Lu Jingyan really couldn't understand why the man before him, who had even set his smartphone Wi-Fi password to her birthday, could act so nonchalant in the face of her repeated attempts to strike up a conversation.
She couldn't claim to have flirted with hundreds of men, but rounding up, she could barely reach that number. She had encountered tough cases before, but the guy in front of her was seriously getting under her skin with his scummy tactics.
Lu Jingyan stared at the five hundred yuan on the table for a long while before she realized what had happened.
She, Lu Jingyan, the young Miss of the Lu Family, who had been surrounded by a heap of money even before she was a fertilized egg, had actually been dismissed by a man with money!
Lu Jingyan narrowed her eyes, not looking too pleased as she looked up.
She thought Sheng Xian was still looking at her, so she deliberately made her gaze a bit colder and a bit more fierce.
But the man opposite her acted as if she didn't exist, having already thrown the money and gone back to his own business.
Was her presence that insignificant?
Lu Jingyan blinked in disbelief, blinked again, and watched Sheng Xian, who hadn't even lifted an eyelid in the meantime, then cleared her throat defiantly.
Sheng Xian didn't react.
Lu Jingyan cleared her throat harder.
Sheng Xian, still as if he'd gone deaf, didn't react at all.
Lu Jingyan felt that the current situation between her and Sheng Xian was a bit like a primary school student and a university student who had scheduled a fight. The primary school student couldn't sleep all night thinking of strategies and eagerly arrived at the designated spot early in the morning, while the university student, wanting to sleep in, never intended to show up.
Now, isn't that infuriating!
Lu Jingyan kindly gave Sheng Xian three seconds to see if he'd look up at her, and when he still showed no signs of paying attention, she couldn't take it anymore and stretched out her hand to knock on the folder he was engrossed in.
Because she was so annoyed, Lu Jingyan didn't bother calling him "brother" this time, "Hey."
Sheng Xian calmly finished up what he was doing and then slowly looked up.
Already impatient and about to slam the table, Lu Jingyan halted her hand in mid-air when she met Sheng Xian's gaze.
The young girl was very pretty, radiantly so without being vulgar. Her skin was white and tender, almost like that of a baby's, indicating that she came from a good background and was well-mannered. She sat down casually opposite him, back ramrod straight, one hand placed on the table, the other raised to her ear like a well-behaved primary school student raising their hand to answer a teacher's question in class.
Sheng Xian's gaze lingered on Lu Jingyan's slender, pale wrist for a few seconds before slipping down to her face, "Why haven't you left yet?"
Lu Jingyan, with a string of words caught in her throat, was suddenly unable to utter a single one.
Sheng Xian waited a few seconds, and seeing that Lu Jingyan didn't speak, his gaze dropped down to glance at the banknotes pressed under her arm, and finally spoke, "Not enough for a taxi fare?"
Lu Jingyan: "..."
Just as Lu Jingyan was thinking that if Sheng Xian dared to insult her with another hundred yuan, she would never forgive him, Sheng Xian twirled his pen and said indifferently, "You can choose to take the subway."
"..."
Subway.
He actually suggested she take the subway.
It would be more likely for her to buy the subway.
Lu Jingyan almost couldn't resist smashing her phone right onto Sheng Xian's forehead.
Even if he were playing hard to get, there had to be a limit!
The key to the phrase "to catch by releasing" lies in the word "catch". Isn't he afraid that by letting her go so freely, he might actually let her slip away?!
Lu Jingyan wasn't someone with an especially good temper, but he wouldn't lose his temper with people who were insignificant to him.
The scum before her seemed quite capable, triggering an urge in her to punch him.
Beating him up would be easy, but letting him off that lightly would be too cheap.
Lu Jingyan closed her eyes and calmed down for two seconds, then with a forced smile, she picked up the money from the table and stood up.
She had never suffered such humiliation before; this was the first time she had faced such repeated setbacks in front of a man. The more she thought about it, the less she could swallow her pride. Before leaving, as if she had thought of something, she gestured to a waiter not far away: "I suspect he's trying to freeload sex from me."
Waiter: "..."
Lu Jingyan raised her eyebrows: "Do me a favor, bring over a money checker machine; help me see if there's any counterfeit money."
Sheng Xian: "..."
...
Tomorrow is Monday, a workday, and as of half-past midnight, the agitated Lu Jingyan couldn't fall asleep. She threw off her blanket and sat up in bed.
She didn't care it was time to sleep, took out her WeChat, and made a voice call to Song Xian.
Song Xian usually turned her phone off when sleeping; if nobody answered, then she was probably asleep. After about ten seconds, as Lu Jingyan was about to hang up, the call was answered.
Song Xian must have been applying a facial mask, for her speech was a bit muffled: "Just went to wash my face, what's up, baby?"
Lu Jingyan got straight to the point: "Am I not pretty enough?"
Song Xian: "Do you even need to ask, you are the most, most, most beautiful woman, no, goddess I've ever seen."
Lu Jingyan: "Is my body not good enough?"
Song Xian: "Good, definitely good. If my sister Yan were to become a model, she'd be the top angel for sure."
Lu Jingyan: "Then if you were a man, and I took the initiative to strike up a conversation with you and asked you to take me out for a meal, would you want to?"
Song Xian: "Your question is flawed. If I were a man, how could I let you take the initiative? I would definitely be the one rushing to chat you up."
Look at Song Xian's words, then listen to what that scum said.
—"The extra hundred is for your cab fare."
—"You could choose to take the subway."
How come the gap between people is so vast?
After being coaxed by Song Xian, Lu Jingyan's mood finally improved a bit, and she lazily leaned back against the headboard: "Xian, I've decided, Chen Kai's cousin likes to put on airs, right? The more he does, the more I want to take him down. Sooner or later, I will make him cry and beg me not to leave him."
Song Xian: "You spent two hundred bucks and didn't even get a phone number. How are you going to take him down?"
Lu Jingyan opened her mouth: "... I'll have his phone number when I wake up."
Song Xian: "Huh?"
"Before I left Chen Kai's cousin's table, I intentionally left my watch there. I also gave the waiter a 1,000 yuan tip to make sure he reminds Chen Kai's cousin. With a watch that expensive, he's bound to ask Chen Kai to return it to me, then I'll have a chance to get close to him." After messing with so many jerks, she had plenty of tricks. Did they really think Lu Jingyan was someone to be easily dismissed?
Besides, he tried to dismiss her with five hundred yuan; she had to throw it back in his face one way or another.