Chapter 20
Chapter 20: Empress Unfulfilled but Debts Already Formed
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During the afternoon break.
“What? Borrow money?”
“Lower your voice, lower your voice!” Fu Chengque was greatly embarrassed, lowering her voice, “Why are you speaking so loudly? Do I have no face?”
“Why do you need to borrow money?”
“I have something to deal with.”
“If you don’t say, you won’t lend.”
“Oh… just lend me a little~”
“…”
“Wen Yu, you’re the best, you must be the best!”
“…”
“Xiao Yu gege?”
“How much?”
Fu Chengque happily held up two fingers.
“Two thousand isn’t enough.”
“Two hundred, two hundred!”
“Come to my house tonight.”
“Okay!”
At this moment, Fang Ling returned to her seat and happened to overhear the last two sentences of their conversation.
Quite speechless.
“What are you two loudly plotting… Be careful, okay? What’s this about two hundred bucks and coming to my house tonight? If others hear, they might misunderstand.”
The members of their small circle now knew that Wen Yu and Fu Chengque were neighbors, to the point where they could mistakenly enter each other’s homes.
But many people in the class still didn’t know.
Fu Chengque didn’t really care.
“Let them talk.”
Then she started to study, lately she had become a bit obsessed with studying, even her dreams of being an “actor” were gradually fading away.
Xiao Gua and Lu Min also returned to their seats. Perhaps influenced by Fu Chengque, who was one of the weakest students, the study group began discussing academic issues for the first time.
Fu Chengque asked, “Can faster-than-light travel through time?”
Wen Yu thought, “If future Fu Chengque comes back in ten seconds to eat the cake Xiao Gua is holding now, does she still need to come back in ten seconds to eat the cake in her hand?”
“…”
The group fell silent, then collectively thought: what a dumb question.
Fu Chengque asked again, “Does light have mass?”
Lu Min couldn’t help but turn around, “Chengque, these kinds of questions aren’t on the exam.”
Fang Ling agreed.
“I just wanted to ask, hey, Wen Yu, you’re the smartest here, what do you think?”
“It should have.” Wen Yu closed the book, “Remember how every morning you couldn’t get out of bed because of the sunlight? Have you forgotten?”
Fu Chengque clapped, “Right, haha, no wonder I couldn’t get out of bed. Great, you have the potential to become the future strategist of this Empress, work hard!”
She patted Wen Yu’s shoulder.
This scene was then witnessed by Chen Xiongguo as he entered the room.
His pupils contracted, his eyes widened.
His gaze quickly swept over Fu Chengque and Wen Yu, then spread to the whole class, but the corner of his eye kept staring at Wen Yu.
Kid, let me catch you!
As expected, not beyond my expectations, not studying hard, playing tricks!
He stood behind the podium, clearing his throat heavily, and the classroom fell silent.
“It’s not just me saying this, what time is it, and you’re still so careless, there’s only so much study time, why not take it seriously?
I warn some students, don’t think that if you make progress, you can relax. If your grades slip later, what you have now, I will take away, I will make sure you focus on the university entrance exam!
Did you all hear that clearly?”
“We… heard it clearly!”
Wen Yu remained calm and composed, not a bit flustered.
That appearance gave Chen Xiongguo a headache. He had said harsh words, but the person in charge didn’t seem to be listening.
The situation reported by other teachers to him was that Wen Yu was very serious, as if he had suddenly become enlightened recently. He could understand many things as soon as they were taught, and everything made sense to him.
He also took the initiative to ask about things he didn’t understand, not only quickly catching up on the lessons he had missed before but also gradually widening the gap with other students.
He had become a favorite of all the teachers.
Maintaining this momentum, being in the top five before the midterm exam is not a problem.
Chen Xiongguo felt a mix of love and anger.
No, no… he must find an opportunity, an excuse to teach Wen Yu a lesson, to give him a wake-up call, he absolutely couldn’t overstep the line.
On the other hand, Fu Chengque was in a panic.
She felt that just now Chen Xiongguo was warning her, he must have misunderstood her intimate actions with Wen Yu.
