Chapter 59

As Shen Yichen was signing documents, he suddenly sliced through the paper with his pen when he heard Niu Kaihuai's serious yet uncertain voice over the phone.

The ripping sound made the obedient project manager standing beside him jump in surprise.

Damn, now he had to reprint and sign the documents again.

But the project manager didn't dare say anything. He could only guess what had made Mr. Shen so angry, while praying that he wouldn't get burned.

His wife was waiting for him to come home for dinner. He wanted to get off work on time.

"What do you mean?"

The manager heard Shen Yichen reply in a tone full of confusion and disbelief, and even a hint of...fear?

"I see. I'll be right over." How strange. His tone in this sentence seemed so complicated compared to before. As expected of Mr. Shen - he could convey completely different emotions in just two short sentences.

The manager perked his ears up high, hoping to hear some juicy gossip about the seemingly mature yet young Mr. Shen. But then he heard an indifferent voice next to him say, "Reprint the documents and leave them on my desk."

"Yes, Mr. Sh..." Just as the manager responded, he looked up to find Shen Yichen had already disappeared without a trace.

He moved as fast as when the manager had heard his father-in-law needed surgery for hemorrhoids years ago.

Thinking of this, a flash of inspiration hit the project manager. He seemed to have grasped something.

Could it be that someone in Mr. Shen's family has hemorrhoids?

Indeed, neither tyrants nor their families can escape the fate of hemorrhoids.

"Sigh." The manager sighed as he went to reprint the damaged documents.

Seeing him sighing despondently, others thought he had been scolded by Mr. Shen and grew nervous.

Mr. Shen seems to be in a bad mood today. We'd better come to sign the documents tomorrow instead.

In fact, the manager was preoccupied with one thought - if even a tyrant's family can't avoid hemorrhoids, is there any hope left for him?

"Sigh..."

... When Shen Yue heard Niu Kaihuai ramble on over the phone, she picked up the keywords: "In short, it's best to take her home to rest first and get her examined before coming back, otherwise if something happens..."

Shen Yue didn't care about the rest. She just knew she was going to get to rest now. Her eyes lit up as she stared at Niu Kaihuai intently.

Niu Kaihuai glanced at Shen Yue doubtfully and continued explaining to Shen Yichen over the phone why he judged that Shen Yue should go home and rest with a full medical examination.

With her mind occupied by the thought of resting, Shen Yue listened to Niu Kaihuai's explanation and marveled at how reasonable these theories sounded.

That's right, that's right, promote me like this!

Finally, Niu Kaihuai hung up and said to Shen Yue, who seemed slightly more spirited than before, "Your brother will come to take you home to rest."

Shen Yue nodded obediently, suppressing the urge to smile.

Yes!

If her brother also thought she was sick, he probably wouldn't make her get up early anymore. This was a blessing in disguise.

Sorry Teacher Niu. I admit my voice was a bit loud earlier. You really are a helpful teacher.

Niu Kaihuai returned to the classroom and wrote two high-school math competition questions on the blackboard. "Thank you for your concern, everyone. I'll take the new student out first. Work on these two questions on the board in the meantime. Ask Mian Qian if you have any questions."

After speaking, he took Shen Yue's backpack and led the child towards the school gate.

Niu Kaihuai's intention was that since Shen Yue might be physically unwell, he would carry her bag for her so as not to tire the child out.

But when he took the bag, he immediately sensed something amiss.

This full, bulging bag felt so light when he picked it up. That wasn't scientific.

A strange look came over his face as he glanced at Shen Yue. "Shen Yue, may I look inside your bag?"

Shen Yue currently had a good impression of Niu Kaihuai. After all, he was the teacher who was about to lead her to rest. So she opened the bag without hesitation and took out an enormous pillow.

The pillow was very big. It gave a tremendous sense of bigness.

As if it was a giant pillow.

Niu Kaihuai: ...

Stay calm. She probably just brought a pillow along.

But weighing the now almost weightless bag, Niu Kaihuai couldn't fool himself.

This little rascal actually just brought a pillow in her bag to school?! Was she here to go to proper school?!

He was really effing convinced!

Niu Kaihuai took three deep breaths to calm himself before instructing Shen Yue in a controlled tone, "Shen Yue, next time bring textbooks in your school bag, not pillows."

Shen Yue nodded obediently.

Just as Niu Kaihuai thought Shen Yue was not entirely incorrigible and could still be taught, he heard her reply seriously, "Next time I'll put the pillow in a bag and carry it here." Niu Kaihuai: ...

You little scoundrel, your test results had better show something is actually wrong today.

Niu Kaihuai brought Shen Yue to the school gate. Not long after, Shen Yichen arrived.

In the interim, Shen Yue even taught Niu Kaihuai how to stuff such an enormous pillow into a schoolbag using minimal effort.

Niu Kaihuai said he had learned another useful skill today...As if!

He didn't need to learn how to stuff pillows in schoolbags. His pillow would stay where it belonged.

Luckily Shen Yichen came quickly. Otherwise he might not have finished teaching Shen Yue before bravely declining this job.

"Shen! Over here!" Niu Kaihuai carried Shen Yue and walked exceptionally fast. "Here's the kid. I'm going back to class now."

After speaking, Niu Kaihuai turned and strode away, looking as if he couldn't get away fast enough.

As if scared of being saddled with her.

Shen Yichen, who had been somewhat doubtful earlier, also panicked now.

Could Shen Yue really have some incurable illness? He had always thought her constant sleeping and inability to wake up was just laziness. He hadn't considered other possibilities.

This was his dereliction of duty.

Shen Yichen looked at Shen Yue. The child was only 12. If she really had some terminal illness...

"You must be tired. I'll take you home to rest."

Shen Yue immediately jumped into the car and sat down.

She wasn't even poked awake when she dozed off in the car.

And as soon as they got home, she was given permission to sleep. Shen Yue was so happy she could fly.

Although later she was woken up for lots of tests.

She didn't know when the family had gotten so many large, advanced-looking devices either.

Then, Shen Yue spent two blissful worm-like days.

On the third day.

"Shen Yue, get up for school."

"Wah - I'm sick - "

"You have lazy disease. Leaving bed will cure you."

Shen Yue: ...Damn, they found out so quickly.