The younger generation, starting from where the wind blows...

Chapter 255 Since ancient times, deep affection cannot be retained, only tricks can win people's hearts!
"Ding dong!"

The doorbell rings.

A girl with her hair tied in a ponytail and dressed simply, even shabbily, stood at the door.

Xu Sanduo opened the door and gave the girl a wary look.

"Who are you looking for?"

The girl quickly introduced herself:

"Hello, my name is Su Mingyu. Teacher Hu introduced me to be Liu Wenjing's tutor."

"So you're Wenjing's teacher, please come in!" Xu Sanduo's wariness vanished, and his attitude became visibly friendly.

He stepped aside and invited Su Mingyu into the house.

Su Mingyu asked hesitantly, "Excuse me, does Liu Wenjing live in this room?"

"No, she lives in room 3601 next door."

what?
Su Mingyu was stunned. Had she knocked on the wrong door?

But I couldn't possibly be mistaken; the person on the phone clearly said room 3602.

"Teacher Su, don't stand at the door, come in and sit down."

Xu Sanduo greeted him warmly.

Despite his seemingly honest and simple appearance, Su Mingyu still had some doubts in her heart.

"I'm here to tutor Liu Wenjing, but I'll go find her next door."

He bowed to Xu Sanduo and turned to leave.

Xu Sanduo's voice came from behind:
“You’ve come to the right room. Although Wenjing lives in room 3601, she usually stays in room 3602.”

Su Mingyu stopped abruptly.

He turned around in confusion, about to speak.

Xu Sanduo's voice rang out first.

“Mr. Yang lives in this house. Wenjing is his nanny, so she spends most of her time here. I am Mr. Yang’s bodyguard.”

Su Mingyu's eyes widened.

Mr. Yang?
nanny?

Suddenly I feel like my mind is a bit of a mess.

It sounds surreal that a nanny would spend 3,000 yuan a month to hire herself as a tutor.

Of course, in a place like Shanghai, even the most fantastical things can happen.

Perhaps some wealthy family is just bored and has suddenly decided to hire a tutor for their nanny and support her in taking the college entrance exam?

The key point is that this nanny seems quite young, perhaps because of her relationship with the family...

For some reason, it gives me a sense of déjà vu with "Kawako Falls in Love with Me, the Cleaner at the White House".

The plot shouldn't be that melodramatic... right?

The problem is, shouldn't this kind of melodramatic story, which only appears in short dramas, happen in a place like Tomson Riviera where rich people gather?

By the way, Tomson Riviera has not yet been handed over to residents.

However, many of these pre-sale apartments were already sold in 06, and the price of 13 yuan per square meter became the ceiling for luxury homes in China.

So, this Love Apartment is actually a temporary residence for a rich young master who was originally supposed to move into Tomson.

Su Mingyu shook her head vigorously, trying to shake this absurd thought out of her mind.

"Teacher Su, Wenjing went to the supermarket to buy groceries. She just left and probably won't be back for more than an hour. You can't just wait outside the door, can you? Come in and sit down to wait."

Seeing that Su Mingyu was still full of doubt, Xu Sanduo had no choice but to bring up his identity as a retired soldier and assure her that he was absolutely not lying.

Su Mingyu weighed the options in her mind for a few seconds before finally nodding.

After following Xu Sanduo into the house, Su Mingyu quickly surveyed the layout and decoration of the entire living room and open kitchen.

In Shanghai, this would be considered to be below average.

The wealthy families Su Mingyu used to visit as a tutor had much more luxurious interiors than this.

Even though they live in such a luxurious house, they are not so extravagant as to hire a nanny or tutor.

While his mind was wandering, Xu Sanduo opened the refrigerator and asked what he wanted to drink.

"Mineral water will be fine."

Su Mingyu quickly said.

Xu Sanduo gave Su Mingyu a bottle of mineral water.

Su Mingyu stood up from the sofa and took it with both hands.

It's a very common brand, the kind that costs two yuan a bottle in roadside shops.

Xu Sanduo told Su Mingyu to sit for a while while he went to call General Manager Yang.

Just as Su Mingyu was about to refuse, she saw Xu Sanduo walk to the door of a bedroom with the door half open and knock on it.

"Mr. Yang, Ms. Su is here."

Yang Muye was wearing headphones and playing a dungeon with Bei Weiwei.

I'm playing "Dream of Jianghu".

Yang Muye was too lazy to do anything himself and just kept clinging to Bei Weiwei's coattails the whole time.

Playing games is for relaxation; why move yourself when you can lie down?

Just then, Xu Sanduo came to call him. Yang Muyi took off his headphones, waved to Xu Sanduo, and asked him to play for him.

"Mr. Yang, I don't know how to play games."

Xu Sanduo said that, but Yang Muye still forced him to sit in front of the computer and taught him some basic operations.

Anyway, you don't have to do anything, just follow along.

