The Urban Dao Child

The door of the house was opened when Yang Dao just sat down at the dining table. He quickly stood up and saw Feng Yun closing the door silently. He walked up to her and squinted his eyes as he said, "You promised not to work today."

Feng Yun did not expect him to wake up so soon. Guess she did not realize the recovery capability of Yang Dao's physique. She smiled apologetically and said, "I apologize Young Master, but something really urgent came up. You fell asleep while you were eating. So, I took you home. I did not expect you to wake up before I come back."

Yang Dao snorted, said, "You are punished to eat the food I made." then he held her jade wrist and took her to the dining table. Made her sit in his chair and started to serve her. Feng Yun immediately waved her hand in panic. How could she let her Young Master attend to her? 

Yang Dao smiled and said, "What? Could it be that the Dao Child is not affected by the ledger of Karma? You take care of me so much, in return, if I cannot even serve you, then will it not be a violation of Dao? You take care of me and I look out for you, this balance among us is what is dao. A familiar spirits Dao is to look after the master while the master should also follow his Dao of responsibility towards the spirits." his voice was soft and warm. 

He spoke after a pause, "Even if you are the big grandmaster of elementals and cannot fall sick. Some stress accumulation is still possible. What are you gawking at Sister Yun? Eat, you big beauty." with a cheerful tone he picked up a spoon and fed Feng Yun some soup. 

Feng Yun finally woke up from her stupor as the sweet and sour soup enwrapped her tongue. Her eyes sparkled as the subtle blend of tastes overtook her. Yang Dao fed her with a spoon in his hands. The entire time his face had a gentle smile smeared on it. To him, Feng Yun was his family, an elder sister who did not know how to take care of herself. 

After the meal, the beauty was asked to sleep while the boy went inside his study. Tonight he was going to finish the coding of 'Insta-late'. The naming sense was terrible but according to human psychology. People pay more attention to weird things. So this way he was sure to have an impact on the market. 

Fingers turned into after images as the speed increased after some initial warming up. The eyes were moving in correspondence with the flickering characters on the monitor. Yang Dao was just debugging the BETA version he tested in the hospital while adding some new features. The whole process lasted for a couple of hours. 

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The next morning, Yang Dao was dressed in his usual college attire and after an energy-filled meal with Feng Yun, he left the house while Feng Yun left for her office as well. She also had to meet Jelena today. Yang Dao was riding his bike Silence today. The time of commute was reduced significantly. Today the boy was going to submit his software to Professor Dew and ask her to get it tested among the special cultural exchange students. Except for the Crypto nation, every nation sent students outside for a harmonious exchange. 

The boy was a talk on the campus. His contagious smile made almost every girl feel their heart flutter. But none would approach to talk to him, a halo of Feng Yun's younger brother acted as both the sword and the shield for him. 

He arrived at the staff room, a lot of teachers would gather here in their free time. He knocked on the door, after someone asked, "Who is it?"

Yang Dao peeked in and replied, "Apologies for the disturbance sir, may I know if Professor Dew is here?"

Kylie Dew was having her morning tea when she heard someone looking for her. She sensed that the voice was familiar. Then she said, "Come in."

Yang Dao walked inside and first, he greeted every teacher present in the room. Almost all the teachers inside knew him, this boy was taking on two major courses and two minor courses at the same time. Who would not know him? Professor Dew asked him, "Student Dao, what is it?"

Yang Dao took out a portable hard disk and said, "Semester protect submission, Professor."

Everyone was surprised. You know one semester would be six months long and now it has been only 20 days or so and this guy is already submitting one? Is this a joke? Professor Dew almost spewed out the tea in her mouth. She said after gulping it in, "Student Dao are you sure it is done? I will deduct your marks if it is half-assed."

Yang Dao asked with confusion, "Why would it be half-assed? You can test the program yourself. If then rank it." his eyes had no flicker of hesitation. The professor was convinced. She said, "You will wait here, I will check it right now. If it is not up to the mark then you will be flunked in my course."

Yang Dao nodded slightly. He was not afraid of failure. The teacher connected the Hard disk to the computer on her table and quickly ran the software after a scan. A small floating cloud appeared in the bottom right corner of the screen. The cursor move and the lady clicked on the cloud. A mini prompt box appeared in front of her. 

She glanced at everyone in the room and asked one of the foreign guardian teacher, to help her test the effectiveness of the program. The teacher nodded and spoke some words in his native tongue. To everyone's surprise, the translation was returned almost instantly and it was perfect. The foreign teacher was excited he said, "This product can ease a lot of trouble of the exchange students who are not capable of fluid communication."

Yang Dao replied, "The mobile version will be launched soon, you can ask the higher-ups of the university to equip all the computers with this software but outside the college, you will need to use the mobile app. My company will be presenting it to the market soon."

His words made the people bewildered for a second. They recalled that this boy is Feng Yun's brother. It was normal for him to have a company of his own.