Chapter 258: The Boss in East Ocean City
Translator: Noodletown Translated Editor: Noodletown Translated
Zhao Yanzi stomped up to the second floor and entered her room quickly.
“I’m tired!” The moment she got into the room, she jumped onto the bed.
Hao Ren walked into the room with the tutoring materials. He had expected that she would get lazy despite her promise of hard work. Instead of urging her to do her work, he sat down at her desk and began to check her past few days’ homework.
Her math homework was full of red cross marks; it was a pathetic sight.
He opened her English homework and found that the situation was a little better, though the teacher marked out quite a few grammar mistakes with red ink.
Then, he saw the large number of red circles highlighting her mistakes in her Chinese homework.
Geography, biology, physics… Each of the homework was full of red marks.
“Is Zhao Yanzi even paying any attention to her studies?” While he flipped through the homework, Hao Ren’s confidence began to drop little by little. She wasn’t a good student before, but her homework had never received such ‘fierce attacks’ from her teachers.
By now, he had a general understanding of Zhao Yanzi’s study ability. She had been at her peak while preparing for the midterm exams. However, she had quickly lagged behind and once again became a ‘poor student’ in her teachers’ eyes now.
“Hey! It’s time to study!” Hao Ren tapped her feet.
Zhao Yanzi lied on the bed lazily. “I’m tired.”
“Stop complaining. I checked your homework, and most of the answers are wrong. Hao Ren glanced at her in exasperation.
“The stuff we learned recently is really hard, such as geometry, algebra, convex lenses, concave lenses, and irregular verbs in tenses. I have a headache whenever I look at them!” Zhao Yanzi turned over and sat up.
“They are hard, but you still have to learn them.” Hao Ren took out two test papers. “Tonight, we will focus on math, tomorrow will be physics, and the day after tomorrow will be English…”
Before he finished, Zhao Yanzi fell back onto the bed.
Compared with studying these concepts, she would rather cultivate even if she had to withstand the pain.
However, she had promised Zhao Hongyu that she would study hard while Hao Ren cultivated for her. Hao Ren didn’t know about her promise, but she couldn’t go back on her words now.
“Stop complaining and do the test. I know middle school geometry is hard, so I prepared a test of geometry problems for you to write.” Hao Ren placed the paper before her.
“I haven’t done my homework yet!” Zhao Yanzi screamed.
“Then I’ll go since it’s a waste of my time if I stay.” Instead of arguing with her, Hao Ren stood up and turned to the door.
“Don’t!” Zhao Yanzi grabbed his hand suddenly. If Hao Ren left now, her mom would know that she had been slacking and would scold her.
“Then do the test.” Hao Ren nudged his hand-written test paper forward.
He had selected the problems carefully from the practice booklets and placed them in order of difficulty to suit Zhao Yanzi’s current level. He had spent a whole cla.s.s copying the problems and the geometrical drawings; it was not an easy task.
Although Zhao Yanzi didn’t understand the effort he put in it, he knew he had done his best to help her.
“Stop nagging! I’ll do it!” Zhao Yanzi pulled over her backpack reluctantly and took out a pencil and an eraser. Then, she began writing the test in her bed, while lying on her belly.
Hao Ren looked at her, wondering what was up with her pose. However, he didn’t want to disturb her as she was doing the test.
Lying on her belly, Zhao Yanzi put the backpack under the paper and began to do the test with a big sigh.
Doing lots of practice problems was a traditional but effective way of getting a good mark on the exams. In order to tutor Zhao Yanzi, Hao Ren reviewed all the middle school concepts and even studied the new concepts that were added to the curriculum after his graduation from middle school.
It was not an easy job to be Zhao Yanzi’s tutor. With her unlikable personality and poor academic foundation, no wonder Zhao Hongyu had difficulty finding a proper tutor for her.
Zhao Yanzi knew Hao Ren was stubborn and wouldn’t bend to her tantrums; reluctantly, she began to write the mock test.
Furrowing her brows and nibbling the head of the pencil with puffed cheeks, she swung her lower legs back and forth while lying on her belly.
Hao Ren sat on the chair beside the bed, supervising her while checking the time. Seeing her swinging legs and frowning eyebrows, he found her a little adorable.
“I sat for a whole day, and my lower back is sore,” Zhao Yanzi turned to look at Hao Ren abruptly and said.
“What do you mean?” Hao Ren looked at her suspiciously.
“Ma.s.sage my back,” Zhao Yanzi turned back to the paper and said.
Hao Ren froze for a moment since it was the first time that Zhao Yanzi gave him an “order.”
Hao Ren cleared his throat before scooting his chair toward her pink bed.
