Chapter 315: Quota

Su Yu wants to roll her eyes, "Dad, didn't Uncle teach you not to eat things given by strangers? What about classmates, they're just strangers!"

【Dad's achievements and work reports aren't stolen from others or ghost‑written, are they?】

Su Yi, whose intelligence is constantly doubted, thinks his daughter's outlook is narrow!

"You can skip it, bring some gifts tomorrow and give them back, reciprocity, make a few more friends."

Su Yi's friends come about like this. When there's benefit, most people greet him with smiles, and handling anything becomes easy.

The families of Su Yu's classmates are a bit less well‑off than theirs, but maybe someday they'll be useful. While she's still young, she could get a purer friendship!

"Dad, Can Can and Huo Huo have no gifts! They're boarders! I don't want to put my real friends in an awkward spot because of some strangers!"

She knows exactly who's more important in her heart!

Su Yi actually forgot that Tang Can and Liang Yan are in the same class as her. If Su Yu gives gifts and they don't, it's a perfect control group. Even if Su Yu prepares gifts for those two, others will treat them worse than Su Yu. Thinking that way, an outright refusal suits Su Yu better!

Su Yu, ignoring Su Yi lost in his thoughts, snuggled into Xu Mingyue's arms and told her family everything she learned today, which kids are easy to get along with, which aren't, and her impressions of the teachers.

Yang Zhichun and Su Xi are both quite satisfied. Ji Yan is a bit worried. Her daughter is overly proud, saying everything is easy, she's good at it, she can ace exams without even going to school!

Ji Yan doesn't doubt her daughter's IQ, but she fears there might be someone smarter, a higher level. What if another genius deliberately schemes to suppress Su Yu?

The more proud Su Yu becomes, the higher the chance she'll fall into self‑destruction after a setback.

Ji Yan also knows she can't bring this up now. Sometimes family criticism is the most lethal! If she tells Su Yu "You're not the best; there will always be someone better," that sting is no less than others deliberately scheming against her!

The first day of study ended satisfactorily. Su Yu hates doing homework the most. Math is fine, mostly filling in answers, few steps. Language and English bother her. It's not that she can't, but there are many characters; she's small and weak, writes slowly, which irritates her!

If her handwriting is poor, the whole family who checks her work will be punished once!

As the family's beloved darling, Su Yu doesn't want this sweet trouble, and she hopes Su Xi gets married soon and has a little one to share the pressure!

Early the next morning, Su Yu trudged to school with a drooping head.

She doesn't want to go to school!

"Xiao Yu sister!"

"Softie!"

Liang Yan and Tang Can, who came from the cafeteria after eating, brought Su Yu this cafeteria reward—a cute little animal ornament.

The school's budget is ample, and the breakfast for students is quite good. The students here also come from decent families. If they're still hungry they can order takeout or have family deliver. So the cafeteria wastes a fair amount of food.

To cultivate a habit of not wasting food, the Principal specially hired people to make a batch of cute little animal ornaments.

As long as you finish your ordered food and the leftovers stay below the cafeteria's set percentage, you can earn a little animal.

If you collect a full set of animals for two semesters, the school will commend you and grant that child a slot to chat with a professor from a certain industry.

The former is optional, the latter is taken very seriously by parents!

Everyone is in Jingdu, and the families are roughly alike. If a child wins the favor of a professor or a big‑shot in a field, the child's academic path becomes smooth! If lucky, the big‑shot may even give those adults some guidance on the child's behalf.

With this rule, most families send their kids to live on campus. Even if they live nearby, they only let the kids go home on weekends; otherwise they eat and sleep at school, competing for that professor‑chat slot.

Liang Yan and Tang Can don't care about the slot—one is rich, the other is rich and well‑connected. They simply think the animal ornaments are cute, and they like them!

What they like, they must share with Su Yu.

Su Yu pulls out two delicate insulated lunch boxes.

"This one was made by Chef Uncle according to your preferences; try it, do you like it?"

Kids' tastes change quickly. They might love something yesterday and dislike it today. Tang Can and Liang Yan lived at the Su household for a long time, so the chef knows their preferences. Knowing Su Yu wants to give them snacks, he chose only things they've eaten before.

