Chapter 113: The Academic Prodigy's Dark Moonlight (24)

The Liu family.

Wen Wan held up the helmet for her mother to try on. Her mother was a little surprised, "Yueyue, you were able to get this helmet abroad? I tried to get one with several employees from my company back home, but we still couldn't get one."

Wen Wan put the helmet on Liu's mother, saying, "I might get lucky. You can try it; it's a lot of fun."

Mother Liu was naturally delighted. "This helmet was developed by Gu Sheng's company. This child is really promising. Even your father keeps nagging me about it. He says you shouldn't have gone abroad in the first place. If you had brought Gu Sheng into your family and made him your son-in-law, he could have retired immediately."

Wen Yan: "..."

Her dad really dares to dream; he's the male lead! The male lead is destined to be the female lead's true love, okay? For a vicious cannon fodder father like him, this is truly ambitious.

"Don't let my dad have any illusions. We're just ordinary classmates."

"Yueyue, tell Mom honestly, what exactly happened between you and Gu Sheng back then? Did you confess to him and get rejected, so you left the country in a fit of anger? Or did he confess to you and you rejected him, so you left the country in a fit of anger?"

Wen Wan: "Don't talk nonsense if you don't mean it. What do you mean by being embarrassed and angry?"

"Why is that?"

"Mom, you should try on the helmet. I'm going out shopping to buy some clothes. I didn't bring much luggage back to China."

After quickly sending Liu's mother away, Wen Wan left home and took a taxi to the highest-rated hot pot restaurant in Lancheng, "to eat hot pot."

system:【……】

Can the host get down to business?

When she arrived at the hot pot restaurant, Wen Wan ordered a table full of dishes and meat by herself, and ordered an extra spicy broth. Looking around, she saw groups of people eating hot pot, but she was all alone. Unfortunately, she didn't have any friends here, and she couldn't even find someone to eat with.

Oh well, it's not like I can't eat alone.

After putting the meat in the pan and waiting for it to cook, the system started chanting, "[You can play around, but you still need to hurry up and complete the tasks, understand? Don't try to slack off; this is a matter of life and death.]"

"Hello, mother-in-law."

System: [...] Who is it doing this for? And it even complains about its nagging? With its own host being such a lazy and timid homebody, if it didn't say it a few more times, it would have stayed in there forever.

It would have to urge it on from behind with a small leather whip.

[We don't yet know what Gu Sheng's impression of you is. To avoid any unexpected situations, you need to fully display your vicious side, your money-loving side, and your opportunistic side.]

Wen Yan: "..."

To pounce on it alive?

How shameless.

[And more importantly, you'll also be bullying the female lead. I've prepared some vicious, dark, and scheming quotes for you. Memorize them, try to complete the mission as soon as possible, and then get out of the game.]

Soon the system started reciting those quotes in Wen Wan's ear. Wen Wan saw that the meat was cooked and started to eat it. She almost burned herself with the first bite. "It's so hot!"

Then he blew on it, stuffed the meat into his mouth, and said, "Delicious, this is the taste! I'm going crazy eating hamburgers abroad."

The system watched its host devour the food and knew that the host probably wasn't even listening to what it was saying, so it muted itself.

"Yueyue?!!!"

Wen Wan had just stuffed a beef ball into her mouth when she heard that voice and almost choked on it. At that moment, the person who called her was already standing in front of her. It's true that enemies often meet, and this encounter with Chu Yanran was too fast.

And there was a man beside her, saying, "Yueyue, why didn't you contact me after you came back to China? I could have come pick you up!"

Chu Yanran's makeup was exquisite, and the clothes she wore were not cheap. She even subtly revealed the diamond necklace around her neck. Her hair had been styled several times in the short time it took to greet someone, so Wen Wan couldn't help but notice it.

"I just returned to China yesterday."

"Why are you eating hot pot alone? My boyfriend and I are here for hot pot too, would you mind if there were two more of us?"

Before Wen Wan could answer, Chu Yanran had already led the man next to her to sit opposite Wen Wan. Wen Wan was actually quite bothered, after all, it was too awkward to be scooping vegetables from the same soup base with someone she didn't know well.

"Let me introduce you. This is my boyfriend, Xu Wen. He works at Chuangyue Group now. We met at work. Yueyue, have you been single all these years abroad?"

Wen Wan: "Mm."

This person really doesn't know how to talk; they just hit a nerve with this single girl right away.

"Let me introduce you, Wen. This is Liu Yayue, my best friend from high school. We're really good friends, but Yueyue went abroad after the college entrance exam." Xu Wen greeted Wen Wan.

"Hello, I am Xu Wen."

Wen Wan nodded. "I'm Liu Yayue. Would you like some hot pot? I've almost finished my broth. How about I ask the owner to change it for you?"

"Yes, thank you, Ms. Liu."

Wen Wan asked the owner to add another broth to the pot, and Chu Yanran also ordered quite a few dishes. Wen Wan felt that she had lost her appetite, and the hot pot didn't taste good anymore.

"Yueyue, I miss you so much! We should keep in touch more often. What are you planning to do when you go back to China?"

Wen Wan: "Just lazing around and waiting to die."

Chu Yanran: "..." She really didn't expect Liu Yayue to answer her like that, and for a moment she was speechless.

"Yueyue, you're really joking."

Wen Wan took a bite of meat. That's what she really thought. Since she was destined to have a bad end anyway, wouldn't it be better to just eat and wait to die?

“After graduating from University A, I joined Chuang Yue. It was through joining Chuang Yue that I met A-Wen. That’s fate.”

Wen Wan: "Yes, congratulations."

Chu Yanran looked at the woman in front of her. Her clothes were of unknown brand and she didn't wear any valuable jewelry. However, her face was more delicate than it had been five years ago. Even Xu Wen's gaze seemed to be drawn to her. Chu Yanran tugged at Xu Wen's clothes.

"Darling, feed me. I want to eat the meat you cooked for me yourself."

Wen Yan: "..."

Hey lady, do you have to show off your love right under my nose?

"Yanran, your friend is still here."

"Yueyue, you won't mind, will you? My boyfriend and I are used to it, and we can't change it all at once."

Wen Wan took another bite of meat. "It's nothing."

Chu Yanran subconsciously showed off the ring on her hand, but the person opposite her didn't even raise their head. She originally wanted to show off her current life. The Liu family company had run into problems a couple of years ago and its business was not as good as before. She was no longer the Chu Yanran of the past. She now had the best job and a boyfriend who was a rich second-generation heir.

However, Liu Yayue still didn't take the bait.

"Yueyue, now that you've returned to China, do you still remember Gu Sheng?"

Wen Wan paused with her chopsticks, and Chu Yanran continued, "Who would have thought? Gu Sheng, the poor student back then, is completely different now. Mengxin Technology is a company he co-founded, and the currently popular holographic helmet is their product. Now, Gu Sheng is a well-known business upstart in Lancheng and even across the country."

"Don't you regret abandoning him back then? If you hadn't gone abroad, you two..." Before Chu Yanran could finish speaking, Wen Wan was really annoyed. This Chu Yanran was just as annoying as she had been five years ago.

However, the system reminded her to maintain her persona.

Chu Yanran was an ally who brought about her own demise.