Chapter 328 - Chapter 328: Refusing to Go Home
Chapter 328: Refusing to Go Home
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
He had been teaching for decades and had taken care of many students. Su Xue was the most outstanding of all the students he had taught. Yet, here was someone insinuating that Su Xue had poor grades – so poor that her sister had to dumb down her answers to be on par.
That this had been a regular occurrence for the past three years was just the icing on the cake.
Fifth Sister’s homeroom teacher felt like a bolt from the blue had struck him, rendering him gobsmacked.
Pin-drop silence descended on the staffroom. It posed quite the contrast to the noisy chirping of cicadas outside. The dozen or so teachers who were busy and the teachers who were preparing to invigilate the examination hall all quietened down.
Many of them were covered in sweat, and their shirts were soaked.
“Then, then…Then, when Fifth Sister asked to take the college entrance examinations… Does that mean she was the one with good results?” “I always thought that Su Xue was helping Fifth Sister improve!”
Someone muttered softly.
“Alright, the exams are starting. Hurry up and get to your assigned venues to distribute the papers and invigilate the exams!” The chief invigilator drove everyone away except the form teacher of Class One. The chief invigilator wanted to have a word with him.
Meanwhile, at Changhe Machinery Factory…
Xu Xiaoxiao stepped on the brakes, and the car screeched to a halt, barely 20 centimeters away from the factory gates. Caught off guard, Liu Chun almost crashed into the windshield. “Xu Xiaoxiao, are you courting death?!” Liu Chun cursed angrily.
“Get out. I didn’t ask you to sit in my car,” Xu Xiaoixiao hissed through gritted teeth. “I’ve already done you a favor by dropping you off.”
Liu Chun got out of the car and slammed the door shut. “You two-faced scoundrel! Are you turning your back on me already? You weren’t singing the same tune when you asked me to accompany you to Clear Water County. Don’t forget you were the one who dragged me along!”
Xu Xiaoxiao was too much!
“Haha!” Xu Xiaoxiao sneered, plastering on a fake smile. “The past is the past.”
“Humph! If I had known you would treat me like that, I wouldn’t have stopped you from disposing of your life as you chose to do.” The door shuddered from the force with which Liu Chun swung it shut. “Hengyang, are you getting out too?” Liu Chun asked, tapping against the window.
Xu Xiaoxiao panicked, putting the pedal to the metal. No matter what, he had to bring Zhou Hengyang to their grandfather.
He could not let him escape.
“Yes,” Zhou Hengyang answered, getting out of the car before Xu Xiaoxiao had time to react. Previously, he had been sitting in the back seat with eyes closed, resting.
“Zhou Hengyang!” Xu Xiaoxiao went berserk. He slammed on the brakes and climbed out of the car, swinging the door shut with a loud ‘bang!’. “Get this straight. I didn’t come all this way just to be your driver.”
“Oh!”
“Oh? Is ‘oh?’ you have all to say for yourself? I don’t care what you think. You’re coming home with me today!” Xu Xiaoxiao swiped at Zhou Hengyang, planning to drag him back to the car if it was the last thing he did. Unfortunately, Zhou Hengyang reacted faster than Xu Xiaoxiao.
“You can go home.” Zhou Hengyang adjusted his collar, smoothing out the creases crinkling his shirt and sleeves. “I don’t have time to go back with you.” “You haven’t been home for two years.” This scoundrel!
“Oh.” Zhou Hengyang did not seem to care. His simple ‘oh.’ nearly caused Xu Xiaoxiao to pop a blood vessel.
Liu Chun watched, cringing at Xu Xiaoxiao’s failure to persuade Zhou Hengyang to return home with him. First, he had quarreled with Xu Xiaoxiao; now, Xu Xiaoxiao was launching himself at Zhou Hengyang in a fury. Revenge was sweet! Liu Chun openly gloated, reveling in schadenfreude. Even the little lion of the Xu family was no match for the black-bellied Hengyang!
Completely unphased by Xu Xiaoxiao’s continued attempts to manhandle him back into the car, Zhou Hengyang carried his luggage and headed toward the factory.
“Young man, go back. You have much to learn.” Liu Chun followed behind and winked at Xu Xiaoxiao. “Hengyang isn’t willing to go back. There’s nothing you can do.”
“Zhou Hengyang, are you cutting ties with the Zhou family?” This time, Xu Xiaoxiao did not chase after him. He no longer came across as frivolous or irritable. In its place was an uncharacteristic seriousness..