Being a Tutor to a Rich, Psychopathic Young Lady - Chapter 34

Chapter 34

Xiao Chengyue’s brows were furrowed tighter than ever. Xiao Dengqu first gave them a cold glare, then carried the bags upstairs. Shi Mingyue always locked her door when she was alone in her room, but Xiao Dengqu effortlessly pushed the door open with the doorknob.

The room wasn’t empty. The plush blanket was neatly folded, her little bear wore new clothes and leaned against the headboard, and the cat toy she bought was on the desk.

All of Shi Mingyue’s clothes were gone from the closet, her toothbrush and cup were missing from the bathroom, and the whole room had a clean, lemon scent.

And many of the things she had given to Shi Mingyue were still in their original places.

Everyone downstairs heard the sharp shouts, “Where did my teacher go!”

Yangyang was holding a freshly brewed coffee, her fingers trembling so much that she almost spilled it. She carefully brought it to Xiao Chengyue’s side and happened to catch a glimpse of the helplessness on his face.

Xiao Dengqu came down from upstairs, her face sullen. She stared intently at Xiao Chengyue. “Dad, you’re so smart. You deliberately made me go for an interview, said that if I succeeded, I could study abroad, and then, you sent the teacher away. Dad, you really are so smart.”

Xiao Chengyue looked at the housekeeper first. The housekeeper was about to help explain, but Xiao Dengqu swept her gaze over her. “Sister Ling, what do you want to say? That Dad didn’t know and that you agreed without his permission? Is that what you want to say?”

The housekeeper swallowed her words, not daring to agree.

“Go bring the teacher back!” Xiao Dengqu roared.

“Xiao Dengqu!” Xiao Chengyue looked at her. “Guan Ling already tried to persuade her to stay. She also gave her the contract to sign, but she chose to leave on her own.”

“Then why didn’t you make her stay!” Xiao Dengqu looked at the maids in the house. “Why didn’t you make her stay? You could have said I was coming back soon. Why did you do this? You could have just closed the gate and said it was broken. I was coming back soon. It was deliberate, all of it.”

Who knew?

Everyone thought Xiao Chengyue had driven her away.

Yueyue was the first to react. She quickly said, “Here, Young Lady, here’s a letter from the teacher for you.”

Xiao Dengqu looked angrily at Yueyue. Luckily, Yueyue was calm. She quickly took out the envelope and gave it to her, indicating that she hadn’t read it and didn’t know it was a farewell letter.

Xiao Dengqu took it and then glanced at Xiao Chengyue.

Xiao Chengyue was only annoyed for a moment, then he naturally got up and went upstairs. He looked at the housekeeper, and the housekeeper understood and followed him upstairs.

Xiao Dengqu sat on the sofa and looked at the envelope. The previously irritable person became quiet. Everyone sighed in relief, but their eyes still didn’t leave her for a second, afraid that the young lady would go crazy.

The housekeeper arrived at Xiao Chengyue’s study. The sunlight streamed through the half-open window, casting an abrupt golden light on the gray floor. Xiao Chengyue flipped through the envelope, pulling out the letter pages one by one, and said expressionlessly, “Find her another tutor. Someone in their early twenties, a junior or senior in university with a good temper.”

The housekeeper said, “It’s no use.”

Xiao Chengyue didn’t think Shi Mingyue was irreplaceable. Xiao Dengqu was a child. She would forget about her in a couple of days. Besides, he never made Shi Mingyue leave. Shi Mingyue herself didn’t seize the opportunity, and opportunity waits for no one. There were plenty of talented people in the tutoring market.

Of course, Xiao Chengyue also wouldn’t know that Shi Mingyue didn’t choose to leave because of him. It was more about her having carefully planned her own life. She was more afraid than anyone of getting off track.

The Xiao family was a center of desire. She wasn’t part of high society and couldn’t fit in. Since there was no future, there was no need to get entangled. If she couldn’t control her own heart, she should go back to her own life as soon as possible, lest she get lost in a fantasy she couldn’t wake up from.

Xiao Chengyue said, “Go and do it as soon as possible.”

The housekeeper said, “The young lady isn’t someone who has a three-minute passion and discards the old for the new. She…”

“Guan Ling.” Xiao Chengyue’s tone was heavy. He placed a document on the table. “Is this how you usually educate Xiao Dengqu?”

The housekeeper was confused and looked at him in disbelief.

“You let her watch lewd movies, write lewd essays, and even talk to her about s3x culture?” Xiao Chengyue asked.

“What?” The housekeeper was confused. “What are you talking about? You’re insulting me.”

