Yu Rui separated from Xie Li downstairs in the library and went to the house of a high school student he was tutoring.
Before he had even left the school, he was called from behind, “Class President!”
“Brother Yu!”
Yu Rui turned around and saw they were some classmates from Administrative Class. Yu Rui smiled softly and slightly lowered the corners of his eyes, “You also came to study on your own?”
“Yes.”
The two who approached exchanged glances as if they want to say something but couldn´t.
Yu Rui asked, “What’s wrong?”
“… Brother Yu, are you familiar with Xie Li?” After a few seconds of embarrassment, one of them finally couldn’t help but ask.
“Xie Li?” Yu Rui said with a gentle smile, “I don’t know him well, but now I’m in the same class as him, what’s wrong?”
“We saw you in the afternoon. We wanted to greet you, but when we came we saw Xie Li sitting next to you…” The young man who spoke scratched his head in embarrassment, “We didn’t dare to greet you and went to a corner.”
Yu Rui smiled, “Is Xie Li that scary?”
“He’s not easy to get close to, and he doesn’t even bother with teachers, let alone students.”
“Yes, Brother Yu, you’re the first. This is the first time we’ve seen or heard that someone is close to Xie Li.”
“Yeah, if word gets out it will probably scare a lot of people away.”
“Yeah, hahaha…”
Yu Rui’s eyes twitched slightly.
He has always been bothered by trouble, and Xie Li …. didn’t seem like one to him. Amid all this gossip, he thought it was best to clarify the relationship between the two of them.
And he thought Xie Li didn´t would be better like trouble either.
Yu Rui walked beside them towards the exit of the high school, smiling as he walked, “We just met in the library and happened to sit together which would make people think I’m friends with Xie Li. If the word spreads, we’ll be publicly embarrassed later. It’s not worth it.”
“Haha, makes sense.”
“The Class President can rest assured, we’re just joking around and really won’t say anything.”
“That’s right, everyone knows Xie Li’s temperament. No one would believe us even if we say it out loud.”
“But isn’t it weird for Xie Li to come to school to study?”
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“The school is reluctant. The teachers will definitely save this potential high-level science student ah.”
“Besides, I don’t know how he got to the top of his grade ….” The voice stopped abruptly and looked at Yu Rui embarrassedly, and said nothing more
“It’s okay.” Yu Rui smiled calmly and solemnly, making the man’s embarrassment fade away quickly, “Xie Li’s grades are impressive, he is my goal, there is no harm in admitting it…”
“As expected of the Class President, he has a high level of conscientiousness.”
“Speaking of which, no one in the grade except Xie Li can compete with Brother Yu. If Xie Li wasn’t there, it would be too lonely and too boring hahaha…”
The three of them walked out of the school. As the other two headed to a different location from Yu Rui, they said their goodbyes and split.
As the two walked away, one of the joking voices still came back, “Hey, sleeping in class and taking first place in the course, when can I have Xie Li’s brain? No fair, no fair ……”
“….”
Yu Rui furrowed his eyebrows.
After standing for a while under the glare of the setting sun, he lowered his eyes and chuckled.
Being blessed attracts too much jealousy … Xie Li.
Yu Rui works part-time in a small family of four. The father of the family is an executive of a small to medium-sized company, and the mother opened a coffee shop by herself. In the family, there are two cute twin daughters.
Yu Rui has been homeschooling them for over half a year. He is responsible for the sisters’ math and physics. Because he is teaching the two girls at the same time, the two parties negotiated a standard salary of 1.5 at the beginning.
This is a suitable part-time job for Yu Rui who does not have enough time. However, when he arrived at his employer’s house today, the first thing Yu Rui saw when he walked in the door was the neatly stacked boxes in the living room.
Seeing that it was Yu Rui, the hostess quickly waved, “Xiao Rui, come in.”
Yu Rui nodded: “Auntie, your house…”
“Sorry, Yu Rui, I didn’t have time to tell you earlier. Due to my husband’s job transfer, we will have to move to another province.”
Yu Rui smiled slightly, “It should be uncle’s promotion, right? Congratulations.”
The hostess apologized, “In that case, the tutoring must be…”
“I understand, it’s nothing. So today is the last class, right? I have some things, to sum up for them, I’ll go to the study first.”
“Huh? Well … Thank you for your hard work, Xiao Rui.”
“It’s nothing Auntie, it is as it should be.”
Yu Rui is handsome, mild-tempered, doesn’t get angry, and is extremely patient when talking about studies, so the twin sisters couldn’t be more fond of Yu Rui.
When they found out that they were moving away, they were very sad to be separated from him. Therefore, the focus in the last class tonight was not high, and Yu Rui tried to cheer them up most of the time.
When he left the study, he could still hear the two girls laughing behind the closed door.
