"When looking for a man, you can't just look at his face. If he's not as good-looking as you, then he's not as good-looking as you." Hua Jin was silent for a few seconds, then smiled and said, "There's only one of you. Where can I find someone who's better than you in every way?"
This sentence was clearly a compliment to him, but Pei Yan felt uncomfortable. He sneered, "It seems that you also know that it is not easy to find a man like me, so you can only settle for the next best thing."
"Yes, yes, yes." Hua Jin nodded, and said helplessly, "You are the white cloud in the sky, and I am the toad on the ground. I dare not have any delusions."
Pei Yan opened his mouth, wanting to say that he didn't mind her being a toad, but seeing the nonchalant smile on her face, he couldn't utter the words anymore.
She doesn't care about him at all.
Pei Yan felt as if he had fallen into an icy cave after realizing this problem. He held the steering wheel tightly, staring straight ahead with an indifferent expression, and stopped talking. The car was unusually quiet.
On the way, Pei Yan turned his head to glance at Hua Jin. She was leaning against the back of the chair with her eyes closed. It was unclear whether she was asleep or just dozing off.
Pei Yan slowly withdrew his gaze and turned up the temperature in the car a little.
After driving the car to the gate of Tan Yuan Community, Pei Yan called Hua Jin: "Hua Jin, we're here."
Hua Jin opened her eyes, her eyes were clear, without any trace of sleepiness. She met Pei Yan's eyes, her eyes curved into crescents, "Thank you."
"Go ahead." Pei Yan stopped looking at her, got out of the car, took out the cake from the back seat and put it in Hua Jin's hand, "Remember to watch your knees, I'll call you in advance."
"Okay." Hua Jin took the cake, "Goodbye."
"See you next time." Pei Yan watched Hua Jin leave and stood by the car. He took out his phone, looked at the missed calls, and called back: "Hello, what's up?"
"I see."
Arriving at Yang Shao's residence, Pei Yan glanced at Chen Jiang, who was curled up in the corner of the game room, and ignored him. He said to Yang Shao, "Don't call me every time you broadcast a game live."
"Brother Pei, this game is a joint project between you and my family. It will be launched soon. Let's take this opportunity to promote it." Yang Shao adjusted the camera and said, "It's still the same old rules. You only need to show your hands."
In recent years, in order to build momentum online, Yang Shao occasionally broadcasts games live, giving netizens the impression that "rich second-generations also play games." Sometimes he would call on a group of "rich second-generation" friends to join in the cheering, greatly satisfying netizens' curiosity about the lives of the rich.
Among a bunch of friends, Pei Yan is the most popular because he has a nice voice and beautiful hands, even though he has only helped him live broadcast twice in total.
"The marketing account has already been notified. They will edit a clip of the live broadcast to hype up the show." Yang Shao turned on his computer. "It's a pity that there was no advance notice for this live broadcast. Your die-hard fan may not come out to give you a reward."
Sometimes in order to create topics, he would deliberately and generously reward others, but he never expected that someone would generously reward him and specifically state that the reward was for Pei Yan.
During the two live broadcasts, the die-hard fan gave Pei Yan a total of tens of thousands of yuan in tips. This amount of money was nothing to them, but it was already a lot for many ordinary people. He remembered that many netizens ridiculed that person, saying that he was a fool, who was destined to eat gutter oil but had the heart to tip the rich second generation.
Hearing Yang Shao's joke, Pei Yan frowned, held the mouse and said nothing.
At Tan Yuan's house, Hua Jin finished drinking the chicken soup cooked by Gao Shulan and lay comfortably on the sofa. Seeing Tan Qing bringing a large bowl of fruit over, she couldn't help but say, "Uncle Tan, Aunt Gao, you are not raising apprentices, you are raising pigs."
"If a pig is like you, eating all the time but not gaining weight, it would have been killed long ago." Gao Shulan pushed the reading glasses on her nose. She overused her eyes in her early years, and now she is less than 60 years old, her eyesight is not very good. "I see that you seem to have lost weight recently. Are you too busy with work?"
