Chapter 15
Chapter Summary: "If we're not as happy together as we are when we're alone, then why should we get married?"
She could understand why Xu Tianzhou wanted to buy a luxury car.
Who wouldn't want a luxury car? It's comfortable and prestigious. Her father couldn't wait to buy a car after making his first fortune.
Moreover, for Xu Tianzhou, luxury cars not only represent comfort and prestige, but also a kind of medicine, a medicine to soothe his heartache.
He was terrified of being ridiculed.
Xu Tianzhou is an outlier in international schools, and discussions about him have never stopped.
The students at the international school are all from wealthy and privileged families, and each family owns a luxury car, often more than one. Every time school starts or ends, the area in front of the school is completely blocked by a line of luxury cars.
BBA (BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Audi) goes without saying; those are just the basics. Brands like Maserati, Porsche, and Bentley are also common. The school is very close to the convention center, which hosts an annual auto show, so it's like a daily auto show here.
The school has over a thousand students, from kindergarten to senior high school, plus teachers and school staff. It seems that only Xu Tianzhou's family doesn't have a car.
No, his family owns a car, and it's said to be a "miracle car".
Ni Zhenzhen had overheard other boys discussing it, and when she heard "divine car," she thought those boys had changed their ways and weren't so mean anymore. Later, she learned that the so-called "divine car" was meant as sarcasm.
"I heard it doesn't even have airbags."
"100,000? That's only 50,000, not even worth as much as one of my mom's bags."
"Yes, yes, they'll remove the back seats to use for hauling goods."
"If they go out as a family, where will he sit?"
"Squatting? Or lying down?"
"Holy crap, an Alphard!"
"Hahaha……"
Ni Zhenzhen wasn't sure if Xu Tianzhou had heard her, because during every break, Xu Tianzhou would be very busy, either reading, doing exercises, or listening to English, never caring what others were doing.
This time was no different; he kept his head down the entire time, with no expression on his face.
Maybe it's just a habit?
The thought of this possibility made Ni Zhenzhen's heart ache even more.
Ni Zhenzhen hated her own incompetence; at that time, she couldn't offer Xu Tianzhou any help, not even a little comfort.
In my memory, Xu Tianzhou was always alone.
After school, the students got into their own luxury cars, and some walked together in groups, not to go home, but to go shopping in the nearby shopping district full of luxury stores. Only Xu Tianzhou walked alone on the street.
Ni Zhenzhen never saw Xu Tianzhou's family come to pick him up.
If such a scene existed, it would be something like this.
He needs to find his own "legendary car" among the rows of luxury cars parked on the roadside, and then climb in under the watchful eyes of everyone. Whenever this happens, a murmur might erupt from those around him, and even if it has nothing to do with him, he can hardly help but think so.
Ni Zhenzhen thought that perhaps it was at that time that Xu Tianzhou made up his mind that one day he must buy a luxury car.
This is different from the little boy in the Porsche ad who says "See you in twenty years." This is a seed of evil, which, if it cannot blossom, will only grow deeper and deeper into the dirty soil.
Ni Zhenzhen doesn't blame him. He was underage back then and couldn't make changes. Now that he has some savings, it's only natural that he would engage in retaliatory spending.
If it were her, she wouldn't be confident that she could do better than Xu Tianzhou.
Ni Zhenzhen looked at Xu Tianzhou, smiled, and tried her best to make her expression look natural. "When are we going to buy a car?"
"You don't object?" Xu Tianzhou seemed unwilling to believe it. He stared at Ni Zhenzhen; they were so close, yet he still couldn't see through her.
If this is a play, it should end now.
But Ni Zhenzhen smiled brightly, showing no sign of anger whatsoever, and even retorted, "Why should I object?"
Why? Of course, it's because if he uses the money to buy a car, he can't buy a house.
He didn't believe that Ni Zhenzhen had no grudges.
However, Ni Zhenzhen disappointed him once again. She said, "If you hadn't married me and were all alone, you wouldn't need anyone else's permission. You might have already bought the car."
She nestled against Xu Tianzhou's chest, speaking not only to him but also to herself, "If we're not as happy together as we are when we're alone, then why should we get married?"
Ni Zhenzhen realized she shouldn't interfere with Xu Tianzhou. His long-held dream had come true; she should be happy for him.
Xu Tianzhou was speechless. Ni Zhenzhen leaned against him, bringing a precious warmth in the winter. He wanted to ask Ni Zhenzhen if she was happier with him than when she was alone.
