After Being Blackened All Over the Internet, I Ruled the Military Variety Shows
Chapter 516 - 507: Tutoring Homework, Love Exposed

Chapter 516: Chapter 507: Tutoring Homework, Love Exposed

Back in the car, Jiang Lingxi found some paper and a pen, preparing to finish a set of math problems before going to sleep.

Seeing this, Shen Yunqing didn’t try to persuade her otherwise. He knew her personality well; once she set her mind on something, she wouldn’t rest until it was completed, and no one could stop her during this time.

He wrapped up his work, carefully stood up after shutting down the computer, and first went to the small kitchen at the front to heat two cups of milk, placing them by Jiang Lingxi’s left hand.

Jiang Lingxi was contemplating how to solve a major problem in front of her when her fingers touched the cup of milk. She picked it up and took a sip instinctively.

Shen Yunqing noticed the ring of milk residue on her lips but silently placed a tissue in her hand. Jiang Lingxi used the tissue to wipe her mouth with her left hand while her right hand kept writing.

After solving the major problem, she looked up at the person who had returned to sitting across from her, "Did you add sugar to the milk? Or was it just sweet milk?"

"I added it myself. Is it sweet?"

"It’s alright, maybe add a little less next time."

The first-time server who added too much sugar silently nodded: "Okay."

He quietly noted in his mind: Your Majesty prefers milk with a fainter sweetness.

It took Jiang Lingxi almost an hour to finish the set of problems, after which she pulled out the answers and corrected them accordingly.

The results of the afternoon’s review were quite satisfactory; everything was correct except for the last sub-question of the last major problem. Her answer differed from the one in the reference sheet.

But the reference answer only provided a solitary number, skipping the steps entirely. Jiang Lingxi frowned while looking at the last problem, feeling a sense of unease.

Glancing at the clock, she was hesitant to call An’an, fearing she might interrupt the girl’s rest, which she likely needed after an evening of university classes.

Shen Yunqing returned from washing the cups and, upon seeing Jiang Lingxi’s expression, remarked that it was just like in her previous life when faced with a troublesome memorial, "Stumped by a problem?"

Jiang Lingxi glanced up at him, depressed, and nodded.

"Let me take a look."

Surprisingly, Jiang Lingxi looked at him again, hesitated for a second, then handed him her phone, "The last sub-problem of the last major problem."

After contemplating the problem for a moment, Shen Yunqing picked up a pen and a blank sheet of paper and began writing.

Seeing this, Jiang Lingxi couldn’t help but draw a little closer, noticing how smoothly the numbers flowed from his pen, as if he had it all figured out beforehand.

Soon, he solved the final number.

She still remembered the number in the reference answer, and it matched the one Shen Yunqing had just written down.

"Hurry, explain it to me!"

"You used the wrong formula here; you should have used..."

Changning turned her head in a daze.

Tiger, who was driving, glanced at her, "What’s with that expression? Haven’t Mr. Shen and Sister Xi rested yet?"

"No, Mr. Shen is tutoring Sister Xi. I didn’t hear it clearly; it seems to be about math still."

Tiger: "... I remember Mr. Shen graduated with a degree in history, right? He has a master’s in history."

"Yeah, I remember that too."

"I didn’t expect him to be so good at math too. Mr. Shen is really impressive!"

Changning: "..." There’s no rebuttal for that.

Jiang Lingxi, who had felt a little disgruntled about making a mistake on a sub-problem but now felt it all smoothed over, was all smiles, "I initially thought with An’an going to college, I’d probably have to hire a math tutor. But now it seems unnecessary."

She had already decided to focus on liberal arts, leaving math as the only subject she needed to buckle down and study, since the other subjects weren’t much of an issue as long as she had a good memory.

And on the memory front, not to brag, but in her previous life, all the articles were in classical Chinese, and she could memorize them all book by book. In this life, apart from Chinese, everything else is in a simpler modern vernacular, so she could memorize them after just one read.

As for foreign languages, it was the subject the original owner worked hardest on after leaving school. After all, the current entertainment industry stars all aspired to go international, and being unable to speak a foreign language was the biggest shortcoming. Naturally, the original owner had this ambition, and her oral skills were quite good, saving her plenty of trouble.

"Actually, there’s very little I don’t understand anymore, just the occasional one or two things. You know, once a problem seems unclear, it bothers me."

Shen Yunqing stifled a laugh, "Yeah, I know."

Jiang Lingxi yawned and stood up, "Now I can rest."

