After deciding to give up, I became popular

During the explanation, the two people were getting closer and closer. Originally, they hadn't paid much attention because they were so focused, but when the explanation process relaxed a little, they realized that their faces were only a fist apart.

Xia Chuanzou was the first to notice. He had wanted to let the other party consolidate their knowledge and try their hand at it, so he could finally breathe a sigh of relief. But when he accidentally turned his gaze, he realized how close they were. He could clearly see Jia Tengming's bright almond eyes, delicate nose, and cherry-like delicate lips, and even smell a faint milky fragrance... She must have drunk milk this morning.

Jia Teng seemed to notice his gaze and turned to look at him silently.

There seemed to be a hint of curiosity in her eyes.

"Cough... it's nothing, you continue..." Xia Chuanzou leaned back subconsciously, with a guilty look on his face as if he had been caught doing something bad, "I'll go to the bathroom first..."

Jia Tenghui nodded, and then continued to fight with mathematics.

Xia Chuanzou stood up, just about to take a step when he suddenly remembered something, so he asked Yinglili, who had been studying hard, in a voice that was neither loud nor soft: "Yinglili, I want to go to the bathroom."

"Just go, why are you telling me?" The little blonde replied without raising her head, she was busy fighting with the dog-shit grammar in her hand.

"..." Xia Chuanzou took a deep breath, feeling as if black lines appeared on his forehead, "I wanted to say--where is the bathroom?"

Of course, his memory wasn't that bad, but he was responding to Yinglili's idea of not revealing that he had been to her house many times, but now she herself is like this?

Can you be more reliable, Yinglili!

"Ah?" The little blonde raised her head, with a blank look on her face, thinking, how could you forget this? It hasn't been that long since the last time...

Then she saw Jia Tengsang who was sitting opposite her working hard on solving problems, so her face changed and she quickly remedied: "Oh, right, right, this is your first time at my house, ahaha..."

Xia Chuanzou: "..."

She seemed to feel that she couldn't bear it anymore, with an awkward expression on her face, but fortunately, Jia Teng on the opposite side didn't react at all and didn't even look up to pay attention to them, which made her breathe a sigh of relief.

"The second room on the right in the corridor is."

"Okay, thank you." Xia Chuanzou replied expressionlessly, he really had tried his best to carry it, he couldn't be blamed if there were any more problems.

The little blonde also knew that she was in the wrong, and immediately buried her head and worked hard again.

"..."

After a while, Xia Chuanzou came back, with two cups of freshly brewed tea in his hand.

"Let's take a break first..." Xia Chuanzou reminded, then placed the teacups in front of the two of them, "I just passed by the living room and brewed two cups of tea, is that okay?"

His last sentence was naturally asking Yinglili, but this little blonde was completely uncooperative, and just nodded, looking like a useless person who could finally rest for a while.

"Mmm, mmm, thank you for your hard work, Zou." Yinglili nodded repeatedly, she really wanted to rest.

Learning English is not something that ordinary people can persevere in!

Although Yinglili is very useless, she is also a genuine young lady, so she naturally wouldn't make the mistake of eagerly drinking the tea as soon as she got the cup. She just held the teacup with both hands and sipped it lightly, like a dragonfly skimming the water.

"Hoo... I'm alive..." She made a strange sound like this.

"Where did you come from, a social animal who started drinking beer after getting off work?" Xia Chuanzou couldn't help but find it funny, how long has it been since she started learning, is it really that bad?

"What do you mean 'how long has it been'! I have been studying non-stop from the beginning until now!" Yinglili retorted, very confidently.

"Something bad will happen if you really don't blink, right?" Xia Chuanzou complained, he waved his hand, then took Yinglili's exercise book and prepared to check her learning progress.

For Yinglili, who is almost inferior to a junior high school student, the task he gave her was particularly simple. He just asked her to go through all the vocabulary that a junior high school student should master first, write down any words she didn't know, and then gather them into a module. After that, she would memorize them through copying and dictation. In addition, she was also required to learn various unit vocabulary and grammar parts that she had learned this semester. As for more, she would put it aside for a while, after all, learning is not something that can be accomplished overnight. It requires long-term perseverance and effort.

"Although I have already prepared myself mentally, it is really not easy to see that you can't even distinguish the meaning of such simple phrases." Xia Chuanzou complained, pointing to the words in the exercise book, and then used a pencil to draw a small range.

"That's all, today, let's figure out all the things on this side first."

Yinglili raised her body slightly, clinging to the coffee table and trying to look at the exercise book.

She is nearsighted, and of course she wears glasses, especially when drawing, but she usually wears contact lenses when she is outside. Today, she forgot in front of Jia Teng, and felt that the black frame was not good-looking, so she simply didn't wear it, and fell into a state of not being able to see things clearly.

Now she finally managed to see the learning range planned by Xia Chuanzou by squinting her eyes, and the next moment she wailed:

"Is the amount so much? It won't work, right? I can't take it!"

"Where is this? I even think it's a bit less." Xia Chuanzou shook his head, and then explained, "I have already divided the range for you according to the minimum number of word groups, but because today is the weekend, it will be a little more. Starting from Monday, the amount will be reduced, so you don't have to worry too much about not being able to complete it."

