Scientific Travel

“I’ve never considered myself a good person, but I’m not as despicable as you say,” Gao Ruizhe said. “It’s hard for me to explain this to you because you’re a heartless person. You don’t understand that even the dirtiest person wants to appear clean in front of someone they like.”

"Ha, I don't understand. How can you shamelessly say that love was obtained through deception?"

"All love in the world is obtained through deception. Isn't hiding your flaws when you first meet someone a form of deception?"

"You can fool others, but don't actually fool yourself. You know they're hiding flaws, not defects. You try to win them over with deception, then reveal the truth and force them to accept you..."

"...This kind of person is the worst."

Qiu Qingyu had always been blunt, but today she had truly struck a nerve with Gao Ruizhe. He couldn't argue back, so he clenched his fists and gritted his teeth, saying, "Say that again?"

Qiu Qingyu didn't say anything, but instead jumped up and kicked Gao Ruizhe to the ground.

Qiu Qingyu stepped on Gao Ruizhe and said, "What? You want to hit me again? What if I say it a thousand times? You're the worst kind of person! You're the worst kind of person!"

“Um…” Deng Yin interrupted, “The pot’s boiling, you should come over quickly.”

Gao Ruizhe's face flushed red instantly; no one could accept showing such a face in front of someone they like.

He dared not struggle desperately, for Qiu Qingyu was very strong. Even if he struggled, he would not be able to break free and would only look like a shrimp being roasted over a fire.

Gao Ruizhe turned his head away, as if Deng Yin wouldn't recognize him that way.

Deng Yin found it somewhat amusing. She walked over to Gao Ruizhe, squatted down, and smiled at the back of his head, saying, "Is this what you were saying you were busy with?"

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Gao Ruizhe's face turned as red as a boiled shrimp. He didn't care if struggling would make him even funnier, and struggled desperately.

Qiu Qingyu kindly lifted his foot, giving him his freedom back.

Gao Ruizhe quickly got up from the ground, patted the spot where Qiu Qingyu had stepped on it, and tried to calm himself down. "No, with her? That's not a big deal."

Gao Ruizhe started courting death again as soon as he escaped, but fortunately Qiu Qingyu was in a good mood and ignored him.

"Oh~~~" Deng Yin said, his words tumbling out in a roundabout way, clearly indicating his disbelief, but he didn't say much more: "Then you can continue with your work, we'll go eat first."

"Wait a minute." Gao Ruizhe pulled Feifei over. "I suddenly remembered, Feifei hasn't eaten dinner yet. Let's eat together. We can still manage a meal."

Feifei rolled her eyes at him in her mind.

Well, he's having another episode.

"Alright, I've prepared a lot of dishes, let's all come together."

As soon as they entered, Deng Yin introduced Liu Ding to the three of them. Gao Ruizhe still couldn't accept Gou Dan and sat in the place furthest away from him.

Instead of the traditional "hundred pots of drinks," they drank chilled watermelon juice squeezed by Deng Yin. Deng Yin had originally wanted to squeeze some grape juice, but it would take dozens of grapes to make half a cup, which would be too wasteful.

To Deng Yin's left was Liu Ding, and to his right was Qiu Qingyu. Gao Ruizhe originally didn't want to sit with Deng Yin, but now, with one person between them, he sat next to Qiu Qingyu.

He's willing to be a mistress to complete his mission, but if he really meets someone he likes, he doesn't want to be the one to break them up.

The Kingdom of Baichu allows couples to marry multiple people and have multiple sons-in-law marry into the family, but most people will only choose to stay with one person.

Only some wealthy families would take multiple wives or have more sons marry into their wives' families in order to ensure the prosperity of their descendants.

Gou Dan didn't know why Gao Ruizhe had suddenly changed so much towards him. He had been fine before, but this time when they met, Gao Ruizhe not only acted like a stranger, but Gou Dan even felt that Gao Ruizhe disliked him.

What goes around comes around, and Gou Dan is now experiencing what Gao Ruizhe went through before.

After the meal, Deng Yin began distributing gifts.

It's called distribution, but not everyone gets one.

Dog Egg's gift was given to him the day it was bought. Deng Yin's gift for Liu Ding was medicinal herbs, which are currently being grown in his space. He had already told her about this in case she felt resentful.

Today's main target for distributing gifts is these three people who just arrived.

Needless to say, Deng Yin bought dice specifically for Qiu Qingyu. As for Fei Fei and Gao Ruizhe, Deng Yin hadn't expected to run into them, so he hadn't prepared any gifts for them.

Fortunately, she bought a lot, so I can just pick two things for them.

What Feifei received was a storybook, but it wasn't an ordinary storybook; it was a storybook that combined political intrigue, revenge, and suspense!

This was originally intended for Deng Yin's personal use, but she couldn't understand it.

She didn't know many characters to begin with, and this storybook was full of difficult and complicated characters. She could understand less than half of the characters on each page.

What was given to Gao Ruizhe was a jade pendant, made of the same material as the dice given to Qiu Qingyu.

These two items were auctioned separately. Deng Yin bought them simply because she had never seen a black jade pendant before, and besides, it was made of the same material as the dice. She originally wanted to set them up and give them to Qiu Qingyu.

What the person who clapped the gavel didn't say was that the dice and the jade pendant were actually cut from the same stone.

The jade pendant was actually made from scraps of dice, or you could say the dice were made from scraps of jade pendant; the two are about the same size.

Gao Ruizhe looked at the jade pendant in his hand, overwhelmed with mixed feelings...

"This jade pendant...it's quite exquisite..."

That shows a lack of emotional intelligence; the jade pendant is a bit small.

High emotional intelligence; this jade pendant is quite exquisite.

There are three dice in total, and the jade pendant is about the same size as the three dice combined, which is indeed smaller than most jade pendants.

But since it was given to him by Deng Yin, Gao Ruizhe added, "Thank you, I like it very much."

"You're welcome," Deng Yinguan said. "It's fate that we met. The green hills remain unchanged, and the clear waters flow on. We hope to meet again someday."

These words come from a storybook that Deng Yin recently read called "Jianghu is also a lake". It tells the story of the female protagonist Su Mohu who lacks the element of water in her Five Elements. Her family is very rich, and Su's mother specially built a house by the lake so that Su Mohu could have access to water.

Unexpectedly, Su Mohu was unwilling to stay at home forever and was determined to venture into the martial world. He even uttered the line from the book's title: "The martial world is also a lake."

The dialogue above is what the female lead, Su Mohu, said to her companions whom she was about to part ways with.

This book is marketed on humor, but Deng Yin didn't know that. She thought everyone here liked this kind of thing and said such things when parting.

The scene was a bit awkward, except for Gou Dan and Deng Yin, who weren't locals and didn't seem to notice.

Gao Ruizhe realized the implication in Deng Yin's words and asked, "Are you leaving?"