The sky outside was overcast. Ming Jiayi opened her eyes and looked out the window. She saw that the car had somehow driven into the deep mountains.

She turned her sleepy head to look at Gu Shaojin. Despite not having slept all night, Gu Shaojin did not seem tired at all.

Ming Jiayi stretched out her hand and lazily yawned, saying leisurely, "You brought me to this remote mountain forest, you're not going to sell me, are you? I'm worthless."

"Yes, I know," Gu Shaojin replied calmly.

“Hello…” Ming Jiayi replied with a hint of helplessness.

Gu Shaojin's gaze was fixed straight ahead. The mountain road here was winding and twisting, and there was another bend soon. He said earnestly,

“You didn’t eat last night, you must be hungry, right? When we get there, I’ll make you breakfast. Open that little cabinet in front of you, there’s water in there, have some to drink to stave off hunger.”

Ming Jiayi stared at Gu Shaojin in disbelief, and asked in surprise, "Young Master Gu can actually cook?"

Gu Shaojin smoothly rounded the bend and then answered.

"This is Baijian Mountain. When I came here to learn martial arts before, my master and grandfather forced me to do this. If I didn't do it, they would starve me to death."

"Oh?" Ming Jiayi looked at Gu Shaojin with a smile. "So what can you do?"

"I'll use whatever's available. I'll make whatever's there," Gu Shaojin replied earnestly.

Wow, that's amazing?

Gu Shaojin smiled faintly, "Of course."

After nearly ten hours, the car finally entered the village deep in the mountains.

Gu Shaojin parked the car in front of a plain-looking self-built house, and then gestured for Ming Jiayi to get out of the car and walk into the house.

The house has three floors. The front door on the first floor is wide open, and the sun is shining in. A little dog is sleeping by the door, and it looks very comfortable with the sun shining on it.

The little dog seemed listless. It opened its eyes indifferently, glanced at Gu Shaojin and Ming Jiayi, and then closed them again.

Gu Shaojin led Ming Jiayi directly into the kitchen on the first floor. He stood there, glanced around, and then skillfully opened the refrigerator and took out two eggs.

"Go outside and sit down to wait for me," Gu Shaojin said seriously.

Ming Jiayi smiled happily, then walked out of the kitchen to get some fresh air.

She squatted down by the door and gently stroked the puppy's head, but the puppy still didn't react in any particular way.

About ten minutes later, Gu Shaojin stood silently behind Ming Jiayi, and said leisurely,

"Breakfast is ready. Are you going to stay here with Xiao Juan, or come and have breakfast?"

Ming Jiayi was startled, and the little curly ear that Gu Shaojin mentioned also twitched slightly, as if it had also been frightened.

"What delicious food is available?" Ming Jiayi stood up and asked Gu Shaojin directly.

“You’ll know once you come in,” Gu Shaojin replied earnestly.

Ming Jiayi followed Gu Shaojin to the table in the dining room, then stared at the five eggs on the table, lost in thought...

"So, what about breakfast?"

“Here,” Gu Shaojin said matter-of-factly, pointing to the five eggs.

Ming Jiayi twitched her lips, looking slightly reserved, and asked earnestly and politely, "Is your statement that you'll do whatever you want because you already knew there would be eggs here?"

"Mm." Gu Shaojin looked at Ming Jiayi with an innocent and harmless expression and nodded.

"Woof woof woof woof"

Ming Jiayi was about to say something more, but after hearing this series of shouts, she couldn't help but look towards the door.

Gu Shaojin picked up an egg and carefully rotated it. "Isn't it fine? Not broken at all."

Ming Jiayi nudged Gu Shaojin's sleeve, looking at him hesitantly, and said, "The puppy is barking, is there some bad guy outside?"

“Little Juan usually barks because Master or Grandpa has returned,” Gu Shaojin replied absentmindedly.

"What's going on? My little apprentice actually had time to come back and visit his lonely master and grandfather today?"

A strong male voice came from outside the door with light footsteps. Ming Jiayi hadn't seen the person yet, but upon hearing the voice, she couldn't help but frown.

Why does that unserious voice and tone sound so familiar?

“Since Master thinks you and Grandpa are lonely here, why don’t you come back to the capital with me?” Gu Shaojin slowly turned her head and answered the person who spoke in a low and calm voice.

Ming Jiayi followed Gu Shaojin's gaze and slowly moved it to the person. Before she could even raise her head, just seeing that figure made her extremely nervous.

Her gaze was fixed on the floor, unable to look directly at the person's face. She felt a mixture of anticipation and fear of disappointment.

"I'm not going. Can the capital city be this comfortable? Big cities are too noisy."

That familiar voice reached Ming Jiayi's ears again, and she suddenly raised her head to look at that face.

She looked at the slightly chubby old man in front of her with a look of surprise and almost blurted out, "Teacher!"

The two of them simultaneously cast puzzled glances at Ming Jiayi, only to hear the old man say in a nonchalant tone,

"Little apprentice, is this your new girlfriend? She's prettier than the last one, and she's also very polite."

Ming Jiayi stared intently at the old man, feeling a sense of warmth and familiarity, as if she were meeting a familiar face in a foreign land. Her eyes welled up with tears.

Although there were no tears.

"Master, be careful, your mistress might come looking for you with a bamboo stick tonight," Gu Shaojin said coldly to her master.

"Oh dear, that won't do." The master waved his hand nervously. "Kid, I was just joking with you. My apprentice has never brought a member of the opposite sex to me before. You're the first. But I don't know about the capital."

Gu Shaojin stared at her master and called out in a sinister voice, "Master~ Master's wife, she..."

"Alright, alright, you're so boring, you've been this dull since you were a kid." The master shrugged and complained with a hint of helplessness.

Ming Jiayi grinned, feeling that this sentence was so familiar; she used to hear it almost every month back then.

Gu Shaojin's mentor is exactly the same as her graduate advisor back then, in terms of physique, voice, tone of voice, and personality.

She also remembered that her teacher was very capable back then, but he was always unserious. In his own words, he was so busy with research that he was going bald. So what if he was joking around and having fun?

I never expected that my teacher would also appear in this world.

She was so excited that words could not express it.

But why is the teacher here? And it seems that, like Ming's father, the teacher has absolutely no memory of her...