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"Are you tired..." Su Xiaoqiang asked somewhat apologetically, "Did I disturb your rest?"
"No," the shadow clone laughed, "I was thinking of you 136 times just now, and you happened to video chat with me, which relieved my longing."
As expected of Gu Ran's shadow clone, it perfectly inherited the original's personality, and can even utter sweet words without hesitation.
Sure enough, Su Xiaoqiang covered her face and smiled shyly after hearing this.
She secretly peeked through her fingers at Gu Ran on the other end of the camera.
"Are you wearing the Kassel College uniform? It looks different from the ones I've seen before."
"Not from Kassel College, just a casual outfit."
“Oh…” Su Xiaoqiang didn’t suspect anything.
She suddenly asked, "Are there any women working with you?"
"There's a senior student," the shadow clone honestly confessed.
"Is she pretty?"
"Not as pretty as you."
"Really? You must be kidding me!"
"It's true! If it's not true, then Lu Mingfei will be hit by a car and die as soon as he goes out!"
"Pfft, hahaha, Gu Ran, you're so mean!" Su Xiaoqiang laughed happily, bending over backward with laughter.
As she leaned forward, the loose nightgown revealed a gap in the middle, and two snow-white breasts quietly popped out, brightly dazzling Gu Ranying's clone.
Gu Ran stared intently, silently accepting the benefit and making sure to remember it.
He asked her, "What did you do today?"
"Today, I..."
……
Gu Ran's main body took a shower in fifteen minutes. When he came out of the bathroom, his shadow clone and Su Xiaoqiang were still chatting.
She told Gu Ran what she had done that day: what she ate for breakfast, what she ate for lunch, what movies she watched during the day, and what she encountered while walking the dog in the evening.
These are all small things, but she will share her inner feelings with Gu Ran, whether they are happy or unhappy.
She considered Gu Ran someone she could confide in.
Perhaps this is what it means to truly love someone: to be able to tell them all your innermost thoughts without reservation.
Gu Ran's physical body was sitting behind the laptop.
He listened to Su Xiaoqiang's voice, then took out a stack of origami paper strips he had just bought at the stationery store and wrote down his current feelings.
Next, he folded the paper into a small star and put it in a glass jar.
This was a birthday gift he prepared for her in advance.
Su Xiaoqiang's family is not short of money; they have a lot of luxury goods at home and can have whatever they want.
Therefore, she doesn't care about expensive things.
Therefore, gifts must be thoughtful.
This way, she can feel that he cares about her.
Chapter 55 Two Suspects
The next morning, Gu Ran got up early to go to school as usual.
Raymond was nowhere to be seen all night, and he was nowhere to be seen in the morning either.
Ha Ji-yeon, who was drunk last night, actually got up as usual this morning.
She acted as if nothing had happened, styling Gu Ran's hair and doing his makeup, and putting headphones and a microphone on him.
Pretend that the person who was drunk and unconscious last night wasn't her.
Gu Ran didn't mention what happened last night, to avoid embarrassing her.
He said, "Can I skip the seolleongtang today? I'd like to eat bread."
"Sure, but you still need to go two or three times a week. It's Jin Shiyu's habit. If you don't go for a long time, people will get suspicious."
Ha Ji-yeon tied his tie and turned up his collar.
"Oh right, there are two quizzes today, Korean language and English."
"Huh? My English is okay, but I'm really bad at Korean." Gu Ran spread his hands, indicating that he was helpless.
He had only studied Korean for less than three hours and barely understood how to form characters.
"Don't worry, we're prepared." Ha Ji-yeon handed him a pair of glasses. "Military spy glasses, connected to Norma. You just need to look at the question, and Norma can show you the answer through the glasses. You can just copy it."
"Can't outsiders see anything unusual?" Gu Ran examined the area with his glasses.
"The content displayed on the glasses will only focus on your retina and will not be visible to outsiders," Ha Ji-yeon explained. "But it can only be used at school. It's impossible to use it for the college entrance exam. The exam rooms in South Korea also have signal jammers, so you can't connect to the internet."
Gu Ran put on her glasses as instructed.
Kim Seok-woo is a top student; it wouldn't be good if he failed the exam and people started to doubt him.
……
For three consecutive days, Gu Ran went to class as usual.
