“Oh,”

Wang Congshan rolled her eyes at Li Ang and casually asked, “By the way, do you have any plans for this vacation?”

“Plans…”

Li Ang frowned slightly, “Let me think.”

In the past, Li Ang would usually find a part-time job as a disguise, taking advantage of the breaks to go “hunting” all over the country.

Now that the list of prey has been cleared, he finally has some free time.

But he doesn't want to participate in the regular missions in the real world, which have already been monopolized by various organizations.

He’ll probably just stay in the alchemy workshop and the Door World.

Li Ang placed the transparent adhesive tape and pencil on the table and said casually, “Uh… same as before, just doing some odd jobs.”

Wang Congshan raised an eyebrow, “Still tutoring?”

“Yeah, the final exams for elementary and middle school students in Yin City were earlier than ours, and the results are already out. The students I'm tutoring have improved their overall grades by an average of twenty percentage points. The parents from those wealthy families who live in mansions and drive sports cars are full of praise for me.”

Li Ang scratched his head casually and said, “Actually, I don't have any special tricks. I just observe and analyze the psychology of the students I manage, profiling their psychological characteristics to understand their true inner thoughts.

“For example, they lack attention and want their parents to pay attention to them;

“They are insecure and want to be recognized by others;

“They are afraid of failure, so they hate studying and taking exams, and so on.

“After understanding the true thoughts of the students I tutor,

“I use talk therapy and other auxiliary training methods to make students develop a psychological dependence on learning,

“Forming a psychological perception that [studying hard will bring happiness],

“Over time, as long as students see pencils and erasers, hear the school bell, touch textbooks, or smell the scent of paper,

“Stimulus signals will be transmitted to the nerves and brain, causing the brain to produce a sense of pleasure, involuntarily immersing them in learning.

“Studying hard naturally leads to good grades.”

“Oh, oh,”

Wang Congshan nodded, not quite understanding, and then suddenly reacted after a while, “Huh?

“Isn't this Pavlov's conditional reflex?

“Are you training dogs here?”

“Humans are also a kind of animal, just a little more advanced.”

Li Ang curled his lips and said, “There's no reason why neurophysiology and physiological psychology, which are applicable to animals, shouldn't work on humans.

“Receiving my psychological counseling and developing a love for learning

“Is much better than finding pleasure in video games or other stimuli.

“In fact, my methods are already very, very gentle in the field of applied psychology.

“If those parents were willing to let me use pharmaceutical-grade drugs, I could do even better.

“For example, in the student stage,

“Using a combination of drug treatment (including but not limited to regulating dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine) and psychological counseling to correct some seemingly normal teenagers who actually have strong personality defects and other mental illnesses.”

“Hey, hey, are you sure the [teenagers with strong personality defects and other mental illnesses] you're talking about aren't you yourself?”

Wang Congshan covered her forehead in distress. After a long time together, she could clearly distinguish which of Li Ang's words were just pretending to be stupid and which were truths revealed casually through his tone and facial expressions.

“I'm fine. To ensure my physical and mental health, I get a physical examination every month, and I chat with myself in the mirror, play rock-paper-scissors, and play poker.”

Li Ang said casually, “A few days ago, several tutoring and education institutions in Yin City and other places contacted me, inviting me to tutor their tutors during the vacation, charging by the minute.”

“Oh, are you going?”

“Of course not,”

Li Ang spread his hands and said, “In Yin City, I work for myself. If I go there to get paid, wouldn't I be working for others?”

Wang Congshan curled her lips and said, “What's wrong with working? This year's Spring Festival Gala will definitely have skits with gags like [Working people have working souls], [Good morning, working people], and [Charging forward on the road to prosperity, if I don't work, who will?].”

“Are you the director of the Spring Festival Gala?”

Li Ang crossed his arms in front of his chest, “Add some urban-rural discrimination, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law conflicts, Spring Festival travel, second and third children, and finally zoom in on the big picture, with everyone happily reunited in emotional music.

“Yeah, I can see it now. I'm already starting to laugh.”

“Pfft~”

Wang Congshan stuck out her tongue, “By the way, we've already signed up for an internship at the Special Affairs Bureau's outpost. Are you coming?”

Li Ang raised an eyebrow, “We?”

Wang Congshan said the names of a few of her girlfriends, “Quite a few classmates in the class and grade have signed up to participate. I don't know if they'll screen out a batch by then.

“Anyway, it's better to go to the Special Affairs Bureau for an internship and see the world than to be idle during the vacation. Plus, you can get a decent salary.

“Are you coming?”

“I… I'll think about it. After all, the registration deadline hasn't passed yet.”

Li Ang scratched his head, not wanting to have much contact with the Special Affairs Bureau in the real world.

“Oh, right.”

Li Ang took out a small hard paper box from the bottom of his bag and gently placed it on the table with a “thud.”

“What's this?”

Wang Congshan picked up the gift-like box, shook it gently under the table, and looked at Li Ang suspiciously, “It's not the nail clippings you saved up and put in a glass bottle, is it?”

“What are you thinking?”

Li Ang said helplessly, “Open it and see.”

“Your expression is very suspicious…”

Wang Congshan narrowed her eyes and suspiciously opened the box, “Eh? This is…”

Inside the box was a delicately crafted slender bracelet. The metal part of the bracelet was in the shape of a Möbius strip, with silver thin ropes on both sides of the strip.

“A hand rope?”

“Yeah.”

Li Ang rested his chin on his hand and glanced at the hand rope under Wang Congshan's table with the corner of his eye, “The parent of one of the families I tutor is a jewelry designer and has a studio.

“Their child did very well on the exam this time. That parent insisted on giving me a red envelope, but I didn't accept it, so they gave me a small gift that their studio recently designed.

“It's this.”

“Ah? Is it expensive?”

Wang Congshan half-closed the box, narrowed her eyes, and leaned back, “Wait, there's no such thing as a free lunch. You suddenly giving me a gift makes me a little nervous.”

“What are you thinking? This is the money for snacks from before.”

Li Ang picked his nose, “Didn't you notice that the snacks you hid in your desk when you were in elementary and middle school would always mysteriously disappear?”

“Huh?! So it was you?!”

Wang Congshan's eyes widened in anger, “Damn it, I thought there were cockroaches in my drawer.”

“You still ate so happily even when you suspected there were cockroaches.”

Li Ang said speechlessly, “Anyway, just wear it. It's not expensive, only a little over a hundred. If you feel bad about it, you can give me a ps5, xsx, or rtx3080 in return.”

“Hmph, hmph, hmph,”

Wang Congshan selectively ignored Li Ang's words and measured the size of the hand rope, suddenly thinking of something, her face turned a little red, “Wait, you don't have one too, do you?”

“Yeah,”

Li Ang said matter-of-factly, “But mine is much bigger. I wear it myself during the day and take it off to lock up the dog at night.

“Very multifunctional, humanized.”