Starting with Proficiency Panel-Chapter 580: See the truth in 2 hours.

She frowned and said, "Little Li, you're already thirty, not young anymore. As for the other party, how could I not know? At the beginning, I clearly expressed to her family that as long as the guy's character is normal and there aren't any major flaws, it's fine."

Seeing Chen Ke was a bit upset, Li Qing quickly responded, "Sister Chen, I promise I'll contact her soon and ask her out!"

Chen Ke relaxed her eyebrows, nodded slightly, and said, "That's more like it."

Then she continued in a heartfelt manner, "Little Li, if you were a supervisor or manager level now, I absolutely wouldn't push you to quickly find a girlfriend or anything. After all, thirty is a man's career peak, but you must understand, since you decided to be a lay-back type, then you should prioritize your lifelong affairs."

Li Qing earnestly said, "Sister Chen, rest assured, I will take it to heart!"

Watching Chen Ke leave satisfied, Li Qing finally breathed a sigh of relief, but his heart was also warm. Although Chen Ke's words were a bit piercing just now, everything was for his own good.

Since he doesn't have much ambition to strive, and doesn't want to make a name for himself in the workplace, he must take care of his little life.

Even though he learned magic, it doesn't mean he's detached from society.

He took out his phone and unconsciously swiped it for a while, found the contact information of Chen Chencheng given by Chen Ke, then forced himself to dial it.

After so many years without dating, Li Qing's inner resistance to genuinely interacting with the opposite sex grew a bit stronger. Although he often said he wanted to find a girlfriend, when it came to genuinely contacting a woman, he hesitated, thinking about what would happen afterward even before anything began... 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

"Hello, who is this?" Chen Chencheng's pleasant voice came through the phone.

Li Qing adjusted his mindset and spoke, "It's me, Li Qing."

The other side was silent for a moment, seemingly a bit surprised, and her tone became a bit casual.

"Oh, didn't expect a busy person like you to call me."

Listening to Chen Chencheng's laughter, Li Qing felt a bit helpless, but he maintained a calm tone, "Are you free tonight? Want to come out for dinner?"

"Sure, what time and where?"

After Li Qing gave the address and set a time, there wasn't much more small talk, he quickly hung up the phone and continued his research on his golden finger.

After three hours of observation, he found the recognition progress was 1% per hour, which made him feel somewhat acceptable, only needing a little over four days to complete all identification.

This speed was already quite joyful.

So, it was time to study how to simulate editing.

With his current brainpower, although he hadn't much interacted with development before, it didn't mean he couldn't understand code.

Adult learning is painful, but for his brain, which has been developed by the "Basic Meditation Technique," it seemed quite relaxed, everything that looked complicated in code modules now looked incredibly simple, even many times he could extend his understanding from one function code to others.

Moreover, most importantly, his memory became quite good, not at the level where he could memorize things instantly, but just by concentrating and memorizing a few times, he could remember thoroughly.

Learning is really fun!

In between handling a few system issues until the end of work, Li Qing reluctantly took his eyes off the computer screen.

Adult learning is painful, especially in a position like IT operations which requires ongoing learning.

But Li Qing never felt learning was as easy as it had been lately, Wise Man's Time brought him powerful self-control, as well as more efficient learning abilities and robust agility in thinking.

Very impressive, originally thought the talent skills emerging from casting fireballs recently were a disgrace, but unexpectedly, they turned out to be so powerful.

A bit like the Taoist Family's saying of Supreme forgetting emotions, but it wasn't the obliteration of humanity, nor emotions disappearing, rather transforming into a similar state of rationalism.

Tsk...

After work, Li Qing leisurely walked to a nearby coffee shop as agreed, ordered some desserts and coffee, and waited for Chen Chencheng to arrive.

After sliding his phone for a while, Li Qing saw a pair of feet in Martin boots standing next to him; looking up, he saw Chen Chencheng standing cheerfully in front of him.

Jogging jeans, black cotton coat, plus a scarf, and a beanie, her appearance looked quite fresh and pleasant.

Li Qing smiled as he stood up, "Sit."

"Sorry for the wait."

"Not at all, I just got here not long ago."

After briefly exchanging pleasantries, they fell into a silence, Li Qing awkwardly found he couldn't find any topic to discuss with Chen Chencheng, his mind went blank.

Chen Chencheng, observing Li Qing's appearance for some time, couldn't help but let out a 'pfft' in laughter.

"Feeling like you can't find a topic to chat with me?"

Getting his embarrassment pointed out was arguably more embarrassing, he nodded extremely awkwardly, "A bit, I don't know what to say."

"Then you asked me out... oh, I get it, Aunt Chen asked you today, and out of helplessness, you agreed, thus asked me out again?"

Li Qing exclaimed in surprise, "Guessed that accurately?"

Chen Chencheng took out a notebook from her bag and opened it, while speaking, "You know, I'm a psychologist currently pursuing a PhD, mainly researching a sociological subject, it's called 'The Capabilities of Single Males over Five Years to Reengage with the Opposite Sex.'

Li Qing's expression was a bit hard to maintain.

"I find your subject quite insulting to men!"

"It's not about insult or not, it's an objective fact. Nowadays, Huaxia men exceed women by thirty million, hence when pursuing the opposite sex, it's quite a competitive issue among men."

Li Qing raised his eyebrows, "I don't agree with what you say, maybe there's a lot of bachelors in rural areas, but in first and second-tier cities like Shu Capital, the male population is relatively lower than females. In fact, many women aspire to city life, so they move to cities, resulting in cities having more women than men in terms of proportion.

Furthermore, an objective fact is that men before forty all have the opportunity to marry, and not necessarily women of the same age, perhaps eighteen, or twenty-eight years old, so I believe serious gender ratio imbalance is too one-sided."

Chen Chencheng nodded slightly, "I've also thought about these issues, but there still exists a massive single population in cities. As of the current statistics, there's approximately four hundred million singles in Huaxia."

Li Qing shrugged, "Maybe it's the excessive brainwashing by today's marketing accounts targeting women, causing them to think that after using beauty filters they appear a certain way, if there's no car or house, or several hundred thousand as dowry, they wouldn't even acknowledge someone, hence remaining single."