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Chapter 160: Swiftly Arrive to Impress
TL: Etude
After leaving the bathhouse, Jiang Qin received a phone call from Cao Guangyu.
“Old Jiang, diime hurry over and show off!”
Jiang Qin still felt a bit uneasy aedly firmed if Cao Guangyu had made sure with Ding Xue. If she still called him ‘big brother’ and acted coy, he definitely wouldn’t bring the little rich dy with him.
It’s easy to learn bad habits quickly, especially for someone like Feng Nanshu, a genius girl known for her schorship.
Moreover, she had started using these tacti him.
“?”
Feng Nanshu seemed to catch a keyword, slightly lifted her head, and appeared to be eavesdropping.
On the phone, Cao Guangyu assured him with certainty, “Don’t worry about my arras. Today, Ding Xue definitely won’t call ‘big brother’.”
“Alright, go ahead and order. We’ll be there soon.”
As the suhe warmth in Lin faded, plunging bato cold, intensified by the blusterierly winds.
Night quickly fell, pelling people both inside and outside the campus to themselves tighter in their clothes.
Meanwhile, in the private room on the sed floor of Shiwei Tian, Ding Xue left Cao Guangyu to order downstairs. Sitting opposite him were Ding Xue’s two roommates, Qu Yating and Cui Min.
These girls were heavily made-up and fashionably dressed. Seeing Ding Xue step out, their subtle, sarcastic remarks began to surface again.
“Ding Xue’s outfit today is a bit outdated.”
“Cao Guangyu, you should persuade her to ge her style. She’s just an average girl. Without putting effort into her clothes and makeup, she really cks any highlights.”
It’s normal for tensions to build up over time in girls’ dormitories. This kind of insincere friendship is on, not amounting to deep enmity, but merely serving as a way to voice petty opinions.
For them, this subtle sense of superiority was quite addictive.
They wouldn’t dare say these things to Ding Xue’s face, knowing she could get violent, but they had no problem saying them to Cao Guangyu.
If Cao Guangyu got ahey could easily retort, “Hey, you’re a grown man, why lower yourself tue with girls?”
However, Cao Guangyu was unusually rexed today, simply agreeing, which left Qu Yating and Cui Min somewhat fused.
It felt like pung into cotton, without any solid impact.
“Actually, aren’t you also just average girls? I haven’t seen anything remarkable about you either.”
Qu Yating and Cui Miaken aback, then sneered, ready to criticize Cao Guangyu’s ck of taste, but then the door of the private room opened.
The sed, Jiang Qin walked in with Feng Nanshu.
The little rich dy’s beauty was truly fwless from every angle, paired with her expressionless, aloof demeanor, creating an imposing presence.
Unaware that she was being used as a on, she sat quietly, her eyebrows faintly knitted, her hand still tucked in Jiang Qin’s pocket, relut to e out.
“Let me introduce my roommate and his girlfriend.”
Cao Guangyu smirked fidently, “Where were we? ht, you’re just average girls, aren’t you?”
“…”
Qu Yating and Cui Min’s expressions ged. Faced with Feng Nanshu’s stunning appearaheir fidence swiftly crumbled to insignifice.
When they finally realized, they uood that Cao Guangyu’s earlier remark about “average girls” was a deyed tactic, waiting for this moment to strike them in the face.
Girls wear makeup to look beautiful, but if their made-up faces are still less attractive than someone else’s natural beauty, it’s a psychological blow.
Such a viove!
“I’ll go see if Ding Xue has finished . Cui Min, you stay and chat with them.”
“Hey, I just remembered I want to order something too. Wait for me.”
As they watched the two leave on these pretexts, Cao Guangyu burst into ughter, his heart swelling with immeisfa.
It felt incredibly gratifying, almost euphoric.
“People fight for a breath of dignity, and monks for a stick of inse,” thought Cao Guangyu, reveling in the pleasure that reached deep into his heart.
Jiang Qin looked at him as if he were watg a fool, thinking to himself how bizarrely simple Cao Guangyu’s happiness was.
“What are you ughing at?”
“Before you guys arrived, those two girls were being really snide, saying Ding Xue is just an average girl with outdated fashion sense. I told them they were average too. They wao retort, but then you guys walked in, and they immediately shut up.”
After hearing this, Jiang Qin clicked his tohat’s it? This makes you happy?”
“I bet from today onwards, they won’t be so fident. I hate their desding attitude towards Ding Xue. Just because they know how to put on makeup? My Ding Xue is naturally beautiful, okay? Now, whehey think of calling someone an average girl, they’ll remember today and keep quiet.”
Cao Guangyu, after ughing for a while, suddenly felt a bit mencholic, “Old Jiang, you get to impress like this every day. I’m quite envious.”
Jiang Qin spat back, “If you’re so annoyed by them, why ihem to eat? Got too much moo spend?”
“They treated us when they had boyfriends. If Ding Xue and I didn’t reciprocate after getting together, they’d probably be even more sarcastic.”
“Wow, Cao, you really live for these face-offs.”
