45: 045 I’m laying my cards on the table; I’m a trillionaire.
45: 045 I’m laying my cards on the table; I’m a trillionaire.
The front of the bus.
Hu Heng, the president of the mountaineering club, was diligently and responsibly explaining the rules that needed to be followed for the activity: mainly, that one should obey commands and not run around aimlessly, and so on…
Jiang Chen didn’t listen, his eyes were constantly fixed on Li Shuru’s face beside him.
When others admired a beauty, they did so with covert peeks, afraid of being discovered, but he was different.
It was like appreciating an art exhibition, wanton and bold.
“Is there sothing on my face?”
Li Shuru didn’t look aside.
Jiang Chen appreciated her unflustered composure in the face of change.
“No, you are much lovelier than any flower.”
This wasn’t a complint.
But an impulsive sentint.
Li Shu Rui’s attire today, although it lacked the kind of stunning beauty that could bewitch one’s soul, suited his taste very well.
He even went so far as to give her so unasked advice.
“I think you look better with lighter makeup, you used to look…
a bit too mature.”
Li Shuru neither agreed nor disagreed, and surprisingly, she wasn’t angered by his unsolicited assessnt.
This even surprised Jiang Chen.
This girl.
She seed a bit out of the ordinary.
Why had she suddenly beco so tolerant towards him?
“You still have the mood to participate in this kind of activity, have your troubles been resolved?”
“People have to live in the mont, don’t they.”
Jiang Chen pressed down his doubts and sidestepped the issue.
Li Shuru didn’t pursue the matter further.
The bus drove out of the East University’s gate.
“Here, have so water.”
The mountaineering club’s service was indeed good; after all, the activity fee of five hundred RMB per person wasn’t paid for nothing.
Hu Heng and another boy distributed bottles of mineral water to everyone.
“Jiang Chen, did you bribe the president to get your seat arranged?”
Zheng Jingjing shouted across an aisle.
“I didn’t even know President Hu before, so it’s all fate.”
“Psh!
Shaless!”
Zheng Jingjing looked at him with contempt.
Jiang Chen turned a deaf ear and glanced at the mineral water in Li Shuru’s hand.
“Do you want to open it for you?”
There wasn’t a more obvious way to curry favor.
Li Shuru clearly wasn’t the kind of girl who couldn’t unscrew a bottle cap on her own, but oddly enough, she didn’t refuse—he went ahead without a word, seemingly by her tacit consent.
Jiang Chen, unfazed, took the bottle from her hand, unscrewed it, and handed it back to her.
Li Shuru took a sip of water.
“I saw what happened that day.”
“Saw what?”
Jiang Chen looked puzzled.
“That Bai guy ca to see you, then he stabbed himself.”
Li Shuru said softly.
Jiang Chen slightly frowned, a bit surprised.
“Why would he do that?”
Li Shuru turned her head towards him, cutting straight to the point, her intoxicating eyes locked on Jiang Chen.
With rapid thoughts flashing in his mind, Jiang Chen replied calmly, “Because he was afraid.”
“Afraid?”
Li Shuru eyed him, continuing to inquire, “Afraid of what?”
“Afraid that I would call the police.”
Jiang Chen explained matter-of-factly, “He stabbed himself to get not to call the cops and to write off our grudges.
I agreed.”
“Do you think your explanation is reasonable?”
“Why wouldn’t it be?”
Jiang Chen replied earnestly, “I find it perfectly reasonable.”
“If you don’t want to say, you don’t have to, no need to lie.”
Li Shuru turned her head back, ceasing to look at him.
“Alright, I’ll tell the truth.”
Jiang Chen seed to concede, sighed, fell silent for a mont, and then spoke up, “Actually, I never wanted to reveal my identity, but I didn’t expect you to discover it.”
Li Shuru kept her gaze straight ahead, yet her delicate and tender ears subtly twitched.
“Shu Rui, since you’ve found out, then I won’t pretend anymore.”
Jiang Chen let out a deep breath as if he had been through a fierce ntal struggle.
“I’m laying my cards on the table, I’m actually a trillionaire.”
“…”
Li Shuru remained silent.
