Foolish Children and the Four Great Inventions

Liu Chang'an discovered that with Shangguan Dandan around, there was no need to press the electric scooter's horn. Whenever pedestrians ahead needed warning to move aside, Shangguan Dandan would voluntarily go "beep beep."

Normally, honking was always irritating, but Shangguan Dandan's beeping was different. When drivers and pedestrians ahead saw a cute long-haired girl sitting in a boy's arms and going beep beep, the corners of their mouths would unconsciously lift. They simply could not bring themselves to feel annoyed.

Shangguan Dandan still could not ride an electric scooter. She remained utterly obsessed with virtual driving... her hands pressed over Liu Chang'an's, her body twisting with the scooter as it turned, just like people playing racing games in an arcade.

Liu Chang'an had always thought learning to ride an electric scooter was incredibly easy. Even Zhu Juntang could learn it... Zhu Juntang had already mastered all kinds of self-balancing vehicles, and learning to ride a scooter was not nearly as difficult as those things.

But now, he felt Shangguan Dandan might never learn. After failing once, she had never tried riding one herself again.

Whenever he saw her with an electric scooter, she was either touching it or pushing it. He had never seen her actually ride it.

Sigh. Back in those days, in the palace struggles, although he had voluntarily yielded to some extent, he had ultimately lost to an empress dowager like her. Even now, Liu Chang'an still found it hard to accept.

"Dandan, other than acting cute, can you do anything else?" Liu Chang'an felt that Shangguan Dandan had fallen far too low. He always wanted to save her, to pull her free from this muddled, aimless state of doing nothing every day.

At the very least, she should be like him—maintaining a positive attitude toward learning