Annoyed by Your Presence

Seeing the situation, Selena immediately scolded Valentina. "You brat! How dare you bully your sister? Hurry up and clean up the table, wash the dishes!" "If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have married your father. You've ruined my whole life! I get annoyed just looking at you!" Valentina's eyes narrowed slightly, revealing a hint of icy coldness. Quarreling with an ant was nothing but a waste of life. She wouldn't bother with these low-class women. She shifted her gaze to the television, which was playing the news about the explosion on a Pacific island. A faceless female corpse had been found among the ruins and wreckage, and the police and coroner were performing an autopsy. Valentina glanced at it and expressionlessly turned off the TV, then got up and went back to her room. "Oh! You're not eating anymore?" Diana sarcastically said, "You usually eat three plates of food. Why haven't you touched your food today? If you don't eat more, how can you maintain your perfect fat pig figure?" Selena also looked at her angrily, "Didn't I tell you to wash the dishes? Are you trying to be lazy? Do you want a beating?" George's eyebrows furrowed tightly. "Val still has an injury on her head. Can't you let her rest? Can't Diana and Augus wash the dishes?" Diana immediately frowned. "No way! I've never washed dishes before. Besides, she hurt her head, not her hands. Why can't she wash the dishes?" Selena added, "Diana needs to study! She has always been at the top of her class and she wants to go to a prestigious university in the future!" "Our family can only show off Diana's grades when we go back for Christmas. Her hands are meant for holding a pen, not washing dishes!" Diana looked triumphantly at Valentina, her eyes full of provocation. Valentina pursed her lips, staring at Selena with a restrained hostility. Her temper had never been good. Years of being an assassin had shaped her into a person with a clear distinction between love and hate, and a merciless and ruthless personality. She had already given Selena and Diana plenty of chances. If they offended her again, she couldn't guarantee that she wouldn't break their necks with her fingers! "Enough, I'll wash them." Augus stood up at this moment, silently collected the dishes, and walked into the kitchen. Selena immediately felt sorry for him. "How can I let you wash the dishes? Just leave it and let Valentina do it!" Valentina sneered, a hint of coldness flashing in her eyes. This was how the original Valentina lived at home. She had a spineless father and an unloving mother, and even her younger sister could bully her. The only one she could consider normal was her younger brother, Augus. Augus ignored them and silently washed the dishes. Diana sneered and rolled her eyes. "I’m going back to my room to do homework." After speaking, she went into her bedroom without realizing that she had just brushed shoulders with death. Selena glared at Valentina and went into the kitchen, pushing Augus out and cursing as she washed the dishes. Only then did Valentina withdraw the murderous intent in her eyes and decide to get some fresh air outside. The house where the Ricardo family lived was an old single-story house left behind by the previous generation. It looked rundown, but it was spacious enough. There was a large courtyard in front, enclosed by a wall. In the courtyard, there was a big rose bush that had been there for many years. There were also quite a few empty rooms on the side. Originally, these were where George and his brothers lived. But after they got rich, each of them bought their own house and moved out. No wonder Selena turned into a resentful woman. Nobody wanted to be the worst off, but that was exactly what the Ricardo family was. Out of the corner of her eye, Valentina saw Augus limping back from the kitchen to his room. She thought for a moment and followed him. In front of the desk, Augus took out his workbook and looked down at the questions. These were math problems he copied from the internet, and they were very difficult. He had been thinking for three days but still couldn't find a way to solve them. "Can't solve it?" Valentina raised an eyebrow and asked. Augus suddenly turned around and saw the girl leaning lazily at the door, watching him with an amused expression. Although her face looked fine, her massive figure almost blocked the doorway completely. For some reason, Augus felt his sister seemed different today than before. Valentina approached and glanced at the questions in his hands. "You don't know how to solve them?" Augus remained silent for a while before he managed to say, "These are the final questions from this year's International Math Olympiad..." Only a few people in the world could solve them. Valentina raised an eyebrow, picked up a pen from the desk, and started writing on the nearby scratch paper. Augus watched her in stun, and by the time he snapped back to reality, the draft paper was already filled with writing, covering an entire page. "Done." Valentina put down the pen and raised her eyebrow in a cool manner. Augus lowered his head in utter disbelief. The process from solving the problem to the train of thought was clear and concise! She had answered all the parts he couldn't understand! Augus was shocked and delighted. He took out his phone to search for the answers online. Not only were the answers she provided concise and easy to understand, they were even more straightforward than the official solutions! He excitedly held the answer paper written by Valentina, unable to believe it. "How did you solve it?" Valentina looked at him seriously. "By hands." Augus was stunned. "But this is the final question from the International Math Olympiad..." "Just this?" Valentina raised an eyebrow disdainfully. "To be honest, the level of the question setter is quite average." Augus fell silent. The question setter was an international math master! His sister, who usually scored near the bottom on exams, was saying that their level was average? "Val, tell me the truth. Did you secretly look up the answers?" Augus said, "You usually score only around twenty points in math, and you can never solve even the simplest final question." Valentina sneered. "Writing a solution for such a simple question is a piece of cake." Augus was taken aback, his eyes wide open. "So, were you pretending before?" He couldn't believe it and quickly searched for the final question from last year's International Math Olympiad on the internet. "If you can solve this question, I will believe you." Valentina took the phone, glanced at the question, and remained silent. Seeing this, the excitement in Augus's eyes instantly turned into disappointment. He knew it. Such a miracle wouldn't happen in his family. Valentina must have secretly looked at his questions earlier and searched for the answers online. "Forget it." He took back his phone and lowered his head to continue doing his homework. "I need to do my homework now, so please leave." "The equation of the surface is z=S2+y2." "What?" Augus froze for a second. "The answer you're seeking," Valentina said in a bland tone. Augus's body stiffened, and he immediately took out his phone to search for the answer. When he saw that the answer online was exactly the same as what Valentina had said, he gaped in disbelief. The process of solving the problem took up two whole pages! Could it be that his dim-witted sister had done the calculations in her mind? Was this some sort of a superbrain? Was she even human? Was her brain a computer? So, did she deliberately score poorly before because she thought the questions were too easy and didn't want to waste her time and energy?