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Chapter 10 – For You

The next day, Yu Bai Zhou was in a good mood. When he was eating in the cafeteria, his joyous mood was not concealed at all.

The boss that Tu Gao Ming often saw was cold and cool. He has never seen Yu Bai Zhou in a good mood like he was right now.

He felt guilty. He actually thought that such a boss was a little bit cute.

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From time to time, there would be looks of envy and adoration directed at Yu Bai Zhou.

“Today Young Master Yu is wearing a white collared shirt, and he looks so handsome in it! That white shirt was simply born* for him!”

[*T/N: Yes, the raws said “born” not “made”]

“If I can have half of Young Master Yu’s face value, then I would have no regrets.”

“It would be nice if I could talk to him.”

“Young Master Yu must have grown up drinking milk, I envy Young Master Yu’s skin one hundred times a day!”

“I hope that Young Master Yu will perform on stage during the National Day Party. The daily Young Master Yu is so handsome, and he is so cool when he turns into a drummer!”

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Yu Bai Zhou returned to his senses. Hearing the rainbow farts that were praising him, he was a little embarrassed.

Although he was often praised in his previous life, this was the first time that he received such overwhelming rainbow farts.

While he was eating, suddenly a person moved into the empty space next to him. He turned his head to look and saw a rather fashionable female student.

The girl got close to him, “Young Master Yu, where are we going to play this weekend?”

Yu Bai Zhou did not recognize who the girl in front of him was. His body subconsciously turned to the other side to avoid the girl’s advancing closeness.

The girl seemed to notice his avoidance. Her face revealed a dissatisfied expression as she frowned. “Last time at the bar, who was it that said he was going to take me on a date this weekend? Young Master Yu didn’t forget, did he?”

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Yu Bai Zhou did not recognize the girl in front of him, but the original book mentioned that the original host had many ambiguous girlfriends, and this girl was probably one of them.

This was a bit troublesome. Let’s just straightforwardly refuse.

Yu Bai Zhou said: “I haven’t forgotten, but this week…”

When the girl heard this, she smirked and intercepted his words, “Are you going to tell me that there is no time? You promised me though.”

Done speaking, she reached out and hugged his arm.

Yu Bai Zhou: “…”

Looking at the girl’s about to get angry face, Yu Bai Zhou had to smile and pretend to laugh. He took his arm out of the girl’s hand. “Let’s talk about it when the time comes.”

The girl was about to frown and complain when suddenly the sound of a plate hitting the floor came from not far away.

Several people looked over in the direction of the noise.

All they saw was one boy surrounded by several other people. The floor was sprinkled with food and the plate was broken into several pieces.

Yu Bai Zhou recognized the boy being surrounded. It was the one named He Yan.

Tu Gao Ming only took one look and then withdrew his gaze. “Aye, I was wondering who it was. It’s He Yan. That’s not strange*. He’s a weirdo.”

[*T/N: “That’s not strange” as in this scene of him being bullied is commonplace.]

Because they were far away, Yu Bai Zhou could not hear the dialogue happening over there, and could only see the scene being played out. Suddenly, he saw a male student with a crew cut push He Yan hard. He Yan took a half step back and his back pressed against the wall. The boy with the crew cut was a few centimeters shorter than He Yan, and his expression was provocative, very fierce.

Yu Bai Zhou’s heart seized for a moment.

He didn’t want to look on any more. Yu Bai Zhou withdrew his gaze. He squeezed the chopsticks in his hand and told himself that it was not his business.

He promised his dad that he would not cause trouble at school again.

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Chapter 9 – For You

The man who had just returned home was standing next to the sofa while tugging off his tie with one hand. Yu Bai Zhou only saw the back of his figure,, but looking at his silhouette alone, Yu Bai Zhou could see that this was a very temperamental man.

When Yu Chen turned and faced him, Yu Bai Zhou could see his face clearly. The body wrapped in a dark suit was very good, and his height was about one point eight meters tall. His facial features were handsome, just… the expression on his face was a bit gloomy.

Fu Xia stepped forward. While taking Yu Chen’s coat, he asked, “What’s wrong? Did something happen to the company?”

“The financial affairs professional recruited last month was not familiar, and there was a problem with an item in the ledger.”

“What is the specific situation?”

While the two dads discussed business affairs, Yu Bai Zhou moved with light and unhurried steps to the side of the television. He studied the intelligent water system in front of him for a moment. With somewhat awkward movements, he retrieved two cups of warm water and placed it on the table in front of the two men. Soon after, he turned and returned to the kitchen.

