s the cake, where’s the cake?
“I want to go play after I eat.”
The old lady noticed that something was wrong. She looked at her sons. She was a picky aristocrat who was very particular about her food. “Didn’t I say I wanted the wedding cakes from Yuexiang Pavilion? They have to have orange peel. You can’t be lazy. There’s a process for this. What are you doing? Are you so rude?”
The sons were speechless. They didn’t dare say that the cakes had been kicked. They could only nod and take the blame, saying it was a mistake. The old lady became very angry on the spot, tapping the ground with her cane, very dissatisfied with her sons.
Xiao Dengqu opened her red envelope and counted the money carefully. She sighed heavily, then handed it over to Shi Mingyue. She asked Shi Mingyue in confusion, “If we don’t eat cake, will we have a short life?”
Shi Mingyue pressed her finger to her lips. “Shh.”
“Then why is she so angry?” Xiao Dengqu said. “She’s a really annoying old lady.”
Shi Mingyue decided to take her away from here. They had just stood up and taken two steps when Fu Wanxing stopped them. Fu Wanxing rushed over, the corners of her mouth turned up, and she asked Xiao Dengqu in an angry voice, “Did you do it?”
Xiao Dengqu looked at her in confusion. “Do what?”
“Did you kick Grandma’s cake and step on her wedding cakes?” Fu Wanxing questioned. “How can you be so disgusting? Don’t you know how to respect the elderly? Isn’t she your grandmother?”
Shi Mingyue couldn’t take it anymore. She said, “Let’s call the police first. Ask the forensics team to investigate. You’re not short of money, right? I believe in Xiao Dengqu’s innocence. It’s more valuable than your tens of thousands of dollars.”
Fu Wanxing said, “Then she can pay for it herself. Is she short?”
Shi Mingyue’s cold eyes swept over her. She stood in front of Xiao Dengqu, her tone very heavy. “The person who asserts must prove. Even if you haven’t studied law, you should know some law from watching popular science videos on your phone, right? Now, please show me the evidence.”
Fu Wanxing choked, enraged.
She moved her mouth but couldn’t say a word.
What evidence was there? The place was filled with people coming and going. Several greedy children had also gone to get the cake. After the incident, they were so afraid that the old lady would get a heart attack that they cleaned it up immediately. They didn’t even dare to take pictures.
Shi Mingyue said, “Miss Fu, you are an adult, so you should be responsible for your words. Don’t just curse people. Besides, is it not possible that you did something bad and then cleaned it up for fear of being discovered? I believe that with so many people here, it’s impossible for you not to be able to come up with the right way to handle it.”
The commotion here was not small. Cheng Jin came over. “Xingxing, don’t be like that. The great-aunt might hear you.”
“Don’t call her Xingxing,” Xiao Dengqu said. “The teacher’s sister is Xingxing. It doesn’t sound good for her to be called Xingxing.”
“You idiot! You lunatic Xiao Dengqu!” Fu Wanxing glared at her fiercely. “Just you wait.”
Two more adults came over, Xiao Dengqu’s second uncle and second aunt. They first told them to stop arguing, for fear that Grandma would hear them, and then said, “Dengqu, come here. We need to talk to you.”
Xiao Dengqu thought about it and nodded. “Okay.”
Xiao Dengqu left with them.
Shi Mingyue knew something was wrong. She immediately messaged the steward to report the situation. The steward was typing for a long time, but no words came out. Finally, a voice message came through. The steward sighed heavily. “Didn’t I tell you to try your best to keep her away from people?”
She was worried about other people’s safety.
“Did anyone else bully her?” the steward asked.
Shi Mingyue typed: “A Miss Fu.”
Steward: “Make sure the young lady stays away from her!”
Shi Mingyue finally saw a little anger from the steward, but was it just to stay away from her? Were there no other measures? Was she not going to protect Xiao Dengqu?
Shi Mingyue: “Do you know that she’s very pitiful?”
The steward did not reply.
Shi Mingyue watched from afar as Xiao Dengqu was tightly surrounded by a crowd. Xiao Dengqu was silent, her figure small, as if she were a tiny human under a giant beast, silently and powerlessly enduring the questioning. Her eyes were empty, and she said nothing. When that familiar gaze penetrated the crowd and landed on her, Xiao Dengqu slowly turned around and responded to Shi Mingyue. She wearily curled her lips and smiled at Shi Mingyue.
Shi Mingyue squeezed her fingers hard. She said, “Xiao Dengqu, come here.”
The group of people didn’t get Xiao Dengqu to confess, so their eyes lifted, their heads held high in arrogance. Their contemptuous gaze seemed to be a denial of Xiao Dengqu and her future.
Xiao Dengqu didn’t hear Shi Mingyue. The old lady noticed something was wrong and told Xiao Dengqu to come over to get to the bottom of the matter, asking her what was going on.
Xiao Dengqu pouted. “I don’t know. They didn’t tell me just now. I don’t know which cousin kicked your cake and called you an old hag. I just wanted to eat some cake and asked. Then they told me to take the blame for their children and admit that I kicked the cake.”
The old lady’s hands began to shake, and her face wrinkled and trembled. Xiao Dengqu continued, “Maybe their parents aren’t dead yet. My mom is dead, so the child with the dead mom should take the blame. But is this the new game rule, that the child with the dead parents has to take the blame? Then when will they start taking the blame and get to have dead parents?”
