America: I came here to study, not to show mercy.

Chapter 142: The Unbridled Freedom of a Convertible Sports Car

They were silent all the way. When the whole world was completely shrouded in darkness, Li Xiaoen sent Sufeil to the door of the other's dormitory.

They couldn't help but look at each other, then they leaned over and kissed each other, then immediately broke away.

"I'm going back." Sufeil looked over.

"Well, see you tomorrow."

Li Xiaoen nodded and smiled, watching Sufeier walk into the dormitory and close the door, then drove to the parking lot next to the door.

Inexplicably, it seems as if I have become too integrated into American culture and customs.

On the way back, Li Xiaoen couldn't help but touch his chin and think. Even without Sufei's reminder, he wanted to kiss the other party goodbye, but then he thought, most couples in China would do the same when they parted.

But his relationship with Sufeil seemed to have never been confirmed as a couple. Li Xiaoen couldn't help but fall into deep thought again.

After just going back to the dormitory and resting for a while, Li Xiaoen came out again and walked towards the laboratory in the school teaching area.

The model is still running, but the data is sufficient for the next stage of improvement. If there is more, the usability will drop sharply.

It is equivalent to a very long test paper. When you do it from beginning to end, there are already enough wrong questions on one aspect of knowledge points and ideas, which are enough to be used as a reference for the direction of learning and improvement. If you encounter such wrong questions again in the future, the reference value will be very low.

Walking from a distance, Li Xiaoen noticed the incandescent lights still on in the laboratory and nodded repeatedly.

Students who can be admitted to Princeton, no matter how talented they are, must have worked hard day and night.

When he arrived at the laboratory and walked into the door, he met several pairs of eyes and gave a strange smile.

"Sean, why are you here so late?"

Lucas turned around from Haskell's seat and asked in surprise.

"There's almost enough data to run the model. I'll come back and take a look."

After nodding and answering briefly, Li Xiaoen couldn't help but look at Haskell behind him. The other party had been staring at him since he came in.

Looking away, Li Xiaoen sat back in his seat.

After taking a quick look and copying the data, he turned off the computer and left.

"Hey, Sean..."

Seeing this, Lucas quickly called out, "Are you leaving so soon?"

He learned from Haskell that Li Xiaoen wanted to research that topic on his own. Now Haskell has become more active, but Li Xiaoen seems extremely relaxed. Not only did he not come to the laboratory all day today, but he also left very quickly when he came. He did not look like they were working hard like them, racking their brains to do experiments.

"Come on you guys."

Li Xiaoen nodded, raised his hand to say hello, then walked out the door and disappeared from their sight.

Lucas couldn't help but look at Haskell blankly, not knowing what to say for a moment - he knew that compared to Haskell, Li Xiaoen was probably even more arrogant.

"Let him be cool..."

Haskell snorted coldly, then gave a mocking smile and shook his head, "Let's wait until next Tuesday's discussion meeting and see what he says when the professor asks about it."

……

Different from what they saw and thought, Li Xiaoen returned to the dormitory with the hard drive, washed up, and started organizing the machine learning data. He had written some of it in the villa in the afternoon. He simply didn't want to move the code around and interrupt his train of thought.

The time spent concentrating on typing passed quickly. It was half past eleven in the evening when Li Xiaoen saved the backup, turned off the computer and lay back on the bed.

The next day, Sunday morning at eight o'clock.

Li Xiaoen simply washed up and went downstairs. Seeing Daniel lying on the sofa in the living room and sleeping soundly, he couldn't help but smile strangely.

They met twice briefly last night and exchanged greetings. He saw that Daniel was concentrating on playing the game and didn't take it seriously. Now it seems that the other party has encountered some troubles.

Without thinking too much, as adults, they would know how to control their emotions. Li Xiaoen put on his shoes quietly and then went out, heading towards the dormitory of Victoria and the other two girls.

There was a knock on the door, and this time it was Sufeil who opened it. The two people standing inside and outside the door looked at each other and fell silent.

"Sufeil, is that Sean?"

Victoria's voice came from the kitchen not far away.

"it's me."

Li Xiaoen responded loudly and walked into the house under Sufei's gaze. Before he could say anything, footsteps were heard from the kitchen.

"Sean, come here, I've made a new breakfast, you try poisoning it."

Victoria came over with a frying pan, giggling.

"..."

"Now, you're not even going to hide it anymore, Miss Witch."

