Chapter 20 : Destined Encounter
20: Destined Encounter
"Hahaha, Big Brother Su Mo, Chenchen wants to go higher!"
"Hehehe, Ningning~ Ningning wants to go high too!"
In the small garden of Weiyang Apartments, waves of delightful, cheerful childish laughter rang out alternately from two adjacent swings.
Children's laughter was always infectious, making listeners feel lighter in mood.
Hearing the two little ones' joyful voices, Su Mo felt that much of the pent-up frustration she'd gotten from that evil loli senior had dissipated.
However, while her mood was cheerful, pushing swings in the hot summer was still somewhat taxing for Su Mo's weak constitution, even though the two little ones were very light.
Moreover, to disguise her female identity, Su Mo was wearing a long-sleeved jacket, which made fine beads of sweat appear on her forehead.
Chu Tianlan, having just finished coordinating with the part-time job guy and confirming Su Mo's tutoring position, walked over to the two little ones and saw Su Mo's slightly fatigued appearance.
She immediately took out a square, exquisite cotton handkerchief from her carry bag and handed it over. While handing over the handkerchief, she gently crossed her arms and pretended to be stern as she educated the two happily playing little ones:
"Chenchen, Ningning, how can you only think about playing yourselves? Look how tired you've made big brother! Quickly get down from the swings."
Su Mo accepted the soft, slightly warm handkerchief, able to smell a faint lavender fragrance on it.
Looking at Chu Tianlan, who was persuading the two little ones to get off the swings and indirectly helping her out of the situation, Su Mo couldn't help but feel somewhat surprised at this moment.
Emmmmmm this plot development had the feel of a romantic scene with a family of four from Japanese anime!
However, how should she put it! After Chu Tianlan's intervention just now, her favorable impression of this neighborly big sister had indeed increased!
Chu Tianlan gently tapped the two little ones' heads and put their backpacks back on them.
Whether it was Su Mo's imagination or not, she felt that after putting on their backpacks, some of the two little ones' joy was sealed away.
From this single detail, Su Mo could sense that these two little ones truly disliked studying. It seemed the upcoming tutoring experience wouldn't be so smooth.
Just as Su Mo was thinking about how to guide the two little ones in their studies later, she heard Chu Tianlan's gentle voice beside her:
"I see you two quite like Big Brother Su Mo. How about letting him teach you to study later?"
The two little ones, hearing Chu Tianlan mention 'Big Brother Su Mo,' instinctively blinked their innocent big eyes at Su Mo.
But after triggering the 'study' keyword, the two little ones became as guilty as if they'd been caught sneaking ice cream, simultaneously lowering their little heads and playing with their fingers in unison.
They wanted to pretend: 'What did you say? I didn't hear anything.'
Faced with the two little ones' poor acting skills, Chu Tianlan's delicate eyebrows couldn't help but furrow. After feeling somewhat embarrassed with Su Mo, she seemed to think of something and said to the two little ones:
"Ningning, Chenchen, don't you love the characters from Genshin Impact the most? Big Brother Su Mo can imitate all of them!"
Hearing Chu Tianlan's statement, Su Mo couldn't help but feel somewhat surprised at this moment.
It wasn't that Su Mo couldn't imitate Genshin Impact voice lines. As a broadcasting and hosting major student, Su Mo was quite confident about voice work. While she couldn't say she could imitate perfectly, at least restoring character traits and fooling children was easily achievable.
What truly surprised Su Mo was mainly that Chu Tianlan, as Student Council President, could recognize her among the nearly ten thousand people in the north campus district—this alone was commendable.
More importantly, the other party even knew she was a broadcasting and hosting major. Wasn't this understanding too comprehensive? Or did Student Council Presidents need to memorize everyone? That memory would be too exaggerated.
Just as Su Mo was shocked, the next second, the innocent two little ones grabbed her pant legs again.
"Big Brother Su Mo, Ningning wants to hear Qiqi."
"No no no, Chenchen wants to hear Klee."
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Moments later, in Room 1802 on the top floor of Building 11 in Weiyang Apartments, in a room full of books, cute Klee voice lines or slow, half-beat Qiqi voice lines would ring out from time to time.
Each time a voice rang out, Su Mo's eyebrows would furrow lightly, and her expression would become conflicted.
As for why Su Mo had to use the word 'conflicted'?
The reason was quite interesting.
Because the two little ones' homework was extremely aggressive and wildly imaginative.
For example, make a sentence using "although... yet..."
Chenchen directly wrote crookedly: "Although Teacher Zhou is very ugly, yet she is extremely narcissistic."
At this, Su Mo silently mourned for Teacher Zhou while suppressing laughter for a minute.
In elementary English, connecting words with Chinese meanings, Ningning directly twisted all the connecting lines into a rope, proudly declaring: "Hehehe, adding some difficulty for Teacher Zhou."
