VHBF -Chapter 153 The School Tyrant Daddy (Part 15)

Aside from Chinese class, any subject that Yinyin had sat in on—like history or politics—ended with the academic slackers of Class Ten completely failing. And failing miserably. They were even criticized with: “Not as good as a three-year-old kid!”

For a moment, the slackers’ emotions were complicated.

Should they keep doting on the little cub… or keep doting on her?

That was a good question!

Some slackers tried to reason with Yinyin, telling her to talk less and sleep more during class, and said righteously, “You’re still little, you need more sleep. Otherwise you won’t grow tall in the future!”

Back when Yinyin talked so enthusiastically in class, it had been fun. Now it was just pure suffering. The slackers wished they could go back to the beginning—to the very first day. Back then, they should’ve stood on the teachers’ side and made Yinyin talk less and mess around less, becoming a quiet, cute little statue.

Yinyin looked up at him, puzzled. “In class you’re supposed to listen carefully to the teacher and actively answer questions. That’s what a good kid does. You’re not allowed to secretly sleep. Uncle, your way of thinking is wrong—you should correct it.”

Slacker Uncle: “……”

Because of an urgent matter, Shen Huainan temporarily canceled his originally scheduled Tuesday trip to Lincheng, but that didn’t stop him from hearing news about Shen Lian and Yinyin.

The homeroom teacher of Senior Year Class Ten, English teacher Lin Fang, called Shen Huainan as the parent.

For several days in a row, Shen Lian had been bringing Yinyin to school for class—rain or shine. Even the subject teachers, who had previously held biases against Yinyin, had changed their views, recognizing her as a little prodigy and being completely won over by her cuteness. Still, as the homeroom teacher, Lin Fang couldn’t help but think more deeply about it.

For example… Shen Lian was still a student. What was it supposed to mean for him to bring a child to class? Once or twice was fine, but it looked like he was planning to bring her long-term. She’d even heard that last time, he’d carried her everywhere—even when going to fight.

Shen Lian himself wasn’t fully mature yet. What if something happened while he was taking care of a child…

Lin Fang was deeply worried. More importantly, was this child legally adopted? Given Shen Lian’s situation—still a student, no personal income, not married—he didn’t meet the requirements for adoption.

The call was answered by Shen Huainan’s assistant. Coincidentally, Shen Huainan was free, so the assistant handed the phone over. “It’s the young master’s homeroom teacher calling.”

At the moment, Shen Huainan was overseas. A transnational cooperation project had run into some problems, and he’d personally come over to handle it.

Lin Fang asked nervously, “Is this Shen Lian’s parent?”

Hearing the low, magnetic male voice on the other end, Lin Fang became even more nervous.

This phone number had been sitting in Shen Lian’s file for so long, yet she’d never called it before.

After organizing her thoughts, Lin Fang said, “Recently, Shen Lian picked up a child and has been raising her by his side. Are you aware of this?”

Shen Huainan replied, “Mm.”

Lin Fang immediately let out a sigh of relief. As long as the parent knew. “Recently, Shen Lian has been bringing that child to class every day…”

Shen Huainan said, “I agreed to him raising that child. When I have time in a while, I’ll bring her back. Thank you for your concern, teacher.”

Lin Fang was instantly stunned. Shen Lian’s parent agreed to raise her???

“Y-you…”

A realization suddenly dawned on Lin Fang. “So that really is your granddaughter!”

“Well then, well then, I’ll hang up now. You must be busy.”

After saying that, she hung up.

Shen Huainan stared at his phone. “……???”

Granddaughter???

The assistant kept his eyes on his nose, nose on his heart, daring not to speak. When he investigated things, how come no one in Lincheng mentioned this?

D-did sir just suddenly become a grandfather?

Shen Lian had no idea that the old man’s originally planned trip to Lincheng had been canceled due to urgent company matters—letting him narrowly escape disaster. He happily moved into his villa with Yinyin, carefree and unrestrained.

He also had no idea that Shen Huainan had received a call from the homeroom teacher…

At Diya High School, people often saw a little tail following behind Shen Lian. Wherever Shen Lian appeared, Yinyin would be there too—it had already become one of School Tyrant Shen’s signature traits.

Xu Gao and a few lackeys sat together sighing. One of them sprawled on the desk and said,
“Back then, Brother Shen took us out to fight every day. Now he’s fully focused on raising a kid and doesn’t even take us along anymore… It feels awful. My hands are itching!”

