A throbbingly seductive perfume lingered at the tip of Lu Jiuling’s nose. Compared with the fresh, elegant gardenia scent of his landlady, this proprietress’s perfume was still a little too rich and heavy.
Especially when she was wearing tight yoga pants, completely outlining the lines of her thighs, calves, and especially her hips.
Bold! Sexy! Unrestrained!
She couldn’t quite be called a peerless beauty—after all, her face was a notch lacking. Out of ten, she could only get an eight, and half a point of that was propped up by makeup. But at this level, if she became a female livestreamer, even without beauty filters or any particular talent, she could still make over a million a year.
In this day and age, short videos were everywhere, making it easier than ever for beautiful women to monetize their looks.
“As expected, top students have boundless prospects!”
Ye Shaoguang was envious.
She was also a senior in high school, about to graduate, and still had no idea what she would do in the future.
She had looked for a few jobs. The highest-paying company didn’t require any academic qualifications and offered six thousand a month, but Ye Shaoguang had no intention of going.
She wasn’t stupid. That boss had offered such a high salary for her to be his private assistant; it was obvious he harbored ill intentions toward her.
Lu Jiuling was different. He could make a living off his grades!
But what was he hesitating about?
Why hadn’t he agreed yet?
This was a cushy job!
“Sorry!”
Lu Jiuling wore an apologetic expression. “I don’t have time!”
“Holy shit!”
Sister Li, the female shop assistant, was stunned. Was this kid sick in the head? Tutoring for two hours a day—what an easy job—and he actually refused?
Could the pressure at No. 2 High be so intense it had fried his brain?
“…”
The male shop assistant was speechless. With such a pretty female student, if it were him, he’d fight to be that tutor even without getting paid.
“Oh? You’re a senior? Worried it’ll affect your college entrance exam?”
Wu Wu hadn’t expected Lu Jiuling to refuse, but she wasn’t flustered in the slightest. “Then one hour a day is fine too!”
“Thank you for your kindness, Sister Wu, but I’ll be taking the college entrance exam in three months!”
Lu Jiuling declined again.
Tutoring a fragrant, beautiful proprietress?
Why would such a good thing fall to him?
The key was that she didn’t even know what his grades were like, yet she had come straight up and invited him. Wasn’t that a bit too reckless?
Wu Wu’s brows furrowed slightly. Seeing that Lu Jiuling truly didn’t want the job, she was astonished to the extreme. A high salary of twelve thousand couldn’t move him?
Sure enough…
Wu Wu’s gaze swept, without a trace, over the Patek Philippe on Lu Jiuling’s left wrist.
This kid had secrets!
If she dug them out, maybe she could rely on that secret to feed off him for the rest of her life!
Wu Wu resisted her habit of licking her red lips and smiled, deliberately provoking him. “Are you afraid you won’t teach well? Afraid I’ll fire you?”
“You can try teaching three lessons first!”
“Don’t worry. No matter the result, I’ll pay the tutoring fee as agreed!”
On the surface, Wu Wu was like a considerate older sister, but inwardly she sneered. As long as you step through my door, I’ll make sure you understand what a succubus Daji is. You’ll be dying to kneel down and be my dog.
“Sorry, Sister Wu, I still have something to do this afternoon. I’ll be going first!”
Lu Jiuling had no interest in wasting words with this yoga-pants proprietress. He greeted Ye Shaoguang, pushed open the glass door, went out, got on his bicycle, and headed home.
School?
Not even a dog would go!
In any case, he would never grind away at studying again in this life. Even if he stuck it out to the end, he’d only end up finding some company and working 996 at that lousy job!
If you suffer hardship for a while, you’ll spend a lifetime suffering hardship without end!
This time, your Brother Lu was going to become an extraordinary being, play the game of gods, become the Speaker of the Divine Council, and no longer endure the suffering of a beast of burden.
…
Seeing Lu Jiuling leave so decisively, Wu Wu was first stunned. Then anger surfaced on her face!
A little puppy who barely had any hair grown yet, and he wanted to jump out of my palm?
Just you wait.
This grandaunt will definitely make you kneel down willingly and lick my feet!
Wu Wu left.
The male shop assistant looked at the proprietress’s hips, tightly wrapped in yoga pants, bouncing like two pieces of jelly, and subconsciously swallowed.
“Is that boy stupid?”
Sister Li shook her head. “Spending two hours a day to easily make over ten thousand a month—why wouldn’t he do it?”
Most importantly, private tutoring wasn’t tiring at all!
“How could there be any idiots at No. 2 High?”
Ye Shaoguang rolled her eyes at Sister Li. “He’s worried it’ll delay his college entrance exam, right?”
“That’s true. If he gets in, he can leave this run-down city and go to Great Jinghai!”
Sister Li was envious.
She was destined to live in this Rust Belt for the rest of her life.
Boom! Boom!
