The whole weird world is waiting for me to go to heaven

Chapter 959 Two Golden Crows (Part 6)

"This is the research methodology. Take a look at it first, and then we can discuss the topic selection."

The next morning, as soon as He Tao opened her eyes, she heard this sentence ring in her mind.

Am I still having a nightmare?

She mumbled something in a daze.

But looking at the bright sunlight streaming into the room, the soft hum of the air conditioner, and the LBKids all around giving her sunny, boyish smiles, it was as if they were welcoming her back to reality.

"I...I'm really back?"

Suddenly recalling everything from last night, He Tao touched her face in confusion.

"I'm resurrected? I'm a normal person again?"

"You can't be called that yet," Liu Sheng reminded her in her mind. "Your current state can only be considered 'half-human,' and you need to continue cultivating to stabilize it."

“I understand…” He Tao replied softly, “As long as that ‘immortal artifact’ is still inside our bodies, we will never have peace.”

"It's good that you know." Liu Sheng nodded.

"Let's start learning now!"

"Huh? No, no, I have to eat breakfast first!" He Tao immediately protested with a bitter face.

"You are already a cultivator, so you won't feel hungry at all."

"I need to go to the toilet!"

"You are a practitioner, and you are no longer troubled by the cycle of the five grains."

With her excuses repeatedly exposed, He Tao could only sit back down at her computer in dejection, open her email as instructed, and receive an email from "Liu Sheng".

"This is……"

Just as He Tao was about to ask, Liu Sheng immediately cut her off.

"It's just a nickname."

"Oh, it sounds pretty good."

“Then I’ll call you ‘Sheng Sheng’ from now on!” He Tao said happily. “It’s not right to keep calling you ‘you’ all the time; it feels like we’re being separated.”

"...Well, okay."

"Sheng Sheng, Tao Tao... It sounds so nice, it suits you so well!"

He Tao repeated it to herself several times in a low voice, a smile playing on her lips.

However, as soon as he opened the file, the corners of his mouth immediately fell back down.

It contains a complete course on thesis writing and research, with nearly two hundred pages of PowerPoint slides at a cursory glance.

He Tao swallowed hard: "Where... did this come from?"

"I compiled this from online materials and relevant textbooks. You probably haven't studied this before, have you?"

He Tao shook her head, "Our graduation thesis was very casual..."

"But no matter how casual it is, if it's going to fail in the end, it won't, right?"

"That's right!" He Tao said, full of resentment. "The final review was so strict, but they didn't teach us how to write it beforehand!"

Liu Sheng also remembered that He Tao and the others had complained about this aspect of the school in their dormitory.

At the time, Zheng Qiran just sat in the corner, silent, like a background figure. But now that I think about it, she probably had already finished writing her first decent thesis.

He was probably sneering to himself—He Tao and the others only complain and don't study properly. The school doesn't offer relevant courses, so why don't they learn on their own?
Liu Sheng was able to think of this because she and Zheng Qiran were somewhat similar. For this reason, although she did not agree with Zheng Qiran's methods, she still maintained a certain degree of appreciation for them.

But from He Tao's perspective, she came from an ordinary merchant family. Her parents didn't consciously cultivate her talents, and the school didn't teach her seriously. She might never master the ability to learn independently in her life.

People like Zheng Qiran, who are self-taught, are extremely rare.

Ultimately, it was a kind of drive forced out by the environment.

Liu Sheng shook his head, his thoughts returning to He Tao.

"So take a good look now, and ask me if you don't understand anything. Or, I can explain it to you one by one."

However, He Tao said she wanted to take a look first.

But after reading only a few pages, her brain, which hadn't been used much in a long time, felt like a lump of mush. She felt dizzy and lightheaded, and couldn't take it anymore, so He Tao had to call a halt.

"and many more!"

"I need to brush my teeth and wash my face! Even if... even if cultivators don't need to, it's still better to feel clean and refreshed! It can also invigorate me!"

Liu Sheng reluctantly expressed his understanding of this reason.

He Tao immediately grabbed her phone with delight, went into the bathroom, and started watching short videos while brushing her teeth.

But as soon as she saw LBKids' video, her face immediately darkened, and she quickly scrolled past it. However, because she had seen so many of them before, the platform continued to push them to her frequently, so she had no choice but to keep clicking "not interested."

Thus, brushing my teeth alone took fifteen minutes.

Add to that washing my face, applying a face mask, and then lying in bed scrolling through my phone while still wearing the mask, laughing so hard the mask got wrinkled, and before I knew it, an hour had passed.

Liu Sheng didn't urge her.

