52: Chapter 52 The Counselor's Plea

"Is everyone in the dorm?"

Li Yan saw Zhao Yang coming out of the bathroom, and her eyes flickered with a hint of awkwardness. She averted her gaze and looked at the other students in the dormitory.

"Yeah, yeah, we're all here!"

Li Tianqi said hurriedly.

"I'm here to give you your student IDs."

As she spoke, Li Yan placed four student IDs on the nearby dormitory desk.

"By the way, are you adjusting well to school life? If you have any difficulties, you can tell me now."

Li Yan spoke to the four people in the dorm.

"It's fine, we can all adapt."

Zhao Yang said calmly.

"Yeah, that's right!"

Wang Mian and Li Tianqi, who were beside him, also chimed in quickly.

Despite how rowdy they were in private, when they actually faced a great beauty and Counselor like Li Yan, her aura rendered them unable to speak properly.

As for Sun Xu, his mind was already wandering elsewhere.

"That's good then!"

Li Yan nodded.

She hesitated for a moment and glanced at Zhao Yang.

"Zhao Yang, come out for a moment. I have a few words to say to you."

Hearing Li Yan's words, Li Tianqi and Wang Mian's gazes simultaneously shifted to Zhao Yang. Even Sun Xu, who had been keeping his head down, now slowly looked up, his eyes filled with curiosity as he looked at Zhao Yang.

Zhao Yang's expression remained calm as he followed Li Yan out of the dormitory.

Inside the dormitory building.

At this time, students who had just started university were everywhere, running around in a chaotic mess.

Li Yan walked ahead, with Zhao Yang walking shoulder-to-shoulder with her.

With a silent understanding, the two walked to a secluded flower bed downstairs.

Only after seeing that no one was around did Li Yan stop her pace.

"Um..."

Li Yan looked at Zhao Yang hesitantly.

"I've received the money, fifty thousand yuan. I will pay you back, but I can't pay back this fifty thousand all at once."

"My monthly salary is four thousand yuan. Since I live and eat at the school, I can pay you back a maximum of two thousand yuan each month. Is that okay?"

There was a plea in Li Yan's eyes.

It was clear that she had been driven to a point where she had no other choice.

Indeed! If there was any other way, who would accept a loan from their own student?

"That's fine."

Zhao Yang didn't mind.

A mere fifty thousand yuan was truly nothing to Zhao Yang.

"Thank you!"

Li Yan let out a long breath and spoke to Zhao Yang with sincere gratitude.

"Can I ask, did something happen at home?"

Zhao Yang looked at Li Yan with a hint of curiosity and asked.

As the creditor, he had the right to know what his money was being borrowed for.

Li Yan was silent for a while.

"I..."

Li Yan hesitated, the words on the tip of her tongue.

"Is it inconvenient? If it's inconvenient, then never mind."

Zhao Yang said calmly.

"It's not inconvenient."

Li Yan sighed softly.

"My grandmother is sick. They said she urgently needs fifty thousand yuan for treatment. My grandmother raised me since I was a child."

Zhao Yang keenly picked up on the key phrase in her sentence.

"'They said'? In other words, this might not even be true? It's just a pretext for them to squeeze money out of you?"

Seeing how sharp Zhao Yang was, Li Yan wasn't surprised.

She gently bit her red lip, her eyes filled with sorrow and despair.

"Yes. They have used similar excuses more than once to get money from me. In their eyes, as a daughter, I'm just a money-losing commodity."

"My younger brother is the family heirloom. It's been like that since we were kids... If it weren't for my grandmother doing her best to stop them, they would have forced me to drop out of school in junior high."

"Then I would have had to find a job, and finally be forced by them to find some rich old man in the local area to marry. Perhaps the only meaning of my birth was to be sold for a good price by them."

Li Yan tried to keep her narrative as emotionless as possible.

But...

Zhao Yang sighed softly.

By the dim light from the dormitory building, Zhao Yang looked at Li Yan before him.

She wore a light blue sheer chiffon shirt with a V-neck design on her upper body, a white slim-fit skirt on her lower body paired with nude stockings, and pointed high heels.

Combined with her excellent figure, her temperament and looks were almost maxed out. In this era, she was the perfect image of an urban elite white-collar lady.

Who could have imagined she had such a world behind her?

"I'm sorry, I got a bit emotional and said too much."

Li Yan calmed her emotions and looked at Zhao Yang with some embarrassment.

Only now did she realize that Zhao Yang in front of her was her student!

She had actually said all this to her own student!

Good heavens, she must be crazy!

Li Yan's face turned slightly red.

It was mainly because Zhao Yang's temperament was so stable; his speech and behavior didn't seem like an 18-year-old kid at all, but more like a seasoned adult.

Judging by his speech alone, Zhao Yang was definitely over thirty!

Every word he spoke was so certain and resonant that she had unknowingly said too much.

"It's nothing."

Zhao Yang shook his head.

"So, you still can't let go of your grandmother?"

"Yeah."

Li Yan sighed softly.

"Maybe you could bring your grandmother to Yanjing."

"I've thought about it, but..."

Li Yan's face was full of bitterness.

Zhao Yang didn't say more. Every family has its own difficulties, and he wasn't Li Yan, so he couldn't see things from her perspective.

"By the way, Sun Xu in our dorm also has very poor family conditions. Could you keep an eye out and see if you can help him find a work-study position at the school?"

"After all, if he goes to do part-time jobs off-campus, it might affect his studies."

Zhao Yang looked at Li Yan.

"Yes, I'll look into it."

Li Yan nodded.

"Alright, if there's nothing else, I'll be going."

Saying that, Zhao Yang turned and left.

Looking at Zhao Yang's back, Li Yan opened her mouth. She originally wanted to tell Zhao Yang not to tell anyone about today's matters.

But after thinking about it, Zhao Yang was the creditor, and she really couldn't bring herself to say those words. In the end, she could only sigh helplessly and turn to leave as well.

Returning to the dormitory.

"Brother Yang! What did the Counselor want to talk to you about?"

"Yeah, Brother Yang, you were gone for so long. What did she talk to you about?"

When Wang Mian and Li Tianqi saw Zhao Yang return, they hurriedly went up to him and asked curiously.

"Nothing much. She asked me why I wouldn't be the class monitor, and I gave her some excuse."

Zhao Yang smiled.

"Really?"

Wang Mian and Li Tianqi looked at Zhao Yang with some suspicion.

Zhao Yang didn't offer much explanation. Many things really couldn't be said!

"By the way, Ah Xu, I've already spoken to the Counselor about your situation. Also, if you're really short on money..."

"You can also apply for a student loan."

"Thank you, Brother Yang!"

Sun Xu looked at Zhao Yang with a bit of excitement and said.

"You're welcome!"

Zhao Yang smiled.

He pulled out his phone and made a call to Wang Ming.

"How is it? You've settled in at school, right? How is everything?"