Yu Rui walked helplessly to the living room.
The host was on a phone call on the balcony, and the hostess was sitting on the sofa in the living room. When Yu Rui came out, the hostess stood up.
“Is the class over?”
“Yes,” Yu Rui said a little embarrassedly, “But they didn’t pay too much attention, so I only had time to teach them the points of the first half of the semester. Oh, yeah.”
Yu Rui took out a folder from the backpack beside him, then took out two papers and handed them to the hostess, “This is for them. This contains their weak points of each subject separately. If you have to hire a tutor in the new city, you can show it to them, so that both sides can get used to each other more easily. ”
The hostess froze for two seconds before receiving it.
She looked down and found that the handwriting was neat and different colored pens meticulously marked the different subjects of the twins.
After looking for a few seconds, the hostess looked at it emotionally, “I don’t know what to say, Yu Rui. You are the most responsible child I’ve ever seen.”
Yu Rui smiled indifferently, “This is my duty as a tutor, Auntie. It’s an insult for other tutors if you say that.”
The hostess nodded, turned around, and took out an envelope from her bag by the sofa, “This is the fee to be paid for this semester. We will pay you two-thirds of the negotiated fee.”
Yu Rui was stunned, then took half a step back, “Auntie, this semester’s classes haven’t started at all, I definitely can’t accept the money.”
“We gave you such short notice, it’s too late even for you to make changes. You can treat it as severance or compensation before you find your next part-time job.”
“It doesn’t have to be that much…”
“Xiao Rui, you are no stranger to us. We have seen how much you have helped Yixuan and Yiru. Without you last term, their grades would not have been able to improve so quickly; more importantly, we can see how much you care and worry about them. Compared to that, this money is nothing.”
Yu Rui also wanted to decline.
The hostess whispered, “Don’t make the uncle and auntie feel guilty, okay?”
At this point, it is inappropriate for Yu Rui not to respond.
He can only take the envelope and thank her.
The hostess hesitated and took out another business card from her bag, “Even if uncle and aunt move far away, we can still help with anything in the future. If you have any needs, don’t hesitate to contact us.”
“This ….”
“Yixuan and Yiru don’t want to lose contact with their little teacher. So let´s stay in contact. If you happen to visit the city, do contact us. You can meet them and along the way convince them to work harder.”
Yu Rui smiled upon hearing this, “It’s okay.”
The hostess handed the business card to Yu Rui, then leaned forward a little and lowered her voice in a joking tone, “We all like you. If it wasn’t for fear of the sisters fighting over this matter, I might even want you to be our son-in-law in the future.”
“….”
Under the light of the room, the teenager, who always had superior composure to his peers, froze, and his white face quickly flushed with a thin layer of red.
The hostess could not help but smile as she finally saw the youthful age-appropriate reaction of the teenager who had taken on responsibilities too soon.
After that, Yu Rui chatted with the family of four for a while before getting up and leaving.
During the weekends, Yu Li had been placed by Yu Rui in a tutoring class in the city. Today, since he had finished his tutoring early, he had an hour free before picking her up.
Yu Rui paused as he left the community and looked at the envelope in his hand.
Thanks to his good grades and friendly nature, he has earned a good reputation as a tutor and has gradually been able to save money throughout the year to cover his family’s living expenses and school fees.
The account where the money was saved, was named `future account´ jokingly by him and Yu Li. It was a Grade 1 bank card that Yu Rui opened when he turned 16 that year, and the money on the card was earmarked to pay for his and Little Pear’s school fees in the future.
Two-thirds of the tutoring fee is no small sum, and the money in the envelope is considerable. If he can find a new job as a part-time tutor, the money could be deposited into the “future account.”
But now…
Yu Rui put the envelope with the money back in his backpack and pulled out a card from the outside pocket.
It was scrawled with a series of addresses and the surname “Zhan”.
The card was handed to him by the punks who blocked the door to collect the debt earlier. This ´Zhan´ on the card is, naturally, his drunken father’s creditor.
Yu Rui lowered his eyes expressionlessly and scanned the address on the card.
The young man’s eyebrows were slightly furrowed under the street light, his face tense with a hard jaw and his lips pursed in a sharp curve. Unlike the soft, reassuring look of the day, there was a coldness in the boy’s eyes that was like ice and snow.
But it was deeper, wearier.
After looking at the address for a few seconds, Yu Rui put the card back in his pants pocket.
He slung his backpack over his shoulder and turned to leave.
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I feel so sorry for Yu Rui😔
Tough choice: pay the father’s debt so the thugs stop coming, while knowing it’s going to happen again, or make sure it’s someplace safe from their father, and have the security of a buffer in case of emergency. No kid should have to make that choice. The tutoring family was really nice though.