Chapter 55: Modern driving schools really do teach you real skills!

Busy!

Hands and feet extremely busy!

This was Xia Qianyis most direct impression as she sat in the passenger seat and watched Gu Yin perform a "drift."

Approaching a right turn, drivers would normally slow down to make the turn, but Gu Yin suddenly slammed his foot on the accelerator!

"Vroom!"

The engine roared, and the gap between the cars nose and the vehicle stopped at the intersection ahead closed rapidly. A collision seemed imminent!

"Stop... stop!" Xia Qianyiyi was just about to remind Gu Yin...

When she saw Gu Yin fiercely stomp on the clutch with his left foot, execute a signature Flaming Hero pose, and yank up the golden right hand that had been resting on the handbrake!

With just a slight twitch of the steering wheel to the right, Xia Qianyis perceived the scenery outside the window—which had been rushing backward frantically—pause at an astonishing speed and execute a sharp turn.

Accompanied by the screech of burning tires, the rear of the car swung out to the left, completing a buttery-smooth 90-degree drift.

Immediately afterward, Gu Yin counter-steered rapidly, released the handbrake, methodically shifted into third gear, floored the accelerator, and shifted into fifth gear. Not only did the car fail to lose any speed, but it cleared the turn at maximum velocity!

"What the hell?" The sheer smoothness of the maneuver left the two paparazzi following behind utterly dumbfounded. The chubby guy and the cap-wearing man stared at each other in blank dismay, neither of them expecting a driving school instructor to be drifting!

The chubby guy even began to question reality: "My instructor never taught me this when I was learning to drive!"

The cap-wearing man angrily blurted out: "I knew the instructor must have held something back when he was teaching me!"

"Ahhh!" Inside the car, Xia Qianyis expression distorted in terror. The petite female celebrity curled herself into a ball, gripped the door handle with both hands, and screamed, "Stop the car! Ill give you money! Stop! I'm not playing anymore!"

She deeply regretted asking Gu Yin to help her shake off the paparazzi trailing them. She would rather be followed by the paparazzi than endure this kind of torture!

"Haha..." Seeing how terrified Xia Qianyiyi was, far from stopping, Gu Yin took perverse delight in her misery. "You should be thankful we're in a instructor car today, and there aren't many cameras around here. Otherwise, it would take some serious effort to shake those two guys off tonight."

A C1 driving school car had a manual transmission, whereas his BYD Qin was an automatic. While automatics were not incapable of drifting, they certainly couldn't do it with this level of fluidity.

"You haven't shaken them off yet, though..." The young girl didn't dare open her eyes, but she refused to yield verbally.

"We'll shake them off in a minute." Confident and composed, Gu Yin drove straight ahead.

At this point, they had entered a stretch of narrow roads in an old residential district. It was past ten o'clock, and with the temperature dropping over the past couple of days, most residents of the old neighborhood had already gone indoors to rest. There weren't even many electric scooters on the narrow streets, let alone cars.

The old residential complex lacked underground parking, so cars were parked along both sides of the road, and the intersections were jammed as well. On a road with only two lanes in total, let alone making a U-turn, anyone negotiating a simple turn had to back up and maneuver back and forth twice out of sheer caution.

Gu Yin was relatively familiar with this area, mainly because there was a clinic here with a doctor rumored to be exceptionally skilled at treating bone spurs using a folk remedy. Gu Yin's mother had foot trouble back then, and he used to make trips over here quite often...

"Screech!"

In the cramped one-way street, the sound of tires frictioning against the asphalt was endless. Gu Yin's taillights left afterimages in the night as he rounded several corners, completely blowing the minds of the two paparazzi trailing behind!

"No, should we really keep chasing?" Having nearly scraped the parked cars along the roadside several times, the blue-capped man was sweating profusely.

They were paparazzi, not race car drivers! Forget knowing how to drift; the cars they drove were all automatic!