“I always wanted to experience my university life as an ordinary person, so Shu Rui, now that you know, please don’t tell anyone else.”
“…”
Stillness prevailed.
“The reason why Bai Haoran stabbed himself is that I used my background to warn him.
He knew he couldn’t afford to ss with , so he chose to harm himself as a way to apologize to .
Shu Rui, I’ve told you everything you want to know, without any concealnt…”
Li Shuru couldn’t hold it in any longer.
“Jiang Chen, do you take for a fool?”
“You’re a multi-millionaire…”
Li Shuru turned her head, not finishing her sentence, when Jiang Chen interrupted her.
“Correction, that’s trillionaire.”
Li Shuru pursed her lips.
“Idiot.”
Jiang Chen was caught off guard, and before he could react, he saw the art departnt’s beauty, who rarely swore, turning her head to look out the window.
He didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
“Shu Rui, why are you cursing?
Everything I said is true.”
Li Shuru no longer paid him any attention.
Jiang Chen felt helpless.
They say a man’s mouth lies like a ghost.
But sotis you really can’t bla n for lying.
Oftentis, won only accept lies, and when told the truth, they simply won’t believe it.
Seeing Li Shuru’s keep-out stance, Jiang Chen didn’t bother to embarrass himself further.
He took out his phone and started scrolling through Xingkong.
While scrolling, he suddenly ca across Ling Shiqi’s live stream.
Streaming live early in the morning, that’s dedication.
It’s no fluke that she has achieved what she has today.
“Do, what, dare not do
Fear what, believe in , don’t care
Even if you leave
Fall, even if my heart from the sixteenth floor, falls down to Building B, basent floor one…”
The song, altered by the sound card, ca out through the phone’s speaker.
Recalling the ssages she had once sent him, Jiang Chen entered the live stream and, with a touch of mischief, sent a 1RMB lollipop.
For soone of Ling Shiqi’s status, such a small gift wouldn’t matter, but as there weren’t many viewers early in the morning and by sheer coincidence, Jiang Chen’s gift ssage was spotted by her.
Normally, the million-follower internet celebrity wouldn’t have cared, letting it float past while continuing to sing, but suddenly, she recalled the nickna.
Why did it seem so familiar?
Han Jiang Gu Ying?!
Halfway through the song “I’m Very Stubborn,” Ling Shiqi stopped.
“Han Brother, are you really so partial?
You send Carnivals and Royal Salutes on other’s streams, but you only send a lollipop?”
Ling Shiqi cooed at the cara, her soft and syrupy tone enough to lt bones.
Note that Jiang Chen didn’t have earphones on, and his phone was on speaker mode, so Ling Shiqi’s voice inevitably reached Li Shuru’s ears as well.
Li Shuru hesitated, then turned and glanced at Jiang Chen’s phone screen.
It was indeed Ling Shiqi.
“Han Brother, did you co here just to knock down a peg?”
Ling Shiqi had no idea Li Shuru was also watching her live stream, and even if she had known, she certainly wouldn’t have cared.
At this mont, the only thought in the million-follower internet celebrity’s head was how to keep him there forever now that he had shown up.
Jiang Chen was certainly not a stingy person.
Two weeks earlier, even when he had no money, he had still insisted on taking his roommates to places like KIMI to drink.
With the girl acting so coy, sending a little gift wasn’t much, but the key was that he couldn’t spend his bootlicking gold carelessly.
He was contemplating whether to send another ten lollipops, which would at least not disgrace his image, when he noticed that Li Shuru had turned her head his way at so point.
Seeing him looking, Li Shuru was not the least bit embarrassed.
“You’re watching Ling Shiqi?”
Jiang Chen nodded.
Li Shuru showed no disdain for him watching a female anchor and her gaze shifted to his phone screen.
“Guys, who knows who this Han Brother is?”
“You don’t know Han Jiang Gu Ying?
One of Xingkong’s top big spenders!
He can drop millions in a single night!”
“Rember the Centennial Guardianship that went viral?
That was done by this big brother.”
Reading the audience’s comnts in the live chat, Li Shuru’s pupils contracted.
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