Tang Can's lunch box contains sweet‑but‑not‑cloying mung‑bean cake, while Liang Yan's holds refreshing, tasty glutinous‑rice dumplings.

"Also, Chef Uncle made hawthorn slices, said they aid digestion!"

The chef didn't know whether Liang Yan and Tang Can had breakfast, so he just made hawthorn slices. If the kids eat too much, they can have some hawthorn to promote digestion.

"Thank you, Xiao Yu sister!"

"Thank you, Softie!"

Tang Can and Liang Yan happily carried away the lunch boxes, not hurrying to open them.

All morning, the three kids had no time to interact. Some teachers said they'd talk a few extra minutes, some arrived early in the classroom to prepare, and some simply stayed until the next teacher arrived before leaving.

Except for morning exercise, Su Yu was in class the whole time! Class! Class! Class!

At noon dismissal, Su Yu prepared to go home for a meal.

"Huo Huo, Can Can, see you this afternoon!"

"Xiao Yu sister, see you this afternoon!"

"Softie, bye!"

Liang Yan and Tang Can got food from the cafeteria, packed it with the lunch boxes, and took it back to the dorm to eat.

"Wow, it's still icy!"

Liang Yan eyed Tang Can's cool‑looking mung‑bean cake with a craving. Tang Can wanted to eat Liang Yan's box of glutinous‑rice dumplings sprinkled with cucumber strips, which looked very refreshing.

Each ate half of the other's lunch box contents, then decisively called their families, demanding to move near Su Yu's house!

After the kids' antics, Liang Yan was a bit worried, "Our parents agree to us moving over, but we can't crash meals every day, can we?"

Liang Yan didn't know why the same dishes tasted better when made at Xiao Yu's place. She even sent Chef Uncle to learn from Xiao Yu's chef, but her family's chef just couldn't match the Su Family's chef's cooking!

Tang Can was indifferent, "Softie agreeing is enough! If your parents don't live with you, they can't control what you do!"

Tang Can made a good point! At school they eat, parents don't mind; going to Xiao Yu's house to eat, parents won't mind either, right?

With the strong pleas of the two little princesses and Xu Mingyue's support, Tang Can and Liang Yan successfully moved into the same residential complex as Su Yu.

By the first weekend after school started, Liang Yan and Tang Can had already settled in, so they could go to school and be dismissed together with her!

"Softie, what's this for?"

Su Yu's villa is installing some wooden stakes.

"This is for our future training equipment, come on, let's go see my study. Tell me which spot you like, and I'll have the butler order a desk and chair to put there!"

Tang Can and Liang Yan have both moved in, and Su Yu naturally designated her little study as the place they'll meet from now on!

From now on, they might do homework, study, play, and so on here.

"Good!"

"Alright!"

Su Yu, busy with her little companions, and the Tang Family and Liang Family are also not at ease.

Tang Can insists on moving by herself, wanting to live and go to school on her own. But her family can't bear to let her live alone.

Tang Can's grandparents are reluctant to part with the neighbors; Tang Tang is pregnant, and having Ren Tiandu take care of them is truly putting him in a bind! No matter how much Ren Tiandu's parents like Tang Can, they cannot look after her while her grandparents are still alive, otherwise all sorts of rumors would spread in the circle and tarnish their family's reputation!

Tang Can's parents are extremely busy, yet they are equally strong, and no one is willing to step back and return home to care for Tang Can.

In the end, Tang Can's grandparents compromised and went back to caring for their little granddaughter.

The Liang Family had no real obstacles to the decision to move; the important thing was what to move. Liang Yan only wanted to go to school with Su Yu, and didn't have particularly high standards for quality of life—just like at school, she didn't mind living together with Tang Can.

However, Zhu Xueheng refused to shortchange his beloved daughter; not only did he move the clothes, accessories, and other items from the home wardrobe to the villa here, but he also transferred Liang Yan's massive collection, including all of Liang Yan's dolls, to the new house.

There were simply too many things to move, some of which were valuable and could not be damaged; consequently, Zhu Xueheng became as busy as a spinning top!

Liang Yan and Tang Can don't understand the adults' pain of moving. In their eyes, they merely moved from the school to another place to live.

…

"Is this really okay?"

