Editor: Xinghe
Translator: YuQiChen/Churen
So, the set of skills that Jiang Que possessed wasn’t from scientific investigation of abilities, but rather self-taught?
When Shen Tazhi was entangled once again, this thought flashed through his mind.
He had considered reminding Jiang Que to keep his distance, but knowing Jiang Que’s personality, once such words were spoken, Jiang Que would sincerely apologize and never touch him again.
Even if he explained later, it would probably still be like the term “gege”, only appearing in very specific and rare situations.
Shen Tazhi didn’t want that.
“Is it not okay, gege?”
The voice behind him was closer now, and Shen Tazhi suddenly felt a tightening around his waist, followed by the sensation of Jiang Que’s body pressing against his.
Due to long-term malnutrition, Jiang Que was shorter than him, unable to rest his chin on Shen Tazhi’s shoulder. It was more like hugging a larger stuffed toy, as he peeked out from behind Shen Tazhi to look at him and the rice he was halfway through handling.
“It’s okay…”
Jiang Que, looking up at him, was also adorable, and Shen Tazhi couldn’t refuse him.
“That’s great.” Jiang Que smiled with narrowed eyes. “I want a smartphone, just like yours. How much progress in my studies do I need to show you before you can give it to me?”
In reality, with Shen Tazhi’s financial means, even buying all types of phones on the market for him wouldn’t be a big deal. However, this wasn’t something Shen Tazhi had originally planned to give him; it was an additional request from Jiang Que.
Earning money as a human was also tough; Jiang Que had seen many working individuals commit suicide. He felt he couldn’t just spend Shen Tazhi’s money so blatantly. He should at least do something.
“A smartphone?” Shen Tazhi was also taken aback.
He hadn’t expected Jiang Que to make such a serious request just for a smartphone. When he agreed, he thought Jiang Que would ask for something as perplexing as the ‘reproductive tentacles’ from yesterday.
But considering Jiang Que’s peculiar way of thinking, equating a smartphone with reproductive tentacles didn’t seem entirely impossible. Shen Tazhi chose to respect Jiang Que’s request: “Alright, as long as you can finish the trial class and confirm the teacher, I’ll take you to choose one in person.”
“However, this reward is quite simple for me. Are you sure you only want this?”
In the end, he couldn’t help but ask.
Jiang Que nodded firmly, “Yes, I want this.”
After all, a trial class was also quite simple for him.
Because of Jiang Que’s constant urging, Shen Tazhi had a ‘brunch’ of milk with toast and a small bowl of seafood fried rice, then went to the study to call a teacher for him.
Out of curiosity, Jiang Que followed him into the study.
Human studies were usually very private places, but when Shen Tazhi brought him here yesterday, he had specifically said that Jiang Que could freely enter any room in the house, including the study. Jiang Que came in without any burden and looked around at all the new things.
Yesterday, Shen Tazhi only showed him the overall layout of the study and he didn’t look closely at the books on the shelves. Now, while Shen Tazhi was making a call at the desk, Jiang Que looked at the shelves one by one.
‘The Miracle of a Century- The Development History of the Shen Group’ ‘The Art of Communication’ ‘Leadership and Team Relationships’…
The outermost shelves were filled with boring books that Jiang Que had no interest in, so he went directly to look at the second row of shelves.
On the second row were books like ‘A Brief History of Time’ and ‘Newton’s Biography’, which also didn’t interest Jiang Que. He quickly scanned the classical literature on the third row, randomly picked up a book, read a few pages, and soon got lost in the classical Chinese text, choosing to move to the last row.
It was also the row closest to Shen Tazhi’s desk.
Shen Tazhi would definitely keep the most useful books closest to himself, and the books on the shelf probably weren’t anything good to look at.
Just as Jiang Que was looking up without any expectations, he froze.
‘Grand Marriage: Young Master Ye Spoils His Wife Too Ostentatiously’ ‘Rejecting a Marriage to a Wealthy Family: Lord, the Madam, She Climbed the Wall Again!’ ‘Rebirth of the Divine Doctor: Clumsy Miss is Too Arrogant’… Oh, there’s a reborn one.
Jiang Que reached out and took down the book ‘Rebirth of the Divine Doctor: Clumsy Miss is Too Arrogant’, seriously reading the introduction on the back of the book:
【She, Jiang Lingyun, an assassin doctor of the 21st century, was murdered and unexpectedly reborn as the foolish young miss of the Yuechu Continent!
Without a mother since childhood, targeted by her stepmother, framed by her sister, and an indifferent cheap father.
Jiang Lingyun sneered.
Just because she was born with useless spiritual roots unable to cultivate? As a top assassin of the 21st century, even if she didn’t cultivate, she could surpass spiritual root training with martial arts!
Unloved and poor? As a divine doctor, rare elixirs were at her fingertips, and as long as she acted, countless strong individuals could be at her service!
Slap her sister in the face, trample on her scum father, and watch how she stirs up storms and rises to power in this continent of chaos!】
“Wow…” Jiang Que couldn’t help but exclaim when he saw this part. “What an amazing person!”
He then muttered to himself, “But what exactly is rebirth?”
When Jiang Lingyun was murdered and reborn in the Yuechu Continent, she became a different person. But according to Shen Tazhi’s meaning, he and his previous self were clearly the same person. Could rebirth also be categorized?
“Que que, did you find a book you like?”
Just as Jiang Que was seriously contemplating the types of rebirth, Shen Tazhi efficiently finished his call. Seeing him standing in front of the bookshelf seemingly lost in thought, Shen Tazhi walked over and asked.
“Feel free to take any book you like. These books here…”
Shen Tazhi paused midway through his sentence.