In addition, in order to prevent the ghostly thing of learning new things and forgetting old ones, he also arranged a review and consolidation part in Yinglili's subsequent learning tasks, which is the most important thing.

Yinglili's face changed suddenly, and her mood was even worse: "You mean this kind of intensity... is not only today?"

"Isn't this obvious?" Xia Chuanzou nodded, looking like it was a matter of course, "Of course it's not just today, there will be tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, the day after tomorrow... until the midterm test, there will be such tasks every day."

"And don't think about being lazy and escaping, I will check your condition regularly every day, if I find out that you are being lazy..." Xia Chuanzou narrowed his eyes, nodded slightly, and gave the little blonde a meaningful look, "You understand, right?"

Yinglili: "..."

She doesn't understand anything! But her intuition tells her that it will definitely not be a good punishment, maybe it will be more shameful than today's sticker method!

So Yinglili replied weakly: "I, I understand..."

Originally, she was thinking of completing the learning task and using the excuse of needing a reward to ask Zou to accompany her out to play, but now it seems that she has to do her best just to complete the learning task, so where can she have the time to go around? In this way, she can only delay the reward time until after the midterm test...

Yinglili's head drooped down, took the exercise book and started to work hard again.

Xia Chuanzou saw that she was quite serious, so he didn't keep staring at her, but started to think about Jia Teng's learning task arrangement.

Originally, he didn't have this idea, and he didn't do any investigation in advance, but today he found that the other party's condition was not very good either. If this "not very understanding" situation is not improved, Jia Teng's math scores may also plummet. He naturally has to help her.

And just as he began to seriously think about how to improve her grades, Jia Teng, who had been silently doing problems, suddenly stretched out a finger and gently poked it on the back of his hand.

"Xia Chuanjun, I'm done."

The afternoon sun shone in from the window, illuminating Jia Teng's hand. Her fingers were slender and slender, her skin was as white as snow, like a freshly peeled egg, and he could even see the fine light blue blood vessels on the back of her hand. The texture was quite beautiful and natural. The so-called fingers like cut scallions probably describe this?

It's a level of beauty that can be pulled to be a hand model, Xia Chuanzou thought.

After being in a daze for a while, he withdrew his gaze and focused his attention on the practice book she pushed over. After checking it a little, he found a very gratifying situation--

Most of the exercises were done correctly, and even things that she couldn't understand at all before, although the final answer was wrong, the problem-solving ideas were completely correct, as long as she was more careful in the calculation process.

So Xia Chuanzou nodded in satisfaction and praised: "You did a great job."

"..." Jia Tenghui didn't speak, but stretched out her finger again and gently drew circles at the end of her hair.

"I didn't do anything." She shook her head, seeming to think it was a bit too much.

But Xia Chuanzou didn't think so.

Just like what was said in that "Girl Adjustment Manual", girls are very emotional creatures, and of course, like the characters in the two-dimensional beautiful girl mobile game, they have a hidden setting of "mood value". If they are always in the process of fighting, then the mood will inevitably decrease. He also agrees with this point, so he took the initiative to brew tea and bring some snacks over, which can be regarded as providing them with replenishment time.

But just "food stimulation" is not enough. You must also give more rewards after the girls' battle, such as other "verbal praise, head-touching encouragement, chin scratching..." and so on, so as to continue to improve and maintain the mood value.

But well... head-touching is fine, after all, there are many sensitive nerves in the scalp, and some people like the feeling of others stroking there, but what is scratching the chin? Does anyone really like this kind of treatment like a puppy?

So Xia Chuanzou was a little hesitant. If it was Yinglili, he should be able to decisively reach out and give her a "head-touching kill", but facing Jia Teng, who always has a calm expression, this kind of "frivolous" move will embarrass him to death if he doesn't get positive feedback.

"What's wrong, Xia Chuanjun?" Jia Teng seemed to notice his embarrassment and took the initiative to ask.

"It's nothing..." Xia Chuanzou shook his head, just about to give up, but after looking at Jia Teng's flickering and sincere eyes, he also felt.

Do it, Jia Teng has really worked hard.

So he pretended to be calm and stretched out his hand to stroke her gently: "Yoshi Yoshi, you did a good job."

Then Jia Teng seemed to be stunned, staring at him without blinking.

"..." Xia Chuanzou's face was stiff.

Goo... it's still so awkward! I want to die!

234. "Yinglili is learning (below)"

Sometimes people need some response, whether positive or negative, as long as they respond, it means that the topic can continue. The most taboo thing is to get a silent feedback after launching an action--

It will give people a feeling of being ridiculed.

"I'm sorry! I was too abrupt!" Xia Chuanzou immediately knelt on the ground and bowed deeply, "I was temporarily bewitched! I'm really very sorry!"

"..."

Xia Chuanzou didn't dare to raise his head. After all, he thought Jia Teng too simply, thinking that she would make a disgusted or complaining move like Yinglili, and then he would pretend to be stupid and achieve the purpose of verbal reward and improve the friendship between him and Jia Teng. As a result, he didn't expect that she didn't intend to say anything at all, but just stared at him with a "looking at a fool" expression.

