In Huayu, the career reward is spy

Chapter 238 A Lesson Before Departure!

A silver-gray Cadillac CTS is parked on a professional racetrack.

The car body gleamed with a cold metallic sheen in the sunlight, but it just didn't seem to fit the track at all.

Ji Yu, dressed in a stylish racing suit, tapped his fingertips lightly on the steering wheel while humming a song.

"Brother Ji Yu, look at you!" Shu Chang bounced over and looked him up and down. "You look like a race car driver now!"

"What do you mean by 'similar'?" Ji Yu raised an eyebrow. "I am exactly like that."

"Tch!" Shu Chang turned to Liu Qianqian and shouted, "Qianqian, come and see Brother Ji Yu's racing suit, it's so cool!"

Liu Qianqian walked over with Xuetuan in her arms, but her eyes were fixed on the streamlined body of the CTS.

An original American-made muscle car with a V8 engine, a true performance monster.

She muttered to herself about the various data in this version.

Ji Yu glanced at her in surprise: "Oh, you've done your homework quite well?"

Liu Qianqian pursed her lips and remained silent, but Shu Chang interjected first, "Of course! Our Qianqian is so smart, she remembered it at a glance!"

Ji Yu chuckled, casually pushed open the car door, got out, and looked at them, saying, "Want to sit in and experience it?"

Shu Chang immediately climbed in, sat in the driver's seat, touched the steering wheel, then stretched his legs, looking speechless.

How come Ji Yu's legs are so long? He can reach the pedals even though he's sitting so far back.

Liu Qianqian stood outside watching and whispered, "Wear your seatbelt."

"We're not driving, so there's no need to wear a seatbelt," Shu Chang said nonchalantly.

Liu Qianqian frowned as she looked at the snowball in her arms and handed it to Ji Yu.

Ji Yu smiled and reached out to catch it. Liu Qianqian, with her hands free, walked to the car door, bent down, and reached in to help Shu Chang fasten his seatbelt.

Shu Chang: "." I'm a little happy.

She looked at Ji Yu with a smug expression, her eyes full of pride.

Ji Yu, holding Xue Tuan, made a face at her in return.

She turned around, put the snowball on her shoulder, and went to discuss the specific filming tasks with the director.

After Ji Yu left, Shu Chang unbuckled his seatbelt and whispered something to Liu Qianqian.

Liu Qianqian's eyes lit up, but she glanced worriedly at Liu Xiaoli not far away.

"It's okay, we'll do it secretly, this track is very safe."

As Shu Chang spoke, he pulled Liu Qianqian to the driver's seat, helped her fasten her seatbelt, slammed the car door shut, and then jogged to the passenger seat.

A dozen seconds later, the roar of engines suddenly filled the quiet track, and everyone turned to look.

The moment Ji Yu turned his head to look over, the Cadillac had already launched off with a roar.

"Who drove my car?!"

Ji Yu realized what was happening, quickly grabbed the snowball on his shoulder, and ran to the opposite repair station to grab a walkie-talkie to tell everyone not to go on the track for the time being.

Liu Xiaoli then realized what had happened: where were Liu Qianqian and Shu Chang?
Was that the two of them just now?
She stood up from the rest area and looked for Ji Yu.

Ji Yu hid for a moment, not wanting her to worry. If she couldn't see him, she would at least think that he was driving Liu Qianqian and Shu Chang around.

Liu Xiaoli couldn't find Ji Yu, and, still suspicious, sat down again.

Ji Yu breathed a sigh of relief. He glanced at the time; less than a minute had passed, and he could still catch up.

He immediately gave chase in a modified race car.

These two little brats are driving me crazy!

I will never take them out again!

One minute after he got on the track, Ji Yu saw the rear of the CTS car in front of him.

Although Liu Qianqian has some talent, a high-horsepower rear-wheel-drive car like the CTS is no toy; it can easily go out of control if she's not careful.

Most importantly, this is a standard international racetrack with meticulously designed routes, making it extremely difficult to drive!

Liu Qianqian gripped the steering wheel tightly with both hands, her knuckles turning slightly white from the force.

The CTS's V8 engine roared beneath her feet, the acceleration making her heart race.

"Xixi! Maybe you should slow down!" Shu Chang was starting to regret it. He had only wanted to make a quick turn, but he hadn't expected Liu Xixi to drive so fast!

Liu Qianqian didn't speak, her eyes fixed intently on what was ahead.

She remembered the technique Ji Yu had taught her—slow down before entering the corner, cut into the apex, and accelerate out of the corner…

However, the CTS's steering was heavier than she had expected, and as she continued to accelerate, she was now finding it difficult to maintain the car's balance.

When cornering at high speed, the tires slip slightly and emit a screeching sound.

"Ah!" Shu Chang grabbed the handrail. "Qianqian! Slow down!!!"

Liu Qianqian pursed her lips, jerked the steering wheel to correct the direction, and the car shook violently, almost scraping against the guardrail.

Her expression was calm, but she was also a little nervous inside.

Just then, a dark shadow rapidly approached in the rearview mirror.

Upon seeing the car chasing after her, she instinctively panicked, and the car, which had just stabilized, began to shake again.