He looked at the book Jiang Que was holding, which had the words ‘Clumsy Miss is Too Arrogant’ written on it. After a moment of silence, Shen Tazhi said, “You can take this one too, it’s also written by me.”
Jiang Que looked down and once again found Shen Tazhi’s name on the cover of the book.
He sincerely admired, “Shen Tazhi, you’re really amazing. You can write so many interesting novels.”
Jiang Que’s praise was so genuine that it left Shen Tazhi speechless. After a moment, he said, “It’s not exactly my writing… it’s just common plotlines found in online novels. I collected many novels, and after the system learned and organized them, it summarized their common points.”
“Well, that’s still impressive.” Jiang Que hugged the book, “Shen Tazhi, can I take this book with me? I want to read this one.”
Shen Tazhi: …
“You can,” he said reluctantly, “These books were originally prepared for you.”
After reading ‘Revenge of the Three Princesses vs. The Three Icy Princes’ Jiang Que became absorbed in revenge and glorious returns, not knowing what strange things he would discover after reading ‘Rebirth of the Divine Doctor’.
Wait, rebirth.
Shen Tazhi seized on the key point. He cautiously asked, “Did you choose this book because it has ‘rebirth’ in the title?”
“Yes.” Jiang Que nodded and brought up his previous doubt, “Shen Tazhi, when you talked about rebirth, is it like you being reborn as yourself? Then why did Jiang Lingyun become another person after being reborn? And went to another world? Does rebirth have different categories?”
“It seems so.” Shen Tazhi recalled the online novels he read while writing, explaining, “Some people reincarnate into another world after death, while others go back to the past, back to before everything began. Some are reborn as themselves, while others are reborn as someone else.”
Using terms from online novels, there are four types: ‘womb crossing1transmigrating into an unborn baby’, ‘body crossing2transmigrating into another world with your own body’, ‘soul crossing3transmigrating into someone else’s body’, and ‘rebirth4reborn into your past body’. However, Jiang Que clearly couldn’t directly understand these simplified terms, so Shen Tazhi tried to explain in simpler terms.
“Oh, I see…” Jiang Que nodded, somewhat understanding, “So Jiang Lingyun is the type of rebirth where she crosses over to a different world and is born again?”
“Yes,” Shen Tazhi replied, “If you like it, feel free to take it and read. If there’s anything you don’t understand, you can ask me.”
It’s not that he didn’t want to read to Jiang Que, but reading it out loud would not provide the same immersive experience as Jiang Que reading it himself.
When they were underground, he couldn’t directly hand novels to Jiang Que. If he lost the medium of ‘storytelling’, he would lose his value to Jiang Que, putting him in constant danger.
But now things were different. Ever since Jiang Que hooked his pinky finger and said, “Continue telling me stories even after we leave,” things changed.
Unknowingly, he had crossed Jiang Que’s psychological barrier and become one of the few humans Jiang Que approved of. Even without the value of ‘storytelling’, Jiang Que wouldn’t easily kill him, and Shen Tazhi certainly wouldn’t disturb Jiang Que’s reading experience any further.
As expected, when Jiang Que heard he could take the whole book, he jumped with joy, “Great, then this whole book belongs to me!”
Just as he was about to walk over to Shen Tazhi with the book, something struck him. He asked, “Are all of Jiang Lingyun’s stories in this book?”
He hadn’t forgotten how moved he was reading the story of Luo Shang, only to find there was no continuation.
Shen Tazhi smiled, “Don’t worry, this book is complete. Everything is in this book, so feel free to read it at ease.”
“I’ve already contacted the teacher. They can come this afternoon. Do you want them to come this afternoon or in a few days?”
It’s just a trial lesson, it’ll be quick, and Shen Tazhi had already assured him that the teacher wouldn’t be fierce.
Thinking this way, Jiang Que raised his head, “This afternoon is fine. They can come whenever they want.”
“Okay.” Shen Tazhi agreed and heartlessly sent trial class emails to the teachers who had just signed the confidentiality agreement, without giving them any time to recover from the shock of learning about the existence of non-humans in the world.
After all, the salary he offered was more than ten times the market rate. In just the past few minutes, over twenty teachers were willing to sign the agreement. Out of the ten who did sign, they were carefully selected. Surely, not even three of them wouldn’t show up.
As for Jiang Que…
Shen Tazhi confirmed once again, a bit concerned, “Three humans will be coming over later. Are you sure there won’t be any issues?”
“Yes, yes!” Jiang Que, eager to get his hands on the phone, nodded repeatedly without any hesitation.
Jiang Que soon paid the price for his naive idea that his teacher would be easy to handle.
At eleven o’clock in the afternoon.
Jiang Que sat in the small study room specially arranged for him by Shen Tazhi, exchanging silent glances with the three teachers sitting across from him.
The first teacher was a young man, trembling like a sieve, pale-faced, and shaking so much that he almost tripped over his own feet when he entered. He was now sitting directly across from Jiang Que, staring lifelessly at the wriggling tentacles and slowly opening and closing white suckers behind him.
Help… he thought the contents of the confidentiality agreement were just some rich person’s perverse sense of humour. How could there really be such terrifying monsters in this world…
He was on the verge of fainting.
The second teacher was also a man, older in age, with gray hair and thick black-framed glasses. He was currently adjusting his glasses up and down, observing Jiang Que intently.
Jiang Que shivered under his sharp gaze, immediately avoiding eye contact with him.
Was this the ‘oppressive feeling from the teacher’ that he maliciously saw in the students’ mouths? It seemed a bit scarier than he had imagined.
As for the third teacher…
“Hey, Jiang Que, we meet again.”
The familiar round-faced girl sat in a chair, raising her hand boldly to greet him.
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