Getting Caught Up In His Cycle Of Passionate Love - Chapter 6
“Xu Tao Yue, stop being so coy.”
Lu Que decided not to argue with her. “How are you going to get it back? We’re leaving the campus, you know.”
Xu Tao Yue shook her head. “I don’t know.”
Lu Que looked around and finally gave up. “Let’s go.”
“Where?”
Lu Que raised his hand and lightly patted her head. “Why didn’t you bring an umbrella?”
“Come on, student Lu, you didn’t bring one either!”
The rain didn’t last as long as they thought it would; it was just a shower and gradually stopped. Lu Que walked toward the back door of the convenience store.
There was a pile of junk there. Lu Que picked out a cardboard box and told Xu Tao Yue to put the cat inside. Xu Tao Yue’s eyebrows rose.
Rainy day, getting wet, a kitten, and a kind gesture.
Wow, the novel plot is happening again!
“Stop,” Lu Que said, preempting her. He knew from her expression that nothing good was about to happen.
Xu Tao Yue ignored him, put the cat in the box, and blurted out, “Lu Que~ you really ‘pecked rice’ for me too~”
“I did not.”
Xu Tao Yue chose to be selectively deaf. “I knew you ‘pecked rice’ for me too~”
Lu Que: “…”
Xu Tao Yue gave the kitten half of her drink and looked at it with a pleased expression. “Okay, your name is Zhomi (Peck Rice).”
Lu Que was momentarily stunned, listening to Xu Tao Yue’s chattering. He looked up at her, the dim streetlights creating a halo around her that held his attention.
Xu Tao Yue was focused on the cat and didn’t notice him watching. Lu Que cracked a smile.
Maybe… a little bit.
Yeah, Zhomi.
Ye Wan shook out her clothes and laid them in the box for the kitten. Xia Xiangyang looked on in amazement. “Where did you find this little kitten?”
“Xu Tao Yue, you’re something else.”
Xu Tao Yue smirked, confident, and high-fived Xia Xiangyang. “Of course. How about it? Want to keep it? It’s a pure and fiery little cat~”
Xia Xiangyang shook his head and waved his hands in refusal. “No, no. Someone in my family is allergic to cat hair.”
Xu Tao Yue rested her chin on the table, teasing the kitten with her index finger, and looked at Lu Que with a pitiful expression. “Lu Que… you’re my only hope…”
Lu Que immediately gave up. “No, I don’t know how to raise a cat.”
“Lu Que, please!”
“No.”
Xu Tao Yue was at a loss. “It’s okay. I’ll raise you myself.”
Then, she whispered to Zhomi, “I’ll make sure your brother raises you.”
Lu Que found it amusing, only hearing her first sentence. He handed her a cat treat. “How are you going to raise it?”
Xu Tao Yue showed a wicked smile and gave Ye Wan and Xia Xiangyang a look. The two understood and surrounded Lu Que.
Lu Que: “…”
“What are you guys doing?”
The three said nothing, just relentlessly “attacking” him.
“Lu Que, you’re the only day student among the four of us, right?” Xia Xiangyang looked Lu Que up and down, and the more he looked, the more he felt Lu Que was the “chosen one.”
Lu Que: “… So what?”
“Help out a little kitten.”
Lu Que refused. “I really don’t know how.”
Ye Wan agreed with Xia Xiangyang. “But…”
Lu Que cut her off. “No ‘buts’.”
Seeing her two allies “fall,” Xu Tao Yue slammed the table, startling all three of them.
“Lu Que~”
Lu Que sighed. “Xu Tao Yue, stop being so coy.”
…
In the end, Lu Que couldn’t resist the combined assault of the three of them and returned home with the cardboard box.
Zhomi was well-behaved. It didn’t get into trouble at home and was very friendly. When Lu Que reached out his hand, it would rub against him.
Seeing how obedient the kitten was, Lu Que suddenly thought of Xu Tao Yue.
“‘Lu Que, please, Zhomi is counting on you.'”
Xu Tao Yue had clasped her hands together and bowed her head, just as cunning as when he first met her.
“‘I’ll come help you often~'”
Lu Que didn’t know that Xu Tao Yue was thinking, This is a great opportunity to get closer to Lu Que. I can’t let it go.
Lu Que looked down at Zhomi and poked its forehead with his index finger. “How did you charm your sister so much?”
“Meow~”
Lu Que: “…”
Oh, whatever.
Looking at the huge room he lived in alone, Lu Que hugged Zhomi. “Consider it for companionship.”
From then on, Xu Tao Yue’s first words every day weren’t “Good morning, student Lu,” but “How’s my Zhomi doing?!”
Lu Que felt a huge sense of imbalance.
“I think your grades are more important than caring about your Zhomi.”
Xu Tao Yue: “…”
Okay. Xu Tao Yue lowered her head, embarrassed to look at Lu Que.
“Get out the practice problems I gave you yesterday. Let me see them.”
Xu Tao Yue: “!”
Oh no, oh no, oh no! She’d forgotten.
Lu Que saw her reaction and knew she hadn’t done them. He said nothing, just quietly watched her try to talk her way out of it.
Xu Tao Yue slowly placed her backpack on the desk and hesitantly pulled out the remaining lollipop from last time, offering it to him.
“Lu Que, hear me out.”
Lu Que nodded slightly, as if he genuinely wanted to hear what outrageous things she would say.
“The thing is, I wanted to do it yesterday.”
Xu Tao Yue said this while secretly watching his expression.
Okay, he seems fine for now.