Jiang Qin remarked admiringly, then turo Feng Nanshu, “You too, with your pretty face, scared them away.”
“?”
Feng Nanshu looked puzzled for a moment, not uanding the situation, and then hummed and fumbled in his pocket.
When Qu Yating and Cui Miurned after , they were noticeably more subdued, eating quietly and occasionally chatting with Ding Xue. Their earlier arrogance had vanished entirely.
Such is the nature of verbal superiority – once challenged, previous arrogaransforms into awkwardness.
Cao Guangyu uood this well, using it more maturely than most.
Like at the beginning of the semester, he said Jiang Qin in and couldn’t win Song Qingqing, but then numerous campus beauties appeared, all experiences fed through blood and tears.
Uedly, the door of the private room opened again.
A slick-haired young man with a silver neckce, evidently a fashion-fuy, walked in and greeted warmly.
“Brother, you’re here!”
Feng Nanshu’s eyes lit up, and she turo look at Jiang Qin.
Jiang Qin’s face darkened, and he quietly sipped his water, thinking to himself.
Why does everyone call their boyfriend ‘big brother’? Why not something more endearing like ‘puppy’ or ‘dummy’?
“This is my boyfriend, Liu Tiange, from the Uy of Sce of Teology, a junior.”
Qu Yating ed her arm around the newer, casting a cold g Cao Guangyu, instantly regaining her fidence.
The petitive nature of girls be quite straightforward. If y a celestial beauty to implicitly mock us as average, and we ’t pete, then so be it.
But if we ’t win in our ht, we’ll pete with our partners. They had tain their footing, or the frustration would be unbearable.
“I just went to wash my car, sorry for being te.”
Liu Tiaook off his jacket, his gaze casually sweeping the room. When he saw Feng Nanshu, he was visibly stuaking a long moment to recover.
Snap—
At that moment, Jiang Qin casually tossed a pair of chopsticks towards Liu Tiange, hitting him: “Buddy, must be tough juggling a part-time car wash job and making time for yirlfrie more, you’ll he energy for work.”
Liu Tiange, snapping out of his daze, looked annoyed: “I went to wash my own car at the car wash!”
“Oh, you should’ve been clearer then. I thought you were washing cars for others.” Jiang Qin casually fed Feng Nanshu a peanut.
“What, never seen someone drive to school?”
“Never seen that, though I’ve seey of part-timers.” Jiang Qin modestly shook his head.
Uo resist joining in, Cui Min asked, “Yating, your boyfriend bought a car befraduating?”
Qu Yating smiled sweetly: “It’s a birthday gift from his dad. We eve for a drive yesterday.”
“It’s just a car worth tens of thousands, nothing much to talk about.”
Liu Tiange casually pulled out a Volkswageossing it onto the table nontly: “Having a car isn’t great, friends always ask for rides. I’m too o refuse, so I end up washing it every other day.”
Cui Min nudged Qu Yating: “Then take us for a drive too!”
“There’s not enough room for everyone. Why don’t you buy ooo? We could go on a road trip together. I know a great spot for a drive.”
“Hey, Ding Xue, ask your boyfriend Cao Guangyu to buy a car, then we all go on a road trip together!”
Ding Xue, sensing the underlying tone, immediately bristled: “You paying for it? With all your ‘buy buy buy’, if you’re ing, get lost. Enough with the nonsense.”
Cui Min, intimidated, mumbled: “I didn’t say anything about being rich sed-geion.”
After hearing this, Jiang Qin looked up: “So owning a car worth a huhousand makes someone a rich sed-geion now? Why’s the bar so low?”
Qu Yating suddenly ughed.
“What are you ughing at?”
Qu Yating shrugged: “Not ughing, a bug just flew past my face.”
Just then, the st dish was brought to their room, not by a waiter, but by the portly owner of Shiwei Tian, the man with the BMW 5 Series.
He had been watg Jiang Qin since he came upstairs and came over to deliver the dish himself, though his expression was somewhat smug, as if holding back a ugh.
“Jiang Qin, ged cars, huh? Hehe!”
The room suddenly went quiet.
Jiang Qin g him: “ge what car? No.”
“I saw you arrive. What happeo the Bentley you had before? Now it’s an Audi A6!”
“Oh, you’re still holding a grudge? ’t I switch cars from my family’s colle?”
“From Beo Audi, that’s quite a drop. e on, admit it, was that Bentley borrowed?” The owner of Shiwei Tian winked, seemingly having figured out the truth.
“I’m driving an Audi, same level as your BMW. Why are you so happy about it?”
“…”
Jiang Qin grinned: “The cheapest car I drive is an A6. That’s already quite impressive. Wait till I drive a beat-up Volkswagen, then you mock me for being poor.”
The owner’s face ged, thinking to himself that Jiang Qin had a point. His worst car was an A6, and his best was only a 5 Series. Why did he rush over here?
Jiang Qin turned back to the table: “What were you saying earlier? About driving around? Tell me more, I’ve never experie. I’m all ears.”
Liu Tiange silently reached out, pocketing his car keys, the words ‘beat-up Volkswagen’ still eg in his mind.
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