Xiao Chengyue pointed to the envelope. “This is a report letter from Shi Mingyue. You can see for yourself if she’s slandering you.”

“No, you mean Shi Mingyue reported me? She said I… so you mean she thinks I’ve been watching these things, and she has evidence to prove it?” The housekeeper couldn’t understand, and she still couldn’t understand.

The housekeeper was completely stunned. She picked up the envelope and looked at it. The first picture was of the screening room, but she had never seen the movie that was being shown. Let alone the fact that it was… two women in intimate scenes.

“I only let her watch English movies to improve her listening and appreciation skills,” the housekeeper said.

Xiao Chengyue: “This is indeed in English, but there isn’t a single normal sentence in the entire movie.”

Just then, there was a knock on the door.

“Dad, I want to talk to you.” Xiao Dengqu called from outside, her voice soft and obedient, like a cat exposing its belly.

The housekeeper stuffed the photos back in. She started to remind him, “Sir, you don’t understand the young lady very well. She’s grown up. She’s not a child who needs a guardian. Maybe you should respect her and listen to her thoughts…”

“You go back first. I’ll find you later,” Xiao Chengyue said.

The housekeeper wanted to remind him again that the 18-year-old Xiao Dengqu was becoming more and more unruly. She was no longer the little girl who could be coaxed with a couple of sentences. Xiao Chengyue’s cold gaze swept over the housekeeper. He had no idea what was going to happen next, but the housekeeper had done her best.

“Get out,” Xiao Chengyue said sharply.

Guan Ling left the study. Her hand hadn’t even closed the door when she looked at the standing Xiao Dengqu. Xiao Dengqu had her hands behind her back, her eyes on the door.

The housekeeper squeezed the envelope tightly. She let go of the doorknob with her left hand. Xiao Dengqu pushed the door open directly. The housekeeper walked a few steps, still in disbelief, and poured out the photos from the envelope. “Teacher Shi really doesn’t understand people at all.” She reported what she had to report. And with evidence and strong words at that.

She, Guan Ling, who was so dedicated to her job in the Xiao family, had actually become a s3x pervert.

Pft.

She was so angry that she laughed.

This young lady.

Xiao Dengqu stood in front of Xiao Chengyue with her hands behind her back. “Dad, I want to go find the teacher.”

“I have already arranged for Guan Ling to find you a new teacher,” Xiao Chengyue said, his head down as he threw the envelope titled “Daughter’s Expectations” into the trash can.

“But, Dad, I only want Shi Mingyue.” Xiao Dengqu walked over to him and acted spoiled. “Dad, please, I love you the most.”

Xiao Chengyue looked at her coldly. “Shi Mingyue said you have a people-pleasing personality.”

Xiao Dengqu said, “I have a good-girl personality, Dad’s good girl. I listen to everything Dad says. Dad, please let the teacher come back.”

Xiao Chengyue didn’t answer her. “We’ll arrange for a tutor interview tomorrow. You have time this afternoon. The custom-made harp has arrived. You can try it out. Your grades are not good. You should focus on music in the future. Once the interview results are out, I’ll take you to enroll in September.”

Xiao Dengqu squatted down, her head tilted back, her posture humble. She looked at her dad. Two years ago, she had looked at Xiao Chengyue the same way and told him she wanted to go to school, that the house wasn’t fun, and that she would study hard.

Xiao Chengyue ignored her needs. He gave her conditions and reasons, saying, “You don’t need to. Study hard in the future, and when you’re good enough, you can come to the UK with me. When I’m done with work in the UK, I’ll come to pick you up.”

Xiao Dengqu thought for a moment, then nodded and left. She even said softly as she closed the door, “Dad, I know. I’ll be obedient.”

This time, Xiao Dengqu also tilted her head and looked at him. Xiao Chengyue said, “Xiao Dengqu, let me tell you something. If you can’t keep someone and you can’t get something, it’s your own fault. Blaming others means you’re incompetent. Do you understand?”

Xiao Dengqu listened quietly.

Xiao Chengyue: “If you have the ability, you can keep the person yourself. Acting like a good girl in front of me is useless. If you were always a good girl, it would be useful.”

Xiao Dengqu nodded obediently. Her lips parted, and she said, “Peh!”

Xiao Chengyue frowned. “What are you doing?”

“You’re disgusting, peh.” Xiao Dengqu stood up and stood next to Xiao Chengyue, her expression sullen. “Truly disgusting, peh.”

After spitting, Xiao Dengqu walked to the study door, kicked it hard, then opened the door and walked out.

“No manners.” Xiao Chengyue was infuriated. His face turned ashen. He called the housekeeper. The housekeeper answered, and soon after, there was another “peh.”