"It's okay. It's not too busy." Although she said that Tan Qing treated her like a pig, her hands were honest. She couldn't help but fork a piece of melon into her mouth.
"You are still young, your health is the most important thing." Gao Shulan turned on the TV, and the program playing was a livelihood news program that she often watched.
For example, the east house's water pipe burst, and the downstairs owner demanded compensation. Or the west house plucked someone else's flowers, and the owner found out, and a quarrel started.
Today's program is equally exciting. It tells the story of an old man who scratched a luxury car. The owner of the luxury car was kind and did not ask the old man to pay for it. But the old man was very angry and felt that the owner of the luxury car looked down on him. He insisted on paying for it, and the incident was reported in the news.
"I've seen news about luxury cars bullying people. I've also seen people who don't obey traffic rules and hit other people's cars and say they are poor and don't want to pay compensation. I've never seen anything like this." Gao Shulan watched with relish the old man on TV taking out a stack of money and couldn't help but sigh, "Huahua, let me tell you, the news on this channel is really interesting and the people in it are really funny. But it's really rare to see a luxury car owner with such a kind heart."
Hua Jin: "I have seen it."
"Have you seen this?" Gao Shulan looked at Hua Jin in surprise, "Is there still such a person in the world?"
Hua Jin smiled: "Yes."
At that time, she had just arrived in the city for less than a month and was working as a waiter in a restaurant. When she was helping her boss deliver takeout at noon, the brakes of her bicycle broke for some reason, and she and her bicycle crashed into a luxury car parked on the side of the road.
Although she had only been in the big city for a month, she had heard from her colleagues in the store that that kind of car was extremely expensive, and many people could not earn that much money in their entire lives, so even the slightest scratch would not be enough to compensate for the damage.
When she got up and saw a long scratch on the car, she felt like she was struck by lightning. She squatted on the ground, stunned for a long time, stretched out her hand to carefully wipe the oil splashed on the car, and then waited for the owner of the car to come back with sore legs.
"I say, you're squatting here, are you planning to commit fraud?" The car window suddenly opened and a head popped out.
She was so scared that she didn't even dare to shed tears, and kept shaking her head: "I'm not committing fraud, I will definitely pay for it, don't call the police to arrest me."
"Can you... afford to pay for it?" The man who stuck his head out looked her up and down, frowned, and asked, "How old are you?"
"Seventeen... eighteen!" She didn't dare let anyone know that she was not yet eighteen years old. "I'm eighteen."
"Here." The man in the car threw a pack of tissues into her arms, "Wipe the oil off your face. If someone sees it, they might think I'm bullying you."
She held the tissue tightly and dared not speak.
"I say, you matchstick, are you stupid? You know you can't afford the compensation, but why don't you just leave? What are you standing here for?" The man waved his hand, "Go, go, go, I won't bully little girls."
She shook her head: "I will definitely compensate..." Before she could finish her words, she was sprayed in the face by exhaust fumes from a luxury car. The man drove away. She wiped the dust off her face and wrote down the license plate number.
Recalling this incident from several years ago, Hua Jin smiled: "At that time, all my assets added up to less than 500 yuan. I thought I would be harassed by the car owner because I couldn't afford the compensation, and then lose my job. I didn't expect that he would think I was stupid for not running away even though he knew he couldn't afford the compensation."
Hearing this, Gao Shulan felt very sad. How old was Hua Jin at that time? She must have been terrified when she encountered such a thing. Fortunately, she met a kind person. If she had met...
"Luckily, I met a generous and kind person. Fortunately, fortunately." Gao Shulan secretly rejoiced, looking at Hua Jin with both heartache and helplessness, "Hua Hua, in two months, you will be 25 years old. I really don't want to consider finding someone to take care of you."
"Aunt Gao, I'm a person who feeds the whole family, so why would I need to hire a nanny? Even if I want to, I don't have that much money." Hua Jin waved her hand, "Forget it then."
"You know clearly that's not what I'm talking about." Gao Shulan was so angry that she laughed, "Forget it, if you don't want to find it, then don't bother."
