I Became the Eye Candy: Four Bigshots Claimed to be My Dad?-Chapter 151: Going Home on the Day Off

’After that whole affair with the Two Principles, if I stir up another commotion with my academic knowledge, all my previous efforts will be for nothing. They’ll just call me a monster and lock me up.’

Old Gu stared at Dean Chen and chuckled dryly, a teasing glint in his voice. "Don’t worry, I won’t say a word about that either. If I say anything, it’ll just be to sing your praises, you genius Dean."

"Oh, shut up and get down the mountain," Dean Chen retorted, his face flushing red from the jab.

"Nope. I’m staying to hear this young lady’s lecture," Old Gu said, casually sitting down next to Ye Qianning. "Young lady, I’ve always been curious—what kind of calculation method could be even more impressive than Little Song’s?"

"I can tell you, but..." Ye Qianning pushed the roast duck toward Dean Chen. "My master hasn’t eaten all day. He has to eat before I’ll say anything."

Dean Chen froze, an indescribable warmth spreading through his chest.

Old Gu was also taken aback for a moment, then felt a pang of jealousy. ’This little girl is so good to Dean Chen. When will I ever have such a sweet, thoughtful child by my side?’

With his gloomy mood lifted, Dean Chen’s appetite returned. He ate half of the roast duck himself, and Old Gu polished off the other half.

Ye Qianning started to wonder if Old Gu had ever had roast duck before. Even after polishing off half a bird, he still looked like he wanted more...

"The method I use is a kind of shortcut, but first, you have to memorize the mnemonic rhymes." Ye Qianning recited the arithmetic formulas one by one. Mathematics is easy in some ways, but difficult in others.

If you don’t master the basic mnemonics, you’ll get more and more lost as you go on. Her master and Old Gu were both very sharp, so with a few simple explanations and examples of the rhymes, they were able to grasp the concepts quickly.

Next came more complex calculations, and the lecture continued late into the night in what felt like the blink of an eye.

Ye Qianning had drunk several cups of water and, with a yawn, could barely keep her eyes open. The two old men, however, were still brimming with energy, surrounded by sheets of rice paper covered in calculations.

"Master, Old Gu, it’s getting really late. Aren’t you going to rest?" ’She really had to admire these two,’ Ye Qianning thought. ’When it came to academics, they had an inexhaustible supply of energy.’

"You go on and rest, little one. There are still some things I haven’t quite figured out, so I need to study a while longer," Old Gu said without even looking up.

"And you, Master?"

"I need a bit more time, too. These calculations are just too ingenious! They’re so much faster than the old methods, and they’re foolproof." Having lived for so many years, this was the first time Dean Chen felt that academia held so many hidden wonders.

"You two carry on, then. I’m going to bed," Ye Qianning said with a yawn, hopping down from her chair.

For men obsessed with academics, encountering modern calculation methods was more thrilling than unlocking the secrets of the Two Principles. They were so energized, they probably wouldn’t be able to sleep even if they lay down.

’But she couldn’t handle it. A six-year-old’s body isn’t fully developed; she couldn’t afford to pull all-nighters. It would be a disaster if it stunted her growth!’

「Four days passed in a flash.」 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

The mathematics Ye Qianning knew couldn’t be taught in just a day or two. She spent her days in the Dean’s courtyard explaining the principles and her nights returning to her own room to sleep.

She hadn’t attended her regular classes for several days. Today was a day of rest, and the General’s Estate sent a carriage to pick her up.

Ye Qianning hadn’t seen her father in days. After several nights of poor sleep, she slept in on her day off until the sun was high in the sky before getting ready to return to the General’s Estate.

Dean Chen and Old Gu had holed themselves up in the room, studying for three straight days without stepping out.

It wasn’t until the fourth day that Old Gu finally packed up to head home, determined to teach these new calculation methods to the younger generation of his family. Dean Chen, for his part, was preparing to incorporate the new material into the academy’s curriculum.

Dean Chen walked Ye Qianning to the foot of the mountain and watched her board the carriage from the General’s Estate.

After getting in, Ye Qianning lifted the window curtain. "You should head back now, Master."

’Master’s stamina is incredible,’ she thought. ’To walk all this way at his age without even being flushed or out of breath.’