The housekeeper hung up the phone. She looked at the появившуюся Xiao Dengqu and asked, “What is it?”

She explained again, “My employer is your dad. I can’t not complete the tasks he gives me.”

“What if I were your employer?” Xiao Dengqu looked at her, her eyes serious.

The housekeeper was slightly startled. “Your dad has many businesses. If he passes away, you won’t be able to take over.”

Xiao Dengqu smiled. The housekeeper reminded her that she didn’t do anything illegal. But Xiao Dengqu was only 18 after all. What if her mind wasn’t mature? She asked, “What do you want from me? Shouldn’t you talk to me about the report? Did I ever let you watch lewd movies?”

“I’m sorry,” she said politely again. “Please help me send a message to the teacher.”

The housekeeper looked at her in confusion. She continued, “She’ll only lecture me, for example, this…”

Xiao Dengqu took out the envelope from her bag and snorted. “So annoying. She left, but she still has to think about me. So stupid. It would have been better if she had just taken the money and left.”

The housekeeper took out her phone, but she didn’t give it to her. She just asked, “What do you want to send?”

“Just say… I wanted to go find her, but Dad broke my legs, and he said I’m a good-for-nothing. He seems to have other illegitimate children.”

“I’m sorry, I can’t send that for you.”

…

At four in the afternoon, the train to Hubei Province was traveling at high speed.

Outside the window were mountains and dense trees. There were very few people, and it was hard to see a single house.

The person in the seat next to her was an old grandma holding a little girl. The little girl was quietly watching a cartoon the whole time. It was Tom and Jerry, which Xiao Dengqu loved to watch.

Shi Mingyue’s gaze flashed from the window and landed on the screen.

She typed…

Housekeeper: Did you arrive safely? Are you at school?

Shi Mingyue: Not yet.

Housekeeper: Did you go back to your hometown?

After a long time.

Shi Mingyue: No.

Housekeeper: ?

“Then where did you go? Is it a place with a new tutor?”

Shi Mingyue typed for a long time: No.

Housekeeper: I’m just worried about you. What if you’re not safe by yourself? Do you have a friend with you?

Shi Mingyue: Mm, I do.

Housekeeper: Let me know when you arrive.

At 6 p.m., the high-speed train arrived at the station. Shi Mingyue got off the train, exited the station, and took a bus. She replied to the housekeeper. After several transfers, she arrived at the provincial capital of her hometown at 8 p.m.

She went directly to the hospital and found the inpatient department, but she didn’t know the floor. She sat in the lobby for a long time, enjoying the cool breeze. But she didn’t know how to go up. She wasn’t mentally prepared.

She kept waiting and waiting.

She thought that when her aunt came down to get food, she would see her and take her up. But no one came down.

A nurse who was about to go upstairs came over and asked her, “Are you a patient’s family member? Which floor are you on?”

Shi Mingyue shook her head and didn’t say anything.

Shi Mingyue looked at her phone. Xiao Dengqu hadn’t sent her any messages. Shi Mingyue’s finger hovered over the screen, about to tap it, but she quickly went back.

In the villa, Xiao Dengqu was repeatedly reading the content of the letter. “Is this what love is like? No internal conflict, openly acknowledged, requires beautiful qualities, the ability to take care of each other, always having a unique preference, love is not kidnapping, not sinking into lust, but more about the soul’s harmony…”

“The teacher is so thoughtful. Isn’t this the teacher’s unique preference for me? Does the teacher really not like me?”

In any case, Cheng Jin definitely didn’t have this letter.

Why didn’t Cheng Jin have it?

Because the teacher didn’t love her.

Xiao Dengqu frowned. “So annoying. What if I’m not normal?”

She ground her teeth. She really wanted to eat the letter so it would go into her stomach, and she would learn how to have a normal relationship.

Why did the teacher have to leave?

The teacher should have taught me by the hand.

What her cousin said was right. Cats need to be microchipped, or it’s hard to find them if they get lost.

Xiao Dengqu opened the chat history to look. Unfortunately, she finished reading it in a few swipes. When they were together, they mostly talked to each other.

In the silent night, the abnormal Xiao Dengqu looked at the screen and faced the normal Shi Mingyue, while Shi Mingyue, sitting alone in the lobby on the first floor, would also look up and look at the same night sky as Xiao Dengqu.

Daylight.

The Xiao family villa returned to its usual tranquility. There was nothing unusual except for the lack of a tutor.

Breakfast was on time in the morning. After Xiao Chengyue returned, the whole family had to operate on a strict schedule. No one was allowed to be lazy.

