I am chasing a rough man in the 80s
Chapter 860 Knowing You’re a Sly Fox

Chapter 860: Chapter 860 Knowing You’re a Sly Fox

Wang Cuihua knew there was something off with her daughter-in-law—it was her sense of taste!

Ever since Tiegen left with Jinnan, her daughter-in-law seemed to have lost her sense of taste.

She alone could gulp down half a pot of grapefruit juice that the whole family found incredibly bitter.

Last night, Wang Cuihua heard a crunching sound in the kitchen and thought it was mice.

But when she went to check, she found her daughter-in-law sitting on the threshold, expressionlessly chewing on a bitter melon.

It left Wang Cuihua stunned.

That was bitter melon, not cucumber.

After gulping down the juice, Suizi stood up and walked toward the kitchen, muttering to herself, "Don’t we have some kuding tea at home? I’m going to brew some."

Bobo, who had finally managed to down the nasty juice, broke down when he heard his mom mention "kuding tea."

He threw himself into his grandma’s arms as if he had been greatly frightened.

That stuff was only drunk at home when someone had a case of excessive internal heat, and Bobo had sneakily tried a sip once.

It left him with a severe psychological shadow, and now the mere mention of kuding tea made him shudder.

"I’ll drink it myself; children under ten are not recommended to drink kuding tea. Would you like another cup of juice instead?"

Bobo shook his head like a rattle drum, while Luoluo simply lay down in the sandbox and played dead.

"Has this child got a stimulus? Lost his sense of taste?" Wang Cuihua muttered to herself.

Pour me a cup too, Siye said, Make it strong.

Wang Cuihua was agape. What’s gotten into them one by one?

For Siye and Suizi, not having news from Yu Jingting was like an eternity—impatient and irritated, yet unable to show it.

So it made sense to eat some bitter foods to clear the heat.

Suizi quickly brewed two cups of concentrated kuding tea. She sat side by side with her father-in-law, and they looked at each other, speechless.

The phone rang, and Suizi bounded up.

Sure enough, it was Yu Jingting calling to report his safety. He did not go into too much detail over the phone, only saying that everything was under control. He and Jinnan had figured out where Hu Taiye was. They would be unable to call for the next three days, but there was essentially no danger.

Jinnan was urging him from the other end of the line as if something was happening, and Yu Jingting couldn’t continue talking. He simply hung up.

Suizi felt relieved.

She joyfully shared the good news with Siye, whose brows lifted with joy. He picked up his half-finished kuding tea and gulped it down to disguise his exhilaration.

"Pteh, why is it so bitter?"

When there was no news of her son, consuming this stuff was tasteless, and eating anything felt like chewing wax.

Now that she knew both her son and husband were safe, her lost taste buds took back the high ground.

Although Suizi did not know what was happening with Yu Jingting, his affirmation of "returning in three days" indicated that he was certain. He never made empty promises to Suizi.

This meant that the plan Suizi previously gave him had no issues; everything was going smoothly.

With this newfound confidence, Suizi was invigorated. The next day she attended the group meeting at school full of spirit. She chose a light yellow dress and braided her hair into caterpillar braids, looking full of life.

Naturally beautiful, even a slight effort in dressing up drew countless eyes, and even her tutor gave her several extra glances.

"Junior sister is truly beautiful today. It’s good to be a woman, dress up beautifully every day, and have someone to take care of you without doing anything. Not like us, sporting a scruffy beard daily. Just last night, I stayed up late for data analysis and even got dark circles under my eyes. I really envy junior sister," a senior group mate said intentionally.

It seemed like a compliment to Suizi’s beauty, but it was laced with sarcasm.

He implied that Suizi was not serious about her studies and focused all her efforts on primping and preening.

If he had said this privately, Suizi would have just considered it nonsense and wouldn’t have taken it to heart.

But the tutor was still there, so this guy’s words were deliberately provocative.

You always meet a certain type of person who shows off in front of the boss and slacks off when the boss isn’t around, and is good at throwing subtle, sarcastic digs, seizing every chance to badmouth others in front of the boss.

Today, Suizi was in a good mood and casually replied:

"Yeah, senior brother should definitely work harder, staying up late and getting dark circles under your eyes, your dissertation is a mess. If you continue like this, even getting married will be difficult."

The other person was smiling as he spoke, and Suizi responded with a smile, her tone jokingly sarcastic; unable to confront her in front of the tutor, he was choked up by Suizi and couldn’t reply, maintaining an awkward smile and shooting her dagger looks.

Suizi bent her head to organize her documents, let him stare; she was unaffected, as if he didn’t exist~

"Hansui does look quite spirited today," the tutor said with a hint of amusement in his eyes as he watched the two students bantering back and forth.

"You look well today, teacher."

"Yes, the prescription you found for me last time was really good, it’s really improved the quality of my sleep."

Another female student joined the conversation, effectively sending a silent counterattack against the aforementioned senior brother’s remark that "a woman need do nothing and still be taken care of."

The two senior brothers saw the tutor chatting cozily with Suizi and looked somewhat awkward, their attempt to embarrass Suizi had backfired.

The group meeting officially began, and the two senior brothers exchanged a knowing glance, full of smugness.

They had taken advantage of Suizi’s absence the day before and copied her data, delivering it to the tutor ahead of her.

A few people’s research topics overlapped, they used Chen Hansui’s data in advance, and showed it to the tutor first. Now when Suizi submitted hers, it would look as if she had "borrowed" from the senior brothers’ hard work.

In such instances, it’s impossible to clarify; Chen Hansui had no evidence to prove it was her own research.

She could only swallow this loss silently.

If Chen Hansui couldn’t stomach this and caused a fuss, her image in the tutor’s eyes would plummet – and that was precisely the outcome the two senior brothers wanted to achieve.

They were the earliest batch of graduate students, the pride of the heavens, enjoying the worshipful gazes of everyone.

But since Chen Hansui’s arrival, everything had changed.

The tutor greatly favored her, often calling her aside to discuss research topics, a treatment none of their peers received.

They’d been bottling up and fermenting an opportunity to give Chen Hansui a hard time.

Yesterday, Chen Hansui hadn’t taken her notebook and folder with her, providing them with the opportunity, and the two senior brothers couldn’t wait to see her made a fool of today.

After the group meeting ended, the tutor brought out two reports and handed them to the senior brothers.

"Redo these."

"Why?" The two senior brothers were stunned.

The tutor glanced at Suizi.

Suizi was calmly twisting open her thermos; she wasn’t drinking Kuding tea today, but had Goji Berries and chrysanthemum instead.

"Plagiarism is too blatant—what was ’borrowed’ came from Chen Hansui’s original data. This is the first and last time. If I find you engaging in such low-level antics again, it will be immediate expulsion,"

the tutor scolded sternly and left, at this point, the two students had hit rock bottom in her estimation.

The two senior brothers were dumbfounded.

Suizi took a half sip of her nourishing tea, slowly set down the cup, and in an especially innocent voice said:

"The two senior brothers didn’t look at my notebook, did you? What I wrote there was original data, which the tutor returned to me last week."

"You did this on purpose?!" The senior brother’s eyes nearly shot fire.

This was no timid rabbit; this was clearly an old fox!

"I can’t predict the future, how would I know who would touch my stuff? Maybe next time I should mark which is the revised and which is the original data to make it easier for you to copy?"