She panicked and quickly refocused her mind, concentrating on studying.
That evening, Fu Chengque borrowed two hundred yuan from Wen Yu.
She had the money now, but Fu Chengque still felt troubled. Before achieving success in her career, she already had debts of gratitude.
What if in the future Wen Yu fell on hard times and saw her become Empress, kneeling before her to establish a relationship, saying “Empress Chengque, I once lent you 200 yuan, do you remember me,” as the saying goes, repaying a drop of kindness with a gushing spring, would she have to reward the ants doubly to show her deep affection and loyalty?
Hmph, Wen Yu made a big profit, just two hundred, bought a worry and repayment for the highest Empress.
If only there was some way to make a few bucks, she couldn’t keep borrowing…
She had the golden finger, possessed superpowers, in novels, she should have been rich enough to rival a country by now.
But in reality, she still had to bow and scrape to borrow money like a lackey.
Damn it, being an Empress is really tough.
***
Wen Yu doesn’t care about the two hundred; unlike Fu Chengque, who basically spends all her New Year’s money, he has nowhere to spend it and saves it all.
Now he has a small treasury of several thousand, which is also a little confidence for him to dare to ask Lou Xuanli for help.
Recently, Fu Chengque has been avoiding him in the mornings, no longer acting like a little tail.
Wen Yu decided to take the initiative. He got ready half an hour earlier in the morning, squatted directly by his own door, and waited for Fu Chengque to come out.
Ten minutes later, the door of the Fu family clicked open.
Fu Chengque tied her hair into two braids, wore her autumn school uniform with an inner shirt, and had a natural and graceful look on her face.
Seeing Wen Yu squatting, she was startled.
“Wow, Wen Yu, what are you doing squatting here? You scared me.”
“Oh, Fu Chengque, what a coincidence, I’m also going to school. Shall we go together? We’re heading in the same direction, right?”
Wen Yu stood up and joked.
“You were waiting for me?”
“Yes, I was waiting for you.”
The overly straightforward answer left Fu Chengque unsure how to respond, so she resumed her role as a little tail.
But this time, the distance between the two of them was a bit closer.
On the way, what they didn’t notice was that not far behind them, a skinny boy and a chubby boy were staring at them with incredulous expressions.
The skinny boy patted his own face and asked the chubby boy, “Hey, Fatso, that girl is Fu Chengque, right? Am I seeing things?”
The chubby boy gasped, “It must be her. Fu Chengque is so pretty, I can’t be mistaken.”
“She used to live around here?”
“Um… not sure. Who’s the guy next to her?”
The skinny boy thought for a moment. “That’s Wen Yu from our class. His grades have improved rapidly, and the teacher has been praising him a lot lately.”
The chubby boy chuckled, “Haha, so it’s Wen Yu who stole your seatmate? Shouldn’t we go up and embarrass him, say something like ‘the toad wants to eat swan meat’…”
The skinny boy looked at the chubby boy in horror.
“What’s wrong with you, man? Seriously… I’ve been sitting next to Fu Chengque for two years; I wouldn’t dare to think of anything like that.” He pointed to his own face. “I know what my looks are like, okay? Wen Yu is more handsome than me, better grades than me, what can I compare with…”
“Don’t be like this, bro, you have your strengths…”
“What strengths? Hey! Fu Chengque’s looks, they’re top-notch in the whole school, right? Who wouldn’t want to have something with a beauty like her…”
“So, what’s going on between Wen Yu and Fu Chengque?”
“Oh, big news! It’s only been a few days, and they’re already going to school together in the morning and coming back together in the afternoon.”
“Let’s go, ask around at school. Maybe others have seen it too.”
“Yeah, I’m not sad, I just want to confirm…”
“I know, I know, let me wipe away the tear at the corner of your eye.”
***
By noon, a dubious rumor spread rapidly in the class:
Fu Chengque and her new deskmate Wen Yu go to school together in the morning and come back together, behaving unusually intimate!
And this gossip quickly reached the class teacher, Chen Xiongguo—
A perfect excuse to intervene, here it comes.
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