You are not allowed to date a trainer.

Chapter 33 The Eagle-like Boy
Ying Jue pushed open the door and stepped into Baiyun Tower, looking around.

"Qin Zhen? Qin Zhen! Where are you?"

"I'm here!"

A hand rose from behind a table further down the hall, twirling and shaking.

"What are you doing? Why are you lying on the ground..." Ying Jue stepped over, then suddenly froze.

She saw her little Snorlax behind the table. The fat elf was lying on its back on the floor with Qin Zhen resting on his belly. The boy was holding a plate of golden sand red rice sausage in his hand. From time to time, he fed one to the little Snorlax, and then fed one to himself. They looked like good brothers, leisurely and relaxed.

Little Snorlax looked more relaxed, with long, unevenly cut fur. He was chewing red rice sausage while massaging Qin Zhen's shoulders with his short, chubby hands, completely forgetting that it was this guy who almost turned himself into a roasted Snorlax yesterday.

"Ajue, you're just in time!" Qin Zhen gave Ying Jue a thumbs-up, unabashedly admiring Gym Master Ying's ace Pokémon. "Holy crap! Snorlax's belly is amazing! It's softer than a down pillow, yet incredibly supportive. It's incredibly comfortable!"

"Kirby Kirby!"

Little Snorlax also happily gave a thumbs up, indicating that he agreed with Qin Zhen's good vision.

"Didn't I reserve a room for you on Peach Blossom Island?" The older girl put her hands on her hips and looked down at Qin Zhen, who was lying on the ground. "What are you doing here lying on the floor?"

"Teng Teng Snake said he wanted to learn how to make Cantonese-style dim sum, but I don't know any master dim sum chefs, so I came to Baiyunlou to try my luck. Judging by the results, my luck wasn't bad." Qin Zhen raised the red rice sausage in his hand. "Try it? This plate was freshly made by Teng Teng Snake."

Ying Jue pinched a piece of red rice sausage and put it into his mouth doubtfully, and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows slightly.

"Yes, it's about 80% of the quality of Baiyunlou. This level is enough to open a restaurant in Wuyang City. Is that vine snake's culinary talent so good?"

"My little snake girl is an all-around genius!" Qin Zhen smiled proudly. "By the way, Jue, you came all the way here from Baiyun Lake Park. Is there something you want to talk to me about?"

Ying Jue did not answer. She hesitated for a moment, and finally lay down on the ground like Qin Zhen, with her head resting on the belly of the little Snorlax with his shoulder.

"Hey, Qin Zhen, where are you going next?"

"I haven't decided yet, but I think we'll go to the next city with a gym."

"You're so eager to challenge the gym, are you planning to become a professional trainer?" Ying Jue turned his head and stared at Qin Zhen's profile. "What do you plan to do after becoming a professional trainer?"

"Becoming a professional trainer isn't enough," Qin Zhen laughed. "Now that I'm in this business, I have to be the best. I want to be the league champion! The best trainer in the world!"

"What happens after becoming number one in the world?"

"Then I'll go traveling. I want to visit every corner of the world with my friends and see the scenery I've never seen before."

“What happens after you travel around the world?”

"This..." Qin Zhen scratched his head at this question. He thought for a long time and finally gave a childish answer. "Then go be a hero."

"big hero?"

"Yes, just like the hero every child dreams of becoming, protecting the weak and fighting evil. When your name is called, the children will cheer and all the bad guys will tremble." Qin Zhen looked at the ceiling of Baiyun Building and laughed as he spoke. "When I become the best in the world and travel the world, I will become such a hero."

Ying Jue fell silent and did not ask any further questions.

In the past, Ying Jue would occasionally listen to her mother talk about love. As the daughter of a flying family, her mother's ideas on controlling her husband were very magical, and they were taken from the Ying family's method of breeding elves.

"A real man should be as free as an eagle. If you like him, you should not restrain him and give him a piece of sky where he can fly freely."

