Chapter 198 – Listen to your mother


Through the porthole of the private plane, one could see the endless starry night.

“Yingzhen, to take you out, I promised Xia Hongmian, allowing Lin Baici to lead a seven-person team into the Busan God’s Ruins!”

Mentioning this matter, Jin Xian was quite displeased. Allowing Lin Baici to explore the Busan God’s Ruins was one thing, but being forced to let him come to Busan was another concept entirely.

Because of the latter, he couldn’t gain any favors.

“I’m sorry!”

Jin Yingzhen bowed her head.

“Now that you’re a divine hunter too, I will help you find several powerful divine graces in these months. By then, I hope you will follow Lin Baici!”

Jin Xian instructed.

“Okay!”

Jin Yingzhen’s expression was solemn; she understood Jin Xian’s meaning—she couldn’t let Lin Baici take away any powerful Divine taboo.

“Rest now!”

Jin Xian closed his eyes.

Jin Yingzhen sighed. How good would it be if she were a Kyushu person?

Hua Yueyu had a fever, and Lin Baici couldn’t leave. He took care of her all night, and after dinner the next evening, when he was sure she was getting better, Lin Baici left.

He didn’t dare stay any longer, mainly because Hua Yueyu looked at him with a pitiful face, her eyes full of silent frustration and depression that said, ‘You had your chance and you blew it.’

Lin Baici was a normal man with limited self-control. Faced with Hua Yueyu’s self-offered pillow, he was truly afraid he couldn’t resist and would end up in bed with her.

He went to the supermarket to buy some fruit and headed straight to Gu Qingxiang’s home.

The door opened, and Gu Qingxiang didn’t know what to say to Lin Baici.

You went out to buy study materials and were gone for two days. Anyone who didn’t know better would think you had disappeared.

“Qingxiang sister, I had a good friend who was sick, and I took care of her for two days!”

Lin Baici explained.

“A girl?”

Gu Qingxiang casually asked, causing Lin Baici great embarrassment.

“Haven’t had dinner yet?”

Gu Qingxiang’s dinner was almost ready, just in time to add a pair of chopsticks: “Come in, rest for a while, and we’ll eat soon!”

After the two had dinner, Gu Qingxiang cleaned up the dishes and told Lin Baici, “I organized a study plan yesterday, take a look.”

“Thank you for the trouble!”

Lin Baici went to the study and saw several sheets of paper on the desk.

Gu Qingxiang’s handwriting was graceful and elegant, quite beautiful. If she participated in the provincial calligraphy competition, she would definitely make it into the top three.

Lin Baici planned to learn some everyday phrases to facilitate communication, at least to be able to eat and shop and communicate with the people of Goryeo. But looking at Gu Qingxiang’s study plan, if he followed it, he would be able to understand all kinds of professional Goryeo literature.

Gu Qingxiang was very efficient in her work. After tidying up the kitchen, she came to the study: “Sit down, let’s start, and try to make up for the time wasted yesterday.”

“Okay!”

Lin Baici had never had a home tutor before, so this was a fresh experience, and his tutor was a beautiful senior sister.

Lin Baici wasn’t distracted, thinking about other things. Instead, to avoid being looked down upon by Gu Qingxiang, he focused on studying, even activating his photographic memory.

Study power, full throttle.

Gu Qingxiang started teaching from the most basic syllables, planning to spend three evenings to make Lin Baici remember these basics.

She had checked Lin Baici’s grades, which were mid-level among the freshmen, so three days was a bit rushed, but she intended to use this time limit to stimulate Lin Baici’s potential.

Gu Qingxiang’s tutoring wasn’t just about teaching knowledge; it also included cultivating students’ interests and squeezing out their potential, a comprehensive improvement.

But an hour later, Gu Qingxiang realized she had been too conservative. Whatever she taught Lin Baici, he could remember after just one listen.

Who needs three days?

One evening was more than enough.

Lin Baici finished writing the syllables and suddenly noticed Gu Qingxiang staring at him blankly.

“What’s wrong?”

Did he perform poorly?

Lin Baici was a bit nervous; he still wanted to leave a good impression in front of Gu Qingxiang.

“Did you just date around in high school?”

Gu Qingxiang pouted.

“No, I haven’t dated anyone until now!”

Lin Baici was surprised: “Why do you ask?”

“A man’s mouth, a deceitful ghost!”

Gu Qingxiang tapped on the syllables Lin Baici had written: “With this performance, as long as you work hard, even if Tsinghua and Peking University are out of reach, any other TOP10 is up for grabs. How did you end up at Haijing Polytechnic?”

She was sure he had been dating.

“Hey, hey, you’re a counselor at Haijing Polytechnic. Is it okay to belittle your own school like this?”