Moreover, with YY voice chat enabled, Bei Weiwei could remotely give instructions.

The game is actually quite easy to pick up, but the game ID is something Xu Sanduo can't look at directly.

The dream of 900 million girls!

Such a narcissistic game ID, how could Yang Muye come up with it?

After watching Xu Sanduo play for a while without any problems, Yang Muye finally felt relieved and left the room.

In the living room, Su Mingyu heard footsteps.

Turning around, he met the gaze of Yang Muye, who was coming out of the bedroom.

Su Mingyu's first thought was, "This face is really beautiful."

At the same time, Yang Muye was also sizing up Su Mingyu.

Big eyes, a high nose bridge, and that signature big mouth.

In traditional Eastern aesthetics, such overly sculpted facial features are not considered desirable.

However, she does resemble the outspoken Hollywood actress Julia Roberts.

At the same time, there is a hint of Hong Kong star Anita Mui in his eyebrows and eyes.

"Hello, Mr. Yang."

Coming to her senses, Su Mingyu quickly stood up from the sofa.

Just as she was hesitating whether to shake hands with Yang Muye, Yang Muye walked to the sofa and sat down.

"Sister Yifei called me around noon. Are you a junior in college this year?"

Su Mingyu nodded vigorously.

Yang Muye's voice followed.

"Then I still have to call you senior."

Su Mingyu was taken aback.

"Mr. Yang, you too—"

"I am a freshman this year, and I am an exchange student from Yenching University of Economics and Business who came to Dongfang University."

Upon hearing that Yang Muyi came from a university in Yenching, Su Mingyu's eyes dimmed.

In 06, her college entrance exam score actually gave her a chance to get into Tsinghua University's SMTH (Shuimu BBS). Later, when SMTH announced its minimum admission score in Jiangnan Province, her score had indeed exceeded the cutoff.

As a result, her mother forced Su Mingyu to apply for a government-funded teacher training program at East China Normal University, claiming that her eldest brother needed money abroad and her second brother needed money to attend a private third-tier university, and that the family did not have enough money to support Su Mingyu's university education.

From the moment she transferred her household registration to the school, Su Mingyu completely severed ties with that family.

He hasn't been home for two years and hasn't asked his family for a single penny.

This is also why Su Mingyu, despite being a publicly funded teacher trainee and receiving scholarships every year, still had to work part-time to support herself.

"Senior Su?"

Yang Muye's soft call pulled Su Mingyu back to reality from her reverie.

"Mr. Yang, I'm sorry, I was a little distracted when you mentioned the universities in Yenching."

"Does Senior Su have any acquaintances over there?"

A hint of unease flashed across Su Mingyu's face, but she still managed to explain:

"My older brother studied at Tsinghua University for his undergraduate degree."

"Now?"

"I went to Stanford University in the United States for further studies and will graduate soon."

I'll probably stay there to work after graduation.

Su Mingyu didn't know the specifics, since they hadn't been in contact for over two years.

"Senior Su, your family's genes are really amazing; the whole family are academic superstars."

Yang Muye's tone carried a hint of envy.

However, these words sounded incredibly sarcastic to Su Mingyu.

Is she a top student?
I can say that I and my eldest brother Su Mingzhe are both included, but what about my second brother Su Mingcheng?
He couldn't even get into a second-tier university, so his mother sold two rooms in the house to raise enough money for him to attend a private third-tier university.

One of the rooms was Su Mingyu's room.

From then on, Su Mingyu no longer had her own room. It was only because she worked hard and lived up to expectations that no one at school laughed at her for being so poor that she couldn't even afford study materials.

Despite being the most useless of the three siblings, he was the most favored by their mother.

The mother's doting on Su Mingcheng went beyond mere preference for sons over daughters.

Back then, every time Su Mingyu looked at her face in the mirror, she felt that she didn't resemble her father at all.

If it weren't for the fact that everyone around her said she looked exactly like her mother when she was young, Su Mingyu would have seriously doubted that she was not her parents' biological child at all.

Just as she thought of this, Su Mingyu suddenly came back to her senses.

Oh no, I've been daydreaming again.

Looking up with an apologetic expression, Su Mingyu had no choice but to bite the bullet and take the initiative to cover up her embarrassment.

"Mr. Yang, may I ask you a question?"

Yang Muye shrugged.

"Of course you can, but you need to think it through. Is one question really enough?"

Su Mingyu was stunned again.

Has Yang Muyi already figured out what he wants to ask?

Without a second thought, Su Mingyu spoke decisively:
"I just heard from your bodyguard that Liu Wenjing is your nanny—"

Before he could finish speaking, Yang Muye's voice rang out.