Xu Gao also sighed. “Do you want Brother Shen to take little Yinyin along to fight? If she grows up into a female Tyrannosaurus later, are you going to take responsibility?”

The lackey waved his hands repeatedly. “Don’t say that nonsense! How would I dare take responsibility?” Then he muttered, “Even if she doesn’t go fight, with Brother Shen raising her like this, will she even grow up ladylike?”

“What are you thinking? Once little Yinyin goes to school, her becoming a female school tyrant is more likely.”

Xu Gao: “……”

Xu Gao recalled the first time he spoke to Yinyin. The very first sentence she’d said was: “Uncle, who do you think you are?”

“……”

She’d learned that from him. She’d only seen a fight once back then and already picked it up on the spot. If this kept going… a female school tyrant wasn’t impossible at all.

Because of that phone call, Shen Huainan wrapped up everything at the fastest speed possible, handed the remaining work over to his subordinates, and immediately flew back to the country.

The landing point wasn’t the capital, but Lincheng.

The assistant carried the suitcase, walking half a step behind him. While tapping on his phone, he said, “When the young master was in Lincheng before, he stayed in an apartment he bought himself, near Diya High School.”

Shen Huainan nodded. “At this hour, Shen Lian is still in class?”

The assistant smiled. “Sir, you probably wouldn’t expect this, but ever since he started taking the child to class with him, the young master has been skipping far fewer classes. He goes to school almost on time every day now.”

“I’ve heard he’s even started memorizing texts lately.”

After saying that, the assistant couldn’t help but sigh. “The young master really has grown up.”

Shen Huainan said, “Don’t go to the apartment yet. Go wait at the school gate.”

A low-key black Lincoln drove out of the airport, headed toward the city, and eventually stopped at the entrance of Diya High School.

There were five minutes left before the end of class. Homeroom teacher Lin Fang stood at the podium, her tone turning more serious. “Next week we’ll be having the midterm exams. This week, make sure you finish the practice questions you’re supposed to do and memorize the key points you’re supposed to memorize. Even if some of you don’t plan on taking the college entrance exam, knowing more is never a bad thing.”

In the past, when it came to exams—let alone midterms, even finals—the underachievers were never afraid. They couldn’t pass anyway, so they’d just muddle through.

But this past week had been pure misery for them. With an extra little troublemaker around, they’d ended up memorizing far more than they had in the first two years of high school. Now that they heard there was an exam…

Someone raised a hand. “Teacher, during the exam we strongly suggest sticking to the principles of fairness and justice. Things like three-year-old kids really shouldn’t participate. Otherwise, if she gets a zero and cries, that wouldn’t be good.”

Yinyin wasn’t a high school student and didn’t have student registration anyway, so of course she wouldn’t be taking the exam. Lin Fang nodded in agreement.

The underachievers all let out a sigh of relief. As long as Yinyin wasn’t there, everything could go back to how it used to be!

When class ended, Yinyin lay dejectedly on her dad’s shoulder, looking a little down. Daddy said that because she couldn’t read yet, she couldn’t take exams together with Daddy and the uncles and big sisters.

A student life without exams was incomplete. Yinyin had seen other kids bring home papers graded by the teacher, praised by their parents for doing well.

She thought a little enviously that other kids’ student lives were different from hers—she was a kid who couldn’t take exams.

At her young age, Yinyin still couldn’t understand the difference between kindergarten and high school. To her, they were all the same: teachers, going to school, listening to lessons. She didn’t know that she wasn’t even considered an official student yet, just a little kid tagging along to audit classes.

Shen Lian bounced Yinyin on his shoulder. “Let’s go. We’re getting strawberry cake. A new dessert shop just opened over there.”

Yinyin immediately forgot her worries. Covering her mouth, she gasped, “Really? Yinyin can really eat cake now?”

Because the class had gone wild feeding her snacks last weekend, Yinyin’s intake of sweets had seriously exceeded the limit. Seeing her chubby cheeks on the verge of gaining even more weight, Shen Lian had coldly restricted her snacks and desserts for an entire week.

To Yinyin, those words were like dangling a carrot in front of her nose, telling her: Little bunny, you can eat now!

