My brother couldn't be a corrupted magical girl.

Chapter 56 The Troubles of Green Orange

After separating from Violet and the others, the magical girl Qingju went to the girls' restroom and disappeared in a flash of blue light.

A girl of about sixteen or seventeen years old walked out. She was 1.7 meters tall, with dark and bright eyes, and her jet-black hair was tied into a ponytail that swayed back and forth. She was wearing a blue and white school uniform and carrying a schoolbag. As she walked out of the restroom, no one would have thought that this ordinary high school student would be a magical girl.

Li Xuanyu glanced at the time; it was almost seven o'clock. A look of extreme frustration appeared on her face. If she went back now, she would definitely get a scolding from her father again.

But there's nothing we can do; after all, she's a magical girl.

Li Xuanyu shook her head, trying to clear her mind of her worries. Let her father scold her, she was used to it anyway. She was more excited than anything else.

Because she had finally found her organization, no longer a ragtag army, but a proper regular army, imagining herself fighting calamity beasts with her fists and trampling abyssal demonesses under her feet in the future.

The frustration in my heart vanished instantly.

Back home, it took her quite a bit of effort to clean up the mess of bottles and items scattered on the floor, restoring everything to a spotless state.

Since her mother passed away, her father has gone from a handsome young man to a disheveled middle-aged man. However, Li Xuanyu can understand her father. He is both a father and a mother and has to work at the noodle shop from morning to night. He has no time to clean the house.

So she usually does these things, but she doesn't understand why there are more and more empty wine bottles and cigarette butts in the house.

My dad didn't used to have much contact with tobacco and alcohol, but now he's a cigarette maker every day. Is it because he's been busy expanding his business and is under a lot of psychological pressure?

Shaking her head in frustration, Li Xuanyu put her schoolbag on the table, took out her homework, and began to do it seriously.

A minute later, she scratched her head and continued writing.

Five minutes later, she scratched her head, hesitated for a moment, and then wrote.

Ten minutes later, she scratched her head, stood there stunned for a long time, and dared not write anymore.

"......well!"

I used to be able to write my homework with ease, my thoughts would come flowing like they were free, and I would finish it in no time.

How come only three months have passed, but Li Xuanyu feels that these assignments have completely changed?

Former brothers in adversity, now mortal enemies.

Li Xuanyu stared blankly at the television, which was reporting the day's news:

[An unidentified monster appeared at a department store in Hangang District this evening. It has been eliminated by the Gladiolus Judgment Team, but the monster caused buildings to collapse, making the area extremely unsafe. Residents in the vicinity are advised to be cautious and avoid approaching the site.]

Her gaze then shifted to her phone, which contained her best classmate's contact information. If she were willing to borrow it, the other person would definitely be willing to let her copy it.

However, her sense of shame wouldn't allow her to do that.

What one thinks in their heart is one thing, but what one does with their hands is another.

One step, two steps, and just as she was about to send out the message she had edited, the door opened.

Hearing the familiar footsteps, Li Xuanyu knew that her father had returned.

Li Xuanyu belatedly tossed her phone aside, her heart pounding. She had almost succumbed to temptation.

Waaaaah...

But she recognized every single word in the homework assignments for all the subjects in front of her.

When put together, she was completely dumbfounded.

Actually, usually around this point,

Li Jianguo wouldn't close the shop, but after seeing the news report on TV, he immediately closed the store and rushed home. He wasn't afraid that the monster would attack him later; he was afraid that his daughter hadn't come home again.

He could have called and asked directly, but considering that his daughter had recently been going in a bad direction, and fearing that she was just agreeing verbally, he decided to go home directly.

When I got home, I glanced at the shoe cabinet as usual and saw my daughter's shoes on it, and I secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

But when he saw his daughter looking at her phone while doing her homework, he couldn't help but feel puzzled, since his daughter never used to look at her phone while doing her homework.

Gradually, doubt turned into confusion: Was she copying someone else's homework? Confusion turned into anxiety: Was she copying a boy's or a girl's homework? If she copied homework every day, what would happen to her in the exams? And then it turned into anger.