Facing the girl's crescent-shaped smiling eyes, Li Xiaoen couldn't help but complain.

"It's your pleasure."

With a proud smile on her lips, Victoria took a fork and began to scoop up some colorful vegetable cubes covered with a lot of black powder in the pan and handed them to Li Xiaoen.

"Is this burnt?"

Li Xiaoen raised his eyebrows and tilted his neck back.

“It’s a truffle!”

Victoria rolled her eyes. "Am I such a bad cook that I would burn vegetables?"

After she finished speaking, she saw a strange expression on the young man's face, and her face darkened again: "Looking at your expression, are you questioning me?"

"No, I'm just worried that your outfits will clash."

No wonder there was a fragrance that penetrated his nose, Li Xiaoen thought to himself, and explained. Under the stunned gaze of the girl, he opened his mouth, bit the diced vegetables on the fork, chewed them carefully and swallowed them.

"You just want to improve the taco filling and add truffles to enhance the flavor, but if you don't handle it right, the rich aroma of the truffles might overwhelm the refreshing feeling of the taco itself."

"You know this?"

Victoria opened her eyes wide and spoke in surprise.

"I'm a professional, Victoria."

Li Xiaoen raised an eyebrow at the girl proudly. "You know, I've dreamed of becoming a gourmet since I was a kid. I've watched a lot of food shows, so I have some basic knowledge of food appreciation."

"and many more……"

Victoria raised her hand to interrupt Li Xiaoen, frowning slightly. Under the young man's puzzled gaze, she asked, "If you want to bring up the good comments about the steak ingredients before, then you don't have to say it."

"..."

"Victoria, you are so smart." Li Xiaoen changed his words helplessly.

"Humph……"

Victoria couldn't help but snort in amusement and roll her eyes at the young man's attempt to change the subject.

The longer she spent with the young man, the more she knew what kind of ivory would come out of his mouth.

Victoria couldn't help but look down at her hard-earned masterpiece. "Sean, do you think it had any impact?"

"It's hard to say."

Li Xiaoen answered honestly, "You have to wrap it completely in a taco and eat it with sour cream or something to feel the flavor."

"is it?"

Victoria frowned, lowered her head, took a bite with her fork, and savored it carefully.

“Much profit… … ”

On the other side, Sufeier, who had already sat on the sofa, spoke, which finally brought her back to her senses. Looking up, she saw the two people looking at her with wide eyes. Victoria couldn't help but tilt her head, "What's wrong?"

"Didn't Sean use that knife and fork?"

Sufeil explained slowly, feeling a bit of a headache.

"..."

"It's okay, it was just an accident. Don't worry about it."

Glancing at the fork in her hand, Victoria forced a smile and explained.

At this moment, the door was suddenly pushed open and a loud shout was heard. It was Seraphina.

"Victoria, is breakfast ready? Let's finish eating and leave."

"It will be ready soon, sit down for a moment."

After responding, Victoria quickly turned around and walked quickly towards the kitchen, as if she was escaping.

Looking at the girl's slim figure walking away, Li Xiaoen didn't know what expression to make for a moment. Just as he sat down on the sofa, he saw Sufeil giving him a meaningful look.

Giving up on explaining, Li Xiaoen shrugged his shoulders, took out a computer from his backpack, and leaned back on the sofa to start typing code.

Perhaps keeping silent really worked, Sufeil didn't move anymore and turned back to look at the TV.

Just when Li Xiaoen was about to breathe a sigh of relief, Seraphina came out of the kitchen and sat down next to him, squeezing in front of him to look at the computer.

"Sean, we're going out to play today, why are you still looking at these things?" Seraphina couldn't help but bump her body in frustration.

"I'm going there to practice shooting, you guys are the ones going there to have fun, thank you."

Li Xiaoen corrected helplessly. He knew that since four girls were going with him, and they were going to Serafina's villa in a remote suburb, this must be the case.

"How do you speak to your superior like that?"

Seraphina's face darkened. "Believe it or not, I won't teach you anymore."

"That's perfect. I'll go to the shooting club. The coaches there are much more professional."

"What do you mean?"

Seraphina glared and stretched out her arms to lock Li Xiaoen's head, but he quickly raised his hand to stop her.

"Just talk nicely and don't use your hands, okay?"

With a weak grumble, Li Xiaoen shook off the girl's entangled hand and focused his attention back on the computer in front of him.

Sufeil understood the signal that he was concentrating on looking at the computer, but the carefree Seraphina just did whatever she wanted, and he had to remind her.