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Yu Chen froze when he saw the warm water on the table, and then he looked at Fu Xia. “What situation is this?” He pointed towards the kitchen. “Was that brat’s brain pulled out today?”

Fu Xia: “…”

The three of them sat down at the dining table to eat together. Due to the hitch at work for Yu Chen, the atmosphere at the dinner table was not very good. Yu Bai Zhou felt uncomfortable and constrained as he ate.

“Yu Bai Zhou, you didn’t cause trouble at school today, did you?”

Suddenly hearing Yu Chen’s voice, Yu Bai Zhou choked on the tender steamed egg in his mouth.

Fu Xia gave him a napkin and said to Yu Chen: “Let’s not talk about school things while we eat.”

Yu Chen said: “If it weren’t because of him always making trouble at school, you think I would mention this at the dinner table?”

Yu Bai Zhou took the napkin and wiped his mouth.

Fu Xia wanted to say something, but Yu Bai Zhou beat him to the punch: “I’m sorry. All this time, I have always been causing the two of you to worry.”

When they heard his words, both of them were surprised at the same time.

Yu Bai Zhou knew that the original host’s character was stubborn and often caused trouble, making the two dads worry a lot over this matter. Now that it was him who owned this body, then he must do the job of appeasing both of their emotions.

Yu Bai Zhou stabilized his tone before telling them solemnly that he had made up his mind, that he would put his mind on learning in the future, and that he would not fail their expectations.

Translations by Vanilla Muse.

There were no parents who would not worry for their children, and Yu Chen and Fu Xia were this type of parents.

After listening to Yu Bai Zhou talk, the two parents glanced at each other, and it seemed like they could not believe that such words were spoken from their son’s mouth. Then they both looked at Yu Bai Zhou together.

It’s been too long since Yu Bai Zhou has been looked at so attentively. He felt a bit embarrassed.

Fu Xia asked first: “Really?”

Yu Bai Zhou affirmed: “En.”

Yu Chen looked at Yu Bai Zhou and put down the chopsticks in his hand. “Okay. From now until the end of this semester, if you can guarantee to study well in school and not cause trouble, I will agree to let you go participate in the Romania volunteer project that you’ve always wanted to go to during the vacation.”

“Romania…” Yu Bai Zhou responded for a moment, and then he thought of something, and asked excitedly: “Is, is it the origin place of the legendary vampires?”

Yu Chen looked at his second middle child with the unpitying gaze of someone looking at a retard. “…It can be considered as such, I guess.”

Yu Bai Zhou was so excited that he was speechless. You must know, he very much liked the protagonist of folklore about creatures of the night, who was both a werewolf and a vampire. That was way too cool!

He obediently assured Yu Chen: “Don’t worry, Dad, I won’t get in trouble again!”

He only had one purpose here, and that was to live on. Things such as fighting and causing trouble, he was really not good at them. So a promise like this was completely not a problem for him!

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Chapter 8 – For You

There was likely a bit of new progress in the transfer of information. After the reminder of 008, the information of concerning Yu Bai Zhou’s parents began to intermittently appear in his mind.

A pair of husbands adopted the original host when he was at the age of five. He did not have one father and one mother like other people, but instead, he had two fathers, and the gentle-looking man in front of him was one of them.

Fu Xia, thirty-five years old. He was a well-known architectural designer. He designed this very villa that they lived in.

His other father, Yu Chen, was the CEO of a famous listed company in City A. He was thirty-six years old right now. When he was young, he was a fu er dai*, pampered rich son. Then he met the original host’s younger dad, Fu Xia, and he had his heart set. Thus, he wholeheartedly put his attentions on his family and career.

[*T/N: 富二代 fu er dai – children of entrepreneurs who became wealthy under Deng Xiaoping’s economic reforms in the 1980s.]

The original host was adopted in the second year after Yu Chen and Fu Xia formed a family.

[T/N: The author used the phrase 组成家庭 “form a family” instead of the word “marriage,” so it might be that same-sex marriage is not legalized in this setting. Not sure yet.]

Yu Bai Zhou organized the thoughts in his mind. After accepting the fact that this man who looked like he was in his early twenties was actually his father, he accepted the fact that his parents were actually husbands.

In fact, Yu Bai Zhou was very tolerant towards all sexual orientations. Just like how heterosexual bonding was common, homosexual bonding was practically the same in his eyes. So after learning that his parents were actually husbands, he just buffered for a minute, and then accepted it as fact.

