Secret After-School Tutoring

The evening breeze lifted a corner of the classroom curtain. The fading sunlight slanted through the glass, stretching the shadows of the desks long. Shen Yuzhou was the most notorious troublemaker in the entire school—smoking, skipping classes, defying teachers—and no one could keep him in check. Until this semester, when the school introduced a one-on-one mentoring system. Without a moment's hesitation, he chose Lin Qingxu—the female teacher he had driven to tears three times before. No one knew why. No one knew what kind of person this solitary teenager was waiting for, someone to fill that hollow apartment of his. By now, the dismissal bell had long since rung, and only the two of them were left in the classroom.