But when they entered the house and found the room spotless and immaculate,

His anger instantly transformed into bitterness, helplessness, and guilt...

If he had focused more on his daughter, she wouldn't be the way she is now.

Li Jianguo walked to his daughter's side, wanting to reach out and touch her head, but then realized that his daughter had already turned seventeen in the blink of an eye.

No longer the cheerful little girl he used to be, he reached out halfway but then pulled back. Countless questions filled his mind that he wanted to ask his daughter: why her grades had suddenly gone from being among the top in her class to being among the bottom; why she always left home in the middle of the night and then sneaked back.

But if he asks, will his daughter really be willing to tell him?

So what came out of my mouth was: "Xiaoyu, have you eaten? If not, Daddy will make you something."

"I already ate at school."

"Yes, that's good..."

Feeling her father sitting beside her, Li Xuanyu couldn't help but feel uneasy.

In her view, her father was a very dull person who usually bore all difficulties alone.

He only looks like this when he encounters a problem he truly cannot solve; he wants to ask, but cannot bring himself to speak.

"Dad, what happened to you?" Li Xuanyu asked first.

"It's nothing serious, but I've noticed your grades have slipped a bit lately. Is it because the teacher rearranged the seating, or maybe you got a new teacher and aren't used to it...?"

Li Jianguo spoke at length, but ultimately he did not mention that the problem lay with his daughter.

"Dad, just say what's on your mind."

Instead of answering her father's question, Li Xuanyu began to inquire about the real dilemma in his heart.

Seeing the joy on his father's face, he added uncertainly, "If I can do it."

"Here's the thing, I know a teacher from the top class at Qiuyuan No. 1 Middle School. I noticed your grades have slipped a bit, so I was thinking of having him tutor you. What do you think?"

"What subject does the teacher teach? What's their name?"

Qiuyuan No.1 Middle School?

Li Xuanyu hesitated for a moment. Why would her father, an ordinary noodle shop owner, know a teacher from the top high school in Yeqiu City? Could she have encountered a swindler?

This made her suspicious; the teacher and the noodle shop owner were like two parallel lines that never intersected, and there was absolutely no chance of them ever crossing paths.

"I think he teaches Chinese, and his name is Bai Yuze."

Li Xuanyu picked up her phone, which she had just tossed aside, and started searching on Baidu.

And sure enough, she actually found information about Bai Yuzhe's identity as a teacher.

At first glance, she seemed very young, not at all like a teacher in an honors class.

In her view, the teachers of the top classes are usually older teachers in their thirties or forties.

"So young, could he be a con artist?"

After reviewing the other party's information, Li Xuanyu's tone was still full of disbelief.

"He can't be a liar. I've watched this kid grow up since he was a child. Besides, you and Bai Youqing used to follow him around every day when you were little."

As Li Jianguo spoke, a genuine smile appeared on his face.

"Huh? I know him too, and I'm always following him around?"

Li Xuanyu's tightly furrowed brows twitched, then relaxed, and she immediately shook her head.

Impossible, absolutely impossible, why doesn't she have any recollection of it?

"Even if he's not a fraud, he still teaches Chinese, and my biggest problem right now is math, so he can't help me much."

"Xiaoze said that as long as you are still willing to contact him, he can help you find a teacher for any subject."

A smile appeared on Li Jianguo's somewhat blank face; he understood that his daughter had agreed.

"...That's great, Dad, you didn't save his life, did you?" Li Xuanyu frowned and asked uncertainly.

Li Jianguo did not answer the question this time, but simply placed Bai Yuzhe's contact information on the table and spoke earnestly.

"Don't bother others during the weekdays. On the weekend, ask the school for a sick leave and try to contact Xiaoze to see if he has time to come over to the noodle shop for a meal. No, no, just say you want to go to Fukangxiang Restaurant for a meal."

"Oh... okay."

Li Xuanyu nodded, looking at the phone number on the table, and then at her father's back, which seemed much more relaxed. She slowly fell silent. Today, she finally understood the weight of fatherly love.