The anchor I was supposed to meet turned out to be my student.

Xu Lehan seemed afraid of her mother. She lowered her head, stammering, "I...I can't learn it..." after being scolded by Liao Ning.

I said, "Xu Lehan isn't incapable of learning; she's just not focused on her studies. I recently found out that she stays up late every night in bed in front of the computer, doing nothing. I think that's probably why she's neglecting her studies."

Liao Ning also said, "Now that Coach Hua says so, I think it makes sense. Le Han, you were always in the top 50 students in your grade in high school, how could you not be able to learn in college?"

After being bombarded with questions from me and her mother, Xu Lehan lowered her head as if she had done something wrong. Xu Qingshan, seemingly unable to bear seeing his daughter being wronged, said to his wife, "Honey, you can't be so harsh on Lehan. Maybe she really is interested in something. We parents can't just keep demanding that she study..."

Liao Ning snorted and said, "You've spoiled Le Han rotten!"

"No, Mom, I'm perfectly fine..." Xu Lehan said weakly.

Liao Ning rolled her eyes at her daughter, seemingly already used to her daughter's ability to argue, yet helpless.

"So, Xu Lehan, what are you busy with every night? Just tell us, and we'll understand."

Xu Lehan stubbornly insisted, "I really wasn't busy with anything, I was just surfing the internet..."

"So you became addicted to the internet when you got to college?" Liao Ning said angrily.

I quickly advised her mother, Liao Ning, to calm down. I knew that being fierce at this time would not solve the problem. I had to get her to talk willingly, otherwise I would never be able to get her to say anything.

This is the patience we educators should have.

"It's like this, Xu Lehan. Your teacher happens to know a doctor surnamed Yang. He's an expert in treating internet addiction and is skilled in electrical..."

Before I could finish speaking, Xu Lehan interrupted me fearfully, "I'll talk, I'll talk, okay...?"

Indeed, the best way to solve problems is for educators to calmly and patiently explain things to students, and I will continue to do so.

dong dong!

Then the door opened, and the four of us looked over. It was Hua Xinning, whom I had asked to come and pick up the military training certificate.

Suddenly, the three members of Xu Lehan's family looked at Hua Xinning with astonishment...

(Damn it, I have new summer courses starting today, sob sob sob. But don't worry, I'll definitely update daily, double updates are usually possible, and I can even do a big update on weekends.)

Chapter 38, Section 158: Mom, you were secretly... behind Dad's back...

For a moment, I didn't realize why Xu Lehan's family all used the same kind of expression... like the surprised look on someone's face when they see an author updating a hundred times a day. Has Xin Ning unknowingly become so beautiful that even demons and monsters would be in awe of her?

"Aaaaaah... Someone slashed my face off while I was sleeping!"

Xu Lehan cried out and hugged me tightly, burying her face in my chest, looking like she had seen something terrifying. Look how scared the child is...

I suddenly realized why. I'd previously said that Xu Lehan and Hua Xinning were 70% alike, especially when their hair was down, they were almost 90% alike – they looked like they'd crawled out of the same womb! (I forgot the idiom, something about being identical, but whatever, this one I made up means the same thing, right? It's even more vivid and apt!)

"Mirror, mirror!"

Xu Lehan quickly took out her phone, opened the selfie camera, and only breathed a sigh of relief after making sure her face hadn't been cut off. Then she stood up, pointed at Hua Xinning, and said, "Who are you?! Why are you imitating my face?!"

Seeing that Hua Xinning was getting scared from their stares, I quickly pressed down the hand that Xu Lehan was pointing at, then walked over to Hua Xinning and stood in front of her, saying, "She is my sister, Hua Xinning, a freshman in the School of Management."

As I led Hua Xinning to sit down on the sofa, Xu Qingshan and Liao Ning's eyes never left her. They probably shared my question: why did Xu Lehan and Hua Xinning look so alike? Of course, aside from their faces, there were some differences in other areas. For example, when they stood, Xu Lehan was two centimeters taller than Hua Xinning; when they lay down, Xu Lehan was also two centimeters taller than Hua Xinning… Xu Lehan is really big…

"Brother, why are they looking at me like that... And that girl looks just like me..." Hua Xinning whispered as she sat next to me, but she didn't dare to look up. She always acted like this when facing strangers, especially when someone had been staring at her for so long.

Xu Qingshan and Liao Ning realized they had been quite inappropriate and looked away from Hua Xinning, asking, "Excuse me, is she Teacher Hua's younger sister?"

I don't know what their purpose was in asking that question, but I know one thing for sure: Xin Ning isn't my biological sister at all. My parents adopted her when she was only four years old from an orphanage. Thinking about this, my heart skipped a beat. Could it really be such a coincidence? Xu Lehan had mentioned to me before that she overheard her parents saying she had a sister but had never met her...

Even if there were such a possibility, or even if Hua Xinning were just a coincidence that she was the daughter they abandoned, I could never tell Hua Xinning that she was adopted. I believe my parents wouldn't tell either, because Xinning has lived with us for almost fifteen years and is already a member of our family. How could we possibly watch her go back to her birth family? Call me selfish or cruel, but I absolutely disagree. Xinning will always be my sister, and she can't be taken away by anyone!

