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  Chapter 161: Mockery Effect Maximized

  TL: Etude

  Cao Guangyu’s body was trembling, his facial muscles involuntarily lifting upwards, but his pride kept him from revealing the genuine smile that came from his heart.

  This sensation was agonizing.

  It was like those reversal of energies in martial arts novels, a force deg and withering, stantly c through his “meridians”, forcefully suppressed, the oute redictable.

  His body shivered from the urge to ugh, but out of politeness, he had to pretend as if he uood nothing.

  When he could no longer bear it, Old Cao propped his hands oable, ing his legs around the table legs.

  Then, the dining table began to tremble, causing all the dishes and bowls on it to ctter loudly.

  Feng Nanshu really wao eat some old vinegar peanuts, but Cao’s shaking made it impossible to pick them up. She could only puff her cheeks and hum while looking at Jiang Qin.

  “He wants to ugh!”

  “This bastard, he wants to ugh!”

  Qu Yating held her breath, even though her face was covered with foundation, it couldn’t hide the increasingly darkening of her plexion.

  Liu Tiange felt like he had swallowed a fly, the broken Volkswagen key in his pocket heating up intensely.

  The owner of “Shiwei Tian”, pletely unaware, had iently made Jiang Qin look good.

  And Jiang Qin, seizing the opportunity provided by the owner, quietly uttered “broken Volkswagen”.

  Everyone knew whom those three words mocked, but si wasn’t explicitly stated, they could all pretend to be unaware.

  However, if Cao Guangyu actually burst out ughing at the table, then the mockery would be an ht face-spping, and even the most tolerant person would probably lose face to tiaying.

  “Old Cao, if you o use the restroom, just go. The table is shaking so much, I ’t even pick up my food!”

  Jiang Qin cleverly offered a way out, pointing towards the door, suggesting he go and sort himself out.

  “Jiang… Brother… is right.”

  Cao Guangyu pursed his lips, puffing up his bursting chest, and walked out the door.

  Sigh…

  Seeing this, Liu Tiange and Qu Yating both let out a sigh of relief, pig up their chopsticks to eat, but the sed, a burst of earth-shattering ughter erupted from outside the door.

  This ughter was akin to the voice ag for Stephen Chow by a grouper, but louder and shriller!

  After a mihe person ughing started to cough, followed by a wheezing sound as he gasped for breath.

  “Shiwei Tian”, being the most popur stir-fry stall he uy, was almost always full. Otherwise, the owner wouldn’t be spending his days in the restaurant fantasizing about luxury cars.

  Thus, the enviro was usually noisy.

  But the moment the ughter ceased, the entire sed floor fell silent.

  After a while, Cao Guangyu came ba, supp his waist, his face red and swollen.

  “There’s a kid across having a birthday, saying he wants to be an astronaut when he grows up. His grandparents are so happy, they couldn’t stop ughing.”

  “…”

  “e on, don’t just stand there, let’s eat.”

  Cao Guangyu picked up his chopsticks, warmly inviting everyoo eat: “Has ‘Shiwei Tian’ ged chefs? The taste today is exceptionally delicate.”

  Jiang Qin turo look at Old Cao, thinking to himself that this guy was a real treasure. He had staged the show, but the effect was magnified in his hands, truly impressive.

  “Old Cao, be more low-key ime. After you’ve shown off, run away quickly, so you don’t get ys broken.”

  Cao Guangyu wiped his mouth, his eyes gleaming as he leaned in: “Old Jiang, I’d die ughing before anyone could kill me. Did you pay the owner of ‘Shiwei Tian’? Damn, it’s like diviervention!”

  “It was just a ce, who knew adults could be so vengeful? It even scared me.”

  “I really admire your nont attitude!”

  The meal that followed was a mix of joy and sorrow for different people.

  Take Qu Yating, for example, who didn’t utter another word from beginning to end. Liu Tiange, sittio her, didn’t even pick up his chopsticks again.

  Oher hand, Cui Min was like nothing had happened, chatting with Ding Xue and Cao Guangyu.

  Her tribution to the earlier fiery versation was undeniable, fueling the final iy of the mockery.

  Especially the phrase “rich sed geion,” which btantly brought the underlying petition to the forefront.

  Yet, at this moment, it was this instigator who seemed the most detached, dispying a superficial sisterhood to the fullest.

  Half an hour ter, the meal was hastily finished. It cost nearly 180 yuao the rge group and the extravagant by Cui Min and Qu Yating, amounting to about two weeks’ living expenses for an average student. However, Old Cao felt it was well worth it and would e again.

  “Keep the ge.”

  “?”

  The owner of “Shiwei Tian,” holding the two hundred yua perplexed and slightly taken advantage of, yet without evidence.

  Uhe night sky, a deep chill lingered.

  After leaving the restaurant, everyohe bone-chilling cold and hurriedly got into their cars.

  Ding Xue and Cao Guangyu naturally climbed into Jiang Qin’s Audi, with a perplexed little rich dy in the passenger seat.

  Cui Min initially wao join them but had to settle for Liu Tiange’s Volkswagen Bora after finding Cao Guangyu had closed the door on her.

