Chapter 7
When Gu Yubai received Chi Ximin's message, he was seeing off the business partner he had met that day.
"It's a pleasure to cooperate with you." Gu Yubai extended his hand.
"Mr. Gu, it's a pleasure to cooperate with you." The partner laughed heartily twice and shook hands with him.
"Xiao Wen, see Mr. Zhang off," Gu Yubai said.
“Okay,” Xiao Wen walked over and said to General Manager Zhang with a smile, “General Manager Zhang, please come with me.”
"Thank you for your trouble."
After the business partner left, Gu Yubai finally took out his phone from his pocket.
Just now, while he was discussing cooperation with General Manager Zhang, his phone was bombarded with messages and kept vibrating in his pocket.
I turned on my phone, and the screen was immediately flooded with messages from the same person, like a death knell.
Gu Yubai's lips twitched when he saw the note.
Isn't it here to take your life?
[The debt collector]: Brother! Brother! Brother! Where are you? Come and rescue me!
[Debt Collector]: I was on the bus just now, and some idiot stole my wallet when I wasn't looking. He almost got away, but luckily a young lady helped me catch him and get it back. We're at the police station now, please come quickly.
[The debt collector]: By the way, that young lady's bag got damaged while she was chasing a thief for me. I don't have that much money on me, so please remember to come and pay her back.
[The debt collector]: Forget it, no need to come anymore, we're already out! But I don't want to take the bus anymore, send someone to pick me up, I'm exhausted.
The message was sent more than two hours ago.
Gu Yubai ignored Chi Ximin's long string of meaningless emojis and message bombardment, extracted a few useful pieces of information, and then typed a question to her.
[Where?]
Chi Ximin replied quickly.
[The debt collector]: Cocoa Coffee Shop.
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Gu Yubai arrived quite quickly, in less than half an hour.
Chi Ximin was sitting in the shop with a spoon in her mouth when she saw a man getting out of a car and walking over from the side of the road outside the transparent glass window.
Chi Ximin quickly waved her hand outside, as if afraid that Gu Yubai wouldn't see it, waving her hands like a big fluttering moth.
Gu Yubai's steps came to an abrupt halt.
It's unbearable to look at.
Gu Yubai waved his hand inward toward himself towards the glass window.
It means to let Chi Hee-min come out.
Chi Ximin immediately grabbed her bag and ran out happily.
"Brother!!!" A voice that shook heaven and earth rose from the ground.
Immediately afterwards, Chi Ximin pounced on Gu Yubai without any regard for her image, like a wild rabbit released from its cage.
Gu Yubai reacted incredibly quickly, stepping back and sideways to perfectly dodge the attack from the "giant puppet".
Chi Ximin's excited hug was ruthlessly dodged by Gu Yubai, who pouted and said, "What are you doing? I haven't seen you for more than four months. I finally finished the college entrance exam and came to see you to express my longing as your younger sister. And this is how you treat me? Are you even my brother?"
"No," Gu Yubai said coldly.
Chi Ximin immediately bared her teeth and brandished her claws at him.
Gu Yubai placed his palm on Chi Ximin's head, stopping her from moving forward, and clicked his tongue: "How many times have I told you, don't be so impulsive in public."
As he spoke, Gu Yubai looked around again before asking, "Where's the person who helped you chase the thief? Wasn't he supposed to pay for the bag?"
Hearing this, Chi Ximin stopped what she was doing and said, "She went back. I was planning to invite her to dinner."
Chi Ximin's tone sounded somewhat regretful.
"Understood." Gu Yubai nodded perfunctorily, then withdrew his hand and said, "Get in the car."
"Oh." Chi Ximin followed him toward the car.
"Tsk, you haven't washed your hair for days?" Gu Yubai patted the hand that had been pressed against Chi Ximin's head.
"You're talking nonsense!" Chi Ximin, who had been quiet, immediately exploded upon hearing his words. "You haven't washed your hair for days! This is clearly the result of my styling today! What kind of eyes do you have? You messed up my hair just now, and I haven't even settled the score with you yet."
"You said I didn't wash my hair? Look at your messy hair, that's what looks like unwashed hair, okay? Do you even have any taste?" Chi Ximin gave him a merciless dressing-down.
Gu Yubai opened the car door, got in, and only turned to look at Chi Ximin after hearing her say that this was a hairstyle she had specially done.
"What are you looking at!"
Gu Yubai carefully observed her hairstyle for a while. After a long pause, he twitched his lips and showed a look of disgust on his face. He said without any attempt to hide his displeasure, "Is this the hairstyle you did? It's no different from that of Dora."
Chi Ximin: "..."
"Forget it, I can't reason with a straight man like you." Chi Ximin gave up struggling.
Gu Yubai, being the stubborn type, took Chi Ximin's expression as if he hadn't been wronged, and even nodded with self-assurance. At the same time, he didn't forget to correct Chi Ximin's wording: "Also, this isn't some kind of messy hairstyle. I used hairspray to fix it this morning before I left home. Thank you."
