Chapter 79 Warm-up
The people sitting around the table were all shocked when they heard this.
Even Yan Qing and Zhang Yuanyuan were the same. They watched a lot of An Jin's live streams, but watching online and interacting in real life are different.
In real life, An Jin is a bit more lively, but she's nothing like she is when she's live streaming online.
An Jin's sudden and swift change of expression has truly shocked the two of them.
Having finally managed to invite An Jin over for dinner, Pei Ning let An Jin escape so easily; he reached out and grabbed An Jin's wrist.
Faced with the shocked and questioning looks from her friends, Pei Ning said, embarrassed, "I'm Happy Superman! An'an, stop messing around."
Upon hearing the specific name, An Jin, who had been putting on an act, finally sat down again.
The moment her bottom touched the chair, her expression changed. Her voice hardened, and she spoke softly. Just by looking at her eyes, she was truly a beautiful and gentle girl.
"Oh my, it's Happy Superman Brother! What a coincidence!"
An Jin looked at Pei Ning with an expression that said, "You're so awesome!" which made Pei Ning laugh.
"You changed your attitude as soon as you learned my name. An'an, you deserve all the criticism you've received online."
An Jin still had a cheerful expression on her face: "It's okay, it's alright if An An gets scolded online. As long as Happy Superman Brother remembers An An, An An isn't wronged by the scolding..."
The scene transitions were nothing short of magical.
Zhang Yuanyuan felt her arm being poked. She looked at Yan Yan, who had poked her, and asked, "What's wrong?"
Yan Yan asked, her words tinged with unease, "Is your friend always like this?"
Zhang Yuanyuan always sideped with her relatives regardless of right or wrong. Seeing that Yan Yan's words implied disdain for An Jin, she immediately said, "What's it to you?"
She realized that Yan Yan was no good person when she was taking pictures of An Jin.
Yan Yan was the one who brought Pei Ning and his group to them; she relayed everything they told her to Pei Ning.
Smiled at the rejection, Yan Yan then turned her attention to Yan Qing: "Hello, would you like a drink?"
Yan Qing waved her hand: "I don't drink."
Yan Yan felt a little embarrassed after being rejected again, but fortunately there were enough people at the table. Since Yan Qing didn't drink, others would drink, and soon Yan Yan went to drink with the others.
Zhang Yuanyuan, who doesn't drink alcohol, stared intently at An Jin and Pei Ning. Seeing the two of them chatting and laughing as they started drinking, her heart began to race.
Zhang Yuanyuan was scared, but she couldn't help but look.
An Jin's present may well be her future.
Can she handle her boss as skillfully as An Jin?
Zhang Yuanyuan pursed her lips and looked at An Jin, who clearly didn't drink a drop of alcohol, as she drank one glass of wine after another.
She heard a soft sigh beside her ear; it was her cousin Yan Qing's voice.
Remembering their relationship, Zhang Yuanyuan looked up at Yan Qing with concern: "Cousin..." Are you alright?
Yan Qing's reaction was indifferent, but his pale fingertips betrayed his turbulent inner state.
Zhang Yuanyuan felt a pang of sadness, and a hint of heartbreak appeared on her face.
Yan Qing gave a bitter smile and said in a low voice, "I'm fine."
He knew his fate the night An Jin became an internet sensation.
He was unwilling, yet he was also willing.
He was unwilling to remain an unknown and nameless nanny, yet he was willing to endure all of this for An Jin.
Yan Qing's ideal person is like the free wind, the gentle breeze, the violent hurricane, or the biting cold wind.
He can't hold onto the wind; he can only go with it.
Pei Ning rarely has so much fun.
Knowing his ID, An Jin acted in a way that perfectly embodied the image of a demure young woman.
Her eyes were full of affection, and her tone was gentle and charming.
Her red lips, stained with wine, were exceptionally alluring, opening and closing as she uttered sweet and seductive words.
An Jin drank a lot of alcohol. She even ate some barbecue skewers at first, but then stopped eating altogether. She silently reached out, holding Pei Ning's hand in one hand and a wine glass in the other.
The men at the table all had ill intentions.
Their liking can sometimes be a poison, and Yan Yan and the other person, who should have been sitting in An Jin's seat, watched silently.
Because they were used to this kind of life, if it wasn't An Jin being forced to drink at the table, it would be one of them.
Yan Qing's gaze kept sweeping over An Jin and Pei Ning's hands. Zhang Yuanyuan barely ate anything, and was on tenterhooks the entire mealtime, worrying about this and that.
