Chapter 93 — A Strange Dream: "Yao Yao, what's wrong?" Shen Yushu was startled, looking at Gu Mengyao, whose expression was on the verge of tears, and wondered what had happened to her.
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"Nothing..." Gu Mengyao sighed faintly. "Little Shu, do you think I went too far today?"
"No, of course not." Shen Yushu caught a certain undertone in Gu Mengyao's words. Was she still brooding over what had happened today? But Yao Yao had never seemed the sort to be so sentimental.
"Maybe... He doesn't even care..." Gu Mengyao shook her head.
"Yao Yao, your test paper?" Shen Yushu suddenly noticed that Gu Mengyao's paper was densely covered with step-by-step solutions, and she was taken aback. "Did Shield B write these for you? He's really quite good to you."
When grading someone else's paper, one had no obligation whatsoever to write out the solutions to the problems they had gotten wrong. Everyone had heard the teacher go through the steps, and they were all supposed to go home and make their own corrections. Yet Wei Zhao had written out the full solution steps for Gu Mengyao in detail, which surprised Shen Yushu and also made her understand why Gu Mengyao was acting this way.
Gu Mengyao said nothing, turning her attention to the problems she had gotten wrong. Seeing Gu Mengyao settle down to study in earnest, Shen Yushu likewise turned her attention to her own test paper.
To her surprise, Wei Zhao's solution steps were even more detailed than the teacher's explanation. Gu Mengyao was somewhat astonished. It was as if Wei Zhao had been afraid she would not understand, for every step was extremely thorough, complete with annotations. This left Gu Mengyao surprised, and at the same time she began to wonder about Wei Zhao's identity.
Just where had her father found this man? The first time she saw him, she had taken him for a migrant worker who had come to the city looking for work, but now it seemed, how could a migrant worker possibly solve senior-year math problems?
When Gu Mengyao came to the last bonus problem, she was surprised at first. Had she not solved this one correctly? When Teacher Liu had gone over it in class, she had even felt a little smug about it. So many students in the class had failed to solve it, yet she had gotten it right, which had given her vanity a small measure of satisfaction.
But when Gu Mengyao finished reading Wei Zhao's solution steps, she could not help but freeze. It was a method of solving she had never seen before, yet it was far simpler than her own.
An inexplicable wave of emotion welled up in Gu Mengyao's heart. She knew that Wei Zhao had truly done this for her sake, and not merely to go through the motions; otherwise, there would have been no need for him to write out this alternative method at all.
"Little Shu... look at the solution to this problem..." Gu Mengyao sighed and pushed her test paper over to Shen Yushu.
"Hmm?" Shen Yushu had assumed at first that Gu Mengyao had run into a problem she could not solve and wanted her help, but when she saw the problem Gu Mengyao was pointing at and Wei Zhao's solution, her mouth fell open. "No way! Shield B is that impressive? Not only is he good at fighting, he's a genius at his studies too. Yao Yao, you've hit the jackpot!"
"Hit the jackpot?" Gu Mengyao looked at Shen Yushu, puzzled.
"Where are you going to find a guy like that? You have to strike first before someone else beats you to him," Shen Yushu said.
"..." Gu Mengyao pursed her lips, then said with a trace of disdain, "Him? Who would ever fancy him?"
"Hehe..." Shen Yushu gave a sly grin. "Plenty of people. Just you wait and see."
After finishing his meal, Wei Zhao tossed the two remaining spare ribs he had not eaten to General Weiwu. He had originally intended to save them for making noodles the next morning, but then he remembered that tomorrow was the weekend and Uncle Qing had said he would take care of all three meals, and besides, Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu would surely sleep in, so there was no need for him to get up early to make breakfast.