Chapter 58: I’ll hit you if you want, do I need to pick a day?
The smile on Lin Xiao's face completely froze, and his eyes instantly became sharp.
She was about to open her mouth to fight back, but Su Yu next to her came over with a smile and looked Lin Xiao up and down.
"Oh, Xiaoxiao, why do you look so different today?" Su Yu's tone was exaggerated, with a naive look of pretending to be surprised, "Isn't your nose... a lot straighter than before? And your eyes, they seem more lively too! Did you try some new makeup technique? Or..."
Su Yu paused deliberately and blinked her eyes: "Is there any exclusive high-tech job? Teach us! Look at us old classmates, some stay up late every day to finish manuscripts, some work as office animals, and we are almost yellow-faced women. We also want to learn from you how to become more and more 'refined'!"
She deliberately emphasized the five words "high-tech and hard work", with the ending tone rising slightly.
As soon as these words were spoken, several female classmates who were originally listening to the gossip with their ears perked up were stunned for a moment, then they reacted and one of them couldn't help but burst out laughing.
Then, low snickering sounds spread throughout the small area of the sofa.
In private, people in their small group often gossiped about the traces of surgery on her face.
But due to face and her current status as a big star, no one dared to expose it to her face.
Lin Xiao forced the corners of her mouth to curl, trying to maintain her composure, but the fierce look she gave Su Yu still exposed her embarrassment and anger.
She hates people mentioning her face the most.
"What did you say?" Lin Xiao's voice rose.
She took a sudden step forward, leaned forward, raised her right hand, and pointed it directly at Su Yu's face.
“Pa——” The expected slap did not fall. Instead, there was a crisp sound, but it was not the sound of flesh hitting flesh.
Gu Manman was quick to grab Lin Xiao's wrist and block the attack.
Lin Xiao's nails scratched across the back of Gu Manman's hand, and his sharp nails scraped the Buddhist beads worn on her wrist, pulling them hard.
"Crack——" A slight breaking sound.
Gu Manman only felt her wrist lighten. She looked down and saw that the Buddhist beads on her wrist broke, scattering all over the ground with a crackling sound, rolling on the floor and hitting the marble floor, making a crisp sound.
The box suddenly became quiet; the originally lively atmosphere was interrupted by this sudden scene.
Everyone was stunned, and all eyes turned over here.
The scattered beads rolled everywhere.
"Oh!" The first ones to react were the girls who had just started the commotion. They screamed and quickly bent down to help pick up the beads scattered on the ground.
Lin Xiao stood there in a daze, looking at his empty palms, then at the black beads scattered on the ground. His face turned pale and blue, and he stood there stiffly.
"No need to pick it up!" Lin Xiao took out a thick stack of RMB from her Chanel bag and threw it hard on the table.
"Isn't it just a string of broken beads? How much is it? I'll pay for it!"
A well-mannered male student wearing glasses picked up a few beads, looked at them carefully, and suddenly exclaimed with obvious shock and disbelief in his voice.
"Wait! This bead..."
He seemed to have discovered some treasure, his voice trembling a little, "This, this is not an ordinary bead! This is agarwood! And it is top-grade agarwood!"
The boy's exclamation stunned everyone. They stopped picking up the beads and looked at him with confusion and puzzlement in their eyes.
The male student seemed unaware of the gazes around him. He was still immersed in his own shock, and his voice became more and more excited.
"Look at this oil line! This fragrance! It's definitely top-grade agarwood!!"
He looked up suddenly as if he had thought of something, and his voice changed. "Oh my God! This is... the agarwood Buddhist beads blessed by Master Hongyi?! Last fall, Sotheby's auction house sold one string for... 200 million!"
"Two...hundred million?" The room was immediately in an uproar.
"No...Impossible!" Lin Xiao screamed.
"What nonsense are you talking about! What kind of broken bead is worth 200 million! Do you think it's an antique?!"
The male student with glasses shrank his neck when she yelled at him, but he still insisted, "I... I'm not talking nonsense! I'm a jewelry appraiser! This is definitely top-grade agarwood, there's no doubt about it!"
The more he spoke, the more certain he became, and the look in his eyes when he looked at Gu Manman was full of awe.
Other students also started talking about it.
"Oh my god, Manman, what you are wearing is... a house in your hand?"
"It's more than just a suite. This is a river view villa! It's a top floor duplex!"
Lin Xiao's face turned from blue to white, and then from white to red, looking extremely ugly.
She looked at Gu Manman with resentment in her eyes.
"Heh," she suddenly sneered.
"Such a precious thing can be torn apart so easily?"
"Gu Manman, stop acting here! I think you are doing this on purpose! What do you want to do? Are you trying to scam me?!"
"I didn't think you would suddenly hit someone, and then give me a chance to scam you," said Gu Manman.
"Fake credit?" Su Yu, who was standing next to him, laughed out loud as if she had heard some ridiculous joke. She crossed her arms and glanced at Lin Xiao. "Big star Lin, you think too highly of yourself, don't you? We're using a treasure worth 200 million yuan to fake credit with you?"
Su Yu's words were like a loud slap in the face, slapping Lin Xiao hard in the face.
Lin Xiao was so angry that she was shaking all over. She stared at Gu Manman intently, as if she wanted to cut a piece of flesh from her.
"Sure enough," she gritted her teeth, "I was wondering why you were still writing such a crappy book when you are so rich! Turns out you have a sponsor behind you! No wonder you are so arrogant!"
The financial sponsor?
She had endured her entire night, from her sarcastic tone when she entered the door to her current slander and humiliation.
That's enough.
Gu Manman took a step forward, her movements were so fast that people had almost no time to react. She raised her hand and slapped Lin Xiao hard in the face.
“Bang!”
Everyone was stunned, including Lin Xiao who was stunned.
She covered her swollen cheeks: "You... you dare to hit me?!"
Gu Manman shook her numb hands and looked at her coldly: "If I break your nose, I'll pay for it."
"I'll hit you if you want. Do I need to pick a day?"
Gu Manman's voice was not loud, but it was tough and disgusted, "And, you idiot."
She looked at Lin Xiao's terrified face and said word by word: "If there really is a financial sponsor behind me as you said, and you rush to provoke me like this today, don't you think... you are looking for death?"
Lin Xiao covered his burning cheek, raised his other hand, and slapped Gu Manman in the face recklessly: "You bitch!"
However, her wrist was caught again in mid-air.
Gu Manman's reaction was faster and her eyes were colder.
She grasped Lin Xiao's wrist tightly, and slapped her hard on the other side of her face with her backhand.
“Bang!”
This slap was heavier than the previous one, and the sound was crisp and loud.
Lin Xiao was beaten so hard that he was completely dazed. He staggered back a step, with blood even oozing from the corner of his mouth.
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