Fu Xia was flabbergasted when Yu Bai Zhou called him “dad.” Yu Bai Zhou took note of his expression.

According to the information in the book, the original host actually rejected his parents for being different from others. When he was an innocent child, he did not feel that it was strange to have two dads, until he learned from other people’s idle gossip that having two dads was abnormal, and then he started to resent his two dads.

Incidentally, after that, he accidentally stumbled upon his two dads being intimate with each other and his disgust towards them reached an extreme level. He not only got angry with his two dads, he also declared that he wanted to leave and become independent.

Yu Chen, whose temper wasn’t that good, immediately sorted out the original host, who was in his third year of junior middle school at the time. The original host harbored hard feelings.

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Ever since then, his relationship with his two dads became stiff. Afterwards, he refused to call the two men his dads, and he no longer acted spoiled like he did as a child. And the relationships in the family developed an invisible distance.

“I received the school’s message. The students don’t have self-study this evening.” Fu Xia’s voice pulled Yu Bai Zhou back from his thoughts.

Yu Bai Zhou replied with an “en” sound.

“You must be hungry right? I had aunty prepare your favorite steamed egg with shrimp. It should be almost ready by now.”

As Fu Xia spoke, he wanted to take Yu Bai Zhou’s hand and bring him to the dining room. His hand just lifted up, but it paused in the air, and then fell back down again. He smiled, “Let’s go.”

Yu Bai Zhou carefully took in all of Fu Xia’s mood changes. He froze for half a second, thought about it, and then stepped forward to take Fu Xia’s arm.

Fu Xia’s expression was somewhat surprised.

Translations by Vanilla Muse.

Yu Bai Zhou used the coquettish voice of someone from a younger generation acting spoiled towards someone from an older generation to ask, “Papa, is there anything else besides steamed egg with shrimp? I want to eat many other things, too.”

Fu Xia’s eyes glowed with warmth, “Go ahead and say what you want to eat. I’ll have aunty make it for you.”

Yu Bai Zhou reported the names of a few simple dishes, and then the two headed towards the dining room.

They sat around the dining table as the delicious dishes were served. Yu Bai Zhou and Fu Xia chatted together.

After a while, there was some noise from the living room. Yu Chen had come back home.

Fu Xia got up and went out.

As a courtesy, Yu Bai Zhou also put down the tableware and followed.

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Chapter 7 – The Invisible Specialized Top Student

He Yan… Wasn’t he the boy that the original host had caught and taken to an empty classroom for a beating? That boy and he were in the same class?

At this time, Tu Gao Ming also happened to talk to him about He Yan, “Boss, He Yan didn’t come to class this afternoon. Do you think it is because we gave him a scare at noon, so he doesn’t dare to come to class in the afternoon?”

Yu Bai Zhou recalled the look that the boy named He Yan had given him when he left the empty classroom. He felt that what Tu Gao Ming said was unlikely. That person’s character should not be as weak as Tu Gao Ming thought.

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Yu Bai Zhou was suddenly a little curious about this person, so he made some insinuations to Tu Gao Ming to inquire about He Yan.

“You’re asking about He Yan? That guy’s temperament is extremely weird and his personality is very antisocial. He often travels alone and he doesn’t like to show his face. Some people are guessing that he must be ugly, and that’s why he doesn’t dare to show his face.”

After Tu Gao Ming finished speaking, he finally reacted, “Wait, Boss, why are you asking me about He Yan? Aren’t you the one who knows the most about He Yan?”

Yu Bai Zhou was stupefied. Then he casually said, “Yes, I am, just want to see if you know or not.”

Tu Gao Ming slapped his leg. “Then I am certain, He Yan is a weirdo, and the whole school knows it.”

Yu Bai Zhou said in a half-doubtful and half-affirmative tone, “He Yan’s reputation is bad?”

Tu Gao Ming affirmed it. He said, “Simply rotten to the core.”

Tu Gao Ming said, “He Yan, this person, anyway, I just find him displeasing to the eye. Just depending on his studies to be good. He seems like a dope.”

Yu Bai Zhou heard what was said and his soul left his body.

He suddenly felt as he saw the shadow of his past self on He Yan, and he couldn’t help it, sympathy sprouted in his heart.

After school in the afternoon, the boarding students all hurried to the dining hall, and the day students got ready to go home.

Today, the school was having a meeting, so none of the students had evening self-study.

