Chapter 88: Straight A’s
Weeks came and pass since Alex first began being tutored by Min-Ji and his grades had rebounded quite significantly. He had gone from a C average with Ds in Mathematics and Science courses to a straight-A student.
And just before he knew it, the midterms had arrived for his first semester at university. Alex had spent his days studying and recovering from his wound. While also performing part time duties as a security guard for Hee-Young and Mimi.
If you had asked Alex how he thought, he would fare on his midterms three weeks ago. He would have told you that he was confident of getting Cs at best. Yet, not only did the man know the answer to every question on every test that was placed in front of him, but he also finished the tests before anyone else in the class. Including Min-Ji.
By the time he finally received his grades, Alex was sitting at the table of his penthouse, with Min-Ji, Hae-won, Diana, his two twin sisters, and Jung-Hyun all gathered around him, waiting with eager expressions to see just how the young man had performed.
As Alex opened his transcript, he wore a confident smirk as he showed it to the women in front of him. He had received full marks on all exams he had taken. Which caused both Hae-won and Min-Ji to stare at one another in disbelief.
Though Hae-won knew that Alex had scored perfectly on his physics exam, after all, she was the one to grade it. She never expected the man to get full marks on all of his other courses. This was an even better result than Min-Ji had. Causing the girl to pout ever so slightly.
Still, she blushed, knowing that Alex was not the idiot she once took him for, and was instead quite brilliant. He only needed to apply himself the slightest amount, and he received full marks. It was truly difficult to believe, yet she had witnessed it firsthand. And thus she could not complain.
With a wide smile on his face, Alex gazed upon the paper and proclaimed himself the victory to all the women surrounding him.
What do you say, Min-Ji? Do you want to have some fun? Or maybe have a nice meal? Anything you want, it’s on me!”
Min-Ji gazed at Alex in disbelief. Though the man had taken her out once before, she found herself soon dissatisfied with him, due to how many women he had by her side. But ever since, he stuck his neck out for her and saved her from those monsters. She had started to fall for him.
Of course, she did not expect a guy like Alex, a young man, who was tall, strong, handsome, and wealthy, to ever like a girl like her. And thus she had silently watched as he went out with girls she believed to be much prettier than herself. The entire time sulking in despair over the idea that a guy like Alex was too good for her.
But now that he offered to take her out, she couldn’t help but accept. And thus, she blushed significantly, while meekly nodding her head in agreement. Alex thought this was cute and said the words that made the girl’s heart flutter.
“Alright, cool! It’s a date!”
This, of course, was just what the girl needed to finally reach the maximum threshold of her first tier of affection, and Alex noticed this immediately when the system displayed it to him.
[Min-Ji’s Affection: 100/100]
Knowing that the girl had finally fallen for him, Alex smirked as he began to plan the date with the girl, while the other women in his life watched with varying expressions on their pretty faces. In the end, it was decided that Alex would take Min-Ji out to a café for a cup of coffee and a treat. After all, she wasn’t the type of girl to demand that a guy spend a fortune on her. She already felt uncomfortable with the whole steakhouse incident.
Alex knew just the place, and since it was still morning, he decided to take the girl out now. With this in mind, the two of them gathered their belongings and departed for the café where Alex had previously met with Hee-Young.
Throughout the ride to the Café, Min-ji couldn’t take her eyes off of Alex. Something had changed about her perspective towards him. He was no longer this brash and arrogant thug. But instead a cool and handsome young man, but he was more than that. She felt incredibly safe around him, in a way she had never felt before.
Naturally Alex saw the girl staring, but did not say a word, and simply smiled until they arrived that their destination. Where he helped the girl out of the hyper car and escorted her inside the establishment while holding hands.
Once Alex had ordered a couple of coffees and some scones for the two of them, he sat down across from her at the same booth he had fucked Hee-Young in. Min-Ji was obviously nervous, and could not even look Alex in the eyes, causing him to be the one to break the awkward silence.
“So Min-Ji, I’ve been meaning to ask… What exactly is it that you do for fun? I mean, you can’t seriously be spending all your free time studying, right?”
This remark caused Min-Ji to snap her attention back to Alex with a gawking expression on her pretty face. She honestly did not know how to answer this question. For as long as she could remember, all she had ever done was study.
