HDRDTH -Chapter 3 I Really Just Wanted to Find a Corner to Sleep

The parent-teacher meeting at Yucai Experimental Elementary School looked more like a miniature business summit.

Inside the classroom, the desks and chairs had been polished until they gleamed. On the blackboard, artistic lettering spelled out “Welcome, Dear Parents,” with colorful ribbons hanging around it.

The air was filled with a mixture of expensive perfumes, so overwhelming that Yu Xian sneezed three times in a row.

“Achoo—!”

That explosive sneeze instantly silenced the noisy classroom.

Dozens of eyes turned toward the entrance at the same time.

There stood a young man wearing an old T-shirt, jeans, and Warrior sneakers, casually rubbing his nose without the slightest concern for appearances.

Behind him followed the visibly embarrassed Su Wanyi and Su Xi, who had lowered her head so much she practically wanted to crawl into a crack in the ground.

“That’s Su Xi’s parent?”

“Oh my god, he came dressed like that?”

“I heard it’s a single-parent family. The mother’s some extra actress… who’s that man? He looks unemployed.”

The whispers buzzed like flies.

Su Xi’s little hands trembled, and her eyes instantly reddened.

Those gazes—like she was being publicly dissected—were the greatest nightmare of her childhood.

Su Wanyi took a deep breath, preparing to pull her daughter toward a quiet corner seat.

“Well, if it isn’t Su Xi’s mother?”

A sharp female voice rang out.

A middle-aged woman in a business suit and gold-rimmed glasses walked down from the podium.

She wore a fake smile while her eyes scanned Yu Xian’s cheap clothes like a barcode reader.

Teacher Wang.

Su Xi’s homeroom teacher.

The same woman who had screamed over the phone yesterday.

“Hello, Teacher Wang…” Su Wanyi forced out a strained smile.

“And this is?” Teacher Wang scrutinized Yu Xian critically, her brows furrowing enough to crush a fly. “Didn’t I specifically say Su Xi’s father should come? We’re discussing the child’s education, not letting any random relative fill in.”

The contempt in her tone practically overflowed.

Su Wanyi was about to explain.

But Yu Xian acted as though he hadn’t heard a single word.

His gaze swept across the classroom.

He was searching for a seat.

Preferably somewhere in the back, near a window, sunny, and quiet.

The perfect “slacking-off golden seat” he had perfected through countless meetings in his previous life.

Finally, his eyes lit up.

In the last row, beside the broom cabinet, sat an empty desk.

Sunlight streamed perfectly across it through the window.

It looked like a holy land custom-built for sleeping.

Without a second word, Yu Xian walked straight past Teacher Wang and headed toward the corner.

Teacher Wang had been completely ignored.

Her face instantly darkened.

“Hey! Parent over there! I’m talking to you!”

She raised her voice sharply.

“No manners whatsoever! Is this your family upbringing? No wonder Su Xi acts so lifeless at school too!”

At those words, Yu Xian suddenly stopped walking.

Su Xi’s body trembled violently, and tears finally fell from her eyes.

Yu Xian turned around.

His previously half-closed sleepy eyes were now fully open.

Within those dark pupils was no anger—

Only a chilling indifference that made people’s hearts tremble.

He looked at Teacher Wang the same way one might look at a buzzing mosquito.

“First.” Yu Xian raised one finger. His voice wasn’t loud, yet somehow it carried through the entire classroom. “I’m her father. It’s clearly written on the household registration book. Want to check?”

“Second.” He raised another finger. “The tuition money is here, in my bag. If you want it now, I can throw it at you right now.”

“Third.” He let out a mocking chuckle. “As a teacher, using words like ‘lifeless’ to describe a twelve-year-old child in front of an entire class and their parents…”

His eyes narrowed slightly.

“Did you win your teaching certificate in a lottery?”

Silence.

Dead silence.

Every parent in the room was stunned.

Sure, they were wealthy, but who dared offend a homeroom teacher? Their children’s futures were in her hands.

Yet this man dressed like a beggar had directly confronted her head-on?!

Teacher Wang trembled with rage, even the finger pointing at him shaking violently.

“Y-you… you’ve gone too far! This is just like a street shrew cursing in public! With this kind of quality… Su Xi, you don’t need to come to school anymore! Our class has no place for parents like you who poison the environment!”

“Expulsion?”

Yu Xian laughed.

He slowly walked to the podium, picked up a piece of chalk, and casually tossed it in his hand.

“According to Article 27 of the Compulsory Education Law, schools may criticize and educate students who violate school regulations, but they are not permitted to expel them. This is nine-year compulsory education, not some private workshop run by your family.”

“And another thing.”

His gaze suddenly turned razor-sharp.

“That ‘lifeless’ comment just now constitutes verbal humiliation toward a minor. In another country, I could sue you right now for emotional abuse and make you pay until you don’t even have underwear left.”

Teacher Wang’s face turned pale.

She never expected this man—who looked practically illiterate—to casually quote legal statutes from memory!

“You… you’re twisting words and making trouble!” Teacher Wang shouted, though her confidence was clearly collapsing. “Su Xi only scored 58 points in math this semester! She dragged down the class average! I have every right to persuade a stupid student like that to leave!”

“Stupid?”

Yu Xian sneered and turned toward the blackboard.

“Fifty-eight points, huh? I looked at the exam paper.”

The chalk in his hand suddenly moved.

Tak-tak-tak-tak-tak—

The rapid sound of chalk striking the blackboard resembled an intense drumbeat—fast, precise, rhythmic.

Everyone held their breath while staring at his back.

In less than a minute—

A complicated geometry problem appeared on the blackboard.