The original host’s setting was a day student. He had a good family background and also a chauffeur to send him to school and pick him up from school.

After school, Yu Bai Zhou walked to the school gate. Because he was in a hurry, he accidentally bumped into a boy halfway. The boy had black hair, handsome facial features, and his school uniform was clean and tidy. After apologizing, he left.

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Behind him, the boy looked at Yu Bai Zhou’s departing back. The person next to him took two steps forward. He said with puzzlement, “Young Master Li, what happened to Yu Bai Zhou today? How come it’s like he doesn’t recognize you?”

Li Bei looked at the figure that was fast disappearing towards the school entrance. His eyes could not help but squint.

When Yu Bai Zhou arrived at the school gate, the car was already waiting by the entrance.

It was a black Maybach, very impressive.

Yu Bai Zhou got in the car.

The car drove forward, leaving the school behind, and the final destination was a luxurious villa comparable to a castle.

After the driver took Yu Bai Zhou to the courtyard, he then drove the car to the garage.

Because of the incomplete transfer of information of the novel, Yu Bai Zhou was unfamiliar with many things, such as the luxury villa in front of him, and the appearances of the original host’s parents.

Yu Bai Zhou didn’t know what the parents of the original host looked like or what their characters were like. He hoped that they could be kind people.

Thinking of seeing his elders soon, Yu Bai Zhou could not help but feel a little nervous.

He took a moment to steady his nerves. Then he walked to the door, reaching for the doorbell.

In ten seconds or less, the door opened.

In the door stood a young man, about the same height as Yu Bai Zhou, with fair skin and gentle brows. He looked like he was in his early twenties.

Yu Bai Zhou stood in a daze at the door. He searched for information about this person in his mind, but he could not find anything.

Yu Bai Zhou thought for a while, the original host seemed to be the only child, so this person should be and older brother from the neighborhood or something…

Why not just courteously call him older brother?

Thinking like this, Yu Bai Zhou boldly said: “Bro…”

008: “Call him Dad.”

Yu Bai Zhou: “Dad!”

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Chapter 6 – The Invisible Specialized Top Student

The students in the room could not help feeling keyed up as they watched Yu Bai Zhou just standing there on stage. In contrast, Cheng Jia Hui’s mood slowly relaxed from her initial tension. Just now, she was only choked by Yu Bai Zhou’s momentum.

There was no need to even think about it. There was no way that someone at Yu Bai Zhou’s level could solve this problem. Remaining on the stage was just due to that pathetic little unyielding spirit in his bones.

It was merely a false alarm.

Cheng Jia Hui looked at her watch. Two minutes have passed. She took a sip of water slowly, and then with an expression like she was watching a play unfold she asked, “Yu Bai Zhou, there are only three minutes left. Are you sure you can do it?”

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Yu Bai Zhou did not answer.

Cheng Jia Hui held up her hands. “I advise you, if you can do it, then hurry up and get off the stage, don’t delay other people’s…”

Cheng Jia Hui spoke up to here and saw that Yu Bai Zhou had picked up the stick of chalk and began to answer the problem.

Cheng Jia Hui frowned slightly.

In those two minutes, Yu Bai Zhou had already more or less sorted out his train of thoughts.

Cheng Jia Hui originally had an attitude of Schadenfreude, but after looked at the calculation formula written by Yu Bai Zhou, her expression abruptly collapsed.

The students in their seats all looked shocked.

“I say, Young Master Yu can do it?”

“He’s really not making stuff up?”

“But if it’s just random nonsense, then he’s making it up really fast!”

The chalk in Yu Bai Zhou’s hand did not stop at all. The handwriting was beautiful and the writing was fluent.

Beneath everyone’s incredulous gaze, he wrote down the solution. At this time, there was only one minute left of the five-minute time limit.

He put down the chalk in his hand and turned his head back to face the stiff as a board, Cheng Jia hui. He quirked up the corner of his lips.

“Teacher, may I trouble you to check the answer?”

Cheng Jia Hui looked at the correct answer on the blackboard, and could not help loosening her grip on the teaching stick in her hand.

How could this be?

This was the super hard question that she specifically gathered from the college entrance exam. According to Yu Bai Zhou’s level of academics, how could he have possibly solved it? In addition, the logical reasoning behind the solution was unexpectedly even more concise than the only answer given on the answer sheet.

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Cheng Jia Hui’s face was ashen gray.

