When Sui Yuesheng entered the room, he saw Tao Fengche stuffing a rectangular object into a pile of books on the desk, clearly not wanting him to see what it was.

Probably a love letter from a beta or omega? Sui Yuesheng thought.

It’s common for teenage alphas to have some secrets they don’t want their parents to know about, and Tao Fengche’s actions were perfectly normal. However, to Sui Yuesheng, it was somewhat unsettling.

Suppressing the sudden discomfort that arose in his heart, he pretended not to see anything. Approaching Tao Fengche, he got straight to the point: “Your teacher called me this afternoon.”

After saying this, he carefully observed Tao Fengche’s expression, but Tao Fengche remained calm, showing no reaction to his words. Sui Yuesheng couldn’t tell if he was pretending or not.

With no other choice, Sui Yuesheng continued: “She said your dictation homework didn’t have a parent’s signature. When she asked you, you said I didn’t have time. If you have any issues in the future…”

He paused, then added, “You can come directly to me. Don’t worry about disturbing me.”

Tao Fengche suddenly sneered, “The school communication app already sent a message saying that this week’s dictation homework needs a parent’s signature.”

He looked disdainful, almost accusatory.

Tao Fengche always had the habit of organizing his finished homework and the textbooks needed for the next day before going to bed, placing them in his backpack along with his pencil case. This way, he could just grab his backpack and go downstairs for breakfast the next morning without worrying about forgetting anything in the rush.

However, starting last Monday, he began deliberately placing his dictation homework notebook in the center of his desk every night before bed, with a blue pen next to it to distinguish it from his own black pen. But every morning when he checked, the notebook remained untouched, and inside, only his own handwriting was present.

The accumulated disappointment reached its peak this morning after Feng Hui made him stand as punishment.

Even when Tao Zhixing was alive, no matter how busy he was, he never forgot this task. Even if he wasn’t home, he would specifically ask Xu Song to sign on his behalf. Tao Fengche had never experienced being called out and punished by a teacher for not meeting homework requirements until now.

Yet now, Sui Yuesheng had the audacity to come and say things like “don’t be afraid to disturb me,” as if he were the victim here.

Tao Fengche’s eyes were cold, but at this moment, Sui Yuesheng genuinely felt innocent.

Before he turned eighteen, he lived in another country, relying on his grandmother. After his grandmother fell seriously ill, he followed her wishes and came to Kyushu with someone. He waited until Tao Zhixing rescued him from that place, and he hadn’t attended a single day of school.

After Tao Zhixing saved him, he was sent to the Tao family to be a companion for Tao Fengche. The latter taught him to read and let him attend lessons with the family tutor. When he turned eighteen, his first heat hit him like a tidal wave, nearly overwhelming him. He was urgently sent to a research institute, and after a slow-release injection, his cognitive abilities finally returned temporarily.

Later, he had a long conversation with the hastily arrived Tao Zhixing, injected a special drug still in clinical trials, underwent one-on-one intensive training in various subjects, and then went abroad to study.

His pre-university education was highly unconventional, and even in university, the emphasis was on “independent learning.” This was the first time in his life he had heard the term “school communication app.”

However, from Tao Fengche’s words, it wasn’t hard to deduce what this “school communication app” was—it was likely a software that uniformly sent information to students’ parents through a specific program.

When Sui Yuesheng went to the Public Security Bureau to update Tao Fengche’s guardian information, to avoid information leakage, he filled in his public work number printed on his business card. The phone carrying this number was usually held by Assistant Zhou.

Because it was a public number, the messages received were varied. Sui Yuesheng had been back in Jingpu for less than a month, and the phone number had already been widely circulated. Though few dared to call, many people sent messages, asking for investment in profitable projects, seeking loans due to family bankruptcy, or even sending suggestive photos for potential sponsorship…

These were the ones brave enough to use their own phone numbers. Many more messages were sent using virtual numbers. The “school communication app” Tao Fengche mentioned was likely automatically blocked along with the spam and scam messages.

This misunderstanding was truly hard for Sui Yuesheng to explain to Tao Fengche, not to mention that he didn’t want the latter to know about his past.

It was enough for Tao Fengche to see him as the “fairy brother.”

