Luo Wanya had never done this before.
Just then, the class bell rang. The female teacher glanced at the notes in Luo Wanya's hand and said, "You've accumulated quite a few questions. Why don't you treat me to dinner after I get off work tonight, and we can chat while we eat?"
Luo Wanyi was taken aback for a moment, then his eyes lit up: "Okay, I'll drive over to pick you up."
After returning to the villa, Luo Wanya glanced at the Bai Zhou villa and, after confirming that everyone was cultivating and that he didn't need to do anything, went back to his own place to take a shower and change clothes.
As evening approached, he drove his Bentley Continental GT, worth over four million yuan, and parked it in front of the Kaiyuan Campus of Los Angeles University of Technology.
The female teacher walked out of the school gate with great charm, sat in the passenger seat, and after only a brief glance, she joked, "This passenger seat hasn't been used in a long time, has it?"
Luo Wanyi looked slightly embarrassed: "I rarely drive this car anymore."
At the upscale restaurant that Luo Wanyi had booked, the two hit it off immediately and chatted happily.
Romantic relationships between adult men and women have become less about naivety and coyness, and more about directness and desire.
During the meal, the female teacher asked many questions about the Otherworld, showing a strong interest in it.
They talked about political systems in the underworld, then about political systems in the surface world, and then about ancient slavery and slavery in the western continent of the underworld, from modern history to contemporary history.
Finally, Luo Wanya told his story of running away to Japan, while the female teacher told him about her interesting experiences studying in America.
As the dinner was drawing to a close, the female teacher suddenly said, "With your abilities, you are fully capable of having your own career and achievements. At this age, you have the focus and perseverance to learn. You deserve better, not to be second to anyone."
Luo Wanya pondered for a moment, then pretended not to understand: "What do you mean? You know I'm not well-educated and don't understand hints."
The female teacher smiled and shook her head: "It's okay, I was just saying it offhand."
Luo Wanya escorted the female teacher back to the staff and family quarters of the school. The teacher smiled and asked, "My cat can make coffee, would you like to come up and take a look?"
Luo Wanyi politely shook his head and said, "No need, it's too late, I'm afraid it will cause some misunderstanding if I go up."
"He's quite the gentleman at this moment," the female teacher glanced at Luo Wanya sideways, then went upstairs with a smile.
There was no disdain in that sidelong glance; the gaze that flowed from the corner of his eye was both alluring and seductive in the night, captivating and mesmerizing.
Luo Wanyi drove his Bentley sports car aimlessly for a long time before stopping in front of a building.
He sat in his car, lit a cigarette, and watched a middle-aged woman walk upstairs arm in arm with her husband, her expression serene and happy.
The middle-aged woman turned around and inadvertently saw Luo Wanya in the car. She smiled at her husband and said, "You go up first, I've run into an acquaintance."
After saying that, she walked over, got into the car, and asked, "The perfume in the passenger seat smells just right. The person you just drove in the passenger seat must have been much more outstanding than me, and younger too."
Luo Wanya chuckled and said, "Of course. When I married you, I didn't know anything. There were so many good options, but I just liked you. Now that I'm more knowledgeable and have money, I'll definitely choose the best."
The middle-aged woman laughed and scolded, "You're such a jerk. I've never seen you in a suit and tie before. Now you're even wearing glasses. You look just like a Confucian businessman."
“It’s all just for show. Don’t all upper-class people have to do this?” Luo Wanya said.
The middle-aged woman suddenly said, "Old Luo, how long have we been divorced?"
Luo Wanyi paused for a moment, then suddenly sighed, seemingly unrelated to the question, "Time flies by so quickly; before you know it, half a lifetime has passed."
Chapter 591, A Thing I Won't Regret
"Have you blamed me all these years?" the middle-aged woman asked.
“It’s not my fault. It’s my fault for being ignorant when I was young. Back then, you always advised me to take a correspondence course and read more books in my spare time, but I didn’t listen to you. Now that I’m this age, I’m the one who has started reading and studying,” Luo Wanyi said.
The middle-aged woman took out her wallet and pulled out a card: "You used to avoid me and didn't dare to come see me. This time you came openly, so you must have really let go. Lao Luo, thank you for 21 years."
