Cutting In and Crashing – Is This Your Driving School Instructor? 100

Chapter 100: Driver’s License Test Level 2 Exam… Will You Go Out With Me?

It was a little after ten, the temperature rising, and it wasn’t as cold anymore. While practicing driving in the car earlier, with the heater on, Xia Xiangsi had warmed up. Now, with the sun out, standing in the sunshine, the layer of chill clinging to her seemed to gradually dissipate.

But Xia Xiangsi’s mood was terrible. Sitting on the small stool where Gu Yin had just been sitting, the short-haired female star, wearing a mask, recalled the “thrilling and exciting” “famous scenes” from her earlier driving practice, and her mental state completely crumbled.

Her fair, white hand reached into her pocket, pulling out her phone. Xia Xiangsi casually opened a social media platform, and unsurprisingly…

She was trending again.

“#Xia Xiangsi Practicing Driving!”

“#Car Turned Into a Rocking Car: What’s Your Father’s Father’s Name?”

“#Parallel Parking Done With Fatigue Driving, This Female Star Forgets How to Turn the Steering Wheel!”

“#Xia Xiangsi: How Many Times Did I Turn the Steering Wheel?”

“#Mistook the Accelerator for the Brake, Xia Xiangsi’s Road Killer Debut!”

…

These kinds of trending topics directly dominated the trending charts on various platforms…

The comment section was also quite lively, with everyone discussing:

【Laughing to death, I just came from there, Xia Xiangsi made Coach Gu so angry she was cursing like crazy hahaha…】

【Coach Gu: Even that Audi driver didn’t make me that angry!】

【Xia Xiangsi herself wants to get a CT scan to see if her brain has a problem hahaha…】

【I really didn’t expect that a female star who became famous for singing could have a second career spring because of driving practice!】

【This is a talented player hahaha! The Xun Ji Incident is a small fry in front of her!】

…

Some time ago, Xia Xiangsi quit the entertainment industry, and then, for some unknown reason, she exposed a bunch of industry secrets…

At that time, although the onlookers were enjoying the gossip, they also occasionally wondered if Xia Xiangsi would be banned for doing this?

Logically, the capital behind her would definitely ban Xia Xiangsi.

Before she quit the industry, many people asked her to record programs; after this exposé, basically no announcements came her way.

Just when everyone thought Xia Xiangsi’s entertainment career was over…

Wow!

She directly started her “counterattack” in Gu Yin’s live stream on “Reconciling with Life”!

It’s estimated that several million people across the internet went to Gu Yin’s live stream to watch Xia Xiangsi’s antics, right?

The benefits of such terrifying traffic don’t need to be mentioned. Any insider would have to praise Xia Xiangsi for a job well done!

You see?

Even Director Han, an insider from the “Reconciling with Life” backstage, couldn’t help but exclaim after seeing the terrifying heat Xia Xiangsi’s antics brought:

“No wonder she’s so popular at such a young age, there’s a reason for this…”

Probably everyone thinks Xia Xiangsi did this on purpose, right?

But Xia Xiangsi could swear on her personality that she definitely didn’t do it on purpose!

Because it wasn’t intentional, because everyone thought there’s no one this clumsy in the world, so when she saw those discussions, Xia Xiangsi felt so ashamed she couldn’t face anyone…

The more she read, the worse her mood became. Xia Xiangsi simply decided to avoid it and directly locked her phone screen, putting it back in her pocket.

“Whew…”

She let out a long breath. The winter temperature was low, and the exhaled air could be seen as a substantial white mist, inexplicably giving a feeling of “de-stressing.”

“Hey… hey…”

At that moment, a man’s voice suddenly came from behind. Xia Xiangsi frowned, turned her head, and found that the person seemed to be the… driving instructor named Coach Ma, who didn’t get along well with Gu Yin.

This guy was quite tall, about 5’9″ (1.75 meters), but he looked skinny and was wearing tight pants. Xia Xiangsi strongly disliked him, so even though she knew he was calling her, she turned her head and pretended not to hear.

