Chapter 102: 102 Sorry, I Choose To Refuse
Ye Xun’s worry came true.
After the math class started, she realized that she really couldn’t keep up with the teacher’s lecture pace. Despite trying very hard to listen and understand every word the teacher said, the effect made her quite anxious.
“So the solution to this problem is the same as the one we discussed yesterday, this ellipse equation…”
Conic sections, Ye Xun had of course learned them at her previous school, and she knew the basic concepts. But for some reason, the problem the teacher wrote on the blackboard at this moment seemed quite strange. After listening in a fog for a while, Ye Xun finally understood that solving this problem required going around several bends. But how exactly to navigate those bends? What was the logical relationship?
The subsequent problems were the same for the young girl—she could see what the problem was testing, but she was powerless to actually solve it.
After class, three female classmates surrounded her again. Seeing Ye Xun staring blankly at the math practice book, one of them praised, “Classmate Ye Xun is really so serious…”
The young girl looked up and forced a smile: “The slow bird flies first.”
“How is that possible!” another girl immediately said, “You’re too modest. Looking at you, you’re not the type with poor grades.”
Ye Xun didn’t say anything more. She felt it wasn’t easy to explain, because the school she attended before didn’t aim for the Gaokao, so the study direction was quite different, and the problems didn’t have so many headaches-inducing variations. Luckily, she chose the arts stream class; if it were the science stream class, physics and chemistry would probably be even more maddening.
Moreover, it now seemed that relying solely on classroom lessons at school, achieving good grades in math would be quite difficult. The other subjects were a bit better, but there was still a lot to memorize…
Thinking this way, Ye Xun suddenly felt that she might need to find a tutor.
But with her family currently in deep trouble, she definitely couldn’t afford to ignore cost-effectiveness like before and directly hire the best and most expensive tutor. So, was there a more cost-effective choice?
For example… someone who just went through the Gaokao a few months ago and is now a first year university student at a key university?
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During dinner time, Wang Heng and Pei Ningle ordered quite a few dishes at a small restaurant off campus. They ate and chatted idly, a leisurely dinner time maintaining a certain distance.
“The fifth video has been uploaded. I think its playback volume should be higher than the previous ones…” At this point, Pei Ningle secretly glanced at him, “I think we should put more energy into videos, and I need more time to recharge myself, so I told Brother Tao that from now on I’ll only do resident singing, and that marketing plan is over.”
After hearing this, Wang Heng was a bit puzzled: “Even if that marketing plan continues, you only need to sing, right? Will it take more time?”
The young girl blinked: “It makes me a bit uneasy. I always feel that the more people see my videos, the more likely it is that I’ll be recognized in reality. If that deceptive marketing plan continues, there might be trouble?”
Wang Heng contemplated for a moment and nodded: “Yeah, it’s indeed a risk, and even without that profit sharing portion, your current income is sufficient.”
“Oh, right! Speaking of profit sharing, this is last week’s share, Brother Tao gave it to me yesterday.”
With that, Pei Ningle stuffed a stack of hundred-yuan bills into Wang Heng’s hand. But after two seconds, she snatched the money back, counted it, split it evenly into two halves, and then stuffed one half back.
Wang Heng looked at the half-thinner stack of hundred-yuan bills in his hand and smiled wryly: “Couldn’t you divide it clearly first before giving it to me?”
Pei Ningle scratched the back of her head: “It doesn’t matter, it’s just a small detail, a small detail.”
At that moment, Wang Heng’s mobile phone ringtone rang. He took out his mobile phone and saw it was a call from Ye Xun.
In front of one ‘ex-girlfriend’, receiving a call from another ‘ex-girlfriend’—what kind of stimulating experience was that? If it were a naive boy, his expression would probably be a bit unnatural at this moment. But Wang Heng was not naive at all, not one bit.
He answered the call and asked into the phone: “Is there something wrong?”
His expression was normal, his tone calm, without any ripples.
On the other end of the phone, Ye Xun hesitated a bit and said: “Wang Heng senior student, I wonder if you’re interested in doing part-time tutoring… You’re studying computer science, so your math must be great, right? I have a friend who needs some math tutoring…”
Wang Heng: “The friend you’re talking about, is it you yourself?”
Ye Xun was stumped for a few seconds and said weakly: “Yeah… Rest assured, I’ll pay you salary, similar to other tutors on the market…”
This girl definitely doesn’t have much funds available now—with that judgment, how to choose goes without saying, right? Even by the worldline correction mechanism’s standard, if the money isn’t enough, it won’t work out, which is perfectly normal.
So Wang Heng said: “Sorry, I don’t lack money right now, and I have no intention of doing tutoring.”
“I see…” Ye Xun’s tone was clearly full of disappointment, but she remained polite, “Sorry for disturbing you, senior student.”
Wang Heng: “No problem, is there anything else?”
Ye Xun: “Probably not… Then, goodbye, senior student?”
Wang Heng: “Goodbye.”
After saying that, he hung up the phone.
Pei Ningle suddenly asked: “Was that a call from a younger friend?”
Wang Heng raised an eyebrow: “Oh, your reasoning ability has improved.”
Pei Ningle pouted slightly: “It’s so obvious, what reasoning ability? I told you not to treat me like a fool…”
Then, the young girl lowered her head and ate her food.
Wang Heng didn’t touch his chopsticks; he just stared at her face and couldn’t help but fantasize—if it were Han Yixuan sitting here, she would definitely probe further to ask if that younger friend was a boy or a girl?
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The school Ye Xun transferred to had dormitories, but she was a day student. After all, her new home was very close to the school, and not being used to dormitory life would be quite a trouble.
Returning home alone, Ye Xun turned on the computer, opened the Qian Du search page, and entered the keywords ‘Rongdu’ and ‘tutor’.
In an instant, Qian Du pulled up millions of web page links.
Moving the mouse to the first link, Ye Xun suddenly noticed the small font in faint color marked with ‘advertisement’.
Were institutions advertising on Qian Du reliable? For a moment, the young girl, who knew almost nothing about the online advertising industry, fell into contemplation.
Logically speaking, being able to advertise in important places for others to see should reflect the merchant’s strength. But from another angle, the cost of advertising ultimately needs to be shared by consumers, right? Would such institutions charge more?
After hesitating for a moment, she clicked on Tieba Forum.
Finding university students in the local Tieba Forum to tutor her should be better, right?
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