The roar of engines sounded on the street, rapidly approaching from afar. Soon, three modified motorcycles stopped in front of the barbershop.
Seven girls dressed like delinquents did not get off their motorcycles. Instead, they shouted directly, “Sister Guang!”
They were all wearing helmets plastered with decals of skulls, vampires, burning crosses, and the like.
“Wait for me!”
Before long, Ye Shaoguang, now changed into leather pants and a flight jacket, pushed a heavy sport bike out of the garage.
The bike had clearly been modified. With its large areas of red paint and its sharp, lightning-like front fairing, when it raced through the city streets at dusk, it flashed past like a burning sunset cloud.
Ye Shaoguang liked fighting, and she also liked racing, because the former was her hobby, while the latter was her livelihood.
Fighting underground boxing matches wouldn’t win her much money, and she would often get hurt, making her mother worry. But going to Xiaoming Mountain to race every Saturday and Sunday night not only let her enjoy speed and passion, more importantly, it let her earn money.
If she saved enough, she could take her mother away from the old street and go to a big city!
Ye Shaoguang’s home was right here. How could she not know what those women in the hair salons nearby did for a living?
Sometimes people even saw that she and her mother were pretty and came straight into the shop to ask their price.
Ye Shaoguang had long since had enough.
But running a shop here earned more money!
Those hair-salon women still had to get their hair done, right? They still had to do beauty treatments and maintenance, right? Thus, Maiya Hair Design gained the advantage of proximity and acquired a stable batch of customers.
It was precisely because they earned quite a bit that Ye Shaoguang’s mother had never moved away.
When it came to running a shop, if the owner found a thriving location, they absolutely wouldn’t move unless forced to.
A short girl wearing a sailor uniform paired with black garter stockings pulled a gift box out of the backpack on her back, ran up to Ye Shaoguang, and held it out to her with both hands.
“Sister Guang, a birthday present for you!”
“Why so formal?”
Ye Shaoguang was not a coy person. First, she hugged the garter-stocking girl’s shoulders and kissed her helmet, then opened the gift.
Inside was a pair of red leather gloves, exquisitely crafted.
“Hurry and put them on!”
The garter-stocking girl urged, “I had someone bring these back from Moscow. They’re made from real brown bear leather!”
“Thank you, Little Songzi.”
Ye Shaoguang put on the leather gloves.
For an instant, she seemed to feel the gloves automatically tighten, slightly constricting her hands.
Ye Shaoguang figured it was probably because the gloves were too new and hadn’t been worn before.
Sure enough, after she forcefully flexed her fingers a few times, it was fine. Moreover, this pair of gloves was especially skin-friendly, perfectly fitting against her skin as if it were her second layer of skin. There was no foreign sensation at all, and they were so comfortable she didn’t even want to take them off.
“What are you thanking me for? You’ve taken such good care of me. I’ve wanted to give you a present for ages!”
The girl in garter stockings was called Song Momo. When she had just started middle school, she was often bullied by female delinquents. Ye Shaoguang had helped her, and ever since then, she had become Ye Shaoguang’s little fangirl.
“Sister Guang, I saw you wearing an apron just now. Who was so lucky to have the honor of letting you cut her hair?”
A girl wearing shorts and combat boots sat on her motorcycle, one leg propped against the ground, teasing Ye Shaoguang.
“It must be some female top student from No. 2 High!”
“Of course!”
“That’s exactly Sister Guang’s type!”
The delinquent girls burst into laughter. They knew Ye Shaoguang didn’t like the job of cutting hair, and she didn’t like boys either—unless the other party was a female student from No. 2 High!
Lu Jiuling didn’t know that the real reason Ye Shaoguang had taken the initiative to cut his hair that morning was because he had locked eyes with that underpants-wearing thug, Zou Long.
Ye Shaoguang didn’t like boys, and she disliked weak boys even more.
“Sister Guang, even if you personally cut their hair, you won’t be able to steal the knowledge inside their brains!”
Song Momo comforted her. “Accept your fate. We’re just not cut out for studying!”
“But you can find a top student to marry and have a smart baby!”
The combat-boot girl teased.
“Let’s go, let’s go!”
Ye Shaoguang didn’t want to talk about Lu Jiuling.
She started the engine, stepped on the clutch and shifted gears, then lightly twisted the throttle. The heavy sport bike was like a swordfish soaring freely through the sea, nimbly turning onto the main street and shooting away.
The delinquent girls fiercely revved their engines and followed one after another!
Song Momo sat in the back seat, hugging the combat-boot girl’s waist. With a complicated expression, she watched Ye Shaoguang, who was like a meteor rapidly disappearing down the road. Then she took out her phone with her right hand and sent a message.
Little Songzi: Brother Feng, she accepted the gift!
…
After returning to his rental room, Lu Jiuling exercised for the whole afternoon. After dinner, he was hesitating over whether to visit the Divine Council when, with a ding, someone finally spoke in the No. 1 game-boosting group that had been silent all night.