Lin Baici thought to himself that he also wanted to attend Tsinghua or Peking University, but at that time, he didn’t have a photographic memory, and even if he did, it might not have worked.

Divine grace and meteorite stones had greatly enhanced Lin Baici’s body, not just physically but also in terms of brain development. In short, it was like a hardware upgrade, and Lin Baici himself was very intelligent, so the improvement was significant.

“I just think you’ve wasted your talent!”

Gu Qingxiang lamented: “And schools are different, starting points are different. To put it more vulgarly, after graduation, the starting salary can vary a lot because of the school!”

“What a pity!”

Gu Qingxiang shook her head.

Lin Baici had wasted the three most critical years of effort, and he would have to work hard to catch up, and it might even be impossible to catch up.

“…”

Lin Baici knew Gu Qingxiang was right, but the problem was, he no longer needed to follow the path everyone else was on. He was already a divine hunter.

And his annual salary was a billion.

“Let’s continue!”

Gu Qingxiang taught earnestly, and soon, she confirmed that Lin Baici had an excellent memory. No matter what she taught, he could remember it after just one listen.

If it were subjects like math or physics that required logical thinking, a student with a good memory might not be able to apply the knowledge flexibly, and they might still make mistakes on problems they had done before. But with language learning, it was all about rote memorization, so Lin Baici’s progress was rapid.

Teaching a genius student was actually a very satisfying thing because no matter what one said, the other party could understand quickly.

Gu Qingxiang taught happily, and before she knew it, it was 11 o’clock.

Lin Baici looked at the clock: “Qingxiang sister, shouldn’t you rest now?”

“Ah?”

Gu Qingxiang glanced at her watch: “Oh my, it’s so late?”

The counselor stood up, stretched her arms back, and yawned, which made her chest protrude, forming a high arc.

“Will you still sleep in the guest room?”

At this time, the dormitory was already closed: “You go take a shower first!”

“You go ahead!”

Lin Baici was embarrassed to delay Gu Qingxiang’s rest.

“You go!”

Gu Qingxiang refused, letting Lin Baici use the bathroom she had just bathed in?

She would feel very ashamed.

Lin Baici went with the flow, spent ten minutes taking care of his personal hygiene, and crawled into the guest room’s bed, then played with his phone.

First, he asked about Hua Yueyu’s health, then said goodnight to Jin Yingzhen, and then opened the Origin Forum.

There were many posts about the Haijing Provincial Museum, but due to the security bureau’s control, many people didn’t know what had happened. Currently, they were suspecting that the Lost Coast had carried out a terrorist attack.

A divine being descended?

Even if someone mentioned it, no one would believe it!

Lin Baici casually read a few posts, opened the bounty section, and the post about the urinal was gone.

“Has someone answered it?”

Lin Baici flipped back a few pages and saw that since no one had answered, the post had been bumped off.

He clicked in!

The bounty had increased again, reaching two hundred thousand. If it were before, Lin Baici would have answered, but now, as a person with an annual salary of a billion, why would he bother typing a long paragraph for just two hundred thousand?

Too tiring!

Lin Baici closed the post and continued browsing, looking for any bounties worth paying attention to.

The help post praising the sun had been settled, and a new post was published, still asking about the meaning of a pattern.

【Dragon!】【God】【Bird】.

Gourmet God had given the answer.

Ten thousand per word!

Easy money.

“Let me answer you one last time!”

Lin Baici typed three words.

Sigh!

The salary is too high; even the interest in making a quick buck has diminished.

Speaking of which, with so much money, how should I spend it?

Lin Baici planned to buy a house.

“Baici!”

Gu Qingxiang came in with a blanket: “It’s getting cold now, keep warm!”

“No need, no need, this is enough!”

Lin Baici was quite embarrassed, especially seeing the blanket Gu Qingxiang was holding, which was clearly a new one.

Gu Qingxiang placed the blanket on the bed, and as she bent over, Lin Baici saw a little cherry.

Uh!

Lin Baici quickly averted his gaze, but the image of Gu Qingxiang lingered in his mind.

She had just taken a bath, her hair was wet, her skin was rosy and delicate, emitting the scent of shower gel, and she was wearing a silk nightgown that clung to her body, revealing her curves.

【Top predators, besides hunting and eating, should also have leisure!】

Lin Baici began to recite the “Heart Sutra,” and after two rounds, his restless emotions calmed down.

A quiet night passed.

Early the next morning, Lin Baici finished the breakfast prepared by Gu Qingxiang, went downstairs, and met with Xia Hongyao to go to the racetrack.

Lin Baici planned to learn to drive as soon as possible.

Compared to Gu Qingxiang, Xia Hongyao was completely unqualified as a home tutor.

“Watch me do it!”