She looked around at everyone sitting at the rectangular dining table with concern, feeling as if her heart was being tightly gripped.
Mix beer and wine.
An Jin's alcohol tolerance was better than Pei Ning had imagined. Her face was slightly flushed, and she swayed a little, looking drunk, but in reality, she was very clear-headed.
She patted Pei Ning's hand and, slightly tipsy, said coquettishly, "I'm not eating anymore, I'm full."
Pei Ning smiled, but there was little joy in her eyes.
He skillfully followed up on An Jin's words, saying, "Then I'll book you a room on the mountain so you can go and rest."
Pei Ning spoke with terrifying fluency, as if he had said the same things to countless different women before.
There are places to stay at the top of the mountain.
But An Jin knew she couldn't stay.
She shook her head and smiled as she told Pei Ning, "No, my friend is here."
Pei Ning glanced at Zhang Yuanyuan and said generously, "Let your friend stay here too. Be careful not to fall while you're drunk going down the mountain."
Zhang Yuanyuan was inexplicably glanced at, and just as she was feeling confused, she saw An Jin looking at her with a beaming smile.
She jolted Yan Qing awake from her slumber with an elbow strike, then got up and headed straight for An Jin.
"An Jin, are you drunk?"
Zhang Yuanyuan walked over, pried off Pei Ning's hand that had somehow gotten stuck to An Jin's shoulder, and pulled An Jin's body into her arms.
Pei Ning looked at Zhang Yuanyuan with displeasure: "An'an is tired, I'll take her to rest."
As he spoke, he reached out to take An Jin from Zhang Yuanyuan's hands.
Zhang Yuanyuan wasn't about to let him get away with it. She quickly hugged An Jin tightly and said, "No need, I can take good care of An Jin myself. Don't bother me."
After saying that, Zhang Yuanyuan handed An Jin into Yan Qing's arms, slung her bag over her shoulder, grabbed the camera, blocked Pei Ning's path, and said goodbye.
"Thank you for lunch. I'll see An Jin down the mountain now."
Zhang Yuanyuan glanced at the disgruntled men at the table and said with a forced smile, "Please enjoy your meal. We're leaving now."
Chi Weinian stood up and said, "An Jin is drunk. What are you all doing coming down the mountain? I'll get her a room. You can take An Jin to sleep. Don't come down the mountain at this hour. It's not safe."
An Jin, who was being held in Yan Qing's arms like a child, reached out and slapped Yan Qing to show that she didn't want to.
This immediately brightened Yan Qing's dark expression, and he finally spoke after remaining silent.
"No."
Yan Qing ended the match with three words.
He gave Zhang Yuanyuan a cold look, then carried An Jin and led the way, the three of them heading straight down the mountain.
Chi Weinian frowned as he watched the three of them leave. He turned back, about to complain, but found that he wasn't the only one at the table who was angry.
Pei Ning stood there with a cold face, her gaze towards the mountain filled with ice.
The other men at the table all looked unhappy.
Yan Yan and her friend exchanged a glance and silently quickened their eating.
Pei Ning took out her phone to check the time and confirmed it with Yan Yan again.
"What was that guy's name again?"
Yan Yan, who was eating with her head down, shivered. She looked up and said, "Yan Qing."
Pei Ning: "Yan Qing..." Qingqing.
He closed his eyes, recalling the name An Jin had called out during her live stream, and suddenly a vein bulged on his forehead.
Pei Ning cursed under his breath, got up, kicked the chair aside, and started walking down the mountain.
Upon seeing this, Chi Weinian quickly stepped forward and reached out to stop him.
He didn't know what had happened, but given Pei Ning's current emotional state, if he didn't stop her, Pei Ning would definitely start a fight with Yan Qing.
He was out having fun with Pei Ning and the others, and he's also a public figure. If he really had a conflict with An Jin, he wouldn't benefit from it.
"Brother Pei, what's wrong with you?" Chi Weinian stopped the person and quickly gave a wink to the others at the table who were a little slow to react because they had been drinking.
"You've had too much to drink, Brother Pei. Don't be so impulsive. The mountain road is so difficult to walk on. What if you slip and fall?"
While forcefully stopping people, Chi Weinian reminded everyone present.
Soon, the others also realized what was happening. They rushed forward to stop Pei Ning, insisting that he was drunk, and helped him to a hotel on the mountain to rest.
Pei Ning was furious, but she couldn't argue with five people, so she was forced to check into a room and rest.
