Races: Online (VR Smartphone App)

Chapter 197: Cut Scene of A Girl and A Boy in A PC Cafe

The young woman seated on the gamer's chair scratched her head. "Did you come here to play games or something, Han Jing?"

A bolt of sharp energy burst through his veins. He blinked and managed a sheepish smile, "I guess you could say that?" He came here to relax? His own two feet carried him here after the incident at the convenience store. But now that he noticed that she was here, she ended up reminding him of one of the situations he tried not to care about. 

"Um, I think I'm willing to pay for some of your time?" She scratched her cheek. "I can't pay a lot, but I think you can do"

"I can do it." Someone's voice gruffly said. In the chair right beside her, a young man looked back at them and gave Han Jing a look. "You don't have to pay someone when I can figure it out. Just give me ten minutes to research it online and then I'll handle it." It was a young man with dark hair and eyes, well almost everyone he encountered would have the same features,but their reaction reminded him of someone else.

It made Han Jing blink again. He realized he was staring and looked away. It was like it wasn't only Timothy's friend that had a similarity with Chan Lee, even this guy reminded him of Timothy to some extent. At least their choice of words and the look was the same.

"But you also have to attend your own class, Liquin." Chan Lee told him with a small frown.

This 'Liquin' shrugged, "It's not too much of a big deal for me. We're still in our first week, there's not a lot that you can miss."

A frown tugged on his lips, Han Jing waved a hand. "You can already head to class, I'll take it from here, kiddo. It's still better to attend classes, the first week is when the Professor starts to take note of students and that's the time where you make a good impression."

This wasn't his business.

Wang Liquin gave him a look that told him of the same, but the difference between them calling out on this matter now was the fact that there was someone seated in between them. The younger man ran his fingers through his hair and then grabbed for his bag, slung it across his shoulders and frowned again. He took out his wallet and took out some notes, "Well, thank you for your time then?"

"His name is Han Jing." Chan Lee looked up between them and scrunched up her nose, "Wait, I can pay for it." She bent over for her bag.

And thankfully she was wearing a shirt, nothing too revealing.

But then again, the young man grabbed her shoulder. "I promised to help you, and now he's going to do it for methe least I could do is pay for it." The man sighed and handed out the money to him. "I hope this is fine, I'm willing to pay more once I see the work. I hope it's actually decent. It's a little hard to find people to trust nowadays." 

Han Jing looked at the money in the man's hands, it was two hundred yuan, nearly thirty dollars. That was already a lucrative amount for an hour of tutoring, especially because he was in no way suitable or trained in tutoring. This guy was loadedto put it in straight terms. Still should he accept it? His pride 

"Thanks. I can do it just fineI may not look like it, but I'm actually pretty good with my studies." He took the money and managed a grin. A terse one, but this was money. He was not going to deny himself from accepting it simply because he felt bad about it.

He had to help out his family whenever. 

"I see," The young man didn't look convinced but nodded. He turned back to his neighbor, he kept his voice somewhat low. "You shouldn't stay too long at a place like this, Chan Lee."

"I'm fine."

"Are you sure? Do you really trust him?"

"I've known him for about as long as I know you."

"That's"

"You better get going, I don't want you to be late."

Han Jing still heard him completely. 

He could have said something and contradicted them, but Han Jing let the man go. He didn't need to escalate things if he could prevent it, much better that things stayed cool and calm in this shop. He didn't want to trouble Mary if a fight broke out or anything. And soon enough the young man left Han Jing with Chan Lee. It was there that he took a seat and looked at the screen, "So what are you having trouble with?"

"Sorry about that."

He raised a brow, "What about?"

"He shouldn't have said that, he's quite mistrustful? But he's a good guy." Chan Lee flashed him a sheepish smile. "But I'm sorry you had to hear it, it was probably hurtful right?"

He felt a twinge in his chest. He shrugged it off, "I've dealt with similar folks to himit's not a problem, besides, I got paid."

"Is that all you care about, big bro Han Jing?"

Han Jing eyed the girl and she winced. She also had a tendency to speak up at times, didn't she? Or maybe it was plain curiosity and he was overreactingit was better to blame himself than another person. "Money is important, but I would have helped you even if I didn't get paidwe're neighbors aren't we?"

"You could be doing something else more important though?" She tilted her head at him.

Actually decide which activity he should be doing to level up

Unlock Skills

Get stronger than ever

Get richer if possible, should be done

Mind his own business?

His lips twitched into a grin, and he bit back a chuckle. "I came here to play games, didn't I? Helping out a Student like you is much more important than that, it's fine."

"Okay, then." She smiled lightly. Chan Lee took a deep breath and cracked her knuckles, "I'm not really that great with technology, wellI'm always just, I don't think I'd do well with programming and using them for my studies. And Wang Liquin uses another programming toolwell software I think, so I'm kind of lost. I really don't do well with statistics, which is stupid because I'm taking a science course and they're related? Math and science, they go hand in hand." 

So she needed to familiarize herself with programming?

He glanced at the screen and bit back a wince. He said he could do thisbut his memory wasn't exactly the best either. But he did promise to help her, and so he would. He could do this. "It's easy to get intimidated, but we'll do it one step at a time, okay? Some of the stuff you'll be doing is listing down data and I guess you're probably used to spreadsheets at least?"

She gave a weak nod.

Han Jing just needed to absorb the information at a faster rate than her and re-explain it back to her. Well, he needed to shake up his memory with what he already knew and then share it in easy to use terms. That was fine. 

He could do this.

And so he tried his best.

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Han Jing had her desktop open and running the programming software, it was a trial version that she downloaded earlier. And on his own desktop, he had his search engine open, but most importantly a PDF where the basics terms and examples were listed. He had to crane his neck back and forth during the start, but they soon ended up getting the hang of it.

It wasn't immediate, but she was learning it.

"Can we take a break?" Chan Lee glanced back at him. And she was near, too near to him.

Han Jing jerked back into his seat and nodded, "Sure sure, not a problemyou worked hard, didn't you? You deserve it." He managed a smile and tried not to overthink about it too hard. His brain was getting fried now that he was starting to use it again, didn't it?

"You're the one who worked hard to teach me."

"We both did our best, good job to us." Han Jing acknowledged that at least. How long had it exactly been? An hour or so? He checked the time and realized that he was only off by a few minutes. Still this was fine, he was paid and in a way he got to spend time with her? That wasn't something he should be admitting to himself. Was this really a good thing then

A ding sounded in his ears.

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