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Ye Wenyu struggled free, her shoulder burning with pain. She raised one hand to protect her shoulder and took a step back.
The bar manager valued eight thousand yuan so much, which showed he wasn't a rich man. She said to him, "I'm here to pay you back. I'm quitting my job."
The bar manager was taken aback, not expecting this student to be so kind. He had thought about throwing away the eight thousand yuan he had taken out, and immediately smiled apologetically, saying to Ye Wenyu, "I was a little hasty just now, I'm sorry. Did I hurt you?"
Ye Wenyu shook her head, took out two thousand yuan from her small bag, handed it to the manager, and said earnestly and apologetically, "I'll write an IOU for the remaining six thousand yuan. This is my student ID; I'll leave it with you as collateral. I'll come back to redeem it whenever I have the money." She handed over her student ID and the IOU. The IOU had been written while she was in school; because she couldn't repay that much money immediately, she could only offer her utmost sincerity.
The manager hesitated for a moment, then took the IOU and student ID from Ye Wenyu. He looked at the student ID in disbelief. Ye Wenyu, afraid of running into Lin Tingfeng again, immediately turned around and tried to run away like a rabbit.
Looking at the money, student ID, and the IOU in black and white, the manager realized he had wronged the student and felt a surge of warmth in his heart. Seeing Ye Wenyu's retreating figure, the manager called out to her, "Wait—"
Ye Wenyu's body stiffened, and she stopped running forward. She didn't want to hear what the manager had to say anymore, but if she didn't stop, she was afraid of angering the manager. Perhaps in a fit of anger, he would force her to pay back the money immediately and not allow her to write an IOU. What would she do then?
Therefore, Ye Wenyu had no choice but to stop, slowly and stiffly turn around, and force a smile at the manager. Her heart, however, began to pound with panic. She prayed inwardly that the manager wouldn't make things difficult for her; she had already done her best.
The manager saw a bitter smile on Ye Wenyu's pale face, her large, watery eyes filled with fear. She said softly, "I will try my best to find a job and pay back the money as soon as possible, manager. Don't worry, my student ID is very important to me."
Hearing her almost inaudible voice, the manager felt even more compassion. He looked at the two thousand yuan she had given him, sighed, and slowly said to Ye Wenyu, "It's not easy for a student like you to earn money."
Ye Wenyu's eyes lit up, thinking that the manager was being kind and wouldn't let her return the money. Unexpectedly, the manager stuffed the two thousand yuan she had given him into his pocket, rolled his eyes at her, and said, "I don't earn money very easily either!"
Ye Wenyu was deflated. So, what did the manager mean by calling her?
The bar manager looked at her and then slowly said to her, "Last night, after you left, I wanted to apologize to Mr. Lin on your behalf, but he said I couldn't. He said if you apologized to him in person, he would forgive you and pay for the drinks."
That's why he called her over.
Ye Wenyu was stunned. What?! It was as if a thunderbolt had struck her heart. Did she have a fatal magic for Lin Tingfeng? In the previous life, when he saw her, he used all his cunning and schemes to get her. In this life, when he saw her, he was also scheming to create opportunities for the two of them to get close.
Lin Tingfeng is truly a devilish existence.
Recalling her past life, she resolved that in this life, no matter what, she would not get close to him! Ye Wenyu woke up, startled, and took a step back.
The bar manager saw Ye Wenyu standing there in shock and silence, her face even paler than before, and her lips even losing all color from fear.
The manager was puzzled. What was this girl afraid of?
He was puzzled, but simply waved the IOU in his hand. The black and white writing on the paper was particularly conspicuous. He earnestly advised, "Beautiful lady, making money isn't easy. How long would it take you to earn eight thousand yuan by working on your own? Why don't you take my advice and work as a waitress here again tonight? I reckon that Boss Lin will definitely come. You can apologize to him personally, and if you're polite, you'll save the eight thousand yuan. I'll return your two thousand yuan then, and you can tear up this IOU." The bar manager felt he had done a good deed and was in a great mood. He looked at Ye Wenyu with a smile.
What?! Ye Wenyu realized what was happening, her face filled with shock and disgust. The manager was actually delusional again, hoping she would apologize to Lin Tingfeng. She was avoiding him like the plague! Forget eight thousand, even if it were eight hundred thousand, she would never say a word to him in this lifetime!
Therefore, Ye Wenyu smiled and politely declined the bar manager's offer, saying, "Thank you, manager, but I have class tonight. I'd better pay you back. After all, I'm the one who broke the drink. Even if someone is rich, they've earned their money through hard work, right? How can I ask them to pay for it on my behalf?"
The manager looked at Ye Wenyu with exasperation and said to her, "Are you stupid? He's so rich! Eight thousand yuan is just a drop in the ocean for him!"
"You think Mr. Lin is awesome?"
The manager immediately denied it: "Pah, pah, pah, I didn't say that, I'm not."
Ye Wenyu didn't want to talk to the manager anymore. She bent down and quickly said to the bar manager, "Goodbye!" Then she turned around and walked quickly out of the bar, afraid that if she lingered any longer, she would run into Lin Tingfeng again.
The bar manager called out to her retreating figure, "No time tonight? No time tomorrow night either? Come on tomorrow night—"
Ye Wenyu had vanished like a gust of wind, leaving no trace.
The manager shook his head in the direction she disappeared, thinking that this ugly girl was such a blockhead, so clueless. It was bad enough that she was ugly, but she wasn't even smart. She was really pitiful.
Saying a few nice words can replace three or four months of hard work. Most smart people in the world, those with even a little bit of intelligence, would choose the former.
The next day, Lin Tingfeng was restless in his office. The image of the girl he met at the bar the night before kept flashing through his mind: her small face with a mask on, her big, doe-like eyes, her fair and smooth forehead like a marble sculpture, her thick, black hair, and the look of terror on her face when she saw him, as if she were seeing a demon.
The first time he felt curious about a strange girl, he leaned back in his office chair, touched his chin with his fingers, and wondered why she was afraid of him.
They met by chance and had never met before.
Regarding last night's incident, there are two points of doubt. First, bartenders, with their extensive experience and professional ethics, would never break drinks unless there was an extremely unexpected event. Why would she, as a bartender, break such an expensive drink? Second, when she broke the drink, the bar manager tried to persuade her, coerced her, and even resorted to force, dragging her to him to apologize. He said that if he made a promise, she wouldn't have to pay for the huge amount of drinks. But she refused. In the end, when the bar manager forcibly dragged her towards him, she couldn't resist, biting him like a mad cat and fleeing like a rabbit.
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