Chapter 158: Seeing Flowers in the Fog
Qi Yu was amused by Fu Yansheng’s words. Was he really getting that horny from a video call?
He indifferently took a sip of water and asked, “Isn’t it Thursday today. Why is it a rest day? I saw you eating at Tiaoyue Restaurant two hours ago.”
Fu Yansheng was momentarily stunned. The blatantly horny look in his eyes lessened, “Were you watching me?”
Being “monitored” by a lover all the time was like a kind of happiness. It meant that Qi Yu cared about him. When Fu Yansheng replied, his tone was now unconsciously much gentler, “I was socializing.”
Qi Yu continued to towel his hair. “Who did you socialize with?”
Fu Yansheng: “Rich businessman A, rich second generation B, senior official C.”
All these ‘ABC’ made Qi Yu’s head hurt. He paused and asked, “You can’t tell me?”
Fu Yansheng reluctantly said, “en”.
Qi Yu didn’t insist. He nodded and said, “Okay”. He knew that Fu Yansheng had a special background and there were some things involving his mission that he couldn’t reveal. This situation was already the norm whenever the two of them talked.
Fu Yansheng continued, “I originally planned to socialize with them all afternoon but the people who organized the gathering suddenly had something to attend and left first. We then decided to leave early. I’ve only settled in the company and all my subordinates have their work to do so I called it a day. When I got home, I realized it was almost time for you to go to sleep so I was waiting to video call with you.
Qi Yu said with a smile, “That’s not called a ‘rest day’, that’s called ‘skipping work’.”
Alright, if you say so…’ Fu Yansheng looked indulging and asked again, “How about you? Have you been busy recently?”
“Yeah, I’ve got the most credits in my last year. Aside from two exams, I have to write two papers and a thesis. Qi Yu put down the towel, adjusted his sitting position and let himself sink into his seat. He looked a little listless. “Although it’s a finance topic, it doesn’t seem like the subject of this thesis would have anything to do with my current or even my future work. It just feels a bit wasteful to be spending time on this…”
Just as he was complaining, he heard Fu Yansheng say, “Should I help write it for you?”
Qi Yu: “…”
The man on the phone looked totally serious and Qi Yu was amused. “Teacher Fu, what has gotten into you?”
Fu Yansheng: “What? I signed a two-year peidu contract with you. Although I’m not being paid anymore, I still haven’t forgotten it.”
Qi Yu said with a smile, “That’s not it. Even when you were my peidu, you were also a teacher. What do you mean you’re going to help me write my thesis?”
Fu Yansheng: “Didn’t I use to help you summarize key points of reference materials and make outlines for your papers?”
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Seeing his expressions fluctuate, Fu Yansheng knew that he had come to some sort of answer in his heart. So, he continued, “From a teaching point of view, thesis writing is to cultivate students’ thinking ability. Because through trying to determine a topic, finding relevant materials, comparing different viewpoints, through this series of processes, a student’s ability to think logically and systematic can be formed and the critical thinking ability is the criterion that a professor uses to judge whether a student has the ability to get a bachelor’s degree. It’s not how much information that person has collected or how much data they’ve memorized. Through my previous observations, I think you already have this ability. And those other things I’ve helped you out with before, I’ve only done so because I think you already know how to do them. That way, I could leave you more time to learn new things and improve new abilities. You have just admitted that the topic you’ve choose for your thesis won’t be of much use to you in the future and that it would be a waste of time. I agree with this point. In this case, I propose to help you write it. What’s wrong with that? If you’d like, I could assigning you some other more challenging assignments to do during the time you save.”
Fu Yansheng’s compliments and logical explanations made Qi Yu speechless. He was stunned and said subconsciously, “But if I hand in the thesis you wrote on my behalf, wouldn’t that be an academic fraud?”
“Academic fraud?” Fu Yansheng smiled, “Academic fraud refers to those incompetent students who falsify their grades and find someone to do things they can’t do in exchange for their diploma. Your situation is completely different. Don’t worry, I’ll hold back and try to write according to your level. I’ll make sure that it’s a paper that you can also write at your level.”