At this, Su Mo only felt that the elementary school teacher position was far more challenging now than when she was in elementary school.
Chu Tianlan, back home, looked at the two hot potatoes that her brother and sister-in-law had entrusted to her parents before going abroad, whom her parents had found novel for a few days before using the excuse of busy company affairs to pass on to her.
Seeing them patiently doing homework under Su Mo's 'Genshin Impact character' voice acting, she couldn't help but breathe a long sigh of relief.
Although Chu Tianlan, who loved entertaining people, was very fond of her brother's little niece Ningning and little nephew Chenchen.
But tutoring the two little ones with homework was truly a headache for her.
She couldn't hit them, couldn't scold them. If you got anxious, they would cry. If you smiled, they would act spoiled. Most importantly, even after teaching the same thing many times, the two little ones would keep stepping into the same pit, which was infuriating.
Due to her busy position as Student Council President with both work and studies, Chu Tianlan ultimately thought of finding a tutor.
Actually, she had initially considered asking Student Council members to tutor. But many people offered to help for free, which put Chu Tianlan in a difficult position, so she ultimately left the tutoring matter to part-time Brother Wang.
Now seeing Su Mo, who had been brought in, replacing her usual self in teaching the two little ones.
Unlike the usual chaos during study time, the two little ones were now well-behaved, showing no spoiled behavior or boredom—it was extremely abnormal.
This made her appreciate this 'legendary' junior even more, her eyes narrowing gently with much more warmth.
As for why Chu Tianlan wanted to add the modifier 'legendary' to Su Mo?
This had to be traced back to a year ago.
A year ago, Chu Tianlan was still a sophomore finance major.
Since the Chu family ran a company in Suzhou, for future development and to attract talent after graduation, Chu Tianlan had joined the Student Council during her freshman year and worked toward the Student Council President position.
However, with nearly ten thousand people in one Su University campus and only one Student Council President, the competition could truly be called a battle among dragons and tigers.
The Student Council had various complex small groups. Although during her freshman and sophomore years, Chu Tianlan had risen to Vice President through organizing various activities and could be considered outstanding in ability.
But since she hadn't reached the 'legitimate succession' junior year, ascending to the President position was still extremely difficult.
Perhaps seeing Chu Tianlan's ambition, or coveting her beauty, after a dance party ended during her sophomore year, when only the two of them remained, the outgoing Student Council President made an unreasonable male request, something like: "Just spend one night with me, and I'll give you everything you want."
Faced with this unreasonable demand, Chu Tianlan, who had been self-respecting since childhood, naturally refused outright.
Unsurprisingly, Chu Tianlan was subsequently ostracized within the Student Council.
Just as Chu Tianlan was feeling disappointed with the Student Council and considering whether to resign from her Vice President position, a major incident quietly occurred within Su University.
It was a sunny afternoon when three men in Zhongshan suits with ties, carrying black briefcases and clearly having deep scheming—a 'leadership inspection team'—stepped out of a Buick business vehicle, along with an accompanying professional photographer.
Faced with such a formation, the security guard uncle quickly saluted in greeting and called the leadership's phone: "The four-no-two-direct inspection has arrived." The Student Council President also came to welcome them.
Afterward, the leaders first struck at the school cafeteria. Their administrative jackets and leather shoes, combined with the photographer's presence, even cured the cafeteria aunties' serving hands.
After inspecting the cafeteria, the leaders didn't stop and began checking class situations, scaring the teachers drinking tea in offices into trembling.
Finally, they even met with school leadership. The school leaders first introduced the school, then got excited and both sides started planning the campus together.
Everything seemed normal, like a routine inspection.
However, change occurred just before leaving the school gates. Su Mo's advisor, Lu Mingyuan, recognized at a glance that the 'leaders' were actually Su Mo and his three roommates, and this farce was finally exposed.
Since Su University's school rules didn't explicitly state that students couldn't impersonate leaders (this is fictional, everyone please don't try).
Finally, facing the punishment for Su Mo's dorm, the four found a loophole. The final result was: Su University added a rule against impersonating leaders, and ringleader Su Mo received a major demerit punishment.
The Student Council President who had accompanied the 'leaders' throughout took the real leadership's fury and was directly stripped of his position.
Thanks to this, Chu Tianlan, who had taken leave, was able to assume the Student Council President position during her sophomore year.
Chu Tianlan naturally remembered Su Mo, who had indirectly helped her rise to power.
After investigating and learning about his college entrance exam scores and broadcasting major information, when she encountered Su Mo at the apartment entrance, she recognized him immediately.
Recalling the legendary incident from a year ago when Su Mo had helped her, and looking at Su Mo, who had 'coincidentally' become her nephew and niece's tutor.
At this moment, as a young girl, Chu Tianlan couldn't help but sentimentally consider a question.
Helping her once might be coincidence, but this was already the second time.
She and Junior Su Mo really seemed to have a connection.
Could this be the legendary destined encounter?