Su Yi stole a glance at the three half‑sisters eating breakfast. Since Tang Can and Liang Yan moved, the three have become even clingier. Someone unaware might think they are three children in the same family.

Now they even come to the house for breakfast; will they also come for lunch and dinner later? And after that, will they live here?

The Su Family doesn't lack money to raise children, but he worries about what others might think, especially Zhu Xueheng, who cherishes his daughter. This morning, when he dropped the child off, he was still grudgingly muttering, wanting his little princess to come back with him for a meal!

"It's great; Xiao Yu is much happier now and isn't so resistant to school! Moreover, the Tang Family and Zhu Xueheng should be pleased. Compared to a genius's rise, many people prefer to watch a genius's fall."

The school organized a placement test at the start of term. The results were announced on Friday. The three of them, including Su Yu, occupied the top three spots on the ranking list, and instantly became celebrities at school.

Being a celebrity isn't all good, especially for those who were pushed down the rankings by Su Yu and the other two; they are constantly ready to find faults in Su Yu's group, trying to ruin them forever!

Su Yu's situation is still fine; she is a day‑student, and during the times people can reach her, it isn't suitable to attack Su Yu. But Liang Yan and Tang Can are different. They have to return to the dormitory.

Some people secretly poured things into their dormitory. This was also the main reason that the two families truly resolved to have Tang Can and Liang Yan move near Su Yu.

Ji Yan doesn't care about these twists and turns. Her daughter has a system, so she's unlikely to be at a loss. What she cares about is whether her daughter is happy and what her mental state is like.

Obviously, Liang Yan's and Tang Can's arrival makes her happy, briefly suppressing her aversion to school!

Su Yu and the others didn't understand the adults' thoughts; after eating, Su Yu obediently said goodbye to Ji Yan and Su Yi, then got into the car and went to school.

The three kids held hands to school, entered the classroom, and shocked a large portion of the other children.

"How did you end up going to school together?"

Tang Can, subtly showing off, said, "My family bought a villa next to the Ruanhuhu Jia!"

It's a bit far to the side, but it really is next door!

Liang Yan was also delighted and wanted to brag to classmates, especially those who usually stick to Su Yu, "Our family also moved next to the Ruanhuhu Jia; from now on we'll be neighbors!"

"Wow!"

"Really? Not a lie?"

A classmate wondered whether Liang Yan and Tang Can had moved into Su Yu's house, which is why they came to school together.

"Of course!"

Tang Can lifted her head in response and also noted that person's name! That person asked all sorts of random questions; maybe other brothers and sisters wanted to know and were secretly probing her!

"The villa might be a scam, you know? Three little liars must have been born from three big liars…"

Su Yu was angry, "That's slander; apologize!"

"You're all thieves and robbers who steal from people; that's a fact!"

"If you don't apologize, I'll call the police and let the officer sort it out!"

Su Yu had no intention of arguing with the child. Some people's thought processes are naturally strange; no matter what you say, they have their own logic.

Anyway, a thousand mistakes are all someone else's fault!

Su Yu didn't want to trade barbs; she just wanted to resolve the issue as quickly as possible!

"You!"

Having been class first before, now class fourth, she flushed, "If you call the police, call the police; you stole my slot and the officer will take you!"

Su Yu looked bewildered; what slot did she steal? She had just arrived at school not long ago—let alone taking anyone's things, she hadn't even organized her own belongings!

But losing a person isn't losing a battle! At this moment, Su Yu kept an eye on her backpack, fearing sabotage, and she also didn't forget to dial the emergency call on her smartwatch!

The officials arrived quickly!

At the same time, the teacher, the Director of Discipline, and the Principal also came.

"What's going on here?"

The teacher was stunned, and the Director of Discipline and the Principal both looked uneasy.

Su Yu spoke first, "Teacher, this person called the three of us liars, couldn't point out where we cheated him, and baselessly slandered me for stealing his slot!"

Su Yu had no idea what slot he was talking about! She had just arrived and understood nothing!

The boy being pointed at said angrily, "It's you who stole it!"

Su Yu remained unruffled, "Then tell me, what did I steal? Did I go to find the teacher, or to beg the teacher? Where's the evidence?"

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