Li Xiaoen was pondering in his mind, and inexplicably felt a chill from Sufeil on the other side. He turned his head to look over without leaving a trace.

The girl's gaze was still fixed on the TV not far ahead, but her whole aura was more fierce than before. Seeing this, he couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart.

"Breakfast is ready, come and eat with us."

Victoria's voice came from the kitchen table.

"I'm coming."

After responding loudly, Li Xiaoen quickly put away his computer, stepped past the seats of several girls and walked quickly towards the kitchen.

"Victoria, let me help you..."

……

"Sean, did you buy this car with your investment money?"

In the parking lot, several girls surrounded the Maserati and looked at it in surprise. Victoria couldn't help but let out a cry of surprise.

It is true that any one of these girls could easily buy a luxury car of this model, but all of them relied on their family's huge funds and background. Seeing that Li Xiaoen single-handedly achieved the transformation from a shabby Toyota Camry to a Maserati was unimaginable for them.

The key point is that the young man is only eighteen years old and in his first year of college.

"I lent you money for investment last time, and I reinvested the profits as principal."

Compared to the surprise of several girls, Li Xiaoen's expression was quite calm, and he simply responded with the same words as last time.

Luxury cars, mansions, and nearly two hundred thousand dollars in savings—these conditions that she possessed now were still too little for the young ladies, even though their capital and confidence came from their families.

Family background is also a person's capital, no one can say anything about it, and he will not exclude it to seek a sense of superiority.

"How about we take Sean's car?"

Victoria turned around and looked at the girls, and immediately got their consent, then she looked at Li Xiaoen with a smile.

As the car owner, he was the last to be questioned. Li Xiaoen met the girl's smiling gaze and did not object: "The space in the back seat of my car is not very large. If you want to sit, you will have to squeeze in."

The original plan was to drive Serafina's Maserati Quattroporte, but the other party was sharp-eyed and noticed the brand new luxury car in the parking space of his old car, so she brought a few girls over.

"Of course not!"

The girls looked at each other and smiled. "If we have a new car, of course we should ride in it. Besides, it's yours, Sean."

"Okay, I'll sit in the driver's seat. I have no objection."

Li Xiaoen shrugged, got into the car, and drove the four girls towards the suburbs of a remote corner of New Jersey according to Seraphina's instructions.

What surprised him was that they went to Seraphina's house, and Victoria was sitting in the passenger seat. All the girls seemed to acquiesce to this situation - obviously, Victoria was the smallest among the four girls.

At this time, there were still some continuous sighs coming from behind the car.

"Sean, Sean..."

Seraphina, who was behind the car, quickly patted Li Xiaoen's shoulder and said, "Hurry up and put the roof back."

"I told you already."

Li Xiaoen shook his head helplessly, pressed the button to move the roof back, and the three girls behind him breathed a sigh of relief.

“Yohoo—”

Seraphina's loud shout came from behind the car again, but the difference was that this time the sound was a little higher.

"Seraphina, be careful, beware of danger!"

Victoria turned around and saw that Seraphina had already sat on the back seat of the car, raising her hands and shouting, so she quickly shouted out.

"It's okay. This isn't the city, and there aren't many cars."

Seraphina's long hair was blown back by the wind. She laughed out loud, "I want to buy a convertible sports car when I get back!"

"Let's talk about buying a car later. You're in danger now!"

Victoria couldn't help but sigh and changed the subject, but unfortunately Seraphina still refused to give in...

After stabilizing the car speed at a certain value and listening to Seraphina trying to find various excuses to refuse from the back of the car, Li Xiaoen couldn't help but smile and shook his head.

Victoria is gentle and reserved, while Suffield is arrogant and disdainful. Neither girl would ever do such a thing. Only Seraphina, with her carefree and even heartless personality, could do it. Think about it, such recklessness is the freedom and elegance that one should have when sitting in this convertible sports car.

As he was thinking this, a convertible sports car drove up from the side lane. Noticing the envious and shocked look of the men in the car, Li Xiaoen glanced at the pretty girls in the car, smiled and raised his chin at the men.

"My beautiful ladies, I'm going to speed up, please hold on tight..."

Facing the wind, with his hair blown messy, Li Xiaoen smiled and shouted at the girls. After a pause, he stepped on the accelerator, quickly overtook them, and rushed forward.

"Alas--"

Seraphina's loud shouts were heard from the car.

(End of this chapter)