Ying Jue had always thought this statement ridiculous, because her father was an eagle-like man. Before he turned thirty, he had traveled all over Donghuang, and after that, he had traversed the globe. His ultimate goal in life was to build his own gym on the summit of Mount Everest. Ying Jue occasionally flipped through photos of her father, seeing the middle-aged man standing before various untouched and breathtaking scenery, his hands raised high and clasped, laughing as he struck a flying eagle hand gesture, with a whirlwind of wind behind him, a truly impressive figure. But the price of this impressiveness was separation from his family. Ying Jue had only seen her father in person a few times in her life. When she was twelve, she returned home to see a man in a dirty jacket and a bearded man burst out of the garden, shouting "daughter" as he lunged at her. Terrified, young Ying Jue unleashed Snorlax on the spot, delivering a powerful arm-slam that nearly shattered her father in two. He was eventually hospitalized for a full month before recovering.

But even so, it couldn't stop Eagle Dad. As soon as his injury healed, the man embarked on his journey again. That was the end of his journey. He went to Antarctica, then hit an avalanche. When he was sent back to Wuyang City for burial, he didn't even have to pay for a coffin - the search and rescue team fished out a huge ice coffin from the Antarctic ice sea, and inside was Eagle Dad, his Pidgeot, and the Rotom mobile phone.

I wonder if the old eagle father in heaven will still laugh and make the eagle gesture, and let Tolome take pictures of him and Pidgeot.

At her father's funeral, Ying Jue did not shed a single tear. She looked at the man in the ice coffin and secretly made up her mind - an eagle-like man would only abandon his wife and daughter at home and eventually die secretly in some corner of the world. She would never let the person she loved run around like her mother did.

But at this moment, Ying Jue suddenly understood his mother.

That person is lying next to you, and you can even smell the faint sweet-scented osmanthus fragrance coming from him. You listen to him talk about his ideals and ambitions. He will tell you a lot of arrogant and unrealistic things, such as wanting to be the best trainer in the world, wanting to travel to every corner of the world, and wanting to become the hero that every child dreams of becoming. But at that moment, his eyes are as bright as stars, and every inch of his skin seems to be glowing, so you are willing to believe the future he described, that one day he will really become the best in the world, and legends of his passing through will be spread in every corner of the world, and children will write his name in crooked handwriting in their diaries.

This is a boy who is like an eagle! He was born to fly high in the sky, teaching all creatures on the earth to look up to his wings that are filled with sunshine. How could you bear to clip his wings and tie him down?

Ying Jue was silent for a moment, then suddenly turned sideways and pulled out a large, azure envelope from behind him. "Here, this is your reward for successfully challenging the gym."

Qin Zhen was stunned, took the envelope, and took out the badge and a...

"cell phone?"

"Yes, it's the latest model that can carry Rotom, but they don't have Rotoms in the mobile store. If you want to activate all its functions, you'll have to find a way to capture a Rotom yourself."

"No, this is too expensive." Qin Zhen handed the phone back without thinking.

"It's okay. You're lucky. You happened to be in this special period." Ying Jue raised his hand to block it, his eyes like black jade swirling. "You know what? It's been two months since I inherited the Baiyun Gym, but still not many people have noticed that the owner of Wuyang City has changed. Even the Baiyun Gym's owner column in the encyclopedia is still listed as my uncle's name."

Qin Zhen nodded and remembered the group photo of the Donghuang Pavilion masters that he had found.

"So, I'm planning to organize a 'Challenge the Gym and Get a Cell Phone' event to attract everyone's attention and also serve as publicity. I'll use your name and image."

"Take it. If you really feel bad about it, consider it my endorsement fee. Baiyun Gym can use your image for promotion for the next year." Ying Jue smiled. "With your commanding talent, you'll definitely become a very famous trainer in the future. Then, Baiyun Gym will actually profit."

But Qin Zhen remained unmoved and insisted on putting the phone back into Ying Jue's hands.

"If it's to promote the gym, then you can use my image as you please. Consider it as repayment for yesterday's breakfast. But I really can't take something as valuable as a cell phone."

"It's just a cell phone, how can it be so expensive!?"

“For me, the things that are not affordable are the valuable things.”

Ying Jue pushed and pulled with him for a while, then suddenly an idea came to him. He raised his voice and said, "I put instructional videos of elves' moves in this phone! They are all the most detailed information my family has collected!"

Qin Zhen's hand holding the phone suddenly froze in mid-air.

"There are four videos in total. They are Thunder Fang, Sunny Day, Green Grass Field, and Snake's core move - Leaf Storm."

"..."

This time Qin Zhen was silent for a very long time.

"Well...Ajue, please extend the endorsement period to three years. Otherwise, I won't feel safe holding this phone."

"It's all up to you. Okay, there's one last thing."

(End of this chapter)