Study System: I'm a 38-Year-Old Student-Chapter 47 - 44: Teacher Chen Has a Boyfriend

When Shen Qiushan got home, it was already eleven thirty.

He went straight to his little room, turned on his computer, and clicked into the backend of "I Really Didn’t Want to Reincarnate."

In a single day, he’d actually gained 185 more bookmarks.

There were more than twenty reader comments, too.

[Masterpiece! Already at Immortal Grass Level]

[How does the author manage to be this damn good?]

[Haven’t seen such a great reincarnation novel in ages]

[So good, but there just isn’t enough]

[Update faster, I can’t sleep at night!]

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Shen Qiushan glanced at the comments section—practically all rave reviews, and two readers even tipped him 500 Penguin Coins each!

Converted to R Coin, it’s only five bucks.

But that’s still real, hard cash support—a kind of recognition for the book.

No wonder it’s a "System Strictly Selected" book, turns out it really is something.

Shen Qiushan sighed to himself, then uploaded three Chapters in one go.

After locking in his contract at noon, he’d checked what other new books did—almost all updated two Chapters a day.

But Shen Qiushan had plenty of drafts saved up, so he threw in an extra update.

After uploading the latest Chapters, he used the "scheduled release" function to upload content for the next ten days in one shot—so he wouldn’t have to worry about updating every day.

Once all the book stuff was settled, it was already past midnight.

Shen Qiushan kept up his before-bed habit—camping out in the bathroom.

But not wanting to disturb anyone’s sleep, he didn’t turn on the light.

So while Shen Qiushan was sitting there on the toilet, pondering his study plan, suddenly the bathroom sliding door was yanked open from outside, and in came his son Shen Yixiao’s narcissistic mutter: "Mirror, mirror, who’s the handsomest guy in the world?"

Normally, Shen Yixiao would then softly add: Of course, it’s Shen Yixiao.

But tonight, before he could say a word, the "mirror" actually answered: "Your dad!"

Holy crap!

Still lost in his own world, Shen Yixiao jumped in fright and quickly flicked on the bathroom light.

And there he saw his old man, sitting on the toilet.

"Dad!"

"Why are you going to the bathroom without turning on a light!"

"You scared the life out of me!"

Shen Yixiao grumbled, pouting.

"I thought everyone was asleep."

"Why aren’t you in bed?"

Shen Qiushan looked in surprise at his cheeky kid.

"Just reading a bit..."

Shen Yixiao shrugged, trying to play it cool, then grimaced and said, "Dad, can you hurry up? I really gotta go."

"Shut the door!"

"Wait your turn!"

Shen Qiushan rolled his eyes in reply.

Once the bathroom door was closed, the brat’s voice drifted in from outside: "Shen Yanran said you went to do food deliveries after study hall—I don’t think it’s necessary. Once I’m in college, I’ll get a part-time job as a gym instructor—I already asked, you can make three or four grand a month! I’ll even cover Shen Yanran’s allowance by then, see if she still dares pull a face at me."

"She said the other day after the college entrance exams she wants to wait tables. With her nasty temper, she’d get complained about at least eight times a day!"

"And she’s a girl—looks okay, I guess—but what if she runs into some drunk guy? If he loses control, what’s she gonna do..."

Whoosh!

As Shen Yixiao was rambling on, his old man Shen Qiushan yanked open the bathroom door.

"Get into college first and we’ll talk!"

"Otherwise, all that’s just empty talk!"

Shen Qiushan said that, but his heart felt warm—his brat was really growing up, thinking about both him and his sister, Shen Yanran.

"It’s just college, that’s a piece of cake!"

Shen Yixiao mumbled, full of confidence after a day of hard studying.

The next day.

As dawn was breaking, Shen Qiushan was woken up by noises in the living room—he grabbed his phone to check the time. Only four-forty.

As he was wondering who was up and rattling around so early, the living room went quiet again after a bang!—the sound of the door closing.

Took him a moment to realize—his son Shen Yixiao had gone out.

The sports students had all agreed to recite English vocab together at 5:30 every morning—this was just the second day.

Hope this bunch of brats isn’t all talk and no action!

Shen Qiushan shifted to a comfier position and went back to sleep...

And over the next few days, Shen Yixiao went out every day around four-forty and after evening study hall, would keep reviewing at home till about midnight, catching up on sleep at school lunch break.

Sunday.

The high school seniors finally got a rare day off.

But actually, most kids had extra classes scheduled anyway.

Ten in the morning.

Shen Qiushan took both kids to Chen Xiangyu’s place.

They’d already discussed it—extra tutoring would officially start this weekend.

While Chen Xiangyu was teaching the two kids, Shen Qiushan sat in the corner and listened in. Not only did it help his own English test skills, he could also rack up 1200 Scholar Index points.

Two birds with one stone!

Once English tutoring was done, it was time for lunch.

It’d be kinda awkward for Chen Xiangyu to cook for all three of them, so after the session Shen Qiushan took the two kids to Qian Da Mall nearby and used a group-buying app to get a three-person BBQ set meal.

While waiting for food, Shen Yixiao announced mysteriously, "Dad, Yanran, guess what, I found out a secret."

He finished and waited for the two of them to respond.

If Wang Yunpeng were here, he’d definitely jump in with, "What secret?"

But Shen Qiushan was busy checking his novel stats on Penguin Writer Assistant and didn’t even register what his brat said.

As for Shen Yanran, she wasn’t interested in her brother’s "secret" at all. Given what she knew of her little brother, it was bound to be something totally pointless.

Like "world peace" or something like that.

Seeing no one paid attention to him, Shen Yixiao pursed his lips and kept talking to himself: "Teacher Chen has a boyfriend!"

"And the guy’s about my height!"

"Huh? How’d you know?"

That actually triggered Shen Yanran’s curiosity, since practically every student in Grade 12 Class 5 knew that their homeroom teacher, Chen Xiangyu, was single and divorced.

And the reason every student knew about it was because back in Grade 11, Chen Xiangyu’s ex-husband came to school to harass her, even rolled out a banner begging her to take him back, but Chen Xiangyu flat-out refused.

After that, the students realized their charming Teacher Chen was, in fact, a single divorcée.

"Little details in life often reveal a person’s living situation..."

Shen Yixiao started out slow, then paused after just one sentence.

"Go on?"

Waiting for the juicy gossip, Shen Yanran urged him to continue.

Shen Yixiao shrugged: "I feel like there should be background music right now!"

"A high-energy kind!"

"Tch~"

Shen Yanran shot her melodramatic brother a huge eyeroll. "Either spill or don’t!"

"Fine, then I won’t."

Shen Yixiao lifted his chin, acting all proud.

"Like anyone actually wants to know!"

Shen Yanran pouted and took a sip of the barley tea in front of her.