The blue-haired boy curled his lips into a flamboyant smile. “Eat. Today, we’re eating a whole slice!”

Some students from Class Ten were coming out nearby. Hearing this, several of them crowded over. “Brother Shen? Taking Yinyin for dessert? You should’ve said so earlier! Come on, let’s go together!”

Shen Lian kicked out a foot. “Get lost!”

A group of teenage boys and girls, backpacks on their backs, laughing and jostling, poured out through the school gate.

Inside the black Lincoln, a mature, handsome, and refined man looked through the glass window toward the school entrance.

The flamboyant, handsome blue-haired boy was holding a pink-and-porcelain-like little girl in his arms. She was far more lively and adorable than in the photos—her little chubby face smiling sweetly, both hands tightly gripping the boy’s neck.

Yinyin was clearly very popular with the boys and girls at school, who crowded around her, gesturing animatedly to tease her.

The assistant proactively opened the car door and got out.

Before long, the blue-haired boy came over with Yinyin in his arms, frowning slightly, and stopped beside the Lincoln.

Shen Huainan lowered the window and looked over.

His gaze landed on the boy’s face. “Class is over?”

“Why are you here?”

Father and son spoke at the same time. Shen Lian grew even more irritated, his brows tightly knit. “What are you here for?”

Shen Huainan gestured for him to get in the car. “We’ll talk when we get back.”

Yinyin curiously looked at this handsome, good-looking uncle, then tilted her head up and asked her dad, “Daddy, who is this uncle?”

Shen Lian was impatient and was about to say he was just a passerby and not worth bothering about. Then he thought of the parenting manual, which said you shouldn’t brush children off, so he said, “…My dad.”

So this was Daddy’s daddy. With this layer of identity added, Yinyin’s affection for the uncle in front of her shot straight up. That natural sense of closeness made her relax almost immediately.

More than half of her chubby little body leaned out as she clung to the open window. She gave Shen Huainan a sweet smile, her eyes warm and her voice soft and milky as she loudly called out, “Grandpa! Grandpa is so handsome, just like Daddy!”

Shen Huainan: “…???”

Shen Lian: “…???”

Assistant: “…???”

Driver: “…???”

“……”

The atmosphere fell into deathly silence. The man in the car froze slightly, then looked at Shen Lian. Shen Lian stared at the sky, stared at the ground—anywhere but at him.

Faced with Yinyin’s bright, expectant, sparkling gaze, Shen Huainan subconsciously responded, “Mm…”

Just that single-word reply made Yinyin extremely excited. She showed not the slightest shyness, completely familiar. She stretched her arms out from her dad’s embrace toward the inside of the car, her little chubby face full of affection, like a clingy kitten. “Grandpa hug!”

Shen Lian: “……”

The assistant, very perceptive, opened the car door. This made it even easier for Yinyin to act. She immediately struggled down from her dad’s arms and, in one burst of effort, charged forward, using both hands and feet to climb into the car.

Shen Lian’s mouth twitched slightly. Just as Yinyin was about to grab hold of the old fox’s pant leg, he lifted her up, snorting. “Already three years old. It’s time you learned to walk on your own. Don’t keep asking to be carried all the time, got it?”

Thanks to that move, Shen Lian smoothly got into the car as well. The driver started driving. Father and son still didn’t speak. The assistant sat in the front passenger seat, while the spacious back seat held grandpa, dad, and granddaughter.

Between Shen Lian and Shen Huainan sat one Yinyin.

Even after getting in the car, Yinyin couldn’t stay still. Huffing and puffing, she used both hands and feet to try to crawl toward Grandpa. To Yinyin, the best greeting was hugging someone’s neck and planting a big kiss—that was her greatest show of goodwill.

Sitting in the old man’s car made Shen Lian feel a bit uncomfortable and irritable. He turned his head to look out the window, which just happened to give Yinyin the perfect opportunity to climb over.

Shen Huainan suddenly felt weight on his legs. Lowering his head, he saw that at some point, Yinyin had successfully “escaped from prison” and climbed onto his lap…

Her little pink-and-porcelain chubby face was right in front of him. She lifted her small head and smiled sweetly. “Grandpa hug.”

There was something very much like if the mountain won’t come to me, I’ll go to the mountain about her, and she even pushed her luck, trying to stand up and pounce onto him.

Shen Huainan: “……”

Shen Lian turned his head back. “……”