Pretty and charming, dressed in the 90s, she's good at everything from making money to causing

Using a two-yuan milk tea to negotiate a deal worth hundreds of thousands—this kind of thing could only happen to Fang Deliang.

After all, he needs to keep a low profile to avoid causing trouble for his brother.

Fang Deliang didn't keep Lin Ting waiting for long; he called at seven o'clock the next morning.

“Boss Lin, my elder brother says it’s feasible,” Fang Deliang said calmly. “However, there’s a strict requirement for running a school: you need someone with the title of associate professor to vouch for it. Do you have that kind of talent?”

Fang Deliang originally wanted to say, "If you don't have it, I'll help you find it."

This can be seen as a way of expressing sincerity in advance for friendly cooperation between the two parties.

Lin hummed in response and said with his eyes closed, "I really don't have an associate professor."

"That……"

"Would a full professorship be acceptable?"

"..."

Fang Deliang almost suffocated himself by not being able to catch his breath.

Lin Ting continued, "My mother is a professor at the University of Tokyo, in the Department of Philosophy, is that okay? Or my father is also a full professor at the medical university, but I feel that's a bit unrelated."

Fang Deliang was stunned for a long time, thinking to himself, "How come your family, with its scholarly background, produced such a shrewd businessman like you?"

This doesn't make sense!

“A full professor is certainly possible,” Fang Deliang finally found his voice after a while, wiping away cold sweat as he said, “Then just bring your mother’s credentials, the procedures are very easy to handle.”

“Okay…” Lin Ting glanced at the timetable and said, “I’m afraid I’ll have to wait until the day after tomorrow. I have a full schedule these two days.”

Fang Deliang: "..."

He finally realized the crux of the problem.

Mr. Lin is still a college student!

He'd completely forgotten about it.

Fang Deliang took a deep breath and agreed, "Okay, you can find the time. I've already spoken to my older brother, so it can be done anytime."

"Okay, we'll sign an agreement later."

"Well, yes."

After hanging up the phone, Lin Ting leaned back and fell back onto the bed.

Zheng Miaoying was already doing her homework. She turned around and poked Lin Ting's face: "Tingting, it's time to get up, or you'll be late for class."

Lin Ting, with her eyes closed and a look of utter despair on her face, said, "I don't want to get up, I can't get up, I think I'm going to have a heart attack..."

Zheng Miaoying: "..."

Lin Ting failed to feign illness because her complexion was excessively rosy. Su Yu said that even someone who hadn't studied medicine could tell she was in excellent health, and that as long as Teacher He didn't have 1200 degrees of myopia, he could tell she was faking it.

Teacher He's eyesight is 5.2, so Lin Ting has to get up to go to class.

Eight in the morning, her nemesis.

Lin Ting spent the morning in a daze. As soon as the bell rang, she seemed to come alive and ran all the way to the school gate.

Arriving at Southeast University by taxi, Lin, carrying her backpack, greeted the security guard with a smug grin: "Hello, Uncle!"

The security guard remembered her and said with a smile, "Looking for your mother again?"

"Yes, I made plans to have lunch with my mom."

Lin Ting stepped into the room with a smile and immediately saw her mother not far away.

"mom!"

Lin's mother was startled by her shout.

"Why are you shouting so loudly?" Lin's mother gently patted her, "There are so many people here, you'll scare them."

Lin Ting smiled and took her arm, saying sincerely, "I'm afraid others won't know how amazing my mother is."

Lin's mother: "You're out of money?"

Lin Ting: "...?"

Lin's mother took Lin Ting to the cafeteria. After putting the lunchbox on the table, she asked, "So, what brings you here in the middle of the day?"

Lin Ting nodded: "Something has happened, something important."

Lin's mother ate her meal slowly and deliberately, indicating that Lin Ting could speak now.

Lin Ting put down her chopsticks and said in a serious tone, "Mom, do you remember Yingzi? She was the top student in our department."

Lin's mother nodded: "I remember, what happened to her?"

Do you remember when she tutored me and Su Yu during the holidays?

"Remember, get straight to the point."

“We still need to lay the groundwork,” Lin Ting immediately got to the point. “Yingzi is good at English, so many students who are taking the TOEFL come to her for tutoring. And coincidentally, my spoken English is also very good, so we’ve decided to start a tutoring class together!”

Lin's mother was stunned.

She put down her chopsticks and looked at Lin Ting with a slight frown.

Lin Ting's heart was pounding, but she continued, "Mom, Yingzi and I have done a lot of TOEFL practice questions these past two days. It's not as difficult as people say, at least not for English majors."

"I think running tutoring classes is a great idea. You see, it can reinforce our learning and help many students who want to learn English but can't find tutoring classes, right?"

Lin Ting looked at her mother, her palms sweating slightly.

She was testing the waters.

After thinking for a long time, Lin's mother asked, "How big of a tutoring center do you plan to run?"

"Look at what you're saying, how big can two students like us run?" Lin Ting chuckled. "Even if we did, we wouldn't have the energy, right?"

Lin's mother picked up her chopsticks, ate a couple more bites of rice, and then nodded: "Tutoring is fine, and you do need to get acquainted with the TOEFL exam in advance."

When Lin's mother heard that two students were going to run a tutoring class, she subconsciously assumed that they were the same students who worked part-time as tutors at school.

She figured that this wouldn't affect their studies, and for Lin Ting and Zheng Miaoying, tutoring others would also help them reinforce their own memory of the knowledge.

This is killing two birds with one stone.

"Mom, you agreed?" Lin Ting's eyes widened.

Just say it!

Her mother isn't unenlightened; if the right path is chosen, it's not unacceptable for college students to start their own businesses!

Lin's mother looked at her with a smile and said, "Qingqing told me today that the spoken language you taught her is very useful, so listen to me—I have no other requirements for you, but when it comes to education, you must be true to your conscience."

"understand!"

Lin Ting playfully saluted her mother, then extended her hand to her: "So, Mom, I need your support."

Lin's mother nodded: "You're looking to rent a classroom, right? I'll give you the money when you get home tonight; it'll come from your earnings."

“Ah? It’s not about money,” Lin Ting shook her head repeatedly. “It’s about the paperwork for setting up a tutoring center. I need a professor to vouch for me, so I need to borrow your credentials.”

Lin's mother: "...?"

Are those two young girls really doing things this formally? They even need to go through the paperwork.

Lin's mother didn't think too much about it, just taking Lin Ting's trip to Shanghai in the first half of the year as a lesson in how to nip problems in the bud and how to do things in accordance with rules and regulations.

"I left my documents at home. I'll get them for you when I get home tonight."

That evening, Lin Ting received her mother's documents and a start-up fund of one thousand yuan.

Lin's mother said, "I don't care whether it's a profit or a loss. If it works, it works; if it doesn't, it doesn't. Don't hold others back."

Lin Ting immediately chimed in, "Xunzi said: 'Teaching is the way to guide.' Don't worry, Mom, I understand."

Lin's mother reached out and poked her head, without asking her what she planned to do with the tutoring class.

She still felt that the two girls just wanted to be tutors.

She had no idea what a huge "surprise" awaited her ahead.