Old Luo stroked the steering wheel: "Why thank me? I wasted two years of your life when you were young, and made you live in constant fear with me."
The woman placed the bank card on the Bentley's center console: "The bank card is in your name. The money in this card is the money you secretly transferred to me over the years, a total of 4.31 million. I've been keeping it for you, just in case you run away again one day and need the money urgently. Now it seems that I don't need to prepare it for you anymore. Let the person you like prepare it for you."
“Alright,” Luo Wanyi nodded slowly, “Is there anything else you need to tell me?”
The woman suddenly said, "Old Luo, you must do things that you won't regret when you're old. Stop wasting your life."
Luo Wanya was both amused and exasperated: "You'd better go upstairs quickly, or your husband will start to overthink things."
The woman got out of the car and went upstairs without the slightest hesitation.
Luo Wanyi sat in the car for a long time, without explaining many things.
It's not that he likes anyone else; he just came to take a look. In the end, he still felt that the person he liked the most was the woman who wasn't wearing perfume and didn't know how to talk about love.
He used to tell others that when he ran away, his wife ran off with the money, which made him feel a little better.
But only he knew that when he was young, he had no money to be taken away. He was penniless, and the other party was simply completely disappointed.
Luo Wanya stared at the bank card the other party had given him, sitting in the car for a long time.
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Countdown 28:00:00.
In a high-end restaurant.
Luo Wanya asked, "What did you mean by what you said yesterday? Could you explain in detail?"
The female teacher swirled the red wine in her glass and said with a smile, "I don't quite understand why you're willing to work under a high school student. If you're willing, I can help you plan a new organizational structure and I can also be your organizational development consultant over there."
Luo Wanyi was silent for a moment: "You are a time traveler, aren't you?"
The female teacher hesitated for a moment before replying, "Yes."
Luo Wanyi smiled, wiped his mouth, and said, "I will think about what you said. Let's go, I'll take you home."
After saying that, he drove the female teacher home and then drove away, leaving her alone downstairs, watching the car's taillights gradually disappear into the distance.
Back in the villa area, Luo Wanya parked his car in the yard, hesitated for more than ten minutes, and finally deleted the female teacher's contact information.
Luo Wanyi chuckled to himself, as if mocking himself or fate.
He opened the car door and got out, taking off the tie that was around his neck, and muttered to himself, "I wonder who invented ties, they're so uncomfortable. Red wine is no good either, I can drink for ages and still not get drunk."
Music was playing in the villa as the undercover agents, off-duty, gathered together to drink beer and eat cold dishes.
Luo Wanyi picked up a glass of beer from the table and drank it all in one gulp. Then he picked up some chopsticks from who-knows-who and took several bites.
One of the undercover agents laughed, "Old Luo, didn't you go out for a big meal tonight? Why are you still looking like a starving ghost?"
Luo Wanya grumbled, "These restaurants nowadays are all like rip-offs. The portions are so small, it's like feeding a cat. You can't get full at all."
He knew these were two different lifestyles, and that one wasn't right for him.
At midnight, Luo Wanyi sat in his study flipping through his notes, still unable to resist recalling the charm of that female teacher.
With her slender waist and full hips, she walked like a seductive wildcat in black high heels.
Luo Wanya scratched his head and continued reviewing the key points; he still had to attend online classes later.
The online courses he bought were very expensive; a single course cost tens of thousands of yuan.
However, at that moment, Qing Chen pushed open the study door, found a place to sit down, and said with a smile, "I heard from the brothers downstairs that you've had some luck with women?"
Luo Wanya sneered, "A love triangle."
Qing Chen didn't pry too much into the gossip, but was just a little curious: "Why have you suddenly become so studious?"
Luo Wanyi pondered for a moment, then answered very carefully: "I've lived the first half of my life in a daze. People said selling VCDs was profitable, so I sold VCDs; people said selling pagers was profitable, so I sold pagers; people said investment and guarantee services were good, so I did investment and guarantee services... Actually, I've always just been trying to make money, without any real goals. Looking back now, apart from having some money, I seem to be no different from any other ordinary person. My ex-wife wants me to do something that I won't regret when I'm old, but I don't know what to do to avoid regrets."
