fictionpage Chapter 166 Consultation
Chapter 166 Consultation
After returning to her home, filled with the warmth of everyday life, Lin Wan did not go to rest immediately.
She sat quietly at the living room table, her gaze fixed on the five thin business cards neatly arranged on it.
Harvard.
Princeton.
Stanford.
Caltech.
And... MIT.
These five business cards represent almost half of the world's top academic circles!
The people who handed out these business cards were all renowned figures in academia, each representing a different top-tier institution.
But the reason they traveled so far and condescended to visit them was for only one simple and pure purpose—
They spared no expense to recruit her sons into their respective universities and support them!
Lin Wan took a deep breath and, with slightly trembling fingertips, neatly arranged the edges of the five business cards.
However, once the business cards were sorted out, her thoughts became increasingly tangled and complicated.
She really wanted to call Su Hao in so the family could have an open and honest discussion.
But as a mother, she knows her son all too well.
If Su Hao were told about this, the child would only need to glance at even the slightest hint of embarrassment on his parents' faces to immediately sweep those business cards into the trash can without hesitation, then shake his head with a smile and say:
"I'm already very good as I am!"
He would never ask his parents to sell their possessions or leave their hometown for his own future.
At the same time, another thought, like a venomous snake, spread wildly in her mind and wouldn't go away.
"If our family were wealthy enough, we wouldn't need to be so frugal..."
Will my son still have the same tolerant and habitually submissive personality he has now?
This feeling is like incompetent parents indirectly forcing their children to learn to compromise and yield from a young age.
This made her feel as if her heart was being squeezed tightly by a large hand whenever she thought about it, filled with waves of suffocating guilt!
"If only this child weren't so sensible..."
Lin Wan closed her eyes in pain. The couple, of course, understood the almost transparent purity and kindness in their son's heart.
But in this ruthless society, this kindness is precisely what they worry about most.
This world has never been a fairy tale of truth, goodness, and beauty!
The underlying logic of this society is a cold exchange of interests!
The world does not always reciprocate kindness in kind.
The scheming and deceit outside could easily devour Su Hao's unsuspecting naivety, leaving not even a bone fragment.
"Let's keep this from Su Hao for now. Let's find out the details privately."
Su Zhe, standing to the side, also looked worried, sighing as she looked at the five business cards. Her husband's thoughts were clearly the same as hers.
Lin Wan gritted her teeth and decided to find someone she could absolutely trust and who had seen the world to properly consult on this major matter concerning her son's life.
……
Two days later, in the afternoon, sunlight streamed through the living room's floor-to-ceiling windows and onto the floor.
"Are you sure you're confident? Twenty cards? That's no small number!"
Teacher Shen Yuxuan, who had been invited to the home, was standing next to Su Hui.
He crossed his arms and looked down at the little girl opposite him, a relaxed smile on his lips, typical of an adult teasing a child.
Su Hui nodded very seriously, her small face showing no sign of joking, her dark eyes fixed on the densely packed, upside-down cards on the table.
"Fifteen cards are no longer a challenge," the little girl said confidently.
Before this, every time Su Hao came home for vacation, he would play this cognitive training game called "Memory Challenge" with his younger sister.
However, Shen Yuxuan knew even better that for the brain development level of a human infant, being able to remember seven or eight pictures was already an excellent standard.
Challenging twenty or even twenty-five cards is no easy task; it can even be described as hellish!
Today, taking advantage of the time when Su Hao was out running errands, I took advantage of the opportunity.
Shen Yuxuan finally seized the opportunity and, while Su Hui was engrossed in looking at the cards, successfully struck up a conversation with this girl who was usually extremely shy, like a kitten.
At first, I thought the game she was talking about was some kind of pretend game...
Shen Yuxuan chuckled to himself.
Just then—
"I'll be there in one minute!"
Shen Yuxuan flipped all twenty cards spread out on the table to their backs with lightning speed.
Come on, little girl, let me see how many you can remember?
However, the next second, Su Hui's expression instantly turned stern!
She extended a slender, white finger, pointing in mid-air at the faceless cards, and rattled off the images on each card with lightning speed, like a machine gun:
"Carrot! Penguin! Squirrel! Rabbit! Moon! Kitten! Number 5! Apple! Eggplant!..."
As each card was called out, Shen Yuxuan's fingertips moved quickly in sync with Su Hui's voice, flipping over the corresponding cards one by one.
Turn it over... Yes.
I flipped through it again... and it was still correct!
Flipping all the way to the nineteenth image, every single picture matched Su Hui's words perfectly!
Shen Yuxuan's smile had long since frozen, and he felt a layer of white sweat starting to break out on his back.
"The last card is..." Su Hui suddenly pointed to the last card and announced loudly, "A duck!"
pat!
Shen Yuxuan's hand trembled, and the last card was flipped open—it was a yellow duck!
Having successfully memorized all twenty cards, Su Hui suddenly jumped up from the ground, raised her hands high, and cheered joyfully in the living room!
At this moment, Shen Yuxuan was completely petrified!
His mouth was half open, his chin almost hitting the table in front of him, and his eyes were wide open, staring intently at the twenty cards that were all correct!
What kind of international joke is this?!
Is this some kind of ghost story?!
Twenty?! These are twenty completely random patterns!!
Shen Yuxuan felt his worldview was shattering rapidly.
"Although I heard it was that monster Su Hao who taught him... but this isn't even a question of whether he taught him or not, okay?!"
Shen Yuxuan roared inwardly,
"What's wrong with the brain structure of this family's child?! Has their gene mutated?!"
Just when Shen Yuxuan was questioning the meaning of life.
Lin Wan quietly approached, carrying a cup of hot tea.
"Huihui, have you finished your holiday homework?"
Just moments ago, Su Hui was like a god of war, but the moment she heard the word "homework," all her arrogance vanished.
Feeling guilty, she hurriedly tidied up the cards on the table, then jumped up and ran back to her room.
despair.
Lin Wan placed the teacup steadily on the low table.
The rising steam blurred her face.
She hesitated for a moment before speaking very cautiously:
"I'm so sorry, Professor Shen, I'm sorry to have taken up your time by calling you here so suddenly today."
Shen Yuxuan was still reeling from the shock. He shook his head forcefully, forcing himself to look away from the pile of cards.
"Hey, it's okay, please don't say that."
Actually, I've also been seeing all the news lately, and I'm really curious; my head is full of questions.
"I was thinking... you also went to university in the United States, so you should know more about the situation there than those of us who have never traveled far from home."
As she spoke, Lin Wan took a deep breath and carefully took out a thick stack of letters from her bag.
Those were acceptance letters from some of the world's top universities!