The roads in this old neighborhood were narrow as hell, and the intersections were short. Several times, just as they managed to struggle around a corner, Gu Yin was already on the verge of vanishing into the next intersection. If they had missed his taillights at the previous intersection for even a second, they would have lost him completely!

Anyone with half a brain could tell Gu Yin was an expert. Were they seriously still going to chase him?!

"Keep... keep chasing for a bit longer," the chubby guy said, putting on a brave face.

"Easy for you to say when you're just sitting there!" Muttering a complaint, the cap-wearing man pressed harder on the accelerator.

Despite all his grumbling, the guy's driving skills were genuinely impressive; somehow, he managed not to lose Gu Yin...

"Still not giving up?" Catching this scene in the rearview mirror while his hands were burning hot with momentum, Gu Yin thought to himself: *Alright, let's play with you guys then!*

A two-way street, plus the emergency lanes outside the solid lines on either side, amounted to only four lanes in total. In the old, shabby neighborhood at night, the emergency lanes were already packed tight with private cars, leaving effectively only two lanes open for travel across the entire road.

"They surely can't lose us now, right?" Seeing Gu Yin transition from the alleyways onto a main road, the two paparazzi actually felt a collective sigh of relief, assuming they definitely wouldn't lose him this time...

But who could have anticipated!

Right at that moment!

The taillights of Gu Yin's instructor car ahead suddenly lit up.

At that split second, both paparazzi felt a sinister premonition.

However, before they could even react...

"Screech!"

Accompanied by yet another painfully familiar screech of tires against the pavement, Gu Yin in the lead car appeared to be drifting again!

"No, where the hell is he drifting to now?!" The observant chubby guy in the rear car felt his scalp go numb!

Previously, whenever Gu Yin drifted, he did it at intersections. But this was a straightaway! There were no intersections on either side, just a straight road with the emergency lanes crammed full of cars. Was he planning to drift sideways straight into the parked vehicles?!

"Ahhh!"

Xia Qianyiyi, who had been screaming her lungs out from the very beginning, finally managed to open her eyes and witness this exact scene, whereupon her hanging heart officially flatlined.

"Slap, slap, slap!"

The female celebrity's delicate hands frantically battered Gu Yin's shoulder as she cried out in a mental breakdown:

"Stop the car! Stop it right now, ahhh!"

"Ouch!" While muttering a complaint, Gu Yin's hands on the steering wheel were as steady as a rock. Had Xia Qianyiyi been paying close attention, she would have noticed that during his previous entries into turns, Gu Yin only gave the steering wheel a slight tug before counter-steering more heavily; but this time...

He spun the steering wheel all the way hard left!

He yanked the handbrake firmly, and amid the coordination of throttle and clutch, the cars nose snapped into a sharp turn. Once it reached a certain angle, the front end locked in place while the rear of the car began to spin wildly!

The scale of this rotation was vastly greater than the previous two!

Where it had been 90 degrees before, this time it was a full 180 degrees!

From inside the car, Xia Qianyiyi couldn't clearly see, but from the perspective of the two paparazzi in the rear vehicle, Gu Yin's car nose jammed into the opposing lane, the rear end immediately initiated a drift, and the vehicle executed a 180-degree spin at an astonishing angle, effectively turning completely around to face them!

"A drift U-turn?!" The cap-wearing man driving was utterly dumbfounded, thinking to himself: *A driving school instructor can actually pull this off?!*

This was far too exaggerated!

"Damn, he's actually kind of a pro..." Even the observant chubby guy couldn't help but marvel.

On such a cramped little road, even professional race car drivers who had won major competition awards wouldn't dare claim they could execute a drift U-turn like this without scratching or bumping anything, right?

In their impression, Xia Qianyiyi's driving school instructor was just someone who occasionally got into minor traffic disputes and tried to grab eyeballs on the show *Reconciliation with Life*—just an ordinary driving school instructor, wasn't he?

No one told them this driving school instructor had such insane technical skills!

The cap-wearing man wide-eyed the road ahead and muttered to himself:

"Driving schools these days really do teach you real skills..."