Ji Yu, who was behind her, frowned and kept accelerating until he overtook her.

Ji Yu looked in the rearview mirror, then reached out the car window to gesture for her to calm down and slow down.

After seeing Ji Yu's gesture, Liu Qianqian gradually calmed down, and the car's speed gradually decreased.

Shu Chang breathed a sigh of relief, and then quickly pressed the car door lock.

There was dead silence in the car.

Shu Chang swallowed hard and muttered under his breath, "...Are we going to get scolded?"

Liu Qianqian lowered her head, her fingers unconsciously twisting the seatbelt.

Ji Yu pushed open the car door, strode over, and yanked open the driver's side door.

"Get down." His voice was as cold as ice.

Liu Qianqian obediently unbuckled her seatbelt, but as soon as she took a step, Ji Yu grabbed her by the back of her collar and pulled her aside.

Seeing this, Shu Chang immediately gave up resisting, quickly rolled off the car, and hunched over like a quail.

Ji Yu stared at them, his eyes sharp: "Whose idea was this?"

Shu Chang immediately pointed at Liu Qianqian: "She was driving!"

Liu Qianqian: "..."

Shu Chang slowly pointed his finger at himself again and whispered, "My idea... is to spin around."

Ji Yu sneered: "Shu Chang, do you think I'm being too lenient?"

Shu Chang awkwardly shut up and silently took a step back, worried that Ji Yu would hit him.

Ji Yu pointed at her, took a deep breath to suppress his anger, and looked at Liu Qianqian, saying in a serious tone, "This is a racetrack, not a go-kart club!"

He pointed at the CTS and said, "Recite the configuration parameters for me!"

Liu Qianqian lowered her head and began to recite it softly.

"As for you," he squinted at Shu Chang, "you like riding in cars, right? Come on, I'll take you for a spin!"

Shu Chang shook her head frantically, but Ji Yu didn't give her a chance at all. He simply grabbed her by the neck and shoved her into the car.

Ji Yu closed the car door, looked at Liu Qianqian and said, "Stand outside and carry it properly for me!"

After saying that, he drove the car and unleashed the full power of the Cadillac.

The V8 engine roared as it streaked across the track like a silver lightning bolt, speeding away with a scream from the driver.

Liu Qianqian, who remained where she was, had slightly red eyes. "...I'm sorry."

A few minutes later, the car returned to its starting point. Shu Chang pushed open the car door, staggered out, knelt on the ground, and vomited violently.

Liu Qianqian had just walked over to plead for leniency when Ji Yu glared at her and drove her back. "This isn't over yet. When you get home tonight, you're going to copy the safe driving manual twice!"

Liu Qianqian hummed in agreement, then hesitated and whispered, "Then...can I still continue learning to drive?"

"We'll talk after you finish copying."

A dozen minutes later, the filming crew on the track started working.

Ji Yu sat in the CTS waiting for the director's instructions.

Only after seeing the stagehands put up the sign did he start the car and rush towards the bend ahead.

The first shot is of high-speed cornering, with the tires screeching as they rub against the ground.

Using the center of gravity of a rear-wheel-drive car, Ji Yu made an exaggerated and beautiful cut, the angle of the car body cutting across and the arc of the rear end swinging out, which looked like a stroke of genius in the shot.

"Cut! Perfect!"

The director was very excited and ran over to Ji Yu after the meeting resumed, saying, "The Asian racing god truly lives up to his name! Your drifting is simply art!"

Ji Yu got out of the car and tugged at his tight racing suit. "I wouldn't dare call myself a racing god. I'm not familiar with the car yet, so it's not perfect."

Zhou Ming, the director of SAIC-GM standing nearby, couldn't help but say, "He's too modest! He's a true car god! That shot was absolutely perfect."

"You absolutely mustn't say that in the advertisement," Ji Yu cautioned, still somewhat worried.

"I understand, the bigger the tree, the more the wind blows." Zhou Ming said this, but he felt it was a pity. However, he could use other words instead of "god of racing".

Ji Yu chatted with them for a few minutes and then continued filming.

Shooting commercials is more troublesome than making movies.

A video that lasts only a few seconds may require an investment of tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars, and every frame of the advertisement has to be reviewed again and again.

Ji Yu filmed for a whole day, and there are still several segments left to film.

This Japanese advertising team is also very serious, seemingly determined to make a name for themselves in China, even more so than Zhou Ming.

It was late at night when the filming ended, and Ji Yu took Liu Qianqian and Shu Chang back to the hotel.

As soon as he entered, he dragged the two of them into the study and locked the door behind him.

Liu Xiaoli was puzzled, but she didn't ask any further questions. She had recently discovered that Ji Yu was very good at educating children.

At this moment, Huo Wenxi came out of another room and said with a smile, "Where are the others? They've gone off to play again."

Liu Xiaoli pointed to the study and said, "I went to the study as soon as I got back."

Huo Wenxi seemed to be deep in thought, then smiled and started chatting with Liu Xiaoli.

The main topic was about Liu Qianqian and Shu Chang staying in Japan for training, and Liu Xiaoli would have to stay in Tokyo to take care of them.