"Aunt Gao, my Shu embroidery business is not yet big, so I don't have the energy to fall in love." Hua Jin hugged Gao Shulan's arm, "Tang Yuan has not been in contact with other boys since she broke up with Cao Yi. I think we can consider finding a suitable boyfriend for her."
It is better for my fellow Taoist to die than for me to die. Hua Jin betrayed Tan Yuan very decisively.
"Huahua!" Tan Yuan came out of the kitchen and heard Hua Jin framing her. She rushed over and pinched her face, "I'd better strangle you to death."
"No, no, no." Hua Jin covered her face, "I was wrong, I was wrong."
Seeing two people in their twenties fighting, Gao Shulan shook her head helplessly and pushed them aside with disdain: "If you want to make trouble, go to your room and don't disturb me watching TV."
After the live broadcast ended, Yang Shao took off his headphones and turned to Pei Yan and said, "Brother Pei, your sponsor didn't show up this time."
Pei Yan glanced at him coldly: "If everything is fine, I'll leave first."
"Don't go, it's almost evening, let's eat first. There's no one at your house, what's the point of going back now." Yang Shao realized that something was wrong as soon as he said it, but his words were like spilled water, he couldn't lick them back, so he could only laugh dryly and change the subject, "There's something I forgot to ask, Brother Pei, what's going on between you and Master Hua Xiu?"
As soon as these words came out, Yang Shao felt that Pei Yan's expression, which had been acceptable just now, turned livid in an instant, frightening him so much that he took two steps back, "Brother Pei, Brother Pei?"
"Let's go home." Pei Yan ignored him and turned to walk out.
"Yang Shao, are you okay?" Chen Jiang, who had not dared to speak, saw Pei Yan leave and walked over to sit next to Yang Shao. "Anyone with eyes can see how Mr. Pei feels about Hua Xiushi. Hua Xiushi is dating another man today, how can he be in a good mood?"
"Master Hua Xiushi and Brother Pei, aren't they friends?" Yang Shao was a little confused. Not long ago, when he was fishing with Brother Pei, he mentioned Master Hua Xiushi and he even said that he didn't like Master Hua Xiushi.
"No way, Brother Pei told me that he doesn't have that kind of intention towards the flower embroiderer."
"Can you believe what a man says?" Chen Jiang crossed his legs, looking like a master. "I bet that the relationship between them is definitely not just an ordinary one between a man and a woman. Brother Meng, don't you agree?"
"What?" Meng Tao, who was playing games, looked up. "You mean Mr. Pei and Master Hua Xiu? Are they lovers?"
Yang Shao: “…”
Isn’t he Brother Pei’s best friend? Is it something that everyone knows except him?
Three days before Yang Shao’s grandmother’s birthday, the embroidered screen he wanted was finally made. The moment the product was completed, Hua Jin and Tan Yuan both breathed a sigh of relief.
She found an embossed wooden box and put the embroidered screen in it. Hua Jin also prepared another gift box and put a shawl in it.
Tan Yuan said: "When you become famous in the future, these things will appreciate in value."
"I often think so when I dream." Hua Jin reached out and flicked her forehead. "It's broad daylight, stop dreaming."
Tan Yuan covered her head and said, "If my dream could come true, I might as well ask God to give me a rich and handsome man..."
"Yuanyuan." The sudden male voice brought Tan Yuan back to reality. She turned around and looked at the person who came. She thought that God might not like her daydreaming, so he gave her a lesson.
After not seeing each other for a while, Cao Yi looked much thinner, his shirt was a little wrinkled, and he looked downcast and pitiful: "Yuanyuan, can you talk to me?"
"There is nothing to discuss between us." Tan Yuan turned her head away, "Cao Yi, let's part ways in peace and not make each other so embarrassed."
"Even though I want you to continue working in the lacquerware industry, you don't want to be with me anymore?" Cao Yi walked towards Tan Yuan, and Hua Jin stopped him. "Mr. Cao, please take your time to talk. Please stay away from my friend."
Cao Yi looked at Hua Jin with red eyes: "Hua Jin, are you so happy to break up Tan Yuan and I?"
Hua Jin looked at him without saying anything.