“Grandma, they all lied to you. I’m telling the truth. I’m a good child now, right? Can you make my red envelope bigger, Grandma?”
The old lady’s anger also began to rise. She slammed her cane on the ground. “Who, who did it? Why did you provoke her? There’s something wrong with her brain. Who, who did it!”
In the end, Xiao Dengqu was pulled away. She turned to look at Shi Mingyue, her eyes extremely red. She slowly walked to Shi Mingyue and rubbed her eyes. She said with a pained expression, “Teacher, did I say something wrong? Isn’t this the new game rule? But, but I already took the blame. I was even going to admit my mistake and ask for her forgiveness.”
So she wasn’t ignorant. She was pretending not to care.
Xiao Dengqu knew that people were targeting her. She treated these things as a game, and she played the role of a loser, a player who would never win.
Shi Mingyue’s heart ached. She said, “You were with me the whole day yesterday. How could you have time to do this? Without evidence, it’s just slander.”
Xiao Dengqu nodded, her mouth pouting, and tears of grievance welled up. Her eyelashes became wet.
With so many people here, and a whole bunch of kids going in and out of the old lady’s room, Xiao Dengqu had to come back crying after giving a gift. It was truly ridiculous to blame it on her.
Xiao Dengqu said, “My cousin is also looking at me.”
“Just don’t look at her.”
“I’ll listen to the teacher.”
Xiao Dengqu also reminded her softly, “Teacher, I think I’ve made you disliked by Cheng Jin’s parents.”
Shi Mingyue looked over. Indeed, Cheng Jin’s parents were looking at her with a very complicated expression. Shi Mingyue was indeed uncomfortable. After all, she and Cheng Jin were friends, but now their friendship had soured. She said, “Let them dislike me. We won’t have any contact anyway.”
“Oh…” Xiao Dengqu said softly, “It’s okay. If they don’t like you, you shouldn’t like Cousin Cheng Jin either. Anyway, from today on, I won’t like my cousin so much anymore, and her parents either.”
Shi Mingyue thought she was very childish. Being childish was also good. She couldn’t see other people’s sneers and didn’t understand what this group of people targeting her meant.
But Xiao Dengqu wasn’t ignorant. Sometimes she would cry in secret. She just pretended not to care.
Shi Mingyue said again, “It’s okay. Don’t take it to heart.”
Xiao Dengqu was still very sad. Tears welled up in her eyes. Shi Mingyue held her wrist and felt her trembling.
“Teacher… can I… can I…”
Shi Mingyue reached out and hugged her. “You can.”
Cheng Jin watched this scene from afar. Her feet subconsciously took a step forward. Her heart felt tight. Mingyue had willingly hugged Xiao Dengqu.
Shi Mingyue patted Xiao Dengqu’s back. She no longer cared about the birthday banquet. She took Xiao Dengqu’s hand and left.
Fu Wanxing blocked their way again. “Xiao Dengqu, you’re a sewer rat. You’re so malicious! Do you know that Grandma just had to take emergency medicine?”
Xiao Dengqu pursed her lips. “I’m not a sewer rat…”
“Still pretending,” Fu Wanxing was furious. “You even took Grandma’s red envelope. Are you even human? You sick pervert! You scum!”
Shi Mingyue said, dissatisfied, “Xiao Dengqu also brought a gift. The gift isn’t cheap. It’s a green jade. It should be more expensive than what you all gave. The great-aunt accepted her gift, but the red envelope she gave her was the smallest. How can you say that she’s just mooching off of food and drink? Don’t you think what you’re doing is too much?”
Cheng Jin had a headache from this cousin. She wanted to go over and mediate. She was so busy today. Shi Mingyue’s gaze swept over her. It was cold, drawing an invisible galactic line between them. Cheng Jin was cut by the line.
A boundary. Rejection.
“You don’t need to come over.”
Cheng Jin swallowed. Her throat was sore. Shi Mingyue took Xiao Dengqu’s hand and left the banquet hall. The galactic river was churning with white waves. She was on one side of the river, and Shi Mingyue was on the other.
Just like how Shi Mingyue couldn’t enter the banquet hall at first, Cheng Jin bringing her in was a forced integration. Cheng Jin also couldn’t cross over to find her. Her fingers trembled. She wanted to rub her chest.
Cheng’s mother walked up to her and said, “Xiao Jin, don’t worry about it. This isn’t our place to take care of. It’s not our business.”
Cheng Jin said, “I’ll go check on her. Mingyue is my friend.”
“Don’t cause trouble,” her mother said seriously. “She’s just a friend.”
Shi Mingyue and Xiao Dengqu had left. Fu Wanxing frowned fiercely and took a big step to chase after them. Yesterday, when they were playing water polo, she had called Xiao Dengqu an idiot and told her to bring emergency medicine and an AED if she was going to die. Today…
Xiao Dengqu, who was being watched, turned her head to look at her. She also tilted her head in the same way. This time, she just smiled, her eyes curved, the tears in them glistening. The sun was shining brightly, and there was no questioning “Huh?” It was as if she was dragging out a long “Mm…”