Qingchen laughed and said, "Isn't having money a good thing? When I was poor, I used to walk with my head down every day, hoping to pick up a coin from the ground someday. Sometimes when I saw a disabled person begging on the roadside, I would look at the money in his bowl and think, 'Why don't I rob him?' Of course, I held back."
Luo Wanya smiled and said, "People say that one should be established by thirty and free from doubt by forty, but I'm almost fifty and still have a lot of doubts in my head. I can't figure out how I should live my life."
Qing Chen was silent for a while before saying, "Confucius said that at thirty one stands firm and at forty one is free from doubt. He meant that if there are thirty enemies, it is worth it for me to stand up and fight them. If there are forty enemies, I can still fight them clearly and without any doubt."
Luo Wanyi fell silent: "Now that you mention it, Confucius sounds a bit like a gangster boss."
"Haha," Qingchen laughed, "Actually, I think what 'forty is no longer perplexing' means is that even if you encounter something you don't understand, you won't want to explore it anymore by the time you're forty. Your sudden eagerness to learn is a bit unexpected. What, do you want to change your way of life?"
Luo Wanyi said thoughtfully, "Although Zhang Qinghuan is a bit reckless, there's something he said that really touched me. In the past, everything he did was to improve his own life, but that kind of happiness is limited. Now, what we're doing is improving other people's lives, and that kind of happiness is endless. In the past, I might not have respected you, but I called you boss because I know when to do what and which powerful figures to curry favor with."
Luo Wanya: "But things are probably a little different now. What you're doing now is something I never thought of before. I'm studying now because I feel that goal suits me well, and it's definitely better than what I did before. Of course, one day when you stop doing this, I will also leave Baizhou and do it myself."
Qing Chen laughed. Luo Wanya, a big brother in the underworld, used to be subservient to others, but that was just a manifestation of his mastery of human relationships in order to survive.
But how could someone who has been working in the underworld for decades be loyal to just anyone?
Qing Chen laughed and said, "Old Luo, you've stopped pretending to be loyal and have become more sincere. You've even regained some of your youthful spirit."
“At fifty years old, where does the youthful spirit come from?” Luo Wanya sighed. “It’s just that I’ve just woken up from a dream.”
"Where is that female teacher?" Qingchen asked curiously.
"Deleted," Luo Wanya said without further explanation.
He had met many ambitious people in his life and knew what they were like.
They will first appear as a considerate persuader, then try to control you and devour everything you have.
In the past, Luo Wanyi wouldn't have minded exchanging ideas with this ambitious man again, but things are different now. He only regrets that he hasn't been moving fast enough on this path, so he must travel light.
Qing Chen asked, "Are you sure you want to continue with that project in the Otherworld?"
Luo Wanya nodded: "Confirmed."
Qing Chen asked, "Do you know that although the parent-teacher association is still very secretive now, one day in the future it will definitely be fiercely suppressed by all the conglomerates. They will put out warrants for your arrest, kill you, hang you in the slums as a warning, and then destroy everything you are doing now."
Just like what happened to their predecessors in the real world, the conglomerate will stop at nothing to deal with this organization that wants to overthrow the world—betrayal, massacre, torture, and sowing discord.
Someone will inevitably have to sacrifice.
At this moment, Qingchen and Luo Wanya's conversation became more sincere and open.
Qing Chen laid bare the foreseeable bloody outcome for Luo Wanya to see.
Luo Wanyi said seriously, "Boss, since you know you'll face a crackdown from the conglomerate, why did you still do it? Why start a business that will eventually be destroyed?"
Qingchen said, "I want to plant some seeds of light so that the people in the slums can see the light and one day they will no longer have to endure the darkness."
"Understood."
Qingchen said, "I'm mentally prepared, and I hope you are too. Perhaps from today onwards, we can truly be considered companions... I'm curious, don't you feel regretful about deleting that female teacher?"
“I think I’ll go to the pedestrian street instead,” Luo Wanya said with a smile. “It’s quite nice there.”
Qing Chen smiled helplessly, "It's up to you... We're being watched now, and I need your cooperation to start the relocation of the entire daytime area. We need to leave this place before danger arrives. The daytime area is too famous now; it's like a target."