Yan Yan and her companion, who had fallen behind the men, exchanged a glance, each carrying their own bags, and followed behind Pei Ning and his group.
Seeing Pei Ning's intense reaction while being supported, Yan Yan's friend asked fearfully, "Sister Yan Yan, what should we do?"
Yan Yan calmly said, "We'll just do what we have to do. The old rule is that we won't go out unless Brother Chi calls us. What else is there to do?"
Her friend breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this, and muttered under her breath, "It's really hard to earn those tens of thousands of yuan. You have to drink with people and act as a detective."
Yan Yan glanced at her and said, "If you find it difficult, I won't call you next time."
Earning 60,000 yuan a month, eating lavish meals, staying in hotels, and spending time playing cards and drinking with a few rich kids—if such an easy job is difficult, then there's no easy job in the world.
Upon hearing this, her friend immediately explained, "Sister Yan Yan, that's not what I meant."
Yan Yan glared at her: "Stop complaining. It's fine if I hear it, but if they hear it, you'll have to move."
Her friend nodded and changed the subject, saying, "Sis, what's wrong with Brother Pei?"
Recalling how An Jin and the other two got along, Yan Yan confidently said, "He only pretended to be interested in the woman he had his eye on. He only realized it after she left, and then he got angry and embarrassed."
Yan Yan was a regular at the pleasure quarters. Compared to Pei Ning, who was obsessed with An Jin, as an outsider, she saw some things much more clearly.
Zhang Yuanyuan's inexplicable nervousness, Yan Qing's abrupt silence, and the familiar physical contact between Yan Qing and An Jin.
She could tell at a glance that An Jin and Yan Qing had something going on.
However, Yan Yan didn't expect that while she noticed it, none of the men present did.
The radar in these womanizers' minds seemed to vanish the moment they saw An Jin in person.
It really made Yan Yan feel happy.
She slightly curled her lips, and then, remembering how these people had been chattering for two hours without even adding to An Jin's prestige, her smile grew even wider.
"You've finally met your match."
Yan Yan stomped on a small blade of grass growing in the middle of the gravel road, thinking to herself.
As soon as she was out of Pei Ning's and his group's sight, An Jin immediately got down from Yan Qing's arms.
After vomiting while hugging a tree, she rinsed her mouth with the water Yan Qing handed her, and with Zhang Yuanyuan's help, slowly walked down the mountain.
Zhang Yuanyuan frowned: "Seeing you so uncomfortable, I knew you shouldn't have gone drinking with others. Just watching you drink makes my stomach ache."
An Jin waved her hand as if nothing had happened: "We have to drink. If we don't, we won't get away so easily today."
She kicked the loose stones on the mountain path far away, cursed, and then explained to Zhang Yuanyuan, that idiot.
"I never expected to run into Pei Ning. Those two women came to ask us and we told them everything, including everyone's names. If I hadn't gone drinking and left them to their own devices, my boss would have figured it out in no time: if I've been living with Qingqing all this time, would I still be a live streamer?"
Zhang Yuanyuan listened in a daze, and only reacted a beat late in the moment after An Jin had finished speaking.
She clasped her hands together and said, "Yes, I forgot that we told Yan Yan and the others about my cousin's name."
"What do we do now?" Zhang Yuanyuan asked anxiously. "If they find out you're living with your cousin, you're finished."
An Jin chuckled and patted Zhang Yuanyuan's face: "It's okay, it's not a big deal. I had a drink with him. If he still wants to mess with me, I'll just play dead. After all, he's the boss. I made money off him, so getting scolded won't hurt me. Anyway, we didn't leave any evidence."
Pei Ning has no evidence. Even if Pei Ning exposes it online, An Jin can just pretend to be dead and play the victim and it will all be over with just words.
Zhang Yuanyuan: "Huh? Playing dead? It's that simple?"
An Jin nodded: "It's that simple. Do you expect me to argue with him when he comes out to expose things? The more you argue, the more trouble you'll cause. In the future, be careful when you're doing live streams. Unless it touches on your bottom line or principles, try to pay less attention to this kind of online chatter."
"I have more haters than fans now. I really don't understand these people. They say they don't like me, but they keep chasing me and cursing me every day. That's not all. They also send gifts to my live stream every day. Sometimes I don't know whether I should ban them or not."
Zhang Yuanyuan said with a smile, "The world is a big place, and there are all kinds of people."
An Jin nodded in agreement, then slapped Yan Qing on the back and asked in confusion, "What's wrong, Qing? I didn't put a gag on you, why are you so quiet today?"
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