“But then yesterday, there was a sudden gust of cold wind! Ye Wan and I huddled together, shivering.”
“Then there were howling wolf sounds from outside. We were so scared we grabbed our backpacks and threw them out the window.”
Lu Que: “…”
“Suddenly, Xia Xiangyang descended from the sky and rescued us from the classroom.”
“We later found out his true identity! He had been lying to us the whole time! I almost lost my life, but luckily, Ye Wan was brave enough to defeat him.”
Lu Que had run out of patience for Xu Tao Yue’s wild, unrealistic stories. He interrupted her impassioned speech. “Tell me the truth.”
Ah, uh, I’ve been caught.
Xu Tao Yue pursed her lips and scratched her head. Her 8,000 little schemes were all for dealing with Lu Que.
“Last night, the boarding students got together to play Werewolf and lost track of time, so I forgot to do my homework.”
Lu Que: “…”
Xu Tao Yue swore a dramatic, solemn oath again, holding three fingers together with a determined expression. “This is truly, truly, truly the last time! Lu Que, I’ll definitely do my homework seriously next time!”
Lu Que had no choice. He took her math test. “Do it now. I’ll watch you.”
Xu Tao Yue nodded, reluctantly taking the test. She wrote down the answer to one question and then looked at Lu Que.
Lu Que nodded, telling her to continue. This gave Xu Tao Yue immense confidence, and she proceeded to choose C for every answer, all the way down the page.
Xu Tao Yue was crushed.
She tried again. “Can I double-check?”
Lu Que nodded.
Xu Tao Yue circled several more questions and handed the paper to Lu Que for judgment.
Lu Que: “…”
“In a way, you really are a genius.”
Xu Tao Yue’s eyes lit up with hope. She asked seriously, “Really? In what way?”
Lu Que: “You’re especially confident.”
Xu Tao Yue: “…”
Well, I guess that’s a good quality, too.
Xu Tao Yue silently accepted this fact.
Okay, okay, boo-hoo-hoo.
Lu Que: “…”
He looked speechless and crossed out all the problems Xu Tao Yue had gotten wrong.
“You had the right answers at first. Why did you change them?”
Xu Tao Yue: “…”
How was I supposed to know the answer was actually C for almost every question?
Lu Que: “Oh, I designed it that way on purpose.”
Xu Tao Yue was shocked. “Then why didn’t you remind me when I was changing them?! You made me look so dumb!”
“Who’s going to remind you during the college entrance exam?” Lu Que retorted without mercy. He unwrapped the lollipop she’d given him earlier, put it in his mouth, and handed her the test paper back.
“I have some very bad news for you,” Lu Que kindly warned her. “Copy the wrong answers ten times.”
Xu Tao Yue: “!”
“And copy the correct answers you changed to wrong ones twenty times.”
Xu Tao Yue: “!!”
That’s really not good!
Xu Tao Yue looked utterly defeated. “Got it, Teacher Lu.”
The corners of Lu Que’s mouth turned up. He feigned a cold nod.
Fine, fine. Xu Tao Yue began the process of studying hard again.
Using Zhomi as an excuse, she successfully got Lu Que’s WeChat. Xu Tao Yue was happy about this for days.
It’s okay, it’s okay~ Xu Tao Yue is the best~
Xu Tao Yue comforted herself.
It’s just copying a few dozen times, right? It’s not like I haven’t been punished with copying in the real world.
Xiang Baie saw a wave of academic enthusiasm wash over the class, and a smile appeared on her face.
“What’s gotten into our class these days? Even Xu Tao Yue is being so serious. It seems she’s feeling a sense of urgency.”
“Everyone should learn from Xu Tao Yue!”
Xu Tao Yue looked at her test paper, covered in red crosses, and silently hung her head.
“Student Xu, learn from you?” Xia Xiangyang began to tease her. Ye Wan, who had witnessed everything, quietly nodded.
Xu Tao Yue: “…”
“Don’t laugh, Wanwan…”
Ye Wan turned to her, looking serious. “Believe me, Student Xu, I’m not laughing at you.”
Xu Tao Yue: “…”
Then don’t call me ‘Student Xu’!
Xu Tao Yue sighed. “Go ahead and laugh. I give you permission.”
“You said so? Then I’ll start laughing.” Ye Wan asked cautiously.
She’s so nice. She asks for permission before making fun of people.
“See? You were going to laugh at me!” Xu Tao Yue pounced on the opportunity to attack. “Wanwan! How could you do that?!”
Ye Wan, besides being fast at solving problems, was slow to react to everything else. She blinked. “Oh.”
The other three were amused by Ye Wan’s reaction, especially Xia Xiangyang, who was laughing so hard he couldn’t stand up straight. “Wanwan, why are you so slow?”
Xu Tao Yue shook her head. “No, no, Wanwan isn’t slow. I’ll prove it.”
Xu Tao Yue pulled out a practice question. “Wanwan, I’ll give you three seconds. Tell me the answer to this problem.”
“Why would you even need to look at it? It’s obviously A.”
Xu Tao Yue spread her hands. “See?”
She continued, asking for the answers to the questions below, and a triumphant smile slowly spread across her face.
Xia Xiangyang nodded. “I see now. Xu Tao Yue, you’re so unethical.”
Lu Que tapped Xu Tao Yue’s head and ruthlessly exposed her.
“Just do your own work. Stop using Ye Wan to get the answers. Get started yourself. Then, you’re going to explain all the answers Ye Wan gave you back to me.”
Xu Tao Yue: “!”
Darn it. I’ve been caught again.