America: I came here to study, not to show mercy.

Chapter 264 Golf

After he finished speaking, the entire room fell into an eerie silence.

Sean Lee also silently turned his head and looked at Victoria together with Charlotte.

"No, Charlotte, what are you talking about?"

Victoria blushed immediately and quickly explained. After speaking, she glanced at Li Xiaoen unconsciously, then realized her mistake and changed her words, "My mother, she didn't say anything from beginning to end, okay?"

"Oh... Oh..."

Charlotte blinked and turned her gaze back to the front of the car.

"Let's get in the car too."

The result was even better than he had expected. Lee Sean smiled and gestured for Victoria to get into the car.

The terrain inside the manor is flat. The car drove on the grass, and all you could hear was the rustling sound of the wild grass being crushed under the car. The car drove on without any bumps or stumbles.

The weather was lovely today. Under the warm, bright sunshine, the vast expanse of grassland shimmered with emerald green light. In the distance, a few oak trees provided shade, and further afield, rows of dense forests added depth to the scene.

As they traveled along, Li Xiaoen finally learned that the vast estate included a golf course, a horse farm, and other facilities. In addition to a large castle in the center serving as the owner's residence, there were detached villas built throughout the estate for guests or employees.

That's incredibly arrogant.

Li Xiaoen couldn't help but take a deep breath, close his eyes, open his arms, and feel the breeze blowing on his face. He couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

"When will I be able to drive from home?"

These words drew the attention of the two girls sitting in front. Seeing that the young man had his eyes closed, they exchanged a glance, shook their heads with helpless smiles.

The car stopped in front of a spacious wooden house with a large covered open-air corridor. Li Xiaoen looked around and saw a few people wearing sun hats swinging golf clubs in the distance. There were also a few four-wheeled cars parked next to the group of people.

"Playing golf? I've never practiced that."

"No, I can teach you."

Victoria walked beside me with a smile, "The weather is nice today. Playing golf, enjoying the scenery, the good weather, and the leisure are all part of the experience."

"Most importantly, it's casual and relaxing."

"Hmm...I understand."

Li Xiaoen nodded seriously, and when he saw the two girls take the golf clubs from the caddies and hand them to him, and were about to walk towards the open-air corridor where they practiced their tee shots, he paused for a moment, "Wait a minute, aren't you... going to change your clothes?"

"Changing clothes?"

Victoria and Charlotte exchanged a puzzled look, noticing the young man's gaze occasionally glancing to the caddie in a fitted long-sleeved shirt and trousers that accentuated his curvaceous figure. Their expressions instantly sombered.

"Okay, I misunderstood."

Li Xiaoen raised an eyebrow, laughed twice, turned around to look at a patch of lush green grass in the distance, and was about to start a conversation when he suddenly grinned and took a deep breath.

“Victoria, please teach me.”

Turning around immediately, Li Xiaoen grabbed Victoria's arm. "What exactly is the correct hitting posture? I've seen it on TV. Do you want me to demonstrate for you?"

"Okay, fine, I'll teach you, but don't pull my clothes..."

Startled for a moment, Victoria quickly grabbed her shirt sleeve, both amused and exasperated, and glared at the young man with displeasure—after this ordeal, she reluctantly withdrew her hand from behind his waist.

Watching the two bickering and undermining each other, Charlotte and the caddie exchanged a glance, both seeing the bewilderment in each other's eyes...

Standing there, watching Shawn Lee hit the ball that automatically rose from his feet again and again under Victoria's guidance, with a lot of physical contact, Charlotte slowly narrowed her eyes. After a while, she caught the teasing look in the young man's eyes, and finally couldn't help but get up and step forward, creating distance between the two, and called out to the caddie who had been standing by her side.

"Alright, since Victoria has taught you so many times and you still can't get it, let's switch to a professional caddie."

"..."

"That's fine too, let the caddie teach you."

After a moment of stunned silence, Victoria understood, pursed her lips, and retreated with her hands behind her back.

This woman is definitely going to make things difficult for him.

Li Xiaoen sighed helplessly, and as the caddie walked up to him, he waved his hand to decline the caddie's guidance.

