Seeing that he was on the losing side here, Gogol hurriedly changed the subject: "What is the name of that student you mentioned?"
"Are you planning to mess with him?" Arthur shrugged and said, "Nikolai, you can't do that. He's an ambitious and good student; the other day we chatted quite a bit about Shakespeare."
"How could that be? I'm not that kind of person." Gogol patted his chest and assured, "I just plan to get his suggestions and personally ask what areas need improvement."
Arthur didn't have the habit of betraying others for no reason. However, he was genuinely curious to see what kind of sparks would fly between two Russian literary figures with a student-teacher relationship, so he blurted out, "Second-year literature major Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev, he just transferred from Moscow University this semester."
Gogol heard this name, and a look of surprise appeared on his face.