Qi Yu: “…”
What did he mean by “hold back”? This man didn’t forget to boast about himself even as he was offering to help him write his thesis!?
Qi Yu knew that Fu Yansheng was better than him but remembering Su Jing’s praise for the other party, he couldn’t help but want to confirm just how capable Fu Yansheng was. “Then when will I reach your level of ability?”
Fu Yansheng: “Uh…”
What does “uh” mean? Qi Yu raised his eyebrows. “You think I can’t compare to you?”
“It’ll probably be difficult…” Fu Yansheng knew that Qi Yu had a proud character. Seeing that he was angry, Fu Yansheng felt little helpless and he hurriedly explained why he said this, “I’ve studied six undergraduate majors and I got full marks. Maybe I’ve just never met them, but I have never met anyone who’s better than I am when it comes to studying.”
Qi Yu: “Didn’t you say that your undergraduate major was mathematics!?”
Fu Yansheng: “I was enrolled in the Department of Mathematics but I was completely gung-ho at the time and my tutor helped me to apply for a few more majors. I passed all their exams.”
Qi Yu didn’t know if he was attracted by Fu Yansheng’s conceited manner or irritated by his subconscious arrogance. Qi Yu felt his heart go up and down. He continued to ask, “Tell it to me straight, besides mathematics, what else did you study?”
“Economics, financial management, information technology, psychology, political science…” After Fu Yansheng finished speaking, he explained, “You really don’t need to compare your to me. I was young and energetic at the time and I thought writing papers for exams was relatively easy. When I got to know things more, I would show off to my peers, but actually, they might not have liked me. I’m a lot more restrained now.”
Qi Yu’s eyes went black…
Writing papers for exams was relatively easy, showing off, restrained…
Fine! He was willing to admit defeat!
“What’s more, there’s specialization in every field. What they teach in undergraduate is very basic. Given your future status and position, you only need to learn what you’ll need to use. That way would be most efficient. For other matters, there’ll always be Ye Qinru and Su Jing, specialists in their fields, to help you…”
While talking, Fu Yansheng saw that Qi Yu’s bathrobe, which Qi Yu had just pulled tight to cover himself, had gone loose again, revealing a piece of jade-white skin, looking like fine-glazed porcelain under the light.
He remembered that Qi Yu used an ocean-scented shower gel in Pascal City. Every time he took a bath, his body exuded a fresh fragrance, like a mermaid who had just emerged from the water. The charming scent covered him from his toes to every strand of his hair.
Fu Yansheng stared at that small square inch of white on the phone. It was like he could smell the other party’s scent through the palm-sized screen. He was already aroused. Completely infatuated, he asked, “Baby, are we really going to keep discussing this? . . . Let me see you.”
Qi Yu: “…”
Upon hearing this, Qi Yu, who had been in the middle of doubting his life because of the real IQ gap between people, looked at Fu Yansheng straight eyes through the phone. He found it both infuriating and funny. “Aren’t you already looking?”
Fu Yansheng said in a deep voice, “Pull your clothes off. I want to see inside.”
Qi Yu: “???”
How could he have thought that Fu Yansheng was a decent gentleman back then!? If Fu Yansheng had dared to talk to him like this two years ago, he would definitely have sent his greeting to the other party’s eighteen generations of ancestors, blacklisted him and reported him all in one go!
But now, that they were a couple and Fu Yansheng’s request didn’t sound too excessive.
It was only that he’d just been provoked by the other party’s unintentional show of IQ, Qi Yu didn’t want to just let the other party get what he wanted. He rolled his eyes and suddenly came up with a plan. “Move farther away. Put down the phone and don’t hold it with your hands. ”
Fu Yansheng was stunned for a while. He had no idea what medicine Qi Yu was selling in his gourd but seeing that his lover hadn’t rejected his request, anticipation began to build up in his heart.
He obediently put down the phone, sat back a little and raised his hands in compliance, showing that he wasn’t holding the phone. “Okay.”