Then he really looks like a fool.

"Normally speaking, what Xia Chuanjun did was indeed a bit too much..." Jia Teng said, her tone still as calm as ever.

"..."

But Xia Chuanzou understood that Jia Teng was definitely not as calm as she seemed on the surface, but he couldn't investigate any more at the moment, because he was bowing his head and prostrate on the ground, maintaining a guilty posture, unable to see her expression.

"It's okay for me... for others... next time, at least say hello to the person involved first, okay?"

Jia Teng suddenly replied with a sentence that he couldn't understand.

It's okay for Jia Teng?... Does that mean he has been forgiven? Although there is still the saying of "next time" that makes him feel very strange, he can definitely get this subtext, so he was immediately overjoyed, just about to raise his head when he heard--

"But I'm still a little curious, why did Xia Chuanjun suddenly do such a rude thing, and the movements look very skilled..."

"No, there is not a millimeter of skill! It's purely a temporary bewitchment... really!" He buried his head again, feeling the inexplicable pressure from the saint student, not daring to breathe, "At most... at most it's just... I've experimented on Yinglili..."

In the past, in order to pursue her, he basically tried all kinds of skills that would leave a deep impression on her heart. Of course, he wasn't a fool either. He definitely wouldn't start implementing such obviously intimate behaviors at the beginning. He also waited until he was sure that the relationship between the two had improved before implementing it. The key is that Yinglili's reaction was indeed very easy to understand. On the surface, she looked very disgusted, but that happy little expression couldn't escape his gaze, so he just thought that Jia Teng could accept it too.

"..." Jia Teng was silent, seemingly not knowing how to respond to him, but Yinglili on the side interjected as if she felt something.

"What? Did I just hear my name?"

"No, keep doing your problems. It's nothing, don't get distracted," Natsukawa Kanade replied at lightning speed.

Eririn then said "Oh" and buried herself back in her work. She was deeply engrossed in the vortex of studying, and she had just found the feeling and was about to grasp the trick! She absolutely couldn't afford to be distracted again this time.

For the anticipated reward time, Eririn, go go go!

"..."

"..."

Perhaps because this little interlude had broken the atmosphere, Katou's voice didn't sound as oppressive as before. It even seemed to carry a hint of helpless affection?

"Really... By the way, how long does Natsukawa-kun intend to stay in this position? Shouldn't we still have studying to do."

Because he had disturbed Eririn earlier, the two lowered their voices spontaneously, speaking in tones that only the other could hear.

"Yes, you're right. I'll get up now," Natsukawa Kanade nodded hastily. After he raised his head, he only dared to look at Katou out of the corner of his eye. Seeing that she had already begun to focus on studying, he couldn't help but feel a little strange.

Was it really over that easily?

Although this was still considered relatively tortuous compared to a typical development, he had experienced more dramatic developments after all, so he didn't think much of it. He even thought that this "forgiveness" seemed a little too casual.

"Aren't you angry anymore?" Natsukawa Kanade asked weakly. He still felt that it was best to vent anger on the spot. Keeping it bottled up, even if it wasn't overnight, would probably make him uncomfortable after a while. "Although I probably shouldn't be the one to bring it up... but if there's anything I can do to make up for it, please be sure to tell me."

"Anything is fine, as long as I can do it," Natsukawa Kanade added.

Then Katou-san looked at him with a strange gaze, but the most important thing was—

She really seemed to be angry.

He originally wouldn't have been able to tell, because Katou always had a calm demeanor no matter what she faced, but now his intuition told him that Katou wasn't actually angry just now, but she suddenly became a little angry when he said that he would compensate her no matter what... So why was that? He really couldn't understand it.

"I'm not angry..."

"..."

Here it comes! That common tsundere behavior of girls! Saying she's not angry actually means she's super angry! And it's the kind that if you don't coax her in time, she'll remember it and won't be able to sleep at night!

"Actually, until Natsukawa-kun said he wanted to compensate me, I didn't feel like being angry at all," Katou-san's voice was still calm, matching her expression perfectly.

"..." Natsukawa Kanade didn't reply, because he could feel that too.

"I didn't even care much about being considered a petty girl..."

"No! Absolutely not!" Natsukawa Kanade quickly retorted, defending himself, "I never even thought of that! On the contrary, I've always thought that Katou is a very gentle and tolerant person, the kind of person who... could be my 'mom'!"

He misspoke in the heat of the moment, blurting out what was on his mind.

As a result, Katou looked at him with an even stranger gaze, making him feel like he wanted to die.

"A mom role, huh..." she murmured.

"No, no, no, it's just a figure of speech! It's a common expression used in ACG works, it's just to describe you as very gentle, tolerant, understanding, and able to take care of others, that's all it means... definitely not describing you as old or anything!" Natsukawa Kanade explained hastily.

"I didn't think of it that way..." Katou seemed a little helpless, even starting to comfort him in reverse, "In any case, when I was in the club, I came into contact with a lot of ACG works, so I understand these things."