Chi Ximin: "..."
Just as Chi Ximin was about to say something to express her speechlessness, she heard Gu Yubai's cold and inhuman voice ring out again.
"Also, you've been causing trouble for me as soon as you arrived in Beicheng. Just wait until I settle the score with you," Gu Yubai said.
"Hey, no," Chi Ximin could barely tolerate the first part, after all, Gu Yubai's habit of asking for trouble wasn't new; it had been like this for over twenty years, and Chi Ximin was used to it. But if Gu Yubai said she was causing him trouble, then she couldn't tolerate it.
"What did I do wrong? Didn't I message you when I came? Were you busy at the time and didn't come to pick me up? If someone steals my wallet on the bus, is that something I can control? How is it that I'm causing trouble? Bro, you're being really unethical."
Gu Yubai listened to her accusation, nodded, and hummed in agreement: "Yes, it's not your fault. And then as soon as you arrived, I had to go and compensate the other person for a bag."
At this point, Chi Ximin's momentum weakened: "Well, since that young lady helped me chase the thief and her bag got damaged, isn't it only right that I compensate her for it?"
"Yes, of course. So why should I have to pay for it?"
"I... I didn't bring that much money with me," Chi Ximin said, then, as if remembering something, her confidence grew a little stronger. "Besides, aren't you my brother? Isn't it only right that you compensate them for me?"
Chi Ximin said confidently.
Gu Yubai: "Even close brothers keep clear accounts, let alone close siblings."
"Hmm, someone even said my hair looks like a bird's nest. Tell me, would you pay compensation for someone who said your hair looks like a bird's nest?" Gu Yubai glanced at her indifferently in the rearview mirror, his gaze light and casual, yet seemingly deliberately reminding her of something.
Chi Ximin: "..."
You bastard, so this is where you were waiting!
You stingy person, you've been like this for years!
But when you ask someone for a favor, how can you not bow your head? Besides, the most important thing Chi Ximin needs to compensate for isn't the bag, but Yu Xia's doll, which means she really has to ask Gu Yubai for help.
After all, this is something you can't buy even if you have money. He really has a firm grip on this!
Chi Ximin took several breaths, telling herself to calm down, then forced a standard smile, looking "sincere and earnest," and used all the flattery she knew to say through gritted teeth, "No, no, no, how could your hair be a bird's nest? That's the most standard hairstyle for a successful and handsome man in the world! I was blind to your talent; my hair is what you call Dora's hair, it can't compare to yours at all."
After enduring the humiliation, Chi Ximin finished speaking, her teeth almost grinding to powder.
She swore that even being caught daydreaming and having to read aloud the notes she had passed to her deskmate in front of everyone was nothing more humiliating than this.
Gu Yubai seemed fairly satisfied with what he heard, and nodded with a reluctant expression of approval: "Yes, it's commendable to have such an understanding."
Absolutely not.
Chi Ximin really wanted to give him two whacks.
But alas, the plea for help wasn't over yet, so he had no choice but to grit his teeth and continue, asking:
"Hey bro, did your studio ever release a plush toy as merchandise?"
"A doll?" Gu Yubai thought for a moment and said, "The one with the recording function?"
"Yes, yes, yes! That's the one!" Chi Ximin exclaimed with hope, "Does your studio still have it? I want the green one with glasses."
"What? You're not my fan either." As he spoke, Gu Yubai looked at her warily, as if he had just thought of something. "You're not allowed to take my merchandise and sell it at a high price. Even if you need money to pay for your bag, you don't have to do this. It's very unethical."
Upon hearing this, Chi Ximin nearly coughed up blood: "Am I that kind of person?!"
Gu Yubai glanced at her up and down in the rearview mirror.
A few seconds later, Gu Yubai's voice came again. After a moment of thought, he said, "It's hard to say."
Chi Ximin rolled her eyes speechlessly: "No, it's because Sister Yu Xia helped me chase a thief today and bumped into him with her bag. The doll hanging on the bag broke. She seemed to really like that doll, but it's been out of stock for a long time now. I was just wondering if you had any left so I could give it to her."
"Brother, do you have any more? Can I have one? Anyway, you are Baihe himself, so there's no use for your own doll. Just give it to your fans."
Yu Xia didn't even glance at her bag, which was worth tens of thousands of yuan, when it was slightly damaged, but when she saw that the doll was damaged, she immediately became so angry that she wanted to go back and confront the thief. This shows how important the doll was to her.
Therefore, Chi Ximin especially wanted to compensate Yu Xia by giving her one back.
Snap—
The sound of wheels rubbing against the ground.
Gu Yubai slammed on the brakes.
Chi Ximin was not wearing a seatbelt in the back seat, and the sudden impact caused her head to hit the back of the driver's seat.
"Brother, why did you suddenly brake?" Chi Ximin covered her head.
Gu Yubai ignored her complaint, instead turning his head as if to confirm whether he had misheard, and asked, "What did you say that person's name was?"
"Yu Xia?" Chi Ximin looked completely bewildered.
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