Come By for Tea When You Have Time

After teaching senior high school seniors, the scheming gong is suddenly assigned to teach first-grade math and serve as homeroom teacher, because a teacher in the elementary division needs bed rest to protect her pregnancy.

With an Olympiad math champion at the helm, the class's scores improve steadily, except for one little rascal.

After looking over the boy's atrocious test papers and homework, the gong calls his parent. “Do you never help your kid with homework?”

The clueless shou is devastated. “I help him every day.”

And he's still getting this much wrong?

Gong: ...Come to school when you have time. Let's have some tea.

Summoned to meet the teacher, the shou is on tenterhooks. Like his clueless son, he's terrified of the homeroom teacher.

Then it turns out the teacher is the man he had a one-night stand with seven years ago. Everything goes dark before his eyes, and all he can do is put even more effort into helping his son with homework each day.

But the father and son are hopeless. The very next day, they're called in for tea again.

The gong spreads his hands. “How about this? I'll tutor you, and you can go home and tutor your son.”

The tea the gong brews gets fancier by the day, but the shou doesn't notice at all.

Shou: Kid, can't you pass just once?

Kid: Math is too hard, Dad.

The shou consoles himself: No matter how smart the gong is, he can't guess what their relationship is. That means I'm a little smarter than him.

Until one day, unable to figure it out, the shou starts wondering if he has the wrong man. How could the gong's son be so bad at math? He steals a strand of the gong's hair to get a DNA test.

The results come in, and the gong sees them right there.

Shou: O_o

Gong: :)

*The math problems in this story are taken from real exams and aren't individually credited.

Completed novel: "The Great Beauty Moves to the City for Work with His Child"

When an arrogant god bears a mortal's child, all memories of that mortal are automatically erased.

So when the absent-minded, slightly magical Tea God Bai Qingyu is asked by his son, “Dad, do I have a mom?”

Bai Qingyu scratches his cheek. “No idea.”

They say the city has better schools, so to give his son a better education, Bai Qingyu decides to follow the bricklayer next door and move to the city for work with his kid.

A kind person finds him a job as a housekeeper in a mansion. The pay is good, and he can bring his kid along.

The only catch is that the master of the house has a bad temper, is picky about food, and is hard to please.

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After He Renyuan fell off a cliff and lost his memory three years ago, his personality changed completely. He flies off the handle at the slightest provocation.

The new housekeeper has an honest-looking face, but hangs diapers out to dry on his balcony, turns the garden into a vegetable patch, and even raises chickens... He Renyuan flies into a rage every day.

Everyone else in the mansion waits nervously for Bai Qingyu to be fired.

Three months later... He Renyuan is attending the housekeeper's son's parent-teacher meeting.

After returning from the meeting, He Renyuan falls into deep thought.

Why does everyone think this is his biological kid?

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He Renyuan loves tea, and Bai Qingyu is practically steeped in tea. He Renyuan swims in the pool Bai Qingyu has been in up to three times a day!

Bai Qingyu: I'm such a good tea!

He Renyuan: “...”

Theme: The things we worked for and the things we missed will, in the end, be returned by time.