"Humph……"

Seeing this, Charlotte gave a meaningful sneer, "What's wrong? Did you change the person? Will you be able to do it right away?"

"No, it's just that I'll know how to do it as soon as I hear you say that."

Meeting Charlotte's gaze, Sean Lee spoke calmly, "You might not know, but I'm a genius. Want to have a match?"

"A competition? You, with me?"

Charlotte paused for a moment, then pointed incredulously at herself. After receiving a nod of acknowledgment from the young man, she narrowed her eyes slightly. "I can tell you just swung for the first time. Are you really that arrogant, challenging others before you've even mastered the skill?"

"I'm not afraid to tell you, I've been playing golf since elementary school."

Upon hearing this seemingly warning remark, Li Xiaoen silently turned around to face the other party, remaining silent; the answer was self-evident.

"Perhaps I am not as good as you in academics, computers, and combat, but today you will have to pay the price for your arrogance!"

Seeing that the young man had instead provoked her back, Charlotte's face turned gloomy. "I have never seen anyone as arrogant as you. You've only just started learning and you're already challenging people."

That's all it took to piss me off?

Li Xiaoen found it amusing, ignoring Charlotte's glare that resembled that of an enraged tigress, and turned to look at the caddie standing to the side.

"Could you tell me about the rules and winning conditions of a golf tournament?"

"Sean..."

Charlotte screamed through gritted teeth, trembling with rage. She ripped off the gloves she had just put on and threw them at the young man. “You lost. You have to apologize to me for your arrogance!”

"Is this the etiquette for medieval knights to initiate a duel?"

Looking down at the white gloves lying on the ground, Li Xiaoen was somewhat surprised. She then looked at Victoria and asked, "What should I do to show that I accept?"

He had only seen this scene in simple TV dramas or anime, but he was not sure how the person being challenged should behave in accordance with etiquette.

"Bending down to pick up the gloves means accepting the challenge; not picking them up means refusing."

Victoria looked at the two of them helplessly, and couldn't help but glare reproachfully at the young man in front of her who always seemed to anger women. "Of course, if you throw your own glove back, it means you accept it and are not showing any weakness." "I don't have any gloves."

Li Xiaoen subconsciously glanced at his hands.

When he first arrived, the caddie offered him a glove, but he refused because he wasn't used to it.

Just then, the caddie who had been standing next to him took a big step, pulled a pair of white gloves out of the bag tied around his waist, and handed them over.

Hey, you really love making things worse, don't you?

Li Xiaoen glanced at the other person with amusement, but didn't pay any attention. He simply picked up one and tossed it to Charlotte as well. "Alright, shall we begin now?"

"of course."

Charlotte grinned maliciously. "Soon, you'll pay the price for your recklessness..."

call……

Before she could finish speaking, a sharp whooshing sound rang out beside her ears. Charlotte's wide-eyed vision saw Sean Lee swing his club around the halfway point, sending the golf ball flying high into the air and into the distance.

"it's your turn."

He twirled his cue stick in the air, performing a sword dance, before planting it on the ground. Li Xiaoen smiled and raised his chin in acknowledgment.

"If golf really only required brute force, then the highest level of the sport would already be occupied by strongmen."

Rolling her eyes, Charlotte snorted and moved to her own ball. She swung her club forcefully, sending the ball flying high into the air with a whoosh.

Even without looking at the trajectory of the balls in the air, just by listening to the swing of the clubs and the sound of the impact, you can tell that Sean Lee had more power.

The rules of golf require players to complete 18 holes. The player with the fewest strokes in each hole owns that hole and scores one point. As a result, players' footprints will be scattered throughout the entire grass field.

Hole-in-one situations only occur in anime or in very rare cases. For holes that are far apart, you often need to first take a powerful shot to bring the ball closer, and then rely on the control of power and direction to accurately hit the ball into the desired position until it goes into the hole.

This wasn't difficult for Sean Lee. He had the strength, which was far superior to Charlotte's. With his precise and delicate control over strength and direction, and thanks to the time he had spent learning basketball, fighting, and even motorcycle skills, he believed he was no less than Charlotte, even though Charlotte had been playing the sport since elementary school.

