Into the Dreams Land Chapter 8

On the way home, Liam Liang had not yet discovered that Nate Ning was secretly hiding her injury, so his attitude towards Nate Ning was quite good. He carried Nate Ning's schoolbag and put it in the back seat. Although he did not open the car door for Nate Ning, it was still a great treatment breakthrough.

Seeing Nate Ning fiddling with his phone, Liam Liang asked casually, "Are you texting Zach Zhou again?"

Nate Ning glanced at Liam Liang and denied his guess: "I'm sending an email to Professor  Ken."

"Kong Shenfeng?"

"Well," Nate Ning typed quickly on the screen without looking up, "Zi Rui said it's useless to send it, but I'm going to send it anyway."

"say what?"

Nate Ning was so excited that he answered Liam Liang after a while:
 
Explain the regular meeting of the research group.

"Is he coming back this week?" Liam Liang asked Nate Ning, "I heard Kyle Kong mention it last night."

"He's only back for a few days, I definitely won't be able to see him..." Nate Ning thought of Kyle Kong's words "video chat with my dad", and felt unhappy. He put down his phone and said to Liam Liang, "Who does your cousin look like? His character is completely different from Professor  Ken's!"

Kong Shenfeng is the professor that Nate Ning respects the most in school, and he has been Nate Ning's idol for many years. Professor  Ken was also a graduate of the junior class of D University. After graduating from undergraduate school, he went to a prestigious foreign university to continue his studies. At the age of 32, he returned to his alma mater under pressure from all sides. He led a research team that was jokingly called a grass-roots team and spent five years in hiding, and finally made a breakthrough.

He was very busy leading the group when he was young, but it was only a few years before Nate Ning entered school that he suddenly announced the information that the group was recruiting undergraduates.

For students who want to continue their academic career, there are many benefits to joining Kong Shenfeng's research group.

On the one hand, Kong Shenfeng is famous, and he is not much inferior to famous foreign physicists. If you can get familiar with him, get a recommendation letter, or study under him, it will be a good result. On the other hand, Kong Shenfeng is serious about his studies and life. Even if you have few opportunities to talk, you can still learn from him. Therefore, even though his group is famous for having many requirements and not being easy to get in, there are still many applicants.

Nate Ning and Zach Zhou worked hard for half a year and finally got into the group after overcoming many difficulties.

Kong Shenfeng is very strict, and his personality is strange, not smooth, and a bit black and white, but he is surprisingly good to Nate Ning, even though Nate Ning is just an ordinary senior student. Maybe it's because he said that he saw the shadow of his childhood in Nate Ning.

After Nate Ning joined the group, Professor  Ken appeared at the weekly meetings more frequently. Even when he was in Tokyo, he would take the initiative to email Nate Ning, recommending some of the latest articles for Nate Ning to read, and also asking Nate Ning to write down his personal understanding after reading and send it to him.

Before joining the group, Zach Zhou and Nate Ning read all the interviews and news about Professor  Ken that they could find because they admired Kong Shenfeng. They did not remember Professor  Ken ever mentioning his son on any occasion. When Kyle Kong appeared in the laboratory with the teaching assistant, Nate Ning and Zach Zhou were both surprised. After getting to know him, they felt it was even weirder.

Zach Zhou said that "blood is thicker than water", which was true, but Nate Ning was a straightforward person and didn't like beating around the bush. He was also afraid that his withdrawal from the group would become a reality because he couldn't see Professor  Ken, so he simply gave an objective description of the cause of the regular meeting incident. He didn't mention what Kyle Kong did in the evening. He just wanted to confirm with Professor  Ken whether he and Zach Zhou were still qualified to stay in the group given their circumstances.

"I don't know," Liam Liang replied to Nate Ning, "I don't see their family very often, so I'm not familiar with them."

"You don't know how lucky you are," Nate Ning reprimanded him. "Professor  Ken is your uncle, and you don't even know him. You know, you can learn a lot from Professor  Ken, not just academic knowledge, but also virtue. If you keep in touch with him more often, you will definitely be a little kinder than you are now."

Liam Liang glanced at Nate Ning expressionlessly and said, "I have no virtue or kindness?"

"That's not entirely what I meant." Liam Liang's usual tyranny had penetrated Nate Ning's mind. Nate Ning was glanced at by him and quickly added, "I was just talking casually, don't take it seriously."

Liam Liang said indifferently: "Your Professor  Ken is too busy. Nine times out of ten family gatherings he won't be there. Is that a virtue?"

"Professor  Ken is very busy," Nate Ning heard Liam Liang dare to question Kong Shenfeng, and sat up and refuted, "He is busy looking for traces of truth and busy contributing to all mankind. As a close friend, you should have more respect and understanding for this scientist who has devoted his life to cutting-edge science."

Liam Liang suddenly turned on the right turn signal, pulled over, turned off the engine, and squinted his eyes to look at Nate Ning: "Nate Ning, something is wrong with you today."

He unbuckled his seat belt and moved closer to Nate Ning.

Nate Ning leaned against the car door and said calmly, "I don't understand what you said. Drive quickly."

"Really?" Liam Liang exposed Nate Ning without any tact, "You are in a bad mood."

Nate Ning didn't say anything, Liam Liang asked again: "Why? Master didn't come to class?"

"No," Nate Ning said, "I'm coming."

"Did he scold you?" Liam Liang asked again.

"No," Nate Ning complained that no one scolded me except you, and then said, "He even praised me."

"That was during dinner time. What happened?" Liam Liang had no intention of letting Nate Ning go. He continued to reason, "You and Zach Zhou hid behind the bronze statue. What were you doing there?"