It still has to be voluntary.

"Of course, you're essentially imposing an ideal on someone else," the "world" said calmly.

Yes, I did it for my own purposes.

Liu Sheng sighed softly.

If all else fails, we'll have to think of other ways to get to the First Imperial University.

He Tao had just finished applying a face mask and washing her face when she walked out of the bathroom and saw the room full of LBKids, which immediately made her furious.

I found some garbage bags and threw all the surrounding trash into them. I cleaned out at least ten bags of garbage in one go, and then gritted my teeth and carried them downstairs to the garbage sorting station.

After cleaning up the last bag of trash, He Tao clapped her hands and walked home, feeling a sense of relief, and her steps became much lighter.

Stepping out of the elevator, I was surprised to find two long-unseen figures standing at my door, each dragging a suitcase, clearly having just returned from a business trip.

She felt a jolt in her heart, and a surge of inexplicable excitement welled up inside her.

In reality, her parents were always away on business trips, and she lived at school for most of the year, so they rarely saw each other.

The last time we met was three months ago.

Not to mention, for her, being trapped in that space, she was in a daze, unaware of the passage of time, and couldn't even calculate how long it had been since they last met.

She rushed forward almost impatiently, opening her mouth to call out "Dad" and "Mom," but was suddenly met with two cold, hard faces.

When they looked at her, their disgust and disdain were undisguised.

His steps froze on the spot.

"Let's talk after we get inside."

The mother whispered words of advice, seemingly sensing that her husband was about to get angry, and quickly turned the key to open the door.

"He Tao, get inside!"

The father's voice was filled with suppressed anger.

He Tao frowned, and although she was dissatisfied, she slowly walked into the house.

As soon as I entered, there was a loud "bang" as the door slammed shut behind me.

Then the father shouted, "Kneel down!"

"Why...why should I kneel?"

"You kneel when I tell you to. Don't you know why you did all that good deed?"

"I do not know what you're talking about!"

He Tao straightened her back and stiffened her neck.

"You bastard!"

The father was furious. He threw the suitcase aside and raised his foot to kick her.

The mother held her forehead and helplessly tried to dissuade her: "Stop hitting her. Let's talk things out. Things have already gotten this bad. Hitting her won't help."

He Tao was taken aback, then realized: "You saw the post online?"

"What about that online thing?" The father frowned even more. "We received a call from your counselor saying that you bullied a classmate and even caused a death, forcing us to fly back from the Western Empire overnight and lose our jobs! Do you know how much trouble you've caused us!"

"You mean, it even got taken online?"

The mother became even more wary, and her eyes darkened.

"Oh dear, this is really embarrassing! No wonder your second aunt and uncle both came to ask me if the child has psychological problems... I was wondering what a coincidence it was!"

"I didn't do that!" He Tao hurriedly defended herself.

"Your counselor has already said that, what else can you argue with?" the mother said impatiently.

"Is what the counselor says always right?"

"Whether it's right or wrong, it's better than you spouting lies, isn't it?" the father said angrily.

"I didn't lie!" The father had taken an overnight flight, hadn't had a good rest, and was jet-lagged, so he was already in a bad mood. When he heard He Tao talking back, he got even angrier and rolled up his sleeves, ready to punch her.

He Tao dodged very quickly.

The mother said wearily, "Alright, let's talk this out and not resort to violence!"

"That little brat is full of lies! And you're still protecting her!" the father roared.

"That little brat was born from you, you old rabbit!" He Tao retorted immediately.

"you!"

The father was so angry that he raised his hand again, but the mother stopped him.

"Look at this! What a fine product you've produced!"

"Who told you not to teach?" the mother retorted.

"I'm trying to make money, aren't I?"

"Didn't I make any money?"

The tension suddenly shifted between the two.

Left out in the cold, He Tao listened to the two of them talking back and forth, shifting blame to each other, and a bitter smile crept onto her lips.

"In the end, none of them took care of me," she thought to herself to Liu Sheng. "Now they're trying to shift the blame onto each other..."

Moreover, from their argument, she could tell that the two of them had already accepted the idea that their daughter was cruel.

Feeling a chill in my heart, I silently turned around, intending to go back to my room to avoid it.

But this drew attention back to her.

"Wait, we haven't finished yet!" the father snapped. "Did we give you permission to leave?"

"What else do you want to say?"

"What are you talking about? Of course, I'm talking about how you drove your classmate to his death out of jealousy!" the father roared.

The mother shook her head helplessly: "We didn't teach you that way. We've told you since you were little to be kind and not to be competitive. Have you been ignoring us?"

