Cutting In and Crashing – Is This Your Driving School Instructor? 28

Chapter 28: The Generous Actress

October, the autumn and winter season. The Mountain Winter Region experienced a dramatic drop in temperature, with a huge difference between day and night temperatures that was truly frightening. During the day, Gu Yin was so hot he almost wanted to take off his sweatshirt and wear a short-sleeved shirt, but at night, he felt he needed a ridiculously cost-effective army coat.

Driving on the elevated road, the orange-red streetlights constantly rotated in the car. Gu Yin drove silently, while Mengmeng, the chubby woman in the back seat, chattered incessantly:

“What on earth were you thinking?”

“How could you just drive off with someone else’s car?”

“You’re so unreliable…”

Although Gu Yin’s excuses at the police station were so incredible that even she had to applaud, looking back, they were rather unreasonable. He was just lucky to have encountered that police officer with a strong sense of justice. If it had been anyone else, he would have been detained for the night.

Gu Yin, getting impatient, casually retorted: “Weren’t you in a hurry to leave?”

The sentence was like a spark igniting dynamite: “Even if I was in a hurry, you shouldn’t have driven off in someone else’s car! You…*&%￥#@…”

The car immediately became very noisy.

Mengmeng grumbled for a long time, and Gu Yin didn’t hear what she mumbled, only catching her final question to Xia Xiangsi beside her:

“Xiangsi, don’t you think so?”

“Hmm?”

Xia Xiangsi, who had been staring blankly out the window, was slightly startled. When she turned her head, her clear pupils showed a hint of bewilderment. The young girl’s lips parted slightly:

“What did you say?”

Mengmeng: “…”

So, all her talking was for nothing?

“I said, what do you think about this!” she summarized.

“I… think it’s pretty good.” A rare smile appeared on the girl’s stunning face.

“Did you hear that? Even Xiangsi thinks… wait, what? You think it’s pretty good?” Mengmeng’s mouth twitched.

“Yeah, it’s pretty good.” Xia Xiangsi’s voice was crisp and gentle: “Someone should teach that kind of person a lesson; otherwise, she’ll continue to annoy more people.”

At this point, in a surprising contrast, she secretly gave Gu Yin, who was visible in the front passenger-side mirror, a thumbs-up.

“Cough…”

Gu Yin’s face flushed, and he immediately looked away.

Mengmeng: “…”

“Forget it…” She silently put her hand to her forehead. Seeing that they were almost there, she instructed Gu Yin: “Remember not to tell anyone about what happened here; otherwise, it won’t be good for you, understand?”

Gu Yin remained noncommittal, didn’t answer. Speaking of this, Xia Xiangsi felt a little embarrassed. She was relieved that Gu Yin’s livestream was relatively unpopular; not many people watched it. Otherwise, those embarrassing moments of her driving lessons might have been reposted everywhere, causing her immeasurable shame.

After leaving the elevated road and passing two intersections, Gu Yin dropped Xia Xiangsi and Mengmeng off at an apartment complex called “Happy Home.” Outside vehicles weren’t allowed inside the complex, so the two women got off at the entrance.

“Hey.”

As soon as the two women got off, they heard Gu Yin calling them.

“What?” Mengmeng asked.

Gu Yin picked up his phone from the phone mount, opened his payment code, and said:

“Pay up.”

“…You’re really serious about this!” Mengmeng’s mouth twitched.

Did he even know who he was sending home?!

That was Xia Xiangsi, a very popular actress!

Mengmeng thought to herself, Do you know how many people would pay to send our Xiangsi home?!

“What else would I do?” Gu Yin was completely unyielding.

Should celebrities get free rides?

“You…”

Mengmeng was about to say something…

A gust of fragrance swept past, and Xia Xiangsi had silently walked from behind Mengmeng to Gu Yin’s car.

“Ding.”

A pure white, soft hand holding an iPhone encased in a fluffy phone case scanned Gu Yin’s code. After a short while, Gu Yin’s phone received a notification:

[Zhifu Bao Transfer Received, 10,000 Yuan!]

Gu Yin: “???”

“My gas… no, my electricity bill isn’t that expensive.” Gu Yin couldn’t help but say.

Although he had heard that celebrities in the entertainment industry were not short of money, earning tens or even hundreds of millions from a commercial performance or advertisement, he never imagined that just for sending Xia Xiangsi back from driving school, she would give him 10,000 yuan.

Generally speaking, a ride-hailing service from Gu Yin’s Chuan Da Driving School to Xia Xiangsi’s Happy Home apartment would cost at most 200 yuan, even before electric vehicles lowered the price.

10,000 yuan was insane!

In front of the driver’s side door, the girl in the gray sweatshirt had already put on a mask and hat. The white streetlights shone on the brim of her hat, making the inside even darker, almost obscuring her face.

But for some reason, Gu Yin felt that the clear eyes under the hat seemed to be sparkling.

“Driving ourselves isn’t very convenient, and we might need you to take us more often. Consider it the cost of multiple rides,” a crisp and pleasant voice came from under the gray hat. “Anyway, you’re driving a ride-hailing service. Sending us shouldn’t be too difficult for you, right?”

While she said that, Xia Xiangsi’s reason for giving Gu Yin so much money was certainly more than just that.

At the driving school today, it seemed that because of her, Gu Yin was forced by another instructor to take on several more students. Although that was a matter between colleagues, it was somehow related to her, so she naturally had to compensate Gu Yin.

“Xiangsi!” Mengmeng started chattering again.

Gu Yin looked at the girl who seemed to like wrapping herself in her sweatshirt and hat, scratched his head, and remembering his damaged car and the fact that he wouldn’t be able to drive for a few days, driving them around actually made money, and said:

“Okay, but I don’t have time to pick you up. I can only send you when I have time.”

“Okay.”

Xia Xiangsi nodded, extended her small hand from her sweatshirt sleeve, and waved at Gu Yin:

“Be careful on the road.”

Was that a show of concern?

Gu Yin didn’t know…

He didn’t dare to assume that a female celebrity, whom he had just met, would have any positive feelings toward him.

He was someone who couldn’t even find a girl with a stable job in a small county town.

“Wuu…”

After saying goodbye to Xia Xiangsi, driving home on the road, it was already very late, more than 8:30 pm. He estimated he would get home around 9:30 pm, all thanks to the trouble with Qin Ou, the Kartelai car owner.

“Another day, bye-bye friends.”

Before getting on the elevated road, Gu Yin again removed the chest camera. At that moment, Gu Yin thought, if only he could become a net celebrity or a star, how wonderful it would be! Look at Xia Xiangsi; she casually tossed out 10,000 yuan. He probably had to work for over a month to earn that much money.

“Let’s be realistic…”

Gu Yin shook his head, saying to himself that he didn’t have the temperament of a net celebrity, and probably no one would watch him. He should just honestly earn the show’s daily minimum guarantee of 200 yuan.

He had “dreams” and “ideals,” but these things seemed too fragile, shattering into pieces on the ground, never to be reassembled.

It’s worth mentioning that when he turned off the camera, some viewers were amused:

[This kid seems to have no idea he’s become famous?]

…

(End of Chapter)

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