After the True Heiress Travels Back
Chapter 215: I’m Afraid the Gluttonous Monster Has Become a Spirit

Chapter 215: Chapter 215: I’m Afraid the Gluttonous Monster Has Become a Spirit

Shi Yaoguang looked at Professor Lin, who seemed determined to clarify why Quan Jinbei had decided to get married, and quickly interjected to change the subject.

"Professor Lin, what would you like to eat?"

Upon hearing this, Professor Lin turned his head to look at her.

His lips slowly, very slowly, curled into a standard smile, revealing eight teeth.

Shi Yaoguang was puzzled, "Why are you smiling?"

"Ahem," he cleared his throat gently, then said, "I’ve already ordered our meal."

After saying that, he clapped his hands.

Soon enough, a waiter came in with a tray in hand.

As dish after dish was served at the table, Shi Yaoguang’s expression morphed from an initially indifferent one to gradual disbelief.

"Professor Lin, you... what is this?" Shi Yaoguang asked with difficulty, "Did you invite someone else?"

"No, it’s just the three of us," Professor Lin said, and he pointed at himself and them.

Shi Yaoguang’s mouth twitched and she remained silent for a long while.

Quan Jinbei wore an I-thought-as-much expression.

Seeing this, Shi Yaoguang immediately understood what he meant.

So this is the reason...

Professor Lin’s uniqueness lies in his appearance and the fact that he eats an entire imperial banquet for one meal?

This idea of Shi Yaoguang’s was quickly overturned.

And it was overturned by Professor Lin himself with concrete evidence.

Professor Lin’s true nature could not only be seen in his profession but also at the dining table.

With a table filled to the brim with delicacies, Professor Lin didn’t spare any of it—only leaving behind a smattering of decorative garnishes.

After cleaning the plates, he rather awkwardly said to Shi Yaoguang, "Don’t be fooled by my size, I have the stomach of a glutton."

"The reason I study biology is also to understand my body’s structure..."

Shi Yaoguang: "..."

This truly is an odd reason indeed.

After the meal.

Professor Lin could finally discuss academic queries seriously with Shi Yaoguang.

At first, he thought he might trouble Shi Yaoguang a bit in return for the previous grievance.

But then...

As soon as his thoughts surfaced, they were inadvertently quashed by Shi Yaoguang.

Here’s how it went.

Professor Lin, considering himself a bio-researcher, has absolute authority in deep-diving into biological topics.

Therefore...

He brought out what he believed to be his trump card.

Unfortunately, Shi Yaoguang instinctively had an information advantage over him.

What Professor Lin thought was his secret weapon felt to her like a university student hearing a primary school student talk about solving equations.

It simply wasn’t on the same level.

After his surreptitious probing failed, Professor Lin quieted down.

As he seriously listened to Shi Yaoguang talk, he experienced a moment of epiphany.

At the same time, he was filled with incredulity.

"Miss Shi... no, Teacher Shi! Your insights are truly profound and unique. You possess an extraordinary talent in the field of biology. In my view, with such abilities, you really don’t need to be an ordinary student at Ruihe High School."

Professor Lin invited her earnestly, "If Miss Shi is willing to join our current biological research, I am prepared to offer you the position of lead researcher. Please do consider it carefully, Teacher Shi."

Shi Yaoguang flatly refused, "I’m not interested in this, and besides... at my current age, my main focus should still be on my studies."

Upon hearing this, Professor Lin looked at her with an expression that spoke volumes.

Shi Yaoguang remained unperturbed.

Unable to resist, Professor Lin blurted out, "Teacher Shi, you’re being too modest..."

Academics come first, if someone else had said it, he would naturally believe it.

But... a girl who understands biological research even deeper than he does, repeatedly saying she wants to focus on academics?

Does she really take him for a fool?

There’s an old saying that rings true.

At a certain level, all disciplines are interrelated.

Even biology might involve content from other physical sciences and so on.

Which means, to reach the top of a certain field, one’s proficiency in other subjects can’t be too far off.

Although he didn’t know how Shi Yaoguang’s grades were in other subjects, based on the knowledge she had already demonstrated, he could be certain that Shi Yaoguang’s results... were definitely good enough to handle the college entrance exam.

To put it simply, the knowledge she has mastered has already surpassed the difficulty level of the college entrance examination questions.

Well, if she were thrown into the exam now, even if she didn’t get a perfect score, she would at least score seven hundred and forty-nine points.

Hearing Professor Lin express his thoughts, Shi Yaoguang suppressed a smile and said, "Then I’ll take your auspicious words to heart. How I perform in the college entrance exam doesn’t bother me, the main thing is to experience the learning atmosphere."

Professor Lin: "..."

The thought processes of geniuses are always so unique.

After sighing inwardly, he presented her with a series of challenging questions he had been accumulating.

Shi Yaoguang answered them one by one.

The three of them stayed in the private room of the Wumei Building for an entire afternoon.

What interrupted their conversation was... a strange rumbling sound.

Shi Yaoguang heard it as soon as it started.

And then she heard it more clearly.

"Gurgle~"

She instinctively looked toward Professor Lin’s belly, and Professor Lin also awkwardly covered his stomach, embarrassingly said, "I... get hungry quickly."

Shi Yaoguang nodded, indicating she understood.

She believed he was prone to hunger.

They had just eaten a large table of dishes for lunch, and it wasn’t even six o’clock yet, and he was hungry again.

After Shi Yaoguang showed understanding, Professor Lin became more unabashed.

She watched wide-eyed as he ate twice as much as he had at noon.

Seeing his belly remain flat after devouring two large tables’ worth of food, Shi Yaoguang was quite amazed.

Could it be that this Professor Lin was truly some gluttonous creature incarnate?

Shi Yaoguang couldn’t come up with an answer to that question for the moment.

After dinner, Professor Lin proposed to take his leave.

The content discussed just this afternoon was enough to keep him busy in his research for a long time.

Before he left, he persisted in trying to persuade Shi Yaoguang to join his biology research.

Shi Yaoguang declined him once again.

Quan Jinbei played the role of a backdrop the whole time; once the man left, he asked curiously, "Professor Lin makes sense. With your knowledge, there’s no need to be a high school student. What are you thinking?"

Shi Yaoguang shrugged, "I don’t have much thought on it, mainly to experience life."

Quan Jinbei gave her a speechless look.

Shi Yaoguang spread her hands, "Okay, I admit it, my life was too boring; I just wanted to give ’certain people’ a little excitement."

Quan Jinbei immediately figured out who she meant by "certain people"," You’re talking about Shi Yiqing?"

Shi Yaoguang nodded, giving him an approving look, "Not bad, not bad, you’ve learned one ten-thousandth of my essence."

Quan Jinbei: "..."

What kind of essence was that?

Shi Yaoguang knew what he was thinking, but she did not elaborate.

In the end...

She was telling the truth.

To weaken Shi Yiqing’s ’female protagonist halo,’ it was natural to start in the areas she excelled in.

Like... competing in the same year’s college entrance exam for instance.