Chapter 44

Aunt Liu seemed to notice Su Qiuge’s doubts and smiled, “I followed my mother’s surname and Xie Xinglin’s father followed the father’s surname.”

But when Xie Xinglin’s father was mentioned, the atmosphere in the store obviously changed. Su Qiuge noticed that Xie Xinglin’s face darkened.

Su Qiuge suddenly remembered what the woman, who had come to school to find Xie Xinglin, said.

——Your dad is already dead.

At this moment, new customers came into the store. Aunt Liu stood up, “Xinglin, take care of your classmate. I’ll go take care of the customers.”

After Aunt Liu left, the atmosphere between the two became even more awkward.

Xie Xinglin looked down at Su Qiuge. He seemed to have thought of something interesting and lightly ridiculed, “Your grades are pretty good so you can help me in my studies and let me gain something?”

Su Qiuge: “......”

When she thought about how she had earnestly said those words to Aunt Liu, she wanted to choke her previously naive self to death.

Su Qiuge slapped the table and also questioned from the depths of her soul, “You are introverted and have low self-esteem? With no friends???”

I believed your lies!!

Was this describing Xie Xinglin??

That Xie Xinglin has no friends because he’s an introvert with low self-esteem??

After quite a while, he loosened the zipper of his jacket, revealing a faintly discernible collarbone. He looked at her with pitch-black eyes and slowly said, “Say, do you know what “to not conspire” means?”

Su Qiuge paused for a moment, “I’m not.”

“But I’m afraid that you will misunderstand, so I just wanted to clarify. I’m not here to cheat anyone, I just wanted...”

Su Qiuge pursed her lips, “I just wanted to display my good qualities of wanting to help others.”

Xie Xinglin didn’t respond. He glanced at the black notebook on Su Qiuge’s desk and asked in a low voice, “Anything you didn’t understand?’

Su Qiuge stared blankly for a moment, “Ah?”

Xie Xinglin tilted his head and raised his eyelids slightly, “If there are questions or key points on here that you don’t understand, let me know now.”

Su Qiuge finally reacted and realized that she was currently reading the math competition notebook given by him.

She hadn’t expected that when she had previously magnanimously offered to help others to study, it would turn out to be her receiving the help instead.

This...this was a face-slap that made one sad.

But face was face and learning was learning.

*t/n: indicating that having face and learning was too separate things

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