Chapter 204
Although the situation was somewhat out of control, his eyes still revealed a hint of desire.
Ten minutes later.
Duan Shen stood frozen outside the metal door, a red mark rubbed off the skin around his wrist by the transparent strap, his phoenix eyes filled with astonishment.
At this moment, Duan Shen finally understood what Ying Ning meant.
"Ding-dong." The elevator rang, and the parents next door came out with their child. The child, being curious, glanced at Duan Shen's position.
"Dad, why are Uncle's hands tied?" The child's innocent question drew the attention of the parents.
Does he need help?
"Youyou, don't talk nonsense." The parent saw Duan Shen's appearance and immediately gave him a strange and wary look before hurriedly taking the child home.
Even after they had closed the door, Duan Shen still heard a sound:
"Young people these days really know how to have fun."
......
"Xia Yueyue, Xia Yueyue." The girl with glasses next to her called out softly to Xia Yueyue. When she didn't respond, she knocked on the table to wake Xia Yueyue, who was fast asleep.
"The teacher is calling your name."
Before Xia Yueyue could fully wake up, she heard the professor's stern voice from the podium: "If any of you want to sleep, please go back to your dorm to sleep."
"Don't treat my classroom like a dormitory!" The old professor was strict and had always disliked students who took assignments lightly.
"Xia, why didn't you hand in your group assignment last time?!"
"I'm sorry, teacher, I forgot." Xia Yueyue cursed inwardly as she lied again.
Actually, it wasn't that Xia Yueyue forgot to submit it; rather, she had been busy gaining favor points online lately, often staying up all night. As for the group assignment the professor gave last week, she had completely forgotten about it.
The professor criticized her a couple more times before continuing his lesson.
"That old man is so annoying." Xia Yueyue sat down and immediately slumped onto her desk, listlessly turning on her phone.
There are 109 unread messages from 43 friends.
Just as Xia Yueyue was about to message the men in these dating guides, she overheard a cautious discussion behind her:
"Have you noticed that Xia Yueyue seems to have lost a lot of weight?"
Another classmate flipped through the book, looked up, and realized, "Indeed, how did she get so thin?"
Have you lost weight?
Upon hearing the conversation, Xia Yueyue involuntarily straightened her chest and immediately turned on the front-facing camera. The image on the screen showed a young girl who already possessed some attractive features.
Having shed her cumbersome appearance, Xia Yueyue's delicate face was beginning to take shape.
The eyebrows and eyes on the screen now subtly revealed an upward curve. Her nose was not high, but fortunately, the shape of her cherry-like mouth was quite perfect.
Xia Yueyue carefully examined her eyebrows and eyes, and mentally called out to the system: "System, my eyes are indeed much prettier than before."
These eyes were adjusted by the Cupid system to resemble You Yingning.
Although she didn't particularly like You Yingning as a person, her face was at least passable.
Sometimes, when "making friends" online, she would directly send You Yingning's photos to the men she was trying to seduce.
Anyway, she'll eventually grow up to look like You Yingning...
It wouldn't be considered deception to say the photo is of yourself now, would it?
"Host, you have gained 1853 Love Points this week. After deducting the amount needed to maintain this system, do you want to exchange all the remaining Love Points for beauty?" The Cupid system calculated the points and then suddenly asked.
Xia Yueyue was admiring her own appearance when she casually replied vaguely, "System, you decide what to do."
"Then I'll exchange them all for beauty."
The Cupid system never told Xia Yueyue that the higher the beauty value required by the host, the more love value the system needs to automatically maintain the beauty value.
After all, the more you want, the deeper the price you have to pay.
It silently drained all the affection points.
*
Suzhou Golden Crane Pavilion.
"Come on, Young Master Pei, have some more." The clinking of glasses and the flickering lights at the banquet were dazzling.
The glittering glass lamps cast a soft glow, and faces both strange and familiar appeared in Pei Yuqing's sight. He swirled his wine glass, indicating that he was responding to their greetings.
Tonight is Pei Yuqing's birthday, and a few good-for-nothing rich kids in his circle secretly organized a party. Even Pei Yuqing only found out about it just now.
"Brother Pei is...that school..."
Royal Polytechnic University!
"A top student from Royal Institute of Technology!" A slightly drunk rich kid, with his arm around his brother, introduced Pei Yuqing to the people around him with a grin.
"My mom has been praising Brother Pei to my ears since I was little!"
She talks about it whether she's eating or not, you wouldn't believe how creepy it makes my scalp tingle...
Hahahahaha.
"It must have been tough on Brother Zhou."
The speaker, Zhou Shao, comes from one of the top three wealthiest families in the circle tonight. As soon as he speaks, many people immediately chime in, and some even steer the conversation toward him.