Moreover, if Xin Ning finds out that she was adopted, she will definitely suffer a huge blow and a severe setback.

I calmly replied, "Yes, she is my younger sister. I never expected her to look so much like your daughter. What a coincidence!"

Xu Lehan finally recovered from her horrified expression and instantly became enthusiastic. She moved closer to Hua Xinning and proactively extended her hand to introduce herself: "We look so much like sisters, it must be fate. We should get to know each other. My name is Xu Lehan, you can call me 'older sister' from now on~"

He's only just arrived and he's already trying to take advantage of my sister!

Hua Xinning glanced at me first, and then reached out to shake my hand.

"Yes, Sister Lehan..."

Xin Ning, you should be tougher! Tell that idiot: You're the one who should be calling me sister!

"Quick, add me on WeChat. If we go out together, people will definitely think we're best friends. It'll be so much fun, hehe..."

Hey Xu Lehan, could you please stop smiling so slyly? You look like a scoundrel on the street asking for a pretty girl's contact information. And with Xu Lehan's clueless personality, if you take Xin Ning out to play, she might get scammed by some scoundrel and end up with a "sisterly" meal...

As she spoke, Xu Lehan had already taken out her phone and opened the QR code scanning interface. Hua Xinning couldn't resist her enthusiasm, so she had no choice but to take out her phone and add her as a friend as well...

I watched silently from the sidelines, thinking to myself that I had to make Xin Ning delete Xu Lehan's contact after they left. I'd heard that being stupid is contagious, and I wanted my sister to have a normal college life...

After exchanging contact information, Xu Qingshan smiled and said, "Since Lehan and Teacher Hua's sister look so alike, it's quite a coincidence. How about we visit your home another day so that both sets of parents can get to know each other? That would be a good thing."

I immediately became wary. Before I was sure what Xu Qingshan and his wife were thinking, I would not agree to them contacting my parents, or even contacting Xin Ning more, because I was really worried that my suspicions would come true.

So he smiled and politely declined, saying, "I'm afraid it's not very convenient, because my parents' home is not in Shanghai, it's quite far from Shanghai. Let's talk about it another time... By the way, let's continue with what we just said about Xu Lehan."

I turned to Xu Lehan, who was already tugging at my heartstrings, and said, "Xu Lehan, what have you been busy with these past two years that caused you to fail so many courses?"

Seeing that I changed the subject, Xu Qingshan didn't press the matter further, so he and his wife Liao Ning turned their attention to Xu Lehan, also wanting to know what she was busy with.

Xu Lehan's smile froze instantly, and her gaze began to wander uncomfortably. Having spent some time with her, I knew this was when she was about to start rambling and change the subject, so I reminded her again, "I have a friend surnamed Yang..."

"Okay, okay, I'll talk, I'll talk... I'll talk, alright? Stop threatening me, ugh!" Xu Lehan bit her lip and looked at me defiantly.

It's true that you need to know a lot of people; just mentioning their names is so effective...

Xu Lehan pouted and said aggrievedly, "Actually, I've been writing novels all along..."

"Writing novels?!" The two parents and I exclaimed in unison in surprise.

"Yes……"

"Why didn't you go to university and instead came here to write novels? Is writing novels more important to you right now, or your studies?" her mother, Liao Ning, scolded.

"See, see, I knew you wouldn't agree if I told you, and then you gave me a bunch of reasons to give up on the novel..."

"But even if you're writing novels, you don't have to neglect your studies. Can't you just write a little bit every day?" I asked.

"That's definitely not going to work. I'm a full-time online novelist!" Xu Lehan suddenly became proud.

Liao Ning became even angrier and scolded her daughter, "Are you that short of money? If you need money, you can just tell us. Do you think we don't have enough money for you? Do you need to work so hard as a full-time online novelist and neglect your studies?"

Seeing his wife so agitated, Xu Qingshan comforted her, saying, "Honey, calm down. Lehan is all grown up now, she must have her own opinions. We should be understanding. Maybe she really does love writing novels?"

Liao Ning said irritably, "Does liking something mean it's useful? Don't think I don't know that being an online novelist sounds good, but how many online novelists actually fail? Isn't this a waste of time? It would be more meaningful to put that time into studying. Honey, at this point, you should stop spoiling Le Han!"

“But Mom…” Xu Lehan called out weakly under her mother’s anger.

"But two of my novels have already been adapted into TV series... I saw you secretly watching one of them every night behind your dad's back, and you even had that 'auntie smile' on your face..."

(I'll barely manage two updates today, that's all for now, I have class tonight, damn it! Do I deserve all the monthly votes and tips for being so diligent?)

Chapter 39, Page 159. Teacher Hua, I love you to death!

Xu Lehan's mother, Liao Ning, immediately panicked, or more accurately, felt ashamed after being exposed. She said urgently, "Lehan, what are you saying? I never secretly watched web dramas behind your father's back..."

