I Have Decided to Go Look for My Real Father

Finding My Father - CH 166

Chapter 166 - "Dad, am I ugly in the photo?" (4)

After Gu Shao had left, Gu Xi tried very hard to not look at the animated gif again and started working on her homework assignments.

What she didn't know was that after Gu Shao had returned to his study and happened to see someone posting in the parent's chatgroup, he too posted: [Too much homework. I hope to see some reasonable adjustments.]*

Less than half a minute after Gu Shao's had posted his message, he received a call from their class teacher.

"Hi, Professor Gu. I hope it is not too late to call." Teacher Chen was very polite on the phone.

Gu Shao was, after all, an authority in education and they took Professor Gu's suggestions very seriously.

"What I want to say is, I saw the message that you had just posted, Professor Gu."

"Mmm," said Gu Shao. He then added, "Does your school take into account the amount of time the students need to spend on completing their homework assignments and whether it would impact their regular schedule when assigning homework assignments?"

Gu Shao was normally a polite one when it came to his child's teacher.

This time, however, his tone was a little stern.

Teacher Chen was a bit nervous when she heard Gu Shao and quickly went on to say, "I call to clarify the matters with you, Professor Gu.

"You see," said Teacher Chen while gauging her tone. "Our normal school work load really isn't that bad. It's just that, em, Gu Xi is a very talented girl and could handle our curriculum with ease. Us teachers feel that she could use her free time to improve herself and take herself to the next level during her free time or participate in some meaningful competitions. Gu Xi, too, was eager on this front.

"As such, with the exception of the regular homework assignments, we had also provided her with some extracurricular exercises."

The class teacher wasn't lying.

Almost every teacher of Gu Xi's wanted to have her under their wing.

They would love to have Gu Xi participate in every single competition if not for their concern that she wouldn't be able to handle all of them.

The look on Gu Shao mellowed up visibly with class teacher's explanation and praises for Gu Xi. He nodded in a satisfied manner.

Even his tone had become milder. "Thank you for taking care of Gu Xi at school. As for extracurricular exercises, it's better to gauge it appropriately. More exercises is not always a good thing. A balance is what we should strike for."

"Of course. We will be mindful of that," said the teacher while she lamented in her heart: Professor Gu is such a reasonable parent.

What she didn't say was: She feels that Gu Xi is still handling the current exercise load with ease.

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On this end, Gu Xi came running over shortly after Gu Shao had ended the call with her teacher.

"You are done?" Gu Shao raised his brows.

"Mmhmm. All done." Gu Xi handed her notebook over for Gu Shao to look over.

Gu Xi took her homework assignments very seriously but her speed was not slow at all.

Gu Shao looked through them quietly and signed.

It would appear that he had misunderstood the teachers.

After returning Gu Xi's exercise notebooks to Gu Xi, Gu Shao handed her a bank card.

"Pocket money."

Gu Xi's eyes beamed when she heard that and she looked over at the card that Gu Shao was handing to her.

It was obviously a brand-new bank card with pink cartoon drawings on it.

Looking at how happy Gu Xi was, Gu Shao's look mellowed out even more. He added, "You can budget your own spending but don't go splurging, alright?"

"Okay, I won't." Gu Xi quickly nodded and gave Gu Shao her words. Then, smiling at Gu Shao, she said, "Thanks, Dad!"

She wouldn't splurge. She wouldn't touch her monthly allowances on here but would save them all up.

At 2,000 yuan a month, she would have tens of thousands of yuan over the course of four years.

Gu Xi's plan was sound. What she didn't know was that the bank card that was given to her by Gu Shao was not an empty bank account; it was a secondary card to Gu Shao's bank account.

The secondary card could withdraw up to 30% of the amount in the account.

That being said, Gu Shao also had Wang Wu enabled another feature at the same time – that he would receive a text whenever the card was used.

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Translator's rambling:

If you also read my My Son Might Be a Villian, which is by the same author, you would know that this was the exact opposite request that Lu Shao, the other father had made. (Yes, both father's names are "Shao", same character. =.=)