Xiao Dengqu was the last one to come down, not because she was lazy, but because she had been memorizing her biology book early in the morning. She walked to Xiao Chengyue’s side and directly flipped his meal over.

The plate in front of Xiao Chengyue was upside down. He didn’t react, letting the food stain his silver suit. The sauce dripped down the table. Xiao Chengyue took a tissue, frowned, and looked at her. “Xiao Dengqu, what are you doing?”

“Dad shouldn’t eat,” Xiao Dengqu blinked and said with a smile. “I don’t want Dad to eat.”

“Don’t be unreasonable. You’re already 18.”

“Mm-hmm, you can’t kill people at 18. You’ll go to jail.” Xiao Dengqu reached out and patted the table. Her arm was covered in cartoon stickers, but due to a lack of management yesterday and today, several stickers were torn, revealing a few shallow scars. She said, “I hate Dad now.”

Xiao Chengyue didn’t get furious. He just had someone clean up the mess. He didn’t take Xiao Dengqu’s childish antics seriously.

During the afternoon break, Xiao Chengyue had just returned to his room after finishing work when Xiao Dengqu suddenly appeared, holding a harp, and sat on the side of his bed.

“How did you get in?” Xiao Chengyue looked at Xiao Dengqu in disbelief.

Xiao Dengqu said, “This is my territory. I have the keys to all the rooms. Otherwise, I wouldn’t feel safe.” Like a newly adult strange beast, she was patrolling her territory. She wanted absolute control. “I was afraid that the teacher would run to a room that I didn’t have a key to sleep in. I deliberately left several keys in this building.”

“Dad, please check the results of my self-study.”

Xiao Dengqu had just gotten the harp and hadn’t formally started learning yet. It was impossible to tell if she had any talent. The noise she made was tearing at Xiao Chengyue’s nerves.

Xiao Chengyue couldn’t take it anymore after two minutes. He said, “Xiao Dengqu, you’re being ridiculous. I’m going back to the UK right now.”

“Dad, what kind of joke are you making? I’m not that important in your heart because you’ll abandon me without hesitation. If I had performed very, very poorly before I turned 18 and hadn’t satisfied you at all, someone would have come to replace me.” Xiao Dengqu said with a smile, “Isn’t that right, Uncle?”

She plucked the strings. “I love Dad very much, but Uncle doesn’t love me just a little bit.”

What she said seemed to have no logic, but when you thought about it, it was full of logic.

Xiao Chengyue said, “That Teacher Shi Mingyue doesn’t seem to like you either.”

Xiao Dengqu’s eyes instantly darkened, as if someone had installed a switch in her eyes. All the lights were turned off at this moment, and the daytime became as dark as night.

“It doesn’t matter, as long as—she doesn’t leave me.”

But saying that was a little painful. Xiao Dengqu couldn’t understand it and became very confused, so she came up with many, many solutions for herself.

She first thought of a very obedient approach: “Dad is right. I need to become very capable, and insist that she can only see me, and try to love me. Mm-hmm, I’ll try to become the person she likes.”

“If she likes someone else, then it doesn’t matter if I’m not beautiful anymore. I don’t have to pretend for her anymore, and I can be as bad as I want to be.”

“Dad, what do you think of my playing?”

It was as if she would become very, very bad if she wasn’t liked. She would get rid of everyone Shi Mingyue liked, lock them all up, and throw them somewhere very far away.

Xiao Chengyue commented that her playing was awful and not good at all.

So, to please him, Xiao Dengqu played another tune for him at night. Xiao Chengyue, with his refined personality, couldn’t bring himself to yell and scream. He endured another half hour of noise from the harp, his head splitting.

Back then, after Xiao Chengyue lectured Xiao Dengqu, he left. And then Xiao Dengqu was never good enough and became a complete idiot, never going to the UK.

Xiao Dengqu said, “Dad, don’t sleep. I’ll play it a few more times since I’m not good at it.”

At the end of the day, Xiao Chengyue, in low spirits, asked the housekeeper, “Is she always like this? You gave her a very high rating before.”

Before Xiao Chengyue came back, he would have the housekeeper rate Xiao Dengqu every six months. It was a cold-blooded assessment, as if he were evaluating a product to see if it still had a market, if it was keeping up with trends, and whether he should eliminate it and replace it with a newer product.

Every time, the housekeeper gave her a very high rating. Besides being a little stupid, Xiao Dengqu was excellent in all other aspects and had an extremely high talent. Painting, playing the piano, and riding horses. She could learn them in half the time it took others.

Besides the small flaw of not being good at academics, Xiao Dengqu could be said to perfectly meet Xiao Chengyue’s expectations for her.

