TFWYH – Chapter 454 Forcing him to memorize

Ling Yu nodded. “Indeed, it is I.”

Jin Lin: …

Since when did top scholars stop studying properly and start going around smashing gambling houses?

Ling Yu had said everything he needed to say and urged again, “It’s getting late. Hurry and memorize.”

Jin Lin looked at the more than twenty pages densely packed with writing and instantly felt two heads weren’t enough for the headache.

“I… I can’t memorize this!”

Ling Yu raised a brow slightly. “Are you sure?”

Jin Lin nodded with difficulty. “I really can’t. If I could memorize like this, I would’ve passed the provincial exam long ago.”

“Is that so?” Ling Yu curved his lips into a smile, his gaze gradually turning mischievous.

Under that look, Jin Lin’s heart started pounding wildly. “W-what are you doing?”

Just as he finished speaking, the door was pushed open.

Tang Wan walked in carrying a cloth bundle.

“You’ll know very soon,” Ling Yu said with a smile, looking at her. “Where is it?”

“Right here!” Tang Wan patted the bundle. It wriggled a few times—clearly something alive was inside.

Jin Lin’s sixth sense screamed that he needed to leave immediately. Staying here was definitely dangerous.

But before he could run, Tang Wan shut the door, dropped the bar into place, opened the bundle, and took out—

“Hisss—”

A brown snake with dark wavy markings cheerfully flicked its tongue. It was over a meter long and as thick as a child’s arm.

The moment it came out, it coiled around Tang Wan’s arm and opened its mouth to bite.

“AAAAAHHH—!” Jin Lin shrieked, all the color draining from his face. He tipped backward along with his chair and crashed to the floor flat on his back.

Tang Wan swiftly pinched the snake’s head and looked at the shrieking Jin Lin in confusion before glancing at Ling Yu. “Husband, he really is afraid of snakes.”

“Indeed.” Ling Yu stood up, walked over to Jin Lin, and hauled him upright. “Shut up.”

Jin Lin instantly clamped his mouth shut, though his eyes were filled with pure terror.

Ling Yu could even feel him trembling.

…This fool was just as afraid of snakes as in the previous life, Ling Yu silently mocked in his heart. Aloud, he said, “Memorize. Or I’ll have Wan’er let the snake bite you.”

“I’ll memorize! I’ll memorize right now!” Jin Lin’s voice was on the verge of tears. His legs were as weak as noodles.

The moment Ling Yu let go, he nearly collapsed again.

Tang Wan promptly stretched the snake toward him. As if revived at full health, he sprang up in one leap, dashed to the table, grabbed the papers, and began memorizing.

But his eyes kept darting toward the snake.

“Focus, or it’ll bite you,” Tang Wan warned, extending the snake again.

Jin Lin shuddered violently and hurriedly averted his gaze, reading loudly from the pages.

After reading for a while, he wailed, “I—I need to pee! C-can I go take care of it first?”

Ling Yu replied coldly, “No. There’s a chamber pot in the room. Wan’er, step outside for a moment before coming back in.”

“….” His escape plan failed. Jin Lin truly burst into tears. “I suddenly don’t need to pee anymore!”

“Oh? Then hurry and memorize.”

Ling Yu knew everything about Jin Lin and had him completely under control.

Thus began Jin Lin’s miserable memorization session.

But he truly couldn’t do it!

He would remember the beginning clearly, but the moment he tried to recite the later part, he forgot the earlier lines.

After mumbling for more than two hours, he hadn’t even finished memorizing the first page.

Ling Yu pressed a hand to his forehead. Even threatening him with a snake didn’t work?

Jin Lin himself was anxious and terrified—afraid Tang Wan might really release the snake to bite him, yet furious at his own inability to memorize.

Tang Wan felt this couldn’t go on and kindly suggested, “Why don’t you try singing it instead?”