Hit the ball, get in the car, hit the ball again, get in the car...

Sean Lee finally understood why so many wealthy Americans, especially the elderly, were so fond of this sport.

Sitting in the car, with a moist and cool spring breeze blowing in his face, Li Xiaoen rested his chin on his hand and yawned listlessly.

"Do you think I can sink this shot?"

Suddenly noticing Charlotte's gaze as she turned around in the front seat, Sean Lee tilted his head back and teased, "It's not too late to admit defeat now. I can be magnanimous and let you off the hook."

"Don't get cocky, our competition has only just begun."

Charlotte gave a soft snort and quickly turned around to look back at the path ahead.

After observing the young man's stance and the trajectory of the ball, she finally dared not let her guard down and regarded him as a novice.

The car stopped, and everyone got out. They then found Li Xiaoen's ball, which was resting on a small hill about ten meters from the hole.

"Sean, this shot won't be easy to make."

As she estimated the distance between the ball and the hole and the elevation of the ground, Victoria, who had also become somewhat interested, smiled and said, "This sport is all about smoothness and feel. If you miss a shot and it slips or flies past the hole, it will really damage your feel for the ball."

"Even professional athletes would hit the ball high up on such terrain and then try to put it in the hole with the next shot."

"Keep your voice down, Victoria."

Compared to Victoria's relaxed demeanor, Li Xiaoen reacted strongly, widening his eyes and turning his head to deliberately lower his voice, "Give me some advice, what if that woman loses and refuses to admit it, and keeps pestering me?"

“Sean…”

A cold voice came from behind, "If you provoke me again, I'll stop playing and hit you with my cue!"

"Alright, Sean..."

He was whispering again, yet his voice carried perfectly to Charlotte's ears. Victoria patted the young man's arm, both amused and exasperated. "Be serious. In this situation, even a complete novice, or someone with a bit of experience and a cautious nature, could tell..."

"If I told you I could get a hole-in-one, would you believe me?"

Li Xiaoen smiled confidently, twirling the golf club as he moved towards the ball. He didn't look like he was seriously playing golf at all, which made the girls next to him roll their eyes and laugh.

Standing beside the ball, Li Xiaoen first turned his head to look at the direction of the flag planted at the hole high up, then swung his club back and hit the ball into the air with a snap.

Or should it be fired into the air?

The three girls stared wide-eyed, dumbfounded as the small white ball traced a beautiful parabola and flew towards the hole.

At a distance of ten meters with a slight incline, it's not impossible to get a hole-in-one. They've been involved in this sport for a long time and have made similarly difficult shots before, but without exception, they've always rolled the ball across the grass and climbed up a small slope to score. This time, the slope was even steeper, and it was a volley shot from mid-air, so scoring was practically a matter of luck.

Under their watchful eyes, the white ball fell to the ground, bounced back and forth a couple of times, rolled forward a short distance, and then suddenly sank rapidly into the ground and disappeared from sight.

The ball went in!
"Ha ha……"

As the three women stood there dumbfounded, Li Xiaoen laughed loudly, "You can ask me for autographs now. A future internationally renowned golf star, it's worth it for you to do so."

Upon hearing this, the women turned around, their eyes filled with various meanings as they looked at the young man. However, none of them took any action, and they all turned their heads back to the direction of the second hole where they would tee off.

"..."

“Victoria, there’s no one here.”

The air was quiet. Li Xiaoen moved closer to Victoria, leaned down and whispered in her ear, "I feel really awkward when you guys ignore me like this..."

Turning her head, Victoria looked at the young man with amusement, her face mischievous. She studied him for a while before sighing and parting her red lips slightly.

"Okay. Future internationally renowned golf star, please give me your autograph, okay?"

"Um……"

After a moment of hesitation, Li Xiaoen straightened up and coughed twice. "I'm sorry, I'm in the middle of a competition right now, and I need to respect the game. Please find me after the match, thank you."

Victoria was taken aback by the serious words, and the two girls who had moved to stand at the teeing ground were also drawn to look over.

"Sean..."

On the beautiful manor meadow, another shout rang out, filled with gritted teeth.

(End of this chapter)