He has become familiar with life here.
Nothing particularly noteworthy has happened in the past few days.
Gu Ran's campus life these past few days has been exactly like a student's daily routine: attending classes, taking tests, and going to evening self-study sessions.
Gu Ran got first place in the previous quiz.
When the results came out, the students in the class all exclaimed "Wow!" and then, led by the subject teacher, everyone applauded and congratulated each other.
The underachievers all expressed their envy.
This is Jin Shiyu's normal exam performance. He has always been the top student in the school, but he achieved his grades on his own.
Gu Ran's score was that of Normacao.
According to Ha Ji-yeon, Kim Seok-woo was very disciplined in his studies at the safe house and was a real workaholic.
If Lu Mingfei were locked in a safe house, he'd probably be playing video games all day.
Xin Zhican hasn't caused Gu Ran any more trouble these past few days.
Those daily pranks and tricks all came to an abrupt end.
However, the way he looked at Gu Ran was always filled with fierceness and resentment. His eyes were red, as if Gu Ran had stolen his wife, and he couldn't sleep for three days and three nights.
But Gu Ran didn't care and didn't even bother to look at him.
In short, these past few days at school have been uneventful and boring.
The dragon behind them, however, remained motionless.
……
After finishing self-study on Friday evening, Gu Ran returned to her apartment.
Tomorrow is Saturday, finally I can rest a bit.
He stretched lazily, preparing to stay in his apartment and watch movies tomorrow.
Ha Ji-yeon then brought out a pot of Korean army stew, which she prepared for Gu Ran every night.
Army stew is made by boiling canned food such as luncheon meat with chili sauce and kimchi, and then adding instant noodles at the end.
In short, the soup base tastes like seasonings.
However, it's nice to eat it once in a while, just like instant noodles, you crave it after a while.
Ha Ji-yeon scooped up a bowl of noodles and handed it to Gu Ran, saying to him:
"Tomorrow you will go to the Jin Guang Go Academy to practice Go."
"Huh?" Gu Ran was about to eat her noodles when she was taken aback.
Gu Ran took a big slurp of instant noodles, and after finishing, he said to Ha Ji-yeon, "But I don't know how to play Go. I only know the basic rules."
Ha Ji-yeon took out a tissue and gently wiped away the soup that Gu Ran had splashed onto his face while he was eating instant noodles.
She explained to Gu Ran, "Jin Shiyu is an amateur 1-dan player. Every Saturday morning, he goes to the Go academy to play Go as a way to relax and have fun."
"This form of entertainment... is quite good at cultivating one's character." Gu Ran thought to himself, "Jin Shiyu is indeed worthy of being called the King of Elite Scholars. His interests and hobbies are all aligned with those of the elite class in South Korea."
"Besides Go, Kim Seok-woo also practices Taekwondo at the Kukkiwon on Sunday mornings," Ha Ji-yeon added.
Taekwondo is alright; you only need to use your body and not your brain.
Gu Ran asked, "So what will Jin Shiyu do in the afternoons over the weekend? Is it free time?"
“He usually goes to the supermarket to shop on Saturday noon, and then spends the afternoons of the two days at home reviewing his lessons, doing housework, and calling his parents to chat.”
Gu Ran ate his noodles, pondered for a moment, and then said:
"Jin Shiyu's movements are so regular, which means that the dragon must have taken a liking to him in one of these four places."
He took a bite of noodles, then took out a whiteboard marker and wrote four places on the whiteboard in the living room: school, Go dojo, Taekwondo gym, and apartment.
"They're all in Gangnam District."
“Yes, they’re all in Gangnam District,” Ha Ji-yeon said. “We’ve had Norma closely monitoring these areas, and no new suspicious incidents have occurred.”
Gu Ran frowned; this dragon was more deeply hidden than he had imagined.
He then asked, "Can you find out where that fire-breathing dragon emblem came from?"
Ha Ji-yeon shook her head: "I can't find it. It's just a very ordinary children's toy, sold in every stationery store or toy store."
“We’re being too passive by fishing like this.” Gu Ran felt that this kind of passive waiting was a bit unreliable.
He asked, "No suspicious targets found?"
"Our analysis over the past two days has uncovered two suspicious individuals."