I Have Decided to Go Look for My Father

>“Common emitter, common base stage, and common collector,” replied Gu Xi without missing a eat.

“……”

All of a sudden, Gu Shao was the speechless one.

His intention of asking the question was to tell Gu Xi in the most direct way that it was too soon for a junior high school student like her to be delving into professional knowledge and to stop overthinking.

He did not expect Gu Xi to know the answer to his question.

The atmosphere became awkward for a second there.

Gu Shao was a bit troubled.
He felt as though he had lifted up a rock only to drop it on his own foot.

“Your current responsibility is to focus on the knowledge in school.
You shouldn’t be wasting your time on things that you can’t accomplish,” said Gu Shao in a deep voice with a solemn look.

Upon hearing that, Gu Xi’s heart sank.
She wanted to whine some more but, looking at the solemn look on Gu Shao, she nodded and said softly, “Okay……”

“Are you done with your homework?”

“Not yet.”

“Go work on it then.”

“Oh.”

***

As her plan to “bump” books had foiled, Gu Xi returned to her own room, crestafallen, and started on the remainder of her homework assignments.

Someone knocked on her door after a little while.

Gu Xi went to open up the door and saw that it was Gu Shao.

“Dad.”

“You finished your homework?”

“Just a little bit left.” She added immediately, “I am almost done.”

Without saying anything else, Gu Shao handed two books over to Gu Xi.

–– They were the same two that she was eyeing on Gu Shao’s bookshelf earlier.

This was the first time Gu Shao had entered Gu Xi’s room.
Glancing inside of it from outside the door, with the exception of the pink colors that could pain one’s eyes, everything else was neat and organized.

Gu Shao noticed a few books on Gu Xi’s shelf.

Gu Xi probably brought those with her.

What surprised Gu Shao was that 95% of these books looked familiar to him and over half of them were written by him.

His eyes flickered a little.
Looking down at the girl who was looking at him with anticipation in her eyes, the corners of his mouth relaxed some.

“You can read them but don’t let them distract you from your schoolwork.” Lu Shao stressed seriously.

But, if one was to listen carefully, one would be able to tell that his tone was nowhere as serious as it was before.

“Thanks Dad!”

Gu Xi wasn’t sure whether it was her imagination that Gu Shao seemed to be in a somewhat good mood right now.

Should she also come clean and let him know that she had just registered using his ID number while he was in a good mood?

Before Gu Xi had made up her mind, Gu Shao said to her, “I will be in the study.
Bring your homework assignments for me to sign when you are done.” He turned and left.

“Oh, alright.”