Fu Ting kept her word. She led Fu Pei, Xie Tiao, and Su Luoshui in their first-ever study session the very next day.
Since three of these poor students had zero basics, she had to teach them the basics of first-year high school.
Three days had already passed. Although it was not much, Su Luoshui had a better grasp on their mathematical formulae's professional terminology, thanks to Fu Ting's explanation according to the fast-paced method of learning from the future.
On the other hand, Xie Tiao had a slow learning speed; he worked hard yet still earned pitiable results. The difficulty was getting to him, and his ballpoint pen poked on the reference book. 'If |f(x)|≥ax, then the value range of a was ()?'
"Well, you can find out the question's key information first," Fu Ting spoke to him encouragingly.
Xie Tiao looked sullen. "Isn't this English? Why do I have to find the key information?"
No matter how well-tempered Fu Ting was, she still became speechless for a moment. "... This is Olympiad math."
'... Help me,' Xie Tiao cried out inwardly, 'I'm suffocating!'
What the hell was this? It was too difficult to learn!
There was no way out for a poor student.
Fu Pei crossed his arms across his chest, looking like the big brother of a gangster group. "Dumbass," he sneered with eyebrows slightly cocked.
Xie Tiao gritted his teeth indignantly. He wanted to rebut by asking Brother Fu if he knew how to do it so badly, but he feared for his life.
"Dad," Fu Ting turned to him and said, "have you done the question I asked you to do?"
Fu Pei wore his usual arrogant and fierce expression; no surprise there. The corners of his eyes quietly lowered, and he used his arm to block the cleaner-than-his-face test paper.
Fu Ting remained serene as her eyes and brows curved into crescents. "I'll explain it to you again, then?"
Fu Pei stared at her eyes for two seconds before he nodded coldly yet nobly.
Her small frame quickly arrived at his side, and the whorl on her head entered Fu Pei's field of vision. Her white and soft finger pointed at the first question, and she began to elaborate in detail.
Soft and sweet was Fu Ting's voice, accompanied by the sound of the pen that scribbled calculations on the scratch paper. Her voice was akin to a kitten's paw that gently scratched Fu Pei's cochlea.
Little Fool had a soothing voice; that he would admit. Who was blessed enough that they gave birth to this girl?
Over the next half hour, Fu Pei merely listened to Fu Ting's voice and shut off everything else.
"Do you understand it now, Dad?" Fu Ting raised her head to look at him. Her cheeks were slightly raised, and a lovely dimple appeared on her cheek.
How could she be so...obedient?
"Dad?" She tilted her head in confusion. Dewy-eyed Fu Ting looked so adorable!.
Fu Pei's eyelids twitched for a split second without anyone noticing, and he raised his hands to loosen his collar, his thin collarbone exposed in the process. "My eyes are tired. I want to rest for a while."
"Oh." Fu Ting's voice sounded soft. She put down the draft paper and went to the bathroom.
As soon as the little girl left, Xie Tiao immediately threw the reference book away. Excitedly, he went to Fu Pei's side and whispered to his ear, "Brother Fu, should we go to the cyber cafe later after school? We haven't gone out for a long time."
Fu Pei stretched his wrists and leaned back. His throat bobbed slowly. "No."
Xie Tiao was not deterred. "Don't say that, Brother Fu. Your brain's becoming slow-witted in just a few days of learning. Let's go to the amusement arcade to relax a bit, alright? Tiger and the rest have been asking for days now."
Fu Pei—though he wanted to go—shook his head with a stern face.
"Oh no, Brother Fu... Do you really want to follow Master Ting's advice and study hard?" Xie Tiao muttered. "How can you listen to the little girl so obediently? You're a powerful man!"
This sentence ignited a fire in Fu Pei's heart. He threw the pen on the table and licked his teeth with an impish grin. "What a joke. I'm just playing along with Little Fool. Do I look like someone who'll listen to a girl?"
"Hehe." Xie Tiao laughed. "Then I'll tell Tiger. We'll go to the cyber cafe together."
Fu Pei nodded his head arrogantly and uninhibitedly, but he inwardly mulled over his thoughts and found no instances of when he promised Little Fool he would not play games… This was not considered as breaking a promise, right?