spring bite mark

Chapter 255 Extra: Matters Between Home and School 2
"You know?" Yan Changye looked him over. "Tell your father."

"For the past two years, I and those girls were always at the bottom of the class. But recently, I don't know how, I suddenly had an epiphany, and my studies have improved by leaps and bounds. Now I'm in the upper-middle tier. They're still at the bottom, and they must be very envious of me. We're friends after all, so I'll form a study support group. My dad has a lot of resources, so I can easily help them out."

Yan Changye stared at him silently for a while: "Alright, I understand."

Xie Jian went to the study to do his homework, and Yan Changye called over his personal assistant: "Xie Jian is at school recently..."

"The second young master has made great progress in his studies recently," the life assistant said hurriedly. "His ranking has improved from 1,300th in the whole school to 525th, and in his class, he has risen from 49th to around 20th."

"I'm not asking about his grades," Yan Changye pondered. "Have he ever done anything ambiguous with girls?"

The personal assistant hesitated.

Yan Changye glanced at him: "Tell the truth."

The personal assistant shared what she knew: "Boss, the second young master got three milk tea coupons from the madam a couple of days ago, bought a cup of milk tea, and shared it with two girls."

Yan Changye always prioritizes his children's health and generally doesn't allow them to drink milk tea. However, Jiang Manman feels sorry for the children and occasionally lets them indulge a little by giving them milk tea coupons or snack coupons.

"Drinking together..." Yan Changye paused, "Those two girls, are they very pretty?"

"One was pretty, the other wasn't," the assistant whispered. "The girls approached him, jokingly asking him to buy them milk tea. The second young master has never been good at saying no, so he drank a third of it first and gave the rest to the two girls."

"One cup of milk tea, divided into three portions." Yan Changye chuckled in exasperation. "Didn't he have three milk tea coupons?"

"He couldn't bear to part with it."

"..." Yan Changye remained silent for a full minute before asking in a low voice, "Besides this, is there anything else?"

"Nothing else, except that since the second young master started junior high, he has suddenly become very attractive to girls. Girls often ask him to hang out, and since he's always been a playful person, he usually agrees. However, the girls seem to want to spend time alone with him, but the second young master never hangs out with them alone, finding their topics boring. Every time he goes on a date, he brings a bunch of his buddies, and in the end, the girls always look quite unhappy."

Yan Changye hummed in agreement.

Assessment complete. Xie Jian, this child isn't deliberately trying to mislead; he genuinely hasn't grasped the concept.

Feeling a mix of emotions, Yan Changye dismissed his assistant and glanced at the group chat.

In the mutual aid group, several parents have already sent bewildered emojis.

Yan Changye thought for a moment and then sent the study materials that several top-level high school teachers and professors of mathematics and physics had prepared for Xie Jian to the group chat:
Y: [My husband Xie Jian said your daughter's grades aren't very good. I have some resources that aren't available in stores, feel free to take them.]

Xu Yuanyuan's father: [Oh, thank you so much! Thank you, Dad. I never see you speak in the group chat, and you don't even reply when the teacher tags you. I didn't expect you to be so helpful in private.]

Zhang Xiaomi's father: [Xie Jian's grades have improved so much; Teacher Tian recently praised him individually in the group chat. Is it all thanks to these materials?]

Li Yu's father: [Since we've formed a mutual support group, I'd like to ask how everyone manages their children's studies? I even had my daughter take a week off to collect water bottles, but it didn't help at all.]

Xu Yuanyuan's father: [Same here! To make my child understand the importance of studying, I took her to set up a street stall, hand out flyers, and even read water meters door-to-door in the old town. It's all tears when I talk about it.]

Zhou Jin's father: "The job market is so bad right now, even master's degree holders are having a hard time finding jobs. I can't imagine how difficult life will be for my daughter if she doesn't get into a good university."

Y: [Oh, I don't have your kind of troubles.]

Y: [Did you save the data? If you did, let's call it a day.] Five minutes later, Yan Changye disbanded the group chat.

He had no idea that he, an oddball parent who never spoke in the group chat, would become the negative example in the parents' private chat group, someone who "never pays attention to their child's studies and is even more demanding than their child."

……

Kids are naturally mischievous.

Of course, Xie Jian wasn't the only one giving Yan Changye a headache.

Four, not one less.

Compared to his second son Xie Jian, his eldest son Yan Yu was the least troublesome in matters of the heart. Both were in the second year of junior high school, and Yan Yu had many admirers. Wherever he went, he would cause girls to scream wildly and intensely. However, Yan Yu had a very strong sense of boundaries and never got close to any girl. He always had a distant and indifferent expression. Although he had many admirers, not a single letter of confession was successfully delivered to him.

If that were all, Yan Changye might feel gratified.

But there's a saying: too much of a good thing is bad.

One day, after attending a parent-teacher meeting, Mr. Yan arrived at Yanjing Group looking resentful. He angrily pushed open the door to the chairman's office with his cane.
"You unfilial son, as your father, you haven't been paying attention to what's going on with your child at school?"

Yan Changye looked up from a pile of documents, his peach blossom eyes calm: "Ayu? I think so. I know he was in the top 100 in his grade last semester, and he's in the top 50 this semester. The teacher even told me that if he maintains his current level, he can go straight to the high school's top class."

“I didn’t discuss his studies with you.” Old Master Yan’s tone softened. “Of course I know my precious grandson’s grades are excellent, do you need to tell me! Today the teacher also gave him special praise, and those parents looked at me with such envy.”

Yan Changye responded with an "oh".

Grandpa Yan tapped his cane on his desk: "I'm talking about your daily life. You still need to take better care of things."

"He's not like Xie Jian, that troublemaker. He's quite easy to take care of in life."

"Do you know that he swiped 100 million yuan from his card a month ago?"

Yan Changye raised an eyebrow: "He's fourteen years old. What's a hundred million in spending? When I was fourteen, I spent much more than he does now."

Upon hearing this, Old Master Yan knew that he hadn't paid any attention to Yan Yu's affairs: "You were fourteen? Although you spent money extravagantly when you were fourteen, as long as a single amount exceeded thirty million, someone would report it to me. I know exactly where you spent it."

Yan Changye clicked his tongue in annoyance: "Ayu, what did you buy?"

"He donated it to the school."

"Isn't this great?"

"Then, with the school's tacit approval, he brought four bodyguards into the campus, who stayed by his side all day to block girls. That's a school, not society. Parents who were unaware of his actions have reported him several times."

Grandpa Yan pressed his chest to catch his breath: "At the parent-teacher meeting today, some parents who didn't know the situation brought it up, saying that every time class started, several bodyguards stood menacingly at the door, and many timid students were too scared to even breathe. The teacher also subtly asked if the number of bodyguards could be reduced to one, and that they shouldn't be standing at the classroom door."

Yan Changye pondered, "This is a bit outrageous. I'll have him put the bodyguards outside the school and hire a few tall, strong students inside to block the unwanted attention."

"And there's something even more outrageous," Old Master Yan said in a low voice, "Their classroom, because of him, already has internal KPIs..."

(End of this chapter)