The Tycoon’s Enchanted Mermaid

Chapter 48: Chapter 48: Capricious with Wealth

Fang Yuan inwardly berated herself and hurried to make amends.

“I’m sorry, Miss Su, I hope you don’t misunderstand. My question was only meant to better arrange your study courses; I had no intention of prying into your personal information.”

“It’s alright.”

Ah Da shook her head, saying that her silence was because she hadn’t thought of an answer. She didn’t understand anything about high school or university; the more she said, the more mistakes she’d make, and she was worried about being exposed.

Although Qin Yu had arranged everything for her without asking her opinion, which upset her a bit, she knew in her heart that his intentions were good; he was trying to help her.

Since Qin Yu lied for her sake, if she were still to blame him, she would be truly ungrateful. So, Ah Da decided to go along with the lie and not reveal the truth.

Firm in her resolution to lie, Ah Da steadied herself, clenched her hands into fists on her knees, and looked up at Fang Yuan: “Teacher Fang, I’ve been living abroad since I was young and never attended school, so there are a lot of things I don’t understand.”

As the lie left her mouth, Ah Da guiltily averted her gaze.

Fang Yuan, believing the young girl was sad and disheartened because she was unfamiliar with the native language and pinyin, quickly comforted her in a soft voice, “It’s okay, Miss Su. We can learn slowly.”

“Good, I will study hard,” Ah Da replied, simultaneously bolstering her own courage.

Fang Yuan, for a moment, thought the girl speaking before her resembled her little sister.

Initially, when Fang Yuan learned that she had been selected, she worried that the other party might be a haughty and difficult heiress from a wealthy family. Who could have known that she would be such a soft and pretty young girl who looked like a high school student, at most, a freshman in university?

The innocent and obedient aura about her was almost spilling out, compelling one to speak in a hushed voice for fear of startling her.

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“For our first lesson, let’s not dive into anything too difficult. We’ll start with some basics to get comfortable. Miss Su, can you tell me what you most want to learn right now?”

Interest is the best teacher, and, based on her years of tutoring experience, Fang Yuan believed that teaching Miss Su would be very smooth, as she seemed like an obedient student.

She adored such rare treasures.

“You can just call me Ah Da,” she said, not quite accustomed to being called Miss Su.

Fang Yuan nodded in agreement.

Ah Da found the teacher very gentle and quickly sat up straight, ready to pay attention, “Then let’s get started.”

“Ok,” Fang Yuan replied cheerfully.

However, just as she thought Ah Da was going to mention something important, she pulled out a phone and said to her, “Teacher, please teach me how to use a phone today.”

The phone was a pressing matter. Although the cell phone store staff and Qin Yu had explained it to her yesterday, it was too complicated, and there were many things Ah Da still didn’t grasp.

Fang Yuan’s normally perfectly toothy smile stiffened on her face, and it took her a while to recover.

“… A phone? Are you sure?”

Ah Da nodded: “Sure.”

“…”

In the afternoon, Qin Yu’s private phone received a steady stream of WeChat messages from Ah Da.

Ah Da: (Emoticon)

Ah Da: (Emoticon)

Ah Da: (Emoticon) ×n

…

Special Assistant Zhang Qian watched, eyes wide, as his boss put down his work to check his phone—for the first time ever.

Qin Yu replied: What’s up?

Ah Da: Learning the phone.

Qin Yu curved his lips and asked, “Have you learned it?”

Ah Da’s fingers traced across the screen: “Not yet, just a little bit, I’m about to get it.”

The young girl’s tone was happy and lively, but Qin Yu deliberately refrained from praising her and instead mischievously asked, “How soon is ‘about to’?”

The other party replied too quickly and always had questions, Ah Da was no match for him, appearing a bit flustered.

Fang Yuan packed up her papers and pens and couldn’t help but size up the delicate girl across from her, Ah Da, who looked as pristine as a freshly bloomed flower. Indeed, affluence nurtured her beauty.

Seeing her holding her phone as if she was competing with someone, Fang Yuan couldn’t help but gently remind her, “If you don’t want to type, you can make a video call, it’s more convenient that way.”

Ah Da just remembered that she could make a call. Teacher Fang had taught her earlier, but she had forgotten about it in her haste.

A flush of embarrassment crept onto her porcelain-white face.

“Thank you, Teacher, I know now,” Ah Da responded.

The class session was over, the contract stipulated once a week, one hour each time, with a monthly salary reaching six figures. This treatment was almost like giving away money.

The recruitment information was directly posted on the official account of Kyoto University, instantly causing a huge stir. At first, nobody believed it, with some conspiracy theorists claiming that such good fortune couldn’t be real and must be a scam.

Some even threatened to report the school until the discussion thread remained hot on the school’s website. Eventually, the official had to issue a statement to dispel the rumors overnight.

Rumors were that the university president personally facilitated the connection. Regardless of the truth behind the rumors, so long as the recruitment was for real, no one wanted to miss out on this pie-in-the-sky opportunity.

Thousands of students competed online, and Fang Yuan stood out as lucky but also deserving due to her poor family background. She had always been an excellent and diligent student since childhood, had started working part-time in high school, and had been tutoring outside school from her freshman to junior years at the university. Her experience was abundant and she handled the job with ease.

What she hadn’t anticipated was how simple this teaching job would be. She had thought that such generous conditions would come with some hidden catch, but it turned out to be purely a case of vast wealth and caprice.

Money was no object, they had the wealth to be willful.

Fang Yuan picked up her bag and stood up, “Then I’ll be leaving, Ah Da, see you next week.”

“Okay, Teacher, see you next week.”

Ah Da stood up as well, and Uncle Wen appeared from somewhere saying he would escort Fang Yuan. Only then did Ah Da sit down with peace of mind and pick up her phone again to make a video call to Qin Yu.

In the Qin Group’s office.

Assistant Zhang Qian was waiting for Qin Yu to finish signing documents. The boss had initially put down his phone ready to start working, but strangely, after looking at his phone, his mood seemed quite good and the chilly authority he usually exuded had lessened considerably.

Not long after, a call came in.

Zhang Qian watched his boss put down his pen and pick up the smartphone instead.

“You go out,” Qin Yu said without even lifting his head.

“Alright,” Zhang Qian nodded, holding the documents as he turned and left the room, closing the door behind him.

Qin Yu answered the video call, and the screen wobbled to reveal a large chandelier, but not the girl’s face.

“Soon means very soon. I will learn it very quickly.”

The young girl’s soft and mushy voice echoed in the quiet office. Qin Yu positioned the phone properly, still unable to see the young girl’s face, and slowly said with his thin lips:

“Did you call just to say this?”

Ah Da hummed, her tone airy, “You just asked, so I have to tell you.”

“Mm, I know now, but first, adjust your camera. I can’t see you,” Qin Yu couldn’t help but chuckle.

“No need to see me; I’m hanging up now that I’ve said what I needed to,” Ah Da didn’t adjust the camera as he instructed and didn’t wait for him to speak before she hung up abruptly.

Qin Yu looked at the black screen, his fingers lightly tapping on the desk, suddenly smiling. It seemed she had intentionally aimed the camera at the ceiling to avoid him seeing her; she was becoming bolder.

Ah Da’s video call brought a touch of color to Qin Yu’s mundane work, but he wasn’t one to indulge in pleasure at the expense of work. He quickly got back to his job after putting down the phone.