One of the students asked out loud, “Mrs. Cheng, is Young Master Yu’s solution correct or not?”

Cheng Jia Hui froze for a few seconds before she stiffly replied, “…It’s correct.”

A wave of disturbance went through the students in the room.

“WTF, Young Master Yu, awesome!”

“Yu Bai Zhou is an invisible specialized* top student!”

[*T/N: 偏科 pian ke – to overemphasize some topic (at the expense of others)]

“Young Master Yu, my male god!”

“I love campus domineers!”

What Cheng Jia Hui did not know was that Yu Bai Zhou was once a third year graduate student who solved these questions on the daily. The problem that she had picked on him to solve, Yu Bai Zhou had done it no less than ten times already. Also, Yu Bai Zhou’s college entrance examination results could be ranked as Top 1 in his original world.

Cheng Jia Hui clenched the teaching stick in her hand, took a deep breath, and put on a mask again to cover up the real panic on her face.

Just as she thought that things would end like this, Yu Bai Zhou opened his mouth to remind her, “Teacher, if you agree to a bet you must accept it when you lose. You owe me an apology.”

After hearing this, Cheng Jia Hui’s complexion suddenly became difficult to look at, and all the sounds below the stage came to a halt.

Yu Bai Zhou waited. All the classmates were watching.

If you ride a tiger, it was hard to get off, meaning it was impossible to stop things halfway.

Cheng Jia Hui squeezed the teaching stick in her hand, and in the end she could barely manage to spit out an apology through gritted teeth.

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During the break between classes, Tu Gao Ming came over to grumble about Cheng Jia Hui. Yu Bai Zhou listened and nodded. He folded up a piece of paper with a five-in-a-row game draw on it and casually stuck it in between the pages of a book as a bookmark.

“Did you guys notice that He Yan did not come to class this afternoon?”

“Seems like it.”

“Unprecedented. So, actually, as it turns out, the top student would also skip class?”

“So what if he’s the top student? He has such a weird personality, and he also sits in the corner. His sense of existence is too low. You see? The teacher didn’t even look for him.”

When Yu Bai Zhou heard the people around him mentioning He Yan, his ears perked up in alert.

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Chapter 5 – The Invisible Specialized* Top Student

[*T/N: “Specialized” as in being very good in one field or topic to the detriment of other subjects.]

When his name was called out, Yu Bai Zhou paused for two seconds.

One after another, all the other students let out sighs of relief.

“Why did you pick Young Master Yu? Most people can’t solve such a difficult problem, how can Young Master Yu do it?”

“Che, Poison Tongue Cheng is starting to make things difficult for Young Master Yu again.”

Cheng Jia Hui banged hard on the table with a teaching stick and said seriously: “Whoever talks again can go stand still in the hallway for punishment.”

Hearing these words, the class abruptly became quiet.

Cheng Jia Hui experienced the quiet atmosphere with satisfaction. Then she raised the teaching stick and pointed at Yu Bai Zhou, “You, come up and do the question.”

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Yu Bai Zhou looked at the teaching stick that was pointed at him rudely. Although he knew that Cheng Jia Hui was targeting the original host and not himself, he still felt a little uncomfortable.

He got up, left his seat, and walked up onto the stage.

At his seat, Tu Gao Ming gritted his teeth with hate for Cheng Jia Hui.

This time, it was evident that Cheng Jia Hui wanted to give their boss a hard time. As the class teacher, she clearly knew the academic level of their boss, yet she still knowingly made their boss go up and do this super hard question. She was clearly taking this opportunity to deliberately admonish their boss for a good round.

F*ck!

Yu Bai Zhou walked up to the empty blackboard, picked up a whole piece of chalk, and looked up at the equation. He found that this question was indeed a super hard level question as the other students were saying, and it was very difficult.

The original host’s character setting was a poor student. There was no way he could solve such a difficult question.

Yu Bai Zhou was at a lost, waffling over what to do. In the end, he put the chalk in his hand back onto the chalk slot.

The chalk had just clicked into place when Cheng Jia Hui’s shrilled voice came from the side, “Can’t do it?”

Yu Bai Zhou didn’t have time to answer before Cheng Jia Hui raised her voice and said, “If you can’t solve it then scram for me.”

Yu Bai Zhou closed his eyes for a second, turned around, and started to walk back to this seat. But just a few steps later, he heard Cheng Jia Hui say in a sharp voice to the rest of the students: “Everyone must always listen to the lessons seriously, otherwise they can only come up and stand dumbly in front of the blackboard, just like Yu Bai Zhou did just now. This is a negative example, an extremely negative example!”

