Cui Xiaoxin stood at the door, pondering. Just as she was about to knock on the door, it was pulled open from the inside.
A beautiful girl with bangs on her forehead popped out only to find someone staring at her in the doorway unblinkingly.
Cui Xiaoxin looked at Li Sinian at the same time. She knew that Li Muyang had a younger sister, but she had never expected that his sister was such a beautiful girl.
“Are they really siblings?” Such a thought suddenly popped into Cui Xiaoxin’s mind.
Then, she instantly threw this idea out of her mind. Li Muyang was her lifesaver. How could she insult him like this?
“Cui Xiaoxin?” Li Sinian asked, breaking the silence between them.
“Li Sinian?” She didn’t know what was going on, but when she heard Li Sinian call her name, Cui Xiaoxin felt a hint of joy in her heart. She felt that this was a kind of recognition of herself, although she never cared before about whether people recognized her or not.
“That’s me.” Li Sinian nodded repeatedly and said with a smile, “I know you.”
“I’m here to see Li Muyang.” Cui Xiaoxin felt that Li Sinian’s eyes looked a little strange, but she had already imagined such a scene on her way over here. She even thought that she would face a more complicated situation than now—Li Muyang’s father and mother, as well as some important relatives, would also be present, and they would look at her with scrutiny or appreciation.
A beautiful girl visiting her sick classmate alone would easily cause misunderstandings under normal circumstances. There was no doubt that once her classmates found out about it, the scandal between them would soon spread throughout Fuxing High School.
Li Sinian was alone in the ward, which saved her a lot of trouble.
“Oh, Li Muyang is my brother…” Li Sinian said with a smile. She took Cui Xiaoxin’s hand intimately and said, “Sister Xiaoxin, please come in.”
Cui Xiaoxin was not used to this kind of intimacy. She had never held hands so intimately with any girl before.
However, Li Sinian was really a lovely girl. Her smile was so pure, and her enthusiasm was so sincere. It seemed that refusing her would be blasphemy…
Cui Xiaoxin hesitated for a moment before she allowed Li Sinian to pull her to Li Muyang’s bed.
“Brother, Sister Xiaoxin is here. You have mentioned her so many times!” Li Sinian shouted. She winked at Li Muyang and said with a wronged face, “You asked me about her just after you opened your eyes. You also forced me to immediately ask if she went to school today. Look, is she all right? Did she get hurt? Did she lose any of her hair or flesh?”
“I just—”
“All right, don’t explain it. An explanation is a cover.” Li Sinian didn’t give Li Muyang any chance to speak but said, “I’ll go out to eat something. I’m starving. You two can have a good talk.”
Li Sinian held Cui Xiaoxin’s hand and said with a smile, “Sister Xiaoxin, I am leaving my brother to you.”
Cui Xiaoxin’s expression froze, but she still nodded and said, “Thank you.”
She could feel that Li Sinian’s words were ambiguous. But if she didn’t answer her, would Li Sinian think that she was thinking too much?
Li Sinian quietly made a gesture to cheer her brother up before she said goodbye to Cui Xiaoxin and left.
Li Muyang smiled awkwardly and said to Cui Xiaoxin, “That’s just how she is. Don’t take it to heart.”
“She’s very cute,” Cui Xiaoxin said.
Li Muyang nodded, looked into Cui Xiaoxin’s eyes, and asked, “Are you okay?”
Cui Xiaoxin’s skin looked white and delicate, and her facial features were exquisite without any flaws. She was wearing a long purple dress with painted lotuses on it. Although she did not wear a belt, she looked soft and slender, like a willow blowing in the wind. Her whole person looked simple and clean.
In Li Muyang’s memory, Cui Xiaoxin seemed to have been injured in the attack in the Beast-faced Pavilion—but now he didn’t see any wounds, as if what had happened that day was a clear and painful nightmare.
“I’m sorry.” Cui Xiaoxin lowered her eyelids, her long eyelashes flapping like an attractive fan. “You tried your best to fight against him to save me, but I escaped…”
“You were rescued by someone, right?” Li Muyang said with a smile, “The man who shouted ‘evil beasts’ was your man, and the red balls that burned Crow were also from your man. You left after confirming that the killer had left, right?”
Cui Xiaoxin blinked and asked, “How could you know this?”
“I felt—” Li Muyang grinned, revealing two rows of bright white teeth. “That is what you would do.”
“Thank you.” Cui Xiaoxin was deeply moved and said, “Thank you for trusting me so much.”
