Could it be that they might offer to fulfill some other wish of hers? And the price to be paid... might correspond to that wish?
If the temptation was significant enough...
And the price not so unacceptable...
"However, if someone talks to you like this, you have to be careful. There are a lot of scammers out there these days," Peipei warned her, "Why are you asking? Didn't you receive some call offering an unsecured loan? You must not believe it! That could very well be usury!"
"Nothing like that! I don't need money!"
"If you're short on cash, I can lend you some," Peipei said directly, "My parents usually give me quite a lot of money, so I'm relatively flush."
"Mmm... I'm not short on money."
Yueyin knew that Peipei's family was much wealthier. Even if she failed her postgraduate exams, her parents planned to send her abroad.
"Xishi, when are you going to start your thesis?"
"I've already started picking a topic, and plan to begin writing in a while."
