A pampered young lady from a wealthy family is reborn, choosing a rich wife over a rich man.

Mrs. Gu thought she had misheard.

She stood in the center of the living room, wearing a dark green silk cheongsam, her hair neatly styled in a bun, and her makeup exquisite.

But at this moment, the expression on her face seemed to have been paused; her eyes widened slightly, her lips parted, and it took her a long time to find her voice again.

"You're going to hire a tutor?" she asked again, her tone clearly incredulous. "For every subject? And with extensive teaching experience?"

Gu Huai hung the basketball on the shelf in the entryway, bent down and pulled out slippers from the shoe cabinet to put on: "Yeah."

His movements were casual and natural, as if he had just said "What should we eat tonight?" instead of "I need to hire a tutor."

"Oh, right..." He straightened up and said to Mrs. Gu, "Mom, the tutor you hire for me must be someone who is very experienced in taking the college entrance exam and can help me get a high score."

"Make sure your schedule is packed; besides Saturdays and Sundays, schedule all your evenings from Monday to Friday."

Mrs. Gu: "...???!!!!"

She took a deep breath, trying to make her voice sound steady: "Gu Huai, tell me the truth, did you get into trouble at school? Or did someone beat you up?"

Gu Huai frowned: "Mom, can't you wish me well for once?"

"Then why did you suddenly say you wanted to hire a tutor?" Mrs. Gu stepped forward and reached out to touch his forehead. "Do you have a fever? Are you delirious from the fever?"

Gu Huai turned his head away from her hand, his ear tips turning slightly red.

He sat down awkwardly on the living room sofa, picked up a glass of water from the coffee table, took a sip, and then said in a muffled voice, "Xuexue told me to do this."

Mrs. Gu's hand froze in mid-air.

"Xuexue?" She frowned. "That college girl you're always chasing after?"

To be honest, she was furious when she found out about it.

I had planned to talk to him tonight, but I didn't expect him to bring it up first.

"Yes." Gu Huai put down his water glass, his dark eyes filled with the earnestness and determination unique to young people, as well as a proud smile. "She told me to hire a few more tutors to help me get good grades in the college entrance examination and get into a good university."

He paused, the redness spreading from the tips of his ears to the base of his neck, and his voice lowered slightly: "She said she doesn't dare to date me right now, afraid it will affect my studies. But if I get into a good university, she won't have any psychological burden anymore, and she'll happily accept me."

Mrs. Gu looked incredulous, her face full of doubt: "Really?"

"Of course it's true!"

Gu Huai immediately took out his phone, unlocked it with his fingerprint, quickly scrolled through his chat history with Meng Zhixue, and handed the screen to his mother.

Mrs. Gu took it and swiped her finger across the screen, reading through the messages one by one.

She saw the message from the girl whose contact name was "Xuexue Baby". The message was well-chosen and logically clear, and she was consistently rejecting Gu Huai.

On the contrary, Gu Huai relentlessly pursued her, calling her "baby" all the time and shamelessly calling her "sister".

It's unbearable to look at!

She felt ashamed to even look at him!

As for the message "Xuexue Baby" sent today, the core meaning is "You are a senior in high school now, so you should focus on your studies. We can talk about feelings after you finish the college entrance examination. I can wait for you, but the premise is that you have to give me a decent college admission letter."

After reading it, Mrs. Gu returned the phone to Gu Huai with a complicated expression.

"Baby Xuexue" said this perfectly, neither agreeing to be with Gu Huai nor failing to give him a goal to strive for.

It seems like they're considering Gu Huai's best interests, but it's actually a delaying tactic...

Although she thought her son was good at everything, she also knew that his mind wasn't on his studies.

A decent acceptance letter... What kind of school's acceptance letter is considered decent?

Does it require at least a full-time bachelor's degree?

In just one year, a high school senior can raise their grades from the lower middle of the class to above the undergraduate admission line? This is clearly just empty promises.

As a well-known shrewd person in the circle, Mrs. Gu saw through Meng Zhixue's intentions at a glance.

But she didn't say it out loud.

Because she discovered that the pie was drawn really well.

Her son's academic performance was always a struggle; no amount of nagging about it mattered. No matter how many tutors she hired, it was all for naught, as his grades remained consistently below average.

But now, everything's fine!

He had only known a girl for less than two weeks, and with just a few casual words, he took the initiative to ask for a tutor.

Mrs. Gu felt a mix of bitterness, a pang of sadness, and a surge of joy.

Suppressing her complicated emotions, she sat down on the single sofa opposite Gu Huai, crossed her legs, placed her hands on her knees, and looked at her son.

"I heard," she began slowly, "that you fell in love with her at first sight?"

Gu Huai was putting his phone back in his pocket when he heard this, he paused, and the tips of his ears turned red again.

He turned his face away, touched his nose, and mumbled an "Mmm".

"What do you like about her?" Mrs. Gu asked.

Gu Huai remained silent.

"Hmm?" Mrs. Gu leaned forward slightly. "Tell me about it, and I'll give you some advice."

Gu Huai felt uncomfortable under her gaze. He unconsciously rubbed his fingers on his knees a couple of times, his thin lips pressed into a line. After hesitating for a long time, he simply answered honestly, "...I'm lusting after her body."

Mrs. Gu: "...???!!"

She felt that there might really be something wrong with her ears.

"...Say it again?"

Since Gu Huai had already said it, he was quite frank: "I said I was lusting after her body."

Mrs. Gu sat there, experiencing for the first time in her life what it meant to have her "brain shut down".

Her son, whom she had raised for eighteen years, always had a cold face at school and wasn't close to anyone. She once suspected that he might spend the rest of his life in a temple.

Now he's telling her that he's lusting after other girls?

She both understood and didn't understand.

Teenage boys are really difficult to deal with!

Rubbing her temples, she tried to calm herself down and asked from a different angle, "If you only have physical needs, you don't necessarily have to go to her, right?"

"There are plenty of beautiful girls in our circle, each with a better family background and higher education than her. Why does it have to be her?"

Gu Huai coughed, looking a little uncomfortable, but his tone was very serious: "So, I do desire her body, but it's not just that I desire her body."

I love everything about her. No one else has ever made my heart flutter, at least not yet.