Chapter 223 If you say so, I can look forward to it
Even her figure, which she was once most proud of in the group, seemed to have lost any advantage when it came to Rong Mei.
At this moment, Cui Mengmeng seemed to be relieved for a moment.
If she were Zhou Nanxu, she would probably choose a better-looking one.
But he really couldn't let it go. She was obviously the one who should be chosen. How could a woman who was only good for appearance be worthy of him?
Suppressing the emotions in her heart, Cui Mengmeng stood up and said to Rong Mei who was coming towards her, "Comrade Rong is here, please take a seat."
Rong Mei put on a polite smile and nodded to Cui Mengmeng, "Thank you, Comrade Cui, I'm sorry to have kept you waiting for a long time."
He sat down opposite Cui Mengmeng very calmly.
Cui Mengmeng handed the menu to Rong Mei, "Comrade Rong, take a look at what you want to eat."
Rong Mei thanked him, took the menu, and looked down at it.
Cui Mengmeng's eyes followed Rong Mei's hands flipping through the menu anxiously. She had already looked at the menu in advance, and to be honest, she could afford the food here, but a single meal would cost her almost two months' salary, which still made her feel painful from the bottom of her heart.
Moreover, she was the one who took the initiative to hand the menu to Rong Mei, so she would have to accept whatever Rong Mei ordered.
She was already inferior to Rong Mei in every way, and she could not afford to lose in momentum. After all, she was a formal employee, while Rong Mei was just an idle "blind drifter". Although there was a vacant position in the Logistics Department of Military Wives in the Military Family Home, it was not a serious job.
But the more this happened, the more she felt that Rong Mei's things would be more expensive.
Sure enough, Rong Mei soon put down the menu, called the waiter, and ordered a cup of coffee, a steak, a bowl of noodles, a soup and a dessert from the waiter.
Cui Mengmeng has a good memory. What Rong Mei ordered were the more expensive items on the menu. Just the items she ordered would cost her a month's salary, which made her face look a little ugly.
Rong Mei pretended not to see it, picked up the menu and handed it back to Cui Mengmeng, smiling, "Comrade Cui, you haven't ordered yet, take a look at what you want to order."
Cui Mengmeng pursed her lips and tried to force a smile on her face, "No, I'm not hungry now, Comrade Rong, just order."
If she ordered more, she would have to spend more money. To be honest, Cui Mengmeng was reluctant to spend so much money, but she couldn't say that the other party ordered too much. However, she still felt a little contempt for Rong Mei in her heart.
Her impression of Rong Mei.
First, she is arrogant and never takes anyone seriously. Even though she is just an ordinary person, she thinks she is the most powerful person in the world.
Second, he does not know etiquette. Since someone else is treating him, he does not know how to be restrained and actually orders expensive things.
Overall, even if she didn't have Zhou Nanxu, Cui Mengmeng would still look down on Rong Mei's behavior from the bottom of her heart.
Rong Mei just smiled and didn't try to persuade him. She asked the waiter to take the menu and said, "Just serve what I ordered. The comrade opposite doesn't need it. Thank you."
"Okay." The waiter took the menu and turned to leave.
After the waiter left, Rong Mei turned her attention to Cui Mengmeng and went straight to the point, "Comrade Cui, is there anything you want me to do?"
Cui Mengmeng was stunned for a moment, and pulled herself out of her previous thoughts. "I came here today to talk to Comrade Rong about something, about Deputy Head Zhou."
Rong Mei looked as if she would do whatever Cui Mengmeng wanted to say and waited for her to continue.
Cui Mengmeng looked at Rong Mei and asked, "Have you ever seriously understood Deputy Head Zhou's profession?"
Rong Mei's blue eyes were like deep well water, calm and steady, as if there wasn't even a ripple.
She looked at Cui Mengmeng quietly, without responding to the other party's question, but said in a slightly cold voice, "Comrade Cui, what do you want to say? Why not be more direct. You also know that I have never had much patience, and I really don't want to waste each other's time."
Cui Mengmeng was somewhat dissatisfied with Rong Mei's arrogant attitude and couldn't help but frowned slightly.