Once the problem was solved, she was no longer bothered.

Her mood could be summed up in two words: Comfortable!

*

The night was quiet and serene.

It was also the time when night owls who loved to stay up started becoming active online.

In the recently established ’Jiang Lingxi Topic’ group, a silhouetted photo and a short video had unknowingly been bumped to the forefront.

A crowd of both new and old fans regularly visited their idol’s homepage, finding nothing new and exiting disappointed. They planned to leave a comment on the agent’s homepage, asking ’please let Jiang Lingxi come out and do some activities,’ only to find that the ’Jiang Lingxi Topic’ they followed had new updates.

Almost instinctively, they clicked in, and those who had already snuggled into bed with their phones were taken aback.

Their first reaction was: Impossible!

[Is someone finally trying to stir trouble? After fading away for several years, Xixi is just regaining some popularity, and now rumors of a romance are surfacing. Based solely on this blurry video and a silhouetted photo, I don’t believe it. Show us a clear face picture if you can!]

[Jiang Lingxi has been doing well for the past six months, finally thinking straight and making rational decisions, and with her career on the rise, she shouldn’t be so reckless as to get into a relationship, right?]

[I don’t believe it either, unless there’s a clear face picture!]

After a flurry of fan responses collectively denying this possibility, claiming that the pictures and videos certainly weren’t of their icon, a few more level-headed fans, after analyzing and breaking down the images and video further, finally offered a slightly different perspective.

[I slowed down the video, adjusted the resolution, and analyzed it frame by frame. Although the video never clearly showed the two people’s full faces, I compared the side-profile screenshots with previous photos of Jiang Lingxi and found a similarity rate of over ninety percent. Note, this comparison was done using a self-made program, free from subjective assumptions.] Several comparison photos were attached for reference.

[I didn’t expect a program expert to be a Jiang Lingxi fan too. Honestly, I also wanted to say that the person in the video does look a lot like Xixi, being a devoted face fan for years, but some of the earlier comments made me hesitant to speak up.]

[Just a passerby fan of Jiang Lingxi, but if we’re not obsessing over whether Jiang Lingxi is actually dating, just looking at the uploaded photos and video, the two do make a good couple. Their side-profile beauty is high, so their full face shouldn’t be too far off, and in the silhouetted photo, the proportions of the two bodies are perfect, and the height difference seems quite fitting. If the woman in the photos and videos really is Jiang Lingxi, objectively speaking, the partner seems quite decent.]

This comment received widespread agreement from other passerby fans.

Unlike the absolute perspective of die-hard fans, they viewed it as normal for someone of that age to be in a relationship, and couldn’t understand why it was unacceptable just because the person was a celebrity.

It’s not like she found someone older enough to be her father or someone wealthy but unpleasant to look at; the other party seemed outwardly appealing enough as a young person.

Everyone deserves a sweet romance.

However, there were some anti-fans mingling in, eager to incite chaos with their remarks.

[It’s wrong for Jiang Lingxi to be hiding a relationship from her fans. The topic has garnered thousands of comments, and there’s still no response from the company, so it looks like this might be true. By the way, shouldn’t celebrities inform their long-supportive fans if they’re entering a relationship? It’s simply irresponsible towards fans.]

[Jiang Lingxi is stirring up trouble again. Just when things seemed promising, she’s reportedly entering a relationship behind her fans’ backs. Is she giving up on her career? The company president and her manager must be furious, right?]

[A truly hopeless case. Don’t they wonder if Shanyue Zhiheng and Yun brands regret choosing her? It’s only been a short while since she was announced as a spokesperson and brand ambassador, and now this happens.]

...

Shen Chuyue had just finished her skincare routine and was preparing for bed when she received a call from her company’s PR manager. She glanced at the time and answered with a frown, hearing the urgent voice on the other line: "Ms. Shen, there’s trouble with the spokesperson. Online, there’s talk about Jiang Lingxi being in a relationship, with pictures and videos that seem quite intimate."

Her heart sank immediately upon hearing this, and any drowsiness vanished instantly.

She instinctively asked, "Who is the man?"

In recent days, she contacted her cousin-in-law’s manager hoping to schedule a spokesperson promotional shoot, only to be told that her cousin-in-law was currently out of the Imperial City attending to personal matters.

Her cousin, on the other hand, was known for being reclusive, and when he did go out, it was usually to remote areas for charity work.

The two shouldn’t be together during this period.

So the question arises: where did these photos and videos about her cousin-in-law’s relationship come from?