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Chapter 51 - Class Streaming

His Majesty the emperor was really crappy in humanities, and his only way out was to study science. Song Xiao felt that this was really bizarre. After all, Yu Tang was still an olden day person in his thinking, and should’ve had an easier time studying humanities.

In a flash, it was the end of the second semester of the first year. Song Xiao’s results were still in the middle. Ever since he heard that he didn’t need to study science subjects once the students were streamed, he didn’t try as hard in physics, and let his average score go down. His own physics homework was all pushed to the emperor.

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“You have the impertinence to have

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do your homework?!” Yu Tang watched Song Xiao push his physics exercise book over to him, and widened his eyes.

“Your Majesty needs this,” Song Xiao said with an earnest expression. Helping the emperor do his humanities homework had led to Song Xiao not needing to memorize blindly, as he instead remembered every question. Thinking that this was a really good method, he wanted to recommend it to the emperor.

Story translated by Chrysanthemum Garden.

“…” Yu Tang looked at the empress, who had the appearance of a faithful official, and really couldn’t bear to throw the homework back at him. He could only toss it to Dugu An, who was sitting behind him.

Currently, most schools attached great importance to science rather than humanities. There were many more majors to choose from when writing college applications, and more study paths. When the time came to stream the students, the form teacher would call the students who wished to study humanities into the office one by one, analyze their results, and advise those who could still be saved to study science.

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Not doing his homework directly caused Song Xiao’s final exam results to slide. The form teacher looked at Song Xiao’s report card, with full marks in every humanities subject, then at his bare pass in his science subjects. Silent for a long while, his form teacher finally sighed and said, “Your science subjects really aren’t good. You’ll have more future prospects in the humanities.”

Because there were many people in the science stream, students from Special Class Two who were studying science were put into Special Class One, which remained as it was. On the other hand, the humanities stream was no longer divided into special and normal classes anymore, and students were just streamed according to their grades.

After eliminating physics, chemistry, and biology, Song Xiao’s results placed him in first place in the humanities stream and put him at the top of the list, as it should be. He was also the first to go up and introduce himself.

“Hello everyone, my name’s Song Xiao.” Dressed in the school uniform, his body was tall and straight, he was as gentle as jade, and his voice was clear and sonorous. The girls in class immediately became excited.

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“How handsome!”

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“It’s Song Xiao

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!”

“Ahhh!”

Everyone was streamed into the class according to their results, and were free to choose their seats. The girls strove to be the first to grab the seats around Song Xiao, and the girl who was ranked second in class managed to snatch the seat as his deskmate.

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The summer vacation started after the students were streamed into the classes. Initially, Song Xiao had already made plans with Yu Tang to spend the break at the latter’s seaside villa, but he was called away by a phone call from his maternal grandfather.

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The emperor suddenly stood up, extremely unhappy. “What painting and calligraphy competition? You’re going to the US to study, and foreigners won’t understand this painting and calligraphy award. You might as well come intern at Dayu Corporation for two months.”

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“This… can count as extra credit to the college entrance examination,” Song Xiao lowered his head and said quietly.

“College entrance exam…” Yu Tang paused and looked at Song Xiao. “You’re planning to take the college entrance exam?”

Song Xiao pursed his lips. His family’s situation wasn’t good, so it wasn’t appropriate for him to go abroad for his studies. Song Xiao wasn’t embarrassed by this, but if he said it like that, it was as if he wanted Yu Tang to give him money. Instantly, he found it hard to open his mouth. “Grandpa already signed me up for it, so it wouldn’t be good if I don’t go. Moreover, this servant can’t always live by relying on Your Majesty.”

Yu Tang watched blankly as Song Xiao turned around and left, and his hands slowly curled into fists.

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What was meant to be a cheerful summer vacation became bitter days without his wife. Yu Tang swam back and forth in the swimming pool at home, an ugly expression on his face, before immersing himself in the water to sulk. Lifting his head, he saw his little brother, in a small yellow duck pool float, happily flopping around in the shallow area.

This was the first time little Yu Lin was playing with water, so he was especially happy. Extending a pair of chubby hands, he slapped them on the surface of the water. While he was playing happily, there was a sudden ‘splash’, and a monster named

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emerged from underwater, stirring up tremendous waves.

“Wah!” Yu Lin was splashed with water from head to toe. The small amount of hair on his head was drenched and dripped with water. Reaching up to touch his face and wipe off the water droplets, Yu Lin moved his short legs and tried to distance himself from his brother. However, a large hand caught him by the leg, and he was dragged before the monster

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“Why aren’t you crying?” Yu Tang reached out and poked his little brother in the forehead.

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Yu Lin blinked, stupefied. Then he hurriedly opened his mouth as he started to howl loudly without tears. Zhang Xiaoren was playing with a ball not far away when it saw them, and it came over to join the fun. With a crash, it jumped into the swimming pool and circled

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, crying along with the “

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”.

“Enough, enough!” Yu Tang reached out and slapped the dog’s head, then pulled on his

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’s jug ears. “Stop pretending.”

Yu Lin looked at his brother with tearful eyes and flattened his lips, looking like he wanted to cry, but didn’t.

Yu Tang leaped out of the water and sat down on the edge of the swimming pool. Using his toes to pull the yellow duck float over, he dragged his little brother before him and raised a glass of cola for a sip. “Let me ask you, how did your

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finally die?”\n“

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The little child appeared unable to understand as he hugged the yellow duck and sobbed grievously.

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Yu Tang stared at his little brother for a while, trying to discern what was in his big black eyes. According to the history books, his successor, Emperor Hongyuan, was a monarch who had perfectly preserved his predecessor’s work, taking care of and tightly defending the foundations laid down by his elder brother.

That excited history teacher had put it like this: “Emperor Hongyuan, Yu Jinlin, was conferred the position of imperial heir by his elder brother as a child. His elder brother had the assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue, Song Xiao, act as his teacher. He could be said to be a monarch who was single-handedly taught by Empress Duanhui, so naturally he wouldn’t be lacking. This pair of husbands raised this

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as a son.”

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In Emperor Jingyuan’s third year after he ascended the throne, and without children, he established his blood brother, Jinlin, as his imperial heir, and treated him the way a parent did.

After a long silence, Yu Tang sighed slowly. “Forget it…”

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In the end, the reason why he insisted that Song Xiao sign some contract was that he still felt insecure. Now, they rarely mentioned matters of the past. After all, he was the one truly in the wrong when he selfishly demanded that Song Xiao be buried with him. Now, he was exploiting Song Xiao’s dependence on him in a despicable manner, slowly locking him up in his embrace. And in the future?

Once Song Xiao adapted to this society and became independent, this old account, which had always been the thorn between them, would be brought up.

Raising his cola, Yu Tang took a swig. He suddenly didn’t want to hear his little brother speak the truth, afraid that it would be even crueler than what popular history said.

Now was the perfect time for a pot of hard alcohol, but he was underage and could only drink cola to cope. Yu Tang furiously stepped on the little yellow duck, kicking his little brother back toward the center of the pool.

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At the start of the second year, Song Xiao missed the first two days of school because of his participation in the competition. When he returned from his hometown, he went straight to school.