Sheng Ning’an pouted, "I thought the person my Young Uncle brought in would be impressive, but it seems you aren’t much after all!"
"Hey, little girl, who are you saying isn’t up to snuff?" Xu Weiran was amused and yet annoyed.
Sheng Ning’an: "Didn’t you just admit you couldn’t do it? If you can’t do it, doesn’t that mean you’re not up to it?"
Did she say anything wrong?
Sheng Ning’an looked at him with a challenging gaze.
Xu Weiran: "...Fine, it’s just the middle rank of the grade! Big brother will figure something out for you."
A man can’t admit he can’t do something, even if he can’t, he must act as if he can!
Xu Weiran took out a diagnostic test he had prepared before coming, "Yesterday, you said you fell asleep during the exam and only scored 32 points, so this time, let me see your true level."
"Alright!" Sheng Ning’an took the test.
To avoid embarrassing herself in front of him, she was incredibly focused.
Over the course of one evening, Sheng Ning’an finished three sets of papers in language, math, and foreign language.
Xu Weiran checked her answers and found them to be slightly better than 32 points, but only slightly, still far from the mid-grade levels.
"Let’s stop here for today," he said, "Tomorrow evening I’ll come over again and I’ll help you create a comprehensive tutoring plan. If you want to move up to mid-grade level in a month, you must follow my directions completely."
"Do you really think I can?" Sheng Ning’an asked.
If he could really guarantee she would reach the mid-grade level, it wouldn’t hurt to follow his lead.
Xu Weiran raised an eyebrow and looked at her with a half-smile, "If I say you can’t, are you going to say I’m not up to it again?"
He said, "Whether it’s possible or not, we won’t know until we try. Getting to the middle rank of the grade is no big deal for me; I could do it with my eyes closed. But for you, it might be harder than scaling the heavens. Ultimately, whether we can achieve this or not isn’t up to me; it all depends on whether you cooperate. If you truly follow my instructions, we have a 30% chance; the rest depends on luck."
Sheng Ning’an: "Why does that sound so unreliable?"
"If you don’t trust me, find someone else to tutor you. But I assure you, if I can’t do it, no one else can." He, a proud graduate of Jing University’s Youth Class through both bachelor’s and master’s degrees, had this much confidence.
"Fine, I’ll trust you this time." It’s not like she had a better option.
Might as well treat a dead horse as if it were alive!
Xu Weiran was both annoyed and amused.
Why did it sound like she was so reluctant?
When Xu Weiran was leaving, Sheng Yeli had just returned from outside, and the two ran into each other. Sheng Yeli nodded at him as a greeting.
Xu Weiran waved his hand and said, "I’m heading out, don’t worry, I’ll definitely tutor the girl well and make sure your money isn’t wasted."
Sheng Yeli’s face remained expressionless as always.
Sheng Ning’an watched the two for a while, making sure she couldn’t detect any hint of ambiguity between them, and then she looked away.
It seems she was worrying over nothing.
After Xu Weiran left, Sheng Annin turned to Sheng Yeli and asked, "Young Uncle, how much did you actually pay him to tutor me?"
That guy earlier said he wouldn’t let her Young Uncle’s money go to waste, which means it must have been a considerable amount.
Sheng Yeli: "Thirty thousand."
"Whoa—" That guy really dared to charge a lot!
Now she really believed there was nothing between those two.
Sheng Yeli glanced at her and said, "Study hard." Then he returned to his room.