"Could it be what?" Chen Shi asked.

Geng Qing said, "I previously mentioned to my dad that I wanted to study abroad. In the job that I’m doing now, if I am an overseas graduate, my salary will be several pay grades higher. The school that I planned to go to costs 400,000 yuan a year, but I had just said this casually. I hadn’t planned to put it into action at the moment. I didn’t expect that he would really raise money for me... My dad was always like this. Whenever I said I wanted something, he would go and buy it silently. He never said anything. When I got home, I would suddenly see what I wanted on the table. I’m already so old, but he still treated me like a child." Geng Qing smiled bitterly.

"If you study abroad, how many years would you have to stay there for?"

"I may have to stay abroad for three years."

Chen Shi nodded.

"I just saw Wang...