"Why do you sound like you doubt me? How can I cheat on you, brother? I've said a lot of good things for you this time, and it's your birthday the day after tomorrow, and I've invited her to attend."
If he hadn't said it, Zhou Qizheng would have forgotten about his birthday: "She agreed to go?"
Li Yuxuan nudged him with his shoulder in a sly way: "If you can't seize this opportunity, you'll be sorry for me trying so hard to help you. Also, men need to pretend sometimes. You can't scold others like a lady. You need to pretend to be weak, so that women will pity you, feel sorry for you, and feel sorry for you. You should use this good excuse your father gave you."
After saying that, he pulled up Zhou Qizhen's still slightly swollen right hand and said, "Let her know that you were injured because of her."
…
After Lu Xiaoqiao finished chatting with Li Yuxuan, she began to worry. She couldn't go to celebrate someone's birthday empty-handed, but she was already poor and couldn't afford to leave.
When I was chatting idly in the afternoon, I heard Lin Lin mention his uncle's birthday: "Xiao Qiao, you have nothing to do tomorrow, can you go shopping with me? I want to buy a birthday present for my uncle."
"Sure, your uncle helped me a lot a few days ago, so I want to go to his birthday the day after tomorrow."
Lin Lin was usually carefree, and focused all her attention on the fact that her younger sisters also had to go, and didn't notice how her uncle helped her at all.
"Really? That's great! You don't know how boring it is for me every year when it comes to my uncle's birthday. They never take me with them to play, and they are all older than me, so we can't get along. I will be so happy to have you here this year."
Lu Xiaoqiao smiled and pretended to ask casually, "What do you usually give your uncle on his birthday?"
Lin Lin held her chin and thought for a while: "It's small things for men, such as ties or tie clips. A few years ago, you could give a wallet or something like that as a gift. Now everyone pays with their mobile phones and no one uses wallets anymore. There are so few choices. My uncle smokes, so I was thinking of buying him a lighter this year. I saw one online a few days ago, but it's only sold in offline stores."
Lu Xiaoqiao's eyes lit up instantly: "Lighter? How much is it?"
I feel this should be very affordable. If possible, I can let Lin Lin buy something else and she can buy the lighter.
“It seems to be more than 10,000!”
"More than 10,000? That expensive?"
"It's okay. My uncle has a lighter that costs more than 200,000 yuan."
Lu Xiaoqiao was shocked when she heard this. Are all lighters so expensive? She had set the price of lighters at one yuan each, which her father used. Even if the packaging was better and it had a brand name, a few hundred yuan should be enough. She never thought it would be so expensive. She really wanted to compete with those rich people. Why did she have to pay so much for lighters?
I only have two thousand left in my hand, and I still have to eat and take the bus, and now I have to buy him a gift.
After thinking about it, she realized there was no need to put on an act. The intention was enough. As for those luxury goods, she couldn't afford them. Even if she didn't lend the money to Momo, her budget was too high for her to afford.
After I figured it out, I stopped worrying about it and worked hard the whole afternoon, hoping to get a custom-made order in the near future and earn more money.
After getting home from get off work in the evening, I was about to eat some noodles when I received a call from Secretary Ding. My hands were a little wet from washing, so I switched to external speaker after answering the call.
"Ms. Lu, you must be home now. Mr. Zhou asked someone to send some Huadiao cooked and drunken crabs for you to try. They have been placed at your door. Please go out and get them."
The phone was on loudspeaker, so Zhao Jia, who was sitting next to him, naturally heard it. Lu Xiaoqiao said a few words of thanks and then hung up. Zhao Jia opened the door and saw an insulated box with a hand bag at the door.
"Xiao Qiao, Mr. Zhou really loves you. He thinks of you in everything. He knows that you like to eat big crabs, so he often gives them to you. On the other hand, you only gave him hazelnuts once, and you asked for them back."
Lu Xiaoqiao was so ashamed that she didn't know where to put her face. She said dryly, "I know what I did was wrong. Now I'm just trying to make up for it!"
Zhao Jia joked, "How can you make up for it? Now you can only pledge yourself to me."
Hearing her say this, Lu Xiaoqiao's cheeks became hot, and she said coquettishly, "Sister Jia, what are you talking about? You can't make such a joke."
Seeing her face turn red, Zhao Jia just smiled and said nothing more.
Before going to bed at night, Lu Xiaoqiao still sent a WeChat message to Zhou Qizhen.
Lu Xiaoqiao: [Thank you, Mr. Zhou. The cooked and drunken crab is delicious. This is my first time eating it.]
She thought he wouldn't reply so quickly, but as soon as she sent the message, he saw a message saying 'the other party is typing', and then he received the message.
Z: [Eat it if you like, but don't eat too much, crabs are cold in nature.]
Lu Xiaoqiao replied with an "hmm" emoticon, which shows she is very obedient.
Z: [I'm going to spend my birthday with my friends. Are you free at some time the day after tomorrow? I'll pick you up.]
Lu Xiaoqiao: [Just send me the location, I will go there by myself. How can I let the birthday person be the driver on his birthday /snicker/]
Z: [I have time the day after tomorrow, so it's convenient for me to pick you up. I just want my birthday wish to come true, and I'd be happy to be your driver.]
Lu Xiaoqiao: [Then I will wish you a birthday wish come true in advance/grin/]
Z: [That depends on you.]
Lu Xiaoqiao: [? ]
Zhou Qizhen didn't reply to the message. Just now, neither of them mentioned the unpleasant incident that happened that day. A few days ago, I was always worried that he would be angry about what happened that day and ignore me. Now I finally feel relieved.
…
At around 4pm on Zhou Qizheng's birthday, Lu Xiaoqiao received a call from Zhou Qizheng. She didn't expect him to come so early: "Mr. Zhou, wait a moment. I thought you wouldn't come so early."
"Don't worry, take your time, no one has arrived yet."
Lu Xiaoqiao took out the clothes she was going to wear today from the cupboard. She was glad that she bought a set of clothes when the autumn collection came out. It was eye-catching when she saw it at the time, and her roommates also said that it looked good. Otherwise, she would have to wear a hooded sweatshirt to attend someone's birthday party today.
When Zhou Qi saw Lu Xiaoqiao walking downstairs, his eyes were fixed on her and he couldn't look away. Her long hair was naturally draped today. She was already very fair, and she wore a light purple hollow seahorse fur sweater on her upper body, which made her skin look even whiter than cream. She wore a pair of slim jeans that covered her perfect legs, and a pair of black Martin boots on her feet. Her outfit was very energetic but not as casual as usual. It was obvious that she was carefully dressed up.
Lu Xiaoqiao came down the stairs and jumped down from the last step: "Happy birthday!"
When Zhou Qizheng saw her jumping down, he raised his hands to support her for fear that she would fall. After she landed, he put down his hands with relief: "Thank you."
The location was a membership-based private club. When the two of them arrived, the rest had already arrived.
When the waiter pushed open the door of the private room and invited the two people to go in, the room, which was noisy just now, suddenly became quiet, and everyone's eyes turned to the door.
Li Yuxuan looked at the two people standing at the door. Needless to say, the man was handsome and the woman was pretty. Although there was a slight age difference between them, the two of them looked surprisingly well matched standing together: "Sister Xiao Qiao is here, come in quickly."
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