Xia Hongyao didn’t know how to teach according to the student’s abilities. She simply told Lin Baici what she knew, even without any sequence, saying whatever came to mind.

The high ponytail drove around the track three times, letting Lin Baici watch and ask anything he didn’t understand.

“…”

Lin Baici felt Xia Hongyao was very unreliable.

“The secret to drifting is one word, stability!”

Xia Hongyao posed like a car god: “Stabilize your mindset, stabilize your hands, and leave the rest to intuition.”

“Intuition?”

Lin Baici was astonished: “Isn’t it experience?”

“To become a car god, it’s about talent, and what is talent? It’s intuition. Experience is useless!”

Xia Hongyao explained.

“No, I just want to learn to drive. I’m not planning to become a car god!”

Lin Baici wanted to change instructors.

“Can’t you be a bit more ambitious? With your physical condition, you can maximize the performance of any car!”

Xia Hongyao said, even pinching Lin Baici’s biceps.

This hardness, this elasticity,

Awesome!

Lin Baici was too outstanding, making Xia Hongyao, the team leader, feel quite defeated. But now, she finally found something Lin Baici wasn’t good at, so she ‘dutifully’ taught him.

“Ah? Going back? What time is it?”

Xia Hongyao looked at the sun overhead.

“I have to learn Goryeo language this afternoon!”

Lin Baici explained.

“Aren’t you going to Busan during the winter break? It’s still early, practice some more!”

Xia Hongyao pleaded. She enjoyed being Lin Baici’s home tutor a lot.

Just thinking that in the future, when people in the divine hunter circle discuss Lin Baici, the Kyushu Dragon Wing, and his godlike driving skills learned from Xia Hongyao, the high ponytail would be ecstatic.

“Little Linzi, a few more laps?”

Xia Hongyao ran behind Lin Baici, earnestly massaging his shoulders.

Sigh!

It’s hard to refuse such enthusiasm, so Lin Baici could only practice for another afternoon.

However, the effect was still very good. Lin Baici’s physical condition was outstanding, especially his super-fast neural response, which made learning to drive even more effective.

By evening, he could occasionally drift around corners.

What?

Reverse parking? Parallel parking?

Who needs that!

Drift, let’s drift!

In fact, Xia Hongyao only mentioned it once and didn’t plan to teach Lin Baici at all. In her opinion, Lin Baici was too smart, and these things were too simple for him, not worth wasting time on.

If you’re going to learn, learn to drift.

By evening, Xia Hongyao was still not satisfied: “Let’s practice night driving after dinner!”

“Do you plan to stay here tonight?”

Lin Baici was speechless: “Let’s practice tomorrow!”

“…”

Xia Hongyao was sad. They say men love cars, so why was Lin Baici different? If it were me when I first learned to drive, I would have wanted to sleep in the car every day.

“I won’t have dinner, I’m going back to school!”

Lin Baici didn’t bother being polite with the high ponytail because she was a buddy.

Xia Hongyao drove Lin Baici back to Haijing Polytechnic.

Lin Baici bought a bunch of bananas and dragon fruit from a roadside fruit stand and headed straight for Gu Qingxiang’s home.

He went upstairs and pressed the doorbell.

For some reason, Lin Baici suddenly felt a bit nervous, especially when he saw Gu Qingxiang’s face.

“Did you go to take care of your friend?”

Gu Qingxiang inquired.”No, I went for a driving lesson!”

Lin Baici told the truth.

“A female instructor?”

Gu Qingxiang sniffed, she didn’t smell the scent of another woman on Lin Baici, but for some reason, she felt certain that Lin Baici must have been with a woman.

“…”

Lin Baici was in a dilemma, wondering if he should tell a lie.

Fortunately, Gu Qingxiang didn’t press further: “Come in!”

Lin Baici noticed that dinner was ready, laid out on the table, and Gu Qingxiang hadn’t eaten, obviously waiting for him to return.

Washing hands, eating, chatting!

Suddenly, Lin Baici realized that the atmosphere between the two was like a harmonious couple, and what was more terrifying was that Gu Qingxiang occasionally picked food for him, and it was all his favorites.

After dinner, Gu Qingxiang washed the dishes and came to the study to teach Lin Baici Korean.

Perhaps it was because they were getting more familiar with each other, but Gu Qingxiang’s attire became more and more casual, treating Lin Baici as if he were a member of the family.

The seven-day holiday flew by.

Lin Baici’s driving skills and Korean improved by leaps and bounds.

On the evening of the 7th, after dinner, Lin Baici didn’t go to the study as usual.

“What’s wrong?”

Gu Qingxiang was surprised.

“I have something to do tonight!”

Lin Baici was going to Haijing Normal University to try his luck and see if he could find the creature that made him feel hungry.


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