“I saw you watching it several times when I went home over the weekend; it’s that show called ‘Summer Romance’…”

"Summer Romance?!" Upon hearing the name of this web series, both Xu Lehan's father, Xu Qingshan, and I couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

Then Xu Lehan and Liao Ning looked at me and Xu Qingshan with extremely strange eyes, and even Hua Xinning next to me was looking at me with a complicated expression.

Xu Lehan burst into laughter, saying, "I didn't expect even you two grown men would watch, hahaha..."

Xu Qingshan and I blushed under the stares of the three women, because it was the very same drama that Bi Antong had been criticizing last night. For two grown men like us to be watching that kind of youthful campus romance drama was just too embarrassing, but I couldn't resist my girlish heart...

Xu Qingshan was immediately indignant at his wife's gaze and retorted, "You dare to criticize me? Aren't you secretly watching it behind my back too? You're so old and still watching this kind of stuff like young girls, it's shameful..."

Liao Ning immediately disregarded the presence of us bystanders and began to violently assault Xu Qingshan by pinching the flesh on his arm.

"I haven't even settled accounts with you yet, and you were secretly looking at these things. Were you thinking about your first love again? Hmm?!"

At the same time, Hua Xinning, who was next to me, looked at me with a hint of resentment and whispered, "Brother, are you also thinking about your first love from high school?"

No, before asking that, you should have asked me if I had a first love in high school, instead of just acknowledging it!

"I had my first love in college, there's no such thing as a first love in high school..." Actually, that's not entirely true, I did have one. I liked Qi Mei back then, if you count anime characters...

Looking at Xu Lehan now, she was completely gloating as she stared at us.

"Xu Lehan!" We all looked at the perpetrator.

Xu Lehan immediately closed her mouth, no longer daring to laugh freely.

"You say you're the author of the novel adapted from the web series, what proof do you have?" I asked, still somewhat skeptical, given how too coincidental this was.

Xu Qingshan and Liao Ning also agreed with my point of view and looked at Xu Lehan.

Xu Lehan tossed her hair smugly and said, "Hmph, you can just stare and get blinded by the light."

As she spoke, Xu Lehan opened her phone and showed us her author profile page. Her works include "Summer Romance" and "I Have Two Boyfriends with Dissociative Identity Disorder," among others. "I Have Two Boyfriends with Dissociative Identity Disorder" is the latest web series adaptation, a wildly imaginative story about a romance between two protagonists with dual personalities. The plot is explosive, which made me realize Xu Lehan's incredible talent for writing novels. I also glanced at her pen name—"I'm a Fairy Duck"—well, so shameless…

I suddenly felt that all my previous positive comments were wasted, all because of this stupid pen name...

Now that things have come to this, we have no reason not to believe Xu Lehan. She has indeed achieved something in the online literature industry, and compared to most writers, she is already quite successful.

"Lehan is truly my daughter. When she gets serious about something, she's just as good as anyone else. Dad supports you!" Xu Qingshan gave Xu Lehan a thumbs up.

Seeing her father's support, Xu Lehan was so happy that she also raised her thumb and hooked it with Xu Qingshan's thumb.

Liao Ning, however, had a different attitude. With a stern face, she said, "Even so, you should understand that the most important thing for you at this stage is to study. I can't object to you writing novels, but you must put some of your energy into your studies. I don't expect you to have great grades, but at least don't be so bad that your counselor has to call your parents over!"

“Yes, yes, Lehan, you can’t neglect your studies either,” Xu Qingshan chimed in, seemingly unconvinced.

Actually, what my mother Liao Ning said is exactly what I wanted to say. Of course, I could not ask Xu Lehan to give up writing, because for most students, the goal of studying is largely to earn more money in the future. Xu Lehan has already achieved this goal. Although her family is very wealthy, the meaning of studying is to better do what she wants to do in the future, and she has done that now. Therefore, it would be very unwise to ask her to give up a writing career with unlimited potential and a bright future and instead devote all her energy to studying, because you may not be able to achieve a similar status in the latter.

Xu Lehan immediately looked troubled and said, "But I've already fallen behind in so many subjects. It would take a lot of time to retake them all, and then I wouldn't be able to write my novel..."

So both parents turned to me, hoping I could offer a better solution. After thinking for a moment, I asked Xu Lehan, "Do you think you can guarantee that you can catch up on at least a few of the subjects you failed if you study on your own?"

Xu Lehan nodded repeatedly and said, "I guarantee there won't be any problem. With my intelligence, I only need to study for three days in advance to pass any course in university! If I have a week to review, even the top ten students in the grade, like Bi Antong and Lu Xiaojun, will be crushed by me!"

"..."

Even if she gets a better score on the retake, so what? Even if she gets a perfect score on the retake, it will only count as 60 points... But I don't doubt her arrogance about passing in just three days. In fact, it may be difficult to get a perfect score in a university course, but it is extremely easy to pass. Many contemporary college students cram before the final exam. Reviewing is the same as previewing. In total, it only takes three days to revive a course and pass it. Any more points are a waste, any less points are a pain. Sixty points is the motto of this group.