However, he dared not.
Xu Tianzhou reached out and put his arm around Ni Zhenzhen's shoulder, pulling her into his embrace and holding her even tighter. Ni Zhenzhen had already let her hair down, the ends brushing against his neck, softer than feathers.
"You still haven't said when you're going to buy a car?" Ni Zhenzhen asked.
Xu Tianzhou still did not answer.
After a long while, Ni Zhenzhen heard a low, somewhat unfamiliar voice say, "Thank you."
Ni Zhenzhen felt a lump in her throat and almost burst into tears.
It will still hurt, won't it?
That night, Ni Zhenzhen didn't sleep well, and she was in a daze at work the next day. Then, something unfortunate happened: when she was tying up the accounts, she found that three hundred yuan was missing.
Upon hearing that Ni Zhenzhen had run out of money, Qian Lina, who usually remained indifferent, suddenly became incredibly enthusiastic. She dropped what she was doing and rushed over, comforting Ni Zhenzhen that three hundred yuan wasn't much, while watching the surveillance footage with her.
The two quickly discovered the problem.
It turned out that a customer brought 3,000 yuan in cash to deposit, but before he finished depositing the money, he wanted to exchange it for 300 yuan in change. So, the deposit should have been 2,700 yuan, but Ni Zhenzhen didn't realize it in time and deposited 3,000 yuan instead, so she gave out 300 yuan more than she should have.
Qian Lina said, "You don't need to blame yourself too much. These kinds of mistakes are inevitable." She had said long ago that doing business the way Ni Zhenzhen did would inevitably lead to trouble sooner or later, and here it is.
"Thankfully, it wasn't any other mistake," Ni Zhenzhen said thankfully. She had neither damaged the bank's reputation nor caused any losses to the customers.
Qian Lina, however, was not so optimistic. She looked closely at the person who had deposited the money. "So it was him." Qian Lina crossed her arms, feeling both sympathetic and regretful. "If it were someone else, we might still be able to try, but if it's him, there's definitely no way we can get him back."
This bald old man was a regular at the branch. He looked extremely fierce and was very demanding. The branch had a rating system, and whenever they asked him to rate the teller's service, he would confidently press "unsatisfactory."
For so long, no one was an exception; even the gentlest and most good-tempered Ni Zhenzhen could not escape his clutches.
"No way..." Ni Zhenzhen held onto a sliver of hope; she was always reluctant to think the worst of people.
"Of course I would!" As if her sore spot had been hit, Qian Lina raised her voice instantly. "Last time I was short of money, when I called, the other party wouldn't admit it at all, and then they just blocked me. The director wouldn't let me call the police for the sake of the operational evaluation, so in the end I had to pay it back myself. And Xiaodan, that old lady is someone I watched grow up. If Xiaodan's mother hadn't brought things to her door, would she have paid back the money so readily?"
Qian Lina became more and more agitated as she spoke, "You know how much those people who come here every day love to take advantage of others. Just today, there was one who heard that depositing money would get you free phone credit, so he deposited and withdrew 10,000 yuan repeatedly. When you told him that each person could only participate once, he called you a scammer. Those people are always thinking about how to squeeze money out of the bank. One minute they say there's less money in their card, the next they say they've withdrawn □, but this is 300 yuan delivered to their doorstep. They're so happy about it, why would they give it back to you!"
"Oh, right," Qian Lina added, "last time someone came to deposit money, handed you five hundred and said he was depositing six hundred, then accused you of embezzling one hundred of his money, have you forgotten?"
Ni Zhenzhen explained, "He probably really did have six hundred, but he accidentally dropped it somewhere else. It probably wasn't intentional."
"How could that be!" Qian Lina sneered, cursing inwardly, "How could anyone be so stupid!"
To be honest, Ni Zhenzhen wouldn't have remembered this incident if Qian Lina hadn't brought it up. She didn't expect Qian Lina to remember it so clearly.
“Never mind…” Qian Lina seemed to realize that she had lost her composure. She sighed and said earnestly, “Of course I hope you can get it back, but we also have to be prepared for the worst.”
Three hundred yuan is neither a lot nor a little, but in any case, I should at least try making a call. However, before I could make the call, Xu Tianzhou called instead.
Xu Tianzhou urged her to go back quickly, "I have a surprise for you."
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com