It was the final question from the midterm exam.

Not a single student in the entire class had solved it correctly.

Beside it, Yu Xian swiftly wrote out three separate solutions.

The first—

The standard method, long and complicated.

The second—

A clever auxiliary-line method, concise and elegant.

The third method—

A calculus-based approach. A complete dimensionality reduction strike!

After finishing, Yu Xian flicked the chalk stub with perfect accuracy into the trash can.

Patting the dust from his hands, he turned around and looked at the dumbfounded Teacher Wang and the stunned parents.

“This problem itself contains a logical flaw. Condition C contradicts condition E. Forcing a solution according to the standard answer is just artificially patching things together.”

Yu Xian pointed at the blackboard.

“Su Xi left it blank because she noticed the contradiction. That’s not stupidity. That’s rigor.”

Then he pointed toward the third solution.

“As for this method—if you can’t understand it, I suggest going back and retaking university-level advanced mathematics.”

“A teacher who can’t even notice an error in the problem itself…”

His gaze sharpened slightly.

“What right do you have to call a student stupid?”

Yu Xian’s voice echoed throughout the classroom.

Teacher Wang stared at the flowing, elegant writing on the blackboard and at the three exquisite solving methods.

Her entire body felt as though it had been struck by lightning.

Cold sweat instantly soaked her back.

She was a math teacher.

Of course she could understand it!

That third solution… was even more brilliant than the approach used by the head of the mathematics department!

This…

This was supposed to be an unemployed drifter?

This was clearly a top-tier mathematical genius!

Most of the parents below didn’t understand calculus.

But that aura…

That handwriting…

That overwhelmingly impressive logic they couldn’t fully comprehend…

“Holy crap, he’s a master!”

“That handwriting is incredible! Strong and elegant like classical calligraphy!”

“He directly pointed out an error in the exam question? That’s insane!”

Standing at the back, Su Wanyi’s mouth hung slightly open in complete shock.

She stared at the radiant man standing at the podium as though seeing him for the first time.

That was Yu Xian?

The same Yu Xian who only drank and slept all day?

Since when did he understand advanced mathematics?

And law too?!

“Mom…”

Su Xi tugged at her sleeve. Her large eyes sparkled with admiration, her voice trembling with excitement.

“Uncle Yu… is so handsome!”

Seeing the shocked expressions throughout the classroom, Yu Xian felt absolutely nothing.

Only overwhelming impatience.

Finished pretending now?

Can I go sleep yet?

He was genuinely exhausted. Thinking about calculus just now had killed off plenty of brain cells. He urgently needed more sleep.

“Alright. The money’s on the desk. Count it yourself.”

Yu Xian pointed at the tuition money on the podium.

Then, amid the dead silence, he swaggered straight toward the sunny corner seat in the last row with the gait of someone who acknowledged no relatives.

He pulled out the chair.

Sat down.

Laid his head on the desk.

The entire sequence flowed smoothly in one motion.

“Don’t bother me unless it’s important. Wake me up when the meeting’s over.”

Three seconds later—

The sound of steady breathing could be heard.

Teachers, students, and parents alike: “……”

Teacher Wang stood frozen at the podium, her face alternating between red and pale. She held the pointer in her hand, yet it felt as heavy as a thousand pounds.

Looking at the solution on the blackboard, then at the man sleeping like a pig in the corner, her cheeks burned painfully.

She had kicked an iron plate this time!

This was absolutely some hidden academic giant living incognito!

Or perhaps one of those genius scholars embittered by a lack of recognition!

No wonder he looked down on luxury cars.

No wonder he dared to act so arrogantly.

He actually had the qualifications to be arrogant!

Su Wanyi stared at Yu Xian in the corner, her heart pounding violently.

She had originally believed today would only bring humiliation.

Instead, with nothing but his mouth, a piece of chalk, and a few words, he had slapped everyone in the face.

And on top of that…

He had done it to protect XiXi!

“Mrs. Su Xi…”

A wealthy woman wearing a mink coat leaned closer, her attitude having undergone a complete one-hundred-eighty-degree reversal. Her face overflowed with smiles.

“Oh my, I really couldn’t tell before! Your husband must be a university professor, right? This level of skill—wow, absolutely incredible! In the future, could my little Bao maybe exchange study tips with Su Xi more often?”

“Ah? Uh… well…”

Su Wanyi’s mind was complete mush. She had no idea how to answer.

University professor?

Him?

That guy who had secretly stolen bites of scallion scrambled eggs yesterday?

Just then—

The classroom door suddenly swung open.

An elderly man with graying hair and a Zhongshan suit hurried inside.

“Principal?” Teacher Wang jumped in surprise and quickly went forward. “Why are you here?”

The old principal didn’t even glance at her.

His eyes were fixed firmly on the writing covering the blackboard, his beard trembling with excitement.

“T-this… who wrote this?!”

The principal pointed at the third solution, his voice shaking.

“I saw it on the surveillance monitor just now! This is… this is a variant of Riemann geometry thinking! Our school actually has a mathematics master of this level hidden here?! Where is he?! Quickly introduce me!”

The entire classroom erupted once more!

Riemann geometry?

Master?!

Everyone’s eyes turned in unison toward the last-row corner.

There, a certain salted fish smacked his lips in his sleep, shifted into a more comfortable position, and continued sleeping soundly.

Sunlight streamed over his body, surrounding him with a golden glow.

In everyone else’s eyes—

That wasn’t sunlight.

It was the radiance of wisdom.

The composure of a true master!

Su Wanyi covered her mouth, her gaze unfocused.

It’s over.

There’s no explaining this anymore.

That alcoholic husband of mine…

Has he actually become a god?