Chapter 2
[Random Mission Completed: Random Points +1]
5After circling around half of the neighborhood, Su Yang arrived in his basement. He tossed his bag to Gru which extended two withered branches out to catch it accurately before placing it on the floor.
2Su Yang changed into his slippers while humming a melody. He went to the bathroom to wash the brick and his hands.
5As he washed his hands, he complained, “Always saving a damsel in distress…It was fun at first, but it’s getting boring. Does the system have any innovative missions?
3“Can’t I help an old lady cross the road? If not, why can’t I send some blessings to some aunties? Anyhow, I got 21 yuan from this, so I guess tomorrow’s meals will be settled.”
16After he realized that the girls he saved never repaid him by marrying him, with the most they did buying him a meal, Su Yang applied the rule of ‘a million changes in a single method’, thus he started to collect fees.
6First of all, he was poor. Secondly, he had been extra poor lately.
‘Great, I just scammed my new lecturer’s money last night. My luck has been sh*tty lately…’
“Amitabha, please, Gods of the heavens and Jesus, save me! Please don’t let the new lecturer notice me!” He lowered his head and started to mumble some prayers.
12Qu Xiaomeng did not notice him at all. It was a major subject after all, hence three classes from the entire course attended the lecture together. There were a hundred students in the lecture hall, so how could she have noticed the dumb Su Yang?
3She took a deep breath and gulped to suppress her pounding heart. She stepped on the podium and placed her lecture notes on the desk beside it. She glanced over the entire lecture hall with a sharp gaze and her doll-like face showed nothing but a serious look.
“Ms. Zhang is on maternity leave from today onwards, so I’ll be her replacement for English until the end of the semester for the first year.”
2Her introduction was brief. She then picked up a piece of chalk and firmly wrote down her name on the blackboard—Qu Xiaomeng.
“My name is Qu Xiaomeng. I’m no older than you and I just graduated from university a while ago. You can call me Ms. Qu or just Sister Qu. I’ll be taking your names now.”
17In less than a minute, Qu Xiaomeng built her stern and strict image in front of the students.
If Su Yang had not noticed that her stomach and legs were slightly shaking and her left elbow was pale, he would really have believed that the girl, who had been as cowardly as a quail last night, had turned into a lioness.
However, after he noticed the details, Su Yang could not help but feel delighted. It seemed like the new lecturer was very nervous. She made herself appear strict because she wanted to control the situation and the students.
Nevertheless, her efforts were effective. All the students in the lecture hall sat up straight. No one dared to look down on this new lecturer who was just a few years older than them.
After she saw that the students were frightened by her stern demeanor, Qu Xiaomeng heaved a breath of relief. She curled her fist subtly behind the podium and encouraged herself in her mind.
‘Qu Xiameng, you can do it!’
“Chu Xia.”
“Present.”
“Chu An.”
Present.”
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Taking the names of a hundred students took about 10 minutes. Su Yang’s family name started with S, which put his name in the middle of the name list. Therefore, he made it through the roll call without any problem.
9However, maybe because the person he scammed before was giving a lecture on the podium, Su Yang barely paid any attention for a while, but he realized he could not understand anything.
His command of English had been bad ever since his high school days. Therefore, when he had filled in the details for his desired course, he had purposely picked Chinese Literature. Other than having more job opportunities, he thought he could free himself from the clutch of the English language.
6In the end, he still ended up in an English class!
He really wanted to pry open the lecturer who arranged the course subject and see what was in his brains! Why would the Chinese Literature course have an English subject!?
11He recalled only getting 60 marks in his English semester test during the first half of the semester, which was a borderline pass. He then watched Qu Xiaomeng who started to mess up her lecture and exhibit the quirks of a dorky girl. He somehow felt like he had a grudge against English.
11Qu Xiaomeng was really flustered. Right before the lecture, she still had some confidence, but as the lecture went on and she looked at the hundred students in front of her, she started to feel more and more nervous.
The more nervous she got, the more mistakes she made, and the more mistakes she made, the more nervous she got. Her mind was slowly turning blank while she started to mess up her words. There were even a few times when she pronounced a word wrongly.
She was starting to regret not listening to her ex-lecturer’s advice last night.
When she visited her ex-lecturer last night, the latter had taught her how to build her image in front of the students. The lecturer also advised her to ask Ms. Zhang to take on this major class before her maternity leave.
After all, it was a major class with a hundred students. Anyone else with a weaker mentality would have been easily frightened, and it might have been a little too overwhelming for a freshie lecturer’s first day.
1However, Qu Xiaomeng believed that Ms. Zhang was in a very important phase of her life, so she did not want to disturb her and she believed she could handle it.
In the end, she started to lose it. The encouraging words in her mind changed from ‘You can do it!’ to ‘Qu Xiaomeng, you must not cry!”
2As a matter of fact, most of the students in the lecture hall started to notice signs of Qu Xiaomeng’s nerves, but her harmless doll-like face plus her dorky attitude really discouraged them from disturbing her. Instead, everyone feigned a blind eye and listened to her lecture carefully.
2Soon, the class ended. Su Yang kept his head low throughout the lecture and did not get noticed by Qu Xiaomeng.
After he realized that stooping was effective, he decided to sit in the last row during English class and try his best to avoid eye contact with Qu Xiaomeng. Maybe a week or two later, she would forget that he had scammed her money, then he would slowly emerge as a new person.
Just when he thought he could slip away unnoticed, a voice entered his mind.
‘Ding! Bronze Mission triggered: Help the new English lecturer.’
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