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The teaching stick smacked against the table, making a sharp noise, and Yu Bai Zhou paused in his steps.

None of the students sitting in their seats dared to talk.

Cheng Jia Hui looked at Yu Bai Zhou, who had stopped.

“What are you doing standing still? Why aren’t you hurrying back to your seat?!”

Yu Bai Zhou turned around again and looked at Cheng Jia Hui. “Sorry, teacher. I seem to remember how to do this question.”

When Cheng Jia Hui heard these words she was slightly stunned. Then she looked at Yu Bai Zhou, “Are you sure you remember?”

Yu Bai Zhou replied, “Not certain, but I can give it a try.”

Cheng Jia Hui scolded, “Time in the classroom is very precious. You think you can just try if you want to try?”

Yu Bai Zhou felt a bit helpless. Just who exactly was wasting class time here?

He said, “Then if I am certain I can do it?”

Cheng Jia Hui glanced at her watch and said, “If you are sure, then I can give you five minutes to do it, but if you can’t solve it within five minutes and end up wasting the time of the other students, then you can conscientiously go stand outside in the hall for the rest of this class. Do you agree?”

On the surface, Cheng Jia Hui was pretending to think about the other students, but in actuality, she was coming straight at Yu Bai Zhou.

One of the students asked, “What if he can solve it?”

Cheng Jia Hui choked and glared at the student who spoke. The student shrunk their neck back in embarrassment.

Yu Bai Zhou looked at Cheng Jia Hui, “I agree. But correspondingly, if I can solve it, you must give me an apology.”

An apology for her impolite behavior just now, and for the pot* that was thrown on the original host before.

[*T/N: For readers of “Let Me Shoulder this Blame,” you would be familiar with the term pot. For the uninitiated, “to carry a pot” represents “to be blamed or misunderstood.”]

“You!” Cheng Jia Hui did not expect Yu Bai Zhou to make such a request. Her face turned blue, and then white.

The road had already reached this point, and Cheng Jia Hui finally had to agree.

The bet between teacher and student attracted everyone’s attention, and even the students who had just dozed off were already wide-awake.

Yu Bai Zhou returned to the stage, but he didn’t start solving the problem right away.

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Chapter 4 – The Most Bewildered Male Lead in the World

The bell for class rang. Yu Bai Zhou found his seat based on the information in the book. Tu Gao Ming and the other little brothers went back to their seats one after another.

The first segment was precisely Cheng Jia Hui’s class. After a short while, Cheng Jia Hui came in with the teaching materials. Yu Bai Zhou looked at the woman at the podium. The smile on her face carried an undertone of mockery. He could not help shaking his head.

“Before today’s class, let’s briefly review yesterday’s topic. I will pick a few students to come up to be tested. You can come up on your own if you want. I will write the problems on the blackboard. If you see a problem that you can solve, then come on up. If there are any remaining questions, we can pick other students to come up and do them.

Cheng Jia Hui picked up a piece of chalk and started to write the questions on the blackboard. The board was very big. It was divided into upper, lower, left, and right sides. In a flash she finished writing two problems on the board.

There was a pattern to the way that Cheng Jia Hui arranged problems on the board. The simple questions were in the front, and the hard ones were in the back. Some students were afraid that no one would do the harder questions and that they would end up being picked to do them, so when they saw a problem that they could solve, they quickly went up front to do it.

Very soon, six questions were written on the boards. The first five questions took up three small blackboards, and the last one occupied one small board alone. All the students who were familiar with Cheng Jia Hui’s routine knew at a glance that the final question must be complicated, so it needed an entire board to work out.

The first five questions were solved relatively quickly. Only the last question was left alone. None of the students dared to try their hand at it.

The students discussed the question in low murmurs.

“I’ve never seen the last question before. Was this type of problem mentioned in the morning class?”

“That last question simply cannot be a review question, okay? It’s definitely a problem to deliberately make things difficult for someone!”

“What the fudge*, who can possibly solve the last problem? Those symbols in the last problem, how come it seems like I have never seen them before!”

[*T/N: 卧槽 wo cao is a substitute word for 我肏 wo cao, which means “f*ck” or “WTF.” It’s the same pinyin spelling, but different characters and different tones. It’s kind of like self-censoring.]

“I’ve seen this problem before. It seems like a stimulation question of some regional college entrance exam. It’s beyond the scope of the syllabus. Up until now, only a few people could solve it.”

