68 Resul (1/2)
It was already the fourth day of school. At noon, the bored Bai Xi lay on the library’s sofa, yawning. When she felt bored, she would roll over and say, ”Ah, I’m so bored.”
Before the blackboard, Charles sighed awkwardly. ”Sister, don’t be like this. I’m trying to teach you.”
”I don’t want to learn. We agreed that I just have to enroll, and don’t have to learn!” The little girl rolled her eyes. ”I don’t care. I want to go shopping! I want to play…”
”No, wait!” Charles waved helplessly. ”Look, the professor told me before he left to take his place. You don’t want to learn, but it’s okay if you want me to teach you something else. We’re both experts on music theory. I charge a couple hundred per hour when I tutor. Can’t you give me some respect?”
”In my old home, you wouldn’t be qualified to be my teacher if you weren’t at least an Imperial Nine Musician. And I had everything you’re teaching memorized by the time I was thirteen-years-old.”
”Thirteen? Wait, that can’t be right!” Charles froze, getting confused. ”Sister, how old are you?”
”Don’t you know that you can’t go around asking a girl’s age?” Bai Xi huffed. Eyes filling with resentment, she muttered, ” I hit puberty late. I’ll grow tall someday…even taller than the white lotus!”
Charles had good ears and heard what she had quietly muttered. ”White lotus? Who?”
”Why do you care? Anyway, it’s the pure little girl that you men all like. Pitiful and makes parents like her, has big boobs, and can make you have dirty thoughts just by wearing a white dress. That kind!”
”How is that possible? A pretty girl like that that I haven’t met before?” Charles was suddenly infuriated. ”Don’t let those girls ruin junior! Let them come to me, and I’ll teach them!”
Bai Xi glanced at him and quickly looked away disinterested. ”Senior, you’re so weak. Even if there were ten of you, you’d still get played.”
”No way. I’m the famous prodigy of the Royal Academy of Music!” Charles’s expression was serious, but his words obviously had no substance, and Bai Xi burst into laughter.
Charles’ expression turned helpless. He sighed, shaking his head. ”Ugh, I was brave before, but a coward now. Whatever. If you want to go walk around, wait for junior to come out and we can go play together.”
”Who knows when he’ll come out?” Bai Xi suddenly became upset. ”I called him for a long time last night and he ignored me. What is he even doing down there by himself? Can you learn the notes just by locking yourself up?”
”I doubt it. That feeling isn’t that easy to get.”
”Is it really that hard? Didn’t I learn it easily?”
”That’s what you think.” Charles could not help but sigh. ”Here’s an example. Notes are just like pretty girls. They are cold and beautiful, and their personalities and moods are always changing. You need to have the charisma of a wanderer, the inheritance of royalty, the stubbornness of a fool, and the enthusiasm of a lunatic to be able to achieve resonance. But sadly, in the eyes of the notes, junior is just plain, poor, and has a weird personality. He probably can’t even get onto the waiting list for reincarnation. There’s no way he can achieve resonance.”
”…Is it that bad?”
”It’s worse than bad.” Charles shook his head. ”If it were, say, a pretty girl, it’d be easier. At least there are other ways.”
”What ways?” Bai Xi asked.
Charles smiled crudely. ”Use force.”
”Go die!”
A book whacked Charles in the face, knocking him straight to the ground. Charles crawled up and sighed. But before he could say anything, loud barking came from the hall.
”Old Phil?” Charles looked over in suspicious, but finally realized, ”I know, it must be spring.”
”Spring your *ss!” Bai Xi jumped down from the sofa and ran out without even putting on her shoes.
As an evil dog, Old Phil always followed the rule ‘silence is golden,’ and never barked no matter what. If the problem could be solved with teeth and claws, then he would use his teeth and claws to solve it. Problems that could not be solved with teeth and claws…well, he never ran into them. Old Phil was too powerful, and never ran into those problems. If there was nothing, Old Phil would never bark. That was why Bai Xi started to worry. What happened to Old Phil? Had he brought back something weird again?
On the second day of school, there had been a mysterious theft in the academy. All of the doorknobs on the School of Revelation’s first floor were stolen! Who knew what the thief was thinking, stealing only the doorknobs and nothing else. The academy could only conclude that it was some student’s prank. Only Bai Xi knew that when Charles found all of the doorknobs in his bed, he almost peed his pants.
After giving its welcome gift to his new servant, Old Phil turned and walked away without letting anyone know his name, as a hero should. So Charles and Bai Xi could only dig a ditch in the middle of the night and bury the doorknobs.
Bai Xi walked down the hall with the same worry that Ye Qingxuan once had. And just as Ye Qingxuan had, she froze.