"You want to ask me why I hired a tutor for my nanny, right? Wenjing comes from a rural mountain village in Jiangxi Province. She dropped out of school after junior high because her family couldn't afford it. Recently, her parents have been pressuring her to get married. She came to Shanghai to stay with relatives without telling her family. She happened to witness a bag snatching on the street. She stepped forward and stopped the thief. And the person whose bag was snatched was my mother."

So out of sympathy and gratitude, your family took Liu Wenjing in as a nanny.

They even hired a tutor for Liu Wenjing to support her in taking the college entrance examination.
Su Mingyu imagined the rest of the story in her mind, and felt a surge of jealousy, envy, and even hatred!
I wish I couldn't replace it.

If only I had been the one to catch the purse snatcher for Yang Muye's mother back then.

Just as he was thinking this, Yang Muye's voice continued to ring out.

"There's another version of the story about me hiring a tutor for my nanny. Would you like to hear it, Senior Su?"

What? There's more to this story?
Su Mingyu's curiosity was immediately piqued, and she nodded without hesitation.

Little did he know that he was falling step by step into a "trap" set up by Yang Muye.

"Senior Su, you're majoring in education, you must have heard of Cheng Dongqing's entrepreneurial story at New Dream, right?"

"I heard."

I even helped New Dream distribute flyers at school once.

Su Mingyu silently added a sentence in her mind.

New Dream mainly focuses on IELTS and TOEFL exams, as well as postgraduate entrance exam tutoring.

As a government-funded teacher trainee, Su Mingyu could neither go abroad nor take the postgraduate entrance examination. Upon graduation, she had to accept the assignment and return to teach in a poor and backward mountain school in her place of household registration.

I haven't had much contact with educational tutoring institutions like New Dream and New Oriental.

I heard that my older brother, Su Mingzhe, enrolled in a TOEFL class at New Dream before he went abroad.

The tuition was quite expensive, but Zhao Meilan, the mother, took out the money without hesitation.

I used my salary as collateral and borrowed it from a colleague's family.

As a result, the whole family ate rice porridge for more than half a year.

The only exception was Su Mingcheng, who was in his final year of high school at the time. Zhao Meilan claimed that he needed nutrition for studying, so Su Mingcheng's breakfast of milk and eggs was never interrupted.

As it turns out, waste is waste.

The whole family scrimped and saved to provide Su Mingcheng with extra nutrition, but what he gave back to his family was a score that wasn't even high enough for a second-tier university.

If it were someone else's family, they would have gone out to work directly based on their grades.

To avoid being ridiculed, Zhao Meilan insisted on supporting a person who had been proven to be useless to attend an expensive private third-tier university.

The key point is that this school is located in Shanghai.

In addition to the high tuition fees, living expenses are also a huge burden.

Also studying in Shanghai, Su Mingyu needs to squeeze out all her spare time to work and support herself.

Meanwhile, that good-for-nothing Su Mingcheng was able to live off half of his parents' wages and enjoy a carefree life at school.

A while ago, Su Mingyu saw Su Mingcheng when she was handing out flyers in a shopping plaza.

Su Mingcheng, accompanied by a girl, swaggered past Su Mingyu and entered a restaurant with practiced ease.

Su Mingyu was wearing a bulky mascot costume, and Su Mingcheng did not recognize her.

Although Su Mingcheng didn't take the girl to a fancy restaurant, the cost of a meal there was equivalent to what Su Mingyu earned distributing flyers all day in the scorching sun while wearing a stuffy mascot costume.

This incident made Su Mingyu realize even more clearly how right it was to "cut ties" with that family.

Just as Su Mingyu was lost in thought again, Yang Muye's voice continued to ring out.

"Cheng Dongqing, the founder of New Dream, took the entrance exam for Yenching University three times before finally getting in. After graduating, he stayed on as a teacher. At that time, university teaching positions were still highly sought after. However, he was fired by the university for secretly tutoring others."

So?

Su Mingyu looked at Yang Muye in confusion. What did this have to do with her?

"Senior Su, Sister Yifei told me about your situation. You're a government-funded teacher trainee, receiving scholarships every year, and you can also apply for poverty subsidies and interest-free loans—"

Before Yang Muyi could finish speaking, Su Mingyu's voice rang out.

This was the first time today that she had interrupted Yang Muye.

"I have never applied for poverty assistance!"

The reason wasn't that Su Mingyu was trying to save face, but rather that applying for poverty subsidies required a poverty certificate issued by her place of household registration.

Not to mention that Su Mingyu has completely cut off contact with her family and certainly won't go back to beg them.

Even if Su Mingyu begged, the certificate still couldn't be issued.

The father, Su Daqiang, is a librarian, and the mother, Zhao Meilan, is a head nurse at a hospital. In Suzhou, wouldn't it be ridiculous to issue a poverty certificate to a dual-income family like theirs?

Ironically, this family, which was not even qualified to provide a poverty certificate, forced their daughter to study at a publicly funded teacher training program, an option only for impoverished students.

How ironic!

(End of this chapter)