"Young Master Zhou is not bad either. I heard that the Zhou family won the bid for the second phase of Suzhou New District this time."
"From now on, we should all admire Young Master Zhou."
"Not at all, not at all." Young Master Zhou enjoyed the feeling of being flattered.
After a few polite exchanges, Zhou Shao, who was quite drunk, sat down next to Pei Yuqing, casually picked up a glass of wine, clinked it against Pei Yuqing's glass, and said in a drunken slur:
"Brother Pei, not bad, right?" Zhou Shao pointed to the people around him and said with a smile:
"I also invited a few friends, they'll be here in a bit."
The man sitting next to him, even as he lazily reclined on the brown leather sofa, exuded an air of elegance and nobility.
Her face was as elegant as jade, and the jade pendant around her neck was casually hidden halfway inside her clothes.
"The place is nice, and the wine is good too."
Pei Yuqing swirled the whiskey in his glass, idly commenting on his surroundings, the turquoise buttons on his cuffs now completely undone.
A section of wrist, which was excessively pale for a man, was revealed.
The young master next to him was still calling him "Brother Pei" over and over again. Pei Yuqing really didn't know when she and he had become so close.
Recently, the Zhou family and the Pei family's company have been collaborating, and the other party keeps inviting him to banquets, which Pei Yuqing has already declined several times.
This time, someone claimed to have specially organized a birthday party, and he couldn't refuse, so he came.
Pei Yuqing had no interest in such brotherly camaraderie and birthday parties.
But he likes alcohol.
Pei Yuqing lingered at the banquet, indulging in the numbing sensation of alcohol, gradually relaxing his body.
Seeing this, Zhou Shao put his arm around Pei Yuqing's shoulder. This sudden act of intimacy made Pei Yuqing's eyes show slight annoyance, but Zhou Shao remained oblivious and continued speaking:
"Brother, I have a friend who is a producer."
Zhou Shao patted his shoulder lightly, and said with a mysterious smile, "I'll give you a surprise later."
......
The Jinheguan Hotel is located on Suzhou's main commercial avenue. Its magnificent and exquisite decor makes it a popular venue for business meetings and banquets. The hotel's top floor, decorated in a crystal-clear style, is a banquet hall that is often booked out by wealthy young men.
At this moment, almost all the wealthy young men of Suzhou had come to the top floor of the Golden Crane Pavilion.
Although they were nominally Zhou Gongzi's friends, they all secretly wanted to get to know Pei Yuqing.
Although Pei's company has plummeted since Pei Yuqing's parents' accident, the once-leading listed company no longer enjoys its former glory.
Since then, many people have been saying that since Pei Yuqing took over the Pei family, his decisions have always been too rash, and he even seems somewhat ignorant and incompetent.
Not only did they consistently invest in projects with no future prospects, but they also blindly expanded their industrial lines, causing immense hardship for the Pei family's factories.
Within a few years, the Pei family was kicked out of the circle of top-tier enterprises.
Even so, in Suzhou, the Pei family is still one of the top companies.
The estate left by Pei's parents was enough for Pei Yuqing, this young master, to live a carefree life for several lifetimes without ever running out of money.
The Suzhou social circle occasionally jokes about the Pei family's current predicament, discussing how the former head of the Pei family could have left behind such a spendthrift son as Pei Yuqing.
However, in front of Pei Yuqing, he still had to fawn over this young master.
*
When Pei Yuqing left the banquet, his face was almost black, and his whole aura was silent and cold.
The Zhou family actually hired several young actresses, dressed in revealing cheongsams, to attend the birthday banquet, claiming it was for their own amusement.
The scantily clad young actresses immediately surrounded Pei Yuqing, leaving him covered in the smell of perfume, and he lost all interest in drinking.
He ignored the looks on the faces of those around him and left directly from the top floor by elevator.
"Ding-dong."
Pei Yuqing only realized then that he had left in such a hurry that he had entered a regular hotel elevator, which was now stopped on the tenth floor.
Pei Yuqing's mood worsened.
At that moment, a figure strode in and pressed the button for the basement level.
Pei Yuqing glanced up, intending to look away, but noticed the appearance of the person who entered, and his eyes immediately darkened.
The girl wore a cheongsam dress with a high collar, her hair was braided to the side, and she didn't wear much makeup.
Her eyebrows and eyes appeared somewhat indifferent, but the upturned corners of her eyes revealed a hint of charm.
"how?"
"Do actors these days still have scenes where they accompany someone to their home?" Pei Yuqing asked with a sneer.
"Accompanying someone home, does that mean you'll be sleeping with them later?"
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