However, she did not continue to ask, but changed the subject and asked again: "Comrade Rong, do you believe in past lives and present lives?"
This time, Cui Mengmeng did not wait for Rong Mei's answer as she did before, but continued to speak on her own: "I believe it. I think the bond between people is really wonderful, just like all the encounters in this life are repayments for the previous life. If there is no debt in the previous life, then we will not meet in this life, and once we meet in this life, then there must be a debt."
"I think that Deputy Captain Zhou and I also have a past life. Because I owed him in my past life, what I want in this life is to repay his kindness to me..."
Rong Mei couldn't bear to listen any longer, so she interrupted her without hesitation.
He looked Cui Mengmeng up and down with a questioning and scrutinizing look, "Oh? Repaying his kindness? What you call repaying him is breaking up his family and making him unable to be with the person he likes? Is this what you call repaying him? I think you have ulterior motives! Are you sure this is not because he owes you something, so you want to take this opportunity to take revenge on him?"
Yes, she even had a serious suspicion that Zhou Nanxu did not save Cui Mengmeng in his previous life, but took Cui Mengmeng's life.
How else would you repay your savior?
Yes, just based on this beauty, I have to give myself to her anyway...
Cui Mengmeng had never expected Rong Mei to interrupt her so suddenly. Her thoughts were abruptly cut off and she was dazed for a moment.
But she soon realized what was going on, and her expression turned ugly. She retorted, "Comrade Rong, your words are too harsh! You haven't even finished listening to the story between me and Deputy Head Zhou, so how can you draw conclusions so easily? I hope you can respect me and let me finish what I'm saying first, okay?"
Rong Mei deadpanned, "You're not talking, you're telling me a story. According to what you said, all the encounters in this life are repayments from the previous life. We must have owed each other something when we met in this life. So, compared to you and me, did Zhou Nanxu owe me more in his previous life? Otherwise, why would the person who appeared beside him be me instead of you? So he came to repay me."
Seeing Rong Mei's complete disregard for everyone, Cui Mengmeng finally couldn't hold back her inner anger. She stood up from her seat with a flushed face and her voice trembling with excitement.
"Comrade Rong, you are too self-righteous! What do you mean that Deputy Captain Zhou owed you more in his previous life? What evidence do you have to prove this? As far as I know, there was no such person as Rong Mei by Deputy Captain Zhou's side in his previous life! What basis do you have to say that he owed you?"
Cui Mengmeng became more and more excited as she spoke. She widened her eyes and stared at Rong Mei. "Aren't you just relying on the fact that he likes you now, so you can squander his feelings for you recklessly? Do you think it's great to do this? You don't understand his profession at all, and you have never really cared about him! Do you know that every time he goes on a mission, he faces great danger and may even lose his life! When he was in danger, did you worry about him for even a second?"
Regardless of the consequences, he yelled out all the anger and resentment in his heart at Rong Mei.
"Do you know what I hate most about you?" Cui Mengmeng widened her eyes and stared at Rong Mei with anger on her face, "It's your arrogant look! It's okay that you look down on me, after all, we have nothing to do with each other. But how can you mess with Deputy Captain Zhou? He loves you so much, but you don't take his love seriously! I can't see how much you like him!"
Cui Mengmeng became more and more excited as she spoke, her voice unconsciously rising an octave, "If you don't like him, then don't be so shameless in monopolizing him! Not only is it unfair to Deputy Head Zhou, you're also wasting his feelings!"
Rong Mei listened to Cui Mengmeng's accusation, but the corners of her mouth slightly raised, revealing a smile. She felt that Cui Mengmeng's words were both funny and infuriating, and she couldn't help laughing out loud.
Her brows were slightly furrowed, and she stared at Cui Mengmeng coldly. A hint of mocking smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, and she said slowly, "Then, who are you? Like or dislike is a private matter between him and me. What does it have to do with you? I really want to know, Comrade Cui, in what capacity do you point fingers at me and criticize me like a judge standing on a moral high ground?"
Although Rong Mei's voice was calm, the dissatisfaction and questioning contained in it were like a sharp sword, piercing straight at Cui Mengmeng.