“I’m calling you, didn’t you hear?” Coach Ma walked over, frowning, and asked.

This guy had a terrible attitude and a particularly unpleasant tone. Xia Xiangsi didn’t want to deal with him, so she didn’t speak and simply ignored him.

Mengmeng happened to be beside Xia Xiangsi at the time. Seeing this, she was also very unhappy and shouted:

“Who knows who you’re calling? None of us are called ‘Hey’ and ‘Hey’.”

“It wasn’t you…”

Coach Ma received a cold shoulder and felt a little stifled, but he didn’t vent immediately. He just frowned and shifted the topic by asking, “Where’s your instructor?”

There’s a real difference between people. Coach Ma seemed to have a problem upstairs. As a driving instructor with low barriers to entry, he always acted like he was something special, treating his students with a terrible attitude…

These days, even teachers with civil service ranks dare not treat their students badly. What kind of medicine did this driving instructor take?

“I don’t know.” Mengmeng tilted her head.

Xia Xiangsi completely ignored him.

“You…” Coach Ma gritted his teeth, stamped his foot angrily, and cursed, “…You really have the same kind of instructor and students. You two really deserve to be taught by Gu Yin.”

Perhaps because he knew Xia Xiangsi and Mengmeng were unlikely to pay attention to him, Coach Ma simply didn’t bother and turned towards an old Santana practicing parallel parking nearby.

There were five students in that car. Recently, because of the cold weather and the driving school’s Level 2 practice field being quite remote, there were few people practicing. Like Coach Ma’s side, several young female students who were following him to practice driving had simply used the excuse that they were having final exams soon and stopped coming…

On the other hand, those “beauties” he forcibly assigned to Gu Yin were genuinely dedicated to learning. Even though Gu Yin had almost never taught them, they came to practice every day.

With the help of “Level 2 Five-Times-Failed” Liu Jie, one of Gu Yin’s students, they had actually self-taught themselves how to reverse park.

“Coach…”

Seeing Coach Ma coming over, the ladies all showed kind smiles.

“Hmm.”

Coach Ma put his hands behind his back, acting like a leader, and casually asked, “How’s your practice going?”

“Great!”

The lady currently practicing reverse parking was Coach Ma’s student. This lady was truly talented. With Liu Jie’s somewhat haphazard instruction, she had managed to learn reverse parking quite well and was skillfully reversing into the parking space.

It wasn’t that difficult, to begin with.

“Don’t worry, coach, there’s no problem at all!” The lady nodded honestly and simply.

“Hmm…”

Coach Ma nodded. He also carried a cup, but not a thermos like Gu Yin’s, but a glass cup.

The cup contained some herbal tea. Coach Ma opened the cup, the steam rising. He blew on the flower petals on top before taking a sip, clearing his throat before casually asking,

“Coach Gu has almost finished teaching you all, right?”

“This…”

At that time, the ladies’ faces showed difficulty.

To be honest, not only did Gu Yin not teach them, but in the ten-plus days they’d been learning to drive, Gu Yin had never even been in a car with them.

When Xia Xiangsi came, Gu Yin would basically only use the white Jie Da practice car with Xia Xiangsi; even when Xia Xiangsi wasn’t there, Gu Yin used that Jie Da with Liu Jie and his own students.

But people of their age…

Had been thoroughly instilled with the idea of “social conventions.”

They may have thought Coach Ma was casually asking, so one lady said with a smile,

“Yes, don’t worry, coach, no problem.”

Since this lady spoke up, the others naturally followed suit, nodding with smiles…

Liu Jie was still in the car; they couldn’t say bad things about Gu Yin in front of Liu Jie, otherwise, when Gu Yin came back, if he held a grudge, he would not teach them anymore.

“Okay.”

Seeing this, Coach Ma had a slight smile at the corner of his mouth, thinking that although Gu Yin didn’t seem easy to get along with on the surface, he was still quite reliable in his work.

