Su Mu cursed under his breath, his face dark: "Am I someone who gets scared easily?"
I had just put my phone down when a gasp suddenly rang out in the office.
"My God! That crab! That crab is so expensive!"
Su Mu rolled her eyes at her colleague.
With a mocking smile, he said coldly, "Fangfang, I'm not trying to criticize you, but women shouldn't just focus on work. If you date more, meet more sophisticated people, you won't be so easily startled."
Look at me, ever since I started dating, what fun places and delicious food haven't I tried? Crabs, let alone king crab, I've even had butter crab several times."
"Butter crab? I've never heard of such a crab. Mumu, what is a butter crab?" The colleague sitting next to me asked curiously.
Su Mu brushed a strand of hair from her cheek. She knew that everyone in this office was a bunch of country bumpkins who had never seen the world.
"This butter crab... it is said that when the tide goes out, the sunlight raises the water temperature in the shallows, and a very small number of mud crabs are stimulated, causing the crab roe inside the crab's body to decompose into a golden oil, which then permeates into all parts of the body, making the whole crab full of butter and turning its body orange-yellow, thus becoming a butter crab."
Another theory suggests that during the hot season, the membranes of mud crab eggs rupture, and the juices seep into the crab's body, making the crab appear to be filled with golden oil, thus forming the yellow oil crab.
Some say that after adult mud crabs mate and grow into roe crabs, a very small number of them become too fat, resulting in an excessive accumulation of roe and oil, preventing them from completing the process of molting and shedding their shells. This results in a missing stage of development, thus creating the yellow oil crab.
To put it simply, the butter crab isn't a specific species of crab, but rather a mutation of the mud crab. It's said that you might not find even one butter crab out of ten thousand mud crabs.
Wow! That must be very expensive!
"Why don't you just look it up online? I heard that a single lick costs several hundred yuan. But even if it's expensive, I'm already tired of eating it." Su Mu raised the corners of his mouth smugly, waiting for others to cast envious glances.
As expected, the unsophisticated people around her immediately looked up at her with admiration.
She particularly enjoyed these moments of being high above others and being envied by them.
"Wow! I've never even heard of this kind of crab. No doubt, it must have been your rich, handsome, and mysterious boyfriend who took you to eat it, right?"
"But Mumu, you've been hiding him away too well! Even an ugly daughter-in-law has to meet her in-laws eventually! Your due date is in a few months, and you haven't mentioned inviting us to your wedding banquet. Perhaps you never intended to invite us at all?"
Su Mu's eye twitched, and his smile froze on his face.
He suppressed the anger in his chest and forced a smile.
"Don't worry, I just felt that I wouldn't look good in a wedding dress while I'm heavily pregnant. He only postponed the wedding to accommodate me."
"That's true! What woman doesn't want to be the most beautiful woman in the world on her wedding day!"
Wu Fangfang, who had been scrolling through her phone, pushed up her black-rimmed glasses.
"Butter crabs are rare, but don't they say online that they can already be farmed? So, this crab is not even in the same league as the one in Teacher Gu's WeChat Moments!"
As soon as the words "Teacher Gu" were uttered, a group of people surrounded Wu Fangmang.
Wu Fangfang is Gu Yao's student, which is why she has access to Gu Yao's social media posts.
"What kind of crab is this? I've never seen one like it before."
Wu Fangfang glanced at Su Mu and switched to Baidu.
"This is called Echizen crab! It's not only a delicacy, but also a synonym for luxury food! It's one of the most expensive crabs in the world. And, you know, it's not something you can just eat if you have money!"
"Wow! What the hell? 126,000 for a crab? Are you crazy? That means a crab is worth more than my annual salary! My god, I used to say I was a beast of burden, but it turns out I'm not even worth as much as a crab."
"Wait! Look... isn't that the crab in Teacher Gu's WeChat Moments the same one you mentioned that cost 126,000 yuan? The patterns look exactly the same!"
"Oh my god! No way! If it really is that one, then Professor Gu is spoiling his girlfriend way too much!"
"Exactly! I've never seen such a huge bouquet of roses before! If someone were to give me such a generous gift, I'd marry him on the spot!"
"..."
A group of people were chattering away, engrossed in their phones, occasionally letting out a gasp of surprise.
Su Mu, who was always the center of attention in the office, was abandoned and ignored like an outdated doll.
Until Wu Fangfang proudly raised her chin.
"Su Mu, don't forget, there's a saying: there are always people better than you, and there's always something beyond your understanding."
"You... Humph!" Su Mu picked up his lesson plan, got up and left the office.
Wu Fangfang grinned and shouted at the top of her lungs, "You trash, you shameful woman! Don't you know that those who treat others with beauty will lose their love when their beauty fades, and those who associate with others based on interests will drift apart when the interests are exhausted?"
Besides, he's a man who doesn't even dare show his face. Who knows if he's being used as a sham? And he has the nerve to flaunt it in front of us all the time? Anything that can't stand the light of day is trash!
As soon as Su Mu stepped out of the office, tears streamed down her face.
The pain in her heart was more intense than the pain of digging her newly done manicure into her palm.
"Wu Fangfang, you just wait! Don't think you can bully people like this just because you're Gu Yao's student! When I become Mrs. Liao, let's see if you still dare to talk to me like that!"
Furious, Su Mu strode toward Liao Nanxing's office, completely forgetting the WeChat message from Zhou Chunhua.
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