Qi Yu looked at him and said, “Take off your glasses.”
Fu Yansheng: “…”
Fu Yansheng said anxiously, “Are you making fun of me for being blind?”
Fu Yansheng was more than 500 degrees myopic. With his glasses off, anything more than half a foot away was like looking at flowers in the fog. He was no different from a blind person. In the past, when they were in bed, Qi Yu liked to pluck off Fu Yansheng’s glasses while they were doing it. In order to see more clearly, he would eagerly gather in close to him, sticking tightly to him.
Right now, they were doing a video call and the phone screen was only so big. Without his glasses and sitting so far away, what exactly was he going to see? This was going to be a lonesome show…
Qi Yu raised his eyebrows: “Are you going to do as I say or not?”
Fu Yansheng could hear the threat in his tone so he had no choice but to concede. He took off his glasses while imagining what kind of big move his lover was going to show him. At this moment, his over 200 IQ brain was full of erotic garbage that needed to be censored.
When Qi Yu saw him squinting slightly, the expression on his face, the gentle and harmless one that he liked so much, Qi Yu slowly began to open his clothes…
For a long while, Fu Yansheng had his eyes wide open, staring at the phone screen from a distance, eyes filled with rising burning desire. Taking advantage of Qi Yu’s unpreparedness, he quickly put on his glasses and approached the screen.
Qi Yu was startled and immediately reached out and flipped the phone to fall screen first onto the desk. The screen went black.
Fu Yansheng: “…”
Qi Yu: “…”
“You…!” Fu Yansheng’s strained and bitter voice came from the phone, “Little Fish, how come I never knew you could be so bad?”
Qi Yu snorted out a laugh. So what if he’s a genius? In the face of desire, aren’t we all just ordinary people?
He pulled up his bathrobe and put the phone up again. He looked at the person on the screen with a half-smile. “Teacher Fu, two years ago, you wouldn’t have a video call with me saying that you were afraid I would record you doing your part-time job. So now, you’re no longer afraid but I am. It may be an exaggeration but if you record me like this, as the next chairman of Si Yuan Group, how would I be able to face people when I go out?”
Fu Yansheng was momentarily stunned. All these ‘loosen the reins only to grasp them better’ tricks were ones he’d played in the beginning of their acquaintanceship. Now that Qi Yu was playing them on his, he could only feel deeply aggrieved.
“Baby,” the man begged, holding the phone, “Don’t be like this…”
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【Interlude】
Derivative: Xuedi, come out on the weekend! Let’s have a few drinks and reminisce!
Complex Number: No, I’m busy.
Derivative: You’re new here and you haven’t even infiltrated the target’s inner circle yet. What’s got you so busy?
Complex Number: I want to help my wife write his thesis.
Derivative:……? ? ?
Complex Numberl: And in order to help him write it, I even had to work hard to talk him round to it. Sigh.
Derivative:? ? ? Our younger brother who was so famously known as the god of learning back then, is actually anxious to write papers for someone else? Who would have f*cking thought!
and daaaamn 6 majors?! ik it’s fictional but 😭 me did 1 chem edu major feels like I did physic bio math and psychology at one time it EXHAUSTED my brain 😭😭 but looking at it blindly (lol), math econ FM IT probably have same math core, but wtf psychology polsci looks like the other spectrum. its indeed not that far and still connected to each other (polsci need to understand econ+psychology & probably FM), but Fu Yansheng you are madman 😨 thank you Qi Yu for slapping that smugness out with porn lol 🤣🤣
I love them so much ❤️
thanks for the chapter!
Emmm what
Academic misconduct is very serious
Why take the risk. Why the rush.
And isn’t it still going to waste FYS’s time? It’s fiction so oh well. And maybe that’s normal in schools with business tyrants like Qi Yu. Idk
Anyways their flirting was cute ❤️
The student has surpassed the teacher 😍😍😍
cough cough xiao Fu ah xiao Fu, you know contact lenses, right?