Cutting In and Crashing – Is This Your Driving School Instructor? 11

Chapter 11: Cloudy, Not Turning Sunny, Turning Rainy

January 21, 2025

Chapter 11: Cloudy, Not Turning Sunny, Turning Rainy

Going out in the morning light is troublesome, because it means you need to get up early.

A marketing account posted a ridiculous video, saying:

“The cold weather is really great, you don’t have to worry about your protruding belly after eating too much, great! Wearing thicker clothes means you don’t have to wear a bra, great! Wearing a thick hat means you don’t have to wash your hair, great! Winter is really great!”

This video should never be watched by office workers and students, otherwise they might ask you:

“Early morning classes in winter, great?”

Chen Yunjin really disliked getting up early, but there was no way, her vocational school had a very strict attendance system. Not only did she need to be in the office, she also had to clock in eight hundred times a day, and sometimes even had to take turns working on weekends…

Others say that people in the system are glamorous, but the system also has good and bad sides. It’s essentially a walled city; those outside want to get in, and those inside want to get out… but they dare not.

At those times, she would still envy those who were financially independent, at least they didn’t have to get up early when it got cold…

Living in this world, to put it bluntly, everyone is selling something, it’s just that the things being sold are different.

Class and non-class are nothing more than a form of manipulation (PUA) by some people over the lower classes.

Passing various breakfast stalls at the intersection, Chen Yunjin had no intention of stopping. She usually didn’t eat much in the morning; she brought a bag of yogurt, planning to drink it on the way.

But just then, she caught sight of a familiar figure at the fried dough stick stall.

Chen Yunjin stopped, pursed her lips, pondered for a moment, and then walked over…

“Boss, a bowl of eight-treasure porridge.”

She ordered a bowl of hot porridge, pretending to look for a place to sit, her eyes scanning around, finally settling on Gu Yin. After calling out to him, waiting for Gu Yin to look over, she put on a practiced smile, swaying her shapely legs, and walked over.

【Who is this beauty?】

【Wow, the streamer has these resources?】

【Wow… such long legs!】

【Xiong Da, I love you!】

When Chen Yunjin appeared on screen, some online viewers couldn’t help but get excited.

“What a coincidence, are you going to work so early today?”

Sitting opposite Gu Yin, placing her bag aside, Chen Yunjin tidied her black hair, casually pulled out a tissue, wrapped the handle of the metal spoon, scooped up a spoonful of eight-treasure porridge, brought it to her rosy lips, and took a sip.

“Yeah, a student signed up today, so I came a little earlier,” Gu Yin replied casually.

“Oh, I see.”

Chen Yunjin’s eyes scanned Gu Yin, seemingly unintentionally noticing the camera on his chest. Then she made a surprised expression, wiping her rosy lips with a tissue, and asked Gu Yin in surprise:

“You’re not participating in that show too, are you?”

“Too?” Gu Yin chewed on his fried dough stick, raising an eyebrow.

Then Chen Yunjin excitedly pulled out a camera from her pocket, exactly the same as the one Gu Yin was wearing on his chest.

His chewing of the fried dough stick paused slightly. Gu Yin was somewhat surprised but didn’t think much of it, simply saying:

“Your workplace allows this?”

He thought that government agencies wouldn’t allow participation in such shows…

“Oh, it’s fine, we’re allowed to have part-time jobs as long as it doesn’t affect our work, we just need to report it in advance.” Talking about her civil service job, Chen Yunjin had a natural sense of superiority.

Gu Yin simply smiled politely without speaking, lowering his head to continue drinking his soy milk.

This made Chen Yunjin feel a little awkward. She had wanted to strike up a conversation, but…

“You will know you’re reborn tonight…” Gu Yin’s phone suddenly rang.

Gu Yin looked up at Chen Yunjin, gesturing towards the phone. After Chen Yunjin nodded, he answered it.

It was an unknown number; he didn’t know what it was about. Because he was eating, Gu Yin put it on speakerphone.

The call connected, and a somewhat cold woman’s voice came from the other end:

“Where are you?”

Hearing the woman’s voice, Chen Yunjin was slightly stunned. Somehow, she felt a little sour, and the eyebrows she had carefully drawn half an hour earlier slightly furrowed.

“What do you mean, where am I?” Fortunately, Gu Yin, who was drinking his soy milk, was also clueless: “Who is this?”

Hearing that Gu Yin didn’t know who the caller was, Chen Yunjin secretly breathed a sigh of relief…

From the other end of the phone, the cold woman’s words quickly followed: “Didn’t we agree to meet at 8 o’clock opposite No. 1 Middle School? Where are you?”

“Eight o’clock…”

Gu Yin looked down at the time.

“Holy crap!”

When he left, he remembered checking the time and it was still early, probably only a little after six. Logically, it should only be a little after seven now, how did it suddenly become after eight?

Did he misread the clock?

(There is a section of nonsensical characters here, which cannot be translated)

“Sorry, sorry, I’ll be right there.”

He quickly finished his soy milk, Gu Yin grabbed his car keys and was about to leave.

“Hey, Gu Ge…”

Seeing that Gu Yin didn’t intend to say goodbye to her, Chen Yunjin felt a little unbalanced, but didn’t lash out. She simply called out to Gu Yin from a distance, then walked over…

She took the yogurt she had intended to have for breakfast from her bag and handed it to him.

She clenched her fist, a sweet smile playing on her lips, giving Gu Yin a “fighting” gesture.

“Work hard!”

Her unexpected kindness gave Gu Yin an ambiguous feeling. If he hadn’t had any previous contact with her, Gu Yin might have been instantly captivated by her.

But not now…

Right now, Gu Yin could only think, what’s wrong with this woman?

Previously, Gu Yin had watched a school anime, and the male protagonist had this famous line:

“I hate gentle girls. Just saying hello makes me start to care, exchanging a few emails makes my heart race, and if there’s a phone call, just looking at the call log makes me smile involuntarily, but I know that’s just because of gentleness. People who are gentle to me are also gentle to others, and I almost forgot that. If the truth is cruel, then lies must be gentle, so I have always hated gentle girls.”

Whether he hated gentle girls or hated his own presumptuousness, let’s not dwell on that. Suffice it to say that Gu Yin felt Chen Yunjin was like a central air conditioner (treating everyone nicely indiscriminately). She would even give a smile to the guy selling grilled skewers on the side of the road.

It seemed that was her mask to hide her true self.

And if Gu Yin knew there wouldn’t be much interaction between them, he wouldn’t bother to invest anything. Saving some money to buy his mother some desserts, letting his mother enjoy a piece, thinking about his son— what could he get from Chen Yunjin?

To put it bluntly, he had already been kind and manly enough not to ask Chen Yunjin for the driving school registration fee from last year.

“Thank you, but I don’t like yogurt.”

After politely thanking her, Gu Yin handed the yogurt back and quickly left.

At that moment, the sweet smile on Chen Yunjin’s pretty face faltered…

“Pitter-patter…”

It was sunny in the morning, but the sky turned cloudy sometime, and now it was raining. It was like Chen Yunjin’s mood, cloudy, not turning sunny…

Turning rainy.

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(End of Chapter)

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