Chapter 31: 28.1

Chapter 28.1

You Can Do It!

Translated by boilpoil
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Xiao Ji and He Huaijian need to go to school, but then where does that leave the minor male insectoid Cheng Zhaoci? Well, he does need to study, but he does not need to go to school. Apparently, home-schooling is a thing here.

Cheng Zhaoci, who has lived dozens of years in total by now, almost completely forgot he’s still technically a minor here. His teacher is here, and he can’t ditch classes either, because most importantly, Cheng Jin hired him.

At the same time, he is still mulling over his new story. Honestly, he doesn’t really know how to write a love story. While he can just stuff it full of the clichés, but he doesn’t want to do that.

The problem is that Cheng Zhaoci lacks experience of falling in love. When he was still a human, a commission he had for drawing a shounen manga had comments like ‘the male and female leads are more teammates in an RPG than romantic partners.’

Love is his Achille’s Heel, as he does not know how to design a convincing love story. He has never fallen in love – he did not have the mind at school, and did not have the time when he has to work.

Though soon enough, Cheng Zhaoci does not need to mull over it anymore, because the teacher is at the door.

He is a demi over a hundred years old. Married, but hasn’t any offspring, due to some sickness that plagued him when he was young that made him infertile, Cheng Zhaoci has heard. Though fortunately, his xiongzhu did not abandon him, but more just ignored and let him be.

And having lived for a century brings with him a relaxing aura. Though the addition of all the electronic files for learning he’s brought simply reminds Cheng Zhaoci of his past homeroom teacher.

His tendency to pop up nowhere like a ghost through the window at the back of the classroom silently has allowed him to, at his peak, catch Cheng Zhaoci drawing in class dozens of times.

But he is definitely a good teacher. He’d invite Cheng Zhaoci to have dinner with him at his house, knowing he was an orphan, and would persuade him to study hard every time.

He’s of the older generation that believes these fancy comic things will lead him nowhere in life, and that young ones should study hard and enrol in top universities to be able to succeed.

Of course, Cheng Zhaoci knows he means well, and after growing up, he’d still pay visits to the old and retired homeroom teacher.

He will never forget, though, how the teacher’s head would suddenly appear at the back window without any sign, and because he was already balding, his head would reflect the sunlight cast from the corridors. It was such a memorable scene – a teacher outside the window, and the student who was drawing at that very moment, would lock eyes, and Cheng Zhaoci’s heart would always skip a beat.

He feels like his old homeroom teacher’s smile has been perfectly replicated on the face of this demi in front of him, despite the vastly different and superior appearance. Simply put, Cheng Zhaoci has a natural, prey-like fear of people working in education.

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It’s possibly a common tragedy for all the ‘bad apples.’

“You may call me Mr Liang,” the demi nods towards Cheng Zhaoci, “nice to meet you.”

“Same, same,” Cheng Zhaoci replies without much energy.

Outside some office building, a Zhou Luoluo whose appearance is so utterly bombastic that if Cheng Zhaoci could see him, would aptly describe as a ‘Christmas tree,’ is only hearing Cheng Zhaoci’s voice through his call, “what?! Home-schooling?! Oh, right, you’re about my age, too!” Zhou Luoluo quite often forgets Cheng Zhaoci is actually only 16. He really is too independent, and acts far more mature than his age.

“What? Go find you? Are you trying to use me as an excuse to ditch classes?” Zhou Luoluo raises his brows dramatically. Interesting, now Cheng Zhaoci’s acting childish for his age, “are the lessons too difficult?”

The lessons are hellish! Cheng Zhaoci was all mentally geared to accept a bunch of formulae he does not understand the slightest, or be bored to death with minutiae of insectoid history, but it turns out, male insectoids’ first lesson ever is ‘Xiongzhu Fundamentals’!

Cheng Zhaoci listened to the words in a daze, and honestly, it was sleep-inducing. Even worse than listening to history. He thinks he can record the lesson and play it every night to help achieve good sleep.

His dad will never have to worry about him staying up the whole night again!

“Just come!” Cheng Zhaoci has never so desperately wanted for Zhou Luoluo’s company as he is now. It’s not easy to get off days, but if he has an invitation from another male insectoid then that is completely ok.

Zhou Luoluo is pretty happy Cheng Zhaoci is looking for his help as a friend, but he glances at the office building entrance behind him, and then says, “I might be a bit late, though. Do you maybe want to tell your teacher you’re going to, uh, get inspiration looking at scenery for a while first?”

“What’s up?” Cheng Zhaoci is quite surprised that Zhou Luoluo is running this way blabbering excitedly like before.

Zhou Luoluo carefully lowers his tone of voice, saying, “I’ve got my eyes on a shemale lately,” although he is cold and aloof and 25 years older than him, and he did not even bat an eye at him the first time they met. It was those qualities that has won over the possibly masochistic Zhou Luoluo who enjoys someone who doesn’t look like they care about him.

Oh, that’s rare. Cheng Zhaoci congratulates him, “it’s pretty nice to have someone you like. Good luck with him, I’ll think of something myself,” Cheng Zhaoci hangs up and continues sitting in the toilet, blanking out. Ah, his plan to have administrative leave has failed. This is sad.

And it doesn’t feel like he would be allowed to leave to ‘find inspiration from grand sceneries’ either.

Should he just tell his dad he doesn’t want to study? Would that make him feel like his son is a lazy and unmotivated male insectoid? Hm, but wait, if to be a ‘motivated’ male means to marry a lot of concubines, it might be a better idea to nip that idea in the bud.

Though in the end, Cheng Zhaoci abandons his thoughts of giving up studying.

Instead, he decides to face his fears directly, and tells Mr Liang he doesn’t like the lesson.

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