"Cao Yi, don't you understand? I broke up with you not because of others, but because of you." Tan Yuan was afraid that Cao Yi would go crazy and hurt Hua Jin, so she took her hand and took a few steps back. "We are all human beings. Why should I do anything for you to agree and give in? It's obviously my own thing, but you say it out as if it were a gift. Don't you think it's ridiculous? If I tell you that I am willing to let you go to work, will you feel comfortable after hearing it?"
"Yuanyuan, that's different..."
"What's the difference?" Tan Yuan laughed sarcastically, "After all, you just want me to be your appendage."
Being looked at by Tan Yuan with such an ugly look, Cao Yi felt embarrassed and unwilling: "Yuanyuan, you are so devoted to protecting Hua Jin, do you know that she has already found a rich man? Only you foolishly treat her as a friend, maybe she secretly laughs at you for being a fool in her heart. When she marries into a wealthy family, you will have no money, no career, and no family. Are you going to live your whole life relying on this crappy craft that no one cares about?"
Hua Jin: “…”
How much does Cao Yi hate her, that he wants to make her take all the blame?
"If Huahua can really marry into a wealthy family, I will kick you out and be good to her." Tan Yuan held Hua Jin's hand, "When she becomes rich, I can enjoy the good life with her. What's wrong with that?"
"You...you..." Cao Yi was so angry that he couldn't speak. "Well, it seems that in your eyes, our relationship of several years is not as good as your friend who was able to marry into a wealthy family. I finally see through you."
"Just see through it." Tan Yuan waved his hand tiredly, "I am just that kind of person. I'm sorry to disappoint you."
Cao Yi looked at Tan Yuan in despair. He felt sad that their relationship of several years had come to this. But he also knew that Tan Yuan would not be with him anymore.
After realizing this, Cao Yi felt as if his heart was broken by a knife. He looked at Hua Jin hatefully: "Hua Jin, you will be punished for your bad feelings."
"You're talking nonsense!" Tan Yuan picked up the brochure on the counter and threw it at Cao Yi's face. "Get lost. I don't want to see you again."
"Yuanyuan, you don't need to scold me, I can leave by myself." Cao Yi did not dodge the brochure thrown at him. He bent down and picked up the brochure. "Yuanyuan, you will regret it."
"Hua Jin." Cao Yi sneered at Hua Jin, "A scheming woman like you will never have anyone truly love you in your life. Just wait and see."
After saying that, he left without looking back.
"Huahua, don't listen to his nonsense." Tan Yuan held Hua Jin's hand and said anxiously, "You are so beautiful, talented and good-looking. The men who like you can form a platoon. We should ignore the stinky man who can't spit out ivory from a dog's mouth."
"Of course I won't care." Hua Jin pinched Tan Yuan's cheek, "As long as you don't let him influence you."
"You..." Hearing Hua Jin say this, Tan Yuan wanted to cry and laugh at the same time. It was obvious that Hua Jin was implicated by her and had to listen to Cao Yi's nonsense, but she comforted her instead.
Her heart was filled with sadness and she was touched. Her eyes were red as she reached out to hug Hua Jin: "Hua Hua, if you were a man, I would definitely marry you. No man in the world can compare to you."
"How can a man be as good as a beautiful woman with a sweet and soft body? You have good taste." Hua Jin knew that Tan Yuan was sad, so he held her in his arms, "It's okay, it's okay. I've calculated it for you. A good man is still waiting for you."
Tan Yuan leaned on Hua Jin's shoulder without saying a word. Her hot tears soaked through the fabric and fell on Hua Jin's shoulder. She choked up and said, "Hua Hua, thank you."
"You are so soft-hearted." Hua Jin patted Tan Yuan's back gently and said in a gentle tone, "Between us, what's the point of saying thank you?"
"That..." Yang Shao and Chen Jiang pushed open the door and saw two women hugging each other affectionately in the store. They turned around and looked behind them.
If you are cuckolded by a woman, it doesn’t count as cuckolding, right?
Pei Yan looked at Hua Jin hugging another woman with a tender look in his eyes and eyebrows, and his face couldn't help but turn green.
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