Hell Game: Starting from Metropolis

“I don’t mind elevating our relationship, even if you dislike how I am now.”

Wang Manni said with a mixture of shyness and resentment.

When she was still a clerk, she won over many male colleagues, as well as some female colleagues, with this trick.

"How could that be? Since we're going to become all-weather strategic partners, appearances don't matter at all."

Liu Zheng comforted him.

"You mean this kind of sublimation?"

"What else do you think?"

He asked rhetorically.

"Of course I mean the same thing as you."

Wang Manni quickly said, but she seemed a little disappointed.

"Tell me, what do you want me to do for you?"

Liu Zheng said.

“Our deputy director’s son is not doing well in school, and he has tried many tutors without success, which is causing him a lot of anxiety. Recently, he spread the word that he will reward anyone who can help him find a good tutor.”

Wang Manni said.

"Ok?"

Why does this sound so familiar to him?

"What exactly is this 'reward'? Don't be ridiculous if they send you a carton of milk later."

Liu Zheng reminded him.

He'd seen plenty of these kinds of empty promises and had been fooled a few times himself.

When he was still in college, his counselor asked them to help move offices, promising to treat them to a big meal afterward.

As a result, they moved from noon to night, and that bastard treated them to a bowl of Shaxian noodles, without even adding a fried egg.

With that kind of workload, hiring a moving company would cost at least four figures.

Of course, Liu Zheng didn't completely suffer a loss either.

He endured it for three years, until he received his degree and graduation certificate. Then, on a dark and stormy night, he shoved a bag of dog poop in his counselor's face.

"It wasn't explicitly stated. But that deputy director has a decent reputation within the company, so he shouldn't be lying. Besides, it's just about finding a good tutor; his son still has a lot of room for improvement, and it's not something that can be discarded so easily."

Wang Manni said.

What was his son's ranking?

"Three hundred and sixty-five, which is the last one."

Wang Manni suppressed a laugh.

"Uh, there's definitely a lot of room for improvement. By the way, do they live in the Xuefu Jiayuan residential area?"

Liu Zheng suddenly asked.

"Oh, how did you know?"

Wang Manni exclaimed in surprise.

"Of course I know, I even know the last place student in the primary school group at Xuefu Jiayuan."

"You're amazing."

Wang Manni said admiringly.

It seems this delivery driver wasn't exaggerating when she said she had a wide network of connections; she didn't even know any of the other residents in Xuefu Jiayuan.

"Okay, I'll take it."

He nodded.

If we're lucky, we might be able to solve the problem of the chubby wax figure at the same time.

"Okay, then I'll wait for your news."

After hanging up the phone, Liu Zheng fell into thought.

It's unrealistic to expect him to teach himself. First, the material he learns might not be the same, and second, he doesn't have that much free time.

We have no choice but to find an outside help.

So, among the people he knows, who seems the most cultured?

A tall, slender figure flashed through Liu Zheng's mind.

I'm taking the bus home tomorrow. Whether they are relatives or friends, they all have their own lives and can't always be with me.

Anyway

Chapter 178 Liu Zheng's Major Life Events

That's her.

Liu Zheng held his slightly hot phone and dialed Nightingale's number.

"What a coincidence! I was just about to call you when you called me. Wouldn't you call that telepathy?"

"The nightingale teased."

"What are you looking for me for?"

He was unmoved by the nightingale's words.

Ever since he saw her thrusting her hips against the female diver and firing, Liu Zheng had lost all interest in her.

Although it wasn't there before.

"What did you put in my bomb? Why is it so powerful?"

"The nightingale asked."

"Oh? You observed that?"

Liu Zheng asked in surprise.

"Nonsense, with such a commotion, half of the metropolis could feel it."

"I'm annoyed," Nightingale said.

"It's nothing, I just had someone make a button that multiplies the explosive power by ten."

He said this with feigned nonchalance.

"Tsk, sometimes I really have to admire your ability to create things."

"The nightingale exclaimed in admiration."

She got an invincible book while playing board games, caught an egg from the sewer while fishing, and even lost her own trump card, the super bomb.

"Maybe I was a hero in my past life."

Liu Zheng shrugged.

"What?"

"It's nothing. I called to ask how your grades are going."

He changed the subject.

"What academic performance?"

The nightingale countered with a question.

"Huh? You didn't go to school, did you?"

"No."

"The nightingale said."

"Oh no, I thought you were a top student with your aristocratic air, but you're illiterate."

Liu Zheng sighed repeatedly.

"Who told you that not going to school makes you illiterate?"

"So you hired a private tutor?"

A glimmer of hope rekindled within him.

That makes sense when you think about it; isn't that how it's portrayed in those palace dramas?

A forbidden love blossoms between a noblewoman and her tutor.

"No."

"Isn't that still illiteracy?"

Liu Zheng was disappointed again.

"Who told you that not having someone teach you makes you illiterate?"

The nightingale was almost amused by his antics.

"Ok?"

"I knew all the knowledge when I was born, so I didn't need to learn it at all."

"The nightingale said proudly."

"Keep bragging. If your family were all this powerful, you'd have to run the city hall."

Liu Zheng pursed his lips.

"The wording might be a bit exaggerated, but he would be more than qualified to be a professor at the best universities in the metropolitan area."

"The nightingale said."

Which is the best university in the Metropolitan Area?

"Of course, it's the First Municipal University."

The nightingale replied.

"Never heard of it, never mind, it's not important."

Nightingale had no need to brag to him. If he could teach college students, teaching elementary and middle school students shouldn't be a problem either.

"I have a task for you."

Liu Zheng said.

"What mission?"

"I tutored a junior high school student and a student who was ranked last in their grade."

He said.

"Pfft! Where did you find this pair of brilliant minds?"

The nightingale couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"My connections are beyond your imagination. So, tell me, are you in or not?"

Liu Zheng asked.

"Then what good is that to me?"

The nightingale asked with a smile.

"When you and the female diver go to the garbage disposal plant, wouldn't you consider it a benefit to have a powerful bodyguard like that?"

"Can you get the fisherman out of the sewer?"

"The nightingale exclaimed in surprise."

With her keen eye, she could naturally see that something was wrong with the fisherman.

"not him."

Liu Zheng didn't know if the fisherman could make it, and even if he could, he doubted the fisherman himself would be willing.