Chapter 118 Daily Life 2

Lin Che had been driving her new car to and from get off work alone for a month, and she was happy every day.

"I'm leaving." Lin Che waved at Lu Yu outside the window and fumbled with the steering wheel with a smile on his face.

Ever since buying this new car, Lin Che felt like she had fallen in love with going to work.

Lu Yu held down the raised window with one hand, and the next second, Lu Yu gently pinched Lin Che's chin.

"Did you forget something?"

Lin Che raised an eyebrow, turned his head and looked directly into Lu Yu's eyes. His cunning eyes slid around, and he asked knowingly, "What did you forget?"

The next second, Lu Yu bit Lin Che's mouth.

"It's made up. Let's go, be careful." Lu Yu patted Lin Che's furry head, like coaxing a child.

Lin Che stuck out her tongue, started the car, and left behind a trail of exhaust fumes and the words, "Childish."

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Lin Che had just arrived at the school staff parking lot and was bending over to unbuckle his seatbelt when he heard a sound and looked up suddenly. He saw Teacher Wang standing next to the car, holding the lesson plan in his hand, his eyes wide as copper bells.

Teacher Wang's eyes darted three times over the smooth lines of the black AMG before returning to Lin Che, as if meeting him for the first time. "Teacher Lin, you're... really good at hiding it! I overheard a discussion in the office a while ago about a 'million-dollar luxury car' suddenly appearing in our school's staff parking lot. Some speculated it might be a relative of a leader who parked it temporarily there. Some even suggested it might be a new car for the Education Bureau's inspection. No one thought it was you!"

Lin Che frantically opened the car door and scratched her head awkwardly, "Ah... Yes, it's mine."

Several teachers passing by were also attracted by the movement here and stopped to look.

Lin Che could feel the gazes behind him like little needles pricking him. He gave a dry laugh and explained, "It's not a luxury car, it's just... a way to get around."

"A commuter car?" Teacher Wang exclaimed in surprise, reaching out and gently touching the door handle. "This AMG CLE53 is no ordinary commuter car, right? My nephew was just telling me about it a few days ago, saying it cost over a million yuan! With your salary..."

Teacher Wang suddenly got stuck in the middle of his words and covered his mouth, apparently realizing that his question was too direct.

Lin Che didn't care and just shrugged helplessly: "My husband gave it to me, I didn't buy it myself."

As soon as these words were spoken, the surroundings were silent for two seconds, followed by a gasp.

Math teacher Zhang pushed his glasses and asked in disbelief, "Your husband? The one who picked you up from school last time? He looked so gentle, but I didn't expect..."

Lin Che pursed his lips. After he went back last time, he carefully studied the cars in Lu Yu's garage and found that what Lu Yu said was true.

For Lu Yu, buying this car was a "small ask", and it was not even as expensive as the purchase tax of any other car in his garage.

"He just spends money recklessly." Lin Che complained, but the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl up slightly. "Let's go~ Let's go to class."

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Lin Che's face was very famous in the school. Looking at it often made people forget that he was a full professor in his early 30s.

Teachers often mistake him for a graduate student in a certain college of the school, which causes a lot of jokes.

The main reason was that Lin Che usually dressed very young. His clothes were all bought by Lu Yu. He didn't know what brand they were. Anyway, there was only his initials on the washing label.

Lin Che has never been picky about daily necessities. Lu Yu is happy to buy them and he is happy to wear them.

However, Lu Yu took care of more than just Lin Che's food and clothing. He also carefully selected her daily books and pens.

Lin Che returned to the office after finishing her last class this morning and found the atmosphere in the office to be surprisingly strange.

He didn't care. He put the lesson plan on the table, drank water from his cup, and replied to Lu Yu's WeChat message.

Lu Yu sent a photo of a meeting, and it looked like two hours had passed since it was sent.

Lin Che took a photo of the office and was about to send it over, but before he could click send, he saw Teacher Liang Yinyin in the office staring at the pen on her desk with starry eyes.

"What...what's wrong?" Lin Che followed her gaze and stopped at the pen on his desk.