In the few years since he joined, the quality of the students he had taught had been quite good.

He really was a former racer…

“Have you all downloaded the Traffic Management 123 app on your phones?” he asked the lady who had just answered.

“Oh, yes.” The lady took out her phone and clumsily tapped it.

Exam appointments are usually made through the Traffic Management 123 app. They downloaded the app the day they registered, at Coach Ma’s instruction, so their phones naturally had it.

“I checked the time just now. See if you can book Level 2 for next Tuesday. If you can, book it, and I’ll take you to the exam then,” he said calmly and confidently.

Today is Tuesday; next Tuesday would be a week away, just enough time for these ladies to consolidate their skills, so they could have some mental preparation for the exam.

“Ah?”

In the car, the lady in the maroon down jacket looked troubled, saying,

“Coach, is it too soon to book Level 2?”

She seemed a little scared; in fact, it wasn’t fear, it was mostly guilt, thinking that they still couldn’t do anything, only two out of the five of them understood reverse parking. Level 2 isn’t just reverse parking; there’s parallel parking, S-bends, hill starts, straight-line driving… many more items.

In the past ten to almost two weeks, they hadn’t even practiced a complete reverse parking; could they practice all the remaining items in a week?

The time was a little tight, wasn’t it?

“Too soon?” Coach Ma frowned when he heard this and said in a reprimanding tone, “You’ve been here for almost half a month. Adding another week makes it three weeks. Three weeks and you still dare not take the exam? When do you want to get your driver’s license? Next year?”

Coach Ma did notice the hesitant expressions on the ladies’ faces, but he didn’t think much of it, because middle-aged women like these ladies usually have this kind of expression when faced with “exams.”

Even if they weren’t scared of failing the exam because they hadn’t practiced well enough, even if they had practiced well, they would still be nervous.

This Level 2 test, practicing more doesn’t help much. Those who do well can finish it in one or two weeks, or half a month. Even those who don’t do well, at most it takes three or four weeks, a month.

It’s just that much stuff; no matter how you refine it, it won’t be much better; it’s something everyone on the street knows, the difficulty isn’t that high.

Coach Ma had been a driving instructor for many years. Even though these ladies are older, three weeks should be enough. Since Gu Yin taught them well to begin with, asking them to schedule Level 2 wasn’t an impromptu decision.

When students pass the exam, instructors get a commission. The sooner they pass, the sooner he gets his commission.

“This…”

The ladies looked a little embarrassed, but under Coach Ma’s urging, they reluctantly made their appointments.

Afterwards, they comforted themselves: “The coach isn’t a first-timer, so since he asked us to book, there must be a reason. Maybe the later practice is simpler, easier than reverse parking, and we can master it all in a week?”

They didn’t understand anything, so they listened to Coach Ma.

And Coach Ma?

After seeing the ladies book Level 2 for next week, he didn’t even watch them drive a lap. He simply said goodbye and left.

What a jerk! He only cared about whether they could contribute to his commission, not at all whether they had practiced well.

When Gu Yin returned carrying his thermos, he saw Coach Ma leaving from afar and couldn’t help but ask Xia Xiangsi and Mengmeng who were watching nearby, “What was that idiot doing here?”

“I don’t know…” Xia Xiangsi shook her head; she didn’t care what Coach Ma was doing.

Mengmeng, on the other hand, whispered to Gu Yin, “It seems like he was asking those students to schedule their exams or something. I was passing by the restroom just now and heard a little bit.”

“Really?” To Xia Xiangsi and Mengmeng’s surprise, Gu Yin didn’t panic at all, instead, he laughed, “Haha.”

“They haven’t practiced much, right?” Mengmeng twitched the corner of her mouth and asked.

Xia Xiangsi practiced with Gu Yin and didn’t know anything; Mengmeng waited below each time. Occasionally, the ladies saw her freezing like an ice popsicle outside, feeling sorry for her and asking her to get in the car. She had become familiar with the ladies and knew that Gu Yin had hardly taught them.