Even if she memorized all the material for her grade, she would learn the next year’s, and when she was finished that she would learn the year’s worth of work after that. By now, she had the knowledge of a doctoral candidate, even if she was only a college freshman.
Because of this, her mind froze as she tried to think of what exactly she did in life other than fine dining and breathing…. Wait, that wasn’t right. She meant studying and breathing. But what did she do other than study and breathe?
In a single moment Min-Ji’s mind went into chaos, as if miniature versions of herself were digging through filing cabinets, looking for the answer to a very simple question. “What did she do for fun?” Yet despite the chaos that erupted within the young woman’s mind as she desperately searched for this answer, she could not find it.
And thus, it began to affect her physical appearance, as her face began to twitch unnaturally. This caused quite some concern to Alex, who quickly began to calm the girl down by holding her hand, and assuring her everything was alright.
“Hey Min-Ji, are you alright? Is something the matter? Whatever’s bothering you, I want you to know that you can talk to me?”
Perhaps if she did not have Alex to comfort her in this moment, she may have gone haywire, and poured her coffee down someone’s pants, or used a cheese grater on their bottom. But because Alex was there for her, her mind suddenly calmed itself, as she looked away and shamefully admitted she had no hobbies to speak of.
“I don’t… I don’t do anything for fun…”
Alex was not entirely shocked when he heard this. After all, he had never really seen the girl without her face in a book. And thus, he simply smiled and shook his head, before telling her the words she never thought she would hear.
“Well… We’re having fun right now, aren’t we? Perhaps your hobby is hanging out with your friends?”
Min-Ji looked at Alex with a curious expression on her pretty face as she raised her brow and posed a question to the young man.
“Friends… Are we just friends, Alex?”
There was a look of sorrow in her eyes, thinking that she had just been a friend zoned, and Alex, of course, knew this was his opportunity to fully make the girl his. Thus, he leaned in closed with a wicked smile, before whispering something in her dainty ears.
“That is unless, of course, you want something more from me?”
Alex then leaned back and took a sip from his coffee while he watched the young beauty stew with her thoughts. And it worked like a charm. Because Min-Ji instantly understood the meaning behind Alex’s words. He was putting the ball in her court. It was up to her, if she really wanted to be with him.
But why? Why would a man like him want a good-for-nothing nerd like her? She couldn’t find the answer no matter how hard she tried, and thus she was forced to pose the question to Alex, albeit in an extremely timid and quiet voice.
“Why?… Why do you want a girl like me?”
Alex smirked when he heard this, before answering the girl’s question with one of his own.
“Why wouldn’t I want a girl like you? You might be a bit introverted, but you’re a good girl at heart. You’re kind enough to help a bastard like me improve my grades when you could have told your mother to shove it. You don’t drink, do drugs, or party, which are all unattractive qualities in a partner. And most of all, I think you’re cute!”
Min-Ji’s face turned entirely red when she heard Alex call her cute. No boy had ever said those words to her before, and she never in a million years would have expected a guy like Alex, who had women as beautiful as idols by his side to say them. She could not believe he was being sincere, and thus, was quick to ask for the truth.
“Really? You really think I’m cute?”
Alex, of course smirked, as he reached his hand across the table, and grabbed hold of Min-Ji’s, where he then pulled it under the table, and towards his crotch which was pitching a massive tent. Min-Ji of course recoiled in shock, and fear, having never touched a man’s penis before, even through his pants, but Alex didn’t let the frightened little rabbit escape from him, instead he made sure she continued to touch it, as spoke his thoughts aloud.
“Does that answer your question? I want you, Min-Ji, not just like some useless hoe to spend the night with. No, you’re better than that. I want you as one of my women…. What do you say? How about we finish up our coffee and go head for a hotel?”
Min-Ji was stunned after hearing these words. She looked left and right just to see if anybody had heard the two of them. And thankfully, nobody had. As she bit her lip and debated about it, Alex leaned forward and suddenly kissed her. Which almost caused the girl to yelp like a hound who had just been kicked by its owner.
However, she could not do so, because any noise she could have made would have been muffled by Alex’s lips as he assaulted her tongue with his own. Upon seeing that she really was going to give herself over to Alex, the girl forced herself away from him, and looked away with an incredibly embarrassed expression before begging Alex to take her some place else.
“Wait… Not here….”
Alex simply grinned when he heard this before getting out of his seat and escorting Min-ji back to his luxurious sports car.
“I know just the place….”