Liang Yinyin's fingers nearly touched the pen, her voice filled with uncontrollable excitement. "Teacher Lin, this pen of yours... is it from the Montblanc 'Kaleidoscope' series? I saw the same one at a luxury goods exhibition last time. It's limited to 200 pieces worldwide!"

Lin Che paused holding the water cup and looked down at the silver-white fountain pen with a black gem embedded in the cap. This was the pen Lu Yu had just replaced for him last week, saying it would be "more convenient for writing lesson plans."

At that time, he only felt that the pen was heavy and that it wrote smoothly, and he didn't pay attention to the brand at all.

"It's just... an ordinary fountain pen." Lin Che replied vaguely, his fingertips unconsciously stroking the pen shaft. "I just bought it casually."

"Anything you want to buy?" Liang Yinyin gasped, pulling out her phone and quickly searching for pictures to compare. "This pen costs six figures! Teacher Lin, you call this 'anything you want'?"

Teacher Wang just walked in with a lesson plan in hand. Ever since he saw Lin Che's new car that morning, he was no longer surprised. He added coldly to Liang Yinyin, "That AMG you guessed earlier is also his."

The office exploded instantly.

Teacher Zhang's red pen clunked onto the lesson plan, leaving a small bluish-black mark. He was oblivious, his voice trembling as he pushed up his glasses. "Was what Teacher Wang just said true? That million-dollar luxury car... is it really Teacher Lin's?"

Lin Che's fingertips were still gripping the pen that was said to be so miraculous, and he felt like he was holding a hot potato.

He was about to open his mouth to explain when Liang Yinyin rushed over to Teacher Wang, holding her phone. On the screen was the official AMG CLE53 website. "Teacher Wang, look! I was saying this pen was special. Since everyone drives cars of this level, isn't it normal to use a six-figure pen?"

The office was buzzing with chatter. Lin Che quietly tucked his pen deep into the drawer and tried to hide his embarrassment by drinking some water. But just as he reached for the cup, Liang Yinyin exclaimed again, "Teacher Lin, that cup! Is it that enamel-colored brand? My best friend asked someone to buy it for her last time, and they said it cost over three thousand!"

Lin Che's fingers gripping the cup handle suddenly tightened. This cup was brought back by Lu Yu from a business trip last week. He said it had "good heat preservation effect, so drinking hot water in winter won't burn your mouth." At the time, he only thought the pattern was pretty and didn't think about the price.

"It's just an ordinary thermos..." His voice became smaller and smaller, and he completely lost his confidence in the eyes of everyone who said "we understand".

Teacher Wang leaned against his desk, his arms folded. He clapped his hands as if suddenly remembering something. "Come to think of it, Teacher Lin, that bottle of red wine you brought to the Teachers' Day dinner last time. Wasn't that the one with the angel on the label? My son-in-law said it was called... Romanee-Conti?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the office suddenly became so quiet that one could hear the sound of pens scratching across paper.

Even the youngest intern teacher gasped. She had only seen the name of this wine in novels about overbearing CEOs, and a bottle would cost a starting price of six figures.

Lin Che's head buzzed, and he finally understood why Lu Yu insisted on asking Cheng Yi to deliver the wine in advance and repeatedly reminded him not to remember the wrong way to open the bottle.

"That wine was... someone else gave it to me. I don't understand this." Lin Che's explanation seemed pale and powerless in the eyes of everyone who knew.

When Lin Che looked up again, he saw everyone giving him a thumbs-up with strange smiles on their faces. "Teacher Lin, you're still too low-key."

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Ever since Liang Yinyin "exposed" his secrets that day, Lin Che had been asking the price of everything Lu Yu bought with lingering fear.

Lu Yu always replied calmly, "It's not expensive."

Lin Che also found a pattern: anything that could be searched out was definitely not on sale, and anything that was on sale was definitely a limited edition. Anything that could not be searched out was definitely a high-end custom made by Lu Yu, and that was "expensive".

Even though Lin Che kept a low profile at school, there were still people who spread rumors that he had embezzled laboratory funds.

When the teachers in Lin Che's office heard this rumor, they all laughed for five minutes.

Lab funding!?

Maybe it’s not even as expensive as the high-end trench coat Lin Che wore yesterday.