Nate Ning was guessed by Liam Liang, and now she dared not say a word. Then she heard Liam Liang say, "Turn your face to the side, let me see your gauze."

Without waiting for Nate Ning to prepare himself, he reached out and pinched Nate Ning's chin, forcing Nate Ning to turn her face away, but the movement was not large, as if he was afraid of causing Nate Ning secondary injury.

Seeing the crooked tape behind Nate Ning's ear, Liam Liang let go.

Nate Ning lowered his head and dared not speak.

"How did you do it?" Liam Liang said in a cold voice, "Tell me the truth."

"I was arguing with Kyle Kong in the fourth cafeteria," Nate Ning said, "and I moved a little too much, so it broke."

I don’t know why, but Nate Ning always feels that it’s boring to talk too much and doesn’t want to elaborate.

"Haven't I seen you quarreling with others?" Liam Liang didn't accept Nate Ning's statement at all. "Nate Ning, what you call quarreling is just sitting there and saying a few words that make people want to hit you."

"So he tried to hit me and I dodged for a bit."

After Nate Ning finished speaking, he raised his eyes, only to find that Liam Liang's expression was not as scary as he had thought. On the contrary, Liam Liang seemed extremely helpless.

Liam Liang's helpless look suddenly made Nate Ning anxious. If possible, Nate Ning hoped that this expression would disappear from Liam Liang's face immediately.

"I was afraid you would scold me." Nate Ning whispered, and took the initiative to add details, trying to make up for his mistake, "He couldn't argue with me, and he happened to have a bowl of mung bean soup in his hand, and wanted to pour it on my wound. I dodged it."

In the dark car on the roadside with high street lights, Liam Liang was silent for a long time, got off the car and smoked a cigarette. After smoking, he returned to the car and pinched Nate Ning's face, who was sitting obediently.

His fingertips were slightly cold and smelled of cigarette smoke, but Nate Ning rarely found it smelly or disgusting.

Liam Liang said gently: "I'll take you to the hospital."

"It's already been wrapped," Nate Ning said reluctantly, "and it's not bleeding anymore."

"Recheck it," Liam Liang said in a low voice, as if trying to coax someone, but very insistently, "It won't take long."

Nate Ning stopped talking, so Liam Liang asked him, "Are you okay?"

After a while, Liam Liang restarted the car and drove forward for a while. He compromised and said to Nate Ning: "I'll ask the doctor to come home."

Nate Ning looked at Liam Liang sideways. The upper half of Liam Liang's face was in the shadow of the car roof. He had no expression and the corners of his mouth were flat.

The atmosphere in the car was a little tense. Nate Ning reached out and pulled Liam Liang's arm. Liam Liang did not dodge. His right hand left the steering wheel and hung naturally, allowing Nate Ning to make peace with him better.

"I didn't have enough for dinner." Nate Ning made small talk, "I was pissed off by that little guy."

"Nate Ning." Liam Liang called him, Nate Ning raised his eyes and said "hmm".

"Has anyone ever told you that you look a lot like Kong Shenfeng?" Liam Liang asked him.

Nate Ning didn't respond to Liam Liang, so Liam Liang asked himself and answered: "They are all very twisted."

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Nate Ning felt proud when she saw that she looked like Professor  Ken. But when the word "twisted" came out, she became unhappy: "Has anyone ever said that you look like Kyle Kong? You both love to dress up."

Liam Liang was so angry that he laughed: "Don't make me sound like I know him very well. If you didn't tell me, I would have almost forgotten his name. Besides, how can I convince others if I wear old T-shirts and sneakers like yours when I go to the company every day?"

Nate Ning looked down at her very comfortable T-shirt and very comfortable shoes, and asked Liam Liang: "My mother bought them, do you have any objection?"

Nate Ning had never gone out to buy clothes for himself. All of them were prepared by Lucy Lu, half of which were kept at Liam Liang's house and the other half at her own house. Every day, Lucy Lu would check the weather forecast for City D and send a text message to Nate Ning, telling him what clothes he should wear that day, and Nate Ning would just wear whatever his mother told him to wear.

"How dare I?" Liam Liang said.

Nate Ning hadn't finished writing the email yet. He was worried about it, so he stole a glance at Liam Liang and turned on his phone to continue writing. After he finished, he felt that his wording was not objective enough. He just read the email again when Liam Liang stopped at the door of a restaurant.

After they sat down and ordered their food, Nate Ning handed the phone to Liam Liang and said, "Use the standards of ordinary people to help me see if Professor  Ken will be angry if I write this."

Liam Liang did not object to the description of "ordinary person". He took it and read through Nate Ning's email, his brows furrowed more and more.

"What's wrong? No?" Nate Ning asked nervously, "Did I insult Kyle Kong too much? How can I change it?"

"No need to send it," Liam Liang returned the phone to Nate Ning and said to Nate Ning, "I will meet him in person this weekend."

"Why?" Nate Ning was a little surprised, "Can I go too?"

"No," Liam Liang said, looking at Nate Ning coldly for a while, and said, "Nate Ning, you are quite capable with me, but why are you so easily bullied when you go out?"

Nate Ning was puzzled: "I'm not easy to bully."

When the food came, Liam Liang stopped arguing with him and just said, "Forget it, eat first. The doctor will be here soon."

After eating a few bites, Nate Ning couldn't help but look up again and wanted to say a few words for himself.

Liam Liang saw Nate Ning's eyes drifting over and immediately glared at him: "Eat."

Nate Ning had no choice but to lower his head in grievance and continue eating.