But she didn’t say it directly, so she changed her question.

She wanted to subtly hint to Gu Yin, shouldn’t you teach them?

“Yeah, they really haven’t practiced much.” Gu Yin happily opened the trunk, poured hot water from the thermos into the insulated cup until it was full, then put the thermos back inside, closing the trunk while saying,

“Then can they pass the exam?!” Mengmeng was a little anxious.

“Whether they pass or not,” Gu Yin laughed happily.

“…Are you so irresponsible?” Mengmeng said, “They’ve been learning with you for a while.”

Gu Yin retorted, “They’re not my students; just because they learn with me does that mean I have to teach them? I don’t get a commission if they pass, so why the hell would I teach them…”

Mengmeng knew this, but she still felt a little sorry for the ladies, saying,

“Those ladies are innocent, aren’t they? They paid to learn to drive; you two are fighting, and they’re the ones paying the price?”

“Why are you telling me this?” Gu Yin thought, “You’re really becoming impossible, aren’t you?”

Holding the insulated cup, Gu Yin wiped his hands and said directly, “It was that idiot Coach Ma who didn’t teach them and shoved them here. If you have the energy, go argue with him. If you want to be a good person, go be a good person for him, why are you coming to me?”

The angrier Gu Yin got, the angrier he became. He already had a lot of pent-up anger and directly scolded Mengmeng:

“According to you, I should just grit my teeth and teach them obediently? Then in the future, if he sends me one, I teach one; am I such a sucker? Do you want to be this kind of sucker? Do you want to be it or not? Should I move the Leshan Giant Buddha and let you sit there? I’ll give you Guanyin Bodhisattva’s lotus as well, you can sit on the lotus from now on!”

“I…” Mengmeng was speechless for a moment.

It seemed that, in this matter, Gu Yin was also a victim.

For a moment she wanted to say that the ladies were quite innocent and that they were good people…

But she had to remember that it wasn’t Gu Yin who screwed them over, it was Coach Ma.

“Okay, okay, scram, scram, scram, don’t delay my teaching…”

Gu Yin waved his hand. He had been nicer to Mengmeng because they were close, but now he’s giving her the cold shoulder again.

It’s worth mentioning that Xia Xiangsi didn’t interfere with Gu Yin and Mengmeng’s entire conversation, even though Mengmeng was her person, she didn’t say a word for Mengmeng.

Perhaps she also thought Gu Yin was right.

Not to mention Gu Yin…

Even the viewers watching the “Reconciling with Life” livestream couldn’t help but say:

【The ladies are innocent, but the one who’s wrong is the other coach.】

【I think Coach Gu is right; from a personal perspective, he should do this.】

【People only need to do what’s within their job description. Outside of that, no money, get lost!】

…

This was just a small episode, and no one cared much about it.

At Gu Yin’s call, Xia Xiangsi got into the car and sat in the driver’s seat again.

However…

To Xia Xiangsi’s surprise, Gu Yin didn’t get in the car. Instead, he stood outside her driver’s side door, opened the door, holding something unknown in his hand, mysteriously hidden behind his back, smiling foolishly at her.

“What… what are you laughing at? You look so smug…” Xia Xiangsi frowned, suddenly having a bad feeling.

She remembered Gu Yin had said he was looking for a way to help her tell how many times she’d turned the steering wheel. What’s with this smug smile now?

“Ha…” Gu Yin originally wanted to reveal the answer directly, but perhaps because he recalled Coach Ma coming to schedule Level 2 exams for those ladies, he suddenly thought for a moment and asked,

“Hey, will you go out with me?”

As soon as these words came out…

Xia Xiangsi: “???”

A series of question marks appeared on the female star’s fair and delicate face!

Not to mention Xia Xiangsi…

【???】

【！！！】

The viewers watching the livestream next door exploded!

…

(End of Chapter)

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