Bai Jingxuan pursed her lips and said nothing.
Seeing that she didn't respond, Lin Xiaolu beca even more puzzled and continued to stare at Bai Jingxuan, wondering what the girl was really up to.
"...Can we keep moving forward?"
After a while, it was Bai Jingxuan who spoke first, "I can't hold it any longer."
"It's not that I'm saying anything, but if you want to go to the bathroom, why don't you just go by yourself? Why follow ?"
Lin Xiaolu was sowhat baffled, "There's nothing blocking the way up ahead."
"I don't know where it is," Bai Jingxuan muttered.
"What?"
"I don't know where the bathroom is!" Bai Jingxuan shouted louder.
"Ah? Oh, oh."
Realizing what the other person was talking about, Lin Xiaolu imdiately understood and, slightly embarrassed, quickened her pace forward. Unlike Bai Jingxuan, she had deliberately morized the location of the restroom on the way there, so after a few turns, she led Bai Jingxuan to the nearest restroom.
When she was filling her washcloth at the basin, she finally realized and widened her eyes, "Ah, so you didn't find the restroom during those tis you went out before?"
Bai Jingxuan's steps paused briefly, then hurried a bit, and before Lin Xiaolu could ask anything else, she rushed into the nearest stall.
The topic was dropped with Bai Jingxuan's silent protest.
On the way back, nothing else happened, Lin Xiaolu guided Bai Jingxuan through a corridor lit with warm yellow lights, back to their cabin. After changing into their special outdoor pajamas, they prepared to go to bed.
However, just before sleeping, out of sheer curiosity, she walked over to Bai Jingxuan's desk and peeked.
At that mont, Bai Jingxuan was staring pensively at a Xiluo Language reading comprehension problem, her pen hovering motionless over the blank space, clearly stuck.
Lin Xiaolu glanced at the problem, didn't say much, and walked back to her bed. However, as she was kicking off her shoes and preparing to get back into bed, she unusually stopped.
She looked thoughtful, and after a mont, Lin Xiaolu walked back to Bai Jingxuan's side, saw that she still hadn't written the answer, and cleared her throat, "Choose B."
Bai Jingxuan looked up, slightly puzzled.
"I an, the answer to this question is B," Lin Xiaolu reiterated.
Bai Jingxuan tilted her head, still seeming confused, but she lowered her head and filled in the blank with "B."
Then imdiately, she was stuck on the next question too.
Seeing her like this, Lin Xiaolu realized Bai Jingxuan hadn't really understood the article of the reading comprehension at all and could only shrug helplessly, "Alright, let explain it to you."
Saying this, she squeezed beside Bai Jingxuan, started to explain the article to her, and began teaching her the anings of so words.
Under the intensive tutoring of six months at Erald Sparrow, Lin Xiaolu's academic performance was almost keeping up with her peers. Moreover, as her foundation in language classes was sowhat better, her English—Xiluo Language scores were considered good. Guiding Bai Jingxuan through her elentary lessons was more than manageable.
Bai Jingxuan, who had lived in an orphanage and couldn't attend school systematically due to physical illness, had a rather bleak educational foundation. Science classes and Donghua Language courses were okay, as her habit of reading books gave her so knowledge. However, Xiluo Language was a completely different story—she had never read foreign language books before, so she had to start from scratch.
Lin Xiaolu, not half-hearted, decided to explain all the exercises in these pages to Bai Jingxuan. When overwhelming sleepiness made it hard for her to stay awake, she tiredly put down her pen, "That's all for now, it's ti to sleep."
"...Yeah." Bai Jingxuan's eyes were still fixed on the textbook, her reply sounded uncertain.
Lin Xiaolu had to rely on experience to judge, and thinking that Bai Jingxuan had probably heard her, she didn't say anything more but stood up, ready to go to sleep.
"Sister Xiaolu."
It was unclear if she had finally finished reading the content in the book, but Bai Jingxuan finally looked up, "Thank you, you are really impressive."
"Just average, you're welco," Lin Xiaolu blinked, her response quite casual.
"But, although I indeed received a lot of care from you and should thank you, I won't give up."
Bai Jingxuan looked up, locking eyes with Lin Xiaolu, "I will beco the teacher's favorite student, and I definitely won't lose to you."
Lin Xiaolu t her gaze.
Their eyes crossed, neither showing any sign of backing down. After a while, Lin Xiaolu raised her hand and gently tapped Bai Jingxuan's forehead.
"Alright, I accept your challenge. But just to be clear, I won't go easy on you, either. Show what you've got."
After tapping Bai Jingxuan's head, she climbed back into her bed without looking back:
"Then I will make you understand, I am the senior."
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The next morning, the Land Ship arrived at Yannan City very smoothly.
There were no risks, no accidents, and no Remnant Beasts attacks occurred around the shipping lanes—just another ordinary voyage for the seasoned Land Ship.
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