Chapter 63 Refusing to Steal Parking Spaces!

"Beep, beep!"

The car was blocking Gu Yin's way forward. Since it couldn't manage to park after all this time, Gu Yin naturally had to honk his horn, didn't he?

"Stop honking. They're struggling to park, so they're already anxious enough..." Xia Qianyi suddenly decided to be understanding at this moment.

"Ha."

Upon hearing this, Gu Yin chuckled instantly and directly launched into a mocking literary output: "Did you just see the projection of your own future self trying to park after getting a driver's license? Feeling a deep sense of empathy? Trying to show some compassion?"

For drivers, nothing is more annoying than someone trying to urge you to be "kind" while you are venting your frustration on the street.

If it's someone on the outside, you can at least yell at them from a distance. But when the person right next to you tells you to be kind, all those colorful curses would probably end up being vomited right onto you.

[Ahahaha...]

Viewers watching the show on the rival program *Reconciliation with Life* burst into laughter, declaring that Coach Gu's roast was spot on!

"..." Xia Qianyi felt immensely offended.

"Is that even human language?" Before she had a chance to retort, Mengmeng in the back seat chimed in out of nowhere: "Our Qianyi had good intentions to remind you, and not only are you ungrateful, but you're also resorting to a personal attack?"

"A personal attack?" Gu Yin grinned, pointing at the BMW ahead that still hadn't backed into the space, and said, "Since you two are so kind-hearted, why don't you get out and help him back the car in?"

"If your driving skills aren't up to par, maybe you can lend a hand and just carry it into the space for him."

"You!" Mengmeng's mouth was twisted in anger.

1V2, and Gu Yin won by a landslide. He was the quintessential troublemaker who feared nothing; the more people provoked him, the harder he would lean on the horn.

"Beep, beep, beep!!!"

Inside the underground parking garage, the sound of car horns echoed endlessly.

Are you saying Gu Yin was in the wrong?

Please!

My goddamn path was blocked by that BMW. I'm here to eat too, and I'm in a rush. When he failed his first attempt at backing in, I said nothing and just waited; on the second and third attempts, I still gave him some face. But you've tried five or six times and still haven't gotten in, and you're still dawdling here—is there anything wrong with me giving a few honks?

Other people were waiting on the side, and after wasting so much time he still couldn't get in. If it were Gu Yin, he would have felt too ashamed to stay and would have just left, rather than parking the car at all...

"You really..." Xia Qianyi rolled her eyes, though she didn't say anything further.

***

It is worth mentioning that the BMW driver was already clueless about parallel parking to begin with, and with Gu Yin's relentless honking, he panicked even more...

Perhaps feeling thoroughly embarrassed, after failing yet another attempt to back in, he simply cranked the steering wheel hard, stepped on the gas, and drove away.

"Ahahaha..."

Seeing this, Gu Yin couldn't be happier. He started clapping and cheering inside the car, shouting toward the retreating gray BMW: "Go back to driving school and practice for another two years!"

With that, Gu Yin stepped on the accelerator and pulled right up...

Approaching the parking space, when his driver's side rearview mirror aligned parallel with the garage space line, Gu Yin turned the steering wheel fully to the right.

As the front of the car swung to the right, the rearview mirror on the passenger side showed the corner of the parking space coming into view. Without even glancing at the backup camera, Gu Yin confidently pressed the gas pedal and backed right into the spot in a single smooth motion.

"Such a simple little thing, seriously..." Recalling the sight of the gray BMW struggling to reverse earlier, Gu Yin was still annoyed and muttered to himself, "Only Ma Jixiang could teach a student like that!"

Whenever you encounter a moron on the road, they were invariably taught by Ma Jixiang—this was Gu Yin's consistent principle.

"This way of backing into a parking space... it doesn't seem like you taught us this, right?" Xia Qianyi watched in a daze, the young girl scratching her head and asking innocently, "Or is that something you teach later on?"

In her memory, the Subject Two maneuvers she learned were strictly the standard reverse parking and parallel parking.

"They don't teach this kind of thing in driving schools, but this is much better suited for fighting over parking spots..." Gu Yin unbuckled his seatbelt, grabbed his belongings, and pointed at a vehicle that had just driven past their front bumper, saying, "In places where parking spots are extremely scarce and you have to fight for them, using the parking methods taught in driving school makes it very easy for someone else to snatch the spot right out from under you."

As the saying goes, rules are dead, but people are adaptable.

There are all sorts of ways to reverse into a parking space, and no rule says you must strictly follow what is taught in driving school. What driving school teaches is merely the fundamentals; how you drive afterward depends entirely on personal intuition and wit.

Just like moments ago, because that gray BMW had wasted multiple attempts trying to back in, not only had Gu Yin been left waiting there, but several other cars had piled up behind him as well...

Under such circumstances, if Gu Yin had parked using the standard reverse-parking method taught in driving school, he would first have had to drive forward past the parking space by nearly two car lengths before reversing.

And with cars tailgating him from behind, if you drive past the parking space like that, a sharp-witted driver behind you would simply nose right into it...

Even if they didn't intend to steal your spot, they would just follow your car forward and end up bumping right into your rear bumper.

How are you supposed to back up after that?

These are all practical driving techniques that can never be learned in a driving school.

[Hiss...]

The viewers in the live broadcast room of *Reconciliation with Life* expressed their agreement as well, and the chat comments scrolled by:

[When I first got my driver's license, I actually lost a few parking spots precisely because of this.]

[You've got to admit, Coach Gu's reversing method is genuinely practical, and the difficulty is way lower than standard reverse parking...]

[Damn, to be honest with you all, when I first got my license, I was completely clueless about parking. I'd look everywhere for lines and couldn't find them no matter what...]

[The lines for reverse parking in Subject Two at driving schools are all painted in. Once you're out in the real world, there are no lines provided for you to align with, and that car just now probably failed to park because of that.]

...

"Actually, the principle is the same..." Fearing that the amount of knowledge tonight might be too much for Xia Qianyi to handle, Gu Yin simply explained, "Take just now, for instance. I turned the steering wheel fully to the right, pointing the rear of the car toward the parking space. In reality, you still have to watch the corner of the bay through the rearview mirror, look at the lines of the parking space, and make minor corrections along the way..."

"Oh..." Xia Qianyi nodded, wearing a blank, adorable expression.

"...Forget it, forget it." Gu Yin waved his hand. "This is still too profound for you. Focus on mastering parallel parking first, and just try your best not to mount the curb when you're out on the road."

"I am not that stupid. You don't need to take it that far." Xia Qianyi couldn't help rolling her eyes.

"You..." Gu Yin paused for a second, turning his head to look at the young girl in the passenger seat. The garage was dim, but as the car door opened, the interior lights clicked on, casting a warm, yellowish glow across the stray locks of bangs resting on the girl's forehead, making her breathtakingly beautiful...

Yet Gu Yin was utterly merciless: "Why don't you put your hand on your heart and ask yourself—when you say you aren't stupid, does it hurt?"

"Gu Yin!" Xia Qianyi shouted, using his full name!

[Ahahahahaha...]

The audience watching the show next door were laughing their heads off. The daily banter between these two was simply too hilarious!

Gu Yin was the only person alive who could infuriate Xia Qianyi to this extent with just a sentence or two.

Amidst the laughter and teasing, having parked the car, the three of them walked toward the mall entrance and took the elevator up.

The underground garage was still packed with cars, with many wandering back and forth searching in vain for a parking space. Just at that moment, a black Audi swerved left and right for quite a while before finally coming to a halt—directly in front of the parking space where Gu Yin's BYD Qin was parked.

It blocked his car right at the front bumper.