Perhaps too much time had passed; even the once shameful title now seemed to carry a nostalgic warmth, filtered by memory.

He silently added “communicate with the school to update the contact details in the parent-teacher communication app and the school communication app to his personal number” to his mental to-do list, then decisively apologized.

“It’s indeed my fault. I’ve been too busy recently to check the messages. But…” He paused, puzzled, “Why didn’t you come to me directly?”

He had been in Jingpu the whole week, hadn’t traveled, and came home before Tao Fengche went to bed. If a signature was needed, Tao Fengche could have just brought the notebook to the study. No matter how busy he was, he always had time to supervise dictation or recitation.

Tao Fengche, being a proud alpha, must have felt terrible being called out and punished in front of everyone.

Sui Yuesheng didn’t believe Tao Fengche couldn’t foresee this consequence, which made him even more perplexed by Tao Fengche’s approach to this matter.

“Aren’t you my guardian?” Tao Fengche retorted confidently, “As a guardian, you should be proactive in caring for me and paying attention to my academic progress.”

Sui Yuesheng: “…”

This was his first time acting as a guardian for someone else. He himself had never experienced being guided by a guardian while studying, so he lacked experience and sufficient reference information. He indeed didn’t do a good job.

After all, when he was under a guardian’s care, he didn’t have the opportunity to study; by the time he could start studying, he no longer had a guardian.

However, Tao Fengche’s words did make some sense.

Sui Yuesheng carefully searched the ocean of his memories, thinking about what a guardian should do. When he was young, he lived in an old, run-down tenement building in a slum. Although the neighbors were all poor, the family living on the top floor was slightly better off and could afford to send their children to a few years of elementary school.

He vaguely remembered hearing the sounds of parents checking their children’s homework and then the whole floor echoing with the sounds of children being beaten. Sui Yuesheng frowned, pushing those penetrating wails out of his mind, and tentatively reached for the pile of homework stacked on Tao Fengche’s right side.

The latter, who used to follow a tutor at home, had the habit of placing unfinished homework on the left side and finished homework on the right side, keeping his desk neat and orderly.

Tao Fengche did not reach out to stop him.

Sui Yuesheng smoothly took the top exercise book from the pile and was pleased to see that Tao Fengche had maintained this habit until now. He then flipped through the pages until he found one without red pen corrections and began to read.

Little did he know, Tao Fengche’s heart was in his throat at this moment.

He never liked biology and always left it for last. But today, the Chinese assignment was dictation and an essay, which took a lot of time, so he decided to do biology first. Who would have thought Sui Yuesheng would check his homework today?

And just his luck, he picked biology.

But he probably wouldn’t understand it, right? Tao Fengche remembered Sui Yuesheng as the boy who couldn’t even recognize all the characters and needed his help with learning. Although he now suspected that Sui Yuesheng had spent those ten years abroad studying, given how adeptly he managed the Tao family’s affairs, he was likely studying business.

Different fields are worlds apart. Sui Yuesheng surely wouldn’t have any special understanding of biology, right?

Tao Fengche prayed desperately in his heart, but the gods did not answer his prayers, just like nearly a month ago in the hospital.

Perhaps due to practicing calligraphy from a young age, Tao Fengche’s handwriting was unlike most other Alphas his age. It was bold and strong, much like Sui Yuesheng’s own writing, as they had both practiced the same calligraphy.

After examining the handwriting, Sui Yuesheng pulled his attention back to the homework in front of him. He quickly scanned Tao Fengche’s answers, his eyebrows knitting tighter and tighter.

The answers were too neat, and some mistakes seemed deliberately made. The same knowledge point had both correct and incorrect answers across different questions, as if the answers had been copied, with a few intentionally changed to avoid suspicion.

This might fool a teacher with the excuse of “incomplete understanding of the knowledge points,” but it wouldn’t fool Sui Yuesheng. After spending nearly half a year with Tao Fengche, he knew his intelligence level well. Once Tao Fengche grasped a concept, he could apply it effortlessly, let alone handle these routine homework questions.

Sui Yuesheng directly turned to the answer page and instantly solved the case.

“Tao Fengche, why did you copy your homework?” he asked, his face darkening.