She waited for Ji Yu to finish filming the advertisement before they returned to China together.

I've been in Japan for several days now, but I still have a ton of things to do at my company back home.

In the study, Shu Chang saw Ji Yu's still cold face and shrank back in fear, muttering softly, "Am I going to get beaten up again? I'm sixteen already."

Ji Yu ignored her, took out a stack of photos from his bag, and slammed them on the table.

"See for yourself."

Shu Chang and Liu Qianqian looked down, and their expressions instantly froze.

Those were photos of car accident scenes: twisted car bodies, shattered windshields, blood-stained airbags, and gruesome corpses...

“This is…” Shu Chang’s voice trembled slightly.

"Car accident scene."

Ji Yu's tone was icy: "Three girls were driving on a trip when they lost control of their vehicle on the highway due to excessive speed and rear-ended a truck. All three of them died."

He then pointed to another photo, saying, "A novice driver who had just gotten his license was driving his new car on the road. He was so excited that he mistook the accelerator for the brake at an intersection and hit four pedestrians, two of whom died on the spot."

Shu Chang's face turned pale and he dared not look anymore. Liu Qianqian's small face was also full of fear, and her pupils trembled slightly.

Ji Yu stared at them and said, word by word, "If you were to hit someone today, the person in the photo might be you, or an innocent passerby you hit."

Liu Qianqian clutched the hem of her clothes, "...I'm sorry."

Shu Chang was unusually honest: "We were wrong, we were really wrong..."

"You don't know you're wrong, you're just scared." Ji Yu snorted and threw a traffic law book on the table.

"Copy it all!"

Shu Chang immediately wailed, "This is thicker than the script!"

"If you keep talking nonsense, I'll copy it three times."

Liu Qianqian silently picked up the book and asked softly, "What if Mom sees this?"

The room was quiet for a moment.

Ji Yu rubbed his temples, his tone softening slightly: "Just copy it in the study. I'll cover for you this time, but there won't be a next time."

He pointed at the two of them warningly, "Especially you, Shu Chang, if you encourage her to do this kind of thing again, even without Sister Liu saying anything, I'll hang you up on the flagpole!"

Shu Chang pursed her lips and silently sat down at her desk, beginning to copy the text diligently.

Ji Yu turned around, took out a box of pudding from the small refrigerator, sat down next to them, crossed his legs, and watched them work diligently.

A minute later, Shu Chang couldn't help but turn around and say, "Could you please stop smacking your lips on purpose? It's making me drool."

Ji Yu, biting his spoon, said, "If you're craving something, just get it yourself. You don't expect me to bring it to you!"

Shu Chang's eyes lit up and she jumped up immediately, "Brother Ji Yu is the best!!!"

Outside the study, Huo Wenxi and Liu Xiaoli couldn't help but shake their heads when they heard her voice.

Huo Wenxi laughed and said, "Ji Yu spoils Shu Chang a bit too much. Sister Liu, you should talk to her more about it in the future."

Liu Xiaoli nodded, but she didn't take it seriously. She figured Ji Yu would be unhappy if she really interfered.

Reflections at Night

At two in the morning, Shu Chang was drowsy on the table, while Liu Qianqian was still copying carefully, stroke by stroke.

"Sisi..." Shu Chang asked groggily, "Why aren't you asleep?"

Looking at the regulations and cases in the manual, Liu Qianqian said softly, "Brother Ji Yu is right. If something had happened today, we might be dead."

Shu Chang snapped awake.

Outside the window, Tokyo's neon lights still flicker.

Liu Qianqian suddenly said, "I learned to drive because of the sense of security that comes with being in control, but today... I don't feel safe at all."

Shu Chang was stunned for a moment, then grinned: "You just said so much! This is the first time I've heard you say so much in one go in so many days."

Liu Qianqian was slightly taken aback, and finally revealed a genuine smile: "It's probably because I understand myself better now."

Shu Chang couldn't help but give her a thumbs up, then smiled smugly and said, "But you're a little bit worse than me. I understood it when I was twelve!"

Liu Qianqian's lips curled up slightly, "But you're not as mature as you were when you were twelve!"

Upon hearing this, Shu Chang rested her chin on her hand and said, "Do you know why? Because... I'm not sure why Brother Ji Yu is so nice to me."

So I thought if I acted up and wasn't as obedient and sensible as before, maybe he would find out and hate me, and leave on his own. But he didn't leave, so I decided to be a little childish, a little mischievous, and a little greedy.

"Aren't you just a little mischievous? You're so naughty, I'm worried you'll grow up to be a little devil!"

Huo Wenxi appeared at the study door without anyone noticing, carrying two blankets in his hands.

Shu Chang blushed instantly, buried her head, and started sobbing.

In the master bedroom, Ji Yu was rubbing his neck as he looked at his work plan for the next month.

I'll be able to finish filming the commercial and go back to China tomorrow morning.

The reason I repeatedly reprimanded Shu Chang and the others today is because I'm worried that they'll be left unattended and run wild after I leave!

Ji Yu glanced at the bedroom door, wondering if Huo Wenxi's late-night conversation would have any effect.

(End of this chapter)