"I don't!"

"You remember, right? When you were little, you always liked to snatch toys from other people. We were called back from business trips several times to see the teacher, so we've talked to you about it many times..."

"I...I really didn't..."

He Tao's voice had become much weaker.

There was a slight sob in her voice.

But apart from Liu Sheng, no one else could tell the difference.

The mother sighed, "We've tried our best to teach you, but you're just not up to par. It seems... you're just a born bad seed."

“Yes, it’s not our problem.” The father finally seemed to have found a way out. “But how could you harm her just because she got into a good school?”

"I don't!"

"They said that because she got into the best school in the federal government, you harbored malicious intentions and verbally abused and ostracized her, and in the end, she couldn't take her own life..."

The mother sighed deeply when she talked about it.

"It's just First Imperial University!" He Tao shouted angrily. "What's so great about it! Do I need to bother with it?"

"What's so great about it? Even if our whole family burned incense, we couldn't afford it, let alone you with your pig brain!" The father laughed instead of getting angry, and said with a sneer.

"Alright, just say what you want to say, don't get yourself into trouble." His mother rolled her eyes at him. "Anyway, this can't be left like this. You're coming with us to their house to apologize."

"I'm not going!" He Tao gritted her teeth.

How can a victim apologize to the perpetrator's family?
But this is something that can't be explained to parents.

Seeing He Tao's reaction, he became even angrier.

"You dare talk back?" the father roared. "You stubborn, unfilial brat!"

In a fit of anger, he slapped her again.

This time, the mother didn't stop her.

Judging from her exhausted expression, she was completely disappointed.

However, He Tao had already entered the first level of Qi Refining, and her five senses were exceptionally sharp, so it was a flash.

The slap missed its mark.

The father stumbled, embarrassed, and even angrier.

"You unfilial son, how dare you hide?"

"I'll just hide!" He Tao roared. "I didn't do anything wrong, why should I apologize? You don't believe me at all, no matter what I say! In your eyes, I'm just stupid, just jealous, and I bully others because I can't pass the exam—fine, I'll show you!"

He roared the whole string in one breath.

Tears finally broke free and were about to spill over.

She turned and ran back to her room, slamming the door shut.

The beaded curtain was violently struck, rattling loudly.

The parents stood there, stunned, exchanging bewildered glances.

"What is she saying?"

"What do you mean by 'show us'? Do you mean First Imperial University?" The mother frowned, wondering if she had misheard.

"Ha, what a lying brat! He has no sense of responsibility whatsoever, which is why he's completely irresponsible about what he says." The father sneered disdainfully. "If she gets the job, I'll change my mind!"

"Alright, I already told you not to include yourself in the insults."

"Yeah!"

The father slapped himself in the face sheepishly.

……

Liu Sheng remained aloof and observed the situation from the sidelines.

First of all, I must say that He Tao's "acting" was indeed excellent.

No, that's not acting, it's just playing yourself.

"As expected, professional tasks should be left to professionals." Liu Sheng thought to herself. "If I were to do it myself, it would have been completely out of character by now..."

The world also silently expressed its agreement.

But right now, we need to comfort He Tao.

Who would have thought that upon looking at He Tao—

She was crying loudly, but stubbornly staring at the screen.

The screen displays Liu Sheng's presentation slides.

Judging from the large tears constantly welling up in her eyes, her vision must be blurred and she probably can't see many words clearly.
"Take a break?" Liu Sheng said. "Listen to some LB... cough cough, other songs, browse your phone, relax a bit?"

"No need to rest!"

He Tao shook her head and tossed her phone, which was popping up with various "greetings," aside.

She sniffed, her eyes red and looking pitiful.

Liu Sheng wanted to reach out and touch her head.

But it can't be done.

At best, she is He Tao's "ghost".

Or rather, something like her "world".

"Okay, then..."

Liu Sheng paused slightly, thinking about whether there was a more suitable way to comfort her.

But after thinking it over, she realized that her usual way of relaxing and having fun was simply reading and writing papers.

This obviously does not apply to He Tao.

However, He Tao wiped her face with her clothes and forced an awkward smile. "It's okay, I'll just study a bit to change my mood."

I agree with this; changing one's mood requires studying.

Liu Sheng nodded silently.

He Tao took a deep breath, looked up at the computer screen, and her eyes held a strange determination.

"They think I can't pass the exam, but I'll prove them wrong by passing it!"

[Unexpectedly, this has actually ignited He Tao's fighting spirit.] "World" said quietly from the side.

"Yes, that's a good thing."

(End of this chapter)