So, Xiao Chengyue kept hiring tutors for her and kept trying to change her. Xiao Chengyue put in a lot of effort. Over time, it became a shame to give up on her, and all his hard work would go to waste.

Of course, Xiao Dengqu also saw through it. Dad loved her a little bit, and as long as she had one outstanding advantage, she wouldn’t be abandoned.

The housekeeper was silent.

Those ratings didn’t come from her own hands. They were written by Xiao Dengqu herself: “Gentle personality, relatively obedient and well-behaved.”

“Generous and dignified, virtuous, kind and considerate, gentle-tempered, elegant, and interesting…”

At the time, she just thought Xiao Dengqu was complimenting herself.

Now, she couldn’t help but think that Xiao Dengqu must have known what Xiao Chengyue’s expectations for her were. She fulfilled Xiao Chengyue’s requirements for her as a daughter and… all of his male fantasies about women.

Xiao Dengqu got a high score. Xiao Chengyue wouldn’t have any other children, any other heirs. And he wouldn’t restrain Xiao Dengqu too much. Xiao Dengqu could do whatever she wanted.

No wonder every time, after Xiao Dengqu rated herself, she would say, “Ah, ah, I’m really too smart. I’ve improved again.”

The housekeeper said, “Why don’t you explain to her that you didn’t make Shi Mingyue leave?”

“No need,” Xiao Chengyue said. “Just let her throw a fit. Change the lock on my room door.” He paused again. “Change all the locks on the third floor.”

The few aunts in the villa gathered together, their faces full of worry. “What should we do now? This is killing us.”

“Let’s see when Mr. Xiao leaves,” the younger aunt said.

Aunt Liu, who had been working in the Xiao family for a longer time, said, “Mr. Xiao doesn’t dare to leave. If he leaves, the young lady will become even more reckless, and she’ll run away.”

“It would be good to let the young lady go out and find that Teacher Shi. When Teacher Shi is here, the young lady is much more normal.”

Aunt Liu laughed. “Mr. Xiao probably doesn’t know what the young lady is like in private.”

After a while, Xiao Dengqu came down holding a tablet and started to study on her own again, as if nothing had happened.

Shi Mingyue would find a lot of study materials for her sister every day. Since Shi Fanxing had a good relationship with Xiao Dengqu, she would share them with her. Xiao Dengqu would have her forward all of them to herself and finish them all before her.

Hmph.

How could someone else learn the teacher’s things first?

The study materials were all very good. The only thing that wasn’t good was that the teacher in the videos wasn’t Shi Mingyue.

When she got tired of studying, Xiao Dengqu would go over and chat with the aunts. “What if the teacher comes back and finds that my grades have dropped? What do you all think?”

The aunts didn’t dare to speak out of turn.

When the locksmith came in the afternoon, Xiao Dengqu was in her room doing homework. Everyone sighed in relief, afraid of startling her.

…

At night, there was a loud bang.

The entire building was startled awake. The housekeeper, who had just fallen asleep, quickly rushed out and looked at the room on the diagonal across the hallway. She was still a step too late. Xiao Chengyue’s bedroom door was already a mess.

The housekeeper took a deep breath.

She felt that her career was facing an unprecedented challenge. Now, for 12 hours a day, she wanted to resign.

Xiao Dengqu was holding a chainsaw and had fiercely split the door open. The harp she had been using to study recently was on the floor next to her.

“Mm-hmm, Dad, you haven’t listened to me play the harp yet today,” Xiao Dengqu said to the housekeeper while standing in the middle of the mess.

Her feet were on shattered pieces, and a smile was on her face.

She looked innocent and harmless, as if she didn’t know what had happened and only wanted to play the harp. The chainsaw in her hand was still buzzing, as if it was also afraid of this fierce demon.

“Put the thing away first. I’ll talk to Mr. Xiao,” Guan Ling said.

“Mm-hmm, you have to talk to him nicely. Don’t make Dad angry. He’s been in a bad mood recently and is also very busy with work,” Xiao Dengqu said.

Housekeeper: “Okay, I know.”

Xiao Dengqu sighed. “I haven’t been studying well recently. It’s been so boring and not fun. Studying is the most interesting thing. You have to help me find a tutor quickly.”

If a new tutor really came, would she split the door or the person?

…

Shi Mingyue had been back for a few days and hadn’t received any messages from Xiao Dengqu. At night, after she had just taken a shower and dried her hair, her phone buzzed.

The housekeeper used Xiao Dengqu’s phone to send a message, saying that Xiao Dengqu had broken her leg.