“Are you crazy? Such a difficult question. Isn’t it the wrong grade level? You have to use it for a class of top students!”

The students had a lot of comments. Cheng Jia Hui looked down at the audience leisurely from the podium. “What? Is no one going to come do the last question? If there’s no one, then I’ll have to pick someone.”

“It’s over. It’s over. Please don’t pick me.”

“Me too. I don’t want to be condemned in front of everybody.”

“Whoever gets picked is out of luck. Poison Tongue Cheng is not called that for no reason.”

“If you can’t solve it, you will definitely be put on clean up duty for three days straight. I don’t want to clean again.”

Cheng Jia Hui glanced down at them from the stage. Row by row of students all had their heads down. Looking at the students’ revered fear towards her, she joyfully tapped her fingers against the podium. Her eyes swept across the first row, the second row, the third row, the fourth row, and finally stayed on the penultimate second to last seat from the wall in the fourth row.

She lifted her chin slightly, her eyes fixed on Yu Bai Zhou, who had his head bowed, looking for something within the desk’s cubbyhole. Her slender eyes narrowed. “Come up and do this question, Yu Bai Zhou.”

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To Haruhi Rei and Zoe, a thank you and an apology.

THANK YOU for your belief in my work, it honestly bolstered me a lot. When this first happened, one part of me was upset and unwilling, and the other part of me was ready to just roll over and give up. I believed that without a shadow of doubt that no one would care if I continued or not, since someone else was doing a much better and faster job. I found it meaningless to continue translating if no one cared to read my translations. The point of me taking the time to translate a story that I like is to share it. Otherwise, I could’ve just read it with MTL, moved on, and called it a day.

I posted the question to the void expecting to get a confirmation for my thoughts, that I should stop translating. Mainly, I wanted to comfort myself by saying “see, you did do something, you asked, didn’t you?” But no, I didn’t go and ask the other person directly involved. I was scared of confrontation, afraid that this thing might blow up, and I really did not want that drama in my life. But because you believed in me, it pushed me to do more, so I reached out to the other translator. If nothing else, I should at least confirm that they would finish this story before I definitively let it go, was what I had thought. And I’m so glad that I did, because the other translator turned out to be lovely and not scary at all. Which brings me to the apology.

I’M SORRY for disappointing you by dropping this story. I’ve explained my reasons in chapter 3, but I still feel bad because it’s like I’m letting down someone who believes in me. All I can say is that I promise I will only get better and better at translating with time and more experience. I will use those skills to bring you many more wonderful stories in the future. I hope to be able to entertain you with high-quality work now and in the future.

If you’re still interested in this story, then please do give the other translator a chance. I know for a fact that I was once young and green, and my translations were awkward and stilted. But thanks to the encouragement of the readers, I persisted and slowly got better with time. I’m certain that Syd, the new translator for this story, will also get better with experience.

Many thanks for sticking with me and have a most awesome day! ⭐

Hello everybody, thank you for your comments on the previous chapter. The thing was, I never expected something like this to happen and I didn’t know what to do, so my first reaction was to ask for your opinions. After reading some early comments and thinking it over, I decided to be the one to reach out to the other party first. We came to the consensus that they would continue this story and I would drop it. I have confirmed that they intend to see this story through to the end, so you won’t have to worry about the story being dropped halfway. I think for the sake of the readers, this is the best decision.

Some of you suggested that we both translate this story, either working together or working individually. I have cooperated with other translators before, but as the insightful Aylik pointed out, different translators have different styles and there would inevitably be inconsistencies, which is why I don’t intend to co-translate with other people in the future, even though the translators I’ve worked with before were wonderful sweethearts.

As for why I don’t agree with two translators working on the same story individually. Reason one, it may seem silly to some people, but I think it is impolite to barge in on someone’s territory like that, and most translators are of the same mind. Reason two is a personal opinion, but I think it’s a disservice to the reading community to squander resources like that. Why have two translators compete over the same story, when they could be translating different novels and bringing more stories to the table for everyone to enjoy?

I was upset by this event, because it was hard to find this story to begin with. I had to drudge through a lot of poorly MTL’ed stories to find one that I liked. But I realized that the other translator was new to this circle, and most commendably they were receptive to communication, so please do read their translations and don’t bring any hate to their site. As an escape from reality, I hope that this can be a positive community. A big thank you to those who expressed support for my work, I am truly grateful for your appreciation.