“We are friends, aren’t we?” Li Muyang said with a smile, “Just like you believe that I can make progress in learning, I also believe in your character. I believe that you would not deliberately abandon me on the dangerous battlefield…”
“My family took me away,” Cui Xiaoxin explained. She felt that she owed Li Muyang an explanation, which was one of the reasons why she insisted on coming to see him. “When I left, I was already unconscious and could not resist.”
“I understand.” Li Muyang waved his hand casually and said, “I can imagine that scene.”
“Then— ” Cui Xiaoxin thought, “It’s time to say goodbye.”
No matter how brave Li Muyang acted in the Beast-faced Pavilion that day, he was just an ordinary person after all.
Since those people had found her and the assassins had failed, she was afraid that there would be more schemes waiting for her, and the worse environment needed to be faced.
She didn’t want to drag Li Muyang in again because no one could guarantee that Li Muyang would be so lucky next time.
“Does our agreement still stand?” Li Muyang suddenly asked.
“What?”
“You said that you would help me study—you said at the Beast-faced Pavilion on that day,” Li Muyang looked into Cui Xiaoxin’s eyes and said with a smile.
“Oh.” Cui Xiaoxin touched the hair in front of her forehead and said, “That’s what I said. If you are willing to do it.”
“Of course.” Li Muyang said with a smile, “I also want to study at Xifeng University. I heard that there is a Nameless Lake in the University that has the most beautiful sunset in the world.”
“Then please work hard with me.” Cui Xiaoxin pressed her thin lips together and laughed.
…
From this day on, Cui Xiaoxin went to visit Li Muyang every day, helping him with his studies for four hours.
She was a well-known top student in the school, and none of the homework could defeat her.
She taught Li Muyang one subject after another and then asked Li Muyang to read books and figure out the answers. If there was anything that Li Muyang could not understand, she would explain it to him in a simple and understandable way, until Li Muyang thoroughly understood the problem.
Perhaps because he had a beautiful study companion or that she could keep him awake, Li Muyang’s sleeping time had been greatly reduced these days, while his reaction was getting faster and faster. There were a lot of extremely difficult problems, but after Cui Xiaoxin explained them to Li Muyang, he could quickly understand them.
Cui Xiaoxin was shocked. She gave him several difficult problems to test him, but Li Muyang was still able to answer them quickly. Sometimes, the methods he used to solve the problems were ones that she had not taught him.
This made Cui Xiaoxin confused. In the past, Li Muyang had never studied in class before. This was also the reason why he was always last or had no score in every exam.
Now she only taught him once. How could he find some other way to solve the problem?
“He can figure out other ways by learning one method?
“Is he an undiscovered genius?”
Cui Xiaoxin stared at Li Muyang’s black face and found that he was more and more acceptable. Although his skin was dark, he had delicate and deep facial features. The most special thing was his pair of eyes, which were flexible and seemed to be able to devour other people’s souls.
“Li Muyang…” Cui Xiaoxin called out.
“What?” Li Muyang looked up.
“Did you really not know anything before?”
“Yes,” Li Muyang nodded and said, “Recently, I don’t know what’s going on either, but there are always some strange things coming out of my head, just like I have experienced them before—like these questions—even though it’s the first time I heard them, I can find a variety of ways to solve them.”
Cui Xiaoxin opened her eyes widely, looking at Li Muyang, and said, “You mean that you can find many other ways to solve the problems?”
“Yes.” Li Muyang nodded. Then he scratched his head and said with some embarrassment, “Some of them only have one way to be solved. The rest are fake solutions, because if you continue, you will find that you will get a completely wrong or opposite answer. That is an academic deep trap, which will cost one too much time on this.”
Cui Xiaoxin didn’t believe him, so she immediately wrote down a question from the “Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art”. She passed the paper to Li Muyang and said, “Answer this question. Show me all the methods you know.”
Li Muyang nodded and then crouched down to answer the question.
Five minutes later, Li Muyang was writing.
10 minutes later, Li Muyang was still writing.
Half an hour had passed, then one hour had passed.
In the process of writing, Li Muyang changed a pen and asked for 12 pieces of writing paper.
After over an hour, he gave more than a dozen pages to Cui Xiaoxin and said with embarrassment, “These are all I know…”
Cui Xiaoxin took over the papers quickly. The more she looked at them, the more solemn her expression became. Finally, she put down the papers, looked at Li Muyang and said, “You wrote 11 solutions?”
“Yes.” Li Muyang nodded. “In fact, there is one more solution. But I only knew the beginning and had some difficulties in the latter part of the calculation, because there is no way to perfect the string theory in it…”
“But…” Cui Xiaoxin bit her lip and looked at Li Muyang with complicated eyes. Then she said with great difficulty, “I only know two of them.”
“…”