Zhao Yanzi turned her attention back to the paper with a frown.
“If you don’t ma.s.sage my back, I won’t do the test,” Zhao Yanzi said casually with her eyes on the paper.
“Ok. I’ll try.” Gingerly, Hao Ren placed his hands on her lower back.
Her waist was slim, and he could feel her smooth and supple skin underneath her sweater.
“It’s sore! Do it!” Zhao Yanzi twisted her lower back while writing the paper.
“Ok, ok…” Tentatively, he patted her lower back lightly to appease her so that she could focus on the paper.
“Left, left!” Zhao Yanzi instructed while she drew the pencil across the paper.
While Hao Ren’s hands moved to the left, Zhao Yanzi yelled, “Right, right!”
Then, his hands moved to the right side of her lower back.
“Up a bit! Yeah! Right there! More!”
Hao Ren’s hands moved from her lower back to her upper back then to her shoulders, ma.s.saging her with the right amount of force.
After a while, Hao Ren heard no more instructions from her. Thinking that she was busy writing the test, he continued the ma.s.sage and checked up on her.
Then, he found her soundly asleep!
Her posture was not ladylike at all. A trickle of saliva dripped from the corner of her mouth and traveled along her pencil onto the test paper that Hao Ren had spent hours to make.
“Well, you are enjoying my labor too well!”
Withdrawing his hands, Hao Ren pulled out the test paper from her dripping saliva. He gritted his teeth and had the urge to wake her, but he controlled himself.
Judging from her unladylike posture, Hao Ren was sure that she was not faking it. Obviously, she had been tired recently.
“d.a.m.n girl…” Hao Ren glanced at her before tucking her into her quilt. Then, he took the paper to the desk to check her answers.
She only had finished half of the test, and the answers she gave were mostly wrong. Since Hao Ren selected the problems, he knew the concept that was tested by each problem. Therefore, he had a general understanding of Zhao Yanzi’s weaknesses in Geometry.
He marked the paper carefully before a.n.a.lyzing her mistakes. He checked his watch and found that it was already nine o’clock; he needed to go back to his dorm.
He looked back and saw Zhao Yanzi still soundly asleep in her bed. She seemed quite like Little White when she slept.
Hao Ren didn’t wake her up and urge her to finish her homework. He took out her homework and did some of the difficult problems. Placing the answers beside her homework, he stood up quietly before turning off the light and shutting the door behind him.
Zhao Hongyu was checking an architectural design in the living room. Despite the threat from West Ocean, she didn’t want to leave her work behind.
When Hao Ren tiptoed down the stairs, Zhao Hongyu looked up. “The tutoring session is over?”
“Yeah.” Hao Ren nodded and walked into the living room.
“How was Zi today?” Zhao Hongyu asked him.
“Well, she worked hard today.” Hao Ren covered for Zhao Yanzi.
“I hope she studies hard and understands the hards.h.i.+ps in life.” With a slight sigh, she looked at Hao Ren. “I’ll drive you back to school, ok?”
Hao Ren declined immediately. “No, thank you. I’ll take the bus back to school. Where’s Uncle?”
“He went out to handle some emergencies.” Seeing the concerned look on Hao Ren’s face, Zhao Hongyu continued, “Don’t worry. It’s something related to his business.”
Hao Ren nodded. Besides managing the Dragon Palace, Zhao Guang had to manage the businesses on land. After all, the businesses on land related to the activities of the cultivators of East Ocean. Also, Zhao Guang and Zhao Hongyu were working hard to create a steady and peaceful environment for Zhao Yanzi.
When Zhao Hongyu walked Hao Ren to the door, something occurred to her. “Oh, you have a spirit beast that is capable of flying, right?”
“Yeah.” Hao Ren looked at her curiously, not knowing why she brought it up.
“Since that is the case, you can fly in the city on your spirit beast.” Zhao Hongyu looked at him. “As long as you put a stealth energy sphere around you, ordinary people can’t see you.”
“But cultivators can’t…” Hao Ren was about to raise a question when he suddenly realized that the dragon cultivators couldn’t fly due to the supervision of the inspectors.
Now, he was an inspector!
Little White rolled out from Hao Ren’s necklace. With a booming sound, it turned into its snow lion form with golden paws and white fur.
Hao Ren put a reddish-pink energy s.h.i.+eld around him and got onto Little White’s back. It flew high in the air.
Since Su Han, the regional inspector of East Ocean City, was now recovering from her injuries in the East Ocean Dragon Palace, as Su Han’s a.s.sistant, Hao Ren was now the highest ranking official among the cultivators in East Ocean City.