Then, she paused for a moment and continued, "Or, Comrade Cui, do you think that someone like you who openly covets married men feels that you have a strong sense of morality?"
These words hit Cui Mengmeng's heart like a heavy hammer, making her face turn pale instantly.
Rong Mei couldn't understand where Cui Mengmeng got the courage to question her like this. Was it because she was a reborn person?
Who isn't a reborn person? She has lived two lives.
Yes, it is not difficult to judge from the tone of Cui Mengmeng’s speech just now that Cui Mengmeng has lived two lives, and from Cui Mengmeng’s description, she and Zhou Nanxu had no intersection in her previous life.
So, in the previous life, "she" did not marry Zhou Nanxu? Because of her arrival, everything changed the original trajectory?
Or, in the previous life, Zhou Nanxu actually married Cui Mengmeng? That's why Cui Mengmeng had such a big grudge against her and thought she was the "third party"?
When this thought flashed through Rong Mei's mind, an indescribable feeling of sadness suddenly surged in her heart.
This feeling is like being gently stabbed in the heart. Although it is not painful, it makes people feel an indescribable discomfort.
"What a crap previous life!" Rong Mei cursed in her heart. To her, the present life is the most real and important.
However, even though she kept telling herself not to care about the so-called past life karma, her heart could not calm down. Especially when she thought of Zhou Nanxu, the inexplicable possessive desire erupted like a volcano, instantly drowning her.
Rong Mei didn’t know if this was what they called love. She only knew that at this moment, her desire for Zhou Nanxu had reached its peak.
She wanted to possess him, wanted him to belong to her alone, and this strong desire made her almost unable to control herself.
If having a strong possessiveness towards someone is love, then she is really deeply in love now.
Cui Mengmeng's voice just now was very loud, and Rong Mei's voice in refuting her was also quite loud. Naturally, the argument between the two attracted the attention of other customers in the restaurant. After Rong Mei finished speaking, many people even pointed fingers at Cui Mengmeng in public. Of course, many people also began to sympathize with Rong Mei.
It's such a pity that such a beautiful person would be betrayed by her husband.
Rong Mei's counterattack was like a sharp sword, stabbing straight at Cui Mengmeng, making her face instantly turn as red as a ripe sweet potato. One could even see her facial muscles tensed up due to tension.
Cui Mengmeng was obviously angered by Rong Mei's words. Her voice unconsciously rose an octave and she retorted loudly: "What nonsense are you talking about?!" However, although her voice was loud, her confidence was obviously insufficient, as if she was pretending to be calm.
At the same time, Cui Mengmeng secretly felt lucky that she didn't go out in her uniform today, otherwise it would have attracted more attention. She never thought that Rong Mei would be so sharp-tongued and expose her shortcomings mercilessly.
Faced with Cui Mengmeng's rebuttal, Rong Mei was slightly stunned, but quickly regained her composure.
The corners of his mouth rose slightly, revealing a faint smile, as if he had anticipated Cui Mengmeng's reaction.
"It seems that we have touched Comrade Cui's sore spot." There was a hint of sarcasm in his tone, which made Cui Mengmeng's face even uglier.
Her hair stood up like a frightened cat, forming a stark contrast to Rong Mei's calm and self-contained image.
Cui Mengmeng suddenly realized that she had been easily angered by Rong Mei before she even had a chance to talk about business today, and she had completely lost her proper composure and manners.
She took a deep breath, trying to calm her inner anger, as if the curious or playful gazes around her didn't exist.
He sat back in his seat, straightened his body, looked directly at Rong Mei, and tried to keep his voice steady: "Comrade Rong, you may have some misunderstandings. I have never thought of breaking up you and Deputy Head Zhou, let alone interfering in your relationship. I just simply feel that you and Deputy Head Zhou are not suitable. Since you don't love him, then..."
However, before Cui Mengmeng could finish her words, she was interrupted by Rong Mei coldly. Rong Mei's face was expressionless, and her voice was as cold as the water in a cold pond, "Then I'll give him to you?"
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