TL,DR: In the following days I will be uploading all the chapters of TSI that I have managed to stockpile. After that, I will be officially dropping this project and handing the reins over to the other translator.

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Chapter 3 – The Most Bewildered Male Lead in the World

“You know that Yu Bai Zhou in my class, right? He doesn’t study and only knows how to fight all day. Not only are his grades bad, but also his personality is vile. He’s so difficult to handle!”

“Hey, lower your voice, what if a student passes by and hears you?”

“How could there be students passing by at this time? They are all on the other side. Whenever I talk about him, I get so angry.”

“There’s nothing you can do about it. He’s the little young master that everyone adores.”

“Little young master? Asides from causing trouble and pulling down the grades of the class, he can’t do anything else. He’s just a vermin that uses his family’s money. Putting this kind of person in my class, his existence is just like garbage.”

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Hearing the female teacher’s words, Tu Gao Ming cursed in a low voice. “I’m going. Cheng Jia Hui must be tired of living!”

Tu Gao Ming heard his boss being scolded like this and his lungs exploded with rage.

Tu Gao Ming wanted to go in there and argue with Cheng Jia Hui. Yu Bai Zhou calmly extended a hand and pulled him back. He shook his head at him.

Tu Gao Ming looked at him in puzzlement. “Boss?”

Yu Bai Zhou raised a finger to his lips, motioning for him to be quiet.

The people inside were still carrying on with their conversation.

The male teacher said, “Although the situation is like this, as a teacher you shouldn’t be so unpleasant when you talk. The children are in their adolescent years, so they will inevitably be rebellious. Just endure it for a while and it will pass. Furthermore, concerning that matter, stop thinking about it all the time. Just let go of it.”

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“Endure? Class 5’s average grade was just about to go up, but then that useless garbage dragged it back down. How am I supposed to endure? What’s the use of being good at drawing and singing? The cultural class is just as bad. All day long holding back others, I’m about to be pushed to the edge. I really want to chase him out of the class.”

Tu Gao Ming clenched his fists and whispered to Yu Bai Zhou: “Boss, as long as you say the word, I will go in there and sort her out with a beating.”

Yu Bai Zhou thought about it and patted him on the shoulder. “Let’s go, back to the classroom.”

Finished talking, he turned around first to leave.

Tu Gao Ming’s belly was filled with anger, but his boss didn’t say anything, so he could only endure and go catch up with him. The others also followed along.

Cheng Jia Hui. Yu Bai Zhou knew about this teacher. She was famous for her poison tongue. She would often talk behind people’s backs, saying how she looked down on those students who came in through relationships. But the truth was she herself also got into the school through a relationship. And the relationship was not small.

In the past few years, she taught a couple of students that were considered pretty good, so she started to become smug and conceited.

In the book, Cheng Jia Hui and the original host were at extreme odds.

One of the reasons was because the original host was bad at his studies. Cheng Jia Hui liked to look good in the eyes of others, so she didn’t want to have any bad students in her class. And the original host was precisely the hedonistic son of rich parents who was bad at his studies.

Speaking of which, the original host had once tried hard at his studies, but because his foundation was so terrible, add on to that Cheng Jia Hui’s frequent psychological shocks, so his grades were always low. In the end, he gave up and stopped bothering. He stopped struggling to study, and properly played his role of a hedonistic son with rich parents.

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But there was a deeper root cause. It was a personal issue between Cheng Jia Hui and the original host. Before, Cheng Jia Hui’s son and the original host once hung out together. One time, they went out to fight and her son’s leg got injured. Because of this incident, Cheng Jia Hui has always bore a grudge against the original host, feeling like he was the one who harmed her son.

In fact, the original host had taken Cheng Jia Hui into consideration, and never agreed to let her son participate in the fight. But who would have thought that her son would agree verbally, but then renege on his promise the day of the fight.

He went straight to the fight without first informing the original host. In the end, he lost the fight and got ruthlessly pounded to the pavement by his opponent. Afterwards, he ended up at the hospital.

It wasn’t that Cheng Jia Hui did not understand the course of events, but in her mind, her son getting injured was fact. Her son missed an important math competition because he was in the hospital was also fact. So she completely paid no heed to the original host’s explanation. She firmly believed that it was the original host’s fault; that it was the original host who ruined her son’s future prospects. With his explanation brushed aside, the original host was also disinclined to explain again and simply left things as they were.

And that was how the animosity between the two came to be.

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