  Logically, after such a meal, it was time to go their separate ways.

  But perhaps due to Liu Tiange’s pent-up anger, uo vent, he kept blog Jiang Qin’s car on the way out.

  Jiang Qin turned right, and Liu Tiange preemptively occupied the right ne ahead.

  Jiang Qin, unfazed, sigo tur, only to find the Bora sneaking into the left the right moment.

  Finally, both cars reached a jun and stopped side by side at a red light, the Bora and the Audi transitioning from a chase to a parallel position.

  “’t match your car, but how about we see whose driving skills are better?”

  The window of the Bora rolled down, revealing Liu Tiange’s sullen face.

  “Fet it. Our cars aren’t even in the same league, how we pare?”

  Jiang Qin chuckled, his disdain evident.

  “If you had a sports car, I really wouldn’t dare to pete, but Audi and Volkswage that different, right? If you’re a ma’s see the truth in speed. Pying coy is what women do.”

  “No test. If I win, you’d just say your car is better than mine. If I lose, it’s shame. B.”

  Liu Tiange, desperate tain some dignity, insisted, “Then you tell me how to pare, I’ll abide by it, fair and square.”

  Jiang Qin thought for a moment, “Alright, for fairness, when the green light es on, I’ll give you a three-sed head start.”

  “Fine, one round to determihe winner. If you lose, you have to call me big brother!”

  “Who calls whom is still uain.”

  Jiang Qin, expressionless, shifted into ral. His feet revved the engine, r fiercely as if a wild beast about to pounce.

  Hearing this sound, the temosphere immediately intensified.

  Liu Tiange gripped the steering wheel tightly, his palm pressing against the gear stick, eyes fixed oraffic light ahead, ready to burst forth.

  Cao Guangyu, too, became nervous. He fastened Ding Xue’s seatbelt and then his own, his back firmly against the seat, feeling as if a se from “Initial D” was about to unfold.

  In terms of car performahe four-wheel drive A6 was definitely more powerful than the Volkswagen Bora, but it wasn’t a total domination. After all, the acceleration of Volkswagen was indeed not slow.

  Moreiving a three-sed head start greatly influehe oute of the race. Liu Tiange was fident of a sure win.

  The sed, as the red light turned green, the Volkswagen Bora sped off with a whoosh, while the Audi remaiationary, its trembling body now still.

  “Old Jiang, chase him!”

  “Have you ever learo drive? The speed limit is thirty he school gate. I am a w-abiding citizen!”

  Jiang Qin shifted gears and started moving slowly: “Thinking you’re Takumi Fujiwara after reading a couple of ics? Are traffic rules just for show? Too immature, idiot.”

  “?”

  Uhe night sky, the bck Audi drove slowly, even yielding to a student before turni at the crossroads aering Lin Uy.

  Cao Guangyu’s eyes nearly popped out, thinking to himself that Jiang Qin was the sneakier one, not even intending to race.

  Ding Xue, however, was a bit worried: “Won’t they have problems driving so fast?”

  “No, there are numerous traffic lights on this road, and Liu Tiange isn’t foolish. He’ll slow down if things look bad. Plus, there are traffic poli Textile Factory Road. At most, they’ll face fines and points dedu.”

  Cao Guangyu smacked his lips: “Doesn’t that mean we lost?”

  Jiang Qin ughed: “So what if we lost? What’s wrong with calling someone ‘big brother’? I’m a businessman, not Kong Yiji1Kong Yiji is a figure in ese literature.”

  “Awesome.”

  “Old Cao, remember, face is the cheapest thing in this world.”

  Ding Xue fell silent for a while, then pinched Cao Guangyu: “You should learn from Jiang Qin, be more humble and low-key.”

  Cao Guangyu chuckled sheepishly: “I know. I learned my show-off tricks from him.”

  “People don’t go around g they’re rich sed-geion every day. You better to down too!”

  “But… but I really am a rich sed-geion.”

  As soon as he finished speaking, Ding Xue’s ph. It was Qu Yating calling, but Liu Tiange’s voice came through, sounding very smug.

  He said, “Jiang Qin, you lost.”

  Jiang Qin replied, “Big brother, you’re really something. ime we meet, I’ll light yarette.”

  There was a long silen the other end, and then the call ended without another word.

  The women’s dormitory of the Medical Department was closer to the main gate, so Jiang Qin first dropped off Ding Xue. Old Cao, not yet weary of their pany, also got out of the car.

  Then, Jiang Qin leisurely drove to the women’s dormitory of the Finance Department. The little rich dy didn’t want to leave and lingered in the car for a long time before finally getting out.

  “Hmm?”

  Jiang Qin nning to return to Room 208 but realized he had fotten to take Feng Nanshu’s handbag with him.

  They had gone directly to “Shiwei Tian” from the bathhouse without returning to the dormitory, so everything was left in the car.

  Jiang Qin paused for a moment, opehe bag to take a look. Ihere were a top and bottom set just ged out of, white with cute butterfly knots, and the bottom piece even had a little r tiger printed on it.

  Sometimes, thoughts aren’t governed by sind.

  Like at